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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

All welcome to the launch of the Four Pamphleteers with Verve. Come along to the online readings to hear @maxwallis.bsky.social and @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social and Rue Collinge. Bring wine, bring crisps, bring everyone. @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/four-pamph...

Good afternoon and Happy National Poetry Day! This is the very first post from Poets for the Planet here on Bluesky. We are very glad to be here. To start us off here's Wendell Berry's classic, The Peace of Wild Things #nationalpoetryday #poetrysky www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ewB...

You have to write for the love, because the publishing process and response can be upsetting, and the accolades so few (especially for poetry) yet there are collections I love that received little attention. But that creative rush is very special – no one can take it away

David Cuthbert Thomas from Pontarddulais was just 20-years old when he was shot in no man’s land in 1916. For two of the greatest war poets, his death changed everything ✍️Norena Shopland

Carol Watts – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface 🌍 On Mimic Pond: “Poetry has always been a place I go to. From childhood rhythms of prayer + countryside, through Wordsworth, Clare, Riley + Niedecker—poems began to pour out in sequences.” 🔗 Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau...

Thanks so much to Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust for posting this film poem of mine. Re-posting to create my first on Bluesky! To all my old @poetryschool.bsky.social mates, please find me! Kicking off with @suejohns.bsky.social @carolinemdavies.bsky.social @dixonkat.bsky.social ..who else is here..?

Happy b’day, “American Idiot” — released as a single 21 years ago today, and written in the wake of the Iraq War. “The country had gone into a war based on lies,” said Billie Joe Armstrong, “and no one seemed to care. .. It was a song that came from a very honest, pissed-off place.”

Fascinating perspective view with woman reading letter, 1665. And her dog, saying 'what are you doing here?' By Samuel van Hoogstraten, #BTD 1627.

Day 3 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social time for a bilingual anthology - Beyonnd /Tu Hwnt work by Welsh Deaf and disabled writers - a chance to ymarfer fy Cymraeg/practise my Welsh. Favourite poem so far 'When I say I'm tired by Bethany Handley DWP take note #sealeychallenge #poetrysky #amreading

Day 2 of the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #sealeychallenge #poetrysky #amreading The City by Stav Poleg published by @carcanet.bsky.social

August is Women in Translation Month #WITMonth and we're happy to see 3 @twolinespress.bsky.social titles "Mending Bodies," "Backlight," and "The Queen of Swords" on @clmporg.bsky.social's reading list! 👀📚 www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

@sealeychallenge.bsky.social #SealeyChallenge Day 1 A crown of sonnets about the life of Lee Miller, written by Jaqueline Saphra

📚 It's August, which means the #SealeyChallenge is now underway! To help you on your journey to read a book every day this month, The Poetry Society has gotten in touch with poets we've recently worked with for some recommendations. (...)

Our first ever nursing students have qualified to work in the health service – many congratulations to them! More tinyurl.com/uys5nyah

Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order. Day 17: Vanessa Gebbie #Writers #Authors #BookSky #AuthorChallenge #writing #women #womenwriters

A new network of art galleries has been created in a bid to make Wales' unique and rich artistic heritage more accessible to communities

A poem #anislandofstrangers for this Labour government, for Keir Starmer. The poem is rough, simplistic perhaps but heartfelt. Thanks for reading. I'm happy for it to be shared. #inthehopeofchange #fordecency #forkindness #immigrationpolicy #poetry #keirstarmer

He's also the president who killed things like this. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Join us for our Parks Trust Walking event with award-winning journalist, podcaster & broadcaster Ash Bhardwaj is the author of Why We Travel, The Independent’s “Travel Book of the Year 2024”. bit.ly/MKlfashb #walkingfestival #mkwalkingfestival @theparkstrust.bsky.social

Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47

It is #SaturdayMorning so here's "Interior" by Brynhild Parker from 1930. It has always seemed to me that this might be an idyllic breakfast time view to start a long, lazy week-end. The painting was once owned by an avid collector of ELG work: Sir David Scott. #BrynhildParker #EastLondonGroup

