Delighted to be a part of this issue of Paperboats Zine 💚⛵️ So many highlights - go read!

Delighted to have a poem in The Broken Spine's Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025 😊 Thank you @vespertine4.bsky.social and @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social 😊 Loved reading this issue!

I could not be more excited to be able to share this little toucan-y book with you all 😊 Coming soon! Eeek! #WhereIsTheToucanEmoji

Book post! This gorgeous magazine dropped through my door yesterday from Ireland - dedicated to the men, women and children of Palestine 🧡 That front cover 🔥 I have a tiny spicy poem in this one, which I am delighted about of course! @poetrybuspress.bsky.social have been a dream to work with.

my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read! “I know this so loudly I don’t hear, at first, my father’s silence.”

Love this poem by Kevin Young:

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Friends, the little charity I'm Head Elf at is putting on a virtual comedy night for Christmas in July on 24th July. It's pay what you can but do attend for free if you'd like - we'd love more people to be there. Not Christmas themed! Link to book is here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/christmas-fo...

Happy to have one of my older poems in this gorgeous root themed anthology 😊✏️ The team putting this one together were just lovely!

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This poem is incredible ❤️

Eeeek! Placing third in the @proppencil.bsky.social Spring 2025 competition has made my week ☺️ I'm pretty new to flash so this feels extra exciting! Thank you so much to @judehwriter2.bsky.social and to the reading team at The Propelling Pencil 😊 thepropellingpencil.com/wanting-by-j...

‘In every hallucination there has to be a full stop. Dawn was milking the sky when our bear became a flock of frantic blackbirds.’ Such gorgeous writing @oh-so-boatie.bsky.social

I love the intense creative phases of being a writer the most I think. The days where the cats wake you up at 5:30am for breakfast and instead of being (rightly!) frustrated you are mainly just excited for a couple of hours of poet-ing before work 🖋️ Such a lovely way to start the day ❤️

I feel seen! ❤️

I love poems that also function as surreal, dark, beautiful flash fiction. From Natalie Diaz's book, When My Brother Was an Aztec: bookshop.org/a/862/9781556593833 #poem #books #writing

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It's been one of those lovely weeks in writing where i've been shortlisted for two fab poetry comps and longlisted for a flash one and it feels a bit like showing off to tell you about all of them and say how completely delighted I am... but also, this so rarely happens, so - tiny celebration ☺️🎉

Super happy to have a weird little mole poem in the latest issue of The Alchemy Spoon 😊 It's a beautiful issue, filled with fantastic artwork too. Well worth getting your hands on! #PoetsOnBluesky #Poetry

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 2466: Writing takes resilience. You will sometimes be afraid. You will sometimes be rejected, criticized, disappointed. Don’t try to avoid those things. Feel them. Learn from them. Use them. Tell yourself that you have already done the hardest part. You have begun.

Highly recommend Season 2 of The Glimpse - I've really enjoyed listening 😊

Some weeks, being a writer is receiving rejection after rejection and just having to be OK with it. This is one of them! But I've been cheered up by the news that 2 funding applications I wrote have been successful, bringing in £115k for two of my charity clients ❤️ And there's always blossom 🌸

Rewriting my post I was being way too polite: fuck off to this fascism, fuck this bigotry, fuck this ignorance and hatred. I stand with Love, I stand with freedom, I stand with choice and autonomy and human rights, I stand in solidarity with all of my trans friends and family 🏳️‍⚧️

Great to spot my poem, Abstinence, on @spread-the-word.bsky.social's website 😊 It's linked below if you'd like to read 🐝 www.spreadtheword.org.uk/abstinence-b...

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

Couldn't be more delighted to have a poem in this issue of Magma 😊 I couldn't believe it when I heard and only when a copy fell through the letterbox with my words on did I trust I hadn't dreamed the whole thing! I'm very grateful.

thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/03/15/h... @pdevonald.bsky.social @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Sound advice reinforcing several points in The Process of Poetry and The Making of a Poem. #poets #poetry #poetrysky

I always forget to mention this on my personal socials but I curate an online (mainly) poetry journal, Raising The Fifth, which amplifies the voices of people who are childless or child free (or somewhere in between), whatever the circumstances. raisingthefifth.co.uk/poetry/

Really like this piece by @mishiepoet.bsky.social in @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social's latest issue 🍄❤️

Gorgeous poem by the lovely @minorroarr.bsky.social ❤️

love, love, love this moment from an interview with Mary Ruefle

Thanks to The New Statesman for publishing a brand new shiny poem www.newstatesman.com/culture/poet...

"I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems." - Wisława Szymborska (one of my all-time favourites!)

Oh, lovely to see wonderpoets @oliverinthenorth.bsky.social & @oh-so-boatie.bsky.social listed in the 2025 Disabled Poets 'Best Single Poem' & 'Best Unpublished Pamphlet' categories 🙌✨ Congratulations to all whose work has been selected 💖Readings & announcement of winners on 29 March Details 👇

Being shortlisted for this prize has been a lovely little glimmer of joy within such a tough month. I'm delighted! 😊❤️

It's been a rough start to 2025 - yesterday, my sweet little cat Emily died after an unexplained illness, and oh my goodness, what a gaping hole in my life she has left. I am always unable to write when hard things happen, and I've had more than my fair share over the past few months...

I like the way writing a bad poem can lead to some good lines the way cooking a bad meal can lead to those little bits of fried cheese that are so good independent of anything else

Some more lovely poets to follow: (there are so many here now this is just a small selection!) @traceyrhys.bsky.social @khuangwrites.bsky.social @lauratheis.bsky.social @judemarr.bsky.social @oh-so-boatie.bsky.social #PoetsonBluesky