Tonight at 7.15 on Radio 3. Writer’s block, dry spell, fallow period, worrisome silence, that terrifying, lonely time when you *cannot* write a poem. I speak to Liz Berry, Oliver Carmichael, Hannah Copley, Marie Howe, Vanessa Kisuule and Jack Underwood! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Here’s my strange little poem published by Obsessed with Pipework. Thanks @catbloke.bsky.social for including it! #poetsonbluesky

I wrote this in the wonder that is January Writing Hours with @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social and @clareshawpoet.bsky.social - the brief was to SHOW someone something very specific

Www.aftershockreview.com to order. Thank you so much everyone.

So proud to be in the second Aftershock Review, can’t wait to read it all. Thanks so much @maxwallis.bsky.social #poemsabout #poetsonbluesky

The work of contemporary ceramics artist Pollyanna Johnson #WomensArt

Wow! This feels like it was an AGE ago ... when in fact, it's been less than a year since this appeared. My thanks, still, to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social, and my former BBC journalist interviewer @elcurwen.bsky.social. 🙏🏼

Thanks @catbloke.bsky.social for giving my work a home. This would have done for the #poemsabout prompt for #manequin a few weeks back:

Thankyou Obsessed with Pipework for including my poem about sweets @catbloke.bsky.social 🍫 🍬 🍭!

Here’s my strange little poem published by Obsessed with Pipework. Thanks @catbloke.bsky.social for including it! #poetsonbluesky

My contribution to this week's #poemsabout prompt #lockeddoors is very short and probably should come with a trigger warning for suicide. With thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk. Am not tagging anyone else due to subject matter

Delighted by my first Pushcart nomination from Dust Poetry magazine. Sincere thanks to @dustpoetry.bsky.social editors @catherineredford.bsky.social and @tarawheeler.bsky.social

Looking forward to diving into this! @clareshawpoet.bsky.social

@annashelton.bsky.social I loved your poem in @magmapoetry.bsky.social another one for teaching and reflection!

So excited to be longlisted for @walklistencreate.org #Walking #InTheDark competition & in great company with: @sarahraybould.bsky.social @alicestainer.bsky.social @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social @jenratcliffe.bsky.social @elizafevwrites.bsky.social @pdevonald.bsky.social @lauratheis.bsky.social

Really enjoying this edition. I think the opening poem will be a great teaching resource for paediatrics ❤️

Seeing as it’s the Traitors final tonight, thought I would re-post my #PoemsAbout blood from last week- about a famous Australian donor 🩸

I am delighted that my #poem Devon Gothic is longlisted for the @walklistencreate.org WRITE ABOUT WALKING IN THE DARK competition. My huge thanks go to WLC & competition judges @marcellenewbold.bsky.social & Damaris West. You can read the poem in the link below 👇 #poetsonbluesky #poetrycommunity

'how to be utterly faithful' Oh, that we call all be that and do this, for ever Elizabeth. Blood donation; the simplest and truly altruistic of all citizenship actions we can take. I managed 54 units, until my body told me to stand down. 💚

Absolutely brilliant @victoriaspires.bsky.social ! 🙌🏻

Issue 15 ‘Dear World’ will go live on 22.11.25 ✨ We can’t wait to share these brilliant poems and the artwork with you! 🌏 Thank you so much to everyone who submitted for this issue, you should now have a response, so do let us know if you haven’t 💚

At a foodbank near you. 😢 The quiet anarchy of the volunteer who cannot be in the photo with the MP. #poetry #foodbank #poverty #CeasefireNOW #welfarerights #politics #GazaCeasefire @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @plaidcymru.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @socialistworker.bsky.social

First time I've tried to write openly about class, instead of it being read/imposed on my work afterwards. Photo of my nanna outside her house on Braunstone estate in Leicester. I spent most of my childhood here after school waiting for my parents to finish work. open.substack.com/pub/kimmoore...

If you haven't heard of Poets for the Planet until now please take a look at our website for more information about who we are and what we do. Our artwork was created by the wonderful Henny Beaumont. #poetrysky #nationalpoetryday poetsfortheplanet.org.uk

John Keats was born on this day in 1795. I was deeply moved on viewing his original handwritten manuscript of 'Ode to a Nightingale' at Keats House in 2018. Thank you to 'After... Poetry' for publishing my poem in response: www.afterpoetry.com/poem/nov-08-...

