YT Poem of the Week: 'When I land in Northern Ireland' by Colette Bryce yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

YT review: Reasons to be Cheerful - 'Lyrical Ballads' by Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Reas...

Fantastic poem

A belated look at Van Gogh in YT: 'Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience' at York's St Mary's yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Revi...

YT's Poem of the Week: 'Happiness' by Blake Morrison yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

YT Poem of the Week: 'In Passing' by Lisel Mueller yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

YT book review: 'Heimat' by David Rose @nightjarpress.bsky.social yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Thro...

Happy birthday Beckett! Here he is playing pitch'n'putt with Joyce www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbF5...

YT's Poem of the Week: 'Pennines in April' by Ted Hughes yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

YT Film review: "Wuthering Heights" yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Revi...

YT's Poem of the Week: 'Thirlmere' by Rhiannon Hooson @serenbooks.bsky.social yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

YT book review: Blood, pus and bile: 'Bodily Fluids' by Liam Hughes @eyebooks.bsky.social yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Bloo...

Apparently, Sunday was World Consumer Rights Day. That was a new one on me! 😂 Wrote a short about it in my writing group. A big shout to the YT for publishing it today: yorkshiretimes.co.uk/articles/The...

YT's Children's Poem of the Week: 'Dance of the Stream Sprite' by Jacqueline Shirtliff @northernjim.bsky.social yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Chil...

YT's Poem of the Week: 'Gaza' by Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social www.yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

Cartoon from Der Spiegel shows the world as seen by Trump.

YT's Poem of the Week: 'A Winter Night' by William Barnes yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

"Yes. I remember Adlestrop."

YT Poem of the week: 'The Only English Kid' by Hannah Lowe @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

Bit niche but recorded for the Innisfree/Irish in Britain End of Life Care project. It ended up being quoted in an An Phoblacht article which fed back into a Leeds Irish Health and Homes project with Armley Museum about the history of the Irish community in Leeds. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctuz...

YT Poem of the Week: 'Ends' by Matthew Sweeney yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... Totally fascinating

YT Poem of the Week: 'To Sleep' by John Keats yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

The opening lines to Ros Barber's wonderful poem Material, that explores memory and loss through the every day objects around us. Ros will be one of our key notes speakers at next month's conference, discussing Aubade, Jill and much more. We are open for registration for attendees on Eventbrite now.

YT Book review: The Severed Silence of the Heart - 'Lode' by Gillian Allnutt @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/The-...

Troy is an area of Leeds near Horsforth station. It never really recovered from being sacked by the Achaeans in the 13th century BCE. The Achaeans soon realised Helen was not there and set off for the Dardanelles, vowing to keep their blunder secret. But in Leeds, we remember.

YT Poem of the Week: 'Ground Gives' by Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

“MacBeth out-Hughes’ Hughes here. A masterpiece of control, ‘Owl’ is stitched with the kinds of metaphor that capture the brutality of evolutionary purpose in simple, uncompromising phrases” – @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social on George MacBeth’s #poem “Owl” 2/2 yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

Further to Peter Manson kindly sharing the brilliant Hamlet song by Adam McNaughtan , here it is by Martin Carthy for sassenach ears www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3Ob...

YT Book review: 'A Cool Head in Hell' - Harry Silman's diaries of his experience as a POW on the Burma Railway yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Book...

YT's Poem of the Week: 'And Then the Sun Broke Through' by David Butler @doirepress.bsky.social yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

Fancy listening to some children’s poetry? There are hundreds at The Dirigible Balloon to read and hear - what a great free resource for #NationalYearofReading2026 Thanks @northernjim.bsky.social for all you do! Here is one of my latest. dirigibleballoon.org/poem/Space #poetryforkids #kidlit

YT Arts Review: Ways of Seeing - Katharine Holmes' at Settle yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Ways...

A poem from the Winter Edition of @dreich.bsky.social about a very different Christmas - from my younger, fieldwork days 🦟 Merry Christmas poetry friends - wherever you are and however you spend it! Thanks Jack for your support this year! #poetry #Christmas #writing 🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴🌴

"What do you say about a guy who plays an old, battered guitar that he treats like it’s the last loyal dog in the universe?"

YT's Poem of the Week: 'Last Christmas Cracker' by Steven Matthews yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

YT Review: 'Snagged on Red Thread' by Jazmine Linklater @jjhlinklater.bsky.social yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Chil...

Grumpy Christmas Larkin youtu.be/zTWO3Hv6fnc?...

YT review: Earth, Fire: Jayant Kashyap's 'Notes on Burials' @poetrybusiness.bsky.social @jaydkash.bsky.social yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Eart...

brings closer what is left to come, And dulls to distance all we are. For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards, And seal the hushed casket of my soul. When you are old and grey and full of sleep, ...

YT's Poem of the Week: 'River Mother' by Isobel Dixon @isobeldixon.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

YT Poem of the Week: 'Silk shirtwaisters from Paris' by Janice Warman @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

This sounds great and just my thing. Many congrats, Peter! 🎊 People often ask how to put together a collection, and this anthology seems to have it spot on with The Life, the Strike, the Aftermath.

YT Book review: All that is Unspoken - 'In a Quiet Land' by Sean Body yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/All-...

YT's Poem of the Week: 'The Day Room' by Kit Wright yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

YT Review: Visionary Gleam: 'The Lake Poets - An Anthology' @herdyshepherd.bsky.social yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Visi...

Yorkshire Times Poem of the Week: 'The Sick Rose' by William Blake yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...