Post a banger that isn’t in English… youtu.be/OanOkaXRvoM?...

All the hype surrounding the forthcoming Wuthering Heights film leaving you cold? Dive into @poetclare.bsky.social’s brilliant series of prose poems about Emily Brontë in ‘Lives of the Female Poets’ instead! @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 😍

This is pretty menacing. Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students." When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.

PUBLISHED TODAY: @acropolisjournal.bsky.social first project 'Time as Falling Atoms', in which I have three poems and a hybrid poetry/art piece. I need to thank @louisemather.bsky.social for taking such gentle care with my work and being so supportive in the process <3

The sky, briefly, breathes blue. The gulls who fly at dawn from Gloucester to Cheltenham sweep over, so eagerly that I can barely catch them. The local pigeons, low & loud, take off... And each view is crossed by the wires which join us all! A very good morning!

Tomorrow we release the final episode of Backlisted for the foreseeable future.* After ten years, it's a very odd feeling. I am looking forward to spending more time with my books and fewer times on social media. * Boats against the current, we beat on via Patreon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQK...

‘As autumn furled the summer’s blistered sails, fine glass of holy gold, the bottled song of nightingales.’ James McConachie, from ‘Consolamentum’. @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu...

🟨 Print Edition — Drowning in Denial As Nigel Farage’s party scraps climate schemes around the country, Nafeez Ahmed reports on new data that shows flood risk surging across the 10 councils it leads 🔗 https://subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/82/drowning-in-denial/

Next Friday! #fragmentsfriday #poetry #poetic #micropoem #prompts #writingprompts

‘The toad winked an eye into the side of his head, unrolled his tongue and snatchgulped slippery the lozenge of a slug.’ 🐸 @racheldeering.bsky.social from ‘In the Shadow of Gods’. www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering

Great to see a steady flow of poems finding their way to our submissions inbox. You've til midnight Sunday night if you've something you'd like us to look at...

Zoom open mic this Wednesday evening! Bring your poems! blackboughpoetry.com/so/90PmJC8IP...

It's a corker of an issue, and a great poem Matt 👏👏 I have taken out a year's subscription on the back of this...🥰

This fucking clown observer.co.uk/news/politic...

“The era of hiding behind servers is over” Bring it on!

On this hill…

Submissions are OPEN until midnight UK time on Sunday 8th February. atriumpoetry.com/submission-g...

Another nail in the coffin of Sadiq’s woke hellscape. Beavers have created no-go areas (“dams”) in Ealing where they are “happily going about their business” (eating sticks that could be used for defending the kiddies).

Joe Strummer voice: "Oh, oh, beavers of Croydon."

I wish I could go to this. Mark’s done an amazing thing with Iamb over the last six years, and the line up for tonight looks ace. Have a ball folks.

‘song bubbling out like smoke from the rim of a long-cool chimney.’ 🎶 Matt Gilbert’s ‘Goldfinched’ from his collection ‘Street Sailing’ @richlyevocative.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/matt-gilbert

Reading a book on structure in poetry. I just laughed out loud at the fact that in English we commonly rhyme ‘breath’ and ‘death’ whereas in French it’s often ‘l’amour’ and ‘la mort’. Of course that’s what we respectively do 🤣

New Substack up, featuring @stuhennigan.bsky.social @ortacpress.bsky.social @galleybeggars.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social @davidcollard.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @renardpress.com Laurel and Hardy, Some Like it Hot. And me. open.substack.com/pub/drewgumm...

Some opposed our work to put nature at the heart of London. I sincerely hope that David Attenborough’s ‘Wild London’ has changed their minds. We aren’t reintroducing beavers and white storks simply because a thriving natural world is better for humans, though it is.

www.talkingwalking.net Me talking poetry, urban woods and blogging about place on Talking Walking

This product of freelance downtime is why I need to get some work… Thanks to Dave Tokley for help with visuals (more aye aye, than AI).

Hadn’t realised Braverman had a heart or soul

Not one but TWO Featured Publications here currently. Here's one...

They never tell you these are the sort of risks that come with privatisation, wrestling with bloody ancient-god-tentacles when you want a bloody cup of tea.

My Face is Not a Pair of Scissors – Paul Stephenson atriumpoetry.com/2026/01/23/m...

The National Poetry Library is a joyous place (with lovely people working there). It is an oasis of calm on the Southbank. It contains copies of my book (and some others, I think)...

Zero self-awareness with these guys

Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.

thewombwellrainbow.com/2023/05/11/w... I try to avoid explaining individual poems & leave meaning to the reader, but if you’re interested in a more general overview of my approach to poetry, this interview with @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social is a great place to start

Hello, hello..what's this? Oh, this...it's an ace line up of poets reading at The Devereux on 2nd March. Yeah, good isn't it? Christopher Reid, George Szirtes, Jemma Borg, Katharine Towers, @roguestrands.bsky.social and me.. See you there.

Deeply disturbing findings. UK needs to commit to ecosystem restoration and food system change for our survival

Some #promptcombo chats today about rhyme move me to repost this thread👇 I haven’t used rhyme much in my verse for quite a few years now, save when the writing seems to ‘suggest’ it. Neither a cheerleader for nor foe of rhymed form, I’ve nevertheless learned a bit about the opportunities & pitfalls

Delighted to have my poem ‘When the Fieldfares’ among great company in Rialto 103. It’s a really good issue (yes, obviously I’m biased but it really is)

Issue 2 of new(ish) zine Urban scrawl is out now - including two poems by me. Great to be a part of it. www.urbanscrawlmag.co.uk/edition-2

On getting over ourselves open.substack.com/pub/sharonbl... "What would happen if we began each day with the realisation that it’s entirely possible that we don’t actually know anything that really matters?"

Is waging civil war more urgent or “protecting the arctic”? Confused

I was struck, seeing this on the tube, by the contemporary resonance of Auden"s Epitaph on a Tyrant in this phase of the global projection of Trump’s sociopathic narcissism

The Book Bag returns Sunday 8am featuring @secretsoliloquies.bsky.social pamphlet Songs from Last Imaginations. Plus news, recap and playlist 🤩

New podcast episode with five fabulous poets, recorded for our November 2025 Poetry Spotlight event. @julwe1.bsky.social @lesleysharpe.bsky.social @zoebrooks.bsky.social @annasaund.bsky.social #poetry @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social #poetry www.mklitfest.org/podcasts

It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...