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...

GOODLORD the audiobook out now with Rough Trade Books 💫 get it here (or wherever you normally get your audiobooks) roughtradebooks.bandcamp.com/album/goodlo...

I would love someone to write a poetry book about Jayaben Desai and the women of Grunwick. I would read that book in a heartbeat. We need their courage and their voices more than ever.

Thank you for reading and sharing our Tuesday poem - Seasonal Adjustment by Neil Elder @eldersville.bsky.social

Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - The Five o’clock Ferry Across the Mersey by Maria Isakova-Bennett

Given the increasing authoritarianism in the UK, and threats against peaceful protest, I’m reminded of this project by Tamás St. Turba, Czechoslovak Radio in 1968. As possessing a radio was banned, he painted bricks to look somewhat like them, which were then banned also.

Alice Oswald arrested this afternoon for supporting Palestine Action.

'They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.' F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

"Gaza is 25 miles long and 12 miles deep.. onto that area has been dropped around 100,000 tonnes of explosive, thats more than was used in Dresden, Hamburg & London in WW2, over a much larger area" Emma Murphy was on a recent air drop flight over Gaza & describes what she saw