‘Well, here you are again with your plucked lurex tights’ Sally Baker in our Christmas winter anthology. www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

Front cover of Issue 4 of Frazzled Lit @frazzledlit.bsky.social. We'll be launching the issue in nine days time, on the morning of January 11th, and boy, is it going to be a great issue! Back cover coming tomorrow!

A bargain! Absolutely love this book

Visual Studio tends to ask me this right at the time I'm dealing with some weird bug or other. "Now is not the time to be needy VS"

AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re- BEASTIES: MORSE AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of Beasties: COURSE MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy BEASTIES: MOOCHER MCA: We’re Christmas Past MIKE D: Christmas Present BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE

Today is #FuelPovertyAwarenessDay so why not pick up a copy of the FUEL anthology of prizewinning flash fictions - it's a great read and profits go to four #fuelpoverty charities, including @nea.org.uk. The brand new ebook has 75+12 bonus stories = 87 flash stories! Buy here: www.fuelflash.net

Really interesting stuff: "the architecture of disordered discourse"...

Probably maybe my favourite Fall album (today anyway)...certainly the first one I bought. A fine choice to start with.

The Rigg, Bingley, Yorkshire, painting by Jane Fielder. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

People love it

Today’s poem is selected by Chen Chen (@chenchenwrites.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. “It will all work out okay” appeared in High Lonesome by Allison Titus, published by Saturnalia Books, 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Castlefield Carnival, Manchester, 1985 (Manchester Libraries).

Been a good two days for post! TBR pile now quite large thanks to @taniahershman.bsky.social @thebraag.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social @jamiewoods77.bsky.social Bring on the rainy weekend

Last few seats in the Zoom room for the launch tomorrow night of my hybrid creative non-fiction book on time: 'It's Time - A Chronomemoir' (@guillemotpress.bsky.social). Come join us, I'd love to have you there! (It's also my birthday 😊) Grab a free ticket here: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

This dvd is probably the only reason I keep my dvd player

Caught Cats

“They asked me, where did they go? The trees, the salamander, the tropical fish, Edgar, the poppas and mommas, Matthew and Tony?” Fiction by Donald Barthelme, from 1974.

Despite my general dislike of all things morris I have a total soft spot for the coconutters. The power of childhood nostalgia!

Friends, a little announcement: we’re now accepting submissions year-round for a new essays feature. We want this to be a space for new and original thinking about poetry and poetics, but also about how poetry fits in or around our lives. We can’t wait to hear from you!

Pleased that one of my poems has found a home here amongst some great company...

Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create

Issue Six of And Other Poems, out on Wednesday 16th. We can't wait for you to read these poems.

The reasons below are all true...and reading this lovely piece about the similarities of writing and running after my run this morning was my reason for hitting the 'buy' button today. longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2016/05/15/c...

Girl on a Spacehopper, Byker, Newcastle, 1971, by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen.

Having a restful afternoon ahead of tomorrow's running endeavours. Reading Diane Seuss' Modern Poetry which is EXCELLENT

Been writing a poem this week that fits for #poemsabout #dawn so finally time to post after enjoying people's contributions @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

Absolutely this, writing is about so much more than the outcome

Pretty much

"Inject creativity into your day in small ways. Doodle on your leg with a random pen some idiot left within reach. Redecorate the couch with a Play-Doh slipcover. Change up your look by styling your freshly washed hair with pancake syrup."

Nice snowy morning walk before it all turns to slush and ice

Read a poem that stayed with you? With #LiftToTheSky, you can share it with the world. Celebrate a poet every Monday starting January 13th. More info: shorturl.at/5avf0#LiftToTheSky, #PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity #PoetsOfBlueSky

Enjoyed dipping into this today

Beautiful morning in york

Starting my Christmas readathon with an enormous book of Norman MacCaig poems

Just a reminder, as you look outside and notice it's already getting dark 😱, that today is the earliest sunset of the year (15:51 in London). From tomorrow the sunsets slowwwwly start getting later again. (Sunrises don't start getting earlier until Dec 30th hence solstice on 21st.) YOU ARE WELCOME.