I'm reading at this on Saturday night - come join, it's online 🙂

Many thanks to the poets who took part in the #EcoSonnetChain: #LindaFrance, #EmmaMust, @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social, #AnnSophieBalzer, @janeburn.bsky.social, #TishaniDoshi, #JemmaBorg, @jsaphra.bsky.social, #JacobPolley, @sophieherx.bsky.social, @helenmort.bsky.social, #SteveEly, & #GlynMaxwell.

Really happy to be being joined on this month's #LastSaturdayPoetry online Zoom by @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @annasaund.bsky.social @carmellapoetry.bsky.social @irisannelewis.bsky.social @eoinflannery.bsky.social @dralyal.bsky.social and SueProfitt - free tix: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/last-satur...

Look what I picked up in Stratford-Upon-Avon last week! The Anne-thology from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social is a beautiful collection of poems, with a tour de force sestina from @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social and a hilarious film review/poem from @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social 🪶💀

The mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn diagram.

A 90-minute masterclass for our Raising Voices Project and for Give Peat A Chance. www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social

A 90-minute masterclass for our Raising Voices Project. www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social

Writing for #PoemsAbout #Glamour? Friday’s the moment. Polish the surface, cut to the truth. Tag your post + tag us: @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social Then: Read. Repost. Reply. Keep it real, even when it sparkles. Prompts: shorturl.at/oEXAM

A 90-minute masterclass for our Raising Voices Project and for Give Peat A Chance. www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social

I'd rather see wind farms spring up, than watch the landscapes everyone is passionate about die because we didn't save them - because we were so keen on keeping them pretty. These places aren't just a vista. They are a fragile living cloak upon the land. They will not survive climate change.

Pride birthday is great & all, but it's essentially like having it on Gay Christmas 🌈🎁😅

A 90-minute masterclass for our Raising Voices Project and for Give Peat A Chance. www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social

After puzzling over it for some time, I've realised the little electronic trill our local blackbirds have incorporated into their call is...the start-up noise of Dott scooters 🤣 This makes sense, them both being outdoors & across the city.

Hi pals! It's been brought to my attention I'm the feline mascot for a brand of banana suckies (!) 🍌 😬 However: I'm much older than five, esp in cat years (are they a thing?); I do not like fish; reading, yes, jigsaws, no (crossword pls); I don't love crowded places, but it depends on the vibes.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan An adult pleasure zone decree

We had a buzzing symposium yesterday to round off Lyra Fest / Brigstock Inst AI & Poetry project. We talked creative potential, ethics, methods, risks & really got into it, in a really convivial way. Looking forward to reflecting on next steps to explore 🤖 🌎 🖊

A 90-minute masterclass for our Raising Voices Project www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social

Heartfelt thanks to @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social for choosing a gorgeous array of Nine Arches poets to fill the pages of these beautiful anthologies, with poems by @isobeldixon.bsky.social @olgapoet.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @tomsastry.bsky.social & others 🧡

Looking forward to the #NoKings marches in the UK now... 👑 🚫 #CharlesTheLast

If you joined #NBNconf24, you'll have heard @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social create & recite "Worm's Eye View". Thanks Caleb for reproducing it bit.ly/CalebParkin ....Leading nicely into our announcement that #NBNconf25 will be on 20 November at the SS Great Britain in Bristol - bit.ly/NBNconf25

`The Land Speaks: From Stone Walls to Stakeholders on #Dartmoor.’ Read RENEW PhD student Emma Squire’s blog, with poetry from @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social inspired by the RENEW Programme’s Early Career Researcher #biodiversity retreat. renewbiodiversity.org.uk/the-land-spe...

#HappyPrideMonth b!tches 🐕 💩 🌈

Today's gender & vibe:

Poets: ready for an adventure in #ecopoetry? Online 90 min masterclass on 5 August with #PoetsforthePlanet and four brilliant poets, as we dig in the dirt to explore writing that captures place and location. Tickets: www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... #WritingMasterclass #writingworkshop #poetry

Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around. They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway. It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing

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Absolutely this. Starmer is a flimsy weather vane with no spine, simply appeasing Reform & driving the country towards fascism. The benefit of the doubt I gave Labour is most definitely over.

