Myrtle Pizzey, a contemporary artist and printmaker from Somerset, UK #WomensArt

The poet, a magician of insecurity, can have only adopted satisfactions. A cinder never quite burned out. -René Char (tr. Jackson Mathews)

Medieval palindrome: In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni: we go in a circle at night and are consumed by fire.

Humour is also a way of saying something serious. T. S. Eliot

David Smith / Don Quixote, 1952

A really admirable survivor. I think the Snake was 2 when we met! George Simmers is a most encouraging editor. Do send work for this issue!

snakeskinpoetry.co.uk is celebrating its 30-year anniversary in Dec. Submit a poem. George (Editor) wants to celebrate poets he's published and new ones. @matthewepaul.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @roguestrands.bsky.social @lauramckee.bsky.social @matriches.bsky.social

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A map of the fallen rain written in your mind

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. T. S. Eliot

Am I nurturing the poem or am I killing the poem.

My daughter just told me that November was called November because there was "no ember" left in the sun. She made it up, but what a beautiful idea.

Hi all! I wrote another book... "All the tales a spy might tell." This time it's a hybrid poetry pamphlet and 1950s SciFi Spy story with cosmic horror overtones... [1/3]

"Evidence-Based Falls Management". #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Curtains Photo by Martin Peters.

Three fab poems from GB Clarkson on the ever original Anthropocene. www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/3-poems...

A killer epigraph. From Muse-Echo Blues by Xam Wilson Cartier.

All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be valuable to instruct ourselves in; we must deduce the lesson on our own, just as with life. Goethe, Letter to Carl Friedrich Zelter (November 1825)

Is it just me, or are other people the same? I have maybe a dozen books that I keep going back to decade after decade, re-reading over and over again at different points in life, seeing new things each time, living in them over a lifetime like a landscape? What are yours? #BookSky #books

"In the haunting world of Kelvin Corcoran’s language the names of the Chorus of Orphans are ‘whispered along the migrant routes.’" Ian Brinton reviews "Under Tainaron" by Kelvin Corcoran: www.littermagazine.org/2025/11/revi...

The Law of Conservation of Mass, according to Marie Antoinette – Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/11/04/t...

A leaf mountain.

A repost... Three spoons carved in Lacewood... and a spoon carved with a 'knuckle' from a branch found in a brush pile. #spoon #spoontaneous #art #craft #woodworking #carving #woodenspoon #knuckle #wood

Stunning 17th century delft tiles!

The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost. E. M. Forster, Howards End

Hahakigami (broom spirits) are a type of #yokai that occur once a broom has reached a very old age and is transformed into (or possessed by) a spirit, known as tsukumogami. Because brooms were used in ritual purifications, they can become powerful magical charms. #MythologyMonday 1/2

Leaves.

Drawing by cat-loving British poet Stevie Smith (1902-1971) #womensart #caturday

Aberystwyth named Unesco City of Literature. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Love that the last time someone read this book was in 1976.

Thorough piece on Farage’s close colleague and friend Nathan Gill and the Kremlin cash he took www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

‘I try to make them feel as ignorant as possible’: German museum’s ‘grumpy guide’ is surprise hit

A short Halloween poem by my 14 year old daughter. Favours The living made a day for the dead. The dead made a life for the living.

Poets, @afterpoetry.com's month-long annual submissions window is almost over. More than 115 of you have sent in your previously unpublished 'after' and ekphrastic poems – the highest number of subs of any year so far! Not sent in YOUR poem yet? Don't leave it too late ... afterpoetry.com/submit

This one’s for Jack… youtu.be/N9pVc4CDoto?...

A CLEARANCE Sun to morning dew: ‘Get off my land’. Ian Hamilton Finlay

A short Halloween poem by my 14 year old daughter. Favours The living made a day for the dead. The dead made a life for the living.

… I believe that we are all <dividuals>, rather than individuals — schismatic and kaleidoscopic within ourselves, transitive and self-renewing beings … a unitary, centralizing and static idea does not appeal to me. -Ranjit Hoskote

Halloween is no ungodly American import – just ask the medieval monks and nuns who marketed it | Michael Carter

Robin Hood's Bay, north Yorkshire, circa 1900.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation. Walter Benjamin

What I hide by my language, my body utters. Roland Barthes

This is the problem: it won’t lead to the rich people’s demise. That’s why they don’t give a shit about it and are happy to lie about its consequences.

My daughter’s drawing of little my from the Moomins

From my homage to Ian Hamilton Finlay, born on this day a hundred years ago.