Thinking of Happiness Etc., the Michael Laskey/Jack Laskey celebration of Michael’s poetry (as well as his 80 + years on the planet) is taking place this week at the Jubilee Hall in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, on Saturday (13th at 7.30) and Sunday (14th at 2.30).

Get ready! The 2026 International Book & Pamphlet Competition and the 2026 New Poets Prize are opening for entries soon. 🏆 Judges: @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social & @hollyhopkins.bsky.social OPEN FOR ENTRIES FROM 1 OCTOBER Deadline 2 November 2025 Find out more: poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions/

Waking up to being lost - I'm so grateful to Michael Mackmin for thinking about about my poem for @rialtopoetry.bsky.social www.therialto.co.uk/pages/2025/0...

I wrote about my research into ‘the Norwich sonnet’, a neglected term which could one day challenge Shakespeare’s dominance of the form someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/the-norwic...

Really looking forward to this TOMORROW EVENING! Join us to celebrate the launch of Magma 92 - The Ownership Issue - Wed 16th July 7pm. An eclectic evening of readers includes Martyn Crucefix, Jan Heritage, D A Prince, Peter Daniels, Keith Jarrett, Sascha Akhtar, and Paul Fenn. bit.ly/4lhG0q1

ONE WEEK AWAY Sign up to celebrate these 3 glorious books, all out now📚 Triple Online Launch with Erica Hesketh, @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social & @julwe1.bsky.social Tues 22 July 7pm BST Pay What You Can 🎥 Recording link sent in case you can't join us live. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/triple-onl...

Enjoyed the online @rialtopoetry.bsky.social celebration for the winners of the Nature and Place competition hosted by @helenmort.bsky.social – congrats to @victoriaspires.bsky.social for being in the top three.

A really good opportunity here to study Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia: the Birch Family Scholarship is available to a home fees applicant who has applied for a place on the Poetry MA and identifies as a writer of colour. Deadline 1 August. Please RT! www.uea.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Looking forward to this @rialtopoetry.bsky.social event 👇

I have a friend, Scottish poet Gillian Dawson, who was long-listed this year. This will be good.

Hello #poetrycommunity, a wee reminder that I'm reading at this @rialtopoetry.bsky.social event in Cambridge on Monday 7th July. You can come see me and the other prize winners and Helen Mort!! in person, or join online ☺️ www.cambridgeconservation.org/event/the-ri...

Come and join us and @helenmort.bsky.social for our Nature & Place Poetry reading. www.cambridgeconservation.org/event/the-ri...

A little good news, my first placing higher than a commended 🥳 Big thanks to @rialtopoetry.bsky.social and @helenmort.bsky.social and big congratulations to all the winners, commended and longlisted poets ☺️

Delighted to be longlisted and so thrilled for winner, @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social!! 🎉🎉

Congratulations to winners and highly commended poets. Super happy to have two poems on the longlist, 'Figgy Sestina' and 'The Zipless Fuck' !

Results from this year's @rialtopoetry.bsky.social Nature and Place Competition: www.therialto.co.uk/pages/2025/0...

Huge congratulations to all the winners and highly commended poets! 💫💫 Delighted to to have a poem on the longlist! ✨✨

Nice to see some familiar names here. Congratulations to one and all👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Congratulations to our Issue 3 contributor @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social on winning first prize in @rialtopoetry.bsky.social Poetry and Place competition

Announcement time. Congrats to all, and thanks to everyone who entered. www.therialto.co.uk/pages/2025/0...

Our Submittable for 103 is now open, please send us your best, max 6 in one submission. Please also have a look at a magazine to gain a flavour of what we tend to publish. Website is here. www.therialto.co.uk

Our Submittable for 103 is now open, please send us your best, max 6 in one submission. Please also have a look at a magazine to gain a flavour of what we tend to publish. Website is here. www.therialto.co.uk

Ink Sweat & Tears are here. Give them a follow, go on. @inksweatandtears.co.uk

Competition closes on 1st April. Final call from here. www.therialto.co.uk/pages/nature...

