Rest in peace, Richard Meier ❤️ | via spring Poetry London

It’s always the brightest day when a new track arrives from @alabasterdeplume.bsky.social 🙏 open.spotify.com/track/4DSGJI...

Don’t you dare get any podcast ideas…

I’m Not In Love: still immeasurably satisfying thru headphones 😎

This, a thousand times this … bravo @jonathanliew.bsky.social and @todayinfocus.bsky.social 🙏 youtu.be/CfjYlNuA5Yw

“It is 3:30 in the afternoon of my life. Things aren’t black and white anymore…” 🔥

“Landing back in London brought weeks of disorientation, laced with gratitude, sleeplessness, isolation, and a sense of urgency to love more fully – without entirely knowing how to execute such an ambitious dream.” Sanah Ashan

One for the weather, via @parisreview.bsky.social 🙏

Beautiful, sad and sweet, by @chenchenwrites.bsky.social in @yalereview.bsky.social 🫐 yalereview.org/article/chen...

Meanwhile…

“This is not a time for fence-sitters.” Extraordinary account from the heart of Minneapolis | @rachelleingang.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I’ve just read about OpenClaw. Now I feel unusual.

Many thanks to Teresa (& Thalamus magazine) for interviewing me & translating 4 of my old poems into Spanish! ❤️❤️ www.thalamusmagazine.com/2026/01/27/j...

How’s your poet voice? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/a...

I distrust classical crossover.

Archaic Torso of Apollo… www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

From poet Jane Clark Scharl: www.plough.com/en/topics/li...

“Whatever happens goes on behind words.” Fine work by @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social in the winter Poetry Review 😎

The modern condition.

“You’re always up against it, as an air guitar player.” Bill Nighy

This #SharingSaturday, we'd love to see your favourite poems for the month of January in the comments. We'll start first, with one we like from Alex Dimitrov.

There is a bathroom decorator in Aberdeen called Bonnie Tiler.

Good to see England have got over the Ashes 🤭

I find Robert Smith’s all-caps mode curiously reassuring 🤷‍♂️

A reminder that persecution of journalists is real and raw | by @tessairini.bsky.social 👍 www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Poems on the Underground in the Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sun’s getting higher ☀️ x

As mentioned 🎧 x www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Think it was a pod episode by @ladymissbarton.bsky.social that introduced me to Virginia Astley, it’s lovely, and it’s just popped back in my head. Thought I’d share a bit x youtu.be/DFfo49r5-KY

Feeling very Everlong.

The curry, the risotto, reheated, is better.

Thrilled to share my poem “Changing Table” which is out in this week The New Yorker (Jan 19, 2026). It’s the first poem I’ve sent out in a while. Grateful to Kevin Young and @newyorker.com for publishing it! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Slightly diminish a band. Radionose

two of our very best; Rachael Allen interviews Alice Oswald for Paris Review 💖 www.theparisreview.org/interviews/8...

I have invented the Poetry Peace Prize and given it to myself.

I get Geese.

“Knowing within myself the manner in which this Poem has been produced, it is not without a feeling of regret that I make it public.” John Keats

They won’t wait till May.

So it begins… www.theguardian.com/sport/ng-int...

Split Enz are reuniting again, and middle-aged antipodeans everywhere are giddy with yet more nostalgia (😬) … here’s somefing wot I rote a life ago. www.theguardian.com/music/2011/n...

Love this 😎

Starting to ref Emily D like bible bits … “The reading today is Dickinson 254:1-4”, etc 🐦‍⬛

Bryan Ferry is 80 today 😵‍💫

I’m running to be elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors! Voting closes 22 October! 🗳️ 📖

R. S. Thomas, from “Lore.”

Thanks to the Best American Poetry blog for reprinting my poem 'Self-Portrait as Psychology' as their Pick of the Week! (It originally appeared in the NYRB.) Thanks also to the wonderful artist Soheila Sokhanvari, whose paintings initially inspired it. blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_ame...

James Tomlinson spends most his spare time birding & 'sometimes gets wow moments.' This was one of them at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve - Kingfishers relocating back for winter.

Those who know me know of my love for the art of Brett Whiteley. This is a good pod 🎨 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Kaveh Akbar though 🔥