can't wait to read your poems. Send me your bangers, both quiet and noisy!

If you're feeling Woolfish

A huge thank you to Dust: a safe space for anxious dogs...

It's that time of year again, folks! Submissions open in under two weeks. For full info, get yourself over to thebraag.co 💀💚

Really enjoyed reading this poem and discussion.

There already isn't enough support for many children in schools. There desperately needs to be a shift from the idea of "diagnosis led support" to "needs led support". Further reducing support will leave many more struggling. 1/ www.theguardian.com/education/20...

I've got three big deadlines coming up in the next fortnight. What better time to begin a 3D papercraft raven?

OH THIS POEM

Delighted to have been shortlisted in the Dark Poets Club competition, out of over 2000 submissions! 'Observance' was first published by Black Bough Poetry, because oh, I do love me a M🌕🌕N poem. Many thanks to the judges for this lovely boost. 😊 www.darkpoets.club/post/observa...

Metro, boulot, dodo

Printing off PDFs; calling it work.

Always find I'm in a perfect state of mental readiness for creative work at the precise time I need to leave for the school run.

Yorkshire Times Poem of the Week: 'Eton Mess' by Laurie Bolger @poetrybusiness.bsky.social www.yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

Seems there's a lot of you reading outside today. Every year I aspire to enjoying it, and every year I cannot. The glare! The flapping pages! The uncomfortable seating arrangements! WHAT IS THE SECRET PLEASE.

I'm leading this five-workshop outdoor creative writing course this summer in Yorkshire, first session on Saturday 17th May. If you can't make the whole course, it is possible to book on individual workshops. More details and booking here. www.eventbrite.com/e/anti-pasto...

Liked the wit of this one. I found it in The Forward Book of Poetry (1994), but it's from Moving the Stereo.

🧵 Lovely poetry folks: it's time for me to step gingerly onto the merry-go-round of self promotion and announce that my debut pamphlet Soi-même is available now for pre-order from the wonderful @salopress.bsky.social Thank you so much to Salo for taking this on ❤️❤️ salopress.com/store/soi-meme/

Looking forward to getting stuck into this. Huge thanks for giving me a space to fangirl about Charlotte Brontë...

Writers, please help me spread the word about my 30/30/£30 Marjorie’s Table in April: 30 half-hour workshops for £30, live 7:30am weekdays (with recordings posted by 9am) & by email on weekends. Workshop = a warm up, a read of poems, craft notes + 3 prompts. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/marjories-...

Job here for a Creative Writer to respond to Everything is Connected, an exhibition of artworks belonging to the Methodist Modern Art Collection during Bradford 2025 City of Culture. Deadline 31/3 Details in link. Please share :) online.updf.com/pdf/share?sh...

New issue of The Marrow is out (don’t think they’re on here). Excellent pieces from poetry friends @rcurzon.bsky.social, @sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social and @janezwart.bsky.social

RISE UP! With Antony Dunn, Lisa Coates and Nathan Walker 🎉 26/02, nowhere better to be on a Wednesday in February (or any other Wednesday)

The 4th instalment of my project documenting everything I buy on the reduced counter for a year. This week, a philosophical paradox.

Sharing details of a 2025 scholarship specific to the MA in Creative Writing! This is one of several (!!!!!) currently available for postgraduate applicants. If you would like to chat to me about the poetry pathways, please get in touch! www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...

I'm celebrating my 50th article since March if anyone would like to read it :-) burnj.substack.com/p/the-univer...

So, earreadthis.bsky.social is here now, for those of you who like your poetry crit. well done and ... er ... highly seasoned. (Oh, hush. I'll workshop this later.)

One of favourite childhood books. Or possibly just one of my favourite books. Thank you, JF.

OBS / Balliol College research associate position! We invite early career / grad scholars to apply to our new 2-week research associate position at Balliol College, Oxford. Any interesting projects that will benefit from 2 weeks at Balliol -- £500, accommodation and meals. Deadline 28 February

Over 160 calls for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, non-fiction, art, photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in January 2025. Best of luck & pls share! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

We could do with a Bluesky boost. Please have a gander through our timeline and idly like or repost or content, if inclined. Merci!

Last dates for Christmas delivery: UK delivery addresses: order by Tuesday 17 December (books will be posted on or before Wednesday 18 December) Sheffield delivery addresses: order by Sunday 22 December (books will be delivered on or before Tuesday 24 December)

Really excited about this book. I might spontaneously combust during the reading.

thank you so much @chrissywilliams.bsky.social 🪷

Had my eye on this workshop with the brilliant Sarah Doyle, but have just discovered Irritating Other Arrangements on the same day. One of you should definitely go, though - it'll be great.

I'm still thinking about this poem a week later, so thought I'd put it here for easier finding...

Singy stuff for Advent - usual darkness to light affair, only for some reason nobody remembered the candles this year. Palestrina's Matin Responsory has never sounded so ... eclectic.

I’ve started a substack called CLARE’S POETRY CIRCLE. It’s free to read and subscribe. Today we’ve begun a readalong of Keats’ LAMIA 🐍🐍🐍 Do read part one and join the conversation! clarespoetrycircle.substack.com/p/reading-la...

Currently updating my quarterly spreadsheet of poetry journals and their submissions windows, to be sent out later in the week. If you're a poet looking to submit work, and are not already on my list, sign up here - tinyurl.com/robinsubslist

Sharing my poem ‘Extinction Event’ from issue 3 of @andotherpoems.bsky.social as I’ve just found out it’s been nominated for a Pushcart Prize! Thanks Tom and Laurie! ❤️ #poetry #poetsonbluesky

Seconded. Lovely atmosphere, some excellent words, and an amusingly errant mic stand. Thanks, all. 🎤

Big thanks to Anthropocene, who have given my sad&angry a home this morning. Featuring bins. www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/2-poems...

'From stalled careers to broken marriages, the work that parenting a child with extra needs piles onto mothers is unpicking their lives.' - @hannahfearn.bsky.social inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

my guest episode of Poetry Please will be airing over on BBC Radio 4 in a week's time! - 3rd of December at 4pm - do join in to hear my picks (spoiler: i went for an overwhelming sense of sadness) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Jolie-laide

Reckon this deserves to go round again...

I've started compiling starter packs of UK Poets. I've just finished the first one... alphabetically listed from A to J (1st names)... will start another list from there on. go.bsky.app/DgHRkcK

Make January Great Again.