NEIGHBOURHOOD ECLIPSE A poem about temporal dissonance from my chapbook #Chasms with Alien Buddha Press. Many thanks to Red for first publishing this piece.🖤 #PoemsAloud #Dissonance #TemporalDissonance #demographics #PoemsAboutCities #cities @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/Ck-pW...

Join me and @bethbpoet.bsky.social @coastalpoet.bsky.social @rburrows.bsky.social @luminousjune.bsky.social @jumpingjulespoetry.bsky.social @poet-pratibha1.bsky.social with Glenn Barker (in words if not in body) - a Magnificent Seven of poets if ever I saw one! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-for...

Some interviews shine best BECAUSE of the person who conducts the interview! @samszanto.bsky.social is such a soul. Grateful to have this #poetic conversation with her! #Poetry #StayCreative #PoetsSupportPoets #PoetsOfBlueSky

Be lovely to see you here, today:

Great to see my story on this list! Thank you @flash500.bsky.social

Hedgehogs away! We three are launching our Hedgehog Press books (& more!) on Sat 28 March, online tinyurl.com/hedgehogpoets - join Margaret Royall @meggiepoet.bsky.social Katrina Moinet and me from 7.00pm, with @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social @marcellenewbold.bsky.social @sarahleavesley.bsky.social.

Thank you @samszanto.bsky.social for taking the time. Really appreciate it 🥰 #diversevoices #writingcommunity #interview

Thanks so much to @samszanto.bsky.social for allowing me to talk about 'The How in the World' - it was really good to do! www.samszanto.com/post/louise-...

I'd like to #lifttothesky @mike-everley.bsky.social for his beautiful poem #Swallows . @thebrokenspine.co.uk Thank you.

An absolutely tremendous evening of #LastSaturday #poetry with Alan Humm, @moiragauthor.bsky.social @samszanto.bsky.social @corinnaboard.bsky.social @missyerem.bsky.social @carmellapoetry.bsky.social beautiful, powerful, moving, magical. I promised you heart-stirring and it truly was. Thank you!

www.samszanto.com/blog For those who don't know me very well, I'm Sam, a writer and PhD researcher. When I'm not doing those things, I have a blog helping indie writers promote their latest books, because as the author of 3 of them I know how hard that is! If you have one to promote, get in touch.

I had a lot of fun being interviewed by award-winning Durham poet Sam Szanto, and hope you enjoy it too! Here's a snippet to start you off: ‘Poetry taps into the dark river of our deepest selves that runs below our lives, and which is both bitter and sweet.’

www.samszanto.com/post/janice-... The latest interview on my blog is with @janicewarman.bsky.social, author of the beautiful poetry collection 'These are the things we have lost', out now with the always amazing @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social #poetry

www.samszanto.com/post/janice-... The latest interview on my blog is with @janicewarman.bsky.social, author of the beautiful poetry collection 'These are the things we have lost', out now with the always amazing @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social #poetry

Hello #poets #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity - please come and show your support for a superb band of poets this Saturday, free on Zoom 7.00pm to just after 8. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/last-satur...

Julie Stevens #mustread #ForestGirl #poetrycommunity

February is flying by! Time for another Last Saturday cornucopia of poetry! With guests Alan Humm, @corinnaboard.bsky.social @samszanto.bsky.social @missyerem.bsky.social @carmellapoetry.bsky.social and @moiragauthor.bsky.social (tbc) Online and free! 7.00pm on Saturday 28 Feb. tinyurl.com/y5mhz2bz

A huge thank you to these fantastic people & poets @johnkenny13.bsky.social @jumpingjulespoetry.bsky.social @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social @ings4words.bsky.social @pdevonald.bsky.social @peterthabitjones.bsky.social @samszanto.bsky.social for launching Chasms @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social with me!🙏🏼❤️

POEM 299: "Day of the Dead" by Sam Szanto (@samszanto.bsky.social) "The babies know us only by our heart beats. My child is handed to me. I press my face to hers and rock, skin to skin, cradling and crying and kissing and crooning." stonecirclereview.com/day-of-the-d... #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem

This week’s Thursday Throwback is My Best Friend by Sam Szanto @samszanto.bsky.social Through the narrator’s recollection of their childhood, the piece explores resonant themes of loss, change, and growing up. It's poignant and human, with a compelling twist. Read it now in Issue 3.

