📚 A Letter to the Dead by Lynette Roberts, hosted by Francesca Brooks - Tuesday 25 November, 7pm. This new edition contains sixty-five unpublished poems by Roberts, and a new epilogue highlighting her importance to our understanding of twentieth-century poetry. www.carcanet.co.uk/events/a-let...

New poetry magazine just dropped from a former student of mine - open to submissions & free if you’re interested www.stoatmagazine.co.uk

'Pacific Swift' by @stoneandthestar.bsky.social badlilies.uk/clarissa-aykroyd-1

father has passed away— even so the morning star on the frosty pine Sugita Hisajo (1890-1946) from Lips Licked Clean Translated by Alice Wanderer #haiku #poetry winter #kigo frost #micropoetry

I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.

I'm delighted that my poem 'Pacific Swift' appears in this new issue of @BadLilies. It's one of a number of glimmers of hope in what has been a dark time for me creatively & otherwise. This poem is a memory of spending a week on a schooner off Vancouver Island when I was 14.

OUT NOW. Issue Twenty-Two: 'Ghost Ship'. badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-two

Simon, you crazy diamond: Armitage poem marks 50 years of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here

“Oh, only when my face is streaming toward you does it cease being on exhibit, becomes one with yours and darkly goes on and on into your impregnable heart…” —To Lou Andreas-Salomé, Rilke; tr. Franz Wright

Some of Neil Finn’s songwriting tips apply to writing poems too

It's almost here! Join us for #smallpublishersfair25: 66 UK and international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks. Friday 24 & Saturday 25 October (11am-7pm) FREE, all welcome Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (Holborn tube) Further details: smallpublishersfair.co.uk

Was chatting to someone about that old familiar piece of workshop feedback 'do you need the first/last line' and tonight I came across this from 'The Fragment' (Electric Light) #poetry #quoteoftheday #amwriting

Got a not-entirely-serious essay in @nytimes.com today, about the plague of weird foreign names in spy novels. Amazing illustration www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/o...

Good afternoon and Happy National Poetry Day! This is the very first post from Poets for the Planet here on Bluesky. We are very glad to be here. To start us off here's Wendell Berry's classic, The Peace of Wild Things #nationalpoetryday #poetrysky www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ewB...

For #nationalpoetryday ‘Autumn Uprising’ - on the subject of #play - this year’s theme, published in @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 🐻 🧍‍♀️ 🐝 🤠 🍂 Christmas-Winter 4 #toystory #wreckitralph #wreckitralph2 #writing #childhood #autumn

On National Poetry Day the theme is 'Play' so I'd like to recommend Hit Points by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social , an anthology of poems about video games. My poem about Ultima IV is one of them. share.google/rOTLs3R7qnQ6...

Saw a post about someone being concerned that a friend was using ChatGPT for personal advice & wondering how to talk to them about it. I have a feeling plenty of people I know are using ChatGPT in many irresponsible ways (for factual info, as a counselor) & almost don't even want to know.

Reminder we will be launching Bloodaxe’s September books on Tuesday- really looking forward to it

Poets, UK or otherwise: do you think the trend of the past decade for poetry books to almost *have* to be heavily thematic/conceptual/telling a story is declining a bit, or is it as strong as ever?

This gash is deep, I warm it with my last blood. Feel my side It is far truer Than poems. - Poem of the End, Marina Tsvetaeva, Tr. Nina Kossman

Where Have All the Great Poets Gone? My North Sea Poets substack... open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

"Do maintain a robust social media presence; aim to post between 1 and 1,000 times a year." Lara Vergnaud tells it like it is wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

I ask myself whether it was the temper of their souls or the sympathy of their imagination that made them so wonderful, so worthy of my undying regard. -Joseph Conrad, 'The Shadow-Line'

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @garybarwin.bsky.social @aempoet.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @kathrynanna.bsky.social @edmundprestwich.bsky.social @mariapopova.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/07/poet...

Most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life. - #Rilke

‘Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.’ – Seamus Heaney writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

flock and roll

The word "dystopian" is overused these days, but...it is.

Langston Hughes

Paul Celan,Timestead; tr. Pierre Joris

High fashion has met high art at the Louvre for the first time – and the results are so eye-popping, @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social‬ hardly knows where to look

Rest in peace Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

When I think about #glory, I think about God – about the miracle of daybreak. On which basis, this poem probably qualifies for this week's #poemsabout with @alanparry83.bsky.social from @brokenspinearts.bsky.social.

"To our great disappointment, that list recommended books that do not exist"

We’re sorry to hear that Alice Notley has just died, in Paris, aged 79.

Paul Durcan, one of Ireland's most renowned contemporary poets, has died at the age of 80

From Paul's translation.

The Author of ‘Anne of Green Gables’ Lived a Far Less Charmed Life Than Her Beloved Heroine L.M. Montgomery created a classic of children’s literature, but what about her lesser-known works? By V.M. Braganza www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture... At PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books

Want to reduce crime? Science says: build more libraries. By James Folta lithub.com/want-to-redu...

Slaying Myths: England and St George (from the archives) St George only become popular in England in the 15th century. www.historytoday.com/archive/slay... St. George and the Dragon by Francesco Salviati #britishhistory #history #mythology

To everyone who’s bought a book from us recently: thank you. We’re reaching for just 10% of our subscribers and followers to buy a book from us, which would sustain our work in a big way. If you haven’t yet, and you can, we’d love your support. brokensleepbooks.com

Could your poem… • Be published in the 2025 Live Canon Anthology? • Be performed by the Live Canon ensemble? • Win a prize of £1000? There’s only one way to find out. #poetrycompetition #poetrycommunity livecanon.submittable.com/submit/32663...

Lough Derg #TheRedLake

I do not think that being a great writer lends itself to being massively prolific. You are more likely to have more of a filter/anxiety if you are truly top tier.

Lonely pubs, photographs by John Bulmer.

'bees need flowers / flowers nee bees', ye olde artwork liveth. Chelsea physic Garden.

I've collaborated with author Louis de Bernières & poets Jill Abram, Mary Mulholland, Ellen McAteer & Kathy Pimlott on a Poetry Play. It will be performed Friday 2 May 7.30 pm at the Cockpit in London. If you'd like to come, I might have a comp ticket so let me know!

I've collaborated with author Louis de Bernières & poets Jill Abram, Mary Mulholland, Ellen McAteer & Kathy Pimlott on a Poetry Play. It will be performed Friday 2 May 7.30 pm at the Cockpit in London. If you'd like to come, I might have a comp ticket so let me know!