Lovely new Welsh dragon mural on Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay.... #wales

Join us to hear and meet @hallierubenhold.bsky.social @sanjanafeasts.bsky.social @memorients.bsky.social @northbanktalent.bsky.social @sarahpinborough.bsky.social #markbillingham #annafebruary

youtu.be/maQnEK4nX4Y?... One of Will Burns poems to whet your apetite for tonight's in person reading @mklitfest.bsky.social @troubledstriker.bsky.social @hannahcopley.bsky.social #NationalPoetryMonth

A rapt house for our event at Waterstones Milton Keynes tonight with Ed Stourton. We have another fabulous 17 events coming up before the end of Saturday: details and tickets on the website at www.mklitfest.org

We're celebrating National Poetry Month by spotlighting some of our favorite poetry books! What's on your poetry reading list this month? #NationalPoetryMonth #IndieBookstore #BookSky

Join us tomorrow (Thurs 10 April) in Campbell Park for Day 2 of Spring Festival with our Competition winners, book launch + 2 superb ecopoets! Book: www.mklitfest.org @theparkstrust.bsky.social @troubledstriker.bsky.social @hannahcopley.bsky.social #poetry #shortstories #flashfiction #miltonkeynes

There's no Planet B, but poets can show us ours anew. @troubledstriker.bsky.social + @hannahcopley.bsky.social visit #miltonkeynes 10 April to discuss words and worlds. www.mklitfest.org/poetry-in-the-pavilion #willburns #hannahcopley @livunipress.bsky.social @littlebrown.bsky.social #ecopoetry

✍️ #NaPoWriMo is here with the challenge to write a poem a day! Throughout April, The Poetry Society will be featuring poetry writing prompts created by poets that we've worked with recently through competitions, publications and projects. (...)

@april-is.bsky.social #poem #NationalPoetryMonth and today's poet is TJ Dema and Neon Poem www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACSW...

The press have caught up with this awful story of a violent police raid on a Quaker meeting house - front page of the Sunday Times today. Beautiful line from a Quaker Elder “The only resistance I could put up was to make tea and drink it in front of them without offering them any.” archive.ph/Ndh1z

Good morning all! :) We are giving away a free packet of mixed bee friendly flower seeds with every order this w/e. There is enough for 1 or 2 square meters. Just rake into bare earth from mid April...or earlier if you dare. www.higgledygarden.cm/shop/ (Sorry we don't send outside of the UK.)

Good morning! My pamphlet SPIT VALVE is now available for purchase from my very wonderful publisher, ignitionpress: shop.brookes.ac.uk/product-cata...

Some inspiration for #EarthHour poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/candlewrite/

For one hour, the world dims. Not in silence, but in solidarity. A moment to pause, to listen, to let the planet breathe. Earth Hour is more than darkness; it is light – of awareness, of responsibility, of hope. Switch off and let the Earth shine. 🌍✨ #EarthHour

For @unesco.org World Poetry Day, I’ve made a visual poem using lines from Mahmoud Darwish

he challenge: Post a book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can). Rules: It has to be a book you’ve read. It has to be a book you enjoyed or learned something from. #booksky #books #bookchallenge #TheWriteWomen The Charioteerby Mary Renault

The challenge: In March, post a book by a woman author every day (or as often as you can). Rules: It has to be a book you’ve read. It has to be a book you enjoyed or learned something from. #booksky #books #bookchallenge #TheWriteWomen The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

Flash says please go and spend a tenner on flower seeds from Higgledy Garden! Flash is a marketing gnu. www.higgledygarden.com

Looking for gorgeous poetry & lively conversation? Our next online Open Mic & Practical Chat is on 23 March from 11am-12.30pm. Sign up to read or come and take part in our discussion, we’d love to see you! Tickets: £2 or free for Women Poets' Network members. www.tickettailor.com/events/rebec...

A VERY early sowing of Larkspur...because I fancied getting away from my desk and getting my hands dirty. I sowed two packets in these three 10ft rows which is quite decadent...but it's one of the perks of being a flower seed magnate.