The BBC calls for access to Gaza. Please share if you want to.

#Wildlife to keep your eyes peeled for now the leaves are turning orange...🍂 🦌 Stags clashing 🐟 Salmon at Shrewsbury #weir 🐦 Little egrets at our #meres 🍒 Rowan bright red berries 🕷 Garden #spiders showing off their webs 🦋 Red admirals sneaking sips of fallen apples! #AutumnWildlife #Shropshire

I'm still exploring the excellent Dream Catcher 51, full of colour and poetry. Well written reviews too. Thank you editor Hannah Stone for including two poems of mine also.

Sometimes poetry needs to be political.

Recommended!

A weathered bench looks out over The Clyffe, near the Dancing Green, scene of mid 20th century knees-ups in the big outdoors.

Joseph Beuys, Eurasia Siberian Symphony 1963, 1966 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136361

The dirt road to Perugia yesterday. Umbria. #photography

The emotional significance of objects sends ripples through our lives, which is why this is often my final poem when I give a reading. It's taken from my second full collection, Whatever You Don't, Just Don't. If you fancy a signed copy, drop me a DM and I'll sort one out for you...

Photos continue to roll in from around the country, this time from Shrewsbury, Herts, Brighton beach & Oxfordshire.

A first reading for #HotelAmour on 27th September and in such great company at the Anthony Burgess Foundation. Free and no need to book! More information here poetsandplayers.co

Create delightful streets and squares in your own city using this one weird trick: remove cars (Tartu, Estonia)

Read this, feel better.

I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased

Entirely on form for Starmer but still absolutely mind boggling

A new poem of mine up on Ink, Sweat & Tears this morning, remembering my father and staring out of train windows at the weird state of the world… inksweatandtears.co.uk/adam-horovit...

Today, September 13, women in England march through the streets of London against racism and fascism. #AntiRacismDay #Resist #Pinks

So happy to receive my contributor's copy of 14 magazine. So many marvellous poets and poems. Thank you @richardnskinner.bsky.social Here it is, a beautiful object, flowering alongside a late hollyhock.

Showers running in from Wales to break on Corndon's edge.

In case of critical error - Leia Butler @leiabutler.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/09/09/l...

evryone in the whole world can sign our petition to save our beautiful trees - please do and take this chance to experience direct democracy in Switzerland gruenezuerich.ch/blog/initiat...

The garden has filled up with cobwebs.

My favourite expression to describe a lazy person, from Spain, is trabajas menos que el sastre de Tarzán. It means “you work less than Tarzan’s tailor.”

Another heartbreaking yet totally avoidable tragedy. Our thoughts are with their loved ones and refugee communities everywhere. Enough. Human beings will continue to die at the border until our government dismantles its hostile environment and creates safe routes. news.sky.com/story/two-ch...

Now scrubbed, so let's put it everywhere.

No to genocide in Gaza.

The ghost of Woolworths still haunts the streets of Brecon.

I think we should share this a lot today.

Early morning in our small garden, catching the low light in the first days of September. #gardeningfeed

Poems uploaded to the Dirigible Balloon for our autumn flight #ImagineTheFuture supporting creativity in schools celebrating next year's 75th anniversary of the Festival of Britain. Find them here >>> dirigibleballoon.org Hope you like the poems. JH x 😊

Just your reminder that this Tuesday brings Shrewsbury Poetry back to The Hive in Shrewsbury. Liz and I are looking forward to welcoming John Sewell as our guest poet, and lots of you! Open mic slots available on the night. 😃

He moves the way light moves: now sudden, racing up a field as sun clears cloud… —Sheenagh Pugh, “Him Again” from A Little Touch of Cliff in the Evening: New Writing Scotland 30 (ASL, 2012) #poem #poetry

A beautiful walk in a west wind, under a rampageous sky. #longmynd

I'm still very much enamoured of my little artist's book from Coast to Coast to Coast, created by the marvellous @mariaisakova.bsky.social Here it is, and a poem or three.

I like these little anthologies!

Leading a political party means leading the political conversation - being available and being heard on the platforms people actually use. Join me every Wednesday on my new podcast: Bold Politics. The only podcast led by a current party leader in the UK. Link in bio.

There! I've just joined @greenparty.org.uk - really hopeful about @zackpolanski.bsky.social (and the possibility of a progressive workaround with Your Party. 😁

Glimpse of a brighter world.

Out with summer's heat, in with something hotter. Congratulations to the fifteen poets whose work makes up wave twenty-three of @iambapoet.com. You'll be able to read – and hear them read – all 45 poems from September 15th. #poetry #spokenword #iamb #wavetwentythree

Get set for poetry from Barnaby Harsent, Claire Orchard, Eric T Racher, Estelle Price, Helen Laycock, Hilary Sallick, Hilary Watson, Karan Chambers, Kate Caoimhe Arthur, Lysz Flo, Marie Isabel Matthews-Schlinzig, Michael Burton, Piero Toto, Sarah Wallis and Victoria Spires.

A great bit of looking.

To catch this butterfly above the cornflower!

The wonderful poetry of Maggie MacKay.

The Starbeck Orion Showcases The Poetry Of Maggie Mackay Day Eight Of Twenty-Five: open.substack.com/pub/the880/p...

I read once with Yevgeny Rein, I alluded in my introduction to 'The Lammas Hireling' that Pushkin's life was saved by a hare crossing his path and stopping him joining the Decembrists. Rein explained that locals raised a statue to the hare . . . Pic: hare rescue during a spring flood in Russia.

"You can’t make taro edible without a little work. Look how lovely this pestle with the bird’s head handle, its wings in the wind. How much like today with its worn-smooth stone. You touch me without purpose as I walk by. The bird in its extraneousness." longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Every day the government delays banning the sale of peat compost means more carbon lost to the atmosphere from this appalling practice www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/vast-ar...

Bloody hell, this is terrifying 😳 Tremendous reporting from CNN's Chelsea Bailey. Well worth your time ... I stopped for gas and witnessed an ICE arrest. Then, I spent days looking for the man who was detained edition.cnn.com/2025/08/23/u...

Orlando with her favourite toy (broken plastic ring that fell off an old IKEA light). She found it herself. It's the best thing.