Celebrating Student Success: Maisy Hicks Recognised in National Essay Competition - www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Posting this exemplary poem by an exemplary poet, Kona Macphee, is something I love to do every few years or so. The smallness of it—but the immensity. Utterly beautiful poem-making.

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University The School is inviting expressions of interest from potential candidates. See further here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... #postdocs #academicjobs

I was really pleased to have been shortlisted for a Northern Writers Debut Award for Poetry, for the second year in a row. Congratulations to all the winners!

✨️So honoured to be featured as this month's @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #SilverBranch poet 💎 Gratitude to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for inviting me & curating this special selection of my work. Do take a read: includes 13 new & exclusive poems + insights on my writing ✨️ #PoetryCommunity

'A Philosophy of Light' by Hannah Linden / @hannahl1n.bsky.social explores the quiet resilience of an octopus under a bloodmoon — a meditation on adaptation, cosmic indifference, and finding home in the dark. Read now! inksweatandtears.co.uk/hannah-linde... #InkSweatandTears #Submission #Poetry

Publication day for this beautiful anthology of poems about grief. Delighted to have a poem included alongside some gorgeous writing, and looking forward to reading it all. Thanks so much to the editors for all their thought and care.

A mood board video of my latest @ninearchespress.bsky.social poetry collection, Blackbird Singing at Dusk. If you’re looking for a lyrical exploration of the working class and female body within the rural, a bit of darkness, a bit of deep time, then you’ll likely like this collection.

Inspired partly by the eco-atrocity at Sycamore Gap, and partly by my admiration for the sycamore on the canal bank just beyond my garden, I'm delighted that my poem 'Sycamore's Prayer' appears at the wonderful Atrium Poetry today. I'd be so pleased if anyone fancied reading. 🌳

Klaxon-not all gloom. Our brand new inter-uni seminar titled 'Undiscipline, Decolonise, Repair' kicks off 2nd May: Paris Book Launch of Alana Lentin's The New Racial Regime. Online speaker series next. Coordinators at various stages of career. Cast an eye. undisciplinedecoloniserepair.wordpress.com

Extraordinary #ekphrastic poem up now on @afterpoetry.com, as Suzi Feay writes of bone made ceramic. ' ... Glass is a fluid that will flow Slower than marrow, DNA or any Beam in your house of meat.' afterpoetry.com/poem/apr-13-...

Here’s a new poem – the first of a set of seven exploring the ‘capital vices’ (among other things) – in the terrific new issue of @magmapoetry.bsky.social Warmest thanks to editors @aoifelyall.bsky.social and Victoria Kennefick for taking it in all its grottiness 🩷

It's coming tomorrow! Very excited to be in the company of @wendypratt.bsky.social @rhonagreene.bsky.social @hool415.bsky.social @ings4words.bsky.social and Elisabeth Kelly to bring in Spring and new beginnings! Free and online from 7.00pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-beginn...

So pleased to have been longlisted for my pamphlet by @theemmapress.bsky.social! Congratulations to all those who made the shortlist - these all sound wonderful.

Thanks to The New Statesman for publishing a brand new shiny poem www.newstatesman.com/culture/poet...

My @ninearchespress.bsky.social collection is available with free postage if anyone would like to read it - i am so very rpud of it xx

My new picture 'In the Womb of the Earth' I wanted to express the importance of sheltering within art - while I'm doing it, it's safe place - how important it is to find places of shelter in nature, important to even imagine these sheltering places, imagine yourself into them. A2, inkpen.

I've been lifting other writers for six years across different platforms and publications. I've never felt more invigorated! Bluesky is THE place to be if you;re a poet! Let's use it to its fullest! #PoetsOfBluesky #PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity #BlueskyPoetry #WriterLift shorturl.at/5avf0

Happy Solstice everyone. 3 poems for you today: the 1st my own & one each from @johncraigwhite.bsky.social and Stephen Keeler. Yes it's the 1st day of The 12 Days of Christmas feature from Ink, Sweat and Tears. Thanks @helenivory.bsky.social & Kate & Zhara for putting this together & including mine

My winter solstice poem - the moon holds fast on the longest night - written two years ago, as my littlest was starting nursery. Published in the wonderful The Dirigible Balloon, and soon to appear in their anthology, Sky Surfing: Excellent Adventures in a Poetry Balloon @northernjim.bsky.social

A poem for the shortest day, when we have almost forgotten what light looks and feels like. I'm grateful to Damien B Donnelly for publishing this in 'The Storms Journal' in autumn 2023.

Say hi to... @daraghfleming.bsky.social, Dion O'Reilly, @gclifford1.bsky.social, Jane Ayres, @kevingrauke.bsky.social, Laura Lewis-Waters, Marie Marchand, @pamthompson240.bsky.social, Polly Walshe, Rachel Smith, Rowan Lyster, Sharon Phillips, Simon Alderwick, T S S Fulk and @wendypratt.bsky.social.

