Current read - it may be 400 pages long, but there's only one sentence. Peculiar and engrossing. #BookSky

We (the North Herts stanza of the @poetrysociety.org.uk) are delighted to be launching our latest #poetry anthology in David's Bookshop, Letchworth, at 7pm on June 25th. All welcome.

Young poets: new writing challenge alert! Write a poem inspired by the world of dreams for the chance to win poetry prizes and opportunities ☁️ Find prompts and enter by 16 August on Young Poets Network: bit.ly/DreamsYPN

Psst... entries close in 5 days, so get waterfording folks! More info and entry form here: waterfordrhyme.com #poetry #poem #poet #writing #writingcommunity #poetsofbsky #poetrysky #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #poetrycommunity #poetrycompetition #waterford #waterfordrhyme #micropoetry

#vss365 #gift #limerick #poem

👉 Just 6 days left to enter this year's #annualwaterfordcompetition. Full details and entry form here: waterfordrhyme.com #poetry #poem #poet #writing #writingcommunity #poetsofbsky #poetrysky #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #poetrycommunity #poetrycompetition #waterford #waterfordrhyme #micropoetry

Soon be time for some poetic and philosophical profundity!

Time for a quick espresso before tripping the Verb fantasic. See you on the other side!

HURRY UP PLEASE, IT'S TIME! Last call for our FREE online launch tomorrow (Wed 10th June, 6.30pm, UK time) on Zoom of 'Shored Fragments...' shorturl.at/asE2f #eliot #spokenword #poetrylovers #poetry #poet #poem #modernism

#vss365 #dawn #poem as the sky with new light began to be seeded, it dawned on the night it was no longer needed.

Entries for #thirdannualwaterfordcompetition close 19 June. Send us your waterfords! Entry form & info: waterfordrhyme.com #poetry #poem #poet #writing #writingcommunity #poetsofbsky #poetrysky #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #poetrycommunity #poetrycompetition #waterford #waterfordrhyme #micropoetry

ICYMI 👉 We want your waterfords! Entries are only open until 19 June. Full info and entry form here: waterfordrhyme.com #poetry #poem #poet #writing #writingcommunity #poetsofbsky #poetrysky #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #poetrycommunity #poetrycompetition #waterford #waterfordrhyme #micropoetry

#Horror #vss365 #limerick When Kurtz went to Africa for a foray, he constructed Gomorrah; he ended up dead and the last thing he said to Marlow was "Horror, the horror!"

Always good to read Rishi’s reviews in @theguardian.com @betarish.bsky.social

Cheltenham-based poet Anna Saunders will be reading poems from her latest #poetry collection and past greatest hits THIS Monday, online, as the Black Bough guest of honour. Book now for an open mic slot or audience ticket. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-boug...

#vss365 #horror #poem

Good turnout for the #Poetry #workshop on Thursday. Our prompter invited us to take the words of lines 1&2 or 3&4 of Rilke's Spring and use them as the first word of each line in a new poem. We are just crazy kids.

Just finished and really enjoyed this, but should have started with the first book in the trilogy. #BookSky #HaroldFry www.penguin.co.uk/books/448497...

⏰ It's the final countdown! Just 2 more weeks to enter. Entry form & info: waterfordrhyme.com #poetry #poem #poet #writing #writingcommunity #poetsofbsky #poetrysky #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #poetrycommunity #poetrycompetition #waterford #waterfordrhyme #micropoetry

Our bestsellers this week! You can find out more here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/booklists/ou... Bestselling John of the Cross appropriately pictured here with a coffee from St. John's cafe.

We want your waterfords. Entries are open until 19 June. Full info and entry form here: waterfordrhyme.com #poetry #poem #poet #writing #writingcommunity #poetsofbsky #poetrysky #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #poetrycommunity #poetrycompetition #waterford #waterfordrhyme #micropoetry

We're back with an online OPEN MIC on Monday 8th June, 7:30PM + Three poems (5 mins each), per poet. Ideal for the nervous! Time to blow away the cobwebs. Why not make an impression? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-boug... #poetry #openmic #spokenword

If you've written any waterfords, we'd love to read them. The #thirdannualwaterfordcompetition is open for entries until 19 June. Full details and entry form here: waterfordrhyme.com

Amazing poppies in the physic garden outside Hitchin #Library. #flowers

1st place 🥇 Elizabeth Fevyer. #fragmentsfriday #poetry #writing #poet #poetic

#vss365 #remnant #poem

Hello #vss365 writers and readers. I’m honored to be your host from June 1st to June 15th. Prompts will drop 1 PM GMT /9AM EDT. Many thanks to Jeff Shaw @blackwings182.bsky.social for his intriguing and stimulating prompts. I’m eager to read your work over the next two weeks.

