Grief is a trail of smudges. #poetry

Coin under a sheet of paper. #poetry

I didn't know Simon Armitage has a new series of his 'Shed' podcast up-&-running. Great first episode with Frank Skinner & looking forward to the others 🤗

The light is rising. #poetry

I've been tomb cold all day, mainly because I'm still wearing shorts to work in the forest #poetry

I was so delighted to join Dan, James and Andy for this edition of Fish! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Sharing this little-read (by me) poem from my @salopress.bsky.social pamphlet Soi-même, in honour of last night's #SuperWolfMoon.

They scream sap as they fall. #nature

Hello from deepest Lincolnshire. Happy #smallpoemsunday. Two spoils. One by me, one by Cavafy (spoils of my Christmas book haul).

Hell of a title & last line, Daniel

On the #Solstice I've written this piece called A Dying Star Inside My Mouth. The thin veil will thicken from now. This day always prods me... It brings @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social to mind, because in turn he makes me think of Susan Cooper's book The Dark Is Rising.

Be yourself #poetry #poem #poet

This piece is called I can't look at you #poetry

Domination is now available as an audiobook - read by me! books.apple.com/gb/audiobook...

Thumb Stars by Daniel Duggan #poetry

Love is lumpy #poetry

#poetsofbluesky #promptcombo #poemsabout Hope you don't mind a polite shout-out for this zoom event happening soon! Would love to see many of you there to hear these fantastic poets. DM me for zoom link x

For #SuicidePreventionDay

It's too good not to share by me...Daniel Duggan. #poetry

Faultline flowers by Daniel Duggan #poetry

The heron Its heart is an old compass pointing off in four directions. Ascending tall ladders that walk to the edge of dusk. Surely that would be considered miraculous almost anyplace 🪜 #poem excerpt: Louise Erdrich #art Karl Mårtens #resist

As the nightjars fill the air sings. #poetry

Become a landmark #poetry

For #promptcombo subject #hidden with @victoriaspires.bsky.social I've cobbled a short piece into being. This is called What You Didn't Get To See

I miss looking up to dad, seeing the underneath of his chin #FathersDay

I share unpublished short stories about women in bars on my Substack for paid subscribers (there are about 8 or so of them up there now). Sometimes they even include a brief heron, spider or - like this one - an unexpected goat. open.substack.com/pub/helenmor...

Everyone needs a Bacchus on (and in) their fridge…

Everyday moments are never everyday #poetry

Spring poetry #poetry

Care bears #poetry

You are not defined or confined by the slant skin that you shelter yourself in. #poetry

I wish I could wear light as easily by Daniel Duggan #poetry

They'll wait #poetry

This week’s #PoemsAbout theme is #Saltwater! 🌊 🖋 Write your poem. 📅 Share it Friday for feedback from @alanparry83.bsky.social. Let’s create poems that #TakeRisks & #LeaveScars! #Authentic #EndOnAnImage #LightAndDark

These newsletter prompts are 😱🔥 this week. Be difficult not to write at least three of them. Thanks @alanparry83.bsky.social #poemsabout A huge amount of work goes into putting that out for us I'm sure, and it really does work for me each week.

Helen Mort reflects on identity, place, and the intersections of human experience in her poetry. 📖 Read her interview: thebrokenspine.co.uk... #PoetryOfPlace #HelenMort

Oh yeah, my book releases today. You can buy print copies here: #PeelingApples Much love to @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social for believing, & @maryearnshaw.bsky.social @ellierees23.bsky.social @paulrobertmullen82.bsky.social @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social & @lozzawriting.bsky.social amzn.eu/d/jcjXddq

A poem about a chipped mug, or is it? #poetry

Poem for #mothersday

Let yourself buy something slant, askew, something that leans...

Happy publication day to @danzep.bsky.social for this banger of a book. It's funny & moving & generously various in its voices –– a journey after dark in two senses.

Hello––Nan Shepherd's slender 1940s masterpiece The Living Mountain is published in a US edition for the first time this week, with a foreword by me & an afterword by Jenny Odell. I wrote here about how Shepherd re-imagined & re-made mountain literature. lithub.com/robert-macfa...

stAnza Poetry Festival was a gob full of ink.. astonishing...#poetry

Will you be at Stanza Poetry Festival tomorrow? I will

Then in May we have the wonderful Roy Macfarlane - 6.30 - 8pm at Manchester Poetry Library. www.mmu.ac.uk/poetry-libra...

For #Spring, for today, for all the seasons. This #poem is for those who climb, who walk, and who daydream

A Spring #poem

Take a look out the window at the birds. #nature

On this #valentines weekend, I have tried for a more anatomical poem @profaliceroberts.bsky.social

Advice please - writer's retreats uk? If you had to book one that ended beofre the end of March.. which would you pick? Scotland or Northern England preferably.