Go you, Alex 💥 You can't beat a rough draft!

Morning guys, have a good one! Is anyone old enough to remember Playschool? #Sagunda #Castle #photography #flowers #nature #photosky

Huge thanks to Susan Richardson for publishing this today in a special extension of our Sunday Poetry Series. Especially releveant today as my mum is poorly Highly commended The Passionfruit Review competition 2024 and shortlisted Saveas Writers' International Writing Competition - All In the Mind

Whilst I have given many talks, I am looking forward to my first WI talk tomorrow at Hougham and Marston WI focusing on my career as a journalist for national newspapers. Quote from Orient Express piece. @womensinstitute.bsky.social #journalist #speaker #writer #probus #U3A #publicspeaker #speaker

Absolutely this, and comparatively is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Morning all, some final reflections on my walk around Whisby Nature Reserve. Have a good one! #photography #reflections #nature #lake #Whisby #Lincoln #duck #trees #greenery #pic #photo

A blend of intimacy and distance, almost mystery, in this intriguing story by @kieranstories.bsky.social. Brief sentences, staccato rhythm - some original storytelling going on here.

So pleased to have this poem in the debut issue of @stoatpoetry.bsky.social!

So has anyone else managed to change mobile companies and request a PAC from their NEW provider, thereby receiving lots of 'Sorry you're leaving' messages when you've just arrived? And then tried to email a 'no reply' email address?🤷‍♀️ Feel I should stay home today.😅 Daft moments, anyone else? #age

Lovely afternoon catching up with dear friends at #WhisbyNatureReserve #Lincoln #photography #lake #nature #trees

For those of you who enjoyed the Chinese bedroom in Belton House yesterday, here's a little follow up. #photography #storytelling

Morning everyone! Venetian outtakes. So much catching up to do today. Thank you so much to everyone who replied, or retweeted, my football poem post yesterday 🙏 😊 🙏 #Venice #photography #canals #water #gondolas

Here’s an updated foggy dew for #vss365 #speirgorm

And it is launched! 🌕 🌊 Delighted to hold ‘Midnight at the Saltmarsh’ in my hand. 💫✨ @thegallerypress.bsky.social

What an afternoon! We're staying up 😀 #YouReds #nffc #NottinghamForest

Happy Sunday to you all. Here's a rather nice Chinese mural from Belton House @nationaltrust.org.uk #photography #Chinese #mural

Morning all. Well it had to happen, I'm after poems on football 😂 I have Armitage's Goalkeeper with a Cigarette, Diane Ackerman's and Bruce Dawe's Aussie Rules piece. Please suggest some others🙏 #poets #sport #football #poetry #sportsSunday #rugby

Have a lovely weekend guys 😊 Remember, as one door closes... #windows #doors #photography #Bocairent #Spain

A brilliant celebration of 50 yrs of Xativa's oldest, independent bookshop at the teatre last night. Libreria La Costera was a key anti fascist meeting place. Oral histories, film footage interspersed with musos. Why can't we do this in the UK? #indie #bookshops #Spain #Xativa #teatre

Morning lovelies, I hope you have a great day. A little bit of Cullera calm today 😊 #Cullera #Botanic #Spain #photography #nature #trees #YouReds

Some soothing sounds for my fellow Reds, not that anything can calm the nerves right now! Is everyone else feeling terrified/excited/proud ? #nffc #YouReds #NottinghamForest

Morning all, especially fellow Reds! How are we feeling today? Expecting under Vitor we'll attack, as the best form of defence? Should Gibbs-White play? Villa goalmouth pic 4 😁 #FortressForest #Murillo #COYR #photography #views #Sagunto #nffc #NottinghamForest

So delighted to have a poem in Issue Three of the Bournemouth Journal, it features compelling poetry, stories, eye-artwork and a film script Congratulations to Gracie Jones, Hannah Hancock-Smith and Lorretta Balogun. thebournemouthjournal.com/issue-3/?fbc... @bmthwritingfest.bsky.social

From 1969 to 1972, photographer Nick Hedges took pictures of life in Manchester, England. Nick was hired by housing charity Shelter. He was working up the road from where I Iived, and the accommodation wasn’t that much better. It does leave a mark on you.

