I’m writing a Speculative verse novel. A year ago I submitted a sample of poems to a uk press and they asked me to turn it into a verse novel. I’m 80% there. But the press is probably folding and have told me to find another publisher. #WednesdayWIPs #PoetsOfBluesky #BlueskyWriters #PoemsAbout

Hildegard of Bingen's music, which Sequentia perform with especial brilliance, is well worth discovering. Here's Vis Aeternitatis, the partial inspiration for my poem above of the same name #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #poetry #HildegardofBingen @julianday.bsky.social

By Ian Duhig

Glasgow, we're bringing the forest to you! 🍃 4 Nov: celebrate @silver-press.bsky.social Ursula K. Le Guin titles THE WORD FOR WORLD & SPACE CRONE w @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social, Phil Crockett-Thomas (Abolition Science Fiction!), Matthew Sangster & me in convo. www.waterstones.com/events/a-cel...

Epidemic being fuelled by availability of ultra-processed foods and aggressive market.

Placed my tote bag with @Zaffarkunials poem on Gaza in the window of @Cornwallpoetrylibrary. Such horrors in Gaza and elsewhere in the world. What can we do?

My Craft Essay: "Creative Writing + Poetry & Publicity: Crafting News Pegs to Boost Marketing Momentum" ✍️ Pls leave a comment on Substack - thanks! @sfpoetry.bsky.social @charlesbastille.bsky.social @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social ➡️ beyondcraft.substack.com/p/poetry-and...

Should we have diplomatic ties with the US? Yes. Should we roll out the red carpet for a racist, misogynist? No. Should we show up in huge numbers to say he represents everything we oppose? Absolutely. See you there.

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

💃 🕺 🪩 #ThursdayThrowback 🎵 🎸 🎶 'Don't Stop Me Now' by Queen performed by 1,000 musicians at The Grand Jam in Frankfurt, Germany 💥 Feel the energy & the joy! 💯 @tomr-bsky.bsky.social @hdwp.com @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social @joshuasiegal.bsky.social youtu.be/oEHR7lv4XhQ?...

Don’t know where this is from, but it’s lovely.

can't stress how important it is that you maintain at least one really wild insane left wing political stance to keep the hitlers off balance and the issues in perspective ie. feed landlords to snakes. trees get their own parliament. put solar panels on jeffrey bezos. send all mormons to the moon.

Angela's tireless – and peerless – compiling continues ...

books ARE actually the fashionable thing all the young people are into. It's one of the main things driving the opening of new bookstores. Go into any Waterstones and they're full of YAs browsing the stacks and walking out with stacks

#PoetryCommunity 📢 CALL TO SUBMIT from Poetry Ireland Review 🌐 International subs welcome! ✒️ Poetry ⏰ Send after 9-1-2025 ⏰ 💲$50 - $100/piece @hwany.org @sfpoetry.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @csecooney.bsky.social @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social www.poetryireland.ie/writers/subm...

🐈 #WeeWondersWednesday 😼 Watch a tiny ginger kitten grow up to be a proper pussycat. ⏳ Time-lapse video. @trishcwilson.bsky.social @dmcwriter.bsky.social @juleigh.bsky.social @amygrech.bsky.social @kumisori.bsky.social @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social

For anyone who missed the lecture @annadillon.bsky.social and I did the other day, the recording and slides are here.... youtu.be/Wo2UUOophK8?...

For #MosaicMonday we thought we resurrect this famous Jim Henson scene.

Check out this thread for a good dose of flight-free family holiday inspiration!

My #poemsabout #darksky with @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk Night has come the land waits for moonrise Rabbit watches from her hole Vixen eyes the shape before her Something moves brokenly screams in anguish agony and terror As moonlight strikes

& everything in hints - tincture of afterglow & scissor-ear hare, birches' stressing to early-autumn & moon sliding to rise, blocky between strata of cloud - certainties blurring, ambiguity of late season, & early

My painting WISCONSIN FARM

The baby herring gulls, that are all over the village roof tops, are on the cusp of fledging. I’m watching one lifting itself onto the wind and dropping back to the roof.

By the first of August the invisible beetles began to snore and the grass was as tough as hemp and was no color — no more than the sand was a color and we had worn our bare feet bare since the twentieth of June - Anne Sexton #poetry

Yorkshire Day? Isn't that just... Every day? *Kettle & mug for scale #YorkshireDay

This is fantastic news! Well done everyone!

Yep.

Well. Best political appeal I've seen in a long time. Clear, strong and not dog-whistling.

waves on the feather lovely inclement weather

'It was on days just like this--dog days--that boats went sailing off all by themselves. Large, alien objects made their way in from sea, certain things sank and others rose, milk soured, and dragonflies danced in desperation.' Tove Jansson, The Summer Book #BookWormSat 🎨Sara Huxley

Fabulous! You can almost hear the echo of wood hitting wood in some long ago childhood sword fight.

this mellow time of morning bids me to write and bear fruit, grow full and become. #vss365 #poetryprompt #mellow #dailyhaikuprompt #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #micropoem (Image from Unsplash)

@alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #waxtears You paint wax tears down your cheeks across my throat into my waxing heart

@alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social You paint wax tears down your cheeks across my throat into my waxing heart

Podcast scam targeting creatives: How a fake podcast invite has put one content creator’s livelihood at risk. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

On #PhotoFriday here is Risley poet Teresa Hooley (1888–1973). Enjoy her poem 'Wet Beeches': "Today in the wood, by the leaf strewn track The rain drenched beeches are copper and black." #WorldPoetryDay #WomensHistoryMonth

Every time short-haired Lina Hurtig roars on for Sweden in this Euros, I think hard about the way the ponytail has come to dominate for white women footballers.

Rakey Pingle- what a glorious name! I wonder if the early coal mines had equally odd names?

#blueskypoetry #PoemsAbout #keepsakes #poem an oldie

My contribution for this weeks #poemsabout #keepsakes took a while to find. An idea that germinated for a few days before it could really find form @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Ten writers by whom I've read more than five books 1. Iain M Banks 2. Ursula K Le Guin 3. Sam Delany 4. Terry Pratchett 5. Neal Stephenson 6. Douglas Adams 7. Ken MacLeod 8. John Wyndham 9. Arthur C Clake 10. Adam Roberts

Also more seriously: I had to read a book in Italian to learn that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any comparable-size city in the world. Multiculturalism works. (Deleted and reposted to correct stupid late night mistake.)