Competition closes on 1st April. Final call from here. www.therialto.co.uk/pages/nature...

One week to go… 🦆

We have now raised £6,474. Here’s a video poem of Cage originally published in @rialtopoetry.bsky.social www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/aftershock...

Only two weeks to go on the Poetry Competition. Get your entries in as soon as you can. www.therialto.co.uk/pages/nature...

Only two weeks to go on the Poetry Competition. Get your entries in as soon as you can. www.therialto.co.uk/pages/nature...

Here is Michael Mackmin’s commentary on my poem ‘Ode to a Cornish Hedge’, the last poem in @rialtopoetry.bsky.social current issue 102. You can read the poem in the mag, or in Beast, my next collection, which will be published by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social in just 2 months

Well what a wonderful surprise...my poem in the @rialtopoetry.bsky.social has been nominated for The Forward Prize! Thanks so much Michael Mackmin! Made my day/year!

Latest @rialtopoetry.bsky.social newsletter from Michael: mailchi.mp/therialto/th...

Stunning poem @poetbex.bsky.social published in the wonderful @rialtopoetry.bsky.social

Leavin Meta slowly for the Sky, as we all will in time. Meanwhile, to prove it is me here’s a new poem I recently published in @rialtopoetry.bsky.social Dedicated to friend David Kinloch and to the toun of Dunkeld.

My poem '55' is in the latest issue of @rialtopoetry.bsky.social!

Rialto 102: blog from Esther Morgan Thoughts on ‘MIDSUMMER’ by Iona Carmine Roisin. www.therialto.co.uk/pages/2025/0...

I adored this tragic poem from @poetbex.bsky.social in the current @rialtopoetry.bsky.social

Pages 36-37 of the new @rialtopoetry.bsky.social are especially pleasing - poems by Matthew Caley and @drlauravarnam.bsky.social

Loving this from @hannahl1n.bsky.social in the current issue of @rialtopoetry.bsky.social

Here's another poem of mine published in the latest issue of @rialtopoetry.bsky.social #poetry #poet #poem buy the issue here: www.therialto.co.uk/pages/shop/

Looking forward to Michael Schmidt’s ‘Working with Whitman’ digital workshop for @poetrybusiness.bsky.social on the 21st. This poem has a timely epigraph and appeared in @rialtopoetry.bsky.social and #AHistoryofWalking

Thank you for including me in this beautiful issue @rialtopoetry.bsky.social

With sorrow we mark the death of the great Irish poet Michael Longley. He published more than a dozen collections of poetry, the most recent, Ash Keys, on his 85th birthday. He lived in Belfast and I like his description of himself as a ‘sentimental disbeliever’.

R102 is out now. Free UK delivery. Still only £9 per issue. Order one here, go on, dare you. www.therialto.co.uk/pages/produc...

Enjoying first @rialtopoetry.bsky.social and daff of the season - great sequence from @lorrainemariner.bsky.social

I am so very happy, over the moon happy, to have two poems in the latest issue of this magazine, which I have loved for years - thank you @rialtopoetry.bsky.social x

One of my poems published in @rialtopoetry.bsky.social this week. 🥰🥰🥰 #poetry #poet #poem

Cage, a poem of mine published by @rialtopoetry.bsky.social last week. cc @dalebooton.bsky.social #poetry #poems #poet

The new issue of THE RIALTO @rialtopoetry.bsky.social is one brilliant poem after another, with smashing titles, including this favourite one of mine by @hannahl1n.bsky.social THIS POEM IS A BLACK PUDDING (!) Other stand-out poems by @pascalepetit.bsky.social You simply must get your hands on it!

Aw thanks so much Julian. So proud to have a poem in @rialtopoetry.bsky.social! Haven't received my copy yet so I'm really looking forward to reading it!