As a new one emerges, throwback to last year when we got embroiled in the last #Pope 's motorcade - in a Marseillaise ambulance... buildstories.slowways.org/walking-and-...

Interested in the potential, pitfalls & peculiarities of the rel'ship between AI & poetry? Join this @lyrafest.com symposium on 27th June... www.lyrafest.com#e127080 A friendly, playful opportunity to think through complex, controversial subject as creative practitioners & critical thinkers.

Our latest curated book bundle is themed on Earth, Nature & Place. A trio of #poetry titles featuring writing from @isobeldixon.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social and @wendypratt.bsky.social together at a celebratory price of £17.99. ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Earth...

Delighted to see this review of 'Mingle' in Alchemy Spoon, which met the poems in the brimming-over spirit they were intended! The collection is on sale now for £7.99, so grab it direct from @ninearchespress.bsky.social while you can...

Harry Josephine Giles’ new collection Them! doesn’t just speak about trans life—it sings it, with wit, rage, joy and defiance. It reminds us that poetry is one of the most powerful ways we can hear each other—deeply, wholly, without interruption. [2/4]

12.30 tomorrow!

With @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social, fierce eco-poet of the surreal, this event explores the intersections of ecology, identity, technology and body in ways that ripple beyond the page. [3/4]

Bristol & nearby folk! This Sunday at @lyrafest.com in Watershed, 12.30 - join me & Harry Josephine Giles for some Eco-Weirding. www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/wat...

I'm doing an independent study project this semester that's focused on submitter and editor perspectives on literary magazines. If you submit work to literary magazines and have a few minutes, I'd be so grateful if you would fill out my survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Another nice Costa Rican hummingbird, the tiny Violet-headed Hummingbird. At @tapirvalley.bsky.social #birds #hummingbirds #nature

Earth, Nature & Place - a curated book bundle to mark #EarthDay2025 Enjoy a trio of #poetry titles featuring writing from @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social, @wendypratt.bsky.social and @isobeldixon.bsky.social at a celebratory price of £17.99. ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Earth...

i want more art. i want more conversation, constellations. i want more time with trees. i want more of my own heart. more pasta shapes! and the shapes of song! i want paintings so huge we have to build a new space. i want tiny paintings only baby pigeons can properly appreciate

Allow my buns to demonstrate all of the key bun positions 🐇🐇

Footprints – Jill Abram atriumpoetry.com/2025/04/15/f...

What we’ve been witnessing is oligarchy in action and the rich getting richer. It has nothing to do with us.

Step into the Magic of The Word Café The Barrel House, Totnes Wednesday 30th April, 7.30pm Including #poetry from @tomsastry.bsky.social and his freshly published Life expectancy begins to fall. Plus Deborah Harvey and the Gora Ensemble Tickets and details: bit.ly/4i6T4fI

It'd be lovely if you could join me online to celebrate the publication of my latest @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social publication, 'A hobby of mine'. 30 April from 8pm, and I'll be in some fine poetic company as you can see from the below. Link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...

MK Literary Festival starts tomorrow: 4 days, 18 events. To start, Edward Stourton talks about 40 years of bringing us the news.* *In-person or online! Box Office open! www.mklitfest.org/edward-stourton #edwardstourton #journalism #broadcasting #Memoir #miltonkeynes

"(Although I am not a statue I have often held my arms aloft As when catching a carelessly thrown baby or pointing at two meteors at the same time)" www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi... Thanks #NaPoWriMo for intro to this Jane Yeh poem.

No one tells you that so much of writing will be admin, not least submissions. But then no one tells you how much of your adult life will be spent removing mould from walls and window frames. It's essential to keep writing for real amid the administrative monotony, to remind yourself of your purpose

Thrilled to reveal the cover for THIS IS HOW I FIGHT, my new poetry collection!💜 From marvellous @ninearchespress.bsky.social “Poetry of danger and unknowing, wildness and strangeness, and of kindness as a radical act.” Artwork Ali White. Out 19 June! 👇🏼 ninearchespress.com/shop#!/This-...