Videos of all the winning poems in #WolvesLitFest poetry comp are up on our competition webpage. Here's 1st prize winner @marionmccreadypoet.bsky.social reading her poem: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzhP...

Somehow I won 1st prize in the Wolverhampton Literature Festival Poetry Competition 2026!! Utterly unexpected and totally delighted, especially being judged by the brilliant Helen Ivory and Martin Figura! Congrats to all the winners and commended, what a lovely start to the year!

Happy to have a poem in Black Nore Review!

Marion McCready is our first featured poet of 2026. @marionmccreadypoet.bsky.social

Goodbye December, we hardly knew ye! Eugène Grasset ~ December, ‘La Belle Jardinière’ (1896) #NewYearsEve

Daily sketch 🌊🌅🥷🐈‍⬛️ Can you spot the cat ? We are officially in the weird in-between Christmas / new years limbo where time doesn't exist anymore. #art #artsky #sketch #ink

Contemporary Northumberland printmaker Rebecca Vincent #WomensArt

Embroidery (detail) created by women of the Otomi people of central Altiplano (Mexican Plateau) region of Mexico #WomensArt

Raxhel Wright, artist who works with textiles, free machine embroidery over cut and pieced fabrics #WomensArt

'Three Waratahs' (hand painted version) from the series of linocuts of Native Australian flowers by contemporary printmaker Rachel Newling #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Study of a fir tree, c.1842 by Emily Brontë, best known for her classic novel 'Wuthering Heights' #WomensArt

'Between the Leaves' by Brighton-based UK artist Emma Brownjohn #WomensArt #Autumn #Fall

Contemporary printmaker Alexandra Buckle #WomensArt

Girl in the East Wind with Ravens Passing the Moon, 1893 by Glasgow School artist Frances MacDonald #WomensArt

Magpie Morning’ by contemporary UK #printmaker Annie Soudain #WomensAr

Trees in a meadow with poppies in bloom, c.1905 by Juliette Wytsman, Belgian impressionist painter #WomensArt #August #UnlockingWomensArt

US artist Elizabeth Catlett's 1946 print honours Phyllis Wheatley (1753-1784), who was sold into slavery at the age of seven and later became the first published African-American female poet #womensart

The Enchanted Owl, 1960, Stonecut on paper by Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak. Printmaking has been a valuable form of expression for many artists within Indigenous communities #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

'Californian Morning' (mid 20thc) by US artist and printmaker Emmy Lou Packard (1914-1998) #WomensArt

Wendell Berry poem.

"The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence." - Wendell Berry #naturewisdom #WendellBerry #naturewriting #nature #landscapephotography #landscape #scapes #photography #eastcoastkin #blueskyartshow

#poetry #booksky "And so I go to the woods. As I go in under the trees, dependably, almost at once, and by nothing I do, things fall into place. I enter an order that does not exist outside, in the human spaces....I am less important than I thought. I rejoice in that." —Wendell Berry

US Photographer Dorothea Lange c. 1938, whose work humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography #womensart

Been a while since I've sent poems out into the world, so I'm very happy to have a couple of poems in the latest issue of The Lake which can be read here -https://www.thelakepoetry.co.uk/poetry/marion-mccready/

Remembering artist Khadija-Saye, rising star, and all her neighbours- never forgotten #Grenfell #womensart

Calla Lillies, 1941 by Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka who painted in an Art Deco style #WomensArt

So enjoying reading Durs Grünbein's new Selected Poems Psyche Running translated by the brilliant Karen Leeder griffinpoetryprize.com/poet/durs-gr...

'I have written with an alertness that goes backward as well as forward, and this impossible condition, the duration of a few breaths between antiquity and X, can only be endured if slowly and line by line I check my voice, the body, and what was caught in the inner ear.' ~ Durs Grünbein #arspoetica

Brittany, France early 20thc, skilled women making 'picot bigouden' a form of intricate and complex crochet linking to Irish crochet #WomensArt

Floral Emblems, Henry Philips, 1825.

Paris Review is sharing one of my favorite poems again so I’m sharing it on here again “my old potato” - one of my favorite lines ever

'In sleep, how many positions do we assume? the foetus, the crucified, Laocoön, Holy Shiva.' ~ Durs Grunbein

We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Notley (1945-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive. buff.ly/qiSx3j8

American poet Alice Notley has died at age 79. Her poems on motherhood and domestic life (she was married to fellow poet Ted Berrigan) made her one of her country’s most prolific and acclaimed writers of verse. #RIPAliceNotley 2/16 (1970) by Alice Notley

A sad poem, I am Learning to Abandon the World, by Linda Pastan, with beautiful 'small reprieves' ...

recalling olden times lemon blossoms Basho

—Alastair Reid (1926–2014), “Scotland” published in WEATHERING: Poems & Translations (EP Dutton, 1978)

Man Ray ~ Solarized Calla Lily, 1931 #ManRay #Photography #Surrealism

Art Nouveau illustration by Scottish artist Jessie M. King, c.1915 #womensart

‘a journey into the wideness of language, a journey where each point of arrival – whether in one’s poetry or one’s life – turned out to be a stepping stone rather than a destination’. ~ Seamus Heaney

Katja Lang, contemporary German artist who focuses on stillness and spaces #WomensArt

Cottonwood Tree in Spring https://www.wikiart.org/en/georgia-o-keeffe/cottonwood-tree-in-spring

This drawing was the most calming to do, haven’t found the title yet.

Another chance to hear in full @imtiazdharker.bsky.social's wonderful interview on Private Passions (repeated on BBC Radio 3 yesterday). She was talking to host Michael Berkeley about her life, poetry & musical choices and read from her latest collection Shadow Reader. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Season of the crocus! Crocus art created by artist Brigid Collins for the cover of my latest poetry collection. My title poem can be read here - www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi... #BrigidCollins #art #flowerart #pressedcrocus #crocus #LooktotheCrocus #poetry

'Crocuses' Lino Print By contemporary printmaker Harriette Rymer #WomrnsArt

But the sea which no one tends is also a garden William Carlos Williams, Asphodel, That Greeny Flower (excerpt)

Crocus, J.Eudes.