Happy #WorldBookDay 🎈 Thrilled that my new poem #TheHub found a home today in #TheDirigibleBalloon #kidspoetry bank, a webzine, that inspires so much joy, creativity & elevates our #poetrycommunity. Warmest thanks to EIC @northernjim.bsky.social 🙏🏼 Here is THE HUB & am resharing CLASS ASSEMBLY. 💛

For #WorldBookDay I'd like to #highlyrecommend #APromiseofPoems by the wonderfully talented @fhalliday.bsky.social & illustrator Liz Stirk. This is a MAGICAL book, brimming with #educational poems, satisfying rhymes & beautiful illustrations, & it would make an #excellent #gift for younger readers.👇🏼

For #WorldBookDay I'd like to #HighlyRecommend 'Small Poems for Big Imaginations' by #NealZetter a book full of intelligent rhymes that would make anyone smile. #mustread

For #WorldBookDay I'd like to #highlyrecommend #APromiseofPoems by the wonderfully talented @fhalliday.bsky.social & illustrator Liz Stirk. This is a MAGICAL book, brimming with #educational poems, satisfying rhymes & beautiful illustrations, & it would make an #excellent #gift for younger readers.👇🏼

From the latest issue of Flare (#29), which is packed with excellent poems, this beautiful tribute by Tom Conaty: #poetry #TomConaty #Flare

🎵Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void, it is shining, it is shining.🎵 #TomorrowNeverKnows #TheBeatles #Revolver #PsychedelicRock #UnusualLyrics #Sixties 05/08/1966 youtu.be/m4BuziKGMy4?...

🐮 These calves were born on dairy farms. Within days, they’re separated from their mothers and raised for veal. Dairy isn’t separate from meat — it fuels it. Choose plants instead. #dairytruth

An interesting read. 🎶 #CorinneBaileyRae

#Chasms originates from the Greek word 'khasma' meaning yawning hollow/gulf. It is also, a profound #divide, #rift or impassable #rupture in the #earth between entities, peoples, #feelings, or ideas. While writing Chasms, I felt hopeful in bridging all the internal #intersections I was considering.

Just a quick where we're up to with things!

Save the Children Demands Immediate Protection for All Children as Violence Escalates Across the #MiddleEast and the Wider Region. Read more. ⤵️ https://bit.ly/3OTkHjb

Huge thanks to @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social and the wonderful editor Leiab Bellez for including my poem Eulogy For The Dying So many wonderful pieces in this issue - one of the best literary journals ​https://www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-1-2026 #poetry #poetrycommunity #fullhouseliterary

I'd like to #lifttothesky @mike-everley.bsky.social for his beautiful poem #Swallows . @thebrokenspine.co.uk Thank you.

#LiftToTheSky #PoetryCommunity #PoetsSupportingPoets

UNICEF statement on the impact of the military escalation on children in the Middle East: www.unicef.org/press-releas...

@carmellapoetry.bsky.social reminded me that it’s Chopin’s birthday Here’s his glorious Barcarolle, based on Venetian boatmen’s songs. Suggestive of his own playing, often likened by contemporaries to limpid flows of water, & of Venice, beautiful setting for his doomed relationship with George Sand

Happy birthday Chopin! 🎈 (Tamás Vásáry) #Chopin youtu.be/Df_aBFz-b14?...

Hedgerow of Voices by the prolific Paul Brookes arrived this afternoon and I can't wait to read it this week. @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social #SpringBookHaul #SpringReading #HedgerowofVoices #PaulBrookes #NewBooks

‘The Mirror Image of Death’, the new collection by Yucheng Tao is now available! Preview 2 selections- alienbuddhapress.wordpress.com/2026/02/21/spotlight-the-mirror-image-of-death-by-yucheng-tao/ Paperback- amazon.com/dp/B0GHNFHCB1

Hedgerow of Voices by the prolific Paul Brookes arrived this afternoon and I can't wait to read it this week. @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social #SpringBookHaul #SpringReading #HedgerowofVoices #PaulBrookes #NewBooks

Mædwe is officially out in the world! With thanks to Andrew and Sophie @salopress.bsky.social, to my lovely endorsers Sophia Argyris and Tom Branfoot, and also to the journals who first published some of the poems (see acknowledgements photo!) www.salopress.com/store/mdwe-c...

Spring Morning. A poem of mine, published in the excellent Scintilla Journal #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #booksky

Feature on the Dirigible Balloon: Pandora and the Story Forge written by Gaynor Andrews illustrated by Marie-Alice Harel published by Rocket Bird Books dirigibleballoon.org/poem/Pandora...

www.samszanto.com/blog For those who don't know me very well, I'm Sam, a writer and PhD researcher. When I'm not doing those things, I have a blog helping indie writers promote their latest books, because as the author of 3 of them I know how hard that is! If you have one to promote, get in touch.

