The biggest news so far of this year’s waterford competition @waterfordrhyme.bsky.social is that 2026’s judge is the outstanding poet @mollytwomey.bsky.social - team waterford is thrilled to have an opportunity to work with another Lismore legend. Last year it was @allgumsblazing.bsky.social !

Can we not just outlaw #AI, so that we can, among other consequences, enjoy the spectacle of fedora-wearing criminal gangs offering it in seedy bars.

Hey-nonny-bo! The woman reclaiming maypole dancing with dancehall and drum’n’bass

#vss365 #Lightning #poem Lightning The forked tongue speaks as the clouds conspire, promising light, delivering fire.

Visit the Bookshop between 6 p.m and 8 p.m. next Tuesday and get 10% off all books. Our booksellers will be on hand to provide recommendations and St. JOHN will also be open late for food and drink. Attendance is free, but booking is essential! Tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/may-late-s...

The good folks at @hertsbookfest.bsky.social have made a recording of me reading one of my more sombre poems from my collection #Underword youtu.be/zBv2L3Q8_Ls?...

Are you feeling a little bit #down? Has your smile been replaced by a frown. I'd advise you to turn Off the news and to spurn Online headlines. Have fun! Go to town!! #DailyHaikuPrompt #Down #News #Trump #Limerick #Limericks #Rhyme #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse #Writing #Poems

#vss365 #tactician She recreated Italian Renaissance paintings using small, hard mints. She was a Tic Tac Titian.

Martha Sprackland (@marrrtha.bsky.social) will be at the Bookshop next month to discuss her new translation of the works of John of the Cross, the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, with James Butler (@piercepenniless.bsky.social). Tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/martha-spr...

I had such a brilliant time recording an episode of Brum Radio Poets with Rick Sanders and Zain Rishi last week; we chatted about our inspiration, how we became poets, and our new publications. The show is now available on catch-up - see the link in my bio if you’d like to listen 🙂📻

Just entered the @poetrysociety.bsky.social members' competition, with the theme of 'concrete'. If I win, will it cement my reputation?

Our #cat Bramble, getting to grips with the short #stories of #SamuelBeckett

#vss365 #limerick #poem #lunar We prayed for a symbol, a boon, a boost for a world that may sooner than later explode; that glowing abode of hope was a space misson, lunar.

Hello, @hertsbookfest.bsky.social - one of the many fine literary organisations and institutions plying their trade in the county of Bernard Shaw, Pride and Prejudice and the world's first roundabout.

@hertsbookfest.bsky.social have joined BlueSky. They haven't posted yet, but feel free to show them some love.

LAUNCH DAY 🔥 🔥 🔥 🤩 A momentous day with the publication of ‘Shored Fragments: Poems in Response to Eliot’s The Waste Land’. Get this book at early bird price now!!! www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm...

As posted previously, I'll be at Herts Book Festival at Hertford on 16th May. Here's a list of other booky things taking place at the festival on the same day. #Hertford

#psychopomp #vss365 #poem so bright and distant, I could see my heavenly abode; the #psychopomp rejected me - I'd lost my QR code.

Our Book of the Week is THE PALM HOUSE by Gwendoline Riley. We have plenty of signed copies available in store and on our website: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/the-pa...

Delighted to receive this @twistedspoon.bsky.social offering for my birthday. A favourite publisher. Cat for scale.

#vss365 #limerick #poem #fishing What a desperately strange point of view, to think that to put a hook through a fish and then wait on its asphyxiation is a hobby we ought to pursue.

A reminder! #fragmentsfriday tomorrow ⚡️ 🖊️ 📱 #poetry #poetic #writingprompts #writing

If your poem could only exist at altitude — we want it. #Firmament #Slimline #PoemsAbout #PoetsOfBluesky

Road trip for work today, visiting bookshops and other outlets, including the excellent @redlionbooks.bsky.social in #Colchester and the shop at the awesomely architectured Firstsite gallery, ditto.

william shakespeare was born on this day in 1564. if, every april the 23rd after his birth, you had purchased a single bee, you would still be 39538 bees away from creating a normal-size hive

Belated #vss365 #wolves #poem Layers Inside the mind which is inside the head of the dog, is a fox who dreams of a wolf inside itself.

