yesterday‘s tulip

Sea sparkle

a request and a name

A spring story with interview from late last year 🌸🌺🌷

Inhabit the Poem Last Essays by Helen Vendler

blossom and moon

the prettiest gate

I was not expecting this! Many thanks to @johnmadera.bsky.social for this great honour. 😊 bigother.com/2026/03/27/a...

First glimpse of Moon Over Brendle by @jeffnoon.bsky.social in the hands of the author himself. Fans close to London might want to keep May 14th free, I hear…

From the allotment man’s bucket

Blackthorn corridor

There goes a happy woman: The Grandmother by Božena Němcová, translated by Susan Reynolds @jantarbooks.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/03/23/t...

moon’s here

Quietly the warships pass through discoloured water. Under ice the narrow pencil-case canals stream blacker, blacker. -Mandelstam trans. @keithsands.bsky.social More: blackboxmanifold.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/issues/issue...

blackthorn days

"'Fair weather by equinox,' they say... but it's cold!" Issa Kobayashi [20th of March = spring equinox] (image: Hiroshi Yoshida)

river colours

river today

hazel leaf-burst

The new NOON (ed. Diane Williams) has landed, with cover pic, portfolio and interview with @nataliazt.bsky.social, plus work by Lara Pawson, both of the CBe tribe.

TELEGRAPHY by Farah Ali (@cbeditions.bsky.social) reviewed by Kit Maude necessaryfiction.com/reviews/tele...

"It becomes part of our individual geography: one that is moulded by the landscape of another’s mind." @cclarklewes.bsky.social on Gerald Murnane's 'Inland'. Subscribe today. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20-spring-2026/behind-the-scenes-with-gerald-murnane-a-first-reading-of-eminlandem/

The Harare Review of Books Is Back with Its First Issue of 2026 and It's a Good One brittlepaper.com/2026/03/the-...

first newts in the dew pond

Recommend @exactingclam.bsky.social's new issue (delighted it has my Murnane essay in it), not least for @jgoldsmith.bsky.social's essay on friendship and envying artists 👇🦋🐚

basking succulent

A way to stand alongside Palestinian writers from Gaza 👇

HEIMAT by David Rose from @nightjarpress.bsky.social

moon and poem

Wednesday pony

early birthday presents

Great to see my short short story SALO on 3:AM. Thanks to @danieldaviswood.bsky.social www.3ammagazine.com/3am/salo/

Monday pony

night horses

Out last year here: poetrybirmingham.com/issue-11-spr...

A first sign of Spring from @exactingclam.bsky.social

On this grey day a year ago

beautiful book post from @wordkunst.bsky.social

Huge thanks to @exactingclam.bsky.social for publishing my essay 'Behind the Scenes with Gerald Murnane: A First Reading of Inland' www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20... @andotherstories.bsky.social

Just arrived KESHED by @stuhennigan.bsky.social from @ortacpress.bsky.social Alongside my flowering venus flytrap.

My thanks to David Caddy @tearsinthefence.bsky.social for permission to post Nadia Vikulina‘s full review of SOVETICA (from issue 82). @cbeditions.bsky.social

A way to stand alongside Palestinian writers from Gaza 👇