‘Separate episodes at the panelbeater’s left his ninety-eight Fiat Punto a particoloured motley: red body, black bonnet, right front hub blue, the other cowled under dinted dirty white…’ thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/25/f...

‘Chains of thrushes, flecked bellies uplit, heltered chittering through bright fog…’ Read Saint Julian in Winter by @elfodongo.bsky.social, our #poetofthemonth thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/16/s...

‘Saint Julian in Winter’ by Tim MacGabhann ‘Stood, leadenboned, before the bed-length grooved barrows. Lit rainwater brimmed there: the tombstone’s saddle-gloss became a font…’ thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/16/s...

FInally, one regulator will look at Nigel Farage and his (changing) explanation of the secret £5m he pocketed. Even Ofcom has shown a twitch of life But the media regulator still doesn’t get it app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73586/...

‘The Trampoline Act’ by Katherine Stansfield The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For May, we are delighted to publish a new piece by Katherine Stansfield. thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/10/t...

‘How do I dream myself back to sleep? Rehash a moody Norse fable, maybe, mutter about how ink and pigments were rendered from seawater brimming on obliterated moraines…’ – thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/10/p...

‘How do I dream myself back to sleep? Rehash a moody Norse fable, maybe, mutter about how ink and pigments were rendered from seawater brimming on obliterated moraines…’ – thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/10/p...

‘The Trampoline Act’ by Katherine Stansfield The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For May, we are delighted to publish a new piece by Katherine Stansfield. thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/10/t...

bsky.app/profile/thel... really don't have words for how happy it makes me that this poem exists or how grateful I am for the countless hours of intensive blather it describes.

‘The Trampoline Act’ by Katherine Stansfield The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For May, we are delighted to publish a new piece by Katherine Stansfield. thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/10/t...

‘The talk sinks deliciously towards truth’: If you only read one poem today, read this one, by Tim MacGabhann @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social #poetry

‘That 3am turn for the worst has me crediting the old myth of how fog rose from the sky-god’s tears so he could play pretend that his solitude was eternal…’ Read A Winter Dedication by @elfodongo.bsky.social thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/10/p...

The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For May, we are delighted to publish three new works by Tim MacGabhann. The first of these, ‘A Winter Dedication’, is published today. thelonelycrowd.org/2026/05/10/p...

‘A lot of my work is nature themed, exploring and reflecting on ecocentrism. As a child, I spent hours drawing, writing and making things, collecting details even then from simply observing the minutiae of everything around me.’ thelonelycrowd.org/2026/04/25/p...

‘It looked like an old tool box, handmade from planks, screwed together at the corners. A cloth cover, stiff with grime, failed to contain the disconcertingly sweet reek of rotting meat…’ thelonelycrowd.org/2026/04/06/s...

‘My dreams are dark as peat. They’re fen and flush, hillock and hollow under orange glow. Pyres of wood scraps and tractor tyres sate the soot-black sky…’ thelonelycrowd.org/2026/04/25/d...

‘A lot of my work is nature themed, exploring and reflecting on ecocentrism. As a child, I spent hours drawing, writing and making things, collecting details even then from simply observing the minutiae of everything around me.’ thelonelycrowd.org/2026/04/25/p...

You set off with a duck stance, feet snug in fins and an underwater camera strapped to your freckled brow. You turn with a double thumb gesture, then slip under like a cormorant… thelonelycrowd.org/2026/04/17/p...

‘The mountain light’s a beautiful bruise. Ling, bell and cross leaved heath brush hills burgundy and damson. Snow cloud pillows fill sky with slate, marl and gunmetal slush…’ Lorraine Carey is our #poetofthemonth. Read A Year of Mountain in full here: thelonelycrowd.org/2026/04/06/p...

‘It looked like an old tool box, handmade from planks, screwed together at the corners. A cloth cover, stiff with grime, failed to contain the disconcertingly sweet reek of rotting meat.’ Read our #shortstoryofthemonth by @daveyfrankel.bsky.social thelonelycrowd.org/2026/04/06/s...

I love @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social . Since they started a few years ago, they've published some fantastic writing, so I'm delighted that my short story, 'Tricklebones' is their new story of the month. Free to read on their website, so fill yer boots! 👇👀👇 thelonelycrowd.org/2026/04/06/s...

The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For March, we are delighted to publish a new piece by David Frankel. thelonelycrowd.org/2026/04/06/s...

Poet of the Month, April: Lorraine Carey The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For April, we are delighted to publish three new works by Lorraine Carey. The first of these, ‘A Year of Mountain’, is published today thelonelycrowd.org/2026/04/06/p...

Unbelievably, it’s two years since our friend, the talented poet Chris Cornwell left us. Here are some of the tributes that other writers paid him at the time. Photo by Jo Mazelis. thelonelycrowd.org/2024/04/19/a...

Hugely grateful to John @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social for featuring my Gwen John story this month. Please do give it a read if you have time. Just discovered yet another GJ biography (Susan Chitty). Not that I'm obsessed or anything...

‘She loved the forest. It contained her spirit. In the unshielded open, vividness was everywhere, and crowded in.’ Don’t miss @polyscribe70.bsky.social’s #shortstoryofthemonth about Gwen John, ‘A More Interior Life.’ thelonelycrowd.org/2026/03/06/s...

Our Poet of the Month for March is Nigel Jarrett. Here, Jarrett discusses his approach to the creative process. thelonelycrowd.org/2026/03/20/p...

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese says torture 'has effectively become state policy' in Israel https://aje.news/ggypil

Through the window and as still as a fist pulled and held in abeyance, the old pithead is an ink drawing beside her framed print of Klimt’s The Kiss and above that photo of the survivors he’d dragged from the roof fall, the matchstick props... thelonelycrowd.org/2026/03/13/c...

A beautiful piece by Mike @polyscribe70.bsky.social. Found the opening especially vivid. I hadn’t seen Gwen John’s work before, so it was interesting reading this without context and then searching online. Another great story on The Lonely Crowd.

The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For March, we are delighted to publish three new works by Nigel Jarrett. ‘Deluding the Hens’ is published today, with the next two poems to follow throughout the month. thelonelycrowd.org/2026/03/06/p...

The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For March, we are delighted to publish a new piece by @polyscribe70.bsky.social Painting: ‘Street at Night, Meudon’ by Gwen John (National Gallery of Art) thelonelycrowd.org/2026/03/06/s...

Very honoured that my Gwen John story, A More Interior Life, appears today as @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social Story of the Month. A favourite, this one. Am hoping to get to her current exhibition at the National Museum Cardiff.

The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For March, we are delighted to publish three new works by Nigel Jarrett. ‘Deluding the Hens’ is published today, with the next two poems to follow throughout the month. thelonelycrowd.org/2026/03/06/p...

The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For March, we are delighted to publish a new piece by @polyscribe70.bsky.social Painting: ‘Street at Night, Meudon’ by Gwen John (National Gallery of Art) thelonelycrowd.org/2026/03/06/s...

The final poem from our February Poet of the Month thelonelycrowd.org/2026/02/26/g...

The second new poem by our #poetofthemonth is ‘The Dish’ thelonelycrowd.org/2026/02/13/t...