I spent this evening working through our program for the next edition of Line//Breaks on #LooseFM 📻 A gorgeous gathering of voices incoming on 12th May. In the meantime have a listen to our first show #poetry #LineBreaks #booksky m.soundcloud.com/loosefm/line...

“That the universal credit cut will affect new claimants says the quiet part out loud: anyone can become disabled or ill. And every time governments slash the safety net, we can’t know if it’ll be us, a loved one or stranger who will fall through it.” Today’s col www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

And now with a recording for those who couldn't join live 📻 on.soundcloud.com/RN3u6k4SH0O1... Thanks again to @zosiasamosia.bsky.social @karanchambers.bsky.social & @oliverinthenorth.bsky.social for lending us your incredible poems ❤️📝 Next show 12th May on #loosefm @galiamelon.bsky.social

📢 THE 404 INK BURSARY FOR UK-BASED SMALL PRESSES NOW OPEN Applications are now open for our bursary to support small presses in the UK. There are 2 strands you can apply for: donating £1,000 towards creative projects, or £500 towards hosting an intern. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Lots of fun, and only a few fluffs operating my first sound show since about 2013 😬😆 I'd almost forgotten how much I love diving into great poems with @galiamelon.bsky.social & #annakibbey

Gearing up for this new poetry radio hour - tonight @8pm on #LooseFM www.loose.fm Lend us your ears 🙏💙📚

Putting the final touches to this. Have a listen on #Loosefm from 8pm tomorrow

Mostly very excited & only marginally terrified to host this new poetry radio show on #LooseFM with @galiamelon.bsky.social & #AnnaKibbey. Join us at #LineBreaks for some excellent readings from @karanchambers.bsky.social @oliverinthenorth.bsky.social @zosiasamosia.bsky.social 🎙️📻💙📚 #booksky #poetry

Mostly very excited & only marginally terrified to host this new poetry radio show on #LooseFM with @galiamelon.bsky.social & #AnnaKibbey. Join us at #LineBreaks for some excellent readings from @karanchambers.bsky.social @oliverinthenorth.bsky.social @zosiasamosia.bsky.social 🎙️📻💙📚 #booksky #poetry

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...

I didn't realise I needed to read this article today but I did 🙏❤️

I read this cover to cover today and it is just as beautiful, present & moving as I thought from Natalie's reading. Full of life and language and craft ❤️📚💙

Tonight I heard Natalie read from this & it was wonderful. Really looking forward to reading the whole book ❤️🙌

Sonnet for Perimenopause – Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/10/03/s...

A reminder of what can happen when politicians are led by policy not popularity 🙏🙌

this is an extraordinary canary in the coal mine

Go on, stick yer name on.

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

Please read this timely and excellent opinion piece by our @irishpen.bsky.social Board member @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social Cauvery Madhavan. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So utterly sick of politicians saying the most unfathomably cruel things because they want to be treated like a celebrity with controversial opinions and not a public servant, which is what they are elected to be.

So my final stack for #TheSealeyChallenge I got to 23 rather than 31 but given the number of collections & a few languages scattered through I'm more than happy. Some excellent writers discovered & the realisation there are loads of pockets of time in my day for #MorePoems #SealeyChallenge #Booksky

"Could the rain-carried pain be my banshee's caoineadh, soothing my homesickness in its own morbid way?" #TodaysPoem #poetry I can't reach the greengage and my tomatoes are blight-ridden. by Sarah O’Connor (@sarahocwrites.bsky.social‬) (2024 @anthro-poetry.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/yc64ha8h

My favourite book of 2024 now available as audio 📚🎧🙌❤️

The Quakers are doing exactly what all public services are legally allowed to do even if the EHRC wants to pretend they're not: say gender-based toilets are inclusive and for anyone bothered by that as a matter of belief, there are stand-alone cubicles that they are very free to use. 1/

@lesfugitivespress.bsky.social + poetry 🤩 = Colour me excited 🤗

Advanced capitalism has exhausted us. We can only see the “labour” in “labour of love”. Instead of a lessening of burdens, we’re being offered a tool to remove that labour. But this labour is synonymous with the love. This work is the work of being alive. Don’t settle for outsourcing your life.

