#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

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What I love about @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social 's #promptcombo hosting weeks is that they always garner fresh perspectives and make you work a bit 💪🏼 All welcome to contribute, tag Paul and #AChangeOfUse in your response

'this is poetry as bright and fleeting as embers. And like embers, it flares with beauty and warning' Victoria Spires reviews Louise Longson's 'The How in the World' - Hedgehog Poetry'. @victoriaspires.bsky.social @louisepoetical.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/book-reviews... #poetry

This one always gets to me, Atwood undefeated. #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Happy #SmallPoemSunday

This week we walk across the sea of green as Corinna Board takes us through 'Mædwe'. An exquisite collection published by Salo Press. A book everyone should be reading in 2026. Plus all the news, opps, and of course the playlist. Settle in and read my full thoughts.

Hullo @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and to the new 18 word maximum challenge #fragmentsfriday Thanks as always to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for these inventions. #poetry

For #promptcombo, #ecstasy interpreted differently.

Sharing this poem Teenage Boys, which is in the latest issue of The Marrow, alongside some absolute corkers www.themarrowpoetry.com/issue-six/te...

@dragonslayerma.bsky.social wants you to find your #ecstacy for this week's #promptcombo. Tag her & use the hashtags with your contribution ❤️

Avebury standing stone/Dungeness sound mirror #StandingStoneSunday

Reviewing @louisepoetical.bsky.social 's The How in the World over at @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 📚

@hool415.bsky.social Such has been my consumptive state this week, I've only just managed to turn out the slightest of trinkets for your #tracks #PromptCombo. But here it is, and within the stated deadline 🙃 Hope you've had a lovely week hosting !

The effervescent @hool415.bsky.social is this week's #PromptCombo host, with the theme #Tracks. Plenty of scope for something interesting. Share your poems before 4pm Friday ☺️

As the blood runs down his Playboy face Traffic gridlocks on the BR-116 into São Paulo and a burger box flies out of a passenger window. Two wood pigeons cool in the concrete shade of a brutalist carpark. An Italian waiter in Soho writes his phone number on a bill, flourishing the crossbar on his…

And long may it continue ❤️

Not too late to get your ticket to see all these lovely folks reading later. Hosted by @louisepoetical.bsky.social & @markantonyowen.com 🥳

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For @rfsmith.bsky.social and your #PromptCombo #Moment, thought you might like this. Victoria Chang from 'The Trees Witness Everything'.

For @rfsmith.bsky.social and your #PromptCombo #Moment. Death, indeterminacy and musical notation.

📢 Belated shout out for this week's #PromptCombo host, the delightful @rfsmith.bsky.social who has chosen #Moment as his theme. All welcome to join in, as ever.

This week in The Book Bag, Circulaire by Bex Hainsworth published by Written Off Publishing. Take 5 and settle in. '... in my opinion is a masterclass on poetry about life' Plus news, opps, shoutouts and of course an eclectic playlist. #TheBookBag

New review up on my Substack – This Wilderness & Other Concerns by @martinkennedyyates.bsky.social 📚 The quest for “devout and dogged beauty”. open.substack.com/pub/victoria... #poetrycommunity #promptcombo

And wow again! 😄 Big thank you to @afterpoetry.com and @markantonyowen.com again! 🙏🏼 And congratulations to @hareontherun.bsky.social and @philvernon.bsky.social 👏🏼💐