In the absence of a #PoemsAbout this week, I am going to suggest an #OddFriday of #PoemsOn #OpportunityKnocks. I don't want to tread on the toes of @alanparrywriter.co.uk - so I am more than happy to take this down if he has something up his sleeve. I just want to have my regular read this Friday.

#Poetry - whats the point of it? unless it earns you money or adulation, you are just pissing in the wind - aren't you?

Ohh crikey, its a tough call this week... #PoemsAbout #EarnTheRight

I love owt like this, me.

Torn between the instinct not to appear boastful, and the moral requirement to publicise a Literary Magazine that has seen fit to include me within its pages, I give you this link to The Fringe #Poetry Magazine 2026

Sunday is an excellent day for reading poetry. I've been looking at a couple of recently issued #poetry collections from writers previously featured on #SixtyOdd poets (including @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social). You can also find a piece on a shouting man and one about towers.

Cooom onnnn youuuu ridiculous old man who went straight to the Turkish Barber and asked for an Ollie McBurnie #HCAFC

#hcafc Come on you Hull. Missed most of the first half. Was doing a poetry reading in Doncaster. Now watching in a crowded disco pub! Just had Barry Manilow - Copacabana, Now Jive Bunny - Swing the Mood!

It's an Odd life. But take heart - The 2nd issue of Odd ; the Journal of the Fellowship of the Sixty Odd Poets is out now. Its neing launced at the Fox Gallery in Mexborough (S64 9JP) on Sunday May 31st at 3pm. If you cant make it, you can still buy a copy, (and the 1st too if you want) on Amazon

And here we are! Another Friday, Another poem :) #PoemsAbout #BearingWitness.

How lovely have a selection of my work featured in the excellent Lothlorian Poetry Journal. Thank you @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social for a real morale booster. (if the poems look funny on your phone, go into landscape mode - It worked for me!)

I am rather proud of this little article on difficulties with presenting #poetry workshops. I wrote it in less than an hour, when I should have been presenting a poetry workshop.

It's all happening tonight! (12th May) LOL! (Live on Line). Roger Waldron reading from his book "Notes from Various Settees" With an Open Mic too. Sign up for this free event! It all kicks off at 7pm BST. #poetry #OpenMic @throwawayreg.bsky.social bit.ly/SetteeNotes

I might as well post it #PoemsAbout #NamesNotNumbers

If you couldn't make it to my talk on Charles #Dickens last week, you could always buy my short book, containing the text of his and Wilkie Collins' two tales of #Doncaster in St Leger week of 1857, and the startling facts of his affair with a woman 27 years his junior.

The Featured poet on #sixtyOdd at 11.00 this morning is none other than Jen Thorne, @jenthorne.bsky.social with six fabulous #poems written with her inimitable style and panache - Pour yourself a drink from kettle or bottle and settle down for a fine read.

#PoemsAbout #AftertheSirens Here's my concoction. Its a bit of a sequel to an old one - (bit.ly/3Rd5HOg if you are at all interested) - but perhaps a tiny bit more romantic. Thanks to all who read

Wish me luck.I’m giving a talk in #Doncaster this evening. On #Dickens

This week, I have been reading the excellent Fig Tree Anthology from the Crooked Spire press. there is still time to sign up for the online launch - theres a link at the end of the article. #poetry

Here's a piece for #PoemsAbout #singalloss. Hiya @alanparrywriter.co.uk

I’ve got my ticket to sit on various settees 🛋️ come and join me/us I can’t guarantee fun or poetry #poetry #poems

You like settees? You'd like to hear Roger Waldron reading from his book "Notes from Various Settees"? Whilst sitting on your own settee? And you'd like join in an online #poetry #OpenMic too? Then sign up for this event! Its on May 12th at 7pm BST. @throwawayreg.bsky.social bit.ly/SetteeNotes

Our good friend Jan Peters @janpsolivagant.bsky.social is on #SixtyOdd Poets today. get yourself a cuppa, click on the link, and settle down to read some great #poetry.