I was honoured to be part of #Wave1 of #TheWhiskeyTree, a visionary project showcasing writing talents for the long term. Read on & learn how you can get involved in this dynamic project pioneered by @alanparry83.bsky.social EiC of @brokenspinearts.bsky.social thebrokenspine.co.uk/2024/12/15/w...

We're thrilled to announce that submissions are now OPEN for our #SelectedPoetry series—an online-only showcase celebrating boundary-pushing, thought-provoking poetry! Join us in redefining the poetic landscape. Deadline: December 2024. thebrokenspine.co.uk/2024/11/30/p...

A thrill of the year to have a poem in the new issue of @stingingfly.bsky.social 🪰

This Saturday Eat the Storms, the poetry podcast, is hosting a special funding episode A Podcast for Palestine 🇵🇸 All funds will go to www.childrennotnumbers.org This is the list of writers, so far, taking part, more to be added before Saturday We now also have a GoFundMe page gofund.me/553c2548

My poetry books of the year for @theguardian.com; it was v tricky to get it down to this selection. But a rich year all told: www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

The Literary Events Starter Pack is up to 23, if you know of festivals or literary events that are on Bluesky please let me know go.bsky.app/PHw99bS

Information available for the 2025 Oxford Food Symposium - Food and the Elements. Early bid voucher good until end of November!

In this new blog post, our student Nicola describes her experiences studying at Tsinghua University in China, and visiting sights such as the Gubei Water Town in Beijing. studentblog.webspace.durham.ac.uk/my-china-exp...

I've started compiling starter packs of UK Poets. I've just finished the first one... alphabetically listed from A to J (1st names)... will start another list from there on. go.bsky.app/DgHRkcK

I love this poem by Cynthia Miller (from her Nine Arches Press collection ‘Honorifics’ 2021). #Poetry

If the world ended tomorrow, what would you say? Last Light: Apocalypse Poetry is an anthology that answers—raw, unflinching, unforgettable. Read it before the last light fades. 🔥#LastLight

Happy Release Day! Last Light: Apocalypse Poetry is a stunning anthology that confronts endings—imagined and real—with raw, poetic brilliance. #LastLight #Slimlines #Poetry Step into the spectre of annihilation. 🔗 amzn.eu/d/1VYg5Qc

Delighted to have a poem in @brokenspinearts.bsky.social’s new anthology, Last Light. Thanks so much @alanparry83.bsky.social for including it, I’m so looking forward to reading more poems about fragility, finality and fire.

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

Because bsky has no algorithm, our ripples here are linked to our time. We drop our pebbles, those nearby see circles spreading. Some lap an opposite shore, but only if fishers there are looking for them. Disparate timezones, owls vs larks, will miss each other more. Be kind with your attention.

For newcomers: Bluesky has no algorithm, posts are shown in chronological order and only from people you follow. If you like something, "like" ❤️ is fine (a little dopamine) but does almost nothing; "repost" 🔄 gives visibilty and makes the difference. Press those arrows and support each others!

This is a brilliant short read on why this haka is being heard around the world. As the child of two oppressed cultures I felt this raw emotion deep in my soul. There is no Irish or Caribbean equivalent.

Delighted to be discussing how to get published as part of the literary agents and publishers panel for Writers and Artists, and Open University on 5th December. Sign up deets below: www.writersandartists.co.uk/events-and-c...

In this difficult world, we should be tender with ourselves too... This poem pulls gently at a tapestry of threads, from self-love to isolation to temporality. What an astonishing beauty ❤️ "In Ulvik" by Jane Hirshfield in 'Ledger' (Alfred A. Knopf) #poetrycommunity #poetry #writingcommunity

I'm honoured to be featured on this episode of A Thousand Shades of Green, hosted by Susan Richardson. I'm blown away by Susan's exquisite readings of my work 💚 I'd love for you to listen over coffee or tea ☕️ Thank you so much, Susan. A true gift. Absolutely breathtaking! 🙏 #WritingCommunity

Sharing my Poem of the Month by @corinnaboard.bsky.social for Grapevine Mags ( Yorkshire) 💚

Three starter packs, about 350 poetry-related accounts to follow: go.bsky.app/BXEELHP go.bsky.app/AWoMyKD go.bsky.app/SRb64yp

Good morning. Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.

In today’s free Notes from the Margin essay, a beach walk becomes a found poem: open.substack.com/pub/wendypra...

This might be helpful too... #BookThreads go.bsky.app/6zX28p1

ICYMI we're asking aberdeen to "go beyond boundaries" and #SaveUoALanguages Sign petition here: chng.it/hPcsHPtP #gobeyondboundaries = #SaveUoALanguages