Morning all, this is wonderful! I love Edwin Morgan anyway but backed by Trio!? Genius. Get in #poetrysky

Congrats @suejohns.bsky.social !

We are currently setting up an event to raise not just awareness of the underreported ecocide in Gaza, but to raise funds for PENGON (Palestine Environmental NGOs Network and a branch of Friends of the Earth). More info here and how you can get involved! poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/if-there-are...

🔊New Podcast out now: a conversation with @david-farrier.bsky.social on how we might learn to live in “The what ought to be.” He talks about adaptation, resilience, and what nature can teach us about recovery in a changing world. 🎧https://naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/ @ecioxford.bsky.social

Today in Chagford (Dartmoor, Devon, UK) at 5:30 pm:

Brand new on the blog today - please read and share and see how you might be able to support: "Poets for the Planet are currently setting up an event to raise not just awareness of the underreported ecocide in Gaza, but to raise funds for PENGON" #poetrysky poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/if-there-are...

Brand new on the blog today - please read and share and see how you might be able to support: "Poets for the Planet are currently setting up an event to raise not just awareness of the underreported ecocide in Gaza, but to raise funds for PENGON" #poetrysky poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/if-there-are...

Happy St Lucy's Day www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVk-...

So excited to receive the Winter issue of Bat News from the Bat Conservation Trust (@batconservation.bsky.social) 🦇This copy features a 3 page (!!!) interview where I discuss the unique role poetry can play in increasing public interest in protecting bat species 🦇🦇🦇

Next week, following the launch of Night Vision, Jean Sprackland will be appearing on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week, when she'll be discussing the dark with Jasper Goodall, Christine Riding, and Tom Sutcliffe. Tune in on Monday: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK. www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice... #creativewriting #poetry #shortstories flashfiction creativenonfiction writingcompetition

J.R. Carpenter, Le plaisir de la côte / The Pleasure of the Coast / @pamenarpress.bsky.social @jrcarpenter.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/12/jr-c...

Delighted to have my poem featured on the Front Page of Open Arts Forum openartsforum.com/toad-flax-le...

Please support this great initiative if you can. #cerneabbas #grassland #restorenature www.nationaltrust.org.uk/support-us/a...

Lots of sponges and whelks egg cases washed up after stormy weather. Also some red frayed plastic, masquerading as seaweed with egg cases and shells attached. A rainbow too! #beachfinds #beachwalks

This is wonderful! #poetrysky

Beautiful - a wonderful quote to start the day - thanks @susannacrossman.bsky.social

A lovely read to start the day!

Our August Digging in the Dirt #ecopoetry masterclass with @mklitfest.bsky.social raised £800 for Give Peat A Chance. A special ebook of the #poems it inspired is now available for £2 (all profits to Give Peat A Chance). #poetrysky www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe...

“Can a timeless moment of consciousness be ever adequately conveyed in a medium that depends on time, i.e., language? This is the mystic's and the lyric poet's problem.” -- Charles Simic

Hello! If you are in this group and interested in helping out, feel free to join our meeting tonight! Topic: Poets for the Planet zoom meeting Time: Nov 25, 2025 07:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time Join Zoom Meeting us06web.zoom.us/j/87174439024..

Past the cutlers, halfway over the Don I stop to watch the river’s dull pewter slow-shimmy the strait, grinding stone, cutting shingle. 'Ball Street Bridge', Angelina Ayers, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing' thefooting.wordpress.com

RODDY LUMSDEN The Roddy Lumsden Archive is now open to the public for consultation at University of Edinburgh. The collection consists of the papers of Scottish poet Roddy Lumsden, dating mostly from his time in Edinburgh from mid-1980s to mid-1990s. archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositories...

Proud to have my poem Belemnite in this brilliant anthology for the campaign #Givepeatachance get a copy here and raise money! www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social

Our August Digging in the Dirt #ecopoetry masterclass with @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social raised £800 for Give Peat A Chance. A special ebook of the #poems it inspired is now available for £2 (all profits to Give Peat A Chance). www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... #poetry #anthology #GivePeataChance

@poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social @mklitfest.bsky.social Give Peat a chance poets Eileen Anderson, Anne Cooper, Rene Crouch, Hilary Dunn, Caroline Gill, Richard Law, Nichola May, Michelle McGrane, Elizabeth Osmond, Judy Smith, Dave Wakely and Gail Webb. www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe...

Catching up - this looks great!

One of my favourite places to read. The National Poetry Library @southbankcentre.bsky.social

Brrrrr....perfect for today! 👻 🎃Happy Halloween!

Everything quietens and slows. Some live on; some, dying, persist as seeds, bones, spores. We are rich with life and can’t outrun it. From the title poem of Rob Hindle's collection 'Sapo', available with £2 off until Sunday longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Sounds like a must listen!

Between buses in Trowbridge I found some nice #PavementPlants for #WildflowerHour Hemp Agrimony, Common Mallow, Thornapple (a lot of it about this year), Michaelmas Daisy and a Snapdragon.

Congratulations @susiecampbell.bsky.social !

An ace day hanging out at @smallpublishers.bsky.social

Lovely - just right for this time of year! #poetrysky

Saturday #afternoonread #JohnClare

Looking forward to Wastelands @guillemotpress.bsky.social at @smallpublishers.bsky.social tomorrow and to visiting all the wonderful presses and book artists represented there! Just a reminder that I will be reading upstairs in the library at Conway Hall tomorrow from 12.30pm! Do come and say hello!

Beast is six months old today! Published 24 April. Thank you to @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social my dream publisher, and to everyone who reviewed & interviewed, stocked it and the many launch event organisers who welcomed my 9th collection. More events to come! Special thanks to all the readers!

This is a lovely wee film from @clareshaw.bsky.social & Anna Chilvers. It captures the magic and profound beauty of bogs & moors really well. Enjoy! #TheBookofBogs ed by Clare & Anna, pub by @littletollerbooks.bsky.social is out now #naturewriting #peatbogs

Congratulations to our very own @susiecampbell.bsky.social who is reading from her new collection next Saturday!

This looks great! Happening at the @smallpublishers.bsky.social next Friday #smallpublishersfair #poetrysky

Editor, publisher and translator Tony Frazer founded Shearsman magazine in 1981, shortly followed by @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social, with more than 900 poetry & poetry-related publications now in print. Browse and buy their new & recent titles at #smallpublishersfair25, London, Fri 24 / Sat 25 October

What book and luxury would you take? #poetrysky

‘For several minutes I stood and stared as they looped, settled, flew again, feeling like I was in a dream.’ An unexpected encounter: As Jill Hopper walks by the River Wandle, electric blue shoots across the water www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/jill...

"a rush of leaves lost early" wonderful poetry from Jane Griffiths, back in 1988! #poetrysky

Bird place-name of the day 96: ARNCLIFFE (Yorks). OE earn + clif. ‘Eagles’ cliff’. May well be golden eagle specifically here, given the terrain, whereas most eagle PNs probably refer to the white-tailed eagle. OE earn doesn’t differentiate species. #birdsandplace #naturewriting

Back in August this year, Jemma Borg wrote a blog for our website titled 'What Do We Mean By Hope' in which she says: "And here is where I think poetry can help – it can help us find courage..." read the whole article and her wonderful poem 'Willow sonnet'. poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/what-do-we-m...