🧪 Open to Science Poetry Submissions 🖋️ The Consilience journal is now open for submissions of science-themed poetry and artwork! Issue 23 explores the topic of ‘Tension’. Submit your work for free here: www.consilience-journal.com/submit #SciComm #SciArt #Poetry

I'm reading at Bedford Ouse Muse this coming Tuesday 7th Oct - kick off around 7.45pm at The Eagle bookshop. There's also an open mic. Please come! #poetry

'not just pretty'? Is this supposed to be ironic? I wonder if a movement to champion male writers would ever be referenced #notjusthandsome

An imagined history of the Green Man, anti-capitalist work poetry, the dactylic hexameter line & more with @robinhoughton.bsky.social @richfergusonpoet.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @aempoet.bsky.social 3/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/09/poet...

Poets, if you were to launch a poetry competition for poems using form, how might you describe that to would-be entrants? So as to discourage 'light verse' I suppose is what I mean.

I really enjoyed 'Come Here to This Gate' by @rorywaterman.bsky.social Here's my interview with Rory on @planetpoetry.bsky.social : planetpoetry.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

Last call for our free @nationalpoetryday event at the Fisherman's Club on Eastbourne's Seafront. Join us to Congratulate our competition winners, listen to @chriskeatsmusic , listen to some magic wordery, enjoy great company. Hope to see you there! #poetry #words #celebrate #community #creativity

It's been simmering for a while and launch is imminent.... my new handmade limited edition #poetry pamphlet Yo-Yo - details (and you can even pre-order!) here: py.pl/OXwyk

Poets! Take the hard work out of submitting to poetry magazines. Subscribe to my list of over 200 (mostly) UK & Ireland publications: when they're open, what to send & more. All for free and updated quarterly. robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk/poetry-magaz...

Just a reminder that @frazzledlit.bsky.social opens on the 1st of.October for general submissions. www.frazzledlit.com Some exciting news about our new poetry readers for this issue coming soon! 👀👀👀

I enjoyed this piece on 'progress' and 'success' in poetry on @thefridaypoem.bsky.social - always good to be reminded of this

I'm very grateful indeed for @matriches.bsky.social thoughtful and honest review of my book and thank you @inksweatandtears.co.uk for commissioning & publishing it 👍❤️

It's a wrap for Season 5 . Your pals @robinhoughton.bsky.social and @peter-kenny.bsky.social repair to Beachy Head to celebrate. Happy Summer Holidays everyone! A humongous THANK YOU to all our stellar guests and wonderful listeners over the last five years. www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

This was such a nice interview! @planetpoetry.bsky.social

I'm sorry but I hate screamers in tennis, so am relieved to see the back of Ms Sabalenka @wimbledonltc.bsky.social

@simoninsuffolk.bsky.social I'm with a choir traveling to Norwich & will be singing in Blythburgh church tomorrow. I'm really enjoying your commentary on it, thank you. You have a fascinating website.

What a wonderfully thoughtful review of The Mayday Diaries by DA Prince on London Grip, huge thanks to her and to editor Mike Bartholomew-Biggs londongrip.co.uk/2025/06/lond...

I'm reading at In-Words in Greenwich next Tuesday with @peter-kenny.bsky.social and Sarah Barnsley, and we'll also be talking about Telltale Press - free entry, do come!

I wrote this for the Writers & Artists website which sadly isn't yet on Bluesky although is still on the other place (x.com/Writers_Arti...) www.writersandartists.co.uk/advice/poetr...

It's that time again! If you have poetry or flash that you'd like to share with the world, send it my way for consideration. #poetry #poetrysubmissions

Delighted to have this endorsement from @betarish.bsky.social - many thanks Rishi 👍

Off with @peter-kenny.bsky.social to read at Arundel Arts Junction this evening - come on down! www.thevictoriainstitute.com/arts-junction/

Here's Erica McAlpine discussing her new book 'Small Pointed Things' from @carcanet.bsky.social in our latest episode...with @robinhoughton.bsky.social and @peter-kenny.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

Wow! Go The Boss!

Free submissions in June to Anthropocene! www.anthropocenepoetry.org/submissions

Thanks so much for this Dave, I especially enjoyed your pointing me to posts by ‪@kathleenjamie.bsky.social‬ and ‪@clareshawpoet.bsky.social‬

Its that time again... the June update goes out in a week or so. Poets: sign up now to get it (free). Poetry magazine editors: if you're not on the spreadsheet, let me know.

@pleides.bsky.social Hi Elly! Thanks for the repost... I hope all is well with you. x

About the cover art of The Mayday Diaries: robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk/2025/05/28/t...

Poets! The window opens... Jump in while you can.

Love this.

I'm delighted that Sharon Black at Pindrop Press nominated 'The Mayday Diaries' for the Forward Prize Best First Collection. Up against a zillion others of course, but one can live in hope! robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk/the-mayday-d...

Poems that tremble with tension and beauty, cupping darkness and secret trauma. Richard Scott shares from his new collection 'That Broke into Shining Crystals, from @faberbooks.bsky.social. Hosted by @robinhoughton.bsky.social and @peter-kenny.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

I'm very grateful to all my wellwishers for the book - and the fantastic @richchad.bsky.social even received his copy on publication day - wow! #poetry

Join us on the 13th May at the Frontier Bar in Eastbourne for an evening of poetry from our Guest Poet @robinhoughton.bsky.social and our fabulous array of open mic performers. Grab a drink from the bar and just enjoy the poetry - it's free! We look forward to seeing you there! #poetry #words

This is so true. Trump would never have got where he is without people voting for him, people funding him, people speaking up for him, people willing to be in his trashy so-called government. The UK will go the same way unless we all do what small things we can, all the time.

On my way to Free Verse #Poetry Book Fair at St Columba's in London, I'll be helping out on the Frogmore Press table... See you there?

Listen to my chat with Isabelle Baafi in the latest episode of @planetpoetry.bsky.social ...

first consignment has arrived...

Free Verse Book & Magazine Fair is nearly a month away (26 April)! Over the next few weeks, we'll be spotlighting all of the publishers you'll find at the fair. This first batch includes: Smokestack Books, Pindrop Press, Bad Petty Press, Carcanet, Out-Spoken Press, and Pamenar Press.

It’s interesting that the emojis show the earth from three angles 🌎 🌍 🌏 but not the fourth. Though 🔵 is a fair approximation of what it would look like. People underestimate the Pacific.

Oof! @fionalarkin.bsky.social has won thd National Poetry Competition! HUZZAH! I feel a blog post coming on.. 😍

CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS! Editors Isabelle Baafi @timtimtmi.bsky.social & @sohinibasak.bsky.social can't wait to receive your submissions for Magma 93: The Liberation Issue. What does ‘liberation’ mean to you? 📷 Luizph/Pexels More info and to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...

THIS! katyevansbush.bsky.social on Women in the world katyevansbush.substack.com/p/women-in-t...

Amazing work here by Ellen Cranitch, great to hear her read some of her poems

Poets, only one day left to enter this ...

Calling all young poets: new writing challenge alert! We’re teaming up with the Estorick Collection to ask you to write poems that break the rules. Send us poems that flout poetic form, or even do away with using the page for poetry entirely… Find prompts on Young Poets Network: bit.ly/YPNEstorick

Just updated my quarterly spreadsheet of (mostly UK and Irish) #poetry mags - when they're open, how to submit etc. Every link checked by a human (me!) - It's free, and you can sign up here robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk/poetry-magaz...