Today’s joy is finding out that my poetry books are in The Manchester Poetry Library. 🎉🎉🎉

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This is why my newsletter isn’t on Substack.

In the worst news, the great, the amazing, the wonderful @kudelka.bsky.social has died. A great friend, and an amazing man. This is shattering.

Of all the easy things you can do to help the environment, conserve water for communities not corporations, not perpetuate scams, support the labor and rights of creators... *not* using generative AI is the fucking easiest. You absolutely deserve to be shamed for using it for image and text creation

Everything happens all at once. My debut poetry collection, Little Griefs, is out in March...but available now for pre-order: www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page...

Listen if I had my 20s health and my 50s self-esteem, I'd be QUEEN OF THE WORLD.

“The global publishing platform Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, a Guardian investigation has found…” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

One of the Lewis Chessmen Currently on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. Found in 1831 on a beach at Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, the Chessmen dates to the late 12th or early 13th century. #History #HistoryMatters

I WROTE A BOOK OF POEMS AND IT'S AT MY HOUSE !!!!!!

Free to read, just for today: www.tom-cox.com/old-litkinov...

OKAY GANG BUCKLE UP we are PUBLISHERS MARKETPLACE OFFICIAL for WICKHILLS Thank you to @mkcurry.bsky.social and @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social and @torbooks.bsky.social for making it happen! Prepare for me to NOT SHUT UP ABOUT THIS MOTHERFUPPIN BOOK (when I am less busy)

For World Cancer Day, here is another poem. I have such a hostility in me to everything this cancer has changed or taken away and that includes making me wear gloves when I change my son; making me treat him as a problem, as something I can't handle, even for a moment, is unforgivable.

Strange Horizons stands with immigrants in the US as they experience intensified anti-immigrant operations. We have the opportunity to lend our strength as a global community. Read our full statement: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Two shelves of all my printed work. So thankful to all the great publishers and editors – their hard work and talent is why we have a poetry industry. And thank you to all the excellent writers I have been published with.

A good news story: a year old male mountain lion walking around a San Francisco neighborhood was successful tranquilized and relocated to wilderness, in part because the neighborhood helped out and had the right attitude.

Congratulations to Joan Kwon Glass for earning a Silver Medal in the 2025 IPNE Book Awards for Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms! Cheers to all the honorees, and thanks to the Independent Publishers of New England for this honor. 🌟📚🌟 @joankwonglass.bsky.social @asterismbooks.bsky.social

'How can you write poetry in the midst of terror?' A poem shared for TTT's theme of thought police, fascism and resistance. Thank you for reading. #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

Not today, or any day

I genuinely jumped in shock (almost dropped my lunch!) to see "Tuesday" on this list. And paired with Gods of Jade and Shadow? What an honor! www.nickjaywrites.com/musings/2025...

It's Sunday & you know what that means: new poem with an accompanying (free) writing prompt! This time it's a transformative poem from @clairehopple.bsky.social

For the nurses. Thank you to the sleepless guardians who keep watch on my son in the night. These past few months living with my son’s cancer have had a profound impact on me. Now, whether at the hospital or at home, at night, I think of them.

I randomly grabbed this book last night while straightening up my bedroom. When I opened it, I read and then reread and then read one more time this poem by Joy Harjo. I then sat, leaned back, and continued reading. Thank you for this book, @theferocity.bsky.social and @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social 🙏🏻

Hello, my first post! I'm the writer Richard Price, with poetry collections which include Lucky Day and Late Gifts, and the novella The Island, which will be reissued this year in April. I'm also writing a memoir of the British Library where I worked as a curator of contemporary British books.

If you’re ever in the mood/circumstances for small real art that doesn’t take up much space but packs a wallop. www.chloecumming.com

Right. #PromptCombo #subtext @victoriaspires.bsky.social. Does exactly what it says on the tin :D

Book Review. "Boater" by @jobellwriter.bsky.social This magnificent book elegantly braids together three narratives. The first is the history of the British (English, really) canal network. The subject matter isn't dry and neither is the prose. Yes, there are dates and names and Great Men in top...

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/

"Eugene Lim has been selected as the winner of the 44th Dos Passos Prize for Literature, a literary award given annually by Longwood University to a talented American writer who experiments with form, explores a range of voices and merits further recognition." www.longwood.edu/news/2026/li...

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My book, Every Galaxy a Circle, comes out tomorrow. For each like I will tell a random fact about the book. I cannot guarantee they will be interesting.

Donna Stonecipher is one of the most compelling contemporary poets writing in English.

Beyond excited to share the news that my first poetry collection, Midnight at the Saltmarsh, will be published by @thegallerypress.bsky.social in May 2026! 💫✨

A letter from Henry Reynold's lawyer. Of course an academic who wrote first (?) books about Australia's genocide/s of First Nations peoples, at a time when speaking up was even dangerous for white people's careers, is standing in solidarity with Randa. (Apologies for no ALT)

New poem, same muse. Thank you to @anthonyframe.bsky.social for making space for this one in @glasspoetry.bsky.social, a journal I have loved for so very long. You can also listen here: www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html Holding the world in my heart, as well. 💙

Right wing media says she “called herself a poet” as an insult. She was a poet. May she inspire more to be poets. We can never have enough as the world grows more evil and cold.

We were taken by the movement and emotion in these abstracts by Issue 4 featured artist @sheilasquill.bsky.social asteralesjournal.com/1-4-squillante

Day 11! Here is an essay about what keeps me working on and writing poetry. This one led to me reconsidering my relationship with publishing this new year. #essays #poetry #writing #poet widely-read.ghost.io/myself-my-po...

I'm so eager for this new series from the always brilliantly innovative @icefloepress.bsky.social. Curated by @rfredekenter.bsky.social and @vikkicwrites.bsky.social, it is an absolute honour to have work in this series, alongside an exciting list of international contributors.

🔥Announcing the lineup of 32 international contributors for @icefloepress.bsky.social's PROCESS/ MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) series — to be rolled out starting Monday, Jan 5 2026 🔥 Subscribe to Ice Floe's blog to receive each piece free via email as it drops ✨️ icefloepress.net/process-marg...

Starting the new year with wonderful poems - I love this one by @toddedillard.bsky.social in @stanchion.bsky.social!

Very kind words from my publisher at Rockwood Press and a nice reminder about my book signing on Saturday at WordHaven BookHouse in Sheboygan, Wis. www.wordhaven-bookhouse.com/new-events/s...

I will not use it at the beach I will not use it when I teach I do not want it in a church I do not want it for research I see no reason to concede I will not use it when I read Although its hype should have no end Upon it I will not depend

I do not like your AI slop I do not like it, make it stop I do not want an AI house I do not want an AI mouse No AI box. No AI fox— That AI slop can go kick rocks I would not AI here or there I would not AI anywhere No AI car, no AI czar Your AI slop is killing trees I do not like it, let me be!

I know it can be a bit cringey when people put their children on social media but I decided to change my banner and include my seven youngest in it. They've had a fucking rough year, and it was touch and go for a while back the start, and I'm proud they've made it through it.

Hot golly! The new issue of The Glacier has arrived, containing 3 of my poems, and a seriously impressive roster of poetry, prose and art. HUGE thanks to David Dodd Lee and all the lovely people who make The Glacier. theglacierjournal.com/issue-four/c...

So exciting! My winning poem (and a bio and a big picture of my very worried-looking face) is now available. Please give it a read 🥹 www.new2thescene.co.uk/blog/bad-hab...