Delighted to say that Glenn Barker @rotherwrites.bsky.social will be with us tonight in body as well as in writing! Join us poets for what will be a superb night of words for #WorldHealingDay 7.00pm live and free on Zoom www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-for...

Introducing the first group of #Wave3 poets who will take it further: @bethosmond.bsky.social @danieldugganwriter.bsky.social @vespertine4.bsky.social @dbodepudi.bsky.social @fionaswriting.bsky.social This is a serious line-up. #TheWhiskeyTree #Wave3

Here's a poem from my new collection "Hedgerow of Voices" publizhed by JCStudio Press For #PoemsAbout #SignalLoss :

After a month of more or less nothing poetic (the meme in the comments explains what happened), I have something for this week's #PoemsAbout #SignalLoss theme. Some signals are only meant to be heard by you, and they don't announce their arrival. @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoetsOnBluesky

Join us on Saturday for poems for World Healing Day - wonderful poets with beautiful poems www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-for... 7.00pm online Zoom and free!

#PromptCombo It's #NatureHasWeapons I want Nature's drama this week, wordsmiths Tag me & use my hastags. Otherwise, I won't see you! You have till Friday lunchtime to get involved. 💚🌬 @rfsmith.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @janpsolivagant.bsky.social

Major announcement: #Wave3 of #TheWhiskeyTree is complete. Built on the work of #Wave1 + #Wave2 — writers like @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social @markantonyowen.com @eatthestorms.com et al — who laid the foundations and built this project into what it is. This is the final wave. #TheWhiskeyTree #Wave3

The message cuts out. What’s left? #PoemsAbout #SignalLoss — write what survives the silence.

And the final voices shaping what #TheWhiskeyTree will be: @judemarr.bsky.social @lozzakidwriting.bsky.social @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social @paulwritespoems.bsky.social @ronanmurphymusic.com @victoriaspires.bsky.social @georgiahilton.bsky.social @rotherwrites.bsky.social @johnchmura.bsky.social

Hello Evie @coastalpoet.bsky.social. Here's one I recorded last summer. A sunny day reading for your new #poemsaloud initiative. Here is 'The Gift of Forgetfulness', which delves into the years that etch themselves into our palms, a record of who we have been and are today.

Calling all troubadours! An idea. Post your audio poems. Tag them #PoemsAloud so they're easy to find & share. That's the idea. 🥳 Why? #PoemsAloud syncs perfectly w/ #PoemsAbout or can stand on its own. Some poems live beyond the page. I recorded a bunch & don't know what else to do w/ them 🤷‍♀️

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For #poemsabout #melt I offer a poem about my nostalgia for my teenage self in French supermarkets @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Despite the rain, the chill, winter's reluctance to cede his throne, spring arrives with daffodils, birdsong, the lengthening of days. Welcoming it are the 15 poets of wave twenty-five of @iamb.uk. Expect 45 poems, written and read – fresh as the incoming season. iamb.uk/index/wave/25

Hullo @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and to the 18 words of #fragmentsfriday #poetry

For this week's #PoemsAbout #Consent @thebrokenspine.co.uk ... Look forward to reading others later.

Recalling 'Duck and Cover (1951)' and MADness. Light up my nightmares only please. Welcome to #FragmentsFriday 🔥 @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social #PoetsOnBluesky

For #fragmentsfriday ‘Instant Overwhelm’. #micropoetry #poetry #poetic #poet #writing #shortpoem

I am very proud to have a poem in this. There are some mightily talented poets in it. Thank you @paulwritespoems.bsky.social

"Who to dial, what to ask for? How to mend my fists and weather?" 'Again, Ithaca' – the 2nd of my poems that has landed at The Book Bag: Poetic Voices – March 2026🔥 Thank you @paulwritespoems.bsky.social for publishing this poem as part of my feature 🙏 paulwritespoems.com/2026/03/01/t...

It’s #fragmentsfriday tomorrow. Startle and wow us with your #micropoem 18 words max!

Unwhispered Legacy will be beautiful! Grateful to be a part of this anthology and can't wait to see it launch! #UnwhisperedLegacy #PaulShort #PoetryAnthologies #MultiAuthor

Excited to be appearing at the #Plymouth #Poetry Festival next month, with amazing local poets and our Laureate of Words, R C Thomas. Tickets via the link. www.eventbrite.com/e/between-ci...

For a #lifttothesky I recommend you follow poet @anntigone.bsky.social Such beautiful work both in long form and the most elegantly expressive short forms. Fabulous poet. Here’s a favourite. Hope they don’t mind me sharing. #poetrycommunity @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poets #poetry

Last week asked who was looking. This week: #Consent. Not silence. Not assumption. Not momentum mistaken for permission. Write the yes that’s spoken. The pause that matters. The power in choosing, clearly. New theme opens Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout to be found.

