Hello people! Would you like to know that Atrium will be opening our inbox for a very small submissions window of 10 days from 27th January? There you go then. Details of how to send will appear on the site on 28th.

Submissions for #Glow #CityAtNightPoetry #ThematicSlimline continue to pour in. If you are writing about the night, bars, nightawks, music, neon lights, hotel rooms, cinemas, 24hr launderettes and garages, I want to read this work. I want your grime. I want the underbelly of society to be exposed!

I had no idea how excruciatingly painful kidney stones are until four days ago.

' ... who sweat under sky blue polyester tabards, whose backs ache, feet throb, whose ankles are swollen, who worry they won’t be home when the kids wake up ... ' iambapoet.com/wave/20-sharon-phillips

Some of you may recall that in the first year of COVID-19 here in the UK, actor Samuel West (@exitthelemming) read my poem 'Childhood these days' as part of his Pandemic Poetry series on @SoundCloud. I was particularly delighted, as the phrase 'benign neglect' came from him.

More shameless self-publicity from me...

Also to Rachel Smith, Rowan Lyster, @sharoncowling.bsky.social, @simonalderwick.bsky.social, T S S Fulk and @wendypratt.bsky.social. #iamb #wavetwenty #poetry #newpoetry #poetrycommunity

I'm dead chuffed to be on wave 20 of @iambapoet.com!

Say hi to... @daraghfleming.bsky.social, Dion O'Reilly, @gclifford1.bsky.social, Jane Ayres, @kevingrauke.bsky.social, Laura Lewis-Waters, Marie Marchand, @pamthompson240.bsky.social, Polly Walshe, Rachel Smith, Rowan Lyster, Sharon Phillips, Simon Alderwick, T S S Fulk and @wendypratt.bsky.social.