In tribute to the late Tony Harrison, BBC Radio 4 will be rebroadcasting this 2013 feature on v., his controversial long poem. Tony Harrison read the poem in full, and writer Blake Morrison discussed the poem's impact. Tune in at 11pm tonight, 6 Nov, or listen later. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

November 3, 182 CE: An enslaved child named Epaphroditus (8) falls from a window straining to see the castanet-dancers at a festival in the village of Senepta in Roman Egypt (P.Oxy. 3 475). A public physician (accusative: ‘δημόσιον ἰατρὸν’) is called for & a proper burial papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;...

For this week's #PromptCombo #Storm with @rfsmith.bsky.social - will catch up with others later.

Please Note: As of now, the majority of SF Bay Area restaurants that plan to offer free or reduced-priced meals to families who will lose #SNAP benefits are owned by ethnic minorities. There are TONS of eateries across the SFBA: are white owners pitching in, too?🧐 www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

How interesting. Ultimo Books specifically open to subs of manuscripts between 30-40k words (both fiction and nonfiction). Don't think I've seen anything like this from a biggish publisher in Australia before. hardiegrant.submittable.com/submit/33977...

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Hi @dragonslayerma.bsky.social Fidel. Thank you for the great ##promptcombo #SimplePleasures. My first is from my collection "These Random Acts of Wildness", (Glass Head Press, 2023)

@thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #BreakTheMould. I hope I have tagged this right. Here's A Word with the Ancestors.

A #LiftToTheSky to @alanparrywriter.co.uk, who does so much for the writing community. #PoemsAbout is my favorite corner of Bluesky, because (even when I'm not brave enough to post) it challenges me to keep writing, revising, and engaging with others on the same journey. Cheers to you, Alan.

#poetry #poems #poet #poetrycommunity

#promptCombo #simplePleasures #senryu #poem #poetry I am not entirely sure this fits the brief, but here's Hot Drinks!

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

I've been keeping this quiet, but I can now share that my poem 'Arboreal' won First Prize in the Whispering Wisdom Poetry Competition! 💙

Ting for the poetry mandem/gyal dem. MLE, isolated biophonies, the beat of walking and a sprinkle of the devil’s lettuce. open.substack.com/pub/jamesmcc...

This week’s #poemsabout prompt is #mannequin Due to illness my poem is short and dark from fever dreams and the news. @thebrokenspine.co.uk @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social #poemalttext #UseAltText #poetrysociety #poetsonbluesky #poemsforpeace

Very pleasant to discover on #NationalPoetryDay that I've got a poem with a recording published in Wildfire Words.City Church. I've posted the text below. The link to the WW page is in the chat. A few ecclesiastical #characters here #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #promptcombo @rfsmith.bsky.social

Welcome @joseph-nutman.bsky.social to Bluesky! #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #promptcombo #poemsabout He's a fab poet & well worth a follow.

Oh Lord, now we've lost Brian Patten, one of the poets of my time at school, and an inspiration as to what poetry could be freed from English Lit. classes!

"Happy Memories". This new small painting is based on a photograph I didn't know I had..... me walking towards Sycamore Gap- before the iconic tree there was felled. #Northumberland #HadriansWall #NationalTrust #heritage #history #Romans

Oh - we've lost Tony Harrison - RIV (rest in verse) - remarkable poet.

I’m thinking that before the next election, all the other political parties just get together and make a party called “Not Reform”. The tories can even join in if they like. I’m past caring.

I had a prophetic vision last night. On September 23rd, those people who can correctly identify traffic lights in a grid of 16 images will be taken up as part of the Great Captcha.

Happy crunchy Autumn!

be the pine survive this fire

They're keeping him busy playing soldiers at Windsor. Meanwhile....

‘Here was Attis, born from an almond held to his mother's breast - until the loggers came’ 🪵 @racheldeering.bsky.social from ‘In the Shadow of Gods’ - the poem ‘Spotted Nutcrackers’ www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering #poetry #writing #ecopoetry

Beautiful poem and irresistible prompt from @hool415.bsky.social for this week's #promptcombo. Get your poems in before Friday this week 🪽

Hullo I’m hosting this week. Tag me @hool415.bsky.social and #promptcombo #winged (anything goes: angels, planes, birds etc!) Challenge closes early this week on Friday afternoon. Enjoy! @rfsmith.bsky.social @dragonslayerma.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social

For @hool415.bsky.social this is my *first* response to this week's #promptcombo #winged (Don't panic. I just mean I might actually try to write something new for you, too 😅)

'Distant Pigeon' was shortlisted for the Charles Causley Prize and later published in Stand Magazine. I'm sharing it here as a response to @hool415.bsky.social's excellent #promptcombo theme #winged #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #poetry #poem #booksky

Our account has been suspended on Threads! Please can you share this far and wide! :)

“Something in you dies, some lingering hope about what this country represents, about the kinds of things it would never tolerate, would never do or say. It was a godforsaken fucking week in a godforsaken fucking year.” Amen

‘Hunger for the good years of it’ ‘My God, the night is long’ 🌒 James McConachie from ‘Consolamentum’ @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu... #poetry #writing #poet #writingcommunity

How to Riot From a Wheelchair—in remembrance of those who've gone before & that acts of rebellion are not about the body's agency alone. Even while we – #disabledcommunity – become targets of successive governments #PoemsAbout #Riots @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetrycommunity

@emteepoetry.bsky.social told me earlier this week that she was going to allude to the song for #PoemsAbout, and did she ever. A golden shovel poem is not an easy form and to nail it with this long of a passage is fierce!!! 🥊🥊🥊 🔥🎤👇

#poemsabout #riots was not a prompt that came naturally to me this week! I've reworked an older poem that's well outside my normal voice. Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk / @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the very tricky challenge! #poetry #writing

This was my alternative #PoemsAbout #Riots many thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Good morning! Today's #PoemsAbout #Riots was another difficult one. There's so much history, but now it just like we're waiting for it to happen at anytime now. Thank you to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the opportunity each week.

#riots #poemsabout @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk An oldie, called 'Tap for done' - had to re-format to post.

For those of you who don’t like to open links or don’t have instagram. I downloaded the video for you. If you haven’t heard about this guy before don’t scroll past it, his name is Jesse Welles. I promise you won’t be disappointed. #jessewelles #wellesmusic #thekaelosproject #kaelos #wordshaveweight

I have 3 sons, now young men, schooled in the UK and then Spain. Not once did it ever cross my mind that they might be killed at school by some disturbed loner with a gun.

Prompt for Friday 29th!

I might have posted this before, but as it chimes with the #promptcombo theme of #woods I’ll go again. Thanks as ever to host @victoriaspires.bsky.social. For many of us in Spain, the woods are a place of beauty and seclusion, except when they become a threat.

Image from @esa.int

These beauties arrived today, so that's the weekend sorted along with a long cold drink #victoriaspires #wendyallen #salopress#galiaadmoni