Delighted to say that my poem ‘Life as a Shipping Container’ has been shortlisted in the Atomic Bohemian Katrina Collins Poetry Prize and will be published in their competition anthology. Grateful thanks to Briony Collins & judge @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social. Congrats to the winners! 💐

Thrilled to be collaborating with wonderful #folk group !nverse for this event on the 1st November, 7pm at St Lawrence’s Church, #Winchester. Expect an evening of riotous assembly as we tell a tale of insurrection and woe through #poetry, music and song! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-great-...

Very late posting this but it was a delight to perform #poetry and #song inspired by the Swing Riots at a recent event for Music in the City in Southampton with fabulous folk group !nverse. We’re now gearing up for a bigger show in Winchester on the 1st November. More details to follow!

Listen to what @petitecreature1.bsky.social is saying here. Not just the bit about how good @iambapoet.com is for poets looking to bring their words vividly to life, but also to the really important part about auditions being open RIGHT NOW (and for only the next five days). iambapoet.com/audition

**AUDITIONS OPEN IN 14 DAYS** From Sep 20th-27th, auditions for @iambapoet.com open for the first time since 2022 – and for just ONE week! Be ready when the submission form goes live. Head to the journal's Audition page for full details. Good luck with your audition! 🍀 iambapoet.com/audition

Just logged in for the first time in a while to find lots of new followers. Bear with me, it might take a while to follow everyone back! And welcome!

UPDATED: The three special guests who'll read with me and @jenferoze.bsky.social at the launch event for 'Scenes from Subruria' have been announced. Huge thanks to @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social, @georgiahilton.bsky.social and @jitterbugwrites.bsky.social for agreeing to read. bit.ly/Subruria_Boo...

Congratulations again to Hilary Menos (@thefridaypoem.bsky.social), Tom Bailey (@andotherpoems.bsky.social) and Rowan Lyster for @iambapoet.com, and @georgiahilton.bsky.social, @esloudon.bsky.social and Suchi Govindarajan for @afterpoetry.com.

A poem I posted over at The Bad Place for Top Tweet Tuesday this week! ‘Phoenix’ was first published by the Poets Directory in 2021, and then in the collaborative anthology ‘Sea Between Us’ from Nine Pens Press in 2022.

To say I’m stunned would be an understatement! Thank you so much @markantonyowen.com for nominating my poem ‘We are not gold’ for Best Single Poem Written in the @forwardprizes.bsky.social and for publishing it in @afterpoetry.com last year. I am beyond grateful for your support of my work 🙏

‘In my beginning is my end’ Beginnings and endings are our theme for next week’s TopTweetTuesday on Twitter/ X. Poet @georgiahilton.bsky.social will be hosting. Check our pinned tweet for the brief. ☝️ thank you 🙏

Word of the day is most definitely ‘hurkle-durkling’ (19th-century Scots): to linger in bed long after it’s time to get up.

Lovers of #ekphrastic #poetry will find this a very satisfying read. A powerful, punchy sonnet from @seanaaburke.bsky.social - Medusa gets the last word!

I still think the opening poem of my third collection, Imagined Sons (Seren, 2014), is one of the best I've written. tinyurl.com/awvfe39f

Unlike cynicism, hopefulness is hard-earned, makes demands upon us, and can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on Earth. Hopefulness is not a neutral position either. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. ~Nick Cave (the Red Hand files)

🌪️ The day is here! Share your #PoemsAbout #NaturalReckoning now and tag @alanparry83.bsky.social to have your work seen. This is your chance for personalised feedback, potential publication, and a shot at #TheWhiskeyTree #Wave3. Write boldly, engage deeply, and let’s end the year with a roar!

I very much enjoyed this interview. Mark discusses his 9 syllabic forms (a first!) and we’re also treated to a fine selection of his poems, including the Pushcart Prize nominated ‘Conkers’. www.blackboughpoetry.com/mark-antony-...

‘thousands of geese are leaving #Scotland. Gorgeous #poem of love, loss and letting from @seanaaburke.bsky.social - one to follow.

Tune in for this wonderfully warm and informative interview with @markantonyowen.com - the creative force behind @subruria.com, @iambapoet.com & @afterpoetry.com. I was honoured to be one of the guest readers for this very special edition of @eatthestorms.com

Make your Sunday morning a poetic one with the latest episode celebrating @markantonyowen.com featuring @brionycollins.bsky.social @georgiahilton.bsky.social @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social @jenferoze.bsky.social & Natalie Holborow 🎉🎉🎉 #ApplePodcasts podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/e...

