www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j... << me in The Guardian today, briefly on some fine and intriguing new poetry collections.

#Caturday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVocal

Mary Ann Rogers. Oriental Poppies. #Watercolour

Some thoughts on Louis MacNeice on the move, inspired by and shamelessly indebted to @johnclegg37.bsky.social. jwikeley.substack.com/p/goodbye-to...

Poppy!

It's beautifully and relentlessly sunny in London. I don't have much in the way of poems in Little Griefs featuring the sun, so here's one featuring the moon instead. The final part of 'Dates with the Fates'. Buy a copy here! www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page...

Literature: the only discipline where people want to be shot *into* a canon.

Elena Wuest - An Afternoon Tea II, 2026 - Oil on canvas

Thank you for reading and sharing, J-T! The Vitalist Sees the Signs is still available from Broken Sleep Books -- @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social✨🪳🍹🙏

One of many past watercolour compositions featuring flowers and plants from my garden. There will be new paintings when things start growing. I don't know what happened to the Chinese Lanterns (Physalis). They don't seem to come up now (must try again). #art #watercolour #flowerpainting

Following a spring clean at Longbarrow HQ, I've found a number of hardbacks (ex-bookshop / damaged in transit) that are perfectly readable, but not saleable. If you're in Sheffield (postcodes S1-S12 only), and you'd like a free book, message your postal address and I'll deliver it over the weekend.

Xmas ponderings 🧵 כִּֽי־יֶ֣לֶד יֻלַּד־לָ֗נוּ בֵּ֚ן נִתַּן־לָ֔נוּ וַתְּהִ֥י הַמִּשְׂרָ֖ה עַל־שִׁכְמ֑וֹ וַיִּקְרָ֨א שְׁמ֜וֹ פֶּ֠לֶא יוֹעֵץ֙ אֵ֣ל גִּבּ֔וֹר אֲבִי־עַ֖ד שַׂר־שָׁלֽוֹם׃ For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name is called Pele-yo῾eż-el-gibbor-avi-῾ad-sar-shalom, www.sefaria.org/Isaiah.9.5

“In the holly tree, which is rich with red berries, fieldfares, redwings, and mistle-thrushes are busy feeding” Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to Look for in Winter, 1959)

‘The Vitalist Sees the Signs’ by the wonderful @gbclarkson.bsky.social slithered through customs and into my clutches! Can’t wait to read it now!!!

📚 It's August, which means the #SealeyChallenge is underway! To help you on your journey to read a book every day this month, The Poetry Society has gotten in touch with poets we've recently worked with for some recommendations. Next up is Ian Duhig, who is on the judging panel for (...)

Thanks to Ian Duhig for the kind and generous endorsement! 🙏🙏🙏 Have a lovely bank holiday, all! #LoseYourself 😊😎☀️

Edition 18 is now available to buy as a PDF file from www.steeljackdaw.com - and delighted to have a poem in this wonderful art and literary magazine Huge thanks to the editor JasonConway #poetry #steeljackdaw

Only one day left to enter the #FoyleYoungPoets of the Year Award! Judges Colette Bryce and Will Harris are searching for writers aged 11-17 anywhere in the world to send in entries on any theme. Enter here: foyleyoungpoets.org

Letter from America, bright new chapbook by @j-tkelly.bsky.social -- I like the format, an unusual, non-standard size, I think? Like B5 but not as tall... very nice, anyway & original. The contents too! 😍😊Thank you, J-T. 🙏 Pub by above/ground press run by Canada's sweetheart @robmclennan.bsky.social

Bird sounds.

Came across this today - beautiful Ulster Scots word 'katirams' - small, swift-flying clouds.(literally "a cat's paw")

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This week above Chicago's Gold Coast, Streeterville, River North and Lincoln Park neighborhoods.

It feels as if this gown was made to be admired from the back, for those in the room to watch the wearer as she left them bereft of her company, leaving just a sparkle of diamanté in her golden wake. Agnes-Drecoll, 1930s #museumatfit #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

It's publication day for this little chapbook, in stock here -- www.shearsman.com/store/Geraldine-Clarkson-Singletary-p753666542 -- many thanks to Shearsman Books and to all who helped & all who will read... 💙🙏🙏 #Singletary

News | Perth Art Gallery announces long-term loan of private Millais collection – more than 300 objects to go on display in Scotland for the first time

You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it Seamus Heaney

It's a #butterfly day! 😍🤩🎉🦋 Phwoar! Phone chilled and back to working order just in time to find THIS beauty on my buddleia, a #PeacockButterfly in MY garden. Happy dance! 💃 @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Lancashire #vitaminN #joy #butterflies

‘A room without books is like a body without a soul.’ ~ Cicero. @racheldeering.bsky.social here lending my ears to a day of Ancient Roman literature for #BookWormSat 🖼️ Antonio Sicurezza, 1957.

Bad Lilies has had almost 1,300 unique visitors since our new issue dropped just over a week ago. That's around twice the number of subscribers of a 'healthy' poetry magazine, and many are less than healthy. Subscribe to our new mailing list and we'll keep you in the loop!

A new chapbook coming from Shearsman Books very shortly -- "a small collection of torment and consolation" 😳. Pre-order page and sample poems here -- www..com/store/Geraldine-Clarkson-Singletary-p753666542: -- and pre-orders very welcome! 🙏🙏💙💙

blue-tailed damselfly moving among the dry grass a river of air

The title of @carrieetter.bsky.social’s 'Veer, Oscillate, Rest' (Shearsman) conveys the energy & interest range of these poems, from Trump’s first presidency, to environmental disaster, to Brexit, to the ‘teeming’, lived conjunction of embodiment & consciousness... www.shearsman.com/store/carrie...

Within 5 mins of arriving in Scotland

Purple hearts 💜💜

Spring solace

Praps they're very old or just very tired

Happy International Women's Day from Ada Limon

Happy International Women's Day! To mark the occasion, we've compiled a selection of women who have been featured in recent issues of The Poetry Review. 📚

Beautiful reading by Robert Frost of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Hey, lovely Postbox, we’re all feeling a little bit blue this #PostboxSaturday with the state of our postal services, but just remember all those tangible meaningful letters of love & thanks & news that you have been a part of since Victorian times. That’s quite something. 🥰📮🎩

Our co-florist @kathryngray.bsky.social is reading alongside Petr Hruška and Christopher Reid at the Czech Centre this coming Tuesday! london.czechcentres.cz/en/program/w...

We proudly publish brilliant women poets all year round but for #IWD2025 let's celebrate these 'Fearless Women' with a trio of #poetry titles together for just £17.99: from @jessmookherjee.bsky.social @janeburn.bsky.social and Katie Griffiths buff.ly/aFD4Ixb

the feather dealer

1/5 Extravagant hats were all the rage in the Edwardian era. These hats had to be secured with hatpins, which women sometimes used for self-defense. Many countries passed laws banning hatpins that were longer than 20 centimetres or required that hatpin tips be covered. #WyrdWednesday

The poem sees how it can free itself of the poet

My poem ‘Climbing to Seefin Passage Tomb on Summer Solstice’, which is an homage to my late mentor John Burnside, has just been published in the Times Literary Supplement. Please have a read. www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/o...