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Starting with Fishcakes 🐠 🍰 #schooldinner

Two years since Poet Seabird Island was released by boats against the current, that went by fast. As it's NaPoWRiMo month ahhh the cruellest, may post a few taster poems from the chapbook here

***LOOK WHO IS BACK*** several thousand Puffins have landed back on the Isle of May this morning! It’s good to have them back

We open for subs on June 3. Send these kids some lovely words to read!

lot of blossom about today...

Some see them as weeds, some see them as medicine, and for bees, dandelions are often the first food of spring. In spiritual terms, they represent the sun, moon and stars. This original artwork of dandelion clocks is available - please see the link in my bio. #OriginalArt #Wildflowers #OOAK

These weebly, wobbly pear, decorative dishes are handmade and hand painted and uniquely made by me. Every one is slightly different so you know they aren't mass produced. Gift a little 3D art today. earthandsandbyanna.etsy.com/listing/1228... #pears #fruitart #3Dart #artshop #UKGiftAm #shopindie

Please join me and fellow Hoglets from @hedgehogpress.co.uk next Saturday 28 March online at 7.00pm as we launch our poems into the atmosphere! Support your fellow poets! It's free! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-prickle-...

Submissions are open! We look forward to reading your work. Head to the link below for information about guidelines and to submit your work for Issue 5! www.the4facedliar.com

"I know that as a poet I’m meant to be ‘selling’ myself. As I was told by a young poet who is very successful, publishing is an industry. But I don’t work for the industry; I work for the community"

Its out and available internationally from Amazon! Thank you so much to all the sensational poets who chose to submit to this. Our favourite theme so far😍 www.amazon.co.uk/Poems-Protes...

Delighted to have two poems - Rain Will Fall & Protest Song - in this important book released today Huge thanks to Charlotte and Rough Diamond Poetry So many great writers including @carmellapoetry.bsky.social and @lenaozge.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GSQ27TV... #PoemsForProtest

Ideal bunny! Hope your day is going well. Looks like he might be about to consult a pocket watch... Xx

Seán Hewitt guides readers through John Burnside’s landmark works, in poetry & prose /end www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

We were asked for a coffee/consult with Arts Council England about our publishing academy which they love but we have just been rejected for a ACE funding application for the same academy 🤪 FOTW has never been funded so do check the fabulous stuff we do www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/publishingac...

Happy publication day to our fantastic co-editor @catherineredford.bsky.social 🥳 Get your copy of her beautiful new book here: theemmapress.com/shop/poetry/...

I know you'll tell me if I'm boring you today, so apologies for that, but hey! I wrote a book, and it's out today!

One year ago, Mahmoud Khalil was taken by ICE. He is now out. Around the same time, Leqaa Kordia was taken and is still in ICE detention. Her apparent crime is using America's First Amendment rights to protest for peace. She is the last Columbia student still in detention, and Khalil wrote to her

Now uploading our #SpringFlight of excellent poetry for children written by a range of known and unknown poets from around the world ... #NationalYearOfReading #CheckUsOut >>> dirigibleballoon.org #PoetryForChildren #DirigibleBalloon @kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social

Flying again in the beautiful Dirigible Balloon! EIC @northernjim.bsky.social Submissions still open! How fabulous to have such an incredible bank of poetry for kids that’s free! Check it out dirigibleballoon.org #poetry #poetryforkids #NationalYearOfReading #teachingresources

It’s #WorldHearingDay to raise awareness about hearing health and accessibility. Here’s my #SciArt #embroidery of the cochlea/inner ear—nave of vibration (2017)—which I did while researching my symptoms of hyperacusis.

Call for Submissions – Magma 96: The Antarctic Closing date: 31st March, 2026 Editors @cherylmoskowitz.bsky.social, @branwellroberts.bsky.social & Elizabeth Lewis Williams look forward to receiving your poems! More info & to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...

Lovely to have a poem in this beautiful issue @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social thank you so much 💙

Send us your flash fiction under 1000 words with your name removed from the document and all your loves and fears pressed inside! We're reading until 3/15 or we reach our cap.

Simultaneously vibrant and delicate, rooted in tender noticing and natural world empathy, brimming with gorgeous language... I have adored Corinna Board's new pamphlet 'Mædwe'. A must-read, warmly recommended. 💚🌾💛 Follow Corinna for details of her Zoom launch on Tuesday: @corinnaboard.bsky.social

Poets, why not join me for a online poetry workshop on March 21st? I'll offer creative prompts in a relaxed atmosphere, and they'll be time to share your work. Hope the attached booking details look of interest. 🌿

Absolutely delighted to be a finalist for Small Press of the year 2026! @thebookseller.com #nibbies Our 2025 in a snapshot... 1. Strengthened frontlist performance, working with authors we have developed over the years on their second novels, and developed new relationships with agents. 8 books

Exactly one month until ‘The Way the Water Held Me’ is published! If you haven’t already, you can preorder your copy via the link in my bio ✨ My husband marked the one-month countdown until publication day by giving me this gorgeous little brooch featuring the front cover. Isn’t it lovely?

Poetry post from Gutter, Stand & @rough-diamond1.bsky.social , poetry post being the best sort of post 📯

Wow.

If you've already got a copy of The Cat Poetry Book please review and rate on Amazon it would really help us 🙏

Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold

Please send us your artwork! We'd especially love to see surreal and abstract paintings, melancholic photography and any strange hybrid creations! acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

The art advice i will always die on, is to never compare your art journey with others, and lower the perfectionism of "how it should look". Experiment, make "scuffed" backgrounds or character concepts, make uneven lines, keep it in a messy sketch phase, use references, play with shapes, etc.

I like this poem of loss and detail by Jennifer Wong from her @ninearchespress.bsky.social collection Light Year. ‘A life so loved and rented…’

The Cat Poetry Book is now available on Amazon! www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=the+cat+... Meow!

Despite the fact that he had been thinking he was feeling about as low as he possibly could, he experienced a terrible sinking feeling.

Just look at this beautiful cover! 😻

My friends at Poetry at Leeds University have opened the Brotherton Prize up for submissions; it's open to anyone in the world over the age of 18 who hasn't yet published a full collection of poems. Full deets &c here: poetry.leeds.ac.uk/brotherton-p...

“Poetry is a testament to the failure of wolves.” An anonymous Midwest poet writes a letter to his daughter about the murder of a poet.

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From x5 yrs ago this month tinyurl.com/4mxb2zps New pieces coming up very soon in Gutter & Stand... 🌱

A small film of spring flowers from my garden because we recover from stress 60% more quickly when we look at plants & if we find them beautiful our brains release dopamine, lifting mood. Pause for a few moments to help your synaptic soup 🌿🧠:

Our latest issue dropped last Sunday. If you've not had a chance to look at it yet, you can find it here! www.frazzledlit.com/p/issue-4-ha... Our writers would love it if you looked!

✨ If architecture, history and deep time stir something in you - and you feel comforted by continuity - like here at St. Govan's - join me on my camper-van-camino, sharing moments like this in my Genius Loci Digest. ✨ Out Weekly: Free to subscribe 👉 digest.andymarshall....

“Aristotle said a bunch of stuff that was wrong. Galileo & Newton fixed things up. Then Einstein broke everything again. Now, we’ve basically got it all worked out, except for small stuff, big stuff, hot stuff, cold stuff, heavy stuff, dark stuff, turbulence & the concept of time” - Zach Winersmith