My #poem 'Net' was selected for an anthology called 'Salt Songs' by the George Mackay Brown Fellowship in Orkney, (2023). This tiny piece was inspired by GMB's writing, & appeared in my rock|salt collaboration with artist Elspeth Knight (2022) 💙 Link to anthology: www.orcadian.co.uk/shop/orkney-...

Christmas #poetry gifts... I've copies of my short collection 'rock|salt' (2022) #poems about #Fife in Scotland & its industrial / seafaring #heritage. Pls donate to my friend Victoria McGloin's memorial in aid of #womenshealth, then DM me & I will post books: www.justgiving.com/page/vicky-m... 💙

Christmas #poetry gifts... I've copies of my short collection 'rock|salt' (2022) #poems about #Fife in Scotland & its industrial / seafaring #heritage. Pls donate to my friend Victoria McGloin's memorial in aid of #womenshealth, then DM me & I will post books: www.justgiving.com/page/vicky-m... 💙

Thank you so much, and so sorry I missed this! I’ve not been online much in recent months, I’ve had to focus on my health for a while. Grateful to still have folk interested in (& remembering!) my poetry 🙏💫❤️

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#Cromarty will fill with a wheen of writers & musicians 23-24 May, celebrating #HughMiller folklorist, geologist, paleantologist, essayist, sennachie; person of many pairts. I look forward to sharing my #poems there, along with @gillshawwrites.bsky.social @ammonitesandstars.bsky.social & many more 👇

A lovely mystery story from us at The Friends of Hugh Miller and Hugh Miller's Birthplace NTS today! Huge thanks to all involved in bringing this beautiful object to Scotland 💎 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A lovely mystery story from us at The Friends of Hugh Miller and Hugh Miller's Birthplace NTS today! Huge thanks to all involved in bringing this beautiful object to Scotland 💎 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Submissions are open for poetry & CNF, the theme is GRIEF. One more week to go! 📷:Etienne Girardet sidhe-press.eu/submissions/ #Poetry #CNF #Anthology #Grief Please read the guidelines🌼

Meet me in the garden

These deeply beautiful maps show the migration patterns of––respectively––Curlew, Kittiwake & Blackcap. From this interactive migration atlas recording migrations of 300 bird species: migrationatlas.org Birds both tether us to places & stitch the world together.

Submissions are open on the theme of GRIEF until 10/3. Please read the guidelines carefully! #Poetry #CNF #Anthology #Grief sidhe-press.eu/submissions/ Photo by Annie Spratt, via Unsplash.

We are opening submissions on the theme of GRIEF tomorrow! We are looking for poems and short CNF about grief. By this we mean not only the grief for a person/ for people, but also grief for animals, grief for a place, a home, a time, an idea, our health, the world, 🧵

Tonight!

🚨 #CoverReveal 🚨 Introducing #BeautifulLittleFools, our centenary celebration of The Great Gatsby—a collection of poetry & prose dripping with desire, decadence & the ghosts of Gatsby’s world. Want your work inside? The #SubmissionWindow closes Feb 28. #PoetrySky #PoetsOfBlueSky #GreatGatsby100

This Thursday! Tickets still available, we're looking forward to seeing you there. #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #ForSarah #AlwaysFire #TheCrowGods #Remembrance #Hospice #Fundraiser

Please join us in celebrating Sarah. It will be a quiet evening filled with beautiful poems and love. buytickets.at/sdhepress/15... The gorgeous painting after a poem by Sarah is by @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social You can also find Oormila on Instagram oormila_paintings

In 2021 The GMB Fellowship published Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums – a collection of poetry and prose in Orcadian dialect. The Orkney Voices writing group have now recorded it as an audio collection. Listen to the first episode NOW at gousters.transistor.fm or wherever you get your podcasts. 🎧

Seascape recent demo print from a workshop

From this bright start to the day, a nosedive into the red zone for #stormeowyn 🤞🏻 #staysafe #winterstorm

The best thing about this, for us anyway, is that I can see what the #BrokenSpineFamily is in in just the one place. The posts being collated here, by writers that I have admired and published over the last five years, is a beautiful thing! go.bsky.app/Aw9cpV2

Midweek motivation: #FromTheAshes. Go deep. Don’t shy away from cultivating each line. Engage with others—it’s how we’re building a new poetry space far beyond Twitter. #PoemsAbout #StayOnTheme #BeBold #ConcreteOverAbstract