Very excited about this! Come celebrate @subruria.com with us from 5pm on your preferred podcast platform 🥳

So much poetry this weekend! Tonight, the @subruria.com special episode of @eatthestorms.com. Tomorrow, @iambapoet.com publishes wave twenty. Then later on Sunday, @afterpoetry.com publishes the @pushcartprize.bsky.social nominated 'Hope is a thing with chemicals'.

I very rarely do print. But I'll be doing it several times over the coming year with wave two of The Whiskey Tree from @brokenspinearts.bsky.social – starting in January 2025. Look out for words by me and a host of talented scribblers. We're coming your way, soon.

Subs are open. Let us read you.

James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.

Thrilled to have my little cursed poem in this new anthology from Broken Spine Arts. Available now! Thanks to editor Alan Parry.

Hello all! Welcome! I am looking for a new editor. My novel’s theme paranormal romance. If you are or know of a good, trustworthy editor please dm me. Thanks ☺️ #editors #paranormalromance #novel #writer #author

Delighted I'm returning to teach an online course for @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social starting 22 January 2025. Called 'Notes on memory', it's a chance for you to explore how to use your memories as a way of generating poems. Spaces limited so book early! irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/note...

Hi #writingcommunity, I'm a poet & editor based in Northern Ireland, author of 10 collections, editor of Poem Alone, & co-host of Purely Poetry open mic night. I also make experimental soundscapes under the name DARDIS. Hoping to discover & connect with lots of great poets & other creatives on here!

Sent out lots of acceptances and rejections for POEM ALONE this morning, so now we have an empty inbox! Send us your poems please and get submitting! poemalone.blogspot.com/2023/12/subm...

Submissions are open. Send us your best short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Before submitting, please review our guidelines at the link below: ​https://buff.ly/3a4dEgn #writingcommunity

New poem dropped from @ninaparmenter.bsky.social If sinister humour is your thing you will love this!

Such a beautiful poem and wonderful form: Jericho Brown’s “Duplex (I Begin with Love)”

Stephen Watts is one of our finest contemporary poets. 'And I should watch the kaleidoscope of wind- migrated leaves. And I should reckon on the silence of my mouth of rooted speech.' From Journeys Across Breath, Prototype.

SUBMISSIONS CALL: We are open for submissions of poetry pamphlets (up to 40 pages). Email: Include a short biography, brief synopsis, & poetic influences. Subject Line: Poetry pamphlet Submission - [Name], [Title] Full details & guidelines: brokensleepbooks.com/submissions

Hi everyone! We're a small press publisher of collaborative poetry books with mixed media and pop culture elements. We've been featured in the Guardian's top 10 poetry anthologies of 2018, won a Sabotage Award and commissioned work from hundreds of poets.

If you need me I’ll be latibulating.

What a real forest *ecosystem* looks like: wild, tangled, untamed. 🌍

As ever @markantonyowen.com’s @iambapoet.com is a good introduction to my writing. You can read/ listen to three of my poems here. The first one started my publishing journey when it won the Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize all the way back in 2018. www.iambapoet.com/georgia-hilton

Seems to be sorted for the moment…thanks guys.

One part of our upgraded infrastructure may affect your profile. If you see your handle now says “Invalid handle,” please reverify it by navigating to Settings > Change my handle > Type in your current handle > Verify DNS Record > Update. (Basically, update to the same handle.)

Really confused as to why my profile is now showing ‘invalid handle’? Anyone else had this?

Delighted to have an extract of my novel in progress published in the latest edition of VIA: Voices in Italian Americana (Bordighera Press) bordigherapress.org

We made a Starter Pack for anyone new to this place so we can find our people. Let us know if you want to be added to it go.bsky.app/73irajm

Care to help? We’re leaving the other place behind due to the obvious but not without its growing pains of leaving the community we had there too. If we’re on your radar, we’d love you all the more more if you shared us with your crew! And if you’re just finding us now, please follow 📢❤️ #poetry

Really thrilled to have a new #ekphrastic poem on @afterpoetry.com. Inspired by Henry Moore’s sculpture ‘King and Queen’. Huge thanks to @markantonyowen.com

It was an absolute honour to have a poem in The Storms inaugural issue. Grateful all over again to poet and editor extraordinaire Damien @stormshelter.bsky.social