🚨 Right now, Tommy Robinson is in London claiming to speak for us. It’s the ultimate distraction from the very real problems we face. But we know the truth: migrants aren’t the problem, far-right billionaires are. ✊ Share this post to make it clear: Tommy Robinson does not speak for us.

Delighted that @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social's Crowd Voltage is @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social Book of the Month: review below. See him with Isabelle Baafi in #miltonkeynes this Sat: tickets (inperson/zoom) on website. poetrypharmacy.co.uk/blogs/newsle... @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social #poetry

Poem of the week at @faberbooks.bsky.social is The Way You Say Pen by Isabelle Baafi, who'll be reading for us in-person on or livestream next Saturday - tickets available on our website. #isabellebaafi #poetry #miltonkeynes www.faber.co.uk/journal/poem...

Lots of excellent poems. My favourite so far is Last Poem for Erin by Amy L King

#NaPoMo #poetry Every poet needs a treasure hoard says @hollyhopkins.bsky.social youtu.be/v1xfNTXzwjE?...

For National Poetry Month, during war time.

John McCullough (@mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social) will be reading from his just-published fifth collection Crowd Voltage @mklitfest.bsky.social on 25 April, alongside Isabelle Baafi.

🎙️ NOTHING BUT THE POEM Our much loved poetry podcast hosted by @samueltongue.bsky.social will be published on 1st of each month. Last 6 poets featured have been: 🔥 Jane Hirshfield 🔥 Jack Gilbert 🔥 Andrea Gibson 🔥 Isabelle Baafi 🔥 Thomas A Clark 🔥 Juana Adcock Who's next? Clue: Booker nominated...

@longbarrowpress.bsky.social I'm going in👍

Last night's excellent online launch reading with Lily Blacksell, Rita Ann Higgins and John McCullough is now available to watch on YouTube: youtube.com/live/p_0hOeo... All three poets' new books are available to order now from the Bloodaxe website: www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/new_titl...

Say hello to my little friend 🤗

Walking artists from the Walking Artists Network share how and why they use maps to document their walking works. Join the discussion. Don't miss it. Starts tonight! 23, 25 and 26 March. LINK: http://dlvr.it/TRfHB3

S4C’s latest series, Stori’r Iaith continues tonight. Presented by Sarra Elgan, the series offers viewers a fresh and emotive exploration of the Welsh language - its history, and the people who keep it alive

The Jalak Prize shortlists are out: www.jhalakprize.com

Like what this means in Czech.

Delighted to be in the latest issue of Dust Magazine — risking life & limb exposing a national treasure… www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/human-b...

Final visit for the Winter Bird Survey on my square in Thetford Forest this morning. Nice to watch a pair of Crossbill with nesting material going into a tree. Yellowhammers have arrived back in the forest for the breeding season and singing #NorfolkBirding @bbs-birds.bsky.social

We’re off on running with the fourth of our #SonnetChains. This time it’s Sophie Herxheimer and Nancy Campbell on co-editing duties. Sophie starts us off with one of her trademark works of poetic appliqué. More to come every fortnight! newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2026/02/21/a...

"Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass" from my current read (T. S. Eliot, Poems 1909-1925)

A cherry blossom lemonade as a way to get you to pre-order the book? Ok then: ninearchespress.com/publications...

@poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social May 8th 2026 is a very special day. It’s David Attenborough’s 100th birthday. On May 8th @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social invite you to post a poem on social media to honour him. It could be your own poem or a published poem by someone else. And please spread the word.

First Gent: My lord, what news from Norfolk? Second Gent: The prince, the king's own brother, is detained At Aylsham. First Gent: Marry, it will *ail* the king Full sore if this be truth and not a *sham*. Second Gent: (beat) My lord, are we really doing this

America, where all the accidents are built to last Reginald Sherpherd

Thanks to the folk @modpo.bsky.social especially Dan Bergmann who are running a slow poetry SloPo week of poems by @aestallings.bsky.social We began with A Postcard from Greece and I'm loving reading these poems

More showing off, but I've been alerted to the fact that my pamphlet 'the break of a wave' is a staff pick at the National Poetry Library at the mo. If you're near the Royal Festival Hall, pop in and see the foldout zine-iness.

