We are open for submissions for a new project exploring themes of: Dis/Enchantments / Anomie / Spectacle Click the link to view prompt in full. Send work to: [email protected] #poems #prose #visualart #vispo #experimental #hybrid #sound #video icefloepress.net/dis-enchantm...

It's all happening tonight! (12th May) LOL! (Live on Line). Roger Waldron reading from his book "Notes from Various Settees" With an Open Mic too. Sign up for this free event! It all kicks off at 7pm BST. #poetry #OpenMic @throwawayreg.bsky.social bit.ly/SetteeNotes

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You like settees? You'd like to hear Roger Waldron reading from his book "Notes from Various Settees"? Whilst sitting on your own settee? And you'd like join in an online #poetry #OpenMic too? Then sign up for this event! Its on May 12th at 7pm BST. @throwawayreg.bsky.social bit.ly/SetteeNotes

A moment observed in the garden....

A dabble into #fragmentsfriday with @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

Morning walk......

Can anyone recommend a poem about farms/farmyard/farming ?? (for a poetry reading group) 🐄

Who knew the art of blurbing could be so thought provoking and helpful? Well worth a read 👍

A great upcoming launch event 👇

Looking forward to this 😀

Poetry through-the-night for springtime 👇👇👇

A sensitive & superbly imaged look at this transition phase of life 👌

Heres my offering to the @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social valentine comp - a poem for the love of poetry

Needless to say, I'm over the moon to be included in this nomination & alongside two such wonderful poets 🤗

I didn't know Simon Armitage has a new series of his 'Shed' podcast up-&-running. Great first episode with Frank Skinner & looking forward to the others 🤗

The 52 project changed a lot of poets' lives and led to this best-selling workbook, now used by many groups and MA courses. If you want to write a poem a week in 2026 - or just get a shedload of good prompts and new poems to read - you can find it here ninearchespress.com/publications...

This reposting is a lovely Christmas surprise to me from Ice Floe 🤗🎊🎄

This ....... 👇

Over 150 calls for literary competitions and submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, and more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in December 2025. Please share & best of luck! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

I never stop being grateful to editors who include my poems in their anthologies/journals... it continues to bring excitement and encouragement!! Thanks muchly to @alanparrywriter.co.uk for including my sort of coming-of-age poem in this great looking volume now published by @thebrokenspine.co.uk 🙏

If you're an American (of any political persuasion) then these few minutes are an important viewing (imho)...........

I Hope all #promptcombo folk will forgive one of my very occasional forays among your number 🙏..... just couldn't resist the current #workinglove prompt from @hool415.bsky.social !!!

With much gratitude to all at Wee Sparrow Press for including me in their latest anthology 🙏 www.theweesparrowpoetrypress.com/lines-of-com...

Near Cheltenham on Nov 13th? A great free poetry event with Hannah Lowe & Stewart Carswell 😊 👇

Fab recent interview/reading by Diane Seuss on the Red Door Poets youtube channel - well worth an hour of your time 👍. Thanks to @reddoorpoets.bsky.social

Haven't done anything imagist for a while so rather rusty, but couldn't resist the new @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Halloween competition! 14 word max... More dust, more mist, more melted than before, he admires curlicues on his headstone. 🪦

Looks fun! ............ 👻 👇

Big congrats to all prize winners & commended 👏👏.... & to all longlisted - including me 🤗🤗 - who'll appear in the comp anthology

For this week's #promptcombo from @dragonslayerma.bsky.social about #simplepleasures a true story!!

Hi to all at #promptcombo 👋. Here's my bash at this week's prompt, #visitor from @hool415.bsky.social

't will be a good 'un !! 👇

Can think of no more appropriate a way of saying #HappyNationalPoetryDay to all poet'ers than by reposting this beauty..........

Latest collection from a super poet! 🤗

It's nearly time again ... If you've been looking for a home for that 'after' or ekphrastic poem, @afterpoetry.com is the place for you. Submissions reopen tomorrow – October 1st 2025. You then have the entire month to send in your poem for a chance to feature in After... in 2026. Good luck! 🤞🏼

Celebrating a successful poetic secondhand haul from the excellent Westwood Books in Sedbergh 🤗.

Here's a spur-of-the-moment bash at responding to today's #poemsabout prompt from @thebrokenspine.co.uk - #riots ... Riots How anything can serve a purpose other than it was created for - a bottle, a paving slab, a streetside cafe table, a young man, a song.

Doubtless will scribble a poetic something after a memorable visit today to an underground sculpture exhibition at Clearwell Caves in the Forest of Dean!!!

Happy Monday! For a poetic #lifttothesky with @thebrokenspine.co.uk today I'd like to throw a light on this poem by @victoriaspires.bsky.social that was commended in last year's TPW Poetry Prize - a beautiful piece of 3 stanza observation & a 💥 finale!

Mary Oliver poems - whats not to like?!!!

It's here! Over 150 calls for literary competitions & submissions incl. poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in August 2025. Good luck & pls share. www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

Competition time! Our latest competition is on the theme of Turning Points judged by Rebecca Watts. All info available on our website. #poetrycompetition #poetry

I find depictions of age more interesting as I get older!!! This one, a Stanley Spencer self portrait, is among works of his acting as an inspiration for me to write a series of poems based around his art

I know folk have mixed reactions to the world of literary prizes, but I welcome their shortlists as a nudge towards what I wouldn't otherwise read. Currently enjoying 'Southermost Sonnets' by Leo Boix as a result of its Foward shortlisting

In the last couple of days I've been captivated by this poem by Edward Salem in the current Poetry Review ...... that last line!....... so here it is as my #lifttothesky for @thebrokenspine.co.uk today

A little poetic response to a flower display...........

Another interesting poetic post from the North Sea Poets 👍

It's here! Over 160 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in July 2025. Best of luck & pls share! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...