Poem "Specular Glass" by Damon Hubbs “It’s night / The planets spin in reverse / I made marinara / and sent a postcard to an ex / She used to be a debutante now she’s avant- garde” www.bloodhoneylit.com/damon-hubbs-...

A slide on a slippery surface without a fall is a fine thing. internationaltimes.it www.internationaltimes.it/archive/inde...

Great to get a swing in here. My thanks to Scott ~ thetwinbill.com

A short piece about Manchester and poetry for @robmclennan.bsky.social and periodicities. The pictures, courtesy of David Gaffney, are from the above/ground press readings last week with me, @ggaffa.bsky.social and @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social at Saul Hay Gallery. bsky.app/profile/robm...

Prompted by artist and photographer Nick Dormand's wonderful photo at Sidmouth yesterday ~ gravyfromthegazebo.blog/2026/03/04/b...

What. The. Fuck.

Prompted by artist and photographer Nick Dormand's wonderful photo at Sidmouth yesterday ~ gravyfromthegazebo.blog/2026/03/04/b...

Tonight's Worm Moon ~ phone camera when rising; zoom lens camera a little later

My review today ~ somediurnalauralawe.blogspot.com/2026/03/kurt...

Andrew Taylor's latest from @leafepress.bsky.social, rather than documenting, these poems convey as we truly see/observe: peripheral, fully felt, askance, fleeting, intense focus; HS perhaps hints at process - both these poems exemplfy flow and disruption, and a recurring lyricism...

Yes and a hedgehog has a soft tummy internationaltimes.it www.internationaltimes.it/archive/inde...

dusk dissolved in the flicker of a flame . candle snuffed out in the shadow of the hill

Nick Drake - released on this day in 1972

[since feeling is first] by e.e. cummings open.substack.com/pub/onlypoem...

With my thanks to Nick and Rupert for posting - from a sequence of found poems...

Most pleased to be a part of Stride's 'The Travel Edition' collection - the first two of my four poems: stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

My 2nd poetry collection, published in 2016 by Andy Brown at his Maquette Press. 18 yrs after my 1st, this is another important catalyst for my writing, always appreciated. Here , my sonnet phase (!), and now reminded - not that it's needed - of the personally profound in 'Two-Step'...

Observations and Obsessions internationaltimes.it/observations... Rupert Loydell

Ladybirds rest at night internationaltimes.it www.internationaltimes.it/archive/inde...

Steve Spence's latest collection, from Aquifer Books: collaged poems of threaded or seemingly randomised narratives, intensely detailed and energised by their movement/s. Don't miss the cameos, like a ref to poet Kenny Knight - these two sharing in fanciful poetic flights

A poem sequence by John Mingay, first in a new thematic collection from Stride: stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

Pleased to say I have 2 new poems and a review of 3 books by Tim Allen in TEARS IN THE FENCE no. 83. @tearsinthefence.bsky.social I write about them here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/02/one-...

On this day in 1930, a Guernsey cow, Elm Farm Ollie, became the first cow to fly in an airplane, traveling from Bismarck, Missouri, to the International Aircraft Exposition in St. Louis. During the flight, she was milked, and the milk was sealed in paper cartons and parachuted to spectators below.

Shrove Tuesday

1st March 2026.

Great to be here: www.bloodhoneylit.com/rules-of-ver...

"Rules of Verse: Poetry Inspired by The Velvet Underground" Special Poetry Issue NOW LIVE!!! Thanks to our contributors & B+H poetry editors @damon_hubbs & @seangmeggeson for all their magic! Included a couple "adjacent" works that found their way to us. www.bloodhoneylit.com/rules-of-ver...

From our 'Rules of Verse' special issue, "Sunday Clown, Monday Bees" by hiromi suzuki “A deep sigh blew away the raindrops / Made the light sway into the darkness…” www.bloodhoneylit.com/rules-of-ver...

Delighted to be a part of this project: such a wonderful array of responses

Thank you so much for sharing this appreciation, Ian. I greatly value your thoughts and feelings, and I'm also pleased to have engaged your empathy/emotions across the range involved in teaching - as you obviously personally know as well.

Moon Light in a Dark Room Ignites the imagination.... internationaltimes.it www.internationaltimes.it/archive/inde...

Conversation Piece internationaltimes.it/conversation... Rupert Loydell

Now available: @ianseedauthor.bsky.social’s Forgetfulness, from Shearsman Books. In its tragicomic navigation of different forms of loss, Forgetfulness moves from the allegorical to the abstract lyric, through to the surreal-absurd, & finally to a series of splintered memories….

Astute political assessment put calmly, satirically, powerfully: Unitarians thinking it over open.substack.com/pub/garrison...

A fascinating collection of its time (both poems and reviews of poetry) with a couple of salacious examples from Knute Skinner! www.huarchive.co/items/show/149

On this day in 1942, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra were awarded the first-ever gold record for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo"

The latest Red Ceilings Press chapbook, these taut, palpable poems evoke such depths from the 'nothingness' of the moor through wonderful sounds and magic/mystery; a landscape levitating in this language

Two recent arrivals, and looking forward to reading...

Reminds me of teaching a U A Fanthorpe poetry collection at A Level, including her poem 'Patience Strong' which moves to qualify its disdain...

This is my first collection of poems, published by Stride (Rupert Loydell) in 1998. The poem 'Gazebo' is to this day one of my fondest to have written. Rupert continues to support my writing and I am forever grateful.

'Like the inhabitants of Twin Peaks, Cohen seems to allude to secret knowledge and dark deeds, yet hide these within love songs and hymn-like paeans to the great unknown.'

When the Mass rock invocation goes wrong: "Isn't he actually, y'know, the Goat of Mendes himself?" "Er, that would be an ecumenical matter."