"People do not want the messy, uncomfortable truth that disabled people know—that we are all only one infection or accident away from disability. That disability is not a choice, but a natural variation of existence." Every single word. Why do editors keep getting taken in? Because they want to.

Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't cut NHS funding. Migrants didn't close youth centres. Migrants didn't sell off council houses. Migrants aren't filling our rivers with sewage. Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants. Don't fall for it.

Channel 4 News – full segment on DecodeME results (9 mins) — the world’s largest genetic study of #MECFS — identifies eight genetic differences. Includes interviews with Prof Chris Ponting, a patient participant, Sonia Chowdhury, and MP Tessa Munt. youtu.be/c5i_K3QEbCI?...

In a fit of over enthusiasm I've decided to take on the #SealeyChallenge this month! One book in and what a heartbreakingly beautiful, crafted collection this is ❤️📚💙

I've made a new list on @bookshop.org of books that explore nature / walking / the outdoors by disabled, neurodivergent and chronically ill writers - Nature Beyond Cure - aka our own narratives are messy and complex. Do share! #BookSky #DisabledWriters uk.bookshop.org/lists/nature...?

‘Many of Kneecap’s international fans, before listening to them, hadn’t realised that the Irish language exists at all – and that far from a dialect of English, it has roughly the same lexical distance from it as Russian.’ @naoisedolan.bsky.social on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

One of the astonishing aspects of our times is that once-progressive parties are rushing us towards dystopia almost as fast as the far right is. This week's column is about what we might now face and how to contest it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s great to see investment in the NHS, social housing, and free school meals. But it makes no sense to cut disability benefits at the same time. Making disabled people sicker and poorer will only increase pressure on the NHS, push them out of independent homes, and deprive their children.

And just like that … we launched our book Art Sundays @salopress.bsky.social with readings from @victoriaspires.bsky.social and her debut book Soi-même @salopress.bsky.social and it was a beautiful evening @poetrysociety.bsky.social 🩷

The EHRC Guidance is a wicked exercise in removing rights from trans people - and is bad too for employers and service providers, those outside gender norms, people with disabilities and the economy. We've created a tool to make it easy to respond. Please use and share. goodlaw.social/9e59e9

A gorgeous evening at the launch for Art Sundays from @wendycaitlin.bsky.social @galiamelon.bsky.social @salopress.bsky.social Read it - it's brilliant!

There’s a bank holiday sale @serenbooks.bsky.social and you can grab a copy of my book for less than a flat white 🩷 she’s a perfect size for a picnic lunch, or bath, or afternoon on settee.

Every minister should read this. 👇 If the government actually cared about disabled people being in work, they would reform the chaos of Access to Work.

My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen

PBLJ11 is out now at www.poetrybirmingham.com. Have a look, have a read, buy a copy. Over 200 pages and full of interesting things. I think it's pretty good and want to know what you think. Write me and let me know 🤓

Congratulations to our #DisabledPoetsPrize winners! Winner of Best Single Poem - Oli Isaac with ‘to whom / it may / concern’. Winner of Best Unpublished Pamphlet - @thewordtinker.bsky.social with HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON. Announced earlier today at #DeptfordLitFest. @cripticarts.bsky.social

✨✨✨Happy Publication Day to @mayacaspari.bsky.social whose brilliant debut pamphlet, ALMOST, WITH TENDERNESS, is out today ✨✨✨ Order your copy here: outspokenldn.com/shop/almost And join us at @burleyfisher.bsky.social on 3 April to celebrate the launch (registration link below)

At the heart of every attack on disability benefits is the myth disabled people “get perks”: a free car, loads of cash, a life off work. It misrepresents the reality of disability, whilst exploiting low wages and high living costs to make the public envy people in daily pain.

Endless talk about people being too sick to work. Absolutely nothing about why work might make people sick.

If you want to write to your Labour MP about disability benefit cuts but have limited spoons, here’s a template from @sensecharity.bsky.social you can use: t.co/E8QB6EDi9o Public backlash *does* work at times so let’s keep the pressure up. You too, non-disabled allies!

The 100 best Irish fiction books of the 21st century so far: No 100 to No 51. We assembled a panel of 60 experts – writers, critics, academics, festival curators, booksellers & journalists – to select the best Irish novels and short story collections of 2000-2025 www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...