We both follow the same journey, don't we Ju? Beautifully expressed.

NEW: I’ve written a call to arms. Journalists are being murdered in unprecedented numbers by a Western ally that operates with total impunity. Enough. Publishers & editors have failed us. But if we can’t speak up about this, what is journalism even for? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

This goes so well with Craig Raine's A Martian Sends a Postcard Home which I taught last night, alongside Auden's sadly evergreen, Fall of Rome.

Morning all! Two views of a street in Sagunto, do you have a preference? If so, do tell me below. Have a good one. #Sagunto #Spain #photography #blackandwhite #journo #travel

Delighted to see this Mike, whilst slightly concerned that the fabulous success of my friends may bankrupt me 😂 @martinadalton.bsky.social @pdevonald.bsky.social @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social @fiftywords.bsky.social @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social @pascalepetit.bsky.social @petitecreature1.bsky.social

Morning all! A taste of Xativa today, a medieval town in Valencia. The first 2 pics are the beautiful, medieval Hospital Real. The mural in pic 4 is from the pharmacy, ie Botica, in the previous 📸. #Spain #Valencia #Xativa #provincial #buildings #photography

And it paid off! What a game 1-3 to us! A great team performance, well played Vitor. 👌 Hope Gibbs-White and Derry are okay. #YouReds #nffc #NottinghamForest

Go us! A fabulously bold move by Perreira. I love my club. Stick that Emeri. #coyr #nffc #YouReds

Morning all, here's the second part of Lincoln's #FestivalofHistory Roman, Saxon, Viking encampments across Lincoln, plus a fab 19th C, highly knowledgeable shepherd at the castle and cool walking tour based on 19th C memoirs. livinglincoln.co.uk #Lincoln #history #photography

So thrilled to see ‘Midnight at the Saltmarsh’ @thegallerypress.bsky.social reviewed in The Irish Times. Enormous gratitude to Declan Ryan 🙏🙏🙏

Lovely day at Historic Lincoln Weekend yesterday. First, the cathedral. (This is a thread in the making, but can't find the thread emoji!) #Lincoln #Cathedral #photography #religious #stainedglass

Moning all! What are you up to today? Here's a bit more of Venice, this time the island of Burano, think Cobh with more sunshine and without the rain 😂 Have a good one. #Burano #Venice #photography #photo #photosky #houses #canals #windows #houses

Happy Saturday all! #Venice #blackandwhite #photography

This #PoemsAbout isset after the legendary sailors who passed the sirens’ song, concerned less with the myth than with what lingers after. Thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk (Travelling today so may not get to reading others)

Congratulations @pascalepetit.bsky.social winner of the 25-26 Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize!

With furnaces looking like art in themselves, on our second day in Venice we went to a Murano glass blowing factory. #Murano #Venice #photography #photosky

Bear with me while I send these open-ended questions out into the poetry universe: "What if anything is the poetry community missing? What doesn't exist yet that could?" I'm still relatively near the beginning of my own poetry adventure, but I'm wondering. Any thoughts welcome 🦋

Keep dreaming! #What #a #night #YouReds #nffc

Anyone else excited about tonight? Apparently, I'm supposed to work today 😂 #Cantwait #Bringiton #nffc #YouReds #NottinghamForest

A lovely walk with Lincoln Walking Group last night #NotVenice #England #Lincoln #Cathedral #landscape #dusk #photography #photosky

Some fabulous discussion of @pamthompson240.bsky.social poem Training Scheme in my poetry class last night. Sorry, completely unrelated pic!

Love @petitecreature1.bsky.social 's 'Won't you fold this summer into your jeans pocket' which provides a beautiful snapshot of our daughters growing up💜

Morning lovely people. I'm sorry, it was only 3 days, but I'm afraid I took quite a few pics, despite the huge crowds... #Venezia #Italia #Venice #photography #photosky #windowsWednesday #doors #reflections

Morning all, remember, you can cross that bridge when you come to it. #Venezia #Venice #Italy #blackandwhite #monochrome #photography #photosky #buildings #bridges #canals

We haven´t received many submissions yet and would love to read more of your beautiful work! www.sidhe-press.eu/submissions/... Two more weeks to go.