📚 New review 📚 Sad boys are not my kink by the brilliant @galiamelon.bsky.social "the effect of Galia’s work is in the accumulation, the 3am logics that spiral from one piece to the next" Read it over at victoriaspires.substack.com

What wonderful news. I am keeping my fingers crossed for my ambitious, curious, somewhat feral set of poems 🤞🏼 Thank you @ditheringchaps.bsky.social & congratulations to the other shortlisted poets ❤️

#SaveTheDate 19th April 2026 I'm delighted to announce that my Poet Page/Profile with 6 #poems will appear on the Sixty Odd Poets substack. Many Thanks to @zoomburst.substack.com for making this possible! Link available on the day #PoetsOfBluesky #PoetryCommunity #PromptCombo #PoemsAbout

Poets on Na/GloPoWriMo and other spring things @suefinch.bsky.social @matriches.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @myheadtheforest.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @writtenbyallison.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @jannoble.bsky.social 2/4 www.vianegativa.us/2026/04/poet...

Be ye seers or not, all are welcome to contribute to this week's #PromptCombo #Visions. Tag @rfsmith.bsky.social to get involved.

#PromptCombo This week, your host is the fab Ronnie. His theme is #Visions . Use the hastags and tag @rfsmith.bsky.social to get involved. Have a great week hosting, darlin❤️

All are welcome to contribute. Please use hashtags #promptcombo #Visions and tag @rfsmith.bsky.social Ronnie: bsky.app/profile/rfsm...

@sueimnw.bsky.social back in my old haunts! 🙃

This week's #PromptCombo theme is #Visions, hosted by the lovely @rfsmith.bsky.social, the master of the elliptical. What will you share?

On poetry business last night at Soho Poly Poetry 🩷 @jahshabby.bsky.social @sophiaargyris.bsky.social @benedictan.bsky.social @noelcowley.bsky.social

It's another review! I adored this. @moette.bsky.social is so clever and this is a fascinating direction for her poetic powers. Have a read over on my Substack, and I think Vanessa has author copies or will again soon. victoriaspires.substack.com

Very happy to have one of my pamphlet babies longlisted with the lovely @ditheringchaps.bsky.social . Thank you David and Gena and good luck to everyone on the list 🥳

Happy #PromptCombo Monday! This week's theme is #ThingInItself (or #DingAnSich if you prefer the German). This is a WIP from something really cool I'm working on with @benedictan.bsky.social 👀 It's a short window this week – you've got until end of Wednesday only to join in as after I'll be away 🙏🏼

My review of @mayacaspari.bsky.social 's pamphlet ALMOST, WITH TENDERNESS is now up on Substack. Just in time for her Soho Poly reading this coming Thursday 🤩 open.substack.com/pub/victoria...

'Dispersed on the ground. Drawing a crowd. Her skirt long, thank goodness, pooled like blood around her.' iamb.uk/wave/25-van...

3rd place on #fragmentsfriday this week 🥉 Ella Winters’s ‘Cuckmere Haven’ The crumbling chalk of a hand! @ella-b-winters.bsky.social

Catch up with my review of Dorian's musical, visual treat of a pamphlet below 👇🏼

Will poets and children ever stop trying to capture light? Not any time soon ✨ Another poem from my Silver Branch feature, with thanks to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 🫶🏼

Time to celebrate this wonderful anthology curated by @paulwritespoems.bsky.social, which aside from being brilliant & featuring many fantastic poems and poets, is also raising money for Médecins sans Frontières. You can download a copy & donate via this link 🫶🏼 paulwritespoems.com/unwhispered-...

It's finally the season for sitting on the back step and admiring treasures we collect for each other. This is from my new @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Silver Branch feature, with huge thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social 🍃 www.blackboughpoetry.com/about-1 Take a look at the past features too!

paulwritespoems.com/unwhispered-... This anthology is launched today, free download, fundraising for a great cause: Medecins Sans Frontieres. Compiled & edited with skill and care by the very wonderful @paulwritespoems.bsky.social. I have two poems in here, that first appeared via #PoemsAbout... ❤️

@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social is this week's #PromptCombo host, with the theme of #Allowed. Get involved all week by using the hashtag & tagging him.

Honoured to have this Silver Branch feature up at @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social - thank you so much @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social 🫶🏼

My review of @secretsoliloquies.bsky.social 's Songs from Last Imaginations is up now on the Bough 🤩

#PromptCombo We have a new host in town, the inimitable @janpsolivagant.bsky.social 🥳 His prompt this week is #Nothing – see what you can do with that!

