A poem for New Year’s Eve

‘The UK’s refugee protection regime has always involved hypocrisy, as successive governments trumpet their adherence to humanitarian principles and the international order while doing their best not to incur the costs and obligations of those commitments in practice.’ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

Just one day left to send your poems to the @cheltenhampoetryfestival Festival's International Poetry Competition! We welcome poems from all over the world! To enter and find out more info visit: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...

things i have to do today: think, ponder, wonder, analyze, ruminate, reflect, speculate, dwell on, imagine, question,

At a foodbank near you. 😢 The quiet anarchy of the volunteer who cannot be in the photo with the MP. #poetry #foodbank #poverty #CeasefireNOW #welfarerights #politics #GazaCeasefire @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @plaidcymru.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @socialistworker.bsky.social

🧱 Class, Work and the Politics of Poetry Ruth Beddow asks who really gets to write — and how class, time, and labour shape the poetry we make. A powerful reflection on access, identity, and creativity in a working world. 🔗 poetryschool.com/the...

❛ A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight... Ursula K. Le Guin, born #OTD in 1929.

❛ What. / The fuck. / Is this leaf. / Doing. In my–– / And this. / And fucking this. A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂

Congrats to the winners and I look forward to reading all the poems in the anthology!

Yay! 🥳 Very happy to have 2 poems longlisted in this competition.

At Cheltenham Literature Festival this morning for Pathfinding: Motherhood and Freedom

Mid-August submission deadlines alert! 44 literary journals, competitions, publishers and residencies all with deadlines by 1 Sept, 14 of which are closing over the next week. Don't miss out! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

Poem of the day: Mist by the marvellous Alice Oswald who was arrested yesterday in the Palestine protests. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Competition time! Our latest competition is on the theme of Turning Points judged by Rebecca Watts. All info available on our website. #poetrycompetition #poetry

Body-swap – Lesley Curwen @elcurwen.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/07/25/b...

Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006. She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.” With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...

'In my garden' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Today on Anthropocene new poetry by @julwe1.bsky.social 🦢🔮🦢

A Teasmade Museum, for it is International Tea Day. Teasmade.uk

Yorkshire Times Poem of the Week: 'Nurse at a Bus Stop' by Simon Armitage www.yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

This was a great find in the Oxfam bookshop this week

In light of yesterday's guilty verdict for the two men who felled the magnificent old tree at Sycamore Gap, I'm re-sharing my poem, 'Sycamore's Prayer', published by the wonderful @atriumpoetry.bsky.social. 🌳💔🪾

The ending on this, a gut punch.

Unsolicited writing advice: no.2167 That thing you always wanted to do. That novel, that poem, that piece of art. Start it now. Don't wait. Make time. Give yourself permission to start. It will never be easier than it is now: maybe harder, but never easier.

Heading to Bristol for @lyrafest.com this afternoon 😊 Looking forward to the Women Poets Network open mic and @pascalepetit.bsky.social Fran Lock & @concordmoose.bsky.social

Here’s a poem for Earth Day. It’s called ‘Birdsong’.

Submissions are open for VERVE’s Poem of the Month This month’s (optional) theme: everything is weird & that’s ok £100 prize £3 per poem / £5 for 3 Max 3 poems No AI. Just YOU. Closes 20th April. Submit now: [insert link] #Poetry #PoetsOfBluesky #CallForSubmissions #PoemoftheMonth #VERVE

Thank you to everyone who has signed our petition, 6,000+! Authors deserve to have a livelihood and compensation from their work, if you haven't signed do so now 👇

Louise Bourgeois, Maman #Mother, 2009 #WomensArt

Submissions are OPEN until 31 March for Propel 15, edited by Sanah Ahsan >> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit/32293...

"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun" - Katharine Hepburn #WomensArt

There’s a reason we revisit this beauty by Tess Gallagher:

We are running our poetry course for the second time! Each week, attendees will participate in online workshops led by a different Broken Sleep Books authors, covering various aspects of creating a poetry manuscript. www.brokensleepbooks.com/coursesandwo...

Issue Thirteen is NOW LIVE! Edited by Helen Mort, Issue 13 marks our return after the hiatus around the Anthology launch and we're psyched to be back. With thanks to Helen and all our contributors – we hope you enjoy reading: propelmagazine.co.uk/thirteen

Polish up your poems to enter our annual comp - judged by the wonderful Kit Fan. You’ve got until the 31st and we can’t wait to read them! More info via our bio.

Over 160 calls for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, non-fiction, art, photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in January 2025. Best of luck & pls share! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

A little poem on the Paper Swans poetry advent calendar on Insta today 🩷❄️

Finally got some time to enjoy some of the poetry on my tbr pile

Hi, we're Propel, a journal featuring the work of UK/IE-based poets who've yet to publish a first full collection. Launched in 2022, we publish 6 online issues a year, each with a different guest editor – as well as a print Anthology & a Membership program. propelmagazine.co.uk

My 5 #PoetsOnBluesky for today💙 Fellow alum of Wildfire Words (creative writing ezine from Frosted Fire). #poetry Pass it on! @irisannelewis.bsky.social @carolsheppard.bsky.social @jodieduffy.bsky.social @abigailottley.bsky.social @coliverpoet.bsky.social wildfire-words.com/open-submiss...

We're sending 18,000 festive book parcels to children who are in care or visiting a community food bank this year. They feature a super book and goodies from the fab Liz Pichon ❤️ Donate here if you'd like to share the #MagicOfBooks at Christmas and beyond: donate.booktrust.org.uk/xmas3?utm_so...

Two poems by @jlmmorton.bsky.social, from our last issue badlilies.uk/jlm-morton

It’s so lovely to see you all here! 🦋 A reminder that you can read our latest issue (and all of our previous issues) here for free: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...

Right you lovely little lot, guess what… We’ve only gone and launched the Nature and Place Poetry competition for 2025. Go and have a gander. Please re-whatever they’re called on here, much appreciated. Please also share around on other platforms. Ta very much. www.therialto.co.uk/pages/nature...

A lot of rain here, thanks to Storm Bert! Here's a poem from my @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social collection Constructing a Witch #poem #constructingawitch Keep dry everyone!

The purpose of poetry is to return that which is familiar to its original strangeness. —Charles Simic

Wildfire Words Beginning of the End anthology is now available. Delighted to have a poem included. You can read and / or listen to the poems here: wildfire-words.com/beginning-an...

🗓️Not long left to get your entries in for our Book & Pamphlet Competition! Enter by 30 November for your chance to get your pamphlet published with us: poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions... Judged by the brilliant Kim Moore ( @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social )

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