The tiny flowers of shepherds purse offering their hearts to all who pass by. #WildflowerHour

Dog rose hip with attachment issues. #WildflowerHour

Delicious combo of chocolate candy colours on these Ivy fruits / seedheads/ little parasols #WildflowerHour

California poppies 🧡pop up on these steps and dotted here and there along this inaccessible steep grass slope between two sets of railings at the edge of a park. #WildflowerHour

Three fab poems from GB Clarkson on the ever original Anthropocene. www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/3-poems...

‘You Britons go to the pub, we go to the swimming pool!’: the European health habits worth adopting

I note that a bunch of men are still the spokesmen for everything in poetry. Clue’s in the name I guess.

R.I.P. The Bay Horse – Carole Bromley @carolebromley.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/11/07/r...

I didn’t even know one could say oh fuck on the bbc these days lol #CelebrityTraitors

Ellanya Sivasubramaniam, a Top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2025, reads winning poem 'The Girls Who Grow Antlers'. Read this year's winning poems and find out more about the Award: bit.ly/FoyleYoungPoets

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Wish this was available as knuckle dusters.

Sad to hear another great independent small press poetry magazine is closing. Prole took a few of my poems over the years, none of these are in a pamphlet or book so I thought l'd gather them here with the adorable covers for each mag they featured in.

Oh! It’s nearly 5th November! And I barely ever mentioned 💅 this but I had a poem called bonfire in The Poetry Review in 2022 I think which is still this century so here it is again! 🔥

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With the devastation of Hurricane Melissa, we’re hosting an online event to raise funds to help those affected Please join us Weds 19 Nov 7pm UK/2pm EST to hear from stellar poets who’ll share their work & offer some insight into the situation on the ground melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk

🍃 🍂 november - month of the magic windows 🍂 🍃

Oh! It’s nearly 5th November! And I barely ever mentioned 💅 this but I had a poem called bonfire in The Poetry Review in 2022 I think which is still this century so here it is again! 🔥

Delighted to have a poem in the Fig Tree about a day at the Crazy Golf in the off season…⛳️

Black horehound on a windy day! #WildflowerHour

These must be garden escapee snapdragons, I saw them in a couple of different places this week so they must have all been planning to bust out at the same time. #WildflowerHour

Oh there’s the #Strictly tears #Ellie #Vito 😭😭😭

Just a reminder to anyone thinking about it, it’s actually ALL SOULS Day, so you still don’t have permission to be an arsehole.

Just searched something and AI overview said “this appears to be a creative, descriptive string of words” omg feeling quite patronised now. I guess at least it didn’t say “this appears to be a word salad”.

Omg best version of Creep hahaha #Strictly

Not long to go! If you haven't already, make sure to enter your poetry by 11:59pm GMT tonight. 🕰️ npc.poetrysociety.org.uk

A favourite witch poem for Halloween by Edna St. Vincent Millay 🧙‍♀️ poets.org/poem/witch-w...

Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor” Oh I think maybe not exactly tbh

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Candlesnuff fungus 🤍 🖤 #NatureWithin #Fungi

It is very interesting. *does not elaborate * (Second of my new sequence of not elaborating).

Great interview with Vidyan Ravinthiran and Karen Solie, joint winners of the @forwardprizes.bsky.social for Best Collection, on BBC Radio 4's Front Row. They read poems and discussed their books #Avidyā & #Wellwater with host @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social (from 32:13). www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#RIP Prunella Scales. Photo by John Deakin, 1964.

Wow!!!!!

Thank whatever the polite word for fuck is.

SCOOBY-DOO TAUGHT US THAT IN THE END THE MONSTERS WERE ALWAYS PEOPLE.

A lovely floofy Kestrel at Abberton Reservoir yesterday. 😍

Was very happy to find this original Dale Maxey painting from the book, which was one of my childhood favourites, for sale and even happier when it arrived today. The photo doesn’t do the colours or the beautiful illustration work justice at all

New from the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

En garde 🤺 #embroidery

That’s my least favourite thing. *does not elaborate*

‘This poem is me at my beast’ Huge congratulations to all the winners and shortlistees (is that a word?) for the @forwardprizes.bsky.social. The readings last night were a triumph. I love this poem from Isabelle Baafi’s ‘Chaotic Good’ (winner of best first collection)…

Screaming ghost in profile 👻 aka inkcaps in woods today.

For #WildFungiHour, a Scarlet Waxcap in the churchyard of St John the Evangelist, Shirley. #WildflowerHour

Sprig of common yarrow still in flower for #WildflowerHour

Strictly results show in at same time as Forward Prizes so I guess this is a real test of my loyalties.

This year no ticket or jacket required for the Forward Prizes live stream just rock up on this YouTube link. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/for...

When u are pretending to do a TikTok 🥰

Perpetual state of plié #Strictly

Craig: you’ve got the best Développé Subtitles: you’ve got the best moves #Strictly