Only a few days left to enter the 2026 International Book & Pamphlet Competition and the 2026 New Poets Prize. Enter your poems for a chance to have your pamphlet published by Smith|Doorstop! 📚 Deadline 16 November 2025 Enter on our website - poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions/

#booksky Christmas carols for #book lovers O Camus Ye Faithful In the Peake Midwinter Poe, Tell it on the Mountain Little Don Quixote I Heard the Wells on Christmas Day Good Christian Men, Re Joyce Your turn....

#booksky Just entered this @thebookerprizes.com shortlisted novel by #Kirandesai. Have loved her other books. thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

Tonight at Review bookshop in Peckham - still a couple of free tickets left www.tickettailor.com/events/theso...

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Hi! I'm so excited to read your work :) For more guidelines check out inksweatandtears.co.uk/submissions/ or follow the link in our bio to the submissions page: share.google/AeU3wkv9bjiK... -SA #prose #poetry #onlinezine #creativewriting #inksweatandtears #poetrydaily #poetrylovers #poetrygram

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happy to be on this excellent podcast talking about Lives of the Female Poets @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social with @gregorykearns.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0rMp...

One of the co-winners of the @forwardprizes.bsky.social for best collection, Vidyan Ravinthiran, has this literary autobiography out from Icon Books. www.iconbooks.com/ib-title/asi... #poetry #poems #poet

An entertainingly presented short documentary on the fictitious #Australian #poet, Ern Malley. #poetry #poets www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p...

Have embarked on my first #Laszlokrasznahorkai, from @serpents-tail.bsky.social #Booker @thebookerprizes.com

#vss365 #hover #poem Hummingbird Around its feeding station the troubled air will fill with the curious vibration of flying to stand still.

Enjoying, in a literary sense, rather than it filling my soul with innocent glee, this from @twistedspoon.bsky.social

Our 2025 National Poetry Competition poster, as seen in Pages of Hackney, London. The competition closes in TWO WEEKS! Have you entered your poems? 👀 📅 If you've seen a poster in your local bookshop, show us!

#vss365 #unearthly #poem

Was prehistory a feminist paradise?

Just a couple of spaces left for this Tomorrow if you want to improve your Monday www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mining-the...

@poetryid.bsky.social has come of digital age; we have a #WhatsApp group! Cue swathes of photos of baby poems.

Succumbing to a little national pride at seeing a #Maltese rider in the early leading group at the men's European cycling road race championship. Excellent and witty commentary by @josebeentv.bsky.social and a John (sorry, John).

#Archbishop #SarahMullally #CofE #poem Good christians are going doolally; they've escaped the misogynist valley. I fervently wish you good luck, new Archbish; hooray for Dame Sarah Mullally.

Excellent Word of Mouth, in which @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social chats to Gruffalo progenitor Jullia Donaldson. Some interesting insights into the creative process. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

It's the last weekend before @poetrydayuk.bsky.social. Looking forward to reading and hearing #poems at Hitchin Library next Thursday. #poetry #libraries

RIP Tony Harrison. What came to mind when I heard the news was Gail Earnshaw telling me what a wonderful letter she had from him when her husband died. They weren't close friends and nobody would know about Harrison's kind gesture, except Gail, making it the sort of gesture I respect most. Pic: BBC

#vss365 #scrutiny #poem If every life were subject to a full, forensic scrutiny, we'd all be judged as hypocrites and turn to moral mutiny, resulting in a sorry world, where everyone was Putiny.

Inspired by an excellent In Our Time (from the archives) on the sonnet - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/..., I wrote a sonnet about a sonnet. I hope it amuses. #poetry #sonnet #poem

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Thanks to Composer of the Week on BBC Radio 3 for introducing me to the beguiling #poetry of Langston Hughes, in an episode on The Harlem Renaissance, presented by Donald Macleod, with contributions from Wynton Marsalis. #booksky www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

#vss365 #flinch #poem I know of an absolute grinch who folk would be happy to lynch; though counsellors bid to manage his id, from meanness he never will flinch.

