Tree on the way to Charminster to visit my parents grave .

"her memory is a cloud she can't hold..." Lots of feels with this poem for my mum. Sent with love for anyone with a parent or loved one with Alzheimer's/dementia. It's a journey. (And thank you @poetsorg.bsky.social and Rick Barot for sharing this one. It means a lot.)

Brilliant

It's #WorldGiftDay! We know that creating a fun celebration when giving out our #Bookstart packs can really help to get families reading. Find out more about how our programmes are designed to engage families in our latest impact report: https://bit.ly/43S8CPR

Welcome one and all for this week's @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the #PoemsAbout theme of #LockedDoors, and why they might be locked, what lies behind them. Until Alan returns please keep the sharing and feedback alive. It took a long time to build #PoemsAbout to the community it is today. 🎯

Ohhhhh that’s where that mean comes from!

as adrenaline crests, an unexpected calm; sun on icy eaves. #haiku #poetry

Really looking forward to this. Honoured to be in such a stellar line up

Another little poem Heorot It is a moon dead night, the stars seem somehow disordered. We have lost our bearings. The hearths in Heorot have cooled, small ash mounds, grey as death. The mead hall is silent now, not a single sleeping breath. Grendel does not need the moon to find his way home.

Another little poem Heorot It is a moon dead night, the stars seem somehow disordered. We have lost our bearings. The hearths in Heorot have cooled, small ash mounds, grey as death. The mead hall is silent now, not a single sleeping breath. Grendel does not need the moon to find his way home.

Tiny poem. Why not? It’s a Gothic kind of day. A quite ordinary kiss, lips soft, warm, familiar, but then a taste of blood in the mouth, a sense of something you had thought drowned, and the mist rises above the lake.

Look at this.

The Book Trust is great Land if you’re a reader and can spare a few pounds to support their work please do. You know how important reading is…

it certainly worked for me. you pick up the 'song' of your language, the stanzas, the rhythm, the motifs... and later, if you are introduced to another language, you learn the faster, recognizing the different song, learning it, enjoying it. give your kids the gift of reading to them.

📢 NEW: our research into the wide-ranging benefits of reading has been updated! Drawing on hundreds of academic studies, the report offers an in-depth look at the many ways reading supports children. Read the report, in partnership with Open University Reading for Pleasure📚 https://bit.ly/3JNgfjT

'In 2012, Canadian #oil and #gas created 38 direct jobs for every 1,000 barrels per day of production. By 2023, that number fell to 22 jobs.’ #TransformEnergy & create good, clean future proofed jobs & prosperity for workers. #TheFutureIsElectric #CdnPoli #AbPoli

Wonderful to have this poem featured on the night of fireworks and a full moon. My grateful thanks to @markantonyowen.com for this opportunity.

🌟TODAY🌟 The Feminist Art of Walking author @thelrm.bsky.social speaks at @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social 🗓️Thurs, Nov 6 ⏰7 pm 📍@fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/the-f...

“The essential services we need to survive used to be owned by us: the UK public. Our public services have been sold off to private corporations over whom we have no control.” @kmilb.bsky.social, author of Radical Abundance, interviewed on @neweconomics.bsky.social neweconomics.org/2025/10/radi...

European countries want Brazil to increase forest conservation (it certainly can). But some of the world's best opportunities to spare & restore carbon in native forests—while displacing the least food production—actually lie in Europe. Our analysis shows this: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Swift populations in Britain slumped by 66% between 1995 and 2022 and have continued a rapid downward trend. They travel over 7,000 miles (11,000km) every year to get to UK only to find there is nowhere for them to nest and left to perish outside A mere £35 for developers would have saved them

Historical evidence indicates that beyond the immediate impacts of climate change, societal order disintegrates, then starvation and sickness arrives. What are we doing to save our children and grandchildren from this fate? @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social

I think this @schoolsweek.bsky.social interview demonstrates how the focus of the curriculum review was subject related and secondary focused. I don't think it actually deals with key issues around young people's engagement and wellbeing within the English system. schoolsweek.co.uk/interview-be...

Delighted to see our Great Reads Award included in this list. Registration for participation in our 2025 Awards is still open to all Primary & Post-Primary schools - so don't miss out. Full details at schoollibrariesireland.com/great-reads-... #GreatReadsAward #GRAIrl #LoveReading

Canada trip all booked 🇨🇦 ❤️

This is the only pertinent point to be made, really.

On this day, November 4th 1918, a week - almost to the very hour - before the Armistice, the poet Wilfred Owen was killed in action. He was 25. Here is my recording of one of his most famous poems. Dulce Et Decorum Est #warpoetry #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky

Reform UK have performed so many u-turns on policy, here’s there new logo.

At a foodbank near you. 😢 The quiet anarchy of the volunteer who cannot be in the photo with the MP. #poetry #foodbank #poverty #CeasefireNOW #welfarerights #politics #GazaCeasefire @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @plaidcymru.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @socialistworker.bsky.social

“[I]ntimidation, threats of cessation of business, threats of family members losing visas.” Appalling, embarrassing breach of diplomatic conduct. Assume instructions for such unconscionable behavior came directly from Rubio and his minders, which tells you everything you need to know about them.

Gary Snyder

Never shopping at ‘that baby clothes store’ again. My exchange included ‘well we haven’t had any of these returned before’, ‘the seams are very strong’; ‘no we can’t reimburse you for the two extra postage charges you will incur as a result of our providing faulty goods’

📢Poets! If you value a respectful vibe, do submit to THE MADRID REVIEW next time, your work will be treated with care. Thrilled to be in their latest issue, dropping on NOVEMBER THE 28th! 🔆🔆🔆 #TheMadridReview #GreatLitMags #RespectfulEditors #NewPoetry #CrossBorderPoetry #BilingualPoetry #Poems

Post flu-jab slump

Watch this! So good. And timely.

Feel a bit cross about buying a Gruffalo themed garment for my grandson only to have one of its seams come undone after one day of wear. Big brand too. Not good 😡

Here’s a creature for today’s #vss365

If it came to the worst, the world gone west, the land deserted and the seas made barren, still I imagine starlings, plumes of them patterning a vacant sky, its flamed horizon. From Rob Hindle's excellent collection 'Sapo', available with £2 off until Sunday longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Fabulous performance of Faure’s requiem at St Peter’s in Dorchester. Nice and early too

Loving this new book from @citizen-chris.bsky.social. Thanks Chris 🥳

Spent the afternoon prepping for a highlights tour. Dorset Museum is just wonderful. Here’s the mosaic found in Fordington near where I live. It fills the atrium wall

These are brilliant, welcoming open mic events for the #poetrycommunity hosted with warmth, wit and discerning by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social Sign up below 👇

Solar Prayer I watched the light move through the room wall chair table floor like a slow confession needing no listener all it wanted was to touch everything once then go I knelt without meaning to #poetry

My little grandson went on a nursery outing to his local park today. They were collecting leaves. 🍁 Nothing so cute as a group of 2yr olds in tiny hi-viz jackets!

Has anyone contacted NWT and Nunavut? Treating and releasing oil sands tailings water will directly affect their drinking water AND the Arctic Ocean.

Finished the second draft of a poem about my Canadian son. We are planning our next visit to him but today I really really miss him. 🇨🇦