OUT NOW. Issue Twenty-One: Long-limbed Darlings badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-1

There is a new bunch of Bad Lilies out and two of them are mine www.badlilies.uk/jo-bratten-1. It’s a corker of an issue

Spring has finally sprung and with it spring issues of @poetrylondon.bsky.social and @magmapoetry.bsky.social – I’m lucky to have a poem in each, alongside all manner of brilliance 💛

Time to spotlight the poets of issue twenty. First up, we have four poems by Matthew Caley badlilies.uk/matthew-caley-1

This week from the archive: read Rose Apple and the Desiccated Lake by Naush Sabah, published in PN Review 259, May - June 2021. open.substack.com/pub/pnreview/p/rose-app...

Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous. I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them. 🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:

As democracy collapses around our ears I’m not advocating a retreat into illusion, in spite of what this poem might suggest. Hugely grateful to @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social for publishing the first of my Chekhov poems in their Feb/March edition thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...

Latest @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social landing on doormats – have gone straight to the crossword where I’m stuck on 29 across

Bad Lilies returns, with much joy, to a screen near you next month. We’ve some beautiful poems in store for you. Follow us on @badlilies.bsky.social if you don’t already. 🌸

You know that poetry Bluesky has found its feet when there’s beef #poetrydiscourse

I know we don’t really need rain here in the UK at the moment, but I’d still like to share this truly beautiful poem by @niallpoetry.bsky.social which I re-discovered thanks to @marjorielotfi.bsky.social’s January writing reset sessions. #poetry

Pages 36-37 of the new @rialtopoetry.bsky.social are especially pleasing - poems by Matthew Caley and @drlauravarnam.bsky.social

Am honoured (and unworthy) to follow Elizabeth Bishop in @mconley.bsky.social’s alphabetical journey through poems - really appreciative of the time he gave my little not-a-moon-poem poem 🙏

Our February / March 2025 issue is now available for pre-order! Cover image by @stephenwhatcott.bsky.social. Pre-order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/sing...

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)

Surprised to see that the punchiest and clearest piece about Trump today is in the Times, by a former Tory MP…

Joy, Issue 13 is now live✨ You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...

🔵 Submissions are OPEN for Propel 14, Edited by Susannah Dickey and launching end March 2025 🔵 If you've yet to publish a first full collection, we'd love to read your poems! >> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit

Jane Hirshfield. This poem appears in The Asking: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2024).

I read and love lots of contemporary poetry. But few poems engage me the way Victoria Spires' contribution to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social's #toptweettuesday has this week. Not since @jobratten.bsky.social's 'Sunset Over Watford' (in wave four of @iambapoet.com) has an urban poem hit me this hard.

I grew up without a TV so reading obsessively for pleasure is in my bones but in the past decade I’ve lost the ability to do it (for all the usual reasons). Thanks to 19C sensation novels I’ve spent the last weeks staying up way too late to read the next chapter, and the next, and the next…

The latest instalment of the Walshaw Moor turbines story - a sorry tale of potentially large-scale habitat destruction & C loss markavery.info/2025/01/02/g... #windfarm #carbon #miliband #peat #deeppeat #curlew #lapwing #plover #grouse #yorkshire #haworth #bronte #calderdale #walshaw #moorland #£££

Here's to all the amazing poets and poems we published over the course of 2024 and welcomed into the And Other Poems family. Three issues and 54 poets! Here's to more poems in 2025 - submissions for Issue Six are now OPEN!

Thanks to @clareshawpoet.bsky.social and @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social for wrangling & inspiring over 250 writers during this morning’s writing hour. My mood going into 2025…

Thanks to the many supportive and inspiring writers, on here and elsewhere: it has been lovely meeting so many of you at readings and events. Wishing you all a happy and productive 2025 - may all your Submittable submissions turn green 💚

Having not published a thing in 2023, it was especially gratifying to have a handful of poems published this past year. Big thanks to the editors of these journals for finding homes for these poems…

‘their orchestra of shovels tuning up on the ice’ 🧊 🎶 Find out about @markantonyowen.com’s influences in his Christmas 2024 feature. Poems, interview and review - organised by poet @elcurwen.bsky.social 👇 www.blackboughpoetry.com/mark-antony-...

My 19C doorstopper novel era continues with this absolute gem

A first post from us on BlueSky. To mark it, here is Liz Berry's terrific poem in our most recent issue:

One of several superb poems by Jenny King in new @pnreview.bsky.social

If you’ve a film/poetry lover in your life and you’re looking for a stocking filler, Hollywood or Home might be the answer! Poems ranging from Top Gun to The Godfather to Dorothy Parker to Meryl Streep. Among the Sunday Times Books of 2023, it contains tears and laughter.

A big thank you to the lovely Tom and Laurie of @andotherpoems.bsky.social for nominating my poem from Issue 4 for a Pushcart Prize! They’ve been real champions of this piece, I’m so delighted to have the experience of working with them.

Happy 416th birthday to John Milton, who would be very surprised to find his words in the mouth of a Care Bear - thanks to @propelmagazine.bsky.social for publishing my Lucifer-Care Bear mashup www.propelmagazine.co.uk/jo-bratten-w...

So many good poems in the newest London Magazine, including this by Matthew Caley @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social

‘We make this world from gravity and light’ From the late John Burnside’s Apostasy

I wrote about the physicality of the best poetry writing advice, with asides on Gertrude Stein's dog and T.S. Eliot's capacity for gin someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-25-a...

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

If I listened to the critics I’d never write a word. Keep the vision for yourself, never mind what they want. Trust your instinct. Your gut. There is no other way to write. Follow your excitements. Perhaps no one has charted this route? Lead the fashion, don’t follow fashion.

I’ve never had a Pushcart nomination before so I’m over the (still hot) moon to have this one put forward by @andotherpoems.bsky.social 🌝 andotherpoems.com/2024/08/14/d...

The older I get the more I love windy weather. A windy poem from a couple of years ago in The London Magazine.

The third poem in PERVERSE 8B is ‘Crunchwrap Supreme’ by Jo Bratten. Read all five poems from this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-8...

The incomparable Ada Limón in the December issue of Poetry magazine. While Everything Else Was Falling Apart. #poetry

Slowly replacing the other place with this place so can share here this superb poem in Poetry London by @steveeely.bsky.social

Christ this poem www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/92154/...