Victoria doesn't have a book to sell just now, but Rishi and Mark (obviously) do! You can buy 'Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak' from @ninearchespress.bsky.social, and 'Hotel Petroleum' from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social. And hey, maybe @salopress.bsky.social will consider reprinting 'Soi-même'?

... and here's where you can get yourself a copy of @betarish.bsky.social's 'Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak'. bit.ly/4eGDkl3

Anyway, go buy yourself some poetry. Here's the link to @fiddes.bsky.social's 'Hotel Petroleum' ... bit.ly/4w1WtUV

Speaking of first meetings, the launch of @fiddes.bsky.social's 'Hotel Petroleum' was also the occasion that brought he and I face to face in the same room for the first time. More incredible still, @betarish.bsky.social and I also met for the first time ... despite having known each other 16 years!

Can’t wait for Wave Twenty-Seven of @iamb.uk

Bookish Paris

Absolutely thrilled to have 2 poems in The Aftershock Review. What a great place to be! I love this mag. Thank you @maxwallis.bsky.social. Here’s Tigers 🙂🐯

Very happy to receive my contributor copy of The Aftershock Review today! Thank you to editor @maxwallis.bsky.social for including three of my poems in the issue. And look at that line-up - I’m in great company 💜

Thrilled to have three poems published in the third issue of The Aftershock Review @maxwallis.bsky.social which I first discovered here. This review has meant so much to me since it started because after trauma there is still poetry. #poetry #blueskypoets

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

The deadline for registering new titles for PLR is coming up. Don't miss out money you've already earned from library loans! www.bl.uk/services/plr 'Are you a published author, illustrator, editor, translator or audiobook narrator? You could receive up to £6,600 per year from public library loans'

All you have to do is email!

There is now a bursary spot on this workshop for someone who truly couldn't afford to attend otherwise, sponsored by the lovely @benedictan.bsky.social! Email [email protected] to request it.

Parisian books

Atrium will OPEN a small but welcoming submissions window for new poems from midnight tonight... Full details to follow... Just so you know...

Still open for poetry submissions for our latest anthology Mental Health Poetry. GET SENDING!

Happy Mother's Day (or not) to you from me and two other #poets @benedictan.bsky.social @dnwritespoetry.bsky.social #OneSizeDoesNotFitAllMothers #Substack karenpiercegonzalez.substack.com/p/one-size

Terrible Mother, my debut pamphlet, is now available at Zennoni in Deptford Market Yard! #poetry

Thank you for including my poem Terrible Mother in this Substack @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social #blueskypoets

A starter pack of #POETS & members of the #PoetryCommunity whom I've met at Open Mic events or who are otherwise committed to reciting #poemsaloud Check if you're in here. If I've missed you, mea culpa; shout me & I'll add you. If you're in by accident, apologies. Otherwise, please follow & repost🙏

FABULOUS NEWS! I'm going to write a monthly "Extinction Column" in Oxford Climate Society blog! 🧡 🔗 oxfordclimatesociety.com/blog (Photo Credit: An Yen | BKTT @ox.ac.uk)

Terrible Mother, my debut pamphlet, is now available at Zennoni in Deptford Market Yard! #poetry

I get really irritated when someone questions the cost of creative work. Oh, you hate capitalism? Me too. Talk to my landlord about it. Talk to a politician. Talk to your boss. Talk to literally anyone in power. Artists can't fix capitalism for you on top of everything else we have to do.

It’s a hard time out here for anyone who cares about anything

What a great evening!

I really enjoyed writing about how Mary Shelley helped shape my poetry collection for the @bars.bsky.social blog. Mary was widowed two hundred years before me, but there are many parallels linking our experiences. Thank you very much to BARS for publishing my piece! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6367

University of Oxford : maximising oil and gas extraction here would only save UK households up to £82 (€95) per year. A UK fully powered by renewable energy, would save households up to £441 (€510) a year on energy bills. www.euronews.com/2026/03/27/e...

8 am update for you. The UK grid is currently close to fossil fuel free. Wind and solar 70%, nuclear 13%, gas… 4%. grid.iamkate.com

BREAKING: Political funding from British citizens living abroad should be capped at about £300,000 a year and donations in cryptocurrency temporarily banned, a government review has recommended.

If only someone had warned us

Views of the Thames #London

Acre authors in action! @bydanobrien.bsky.social signing copies of his books, including OUR CANCERS and SURVIVOR'S NOTEBOOK! #poetry #booksky 🎉📚🖊️

This feeling in my chest...hope? Unfamiliar

Despite the rain, the chill, winter's reluctance to cede his throne, spring arrives with daffodils, birdsong, the lengthening of days. Welcoming it are the 15 poets of wave twenty-five of @iamb.uk. Expect 45 poems, written and read – fresh as the incoming season. iamb.uk/index/wave/25

Happy World Book Day! It’s been a rather good one for me; not only did I get a delivery of author copies of The Way the Water Held Me, but I got an Emma Press badge! This makes up for never winning a Blue Peter badge. #worldbookday

Congratulations 🥳

Two Irish authors on Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist Kit de Waal and Wendy Erskine nominated for award worth £30,000 www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Help me out please, what’s the best dinosaur toy or other gift for an 18 month-old, no expense spared? #dinosaurs #kids

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London

Our Book of the Week is this gorgeous facsimile edition of William Blake's *The Marriage of Heaven and Hell*: pick up your copy here - www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/the-ma...

Happy to launch this gorgeous book today. Grab a copy via the links in bio! @jmatkin.bsky.social @richardnskinner.bsky.social

Exactly one month until ‘The Way the Water Held Me’ is published! If you haven’t already, you can preorder your copy via the link in my bio ✨ My husband marked the one-month countdown until publication day by giving me this gorgeous little brooch featuring the front cover. Isn’t it lovely?

...but a flat line you steer for.

Make Art (1/4)

Closing at midnight tonight, UK time...

Reviewing @louisepoetical.bsky.social 's The How in the World over at @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 📚