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...

First review of Exposure: war, media, democracy by @cjwagstaff.bsky.social. @liamcarson.bsky.social @richardwynjones.bsky.social @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social @eatthestorms.com

Our February Poet of the Month reflects on the composition of her piece, ‘Wolf Moon’. thelonelycrowd.org/2026/02/11/h...

‘The woman seemed known to him somehow. Familiar. She reminded him of a woman, long ago, who gave him charms to hang at Christmas, & showed him where to see the goshawks’ nests in the canopy. He shook away the memory. ‘Where is your magic tree?’’ thelonelycrowd.org/2026/02/06/s...

Wolf Moon ‘It is a clear, cold night in January when I stand away from brittle lights, out on the green, wrapped in winter ghosts…’ thelonelycrowd.org/2026/02/06/p...

The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For February, we are delighted to publish 3 new works by Amanda Rackstraw. The first of these, ‘Wolf Moon’, is published today with two more poems to follow throughout the month. thelonelycrowd.org/2026/02/06/p...

The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For February, we are delighted to publish a new piece by @glynedwards.bsky.social. thelonelycrowd.org/2026/02/06/s...

The Lonely Crowd will feature new work by a different poet each month throughout 2026. For February, we are delighted to publish 3 new works by Amanda Rackstraw. The first of these, ‘Wolf Moon’, is published today with two more poems to follow throughout the month. thelonelycrowd.org/2026/02/06/p...

The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For February, we are delighted to publish a new piece by @glynedwards.bsky.social. thelonelycrowd.org/2026/02/06/s...

Lovely to get a mention in The Lonely Crowd's Books of the Year!

EXPOSURE launches in Cardiff Feb 20. Irish launches to follow. @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social @irishlittimes.bsky.social @booksireland.bsky.social @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

‘Nicky finished up at the strip club at around one a.m. She got showered & dressed, said goodnight to the bouncer at the door, who opened it with a kindly smile & ushered her out into the night. She walked through the neon-lit crowd…. Her face was a rigid mask.’ thelonelycrowd.org/2026/01/04/s...

On my new collection. @byleaveswelive.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk @poetryireland.bsky.social

‘Journalists & poets work hard to access our inner world. Both employ word & image. The collection examines some of the ways that journalistic images capture reality & how they present or re-present that reality?’ @angelagraham.bsky.social discusses her new poems thelonelycrowd.org/2026/01/26/o...

Would you like to read something about Greenland that isn't about geopolitics, but is instead about love, and grief, and gyrfalcon nests? Here's a story I wrote once for @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social. richarddsmyth.com/2021/10/01/s...

The Lonely Crowd will feature a new short story by a different author each month throughout 2026. For January, we are delighted to publish a new piece by @pcevans.bsky.social: ‘The Attic Over the Weigh House’ thelonelycrowd.org/2026/01/04/s...

The third & final poem by our January #PoetoftheMonth is now online. See the site tomorrow for an essay by @angelagraham.bsky.social on her poems for this series. thelonelycrowd.org/2026/01/25/b...

A crucifixion but the cross is a threatened man. A bleeding victim clings to him. In the foreground another sprawls, nearly dead, trying to rise. Read @angelagraham.bsky.social, our #PoetoftheMonth thelonelycrowd.org/2026/01/11/c...

‘…the sand feels nothing. It was made to be moved. Formed from the crushing of large things into small…’ A Plan for the Development of Gaza by @angelagraham.bsky.social thelonelycrowd.org/2026/01/03/p...

‘I exited the alley and passed by the church of Our Dear Lord in the Attic, and walked along the canal to the Mekhong River. Its name was imprinted in red Thai letters on the front of the white and green facade. I leant my shoulder into the door…’ thelonelycrowd.org/2026/01/04/s...

‘What does the sand feel? Dumped over bodies hustled into shallow graves, hurled up to heaven by contemptuous bomb blasts, blown across bulldozed olive groves…’ thelonelycrowd.org/2026/01/03/p...

‘What does the sand feel? Dumped over bodies hustled into shallow graves, hurled up to heaven by contemptuous bomb blasts, blown across bulldozed olive groves…’ thelonelycrowd.org/2026/01/03/p...