ROBIN IN A FIG TREE Cheery red, bob-bob-bobbing? My Robin has read Ted Hughes pulls worms fighting from stiff soil terrorises chickens fights to the death for territory He now lurks in our small unproductive Fig tree the pigeons by the pond look uneasy Copyright © 2025 Kim Whysall-Hammond

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A blue Christmas without a Dr Who special….🎄🛸🙁

'Sub-able' #RejectionBlackoutPoetry

6 hours left to fund Up//Roar #Poems of Queer Resistance thank you to the people who have donated/increased their donation in the last 3 hours! we have £296 to find, so still less than £50 an hour - we can do it! please share, folks. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/uproar-poe...

Let’s get into a Christmas mood. Here is some British Christmas fun – a video sent home to their families and friends by the crew of HMS Ocean as they came home from a long deployment in December 2011. m.youtube.com/watch?v=SDZc...

#WritingCommunity ✒️ The Poet's Guide to Marketing Bringing Your Words to the World (& these savvy tips also work for novelists) @sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @pixieb.bsky.social @nytebird45.bsky.social substack.com/@greenwichvi...

🧑‍🎄🪀🧸🪁 🎄December 6th honors St. Nicholas, patron saint of children. My article: "Meet the Real Santa Claus: How a Bearded Black Bishop Born in Turkey Became America’s Favorite White Saint" @dmcwriter.bsky.social @birdwriterwrites.bsky.social @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social substack.com/@greenwichvi...

The Poet's Guide to Marketing: Tip # 8. Write Adjacent to Your Themes @sfpoetry.bsky.social @swsworlds.bsky.social @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @joshuasiegal.bsky.social @authorlindamcrate.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/greenwic...

Go read this…

The lovely Tim Clare invited me onto his podcast, Death of 1000 Cuts and we talked for ages about poetry, Roman walls and the treasure that is good feedback. Thanks sir! soundcloud.com/timclare/s8e...

This book is such a good read

#SundaySnailMail 🐌 🇬🇧 Race to rescue London's rare hairy snail First recorded in the UK in 1982, fossilized remains indicate the German hairy snail has called the UK home since the Stone Age. A snail poem, please! @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

Find out more about upcoming access performances for The Little Mermaid on our website at What's On > Access 🧜‍♀️

This poem is quite wonderful:

The Poetic Licence has a 24-day advent calendar event.... every day a FREE post with a poem to consider and the chance to discuss it with other members. Here's the first! www.patreon.com/posts/advent...

Excited that spec poetry is getting the recognition it always deserved. Don't forget that Radon publishes some of the highest-quality genre poetry in the industry. Unlike many others, SpecPo is and always has been our main focus, equal to its fiction counterpart file770.com/hugo-award-f...

#PoetryCommunity #Gardening #DOTD Remembering Robert Louis Stevenson, who died on 3 December 1894. His Poems Planted Seeds in My Heart during Childhood @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @prolificpulsepress.bsky.social substack.com/@greenwichvi...

#DOTD 125 years ago today – Oscar Wilde’s death came on 30 Nov 1900. Wilde, age 46, died from meningitis. 🎙️ 🎵 🎸 🥁 🎶 Malcolm McLaren discovered that Oscar Wilde discovered PUNK ROCK in the 1880s. @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @hdwp.com substack.com/@greenwichvi...

We’ll be highlighting a poem every day from Dust’s new issue, starting today

The moon

Kyiv is slowly coming back to life after the night’s attack. My beautiful phoenix.

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

Sword

An organisation that is there to help poets has just sent out rejections for an anthology- a mass email addressed “Dear Poets “. Soulless and dehumanising.

"To look at the animal is to confront another mode of existence, complete in itself and closed to ours." - José Ortega y Gasset Going to post one of these every day as a reminder. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

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Enjoy Kaleidotrope's Black Friday sale—one day (and this thread) only!—all the stories and poems from the archive with the word "black" in the title! Now (and always) with no charge whatsoever!

Learning how to keep my cool when tyrants continue to pillage the world is an ongoing, teeth-gritting monumental task. #vss365 #poetryprompt #learning #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem

Exactly! 💯

To start the process of transforming the nightmare reality playing out in today’s headlines into a dream society that supports human happiness, we need only make a single, simple choice. #Thanksgiving #Christmas #holiday #family #conversation #SaveTheWorld

Goodnight. 🖼️ Claro de luna y luces, Leon Spilliaert.

#PoetryCommunity 🖤 As I was reading the poem "End of Season" by Julie Goldman, diagnosed at 31 yrs old with breast cancer in 1994, I knew a remarkable voice had been silenced. @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @pixieb.bsky.social rattle.com/end-of-seaso...

Solidarity with @pcsunion.bsky.social workers at the British Library. 300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive. A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable. Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼

@morselya.bsky.social We are in the Netherlands in November at the SF Cafe and at a significant birthday party at the Kotter. Really looking forward to catching up with lots of Dutch and Belgian SF fans. #sciencefiction #worldcon

The camera on my phone can't do justice to the magic in tonight's sky #Shetland #aurora

crisp autumn morning big ben strikes deep into the heart of time #Photograph mine

Let there be light

Kim Whysall-Hammon explores the jumbled confluence of our past and present lives in today's poem. @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social

I’m delighted to tell you that my poem, School Reunion, is now up at Black Nore Review. Many thanks to Ben Banyard for publishing this poem. It describes a reunion I and my husband attended a couple of years ago. blacknorereview.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/k...

Out today, on what would’ve been Ursula K. Le Guin’s 96th birthday, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Sarah Shin and @suchmayer.bsky.social. With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙 www.silverpress.org/collections/...

After Victoria dies, I drive to Shoreham – Tina Sederholm atriumpoetry.com/2025/10/21/a...

If only….

Outrageous

You don't need to have read it to get the joke www.worldofmoose.com/products/tri...

Check out the latest Eye to the Telescope edited by @caseyaimer.bsky.social! Issue 58's theme is Cyberpunk and it's LIVE and free to read now: eyetothetelescope.com/archives/058...

If you play Flight Of The Bumblebee on it, time stands still.

Strapping workmanship!

How great it is when at least one of your childhood heroes doesn't disappoint you. :-)