Tomorrow! #NotJustPretty is not for show. It’s for change. Join the revolution in poetry. 🗓 Oct 4 | 8pm GMT 🎤 Open mic + showcase thebrokenspine.co.uk...#NotJustPretty@karenpgonzalez.bsky.social #PoemsAbout

Last minute piece for #PoemsAbout and the #Mannequin prompt - will read and comment on others tomorrow! Big thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Thanks @mattkendrick.bsky.social - I've looked at slugs differently ever since I wrote this! 😅

A #LiftToTheSky for Venuzuelan poet María Auxiliadora Álvarez and her gorgeous work. 💫 @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk mariaauxiliadoraalvarez.com/poems/

Thanks for last week’s fire on #PoemsAbout. Next up: #Mannequin. Hollow icon. Plastic ideals. Wait until Friday to post on the new theme for maximum traction. Always use Alt Text with images. Tag #PoemsAbout or we won’t see it. Let’s crack the shell of the spectacle.

Very hard to respond to this week's #PoemsAbout prompt, #NeverAgain. Very hard to put words to the horror. Thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk for pushing us week in week out with so many challenging prompts. 🙏💜

Mt #LiftToTheSky today for #PoemsAbout goes to this haunting piece by Ari Banias, so spare and unflinching. @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk poets.org/poem/task-0

This is what Friday's are like now - @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk you are a poetry fireworks catalyst! 🙏✨

My offering for this week's #PoemsAbout prompt, #SilentPlanets. A fun one. Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk 🧡

Totally worth the wait! It's a stunner, I could just eat up that last line in particular... bravo mon amie ! 🙌😍

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Truly moved by this Substack by @aldbera.bsky.social describing her experience at our Annual Salon over the weekend. This is everything we hoped for—creating a place where writers from across Europe can come together and get to know each other—to make writing a little less lonely💛

It’s Wednesday. Got a WIP? Doesn’t matter if it’s raw or rolling. If it’s yours, it belongs. Drop a line. Share a note. Let us know where you’re at. #WednesdayWIPs #PoetsOfBluesky #BlueskyWriters #PoemsAbout

Missed #LiftToTheSky yesterday due to life stuff, sneaking one in now: Sylvia Plath's Zoo-Keeper's Wife. Grotesque and beautiful. What an opening! I can stay awake all night, if need be - Cold as an eel, without eyelids. @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk allpoetry.com/Zoo-Keeper%2...

Sad to leave Brussels after the @saloneurope.bsky.social - a whole weekend in a lovely city with a big gang of amazing writers for inspiration, talk, sharing and howls of laughter - what could be better? Bravo to @deborahzafer.bsky.social and the management team! 🙌🏽🎉✨💜

Absolute stars ⭐️ 🌟✨every one of you!!! 💜❤️

Yeeees - amazing night, amazing weekend !! 🌞🎉💋

En route to what promises to be an amazing weekend in Brussels for the @saloneurope.bsky.social! 🙌🎉💜

My response to this week's #PoemsAbout prompt #Candelight turned out to be unusually brief - started as a haiku then expanded a little, but not much! Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk Happy weekend poets! 💜

#Submissions are now open for #Verdigris: #PoetryOfDecay. If #LiftToTheSky is about rising, Verdigris is about falling — splendour unravelled, glamour undone. Open all September:

For today's #LiftToTheSky I'm celebrating a book: A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year, a gift I snubbed for a while, finding the poems too 'trad' for my tastes. I'm now trying a new approach, reading them aloud, and hugely enjoying the daily beauty! @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

This week's #PoemsAbout prompt is as inspiring as ever: #Facades. Thanks, also as ever, to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk. Happy Friday poets! 💜

Congrats, gorgeous! Love this story, and one of my fave last lines ever: 'Your fire will be the star in your own sky.' 💜

