Ha! Love this story, and the voice ..

Five sales this month (!), yet Longbarrow Press staggers on. Here's an opportunity to pick up an excellent book with a couple of quid off.

Beautiful small poem ...

A reminder

Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Jennings. Here she is on summer and angst, from The Animals' Arrival (1969). #poetry

"One blue boy holds a rag in his teeth between panes like a conjuror." I love this very strange poem by Sinéad Morrissey ... poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/throug...

Water companies reclassify bonus as retention payments, circumvent rules. Anglian Water CEO gets £1.3m retention pay. AW won't meet its regulatory targets. 44% rise in customer bills, sewage in rivers, 182m litres a day lost to leaks, criminal convictions. Govt/Ofwat do nothing. archive.ph/kmZz8

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Pause a moment, and read... • Kathleen Jamie •

Hazel Tree Lambs Tails - Walberswick - Charles & Margaret Mackintosh - 1915.

The Spectator and any rightwing gobshite attempting this line of attack needs to be mocked into oblivion. No one is laughing at the people of Clacton. Everyone is laughing at Farage for his idiotic crybaby strop that now has him competing with a bin. He’s getting all the respect he deserves.

Count Binface should demand a tv debate!

Vervain / verbena early for tonight’s #WildflowerHour Sniff this photo to cure writer’s block.

"You bear fruit for yourself; there is purity in solitude." Beautiful poem by Marjorie Lotfi:

a fabulous book ... you have made me want to reread it immediately ...

What an ending, phew. Louise Erdrich, Grief

Portrait of a Lady: exquisite, sculptural beauty, with lowered gaze, translucent veil, clasped hands of prayer; oil on oak panel, c 1460 by Rogier van der Weyden, influential Flemish artist, pupil of Robert Campin, court painter to Duke of Burgundy; died in Brussels #OTD 1464. ALT NGA DC

Today is the tenth anniversary of Jo Cox's murder by a white supremacist on her way to a surgery in Birstall in her constituency whose ethnic diversity she praised in her maiden speech to the Commons. Her murderer shouted "Britain first" as he shot and stabbed her to death.

Candy tuft. ✨

This decision is the most ridiculous, and btw wicked consequence.

More than 100 MPs have now signed the motion I tabled alongside colleagues to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations. Please email your MP asking them to sign EDM 240 if they haven’t already.

LATEST POST - read some #poetry and a discussion by @jaxxi.bsky.social at our #blog now. These 'disappearing sonnets' are from Dillon's upcoming debut collection, like starlings falling, available to pre-order now. ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2026/05/in-c...

I’ve had dreams like this. They never end well.

In their war on kitchen utensils, Reform will really come undone if they ban Mugs as that's 99% of their voters. The other 1% are those born with Silver Spoons in their mouths, so they won't ban them either.

Done!

'Village', my new non-fiction prose book, features witches, wheelbarrows & cheerful survival-especially of women.The villagers dictated the blurb in the image! Kindle/phone/computer edition only 99p! Generous paperback £9.99.Only via Amazon. SEARCH FOR ALISON BRACKENBURY VILLAGE AMAZON

Lovely poem!

There's a popular story about a staging of 'Antony & Cleopatra' at the Lyceum in the 19th C. During an Act 2 scene of bacchanalian excess in Cleopatra's court, an old lady in the front row was heard to comment: 'Dear! Dear! What a contrast to the home life of our own dear Queen.' #BookWormSat

This is great. I am the assistant to several small trees but I like the idea of a pink-winged cockatoo.

Oh, sounds great fun. (Wish I could make it!)

happy pride month! please share isaac's gofundme and donate if you're able!

I woke up at 4.30am on Tuesday with racing anxious,self-hating thoughts-I longed to step out of my brain.Then I heard Steve the blackbird-his beautiful tweet patterns quietened & slowed my thoughts. Research shows that birdsong is more effective than meditation apps at alleviating stress. Sound UP🎵:

Oh, heart-breaking little poem by Andrea Cohen

The UK government can stop this, but they’re failing to act, so we have to build enough pressure to force them to step up and save UK wildlife. It only takes 2 minutes. Thanks! act.gp/4u7mKQt

Hercules Carrying the Erymanthean Boar https://clevelandart.org/art/1981.223

Blossoming Chestnut Branches, Vincent van Gogh 1890

What a fabulous sonnet here by Richard Jones

Old Sarum, with the outline of the old cathedral. Sunrise; looking Eastwards.

Appalling ...

The Zoo Boys

Far From the Madingley Road

"They're all waiting for you but first here's a booth where ... " Enjoying this sonnet by Dean Young.

Just received the inaugural issue of Stoat Poetry. It's a generous helping of poems and art, and I'm honoured to be in it.

I shall definitely get to this - looking forward to seeing your work, also John Piper, Patrick Heron etc...

I was delighted to discover by chance yesterday that a print of mine is on show in Clare Hall's current exhibition, 'Infinite Variations': www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/clare...

" ... we have eaten god in his entirety .." Actual brilliant and funny poem wins prize. Dillon Jaxx @jaxxi.bsky.social You can read it here (if you scroll down a long way): ahc.leeds.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Submissions for the 2026 Barbellion Prize are open! The Barbellion Prize celebrates & promotes writing that represents the experience of chronic illness & disability. Subs open 2nd April-1st September, 2026. Judges: Penny Pepper, Dr David Bolt & Letty McHugh. Full details: barbellionprize.org

The Pedants' Revolt - no idea who did this or where I first saw it, but I still smile every time I see it in my photos

Transphobes do not represent the overwhelming majority of women. The @nionwomen.bsky.social petition is to show this. They now need only just over 4,000 more signatures to make it to 100,000. If you don’t want to be used as an excuse to take away trans people’s human rights, please sign & share