Have stepped into this delightfully bizarre and arcane interpretation of London. Brilliant, inventive prose from Mr. Moore, sprayed onto pages by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social. First of a series. #booksky #novels #London

An exciting proof from Icon Books of a Feb 2026 title. The book describes the exploits of Kent's 'New Messiah', John Nicholls Tom (aka Sir William Courtenay) whose agitation of the masses led to the last battle fought on English soil, in 1838. One for @gregjenner.bsky.social perhaps?

Profile 33 in my series on authors appearing #RoystonBookFair on 27 Sept 2025 - writer for stage, page and screen and the gay community, Stuart Wakefield. Just one writer left to go! #Royston #Hertfordshire #BookSky #writingcommunity www.roystonbookfair.co.uk/2025/stuart-...

Severus on the march again! Lovely Stabiae, broody Vesuvius in background!

Sneak peek at my illustrious guests on tomorrow’s episode of BBC You’re Dead To Me, where we’re discussing a little known, but up-and-coming writer called Jane Austen

Profile 32 in my series on authors appearing #RoystonBookFair on 27 Sept 2025 - photographer and non-fiction writer, Stephen Calbraith. Only 2 more authors left to go... #Royston #Hertfordshire #BookSky #writingcommunity www.roystonbookfair.co.uk/2025/stephen...

#vss365 #bearable #poem Sisyphus Job Satisfaction Interview 'I have to say, the way things stand, it's really very bearable; the work is clearly outlined and the pension is transferable.'

Delighted that a book from a publisher for whom I work (Icon Books) is on the @britishacademy.bsky.social book prize shortlist. The Baton and the Cross, by Lucy Ash, describes the collaboration between Putin's regime and the Russian Orthodox Church. bit.ly/4glo8Jo

Profile 30 in my series on authors appearing #RoystonBookFair on 27 Sept 2025. Another collection of writers - the long running Royston Writers Circle. #Royston #Hertfordshire #BookSky #writingcommunity www.roystonbookfair.co.uk/2025/royston...

The @britishacademy.bsky.social Book Prize 2025 shortlist has been announced! Find out more about the shortlisted books on our website: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/booklists/br...

Profile 29 in my series on authors appearing #RoystonBookFair on 27 Sept 2025. Children's author and now adult historical fiction writer, Rosemary Hayes. #Royston #Hertfordshire #BookSky #writingcommunity www.roystonbookfair.co.uk/2025/rosemar...

How are #poets getting on with this year's @poetrydayuk.bsky.social theme of 'play'?

We are PROUD to be supporting Harlow Pride this year! Harlow stanza poets we need your poems! Will be making a list of whoever would like to volunteer to read on the 18th of October at our next stanza meeting! #HarlowPride #HarlowCircleofPoetry #HarlowPoetry #EssexPoetry #PridePoetry

Biased, of course, but everyone should visit and get a reader's ticket. 📚

Our contribution to the joyful national phenomenon that is @poetrydayuk.bsky.social #poetry #poems

Profile 28 in my series on authors appearing #RoystonBookFair on 27 Sept 2025. Not so much one writer, as a whole workshop of them, the Letchworth-based poetry collective that is Poetry ID @poetryid.bsky.social #Royston #Hertfordshire #BookSky www.roystonbookfair.co.uk/2025/poetry-id

On air now!

#caturday #catsofbluesky #cats Our very dignified calico, Bramble.

Profile 27 in my series on authors appearing #RoystonBookFair on 27 Sept 2025. Pippa Harvey, psychological mystery writer and writer in residence at the Letchworth Settlement #Royston #Hertfordshire #BookSky www.roystonbookfair.co.uk/2025/pippa-h...

#vss365 #chance We met by chance; a wild roulette; I thought she'd be My Juliet. A gamble I Could not resist - I could have stuck, I chose to twist. I played my hand; the odds were nice, (or so I thought) she said - 'No dice'.

Amongst my favourite #song #lyrics - from Godley and Creme's I Pity Inanimate Objects. Physics isn't fair; Is a tree as a rocking-horse An ambition fulfilled? And is the sawdust jealous?

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