For fans of Gwen John:

Tomorrow's poem for #NationalPoetryDay 02.09.2025 plays with the dark. Personally love darkness but I can seewhy others don't. From my 2nd solo collection "If I Were Other Than Myself" Troika Books @piecorbett.bsky.social @brianmosespoet.bsky.social @domconlon.bsky.social @rogerstevens.bsky.social

There seem to be quite a few men around these days who get far more attention than they deserve.

What could be more playful than a visual 1 word poem. Tomorrow's poem for @nationalpoetryday this year Thursday October 2nd ©️ Sue Hardy-Dawson

Birnam Wood vibes.

Valuable summary of the week. You show us the massive attacks, but also 🇺🇦strengths and growing international support. The story about the USSR request for NATO membership is absurd but not surprising. An exciting letter that I can recommend to everyone! www.patreon.com/posts/138328...

🔭 All the Water on Planet Earth Illustration Credit: Jack Cook, Adam Nieman, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Data source: Igor Shiklomanov apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25090...

Like daughter, like father!

Skip for autumn.

Gulp.

That's more like it.

The most recent especially upsetting round of supposedly Britishness has reminded me of this poem of mine from She's Fierce Macmillan. We are all from everywhere and richer for it.

Newly elected Green Party leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked, would he ever work with Keir Starmer?

The Home Office's own (excellent) research summary says a) asylum seekers come to the UK primarily because of social networks/ties b) welfare and labour market policies are *not* a big "pull factor" c) safe routes would help freemovement.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Top marks.

📣📣📣 BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! It's Kindle/audio publication day for MURDER AT MISTLETOE MANOR My novel featuring: Snow ❄️☃️🌨️ Strangers thrown together 🛌 A crumbling hotel in Yorkshire 🏨 Murder 🗡️ Christmas 🎄 A dog 🐶 A cat 🐈‍⬛ A very tired journalist 📰 Paperback out 9 October 📚 www.amazon.co.uk/Murder-Mistl...

The only european countries that are not signatories to the ECHR are Russia and Belarus and that’s all you need to know about people who want the UK to leave the ECHR and what they think about human rights.

Le dôme de fer...

Apparently yesterday, the 26th of August was #InternationalDogDay and I missed it but to make up for that here's a poem from my 2nd collection 'If I Were Other Than Myself @TroikaBooks and featuring an illustration of my much loved now sadly no longer with us spaniel Bayliss.

I will say this and I will stand by it no matter what: AI is never going to be worth a single human life. Not the ones who die like this poor kid, or the ones who die from the resource depletion and climate change. The entire tech industry is going to tell you otherwise. They’re wrong.

King & Conqueror, the BBC’s new series telling “the epic story of 1066 and the brutal battle for a kingdom”, began on BBC One on Sunday, 24 August, 2025. I reviewed the first episode for @historicalwriters historiamag.com/review-king-...

Five young bluetits in the bird bath. #TinyJoys

23rd of August is #NationalRidetheWindDay so here's Zephyr from my second solo collection 'If I Were Other Than Myself', @TroikaBooks . ©️Sue Hardy-Dawson

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Putin working hard on a peace deal and reminding Trump what that deal looks like...

'While Trump still commands the daily news cycle, he no longer commands the West... It is Europe that is becoming the new arsenal of democracy.' Exceptional, morally urgent and utterly clear sighted column in the Telegraph. Yes, you read that right. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

KidLit Bluesky, can you help? A friend is trying to figure out the title of a book she read as a teenager - published no more than 30 years ago, so probably 1990s, or late 80s at most. Plot in the image below, does this ring a bell with anyone? #Kidlit

I wandered lonely as a cloud, Just like old Willie Wordsworth, And saw some golden daffodillies Though not so numerous as Willie’s, But maybe just a third’s worth.

We are moving the massive wooden Kiruna church today here in the far north. Such a feat of engineering. 40 meters wide and almost 700'000 kilos, moving down the streets at 0,5km/h. Today I walked with the church. The mine, the reason for this move, in the background.

#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics

Today is #WorldPhotographyDay 📷, a wonderful opportunity to remind scholars in Classics that all my photographs of archaeological sites and museums are available on Flickr under the Creative Commons licence. 👉 flickr.com/photos/carol...

Great opportunity for aspiring novelists:

Some really wonderful singing, dancing and ventriloquism to brighten your day! #TinyJoys

Putin thought it was his car.

This New Yorker cartoon by Sarah Kempa seems just right for the season. Sending good wishes especially to those North American academics who have to return to the classroom in AUGUST, before Labor day. You all deserved more time with your beach reads.

Watch for meteors without getting out of bed.

How to market Jane Austen without giving away that the books are set in the Regency - a new edition of all six books published last March by Penguin. And (entertainingly) the series is called "First Impressions"! #janeausten #19thc

It's World Elephant Day. Lovely, poignant poem from Sue Hardy-Dawson. #worldelephantday

Not just any caterpillar, an M&S caterpillar.

For some special people, (Father Christmas, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland) #RoyalMail knows exactly where they are!

Upon my oath, I love the sloth. Please (spare my wrath) Don't say it "sloth".

Gwen John exhibition coming up at Cardiff.

The other day, I visited an exhibition that left me speechless. It shows women who lost their sons and husbands in the war. I’m sharing part of it with a poem that played during the video. I added English subtitles. For you. Please watch. And share. So others can see too.

An opportunity for you to say what you like about audiobooks, including if you'd like them read by a machine without a soul (AI).

Putting a new book together

Petrichor. #TinyJoys

Cloudy last night so no stars visible in the sky but one on our lawn - a glow-worm. We've had a small colony for many years but I've not seen one for the last couple of years. #TinyJoys

Deleting the apps so I can meet someone the old-fashioned way. (She agrees to a dance and half an hour later I propose. A month later, having seen my estate, she realises just how much she loves me.)