Bravo!! Fab new issue of @thin-skin.bsky.social has just dropped. ✨🤩

Slipping my Monday #LiftToTheSky in late: it goes to Jason B. Crawford, just got happily lost in his beautiful work, cosmic and deeply personal, addictive. 💫 @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk www.jasonbcrawford.com#/

A good reminder for Alt text and access for #VI folk everywhere. I am #VI and also only access #bluesky and everything I write via voice dictation software. It's not great! I will seek assistance to put #Alttext on my poem later! I'm rarely a hypocrite! #poemsabout #riot @alanparrywriter.co.uk

My offering for today's #PoemsAbout #Riots prompt. Look forward to reading people's responses - they're always so varied! - over the weekend. Thanks merci gracias to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk 🔥❤️

Tomorrow we write #PoemsAbout #Riots Write fury. Write loss. Write truth. Tag your poem + tag: @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social Then Read. Repost. Reply. 3 interactions minimum. Because one voice isn't enough. Prompts drop Saturday: shorturl.at/oEXAM

Today's #LiftToTheSky: @natashaoladokun.bsky.social. Discovered a series of her work on OnlyPoems and here's one from The Yale Review. Stunning. 💫

Yeeeeees!! Poets on fire... 🔥🔥🔥🙏

A gorgeous dive into @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social's work! ✨

Nothing was coming to me for this week's #PoemsAbout prompt, #Chandeliers - until it did (this morning)! Dancing in chains 'n all that... Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk and happy Friday, all you poets! 💜

What a bloody amazing list poem - it grabs you and takes you on an exhilarating ride until it drops you, tired and happy, at the olives. 🙌💫 @havehashad.com

Oh this story by @kiklodge.bsky.social is so gorgeously insane, absolutely love it! 💜

Love this so much - beautiful and strange and an entire story right there. 💫

My #LiftToTheSky today goes to @sarahmillswrites.bsky.social, whose poetry I discovered thanks to Only Poems: 'mesmerizing poems — they explore grief with such startling precision and imagination.' Exactly! 💫 @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk www.onlypoems.net/poets/sarah-...

This Friday's #PoemsAbout prompt is #Ceasefire. So hard to address. I've tried, poorly, to express my thoughts on the use of words as well as bombs and bullets as weapons to justify the unjustifiable... @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Today is #PoemsAbout #Ceasefire Use your poem as a flag, a fist, or a flame. Tag your piece + tag us: @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social Then Read. Repost. Reply to 3+ poets. We write peace into the silence.

My #LiftToTheSky today goes to Tom Hedt, specifically his book Artifacts and Assorted Memorabilia, my current read. The poems are hauntingly beautiful and delicate, shot through with sadness and joy and everything in between. 💫 @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk thomashedt.com/writing/

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Loved this week's #PoemsABout prompt, #BlackSky. And was musing on what a precious thing this poetry community it, so much inspiration and support - the positive face of our virtual world! And all thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk! 🙏💜

Today's #LiftToTheSky goes to @stacebot.bsky.social whose work I discovered here on Bluesky, such gorgeous pieces, reaching deep and pulling up all sorts of sensations. Like this example. @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Love the way the #PoemsAbout prompts from @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk turn Friday into play day! This week's prompt, #Starcrossed, took me into the sky on the tail of a star... 😅✨Happy Friday poets! 💜

What a bloody brilliant response by @stacebot.bsky.social to the #Glamour prompt from @thebrokenspine.co.uk - the found form of a dictionary definition manipulated so skillfully to say so so much, with such exquisite details! 💫

Another corker from @pleomorphic2.bsky.social - brings those early mama days back in screaming detail! 👏💜

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Just wow to this story from @sarahillswrites.bsky.social! There's a stillness to the desert scene under the stars but with a car crash of emotions going on inside the narrator...💫😍

Today's #LiftToTheSky: this gorgeous poem by @abelouise.bsky.social! 💫 @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk poets.org/poem/who-1

This is where today's #PoemsAbout #Glamour prompt took me: an ode to those kickarse women of my teen years. Big fat thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk and happy poetry Friday to all! 💜

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