I never thought I’d be cheering on a former Tory Cabinet minister. But here’s to the moral clarity, courage and leadership of @kitmalthouse.bsky.social.

So much shocking news from Gaza but this is really appalling. Feeling powerless, especially with limited energy to take to the streets. @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social as my MP, you and the UK government are not powerless. What are you doing to end the killing? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

It's time to choose your Pick of the Month for June 2025. Will you vote for @rachaelclyne.bsky.social, Oz Hardwick, Pippa Little, @herr-morris.bsky.social, Sreeja Naskar or @selasimclord.bsky.social ? More at inksweatandtears.co.uk/june-2025-pi... #InkSweatandTears #PickoftheMonth

Tonight! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magma-92-t...

I started a Substack — check it out. open.substack.com/pub/steph270...

It arrived! Thanks @magmapoetry.bsky.social My contribution is a bit mad but I own it… Look forward to delving in.

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This is possibly the most important piece of journalism I’ll ever write. At the age of 50, I was diagnosed autistic. Please read my story and share it so others don’t have to wait so long to understand who they are ❤️ #autism #autistic #neurodivergent www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Brave and useful piece here. Thanks @mattcainwriter.bsky.social Brace yourselves for similar reassessments of my whole life in the light of an ADHD diagnosis in my 50s www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

This was a pretty personal poem. Thanks for having me back Helen and all at Ink Sweat & Tears

This warming book arrived in the post. Lovely company to be in. @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social

We’re asking Meta to #DoTheWriteThing, are you? #MetaBookThieves www.change.org/p/protect-au...

On the way to demonstrate against meta’s thievery with @tomwentworth.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social #dothewritething Last minute placard… Concrete poetry at speed

Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive” Theft is not a valid alternative.

Translators have been the canaries in the AI coalmine for a couple of years now and we are already losing work to these systems. Having existing work used to train them without permission or compensation just adds insult to injury.

@bengoldsborough.bsky.social Like pretty much all my writer and translator friends and colleagues, Meta have used pirated copies of my work to train their AI systems. I’ll be asking META to #DoTheWriteThing on Thursday 3 April. #metabookthieves #MakeItFair

My poetry pamphlet IN RETAIL (@arachnepress.bsky.social) has been used to train Meta’s Al without mine or my publisher’s permission or with due regard to copyright. I’m not alone, there are 1000s of writers who’s work has been stolen. Solidarity with @societyofauthors.bsky.social! #DoTheWriteThing

In every atrocity in history, the silent are always principal players. Those who remain silent over Israel's genocide are enabling it to continue. Their cowardice is paid in the blood of thousands of innocent Palestinians. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/que... #Queerhistory #greenwich #museum

Got to a serendipitous passage of this book. Actually the whole book is still very relevant and urgent — ends in the late 1930s. 💙📚 📚🌈

This was our Christmas tree, which we left behind in London, and this was the sunset on Christmas Day in the midlands. No time to post ~ Some asymmetrical queer version of #sandwichgeneration Happy new year to you all.

Introducing eff-able! #PoetsOnBlueSky please share this opportunity for queer, disabled, neurodivergent poets to submit to this anthology, funded by ACE and published by fourteen poems. Subs open until 1st December - all details below! #poetry #lgbtqia+ #queer #disabled #neurodivergent

Hi all you newcomers. :) I mostly do words here (and plants) and do art on instagram (and more plants) So here’s what I discovered at @gladlib.bsky.social last month: Rowan Williams as a poet.

Thanks for the translators, and from the translators, Rachel!

At peace @gladlib.bsky.social

Queer poems with @arachnepress.bsky.social this Friday 19.00 for UK 'National Coming Out Day' online - so you can join us from any country and be joy-us. #queerpoetry #queerliterature www.facebook.com/events/84507...

It’s #internationaltranslationday or #hieronymustag and here is a book I translated recently, one I was commended for, the one I’m working on now and one of the first translations I read after the bible, still much loved.

Check out the new issue of Impossible Archetype, people. Going to treat myself and print it out. Always the best bit about having a poem in a magazine or anthology: discovering what everyone else has been writing, being part of a lovely literary gathering on paper. impossiblearchetype.wordpress.com

West Midlands poetry people, this will be a lovely event: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ghost-part... I'm supporting Fred and Liz. Come along!

Kelly jones telling truth on the radio. (Last item) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

We wrote about how we wrote joy (with difficulty at first, then it all came pouring out). lgbtqreads.com/2024/06/26/i...

West Midlands poetry people, this will be a lovely event: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ghost-part... I'm supporting Fred and Liz. Come along!

Not long till the anthology Joy//Us comes out, poems of queer joy, by us, for us, for you, get a copy here: arachnepress.com/JOY-US-poems... Or at one of the lovely readings and launch events. I'm reading at the Brixton, Brighton, Bishop's Castle events, see here: arachnepress.com/events/

Help this #queerpoetry anthology fly!

Bluesky literarti @arachnepress.bsky.social are crowdfunding to enable this lovely anthology of #queerpoetry . You can buy things or just donate. Includes #vispo #concretepoetry #riso #stencil etc by me. www.kickstarter.com/projects/147...

This is really worrying

The RLF fed me this title; I ran with it… www.rlf.org.uk/showcase/ste...

homage to Sarah Maguire

Here are the pictures. Astonishing work. (Phone was too full of music to allow uploads it turns out)

Bluesky won’t let me add photos, anyway, El Anatsui at Tate Mod was beautiful. www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...

Up for another couple of weeks.