I look forward to another poetry collection from my friend and gifted writer @angelagraham.bsky.social

Review of my collection 'STAR: poems for the Christmas Season' in Fortnight magazine. From tinyurl.com/mu2trecj or any bookshop, Amazon or me. Also No Alibis, Belfast; Caban, Cardiff

A poem about the COVID-19 debacle. From my imminent collection 'Exposure', poems on war, media and democracy. @byleaveswelive.bsky.social @poetryireland.bsky.social @eatthestorms.com

A poem from my imminent collection 'Exposure': war, media & democracy on the COVID-19 Inquiry, called 'TERRORISM'

COVID-19 Inquiry A Poem

Nice to see this shared. Thank you. Good time of year for it! From www.gwales.com/bibliographi... any book shop or Amazon or me

We're going to be recording our next set of pods soon and will be doing a Q & A pod with audience questions. If you have a question about Welsh politics for @Lauren McEvatt, @lauramcallister30.bsky.social , and Lee Waters, send it over!

Hullo #vss365 and to #number. An old one today.

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

Hullo #vss365 and to #unseen

When you edited a book and enjoy it even more - months later. ❤️‍🔥 @louloumach.bsky.social book ‘I Am Not Light’ is so dark and intense. Hits you, wave after wave. tinyurl.com/2xzyc5hy

Drawings by Niamh Lawlor of poets at last night's Cultivating Voices online reading. Myself, Catherine Ann Cullen, Lauren O'Donovan and Molly Twomey. And a big thanks to Sandy Yannone for bringing us together for a lovely night of poems, and the stories within the poems, of which there were many.

Very beautiful.

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

A very happy feast of Hildegard of Bingen to all nuns and medievalists!

The Archiving Conflict and Reconciliation Fund Project Report July 2025 is available to read online. UCDA was a member of the steering committee. We continue to be part of the Writing Peace (www.quillproject.net/m2/research/...) strand of the Quill Project. www.quillproject.net/resource_col...

Delighted to have a poem in issue 5.

This is from 2022 but informative about the Farset Hotel for the Homeless. I was at a poetry reading there on 26 Aug organised by Marty McKenna of Button Press as a fundraiser. So glad to know about this place. Brilliant. belfastmedia.com/hotel-for-ho...

Congratulations to Andrew on publication of his important #book, Waterscapes, examining histories of environment, people & #water supply. You can read his excellent blog post about the new book here: blog.royalhistsoc.org/2025/08/28/w... @uolpress.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org

Last night at a poetry reading at Farset Hotel for the Homeless. Organised by Marty McKenna, Button Press. A fundraiser for this beautiful venue on the Springfield Road, Belfast. @poetrysociety.org.uk @poetryireland.bsky.social

This will be reviewed by @richardwynjones.bsky.social in October's #499 of Fortnight , Northern Ireland's leading politics & culture magazine. I'm guest-editing the Arts section.

Special call for the #SilverBranch series - 31st August only, an exclusive opportunity for those who have participated in the ‘Crafting Your Year…’ workshop. 💎 blackboughpoetry.com/events #writing #poetry

Six weeks or so now to get up to speed on Norse and Icelsndic poetic forms like drottkvaett, malagattr, or rimur! Submission deadline, Oct 1st alliteration.net/call-for-submissions #alliterative #poetry #CallForSubmissions #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #skypoets #poetsonbluesky

@rhyskamjones.bsky.social @jasminedonahaye.bsky.social

@paulodonovan.bsky.social hello Paul!

CULTURE & DEMOCRACY PRESS will publish a volume of poetry to commemorate the life and works of IOLO MORGANWG in 2026, the 200th anniversary of his death. Send submissions to Phil Cope, c&d editor [email protected] by 1 September 2025. All selected poets will receive 3 copies of the book.

We're thrilled to announce 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill: Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson. Across Scots, English and Gaelic, a wealth of contemporary poets respond to Fergusson's work, proving that, 250 years since his death, his song immortal lives! taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...

Great to see #NoFarShore 'Charting Unknown Waters' –uncharted for me at least – including super @serenbooks royalties cheque showing just how many📚have set sail in past year, & being recognised in a café from author pic (see prev. post), both thanks to @theopenuniversity & Prof. Fiona Doloughan💐

But there’s a lot more to say re publishing’s culpability in perpetuating these myths - as @bookwormvaught.bsky.social wrote about so well in @bookbrunch.bsky.social - and the effect of that on disabled people’s lives and care. It’s striking this guardian piece quotes well on writing illness BUT

What role does memory play in creating the history of a nation? 'Memory and Nation' brings together exciting new research on writing and performing the history of Wales, from the Middle Ages to the modern period. Order your copy: www.uwp.co.uk/book/memory-...

@paulaber.bsky.social Paul, I wonder if you would be interested in reviewing a new book. Do you still use the aber email you had a few years ago? I cd send info via that.

Hullo @rfsmith.bsky.social @dragonslayerma.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @sueimnw.bsky.social Think I’m hosting #promptcombo this week. The theme: #MyGod Maybe a seeking, or an expletive or where you find divinity on Earth…anything goes! This in Southlight.

BBC NEWS / AFP / BBC NEWS / REUTERS JOINT STATEMENT: “We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families. "They are now facing the same dire circumstances as those they are covering. "

A novel that integrates period veracity & dialect seamlessly into a plot that can handle subtlety of motivation within lives at the mercy of the ocean's forces. @guardianbooks.bsky.social @thebookseller.com

Got to share this , given the use of the cor gi

Polite Notice.

Brand new, #HistFic set in Brixham #Devon A Spring Marrying by Jon Rosebank "... bursting with nerve and verve," @angelagraham.bsky.social bluepoppypublishing.co.uk/product/a-sp... #PublishingUK #DevonUK #BookSky #Fishing

On Wednesday 23 July join us on the @itvcymruwales.bsky.social stand at the Royal Welsh Show for a pre-launch party celebrating publication of ‘Vanished Wales: Places Lost in Living Memory’. All welcome. RSVP here forms.gle/gEweZnkNLD3x...

@zackpolanski.bsky.social heard you on Radio 4. The Reform int’ee scorned your praise for an aspect of Labour’s policy as unfitting for an ‘opposition’ party but she’s wrong. You’re right to praise what you think is positive. That’s constructive. Keep going & building bridges.

Love that @kizzia.bsky.social has made a @thestorygraph.com reading challenge based on this list - app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal...

We're delighted that Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann member Éilís Ní Dhuibhne is the new Laureate for Irish Fiction. An inspirational choice. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

'like a wobbling key surprised to find the lock' that simile is genius. Off-kilter, hopeful, unsure. Just like this whole moment, really. You’ve captured the whole of parental distance with such poise it stings. #KeepWriting #PoemsAbout #Keepsakes