Ladybirds tucked into an electric fencepost on Boxing Day, sheltering from the frost. #shropshire

Born today in 1903: Joseph Cornell, the silent master of surreal shadow boxes and poetic film collage. (fot. Wikipedia) #JosephCornell

incredibly good shot from The Color of Pomegranates, like something cut out of a magazine for a collage

'Stand here, sweetheart, and breathe this air – but not too deep. This morning’s sharp, it’s stacked with spikes of ice. Listen – for the crackling of crystals in the blue. Imagine a vast white temple flung from ground to sky...' 'Anthelion', my poem on Poetry Advent Calendar now Happy Christmas!

What a joy to the inbox the Poetry Advent Calendar from @annierutherford.bsky.social has been this Dec! So proud to have 'Anthelion' up there on Christmas Eve. Thanks Annie. 'Stand here, sweetheart, and breathe this air – but not too deep.' mailchi.mp/posteo/poetr...

Fabulous (I mean that exactly) poem this morning from @samueltongue.bsky.social on the Poetry Advent Calendar! Thanks Sam and @annierutherford.bsky.social mailchi.mp/posteo/poetr...

Standing stones, Dartmoor. Gloom. #standingstones #landscape #photography

New blog post - I'm celebrating @candlestickpress.bsky.social jeanatkin.com/2025/12/23/t...

They're hanging shiny things on a tree. And they woke me up. They have to be stopped.

I like this very much.

'Fingering the air, a leafless shimmer glistens in his old skin. Little legions pool black on his finery.' Michael Mullen's birch is original and wintry. A perfect poem for today on @annierutherford.bsky.social Poetry Advent Calendar. I enjoyed it so much. mailchi.mp/posteo/poetr...

Why aren't all matchboxes this good?

today the light pauses on the robin's question, the dark shine on bark

The running of the deer

Dolydd, the Workhouse at Llanfyllin, built to house 250 souls. Four courtyards: men; women; boys; girls. Husbands and wives separated, children over 7 separated from their parents. Two sorts of gruel.

Such a harmonious chapel in the cold and wet. #llanfyllin

A short day reflection.

Derelict cottage, its window boarded with a tin sheet. The oak frame hardens into place. Lichen appears to be consuming the tin.

Brick and cobble collage in an alleyway in Shropshire.

Bravely done @robinince.bsky.social We have a great need now of people with a voice who are prepared to speak out against the appeasement of bigotry.

Excellent advice to travellers passing through Wentnor, which you'll find west of one edge, just east of another.

Good video about him here: youtu.be/hELnfok0BzI?... 🙂

'The Mayday Diaries' is a tender and multi-layered collection from @robinhoughton.bsky.social, both 'raw' and 'caring'. Read @matriches.bsky.social's review here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/in-praise-of... #InkSweatandTears #Reviews

🎄 Clun Castle is the subject of Day 12 in our #Shropshire advent calendar. In the distance is Sowdley Wood, which is part of Black Hill. I waited a long time to get a picture of the castle in snow, and I finally managed to tick it off my to-do list a couple of years ago. 🎅

I do love this photograph of my grandparents, taken in 1920 on their honeymoon in Littondale. Thank you Dawn Gorman for publishing the poem in the current Caduceus.

'Write a memory, soak and tear into as many pieces as your years... I cannot promise you it will work'. Love this poem, 'Home-Charm' by Harry Josephine Giles on @annierutherford.bsky.social 's Advent Calendar today in aid of #msf Still time to sign up! mailchi.mp/posteo/poetr...

Sharing some good poetry news. I'd love to read your poems if you care to submit: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/new-...

In #winter 2018, Icelandic photographer Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir wanted to show her partner, who was away in the capital, how much it had snowed overnight at their home and posted a photo of herself on FB #womensart

One fine day.

Today’s book recommendations also represent some of my favourite exhibitions of the year #art #beauty #exhibitions #artists

This new anthology is just out from Black Cat Press. My poem, “The Birstwith Rapids”, which won 2nd prize in Black Cat’s nature poetry competition last year, is included. Thanks to editors Satya and Catherine @blackcatpress.bsky.social.

"The fictional narrative is compelling while the ekphrastic poems dazzle [...]" Big thanks to The Lake and reviewer David Mark Williams for his wonderful and detailed review of Darling Blue: https://www.thelakepoetry.co.uk/reviews/dec25/

December teasel is combing the wet, bright air I've got warm, walking #haikusaturday

“Even in the 21st century, charging a shield wall takes serious guts” Manda Scott’s epic BOUDICA series is historical fiction balanced between myth & prehistory – but the author’s experiences as a re-enactor informs her visceral battle scenes #BookWormSat 💙📚 www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2018/07/see-...

Congratulations Katie!

clattering out the past in a junk shop window a tin typewriter

Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.

an afternoon expecting the ordinary, not eyes bored into stone

This is a lovely thing.

great depths of peat sun after hours of cold rain frost-burnt grasses lean #whixallmoss

The Shropshire Union Canal and such an autumn for berries.

New pergola. Half a cat.

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Submissions close on Nov. 30th thelonelycrowd.org/2025/11/13/s...

The poem is sitting opposite you, watching while you read it through... roguestrands.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

6 Reasons To Come To The Launch of the Poetry Jukebox 1. THE POETRY JUKEBOX The main attraction! The SPL will host the Poetry Jukebox, home to new recordings of poems responding to the work of Robert Burns and his 18thC contemporaries in Ulster. Details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/scottish-p...

Cheryl Moskowitz: How We First Fall in Love With Language childrenspoetrysummit.com/2025/11/27/c...