#Edinburgh decided to show off at #sunset 😍

Glimpses of our stunning #winter walk round to the local loch today - all ice, feather and water ruffles 💙❄️

A transient new pathway over ice - curious which creature made this journey over the hill pond… #desireways #newpaths #ice #winterwalk

Midweek check: #PoemsAbout #Clarity. Stick to vivid images and bold ideas that go beyond the surface. Building a true poetry community here means engaging—so share feedback and connect. #PoemsAbout #StayOnTheme #BeBold #EmotionNotMelodrama

Submissions are OPEN for Glow: City at Night Poems! Illuminate urban nightscapes with your work. Accepting submissions all January! Details here: thebrokenspine.co.uk/2024/12/08/s...

We are open for an extended period through January for * Welsh writers only * Whether you are Mohammed from Swansea, Callum from Gilfach or Sian from Bala, we want to hear from you. If you identify as Welsh (not excluding other heritages), go for it. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Get booking poets! Our first open mic of the year, 5 mins. per poet on Zoom. Limited places. Roadtest your work at our popular event. Ideal for the nervous. Sunday 12th January 6:00pm. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-bough-online-open-mic-tickets-1129444481849?aff=oddtdtcreator

Another from last night; less detail in the light side of the moon, but I love that I caught something of what you could actually see! #moonandvenus #crescentmoon #NikonD3500

Crescent moon with Venus, taken with my Nikon D3500 camera, 70-300 lens, & a tripod. Very much a beginner at #astrophotography 🌙✨❄️ Gorgeous, crisp, cold night.

Yes! This! #LiftToTheSky #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

My incredibly talented #horrorwriter friend Keith Foreman has scribed a winter story for the Decadent Serpent competition... Please do read, and vote for it if you are creeped out enough to do so! ❄❄❄ (Voting options are at the end of the story...) decadentserpent.com/2024/12/04/c...

A beautiful moment to end a tough year; Giant’s Causeway with good friends, epic turquoise waves and a pod of dolphins passing by 💙 Couldn’t believe that last part, but it happened. Much love, courage and resilience to you all for 2025 ✨

Festive greetings and warm wishes to all my followers from my wee corner of this beautiful world 💙

Happy Winter Solstice to all in the northern hemisphere. The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back. A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year. Fiat lux! 📷 by @annieworsley.bsky.social

Muted #dawn colours over the Binn hill, Fife coast, early this morning. A blue silver #frost and orange-reds left over from autumn. The only sound was a blackbird sounding the alarm that I was in his space (forgive me, good sir, it was so beautiful).

The wilderness and the mountains... from the wee road home. Baosbhein, Beinn Dearg, Beinn Alligin taken a few days ago. #naturewriting #writingcommunity #landscapephotography

My incredibly talented #horrorwriter friend Keith Foreman has scribed a winter story for the Decadent Serpent competition... Please do read, and vote for it if you are creeped out enough to do so! ❄❄❄ (Voting options are at the end of the story...) decadentserpent.com/2024/12/04/c...

This Saturday Eat the Storms, the poetry podcast, is hosting a special funding episode A Podcast for Palestine 🇵🇸 All funds will go to www.childrennotnumbers.org This is the list of writers, so far, taking part, more to be added before Saturday We now also have a GoFundMe page gofund.me/553c2548

Characteristically gorg hybrid work from Anindita Sengupta @lilithblues.bsky.social on the Ice Floe today 'An incandescent sort of living is what she wants, someone once said of me, meaning it was indecent, meaning I would only ever come to harm' #poetry icefloepress.net/2024/12/02/p...

Another day, another door! 🎁 Supervising the tree decorating... who will be today's advent surprise? #RSPBAdvent

We're thrilled to announce that submissions are now OPEN for our #SelectedPoetry series—an online-only showcase celebrating boundary-pushing, thought-provoking poetry! Join us in redefining the poetic landscape. Deadline: December 2024. thebrokenspine.co.uk/2024/11/30/p...

It's the Christmas countdown for nature lovers! ✨🎄 Every day, we’ll bring a little magic from the wild to your feed. Who’s hiding behind door 1?.... Let’s take a peek… #RSPBAdvent

Poetry submission opportunity coming up! Read carefully! 🎄 🤶 🎅 🧝 www.blackboughpoetry.com/events #writingsubmissions #poetic #poetry #poetrysubmissions