Fascinating and enjoyable ...

"After a legal threat from GB News presenter Michelle Dewberry, Virgin Active turned their back on a long record of inclusion and enforced a changing room and bathroom ban on trans people across all their gyms" @goodlawproject.bsky.social Send Virgin an email: goodlawproject.org/virgin-activ...

This is great ..

"The moon steps into her grave" I love this sestude by Penelope Shuttle modronmagazine.com/two-poems-by... @zoebrigley.bsky.social et al

Young Lion https://www.wikiart.org/en/maria-primachenko/young-lion-1979

Elon Musk committing sedition. On TV. We ban other hate preachers. Ban Elon.

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

wow

"Stinging autumn, you I love, more than Any little angel-face, You, cruel and strange-eyed courtesan." #Verlaine (transl. Martin Sorrell)

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read! “I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence.”

Should the world’s richest nazi, Elon Musk, have a slice of the UK energy market? I don’t think so. Sign the petition to Ofgem demanding they reject Tesla's application to supply energy in the UK. Pressure works if enough people act. Add your name: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/no-to-el...

The Ronald Blythe Fellowship is John Clare Society's new scheme awarding a PhD student focusing on Clare a £1000 bursary to support their work. Please pass on - &/or contact me or Honorary Secretary of the Society, Karen Lakey, for further information: johnclaresociety.wordpress.com/contact-us/

there’s no way to select a favorite poem from this book’s profound pages, but “little things: a ring” by @alinaetc.bsky.social is a big thing (especially if you dig catherine of siena) reading at gainesville’s indy bookstore, the lynx

Adrift, 1982 Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917 – 2009), one of the best-known American artists of the middle 20th century. Though he considered himself to be an "abstractionist," Wyeth was primarily a realist painter who often painted the land and people of his hometown. #art #painting #illustration

Oh - this is marvellous

BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif. He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza. Speechless.

NEW POEM #257: "The angel in massachusetts" by Justin Lacour "asks me to stand next to him so the cops will let him be maybe he is an angel / it’s always good to have an angel and a train and a hat and a graveyard" stonecirclereview.com/the-angel-in... #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #NewPoem

Please write to your MP and demand that the Home Office act to help these students make it out of Gaza to study in the UK this September. Time is running out to get the government to move on this; they absolutely could take action and are — so far — choosing not to.

Drawing on Poetry: poetry reading and drawing session with Renata Pękowska, presented in association with Poetry Ireland! 📅August 17, 2025 🕜4:00-5:00pm 📍IMMA 🎟️Book your free ticket here: www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/dra... @immaireland.bsky.social

Max Ernst – The Virgin Spanking the Christ Child before Three Witnesses: Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, and the Painter, 1926

Claire Schroeven Verbiest “Magnolia” (c. 1970)) Watercolor

Only dark knows how to open her wings.

if you're looking for a quick and strange read for the Sealey Challenge, please consider my chapbook "Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance" !!!!! variantlit.com/product/td/

Oh, I love this - the dog - the light

*100,000 people attend Trans+ Pride* Labour: let's ignore them *a handful of racist thugs riot* Labour: we need to give them what they want immediately

That is luscious ....

Stav Poleg is running another 1-day course, Writing Poetry: Imagined Places. 1st August in Cambridge. (Itself an imagined place.) £40 - a bargain. It should be fun! Not long to book a place - here's the link: www.hillsroad.ac.uk/adult-educat...

The wonderful Stav Poleg is running a 1-day class on ekphrastic poetry in Cambridge. I have signed up, but it needs more people to run. Only £40, a bargain!! I will be really disappointed if it doesn't happen ... www.hillsroad.ac.uk/adult-educat...

TalkTV is airing attacks on trans people without broadcasting the views of those who support trans rights. Call on Ofcom to take action:https://goodlaw.social/66f6a3

Of the Empire by Mary Oliver

Pay of Affinity Water CEO (company has 3.9m customers in London and south-east) jumps from £709,000 to £1.6m. Workers' wage didn't double. Govts tell workers wage rises are inflationary but silence on exec pay, dividends, share buybacks. It is class war.

Sad and powerful poem ...

#Pesticides - on this #PoisonedPlanet, we've grossly underestimated their effects on environmental and #PublicHealth "Global use of pesticides has doubled since 1990 ... regulatory frameworks should be urgently updated" phys.org/news/2025-07...

Today is the birthday of poet, John Clare (1793-1864) For anyone interested, there's a wonderful episode about him on 'In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg'. So worth a listen... #JohnClare #poetry www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh3f...

Yikes ...

Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden, but the unbearable lightness of being. ~Milan Kundera [Porthmeor by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham]

Publication day! (Resharing this as link in original post didn't work)

Take note all you lovely bookshops out there - I'm thinking of @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social, @ylbooks.bsky.social et al. There'll be beautiful new memoir, poetry and fiction from carers who are also stunning writers (or is it writers who are also stunning carers?) and something by me too.

Love this powerful & funny poem ...

Pascale Petit (@pascalepetit.bsky.social) is Roger McGough's guest on Poetry Please today, 24 June. She has chosen poems requested by listeners, including work by @niallpoetry.bsky.social and #MonizaAlvi. Tune in to BBC Radio 4 📻 at 4pm, or listen later. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

If you like your poetry to be hard work but very rewarding I recommend this one, published by @carcanet.bsky.social

Good prompt for someone ...!

“Three cages” mural paint by Seth in Hashmi Al Shamali in Amman, Jordan. #art #paintings #streetart

To this day, "Monet Refuses the Operation" by Lisel Mueller remains my favorite poem ever written. It is simply beautiful. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52577/...

Painting by Josep Cisquella (Spanish, 1955-2010) Blue Windows (Shadow Series), 1998. Oil and sand on canvas. Size 38 x 57 ½ in.

I mean - these are seriously good-looking biscuits

Nike has cancelled fmr AOTY Grace Tame as a brand ambassador because of pro-Palestinian posts?! So, Nike opposes human rights and supports genocide?! Good to know. #IStandWithGrace #BoycottNike #RecognisePalestine #FreePalestine

One of the first events for my new book is at the utterly splendid @scarthinbooks.bsky.social in Cromford, Derbyshire on 26th June. Book soon! Facefolk can see it here - www.facebook.com/share/1Bk9oA... and Scarthin's website is here www.scarthinbooks.com