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...

What Ive been reading Number 5 sixtyoddpoets.substack.com/p/what-ive-been-reading-5 A little article on some of my reading since Christmas. Not a lot - I'm a slow reader #books #poetry #60Odd

Anyone in or near Leeds on April 15th. I am excited to be involved in the Leeds Song Festival. I get to read a poem and hear it set to music and sang at a grand piano, with a related artwork, In association with Opera North! Tickets here - #poetry #composers www.leedssong.com/whats-on/com...

#Spent too much time reading classical stuff lately So this week's #PoemsAbout came out as a sonnet

Eye opening #Poetry from a communist ex-satanist with a history of paranoid schizophrenia and a quirky taste in hats. Well worth a read. #60Odd sixtyoddpoets.substack.com/p/54-helen-h...

Yesterday I was thinking about how my mother used to use the phrase “cockard’s way on” to describe something being back to front. I tried googling it - and it wasn’t there. It kept directing me to Howard’s Way. “Cockwards” got even worse results. Was it only my mother who used the phrase? #words

Heres a bellyaching piece bemoaning the fact that there is no money in #poetry. Who cares? Love is the Pepto-Bismol that conquers all!

Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social put on a link to Brahms' First Symphony yesterday, and I had to mention that whenever I listen to Brahms I'm always initially disturbed by an image from a Charles Bukowski poem. I couldn't rest until I had found that poem. Here it is (in all its glory)...

I made this little advert to publicise the ten volumes of Sixty Odd Poets which preceded the Odd Journal which was launched yesterday. You can find all of them and Odd on amazon. #poetry #SixtyOdd www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DK3MSV3L

A fantastic set of poems from the wonderful c.oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social graces the #sixtyodd #poetry site this week. From the sound of the convenience store to the happy release from night time anxieties - It's all there, in perfectly chosen words.

This did start life as a response to #PoemsAbout #UnderTheSkin. Honestly

It is with a degree of contrition that I must own that I have denied myself the joy of reading #Dickens for longer than I care to admit. Yet upon completion of the novel Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, I at once picked up a copy of David Copperfield, and now bask in delight within its pages.

Odd - the Journal of the #SixtyOddPoets is already available on amazon. It will be officially launched at The Fox Gallery in Mexborough on Sunday 22nd Feb at 3pm. If you can come along, please do. If not, please buy a copy of the book. If you can’t afford to buy a book, God bless you. #poetry

it is 462 years since the birth of Galileo! Some fabulous poets of Bluesky have contributed to this small celebration of heresy on #SixtyOddPoets. Remember to speak truth to power wherever possible!

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Click on this BBC Sounds link to a Thursday night on Radio Wiltshire. Speed along to the 49 minute mark to hear a magical #poem "Stored" from our #poemsabout friend Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social

#PoemsAbout #Undressed

I didn't realise how much I liked Tennyson until I started writing about him for #SixtyOddPoems. Apart from being a cracking Victorian poet - He looks a lot like my Brother in Law. #poetry

The rather remarkable Jane Sharp, who will have a poem in the inaugural edition of #Odd (The journal of the fellowship of the #60Odd poets. But not one of those featured here... #poetry

Heres what I am doing (when I remember that #BlueskyPoetry posts work better with tags. #poetry

Here's what I am currently doing - (when I am not procrastinating on social media)

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan An adult pleasure zone decree

Today's #SixtyOdd Poet is Ulrica Hume - with a collection of six short, punchy and keenly observed pieces of #poetry.