So delighted to record a podcast about Hatchery with Tara George @bedsidereading.bsky.social - thankyou for having me ! bedsidereading.buzzsprout.com/1880290/epis... @vpresslit.bsky.social #poetsonbluesky

Yesterday, I was delighted to read from Hatchery at a local event to celebrate the NHS’s birthday.

Here’s me reading from Hatchery. I will be reading @waterstones.bsky.social in Bristol on 8th July- www.waterstones.com/events/a-poe... @vpresslit.bsky.social #poemsaloud

here’s me doing a bit of self promotion, if you like my “throwaway” poetry 🛋️ here’s a book full. Published by 60 Odd Press,thanks Mike @zoomburst.substack.com available from Amazon @jenthorne.bsky.social @rburrows.bsky.social @johnchmura.bsky.social @zentinl.bsky.social @stacebot.bsky.social

Wonderful book. Thank you @bethosmond.bsky.social

@emteepoetry.bsky.social #PromptCombo #Beach Here is one first published in similar form in Dreich Zoo Collection.

Hello @emteepoetry.bsky.social for #promptcombo #beach here’s a poem about a fossil, it’s from a great anthology to raise money for Give Peat a Chance www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe...

Loved this! ❤️

I am a neonatologist and a poet, this poem is from my debut collection with @vpresslit.bsky.social

Georgia O'Keeffe, Sunrise, 1916 #WomensArt

For Father’s Day From Hatchery #poetsonbluesky vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/2026/05/laun...

#fathersday #children #smallpoemsunday #fathers #poem ❤️ ❤️

For Father’s Day From Hatchery #poetsonbluesky vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/2026/05/laun...

📚 New Review 📚 Some Dark God by Catherine Balaq, out with @vpresslit.bsky.social on 3rd July. Review at victoriaspires.substack.com

Essay in which Don Paterson (@dharmabam.bsky.social) argues that poetry's falsehoods are often vehicles for truth – and that a poet's greatest ethical obligation isn't to factual accuracy, but to emotional and intellectual honesty ... much to the continued suspicion of philosophers. bit.ly/4vUnetI

Like Brian Bilston, Caroline Bird and John McCullough? Chris Campbell’s debut #poetry collection is book of the month at Black Bough. @citizen-chris.bsky.social Watch the poet chase his toddler through these poems. www.blackboughpoetry.com/book-reviews...

morning Friday you find out in Gibraltar wi monkeys 🛋️ here’s my little“throwaway“ contribution #PoemsAbout #OutAfterMidnight happy weekend everyone everywhere 🛋️ and like one poet famously said “if this is poetry then I give up” I hope not #PoetryforAll 🛋️

For this week's #PoemsAbout theme #OutAfterMidnight from @thebrokenspine.co.uk More Keats than clubbing...

Hooray for #PoemsAbout Fridays. Mine is a long one this week, so maybe grab a cuppa before you start! I was actually #OutAfterMidnight the day after this prompt dropped and this is pretty much what was going through my head as I was plodding home in the rain 🩶 @thebrokenspine.co.uk #Poetry

Friday already and another challenging #PoemsAbout #OutAfterMidnight. Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk, hope you like my reminiscence of Manchester in the mid-80s! #poetry #writingcommunity

Hello @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk cracking Friday #PoemsAbout #OutAfterMidnight Thanks! Cobbled this together with my morning cuppa. Thanks to all the #poetry posters and readers. I’ll hop in as and when today 👍🏻

For #PoemsAbout #OutAfterMidnight with much thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Hello @alanparrywriter.co.uk and all the #poemsabout crew! I am often #outaftermidnight because that is when the babies seem to want to come! @thebrokenspine.co.uk 🦉 🌙 ✨ 🌒

Summer arrives with its usual swagger: everything loud and bright and hot. For something cooler, dive into the latest wave of @iamb.uk. You'll find 45 poems by 15 poets – written and read by their authors. Enough to see you through the driest season. iamb.uk/index/wave/26

Hello @clarebest.bsky.social I absolutely loved your poem “you play the piano” reminds me of my middle son 🥰 www.iamb.uk/wave/26-clar...

Link to my page on the current wave of iamb ❤️ www.iamb.uk/wave/26-eliz... @iamb.uk @markantonyowen.com

So thrilled to be published by Iamb today- thankyou @markantonyowen.com. I will be enjoying delving into this wave 😊 www.iamb.uk/index/wave/26

Excited for tomorrow!

Look out for the official publication announcement of wave twenty-six of @iamb.uk from midnight BST on June 15th. www.iamb.uk/index/wave/26

Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. We’ve campaigned so long for this! Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now our young people will have a chance to get to know & love the natural world, to feel awe & wonder, & gain skills to protect it 🌷🌳🦡

Review news & hot new titles! V. Press summer news & highlights! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com @downith.bsky.social @bethosmond.bsky.social @scooterwriter.bsky.social

So delighted to be long listed for the Rialto Nature and Place Competition- I love it when competitions include the poems which came close- it’s so encouraging! Huge congratulations to the winners 😊 💎 www.therialto.co.uk/pages/2026/0...

Such a beautiful poetic space! #highlyrecommend #thebookbag #PaulShort

Elizabeth Osmond’s Hatchery is brilliant and beautiful, combining medical expertise (Osmond is a neonatal consultant) and fascinating insights into the history of obstetrics with care and sensitivity in their purest forms. A very impressive debut. @bethosmond.bsky.social @vpresslit.bsky.social

Congrats to the 15 poets of wave twenty-six: Alex Smith, Anna Maughan, Caroline Stancer, Clare Best, Deborah Gaudin, Elizabeth Osmond, Frances Klein, Francesca Leader, Jonathon Medeiros, Kate Vanhinsbergh, Lauren Parker, Rachel Burrows, Robin Ince, Victoria Moul and Zain Rishi.

www.afterpoetry.com/poem/may-31-... Thrilled to be able to share my poem ‘Her Poppy Earrings’ that has found its home on After… huge thanks to @markantonyowen.com for believing in me

New poem in @poetryireland.bsky.social , with big thanks to them and Sinéad Morrisey, whose editorial I have also included here 🫶🏼 The poem 'Mahoganny lagged cylinder' began its life at the Black Country Living Museum, and takes a whistlestop tour through 300-odd years of industrial history ⚙️🥚💨

Fourteen and fuelled – Emma Dandy atriumpoetry.com/2026/05/29/f...

Grateful to have four new poems in this issue of Kenyon Review. I wrote this one in Vamvakou, Greece, where I was introduced to the hawk moth (also called sphinx moth) after running from planter to planter thinking I was watching a rather drab hummingbird up close. 💛

Thankyou to Michael Bartholomew Biggs for selecting my poem for London Grip magazine, about cats - and kindness 🐈‍⬛ 🐈 #poetsonbluesky You can read the whole issue here: londongrip.co.uk/2026/05/lond...

Whoop! 🙌 glad this beaut of a poem found a fab home with London Grip @bethosmond.bsky.social 😻

Thankyou to Michael Bartholomew Biggs for selecting my poem for London Grip magazine, about cats - and kindness 🐈‍⬛ 🐈 #poetsonbluesky You can read the whole issue here: londongrip.co.uk/2026/05/lond...

I like this poem about the way we live now from @newyorker.com

@bethosmond.bsky.social’s Hatchery arrived. Highly recommended. Contributing to a rich tradition of physician creatives, apothecary Keats, doctors Bulgakov & Chekhov, the poetry’s controlled mix of historicism, professional observation & personal engagement reaches beyond memoir towards universality