🎓 Interested in taking your poetry to a higher level? Our MA in Writing Poetry Open Day takes place on Saturday 14 March! To register your interest in attending, please contact [email protected]. More info here 👉 poetryschool.com/our...

I like this poem of loss and detail by Jennifer Wong from her @ninearchespress.bsky.social collection Light Year. ‘A life so loved and rented…’

Recommended reading - two terrific poems by Jessica Mookherjee www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/2-poems...

Thanks @poetrysociety.org.uk for the new issue of Poetry Review. Featuring a fabulous new poem by @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social

WCW: Sure, as I've said, I did eat the plums but Chotiner: The plums that I was saving for breakfast WCW: Which you were *probably* saving for breakfast Chotiner: I bet they were delicious, right WCW: You've got to understand I eat a lot of things from the icebox Chotiner: So sweet and so cold

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

This is "The Art Class Room" by Elwin Hawthorne from 1928. It is available as a greeting card or print &, along with all our cards & prints, it is currently available with 40% off all orders placed now, but only until 23.59 next Monday, 1st February here: eastlondongroup.co.uk #ElwinHawthorne

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

I like this poem of winter and possible recovery by the late Glyn Hughes from his 2011 collection A Year in the Bull-Box from Arc Publications which detailed time writing in an isolated stone cottage whilst living with illness.

I started this year by merging beachbooks.blog and sea-library.com into one site. From now on there will be only Sea Library site with blogs, letters and books all in one beautiful place. Now I even have a landing page! Although I'd prefer a more sea related term. How about a docking page? Check out

My anger at having to stand outside my kid’s school for two hours to ensure none of their classmates, parents, or teachers get kidnapped by my own government is only slightly tempered by the amazing outpouring of support from other parents and especially neighbors who stand against this bullshit.

Final cycle of 2025 this morning with my cycling buddy, round the quiet backlanes of Ceredigion as the sun rose. Looking forward to some more touring adventures in 2026 🌞🌞🚲 #cycling

Every Christmas Eve, the Icelandic people practice something called 'jolabokaflod,' which translates to Christmas book flood. Jolabokaflod involves giving books as presents on Christmas Eve, so that friends and family can spend the cozy night in curled up with a good story. #BooksAsGifts

soundcloud.com/poets-org/da... or you can read it poets.org/poem/inaugur... #poem

🔥 PTC Holiday Giveaway! 🔥 Win a bundle of 3 Arabic poetry books, a notebook + 12 postcards! How to enter: ⭐ Like 🔁 Repost ✨ Follow UK residents 18+. Enter on IG, FB + LinkedIn for extra chances (each platform = 1 entry). Closes Mon 12:00 UK. Links + T&Cs in our Linktree! 🎁

Happy to announce a new long-term project based in slow time, snail mail &love for handwriting & the sea “Write a Letter to the Sea”. Katrīna Ģelze’s beautiful illustration will be sent as a postcard to those who participate. First letters published on sea-library.com beachbooks.blog/2025/05/23/w...

@poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social @mklitfest.bsky.social Give Peat a chance poets Eileen Anderson, Anne Cooper, Rene Crouch, Hilary Dunn, Caroline Gill, Richard Law, Nichola May, Michelle McGrane, Elizabeth Osmond, Judy Smith, Dave Wakely and Gail Webb. www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe...

Goodbye, Poetry in Aldeburgh, and warm thanks to all!

Looking forward to reading at Poetry in Aldeburgh next Friday with fellow #ignitionpress poets Clementine Burnley & Alicia Pirmohamed! Tix at bit.ly/ignitioninaldeburgh.

A wonderful day at Lambeth Palace Library yesterday. The librarians could not have been kinder or more helpful. I still miss the old library, but the new wing — light, calm, beautifully designed — is a joy.

On my website today a drop-in by doctor-poet Judith Wozniak reflecting on a poem from her latest pamphlet Case Noted. Check it out. #poetry #poetrycommunity

One of my favourite places to read. The National Poetry Library @southbankcentre.bsky.social