Kathy Pimlott's poem, "How I do the grieving a few years on", was commended in the Ver Poets Open Competition 2025, judged by Rory Waterman. To enter this year's competition, which will be judged by Vanessa Lampert, go to verpoets.wixsite.com/verpoets/com.... The closing date is 30th April.

'Technically, the human walk is an interrupted fall.' I could fall into a morass of adjectives while trying to praise @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social 's new collection, 'Crowd Voltage' @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social . Instead, I will simply say that it is an uninterrupted walk into joy.

Considerations – Peter Raynard atriumpoetry.com/2026/03/10/c...

These people have no plan or endgame.

The U.S. State Department is set to fund MAGA-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to spread the Trump administration’s policy positions. We eagerly await the patriots'/sovereignists' strong indignation and their demands for investigations to be carried out! 🕵️

Follower of Rembrandt van Rijn, A Man Seated Reading at a Table in a Lofty Room, ca. 1628-30

Atrium Poetry @atriumpoetry.bsky.social (Poetry; non-paying) opened to poetry submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

The arms trade is a root cause of human suffering, facilitating deadly conflict and the suppression of human rights around the world. Quakers joined other peace campaigners in two days of protest to draw attention to the SDSC-UK arms fair hosted by Birmingham's NEC. Video credit: Zoe Broughton

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Warm air masses in the atmosphere rise upward, causing cooler air from neighboring areas, sometimes from the arctic, to rush in. This is how atmospheric heat powers storms. In other words, global warming causes colder, more intense winter storms. www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxo...

Many don't realize that the most vulnerable or immune compromised depend on the rest getting vaccinated properly to keep diseases from spreading out of control. It's not just “my body, my choice” when it comes to saving lives.

What really scares me about Reform is the way their heads are all mutually interchangeable.

On the Seventh Day of Christmas we bring you @pennyblackburn.bsky.social , @fionalarkin.bsky.social, @ruthhiggins.bsky.social. Read their work here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/on-the-seven... #InkSweatAndTears #FeaturedPoem #ChristmasPoem #12DaysOf

Poet & @poetrylondon.bsky.social editor Niall Campbell was @robinhoughton.bsky.social & @peter-kenny.bsky.social's guest on the Christmas edition of @planetpoetry.bsky.social. He was reading from and discussing his 3rd collection The Island in the Sound. planetpoetry.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

It’s a privilege and lovely to be featured on the Two Way Poetry podcast by Chris Jones, poet & Senior Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University. You can find us here, talking Kimiko Hahn, the Japanese zuihitsu form, and many other things poetry! twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/alexandra-... poetry!

Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - Christmas 1984 by Moira McPartlin

The Mistress Replies – Ruth Higgins @ruthhiggins.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/12/16/t...

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

A gift for the season 📖 💝 🎁 Our Christmas and winter anthology. Get it now, before Christmas! Hardback and paperback versions. 🦌 ❄️ 💫 www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

Delighted to have my sightly ranty poem about being a difficult woman over at Atrium today!

Are you afraid you might be difficult? – Julia Webb @julwe1.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/11/28/a...

"More winter rain has flooded makeshift tents housing displaced families in Gaza as Israel continues to restrict the entry of aid into the strip"

Structural engineer Roma Agrawal & historian of sex @k8lister.bsky.social share A Good Read with @harriettsg.bsky.social 3pm @BBCRadio4 - The woman who took on Georgian Britain's worst husband and won; an artist's childhood & a novel about a Sri Lankan architect. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Don't forget our poetry open mic at 7.30 pm tomorrow (Wednesday 19th November) in The Saint & Sinner, St Albans, when our featured poet will be Estelle Price. It's free and open to all. Sign up on the night from 7.00 pm, if you want to read.

“And what is home if not the choice – over and over again – to stay?” Marjorie Lotfi – winner of the 2024 Forward Prize for Best First Collection for THE WRONG PERSON TO ASK – on becoming a writer, from fleeing Iran as a child in 1978 to arriving in Scotland writersmosaic.org.uk/people/marjo...

The first poem in PERVERSE 9F is 'The leaflet with the lightbulb says do not swallow' by Em Gray @em-words.bsky.social. Read all five poems in this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9f

If you want – need – an argument as to why Reform and this incarnation of the Tory party are just horrible, look no further than this: they want shot of Poems on the Underground: www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

Read this. This is America. poems.com/poem/the-inc...

SO THRILLED to be in the ‘poetry rupture’ that is The Aftershock Review Issue2. Thanks @maxwallis.bsky.social

I really enjoyed reading this review. I wish it had mentioned Krasznahorkai's translators. George Szirtes translated The Melancholy of Resistance. I translated Herscht 07769, the book under review here. Even a simple byline at the top. 'Translated by...' It's important.+

R.I.P. The Bay Horse – Carole Bromley @carolebromley.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/11/07/r...

But nothing to see here if your news comes from the UK media….

Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament. But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside. Good night.

Fireweed – Ruth Higgins @ruthhiggins.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/10/17/f...

Words and music for a wounded network – Dominic Fisher @domfishpoet.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/10/14/w...

This... try reading it out loud to yourself. Fantastic work @leiabutler.bsky.social 👏

Haven't read anything by László Krasznahorkai (yet!) BUT I can recommend The Book of Mordechai and Lazarus by Gábor Schein from Seagull Books' Hungarian list, also translated wonderfully by Ottilie Mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social 10mh.net/2020/07/08/t...

Goodnight, all Reading to My Father by Jorie Graham www.divasofverse.com/2018/04/read...

"Three years ago, after a difficult state legislative session in TX that aimed to restrict access to books and disparage the work of librarians, I recognized the urgency of helping my community understand how our libraries operate." - San Antonio school librarian Lucy Podmore https://bit.ly/4nEV0iQ

Thank you for sharing today's poem - A Celebration by Roy Marshall

Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - Sonnet for Perimenopause by @victoriaspires.bsky.social

Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - UFO by @em-words.bsky.social

UFO – Em Gray @em-words.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/09/30/u...

Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - brassband by @niaandthepoems.bsky.social

Single harebell on a hilltop today. #WildflowerHour

If there are ANY tickets left for this, I advise you to snap em up. Standing ovation on the first night. It’s feckin brilliant. Caroline Bird’s THE LAST STAND OF MRS MARY WHITEHOUSE nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/events/the-l... Starring Maxine Peake and Samuel Barnett. Mind blowing.

Three dreams of distress – Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/09/05/t...

I sometimes think of Winona Ryder – Roy Marshall atriumpoetry.com/2025/09/02/i...

Dunno know about you but it's a bit of a... trial being brown right now, waking up to Radio 4 blaring about small boats again, people carefully or carelessly eliding words like 'migrant' and ‘threat’. Then you get to a tube platform and you see ads like that. Lads, a flag ain't gonna save nobody...