Hullo @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for super #fragmentsfriday #poetry

Really enjoying this new #poetry prompt hosted by @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social, challenging us to write a condensed poem of 18 words or fewer. Here's my piece for week 3 of #fragmentsfriday #blueskypoets #skypoets #poetsofbluesky #micropoetry #poetrychallenge #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers

@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social #fragmentsfriday 18 words (basically my usual opening line), so the challenge continues. Inadvertent rhyme at the end 😯

For this week’s #FragmentsFriday, The Schoolgirls of Minab Thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social with @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for another stellar poetry outlet. Have a great day everyone! #Poetry #Micropoetry #Antiwar #BlueSky #BlueSkyPoetry

Attempting to catch the pulse of this warring zeitgeist, an arabesque figure of eighteen words for this week's #FragmentsFriday. Startling? Probably not. @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

Post your startling #poem tomorrow on #fragmentsfriday - we hope to boost and comment on all contributions. Make your micropoem impactful. No blandness. 18 words or less!

This week: #BeingWatched. The look that lingers. The sense of eyes before proof. The body adjusting itself without knowing why. Write the awareness. The almost-seeing. The way desire sharpens when it’s observed. New theme opens Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout to be found.

Many thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk for today's #PoemsAbout prompt #Spent. Here's a brief off-the-cuff 'tribute' to someone we knew only too well in the UK. Apologies, I was feeling tetchy this morning....

Good morning @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and the #PoemsAbout #poetry peeps this is my offering for #Spent but I’ve had no time to juggle about for it. Very rough round the edges and a bit bleak (me and the poem) back to look late this afternoon. Have a good poeting day all.

They played games with us, turned brother against brother warehouse hide and seek with our neighbors, then they lit the chambers. A bone snow fell. #tankathursday #game #tanka ##tankaboutit #micropoem #micropoetry #poem #poetry #5amwritersclub #6amwritersclub #skypoem #skypoetry #resist #protest

#PromptCombo #Rupture @victoriaspires.bsky.social

Welcome to the 15th issue of The Starbeck Orion featuring a Susan Darlington Showcase Day One of Twenty-Five. the880.substack.com/p/the-starbe...

For #poemsabout #undertheskin Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

For #promptcombo and theme #rupture a car tyre blown. Thank you @victoriaspires.bsky.social

For this week’s #LiftToTheSky I’m boosting @zoomburst.substack.com of Sixty Odd Poets fame on Substack. He does a massive amount to support the #poetrycommunity and is unfailingly generous in his reading and response to all the prompt poetry here. Do support his latest publication if you can.

Thank you all for your reposts. My apologies for being slow/absent in feedback this week from #PoemsAbout. @deemclachlan.bsky.social @ianbrownlie.bsky.social @janpsolivagant.bsky.social @anntigone.bsky.social

Thank you all for your reposts. My apologies for being slow/absent in feedback this week from #PoemsAbout. @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social @jenthorne.bsky.social @bethbpoet.bsky.social @rburrows.bsky.social @dnwritespoetry.bsky.social @profkiki-poetry.bsky.social @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk

For #PoemsAbout #UndertheSkin @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #vss365 #beastly #fragmentsfriday #micropoem @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #Oulens #micropoetry #blueskypoetry

'They invite me to rook and rail with them' 🐦‍⬛ Our #SilverBranch series feature for February 2026 - is Northern writer Glenn Barker @rotherwrites.bsky.social A pleasure to platform this wordsmith with his often intense, gothic work. Check out the poems! www.blackboughpoetry.com/glenn-barker...

Thank you so much for this Black Bough 'Silver Branch' honour @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social. From a standing start in early 2021, I feel comfortable at last in being called a poet. You can also read my 'Glamour' Pushcart Prize nomination here. I must be doing something good. 🔥😍💥 #PoetsOnBluesky

Hmm...#FragmentsFriday...18 words, sometimes as difficult to craft as those longer poems. Imagist too, that's the @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social USP. I have an earworm still echoing from last Sunday, a Latin anthem that hasn't quite faded, hence the title @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

For this week's #PoemsAbout I attempted something more about the 'wanting that lingers' something softer, more vulnerable; but something else more urgent was #UnderTheSkin. My apologies in that it contains nothing uplifting. I've been snagged by a troubling zeitgeist.

Hullo. Just put this up on the other place for #TopTweetTuesday and the week’s theme of an 80 word homage to a famous poet. #poetry #larkin

I’d like to put forward @victoriaspires.bsky.social for a #lifttothesky this morning. Yes, yes, you are correct, she’s been up before the academy previously. It’s an entirely justified second Oscar nomination for this iconoclastic poet!

Beyond naked, what exists? You undress me yet parts remain hidden, no one must ever see. (Reworked a scrapped start for today's prompts. Kinda fits as a micro eh?) @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @thebrokenspine.co.uk #fragmentsfriday #poemsabout #undressed #micropoem #micropoetry #poem #poetry