Join us in Ormskirk on Sat 27 June for the Arts4Us celebration, feat. keynotes by Prof. Daisy Fancourt & Stephen Stapelton (Jameel Arts & Health), creative workshops, panels & presentations on creative health for young people. Open to all. Free to attend! Book at www.edgehill.ac.uk/event/arts4u...

Local CIC group Shout or Whisper present @charlottelpoet.bsky.social and Holly Moberley in the latest #Spotlight event in Hitchin, supported by local poets. #poets #poetry #blueskypoetry www.sowcic.co.uk/whatson?fbcl...

#waterford #heatwave #poem @waterfordrhyme.bsky.social the Sun blasts out its coarse refrain but when the night comes, I recite the names of all the kinds of rain

#vss365 #rift #poem we are born that is the rift between the human and divine; to cross that sharp and jagged line - this is the challenge this is the gift

We want your waterfords. Send us your entries NOW! More info and entry form here: waterfordrhyme.com #poetry #poem #poet #writing #writingcommunity #poetsofbsky #poetrysky #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #poetrycommunity #poetrycompetition #waterford #waterfordrhyme #micropoetry

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... Afternoon stroll soundtrack: a fascinating edition of In Our Time @bbcsounds.bsky.social

beneath winter ice one small root keeps believing spring knows where to look #DailyHaikuPrompt #Ice #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets #Hope

#vss365 #gravity #limerick #poem There's something of a cavity - in life, for me,depravity is harder when, three score and ten, you struggle against gravity* *Poetic licence - I am younger.

Good interview with #AnnPatchett on BBC Radio 4's Front Row. #booksky www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

New on the podcast 🎧: Juliet Mitchell talks to Frances Morris about her seminal PSYCHOANALYSIS AND FEMINISM (in a new edition by @versobooks.bsky.social) Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...

📣Get waterfording - win €100 cash! The #AnnualWaterfordCompetition2026 is open 'til 19 June. Enter here: waterfordrhyme.com #poetry #poem #poet #writing #writingcommunity #poetsofbsky #poetrysky #PoetsOnBluesky #skypoets #poetrycommunity #poetrycompetition #waterford #waterfordrhyme #micropoetry

Announcing our next poetry workshop! Claudine Toutoungi will be running a session focussed on finding ways to bring the abstract and the material together in your work. Tickets are now available via the link in our bio.

The legendary Uncanny Invisible Orchestra of Hertfordshire. #music #orchestras #spooky

Our fine nation has lost its prime anchor; It's been sullied by Trump, a vile canker, Who's #untethered to laws, Who takes pride in his flaws, And who governs by greed, whim, and rancor. #vss365 #Tether #Limerick #Limericks #Poetry #News #Poems #Resist #Trump #USPOL #USPolitics #Politics #Writing

#vss365 #immerse #poem

Good morning Saturday chums! Looks like another dazzling day of the most delightful weather ahead! There will be washing to dry in the garden, weeds to be weeded and books to be read-that’ll be me in my happy place…and I hope you find yours too!

#FRAGMENTSFRIDAY @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social the hot sun assaults the last defences of cold flowers mark its death

A lovely article in this week's Dungarvan Leader about this year's #annualwaterfordcompetition. Go to waterfordrhyme.com for full details and the entry form. There's a cash prize for the winner! Entries close 19 June. Get waterfording!

Congratulations! 🎉 Coincidentally, we'll be launching our first anthology of waterfords this year ☺️

After using #Malinger in my #limerick, I learned it's NOT related to #Linger. Oh well... Said the mom, "Don't malinger! Work hard, Or your odds of success will be marred." Her son (who's a jerk) Replied with a smirk: "Don't sweat it! I'll just be a bard." #vss365 #Limericks #Poets #Humor #Poetry

Two fantastic charity shop finds; I love the way that fiction can tell us so much about the times it was written in.

Ooh, what a cover! 😍 Great to see this out in the world from our North Hertfordshire Stanza group.

Our new anthology has been made flesh (in a papery sort of way). Thought we'd let @poetrysociety.org.uk and all the rest of you know.