I was going to deny this on the grounds that I have never written a poem about a horse and then I remembered I have written two... thefridaypoem.substack.com/p/26-more-th...

Many thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for today's #PoemsAbout prompt #Blood. I look forward to reading everyone's submissions later #BlueSkyPoets #PoetryCommunity

#PoemsAbout #Blood

A beautiful portrait taken by Tim Clifton for today's #FoxOfTheDay - top work Tim !

They tried to distill the blood with distance like temporal, spatial alchemists but the dark magic lingered in our DNA... #poemsabout #blood #IrishHistory #MagdaleneLaundries #MotherandBabyHomes

Well this wasn’t meant to be topical! 😂 It’s more about my family than theirs! Sorry if it’s a bit Anglocentric. Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the #PoemsAbout prompt #blood. #poetry

Hello there @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and the #poetrycommunity here’s my rough draft drop for #PoemsAbout #Blood A little fem’ rant for you! Will check in throughout the day for all the #poems. Thanks for reading, sharing, supporting. #poetry #poem

For #PoemsAbout #Blood with thanks to all @thebrokenspine.co.uk for continuing to host such excellent prompts. This one got me to explore some things I didn't know I needed to. #Poetry #Emoetry #BlueSkyPoets #PoetryCommunity

As always my thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for hosting #PoemsAbout #Blood look forward to seeing all this the other poets in this wonderful community's work

Good morning #poemsabout crew. I had wanted to write about this guy for a while so thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk for the prompt about Blood. If you haven’t watched a certain programme I hope it still makes some sense!

Reminder: #PoemsAbout #Blood drops Friday. Write into inheritance, rituals, betrayal, transfusion, kinship. Don't post early. Use Alt Text. Tag us or miss out. For deep-dive prompts in your inbox every Saturday: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

Excited to share Darling Blue & my unboxing video! Would love to see you at my free local launch on 22 November & to get more readings lined up. If anyone’s looking for a guest poet, would like to review Darling Blue or do a book swap, please DM me. Links below. #poetry #books

January Writing Hours are up! Come and join Clare Shaw and I every day throughout January at 10am for a Writing Hour. Pas as you go and bursary tickets available www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/january-wr...

@sarahraybould.bsky.social at our #spokenword #poetry #openmic

Celebrating 10 Years of Publications -- 2024! Poetry, flash and our new book bundles! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com

“[...]These poems are diamond-like in their brilliance and multifaceted reflections, but they are also sharp and tough.[...]” Tamar Yoseloff on Lauren Mason's Rust Canyon vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/rust-canyo... #poetry #books

Thrilled to have 2 poems on the long list and what a fab list of names 🥳❤️ congratulations to all!

@afterpoetry.com’s focus on ekphrastic poetry deserves a #lifttothesky from the #poetrycommunity Submissions open!

Super excited that this year, after many years of entering without success to @bridportprize.bsky.social , I had 2 of my submitted poems longlisted and 1 of them shortlisted! 🤩 Whoop!! Can't wait to read the winning & highly commended poems, CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL 🚀 bridportprize.org.uk/results/

Still time to conquer your Fear of Physics and join me tomorrow (Mon) night for my When Physics and Fairy Tales Collide Zoom writing workshop! Details here, concessions and pay what you can available, and if you can't make it live, you'll get the recording after! app.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

Im judging this years @cafewriters.bsky.social poetry competition - its now open so send me your best poems. www.cafewriters.co.uk/home/poetry-... #poetrycompetition

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a celebration of women in science, technology, engineering and maths. I’m proud to share my poem 'Ada Lovelace' and a sonnet to Caroline Herschel, published in the London Review of Books. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Hey sorry I've been away. What do you mean you didn't notice!? Anyway, it's #worldmenopauseday ! Let's celebrate! ( from Constructing a Witch @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social )

For #WorldMenopauseDay: my poem 'Sea Gooseberries', which was highly commended in the 2022 Ginkgo Prize and is included in my V. Press pamphlet '(m)othersongs'. The poem merges ecological fragility with body crisis, and was inspired by witnessing a mass beaching in Norfolk.