Young Vic. Big Aled Jones fan. And Victoria Plum.

Potentially never more excited than when new books have just arrived.

trans people’s rights are not “in tension” with women’s rights and exclusionary policies and practices can result in anyone being subjected to “arbitrary, humiliating, and unequal treatment”. In other words, it can damage all minorities’ rights, including women’s.

#PromptCombo Thank you to you gorgeous wordsmiths for getting involved this week. I'm off now, gallivanting ❤️ **Great News Alert** Next week, we have a new host on the #PromptCombo panel. It's the wonderful Jan @janpsolivagant.bsky.social Show him the love on Monday, crew❤️✨️

Poets on war, spring, etc. @robmclennan.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @myheadtheforest.bsky.social @dharmabam.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @jannoble.bsky.social @samrasnake.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social 2/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/03/poet...

@esloudon.bsky.social in @iamb.uk My favourite so far 🔥

Meeting up with poetry friends is the best. Thanks to @sophiaargyris.bsky.social for organising such a brilliant evening of words & music last Thurs in Oxford. May have bought some books. @corinnaboard.bsky.social also ☺️

We're going eerie for #PromptCombo this week. Use #InThisDarkHour & tag the lovely @dragonslayerma.bsky.social to get involved

Despite the rain, the chill, winter's reluctance to cede his throne, spring arrives with daffodils, birdsong, the lengthening of days. Welcoming it are the 15 poets of wave twenty-five of @iamb.uk. Expect 45 poems, written and read – fresh as the incoming season. iamb.uk/index/wave/25

Latest review of Coldwell, from @victoriaspires.bsky.social. Link to buy in the first comment below.

I've been cheating on poetry with fiction, but I'm diving into this haul today and very excited!! 📚 @chenchenwrites.bsky.social @rholanderpoet.bsky.social @corinnaboard.bsky.social @galiamelon.bsky.social @wendycaitlin.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social

Up on my Substack. Because writing some mini reviews is at least doing something 🤷🏼‍♀️ Part 2 to follow at some time this week. victoriaspires.subatack.com

@hool415.bsky.social for #PromptCombo #Free40 (37 words excl. title). I don't usually write poems like this. Just messing around with those easiest of targets, corporate gobbledygook & corporate surveillance. With ASMR thrown in as a bonus. PS: I do quite like ASMR videos sometimes.

#PromptCombo crew, @hool415.bsky.social is hosting, and he has declared it to be #Free40 week. Any topic, 40 words max. Polish your trinkets up and get posting 💎

Happy #WorldBookDay ☺️

‘…freed, I meadow / I petal for the sun…’ Congratulations to @corinnaboard.bsky.social on tonight’s brilliant launch of ‘Mædwe’ from @salopress.bsky.social 🥳. Fabulous guest readings too from @sophiaargyris.bsky.social, Tom Branfoot, @minorroarr.bsky.social & @victoriaspires.bsky.social 💚

Tonight! 7.30pm! Don't leave it too late to get the zoom link from me or Corinna & register 💚 Come celebrate with us. @corinnaboard.bsky.social

Ronnie is your #PromptCombo host this week, with this chilling, timely poem to kick off the theme of #Powerless. "Cold as the desert night", indeed. Tag Ronnie & use the hashtag to participate.

Happy to have a poem in the latest issue of Mslexia as one of the finalists of the Women's Poetry Competition. Congratulations to all the longlisted poets, finalists and winners. Thank you @mslexia.bsky.social and the judge Liz Berry 🫶🏼

Would love to see you at the launch next week! (link in bio) 🌱💚

#PromptCombo thanks for the superb writing, comments & engagement this week for #Rupture. I'll be reading until 5pm today. May I post this incredible poem by @corinnaboard.bsky.social (which comes with a content warning) for the theme & as a reminder for her online launch, next Tues 7.30pm on zoom

Oh, thank you for the shout-out @paulwritespoems.bsky.social ! Anyone wanting to come along to @corinnaboard.bsky.social's launch for her stunning @salopress.bsky.social pamphlet Mædwe on 3rd March (and why wouldn't you?!), let me or Corinna know and we'll send you the registration link x

Thank you @poetbex.bsky.social ! 😁🙏🏼

Good morning #PromptCombo & thank you to @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for hosting last week. This week's theme is #Rupture, with some ekphrasis to kick us off. I may be a little slow responding today & tomorrow but will get to you eventually. Look forward to reading all contributions ☺️

Chuffed about this, and congratulations also to @lenaozge.bsky.social ☺️ Thank you to Andrew Jamison and The Poets Workshop