✨ 2025 is on the horizon, and we’re ready to make it unforgettable. From fearless anthologies to bold workshops and events, The Broken Spine is pushing poetry to its raw, real, and relentless edges. Join us for a year of unflinching creativity. 🔗 thebrokenspine.co.uk/2024/12/08/r...

For #PoemsAbout #SelfPortrait here is a poem celebrating the life force of #FridaKahlo. 🖌️🔥 Thanks to @alanparry83.bsky.social & @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social.

Three of our Pushcart Prize nominees for the TopTweetTuesday project (2024): Julian Cason Sarah Connor @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social @ivordaniel.bsky.social

Diolch yn fawr to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social, Matthew M C Smith & the wonderful Top Tweet Tuesday community. I am honoured to be on this list.

It's marvellous to see the poetry community gaining momentum here. This poem of mine was on Top Tweet Tuesday recently.

One of London’s truly great venues, MOTH Club in Hackney, is under threat. This is one of those occasions where signing a petition could have a significant impact. chng.it/Vt5rZDpbCK

An "accidentally rewilded" 377-acre UK farm is now home to many threatened species, including turtle doves, warblers, 11 bat species, orchids + butterflies. Such examples prove how nature can recover when we let it, and that rewilding reverses nature loss. 🌍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘until the town becomes a cinema’ from John Burnside’s last book, ‘Ruin, Blossom’

Our Silver Branch project: 🔥 WRITER OF THE MONTH 🔥 Saraswati Nagpal with stunning poems. Check this feature out, bookmark, boost. Let's get this writer's words across the planet. www.blackboughpoetry.com/saraswati-na... #poetry #writing #poet #readers #poetic #readers

The wonderful @ruthaylett.bsky.social has just introduced me to this incredible poem and I am undone by it. What an incredible poem of grieving by Norman MacCaig. www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/memorial/

Le théâtre de l’exubérance, le sens des désaveux - Par l’autrice Hella Ahmed 2024 © All rights reserved – Find my books on Amazon

Sublime poetry @seagoatscreams.bsky.social on @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social special #SilverBranch feature💫 Swirl-and-wheel of centuries streak above🌀 Blink and the leapt sun melts a hundred shadows burrowed☀️ we nested dumb and unalone and ripe stars fell freely into our unworded mouths✨

Chief Iron Tail, Oglala Lakota nation Chief Iron Tail is notable in American history for his distinctive profile on the Buffalo nickel or Indian Head nickel of 1913 to 1938. #SomethingNewLearnedToday en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Tail

After Bertrand Russell... The everyday benefit of Poetry is that it helps you live with uncertainty. 🙂

Happy Tuesday. Or Boxing Day. Or Wren Day. Or St Stephen’s Day.

"In the Bleak Midwinter" 💙😢❄️ #wintersolstice #winter #Ghosts youtu.be/XeRXFwd3PyE?...

Hoping to get my copy of this anthology soon. Delighted to have three of my own pieces in this alongside many other poets and the lovely illustrations

M17 The Omega Nebula #astrophotography

After Bertrand Russell... The everyday benefit of Poetry is that it helps you live with uncertainty. 🙂

“The outcome of this war matters to all of us. The principle that countries can’t steal land from their neighbours is fundamental to the post-1945 settlement. Weaken that, and we open a Pandora’s box of future conflicts. We have to remain engaged.”

'In this complex dialogue Of truth and half-truth Chiaroscuro feelings, This dance of distance And approach, this opera Of division and addition'... A beautiful and life affirming book. Bravo @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social, & BlackBoughPoetry, & Sarah-Jane Crowson (Cover Art).

Good morning! We have one more peek at Undone 51 today. What happens when an observation of children's toys turns to exploring the push-pull between societal norms and a free expression of the individual? "Green" happens, one of 4 poems from Aaron G. H. coming at you Sunday!

This excited face can read 'YOU ARE GLORIOUS' to you if you have a minute to spare... youtu.be/qLjDEJQ4vyw

Multiple things can be true at once: 1. Oct 7th was the worst collective trauma Jews have experienced in our lifetimes 2. The war on Gaza is a horror 3. Antisemitism is rising 4. Islamophobia is rising Those trying to use one of these to cancel others are making things worse

Ariel by Sylvia Plath www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49001/... #poetry

I just received my copy of @sageravenwood.bsky.social's gorgeous debut poetry book. Sage is one of my very favorite poets & I've been waiting years for this book. Get your copy at the link below: t.co/4HiQp7gQ15

This was a remarkable online event. Lovingly curated by @gaynorkane.bsky.social. Marvellous poems from all 8 poets. A privilege to witness the intimacy, community and humanity of #Heritage. Bravo all the readers, and #GloucesterPoetryFestival, #CharlieMarkwick and #ZiggyDicks. 👋⭐👋⭐👋

Audacity of Form by @rfredekenter.bsky.social. It bends language and erodes the borders between text, photos and art. A deep exploration - of life, upheaval, love, travel, music, and of the heightened states of illness, and of caring for those who are ill. Of life. 💙@icefloepress.bsky.social

A review of my book Before the Bridges Fell reviewed by @ivordaniel.bsky.social the only difference is the book is under Fevers of the Mind deluxe edition now feversofthemind.com/2022/06/21/a...

I am delighted to have a poem in this superb anthology, available from @VictorinaPress. Congratulations to editors @charleyblogs and @_WendyCaitlin, and to all the contributors.

This beautiful VISPO anthology (download is free), InterPoem -- curated by @laurakerrart.bsky.social -- includes work by @icefloepress.bsky.social EIC/Publisher @rfredekenter.bsky.social along with a host of other brilliant creators. Take a look! sedserio.com/about

The artwork is slowly coming together and now stands at over five hundred. This is what biodiversity looks like, when land is managed for nature and not for profit

A classic Fevers of the Mind collection from 3 years ago full of poetry, art and interviews feversofthemind.com/2022/05/25/u...

My Fiddlehead Ferns poem... youtu.be/m1y-7aqwJP4

A tribute to Gboyega Odubanjo someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/no-ones-pl...

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Gboyega's been missing since the early hours of Saturday, August 26, having been at Shambala Festival in Kelmarsh, Northamptonshire. If you see him, please call the police on 999, or if you have information about where he is, please call 101, quoting ref MPD1/2619/23. More: ow.ly/zYOH50PFplA

without a fuckin doubt. youtu.be/LSlby-O-hQc?...

Summer is still here, and I am delighted to have a poem in this glorious anthology, along with Lucy Heuschen, Doryn Herbst, Patricia M Osborne, Iris Anne Lewis and many more. Big thanks to Dawn and Ronnie of Indigo Dreams Publishing. .

EDEN.When the right book finds you at the right time.This summer it’s ⁦R.Frede Kenter's haunting palimpsests, suggestive of Susan Howe’s ‘embroidered manifestation of an earlier vernacular reflect(ing) authority (edenic justice) through ciphered wilderness & pang’. - Susie Campbell (UK poet/artist)

Delighted to finally make it to Blue Sky. Hi to all our existing friends! We're a small independent publisher of poetry & prose, both online & in print. #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity Upcoming work from Ellie Rees, Kyla Houbolt & Alan Parry. #ModestRaptures lands on 04.09.23

https://www.bethbrookepoetry.co.uk/ This is some of my stuff. Hope you like it

Up in the forest -- Magic Oak Trail (2023). (c) R.Frede Kenter. Yellow, pink, red, fire-orange flares and swirls of light around a very old 'magic oak' in the forest. Mythic, generative; leaves, branches, a panoply of arcs and auras for desperate stories of love and hope. #improvisational #hybrids