📣 Have you heard?!? We have a new website! 🎉 Go check it out for everything you ever wanted to know about the waterford but was too afraid to ask: www.waterfordrhyme.com #waterfordrhyme #poetrysky #poetry #irishhaiku #poetrycommunity #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #writingcommunity #spéirghorm

Competition entrants beware...

#vss365 #investiture #poem A baby wails the ancient song at its investiture into a body. Later, the rattle will serve as a sceptre and servants will sacrifice hours of sleep to serve their absolute monarch.

With just one week to go until the Free Verse Fair, here's a rundown of all of the incredible presses and publishers who'll be at the event! Grab your FREE tickets at the link in our bio to come along and meet them all.

Submission opportunity for prose poets, especially women.

#seafoam #vss365 #poem First out, then back, the sea seeks home and leaves a necklace of white foam the necklace melts; the shore will yearn for its replacement - sea's return

See you there? @poetrysociety.bsky.social

Our Book of the Week is THE SHADOW OF THE OBJECT by Chloe Aridjis. Chloe kindly signed some copies at the event last night. Grab your copy here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/the-sh...

I'll be at the Hertford event on Saturday 16 May. See you there? #Hertford #Hertfordshire

An excellent #prompt at our #poetry #workshop tonight invited us to consider and write about the ideals behind the founding of Letchworth Garden City (we gather in that town). Couplets, sonnets and blank verse came forth.

#vss365 #hammer #poem #limerick The Hulk, rendered mighty by gamma, could punch you to South Alabama, but could not, he found, raise up from the ground. Mjolnir, the thunder god's hammer.

If your work looks outward to understand inward — send it. #Firmament is open. #Slimline #PoemsAbout #PoetsOfBluesky

We're now halfway through #NaPoWriMo 2026! Take a moment to reflect on the journey so far, and where it might lead you next, with Julia Bird's thoughtful prompt. Julia founded Blown Rose, a press who have a stall with us at this year's Free Verse Festival. Tickets are FREE at the link in our bio.

Every #Wednesday we'll share a #waterford. Respond with your own (4 lines; 8, 4, 4, 8 syllables; ABBA rhyming scheme). These are slices of feel-good art so keep them positive! #waterfordrhyme #poetrysky #poetry #irishhaiku #poetrycommunity #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #writingcommunity #spéirghorm

Our household is going through a Francis Spufford phase presently, via printed and audio books. @scribnerbooks.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social

#vss365 #poem #word In the beginning, there was The Word and ever since then, it's been misheard.

My copy of the latest New Contexts, edited by Ian Gouge and published by Coverstory Books, arrived today. I'm delighted to have two poems in it. #poetry #poems #writing www.amazon.co.uk/New-Contexts...

There's nothing wrong with Suffolk. I can say this, though I don't live there. I can think of some other counties where a rapid exodus might be sensible, however.

The @poetryid.bsky.social #poetry #anthology for 2026 is well on the road between Word files and a physical book. Subjects smeared with the veneer of verse include mystical baristas and friendly blacksmiths. This is a montage of previous editions.

Paying a professional visit to @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk tomorrow on behalf of a small, unsinister conglomerate of publishers. Always a fine place to visit, but I have to put a muzzle on my debit card.

#vss365 #loop #limerick #poem A boffin of brilliant brain wrote software that none could disdain; he dived with a whoop down an infinite loop and was never encountered again.

When I'm inclined to torture myself, I write #acrostic #limericks: G orging gleefully all through his meal, R amming relish on meatloaf with zeal, E nergetically, endlessly, E ating tremendously — D one? Not so long as there’s veal. #Emoetry #Greed #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse

The Astronaut's Spouse's Lament on the Launch of #Artemis2 Obscured By Clouds, you're visiting The Dark Side Of The Moon. Wish You Were Here.

#vss365 #pen #poem The pen is much mightier than the sword - at least that's what some people think; watch out when you're facing a ravening horde and your pen has just run out of ink.