An absolutely tremendous evening of #LastSaturday #poetry with Alan Humm, @moiragauthor.bsky.social @samszanto.bsky.social @corinnaboard.bsky.social @missyerem.bsky.social @carmellapoetry.bsky.social beautiful, powerful, moving, magical. I promised you heart-stirring and it truly was. Thank you!

Only a few hours until I am joined by this heart-stirring half-dozen poets #LastSaturday #poetrycommunity #poetry #poetrylovers It's online, free and starts at 7.00pm (UK). Join us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/last-satur...

#Chasms originates from the Greek word 'khasma' meaning yawning hollow/gulf. It is also, a profound #divide, #rift or impassable #rupture in the #earth between entities, peoples, #feelings, or ideas. While writing Chasms, I felt hopeful in bridging all the internal #intersections I was considering.

What a delight to receive these two poetry pamphlets this morning from my dear friend @carmellapoetry.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏

Join me and get six of the best - poets that is! Free, on Zoom, 7.00pm Saturday 28 Feb #LastSaturday #poetry www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/last-satur...

It was a mellow, magical vibe at #HarlowStanza this evening. We met some wonderful new poets and discussed the theme of #Frozen including reading some classic poems by- Muriel Ciolkowska, David Galler & Anna Akhmatova. Thanks as always to the poets for their interpretations and their readings!

‘My Black Heart’, the new chapbook by Darek Thomas is now available! Preview 5 selections- alienbuddhapress.wordpress.com/2026/02/27/spotlight-my-black-heart-by-darek-thomas/ Paperback- amazon.com/My-Black-Heart-Darek-Thomas/dp/B0GK7H5R87/

PJ Yukon Poet In honour of Dwight Mario Wallace Shared from X.

It was a mellow, magical vibe at #HarlowStanza this evening. We met some wonderful new poets and discussed the theme of #Frozen including reading some classic poems by- Muriel Ciolkowska, David Galler & Anna Akhmatova. Thanks as always to the poets for their interpretations and their readings!

People have been very kind today. About my thoughts on poetry. And about my own verse. Thank you 🙏. I leave you with one of the masterpieces of Renaissance music, the great Thomas Tallis’s Spem in alium. Goodnight everyone

Soon! 😍 #Apromiseofpoems #poetryforchildren #FionaHalliday

For one week, the eBook version of my collection This Joyful Interlude is only 99p / 99¢ Here’s a poem from the book, ‘Below the Buddleias’ Book links UK amazon.co.uk/dp/1068432330 US amazon.com/dp/1068432330 CA amazon.ca/dp/1068432330 DE amazon.de/dp/1068432330 #poem #poems #poetry #books 1/2

A poem I wrote in July of 2024 that was published in Lothlorien Poetry Journal in September of 2025: #poetry

My new book it out today! Very exciting! @bloomsburyed.bsky.social #BookSky #KidLitUK

#mustread #PeterDevonald #TheSpectator #NewPoetry

All the news on what's in Issue 7, out on Friday, here: themadridreview.com/f/issue-7-is... #litmag #writing #madrid #writers #readers #art #interviews #poetry #flashfiction

Hey schools! Hey teachers! Look what's coming up. March 2 Stories and pictures for your classes: events.bl.uk/events/globa...

🔆 CARPET WALKING 🔆 dirigibleballoon.org/poem/Carpet-... #PoetryForChildren #KidsPoetry #Freedom #Imagination #Surreal #Poetry

Watch this, it will make you smile! #MichaelRosen #Shorts #UnusualStories youtu.be/IOrDbrKqHq4?...

So grateful for these kind notes from the extremely talented writer and founder Peter Thabit Jones about my books. Makes the hard work worthwhile. Thank you. 🙏🏼 #Chasms #TheLiminalLightoftheNight #AlienBuddhaPress #HedgehogPoetryPress

‘Shark Life: prose poems’ by Sheldon Lee Compton is now available!!! Preview 5 selections- alienbuddhapress.wordpress.com/2026/02/24/spotlight-shark-life-by-sheldon-lee-compton/ Paperback- amazon.com/dp/B0GHN5GSNK

Julie Stevens #mustread #ForestGirl #poetrycommunity

Paul Connolly #TheBookBag #mustread #poetrycommunity

Paul, thank you for the shoutout - grateful and really proud to be mentioned in #thebookbag, a unique and empathetically written poetic space. 🩶

We’re 117 years old today! The Poetry Society has been championing poets and poetry since 1909. If you want to help us continue our mission to promote the reading and writing of poetry, consider joining us as a member, or donating to us. We’d be delighted to have you. poetrysociety.org.uk