#poemsabout #gravity

What an evening! I was proud to be involved in this union of #poetry, music and art at #LSF26 in Leeds last night. I'm still buzzing. My bit is at about 52 minutes, but I would encourage you to watch the whole thing, and download the PDF programme from leedssong.com/live/ for all poems and details.

Last Poets and Composers at #LSF rehearsal this morning. Then the event this evening at 5pm. It will be streamed live here www.leedssong.com/live/ But if you would rather just download a PDF programme with some really good poetry and art in it, you can do that by clicking on the photo below.

To put me in the mood for the spoken word and classical music collaboration at Leeds Song #LSF23, I've been listening to this - it opens with Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan speaking about looking at Earth from space. #poetry

I'm packed up and I'm off on the 51 mile odyssey to Leeds to participate in the Leeds Song Festival #LS26, reading #poetry, which has been set to music by Joanna Ward and realised in art form by Hannah Guy. With a soprano & a classical pianist on board, its the most cultured band I've ever been in.

#PoemsAbout #EdgeOfKnowing

A couple of years ago, Farnborough based poet, Rodney Wood went on a cruise and wrote a #poem every day. He also took some #watercolour lessons. You can see the fruits of his labours on #60Odd poets

Some thoughts on #poetry and how much it represents the true nature of the poet. buff.ly/D6CchlP

I had an excellent afternoon at the Fox Gallery in Mexborough yesterday for the Launch of Roger Waldron's @throwawayreg.bsky.social Notes From Various Settees. Here's Me and Roger enjoying a read on a particular settee. The #poetry flowed.

Three reviews of three fine poetry collections. From Andy Williamson, @andywilliamson.com Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social and Chivonne Barrington Head

Would you look at that! I have two #poems in the Spring 26 edition of Pennine Platform. What joy! Promoting Poetry since 1973, and now promoting me! Well... I feel like I've had a promotion.

its all going on in Mexborough on Sunday Afternoon! We're even going to shift a settee!

I'm looking for some #poetry #submissions for publication. You are invited to respond to Sally Anne Wickenden's art with your words. Come down to the Fox Gallery in Mexborough and have a look, or take a look at her work online. There are links and some Sally Ann inspired poetry on her #60Odd page

(I'm enjoying the poetry very much)

There are a few familiar names in this! Looks like a great collection!

I have to publicly state what I intend to do in the world of literature - in order that i will do it if only to avoid public humiliation. This incredible book of #poetry will be published by the #SixtyOdd Press very soon. And it will be well worth the wait.

sixtyoddpoets.substack.com/p/96-isabel-... On #SixtyOdd poets today an excellent set of #poetry from the marvellous Isabel Greenslade. Pour yourself a drink (tea, coffee, real ale, or whatever you prefer) and enjoy.

#PoemsAbout #Melt

Congratulations to the brilliant @rburrows.bsky.social Now in Atrium!

Live In Mexborough! Roger Waldron launches his new book Notes From Various Settees on 29th March at 3.00pm Facebook event www.facebook.com/events/14225... Buy the Book (but its a quid cheaper at the event) www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GSQQ7DRF #Poetry

to all lovers of settees #poetry #poems #WritingCommunity #sheffield

Exciting news, as the long awaited publication of Roger Waldron's Notes from Various Settees is only a matter of days away. while you wait, you can read a sample of Roger's work, all about the history of the #SixtyOdd Press and other #poetry matters on substack. @throwawayreg.bsky.social

I have a busy day ahead, but there's a little time for #PoemsAbout. #Consent is a thorny topic but here goes...

Social media - What does it actually do for us? #poetry #writing

Peter Taylor is an interesting bloke. a long and distinguished career in Law followed by some great #poetry. Have a read. I'll bet you will become absorbed. I did. #60OddPoets

Another vintage week on #PoemsAbout with #BeingWatched provoking a wealth of quality responses. Just scrolling them is like reading a great little anthology. Here's my contribution...