📚 It's August, which means the #SealeyChallenge is now underway! To help you on your journey to read a book every day this month, The Poetry Society has gotten in touch with poets we've recently worked with for some recommendations. Today's recommendation comes from Vasiliki Albedo, who was (...)

💭 To help inspire your entries for this year's National Poetry Competition, The Poetry Society will be releasing a series of prompts throughout the competition. Today's prompt comes from Vasiliki Albedo, who was longlisted in the 2024 National Poetry Competition and commended in the 2018 (...)

"And just as we know the dancing woman is dying in the next scene, the villain doing a good deed is dying in the next scene, and the playing kitten is only practising to kill, we both know what’s coming." #TodaysPoem #poetry by Vasiliki Albedo (@minorroarr.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/ctcj2s22

Insanity My mind blew open so wide, I couldn’t trust the sun to set Jenny Pagdin briefpoems.wordpress.com/2016/01/07/s... Image courtesy @minorroarr.bsky.social

People who change your life: Ted Schmidt taught highschool to my punk rock bandmates. When our band went on the road Ted gave us books on social justice and how to turn faith into action. He has been part of my life ever since. He is in his 80s and holds a weekly vigil on Kingston road for peace.

Apologies if the initial post was unclear; this competition is open to ALL persons who identify as female or non binary. There is an ADDITIONAL category for emerging poets over 40 who have yet to publish a pamphlet or collection. Any questions please email us 🍀 [email protected]

my dreams are becoming more pedestrian- I dreamt I was making pizza and arguing with my family 😑

Read 'The Bittersweet' by @minorroarr.bsky.social badlilies.uk/vasiliki-albedo

thank you so much @badlilies.bsky.social 🌸🌸

Meanwhile, by way of light relief, a cat poem, in today’s @badlilies.bsky.social Also a photo of ‘my tangerine Miranda’, clearly unaware she’s been such an inspiration.

"biting his lip as he reels in a fish from the cliff where we burn through afternoons and I pray nothing catches, for the chance to linger after sunset." #TodaysPoem #poetry The Bittersweet by Vasiliki Albedo (@minorroarr.bsky.social) (2025 @BadLilies.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/44zv6hd5

the three men were not shouting over each other, the two narcissist children were shouting over Zelensky and not letting him speak

"I'm aligned with the world" quote of the century

Beautiful poem by @minorroarr.bsky.social in the latest issue of @badlilies.bsky.social www.badlilies.uk/vasiliki-alb...

very honoured to have a poem in this absolutely gorgeous bouquet. Many thanks to the lovely @kathryngray.bsky.social and @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social. Congratulations on a wonderful new issue💐

Excited to return from our @badlilies.bsky.social hiatus this coming Friday at noon to a screen near you. We’ve amazing poems in store! 🌸

This little poem by Em Gray @em-words.bsky.social is my #lifttothesky with @brokenspinearts.bsky.social today ..... a poem that sits in my phone's 'notes' & has charmed me for over a year now!!!!

Grateful to be collaborating with one of my favourite poets & human beings @minorroarr.bsky.social on an exciting project from dynamic new press @dialectwriters.bsky.social Our pamphlet exploring place, language, travel & connection arrives in September✨ www.dialect.org.uk/blog/vasilik...

good morning loves 💞

going through my folders and I have so many old poems that only needed a couple of tweaks (maybe) but I left them there and never sent them out.

New issue of The Marrow is out (don’t think they’re on here). Excellent pieces from poetry friends @rcurzon.bsky.social, @sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social and @janezwart.bsky.social

I have chosen to live my life with animals, because they enjoy silence; don’t cherish their own opinions; live only in the present moment; don’t spend their days comparing themselves to others; and are generally grateful for the gift of life.

a country is not a business and should not be run like a business... this beyond all the tragedy and insanity in the news

the situation with the earthquakes between Santorini and Amorgos is like nothing we've ever seen... 3-5R every few minutes for the past three days

Bad Lilies returns, with much joy, to a screen near you next month. We’ve some beautiful poems in store for you. Follow us on @badlilies.bsky.social if you don’t already. 🌸

Hi poetry folks, We’re new on here! Do give this a like and share so we can reach as many of you poetry lovers as possible. Much love 🤠

this is so wonderful ❤️‍🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADm3...

Adam Zagajewski, tr. Clare Cavanagh

wearing the world's ugliest shoes 😂

absolutely loving @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social 's 'Blue Diagonals'- stunning writing taking me places both inner and outer with its beauty and insight- thank you 💙💫

thank you so much for this gorgeous contributor's copy Poetry Ireland! Weekend sorted- thank you @jessicatraynor.bsky.social 💫

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'But it's love that does us in. Over and over' ❤️‍🔥

waking up every day to the news of more madness and despair and inane but frightening Trumpisms 😰

‘I’m frightened but I’m here.’ First Illness, from Niall Campbell’s Forward shortlisted collection ‘Noctuary’ (Bloodaxe 2019) #Poetry @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/...

I love how the cold weather makes cats extra cuddly 🥰 Happy #Caturday

So chuffed to be one of the winners in the @poetrysociety.bsky.social winter member’s competition on the theme of ‘birds’ judged by Pascale Petit! Lovely to read all the poems, and brilliant articles by Vicky Gatehouse and Roz Goddard, amongst others. ❤️🎄 #poetsonbluesky

Merry Christmas 🐾

happy with my cats 😊

this is so wonderful ❤️‍🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADm3...

the perfect pet to match my energy levels at this point would be a turtle, or a sloth

thank you so much @chrissywilliams.bsky.social 🪷

the cats are purring to Tibetan meditation music 😹

Join me for 30 days of writing in January! Weekdays, sessions are 7:30-8am on zoom, with recorded sessions sent by email. We’ll warm up, look at a piece of work together and then write. On weekends the prompts will arrive by email. Email via my website to join!

The second poem in PERVERSE 8K is 'Threat; Occasional, Rising Quickly' by JP Seabright (@jpseabright.bsky.social). Read all five poems in this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-8k

The first poem in PERVERSE 8K is 'Self Portrait at 30: IX. Mind the gap' by HLR. Read all five poems in this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-8k

if you haven't seen this, it's definitely worth watching. How democracy and capitalism were braided together by Freud's nephew, 'public relations' expert Edward Bernays. Brilliantly edited as usual. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPm...

Issue 8K of PERVERSE features poems by HLR, JP Seabright, Nora Nadjarian, Vasiliki Albedo and L Kiew. Read all five poems from this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-8k

Been lurking and finding my feet, so thought the time was ripe for a little calling card. Here's a link to my latest book, HOW TO THINK LIKE A POET. A rethink of the canon, a chance to do some close reading. Fun for newbies and hardened poets alike x uk.bookshop.org/p/books/how-...