Submissions are open. Poetry that remembers. That mourns. That refuses to let go. Read the call carefully. Take your time. Send the work that needs to exist. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry

Meaningful and impactful reads for the holiday season. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 This Was Your Mother by ❄️ @samszanto.bsky.social A Cancer Notebook by ❄️ @peterthabitjones.bsky.social Othernesses by ❄️ @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social #mustread #poetrycollections

This will be a Christmas cracker, can't wait! @dreich.bsky.social @keeksmc.bsky.social @samszanto.bsky.social #Edinburgh #Leith #Poetry #SpokenWord 📚 💙

Over 150 calls for literary competitions and submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, and more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in December 2025. Please share & best of luck! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

@badvibrations62.bsky.social @hareontherun.bsky.social @paulwritespoems.bsky.social @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social @coastalpoet.bsky.social @samszanto.bsky.social

Delighted to have a very personal poem “In Search of Albion” in the new #Rites&Trials anthology out today. Huge thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk Many great pieces by @samszanto.bsky.social @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social and many more www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3NRLGJ...

Issue 6 is OUT! Our cover artist Lita Cabellut chats with Art Editor Lis Iglesias here #Art #madrid #Spain #litmag themadridreview.com/f/lita-cabel...

I'm delighted to have two poems in The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social alongside SO many talented and brilliant poems - way too many to name! Big thanks to editor James Hartley. #poetry

I enjoyed interviewing Lawrence Moore @lawrencemoore.bsky.social about his new poetry collection, 'This Joyful Interlude', out this week with Jane's Studio. Have a read to find out about Lawrence's inspiration and process, and get a ticket to his launch party! www.samszanto.com/post/lawrenc...

I loved doing this interview about This Joyful Interlude with @samszanto.bsky.social! There were some great questions that really got me thinkiing 🙂 P.S. The book's out tomorrow and the Zoom party is on Thursday! (link in article) www.samszanto.com/post/lawrenc... #poetry #poetrylovers #books

I enjoyed interviewing Lawrence Moore @lawrencemoore.bsky.social about his new poetry collection, 'This Joyful Interlude', out this week with Jane's Studio. Have a read to find out about Lawrence's inspiration and process, and get a ticket to his launch party! www.samszanto.com/post/lawrenc...

All Hail The Amazing Issue 6 Poets! Among them @oyoguhito.bsky.social @ewenglass.bsky.social @carmellapoetry.bsky.social @josehernandezdz.bsky.social @lauracamacho.bsky.social @samszanto.bsky.social and @ciaranbuckley.bsky.social #Poets #poems #Amazing #sensational #gorgeous #newpoetry

In Sam Szanto's poem, 'Spotted in a 7-Eleven in North Hollywood', the speaker details their experiences with intimacy and its aftermath. @samszanto.bsky.social Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/sam-szanto-2/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submission

Autumn Poetry Contest closes tomorrorw - last chance for entries So looking forward to reading your poems. www.whisperingwisdom.co.uk/competitions... #whisperingwisdom #poetry

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V @samszanto.bsky.social is an award-winning, Pushcart prize-nominated writer of the pamphlets 'This Was Your Mother' & ‘Splashing Pink.’Her short-story collection is 'If No One Speaks.’   The Storms is supported @dublincityoflit.bsky.social & @fingal.ie

Thank you to Barbara from @dragonflyflight.bsky.social for publishing three of my poems in FlightsDragonfly Journal Issue 15 today - an honour to be alongside some magnificent poets! #poetry

It was wonderful to interview the brilliant Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social on her truly amazing poetry collection Circulaire - she's got some fascinating things to say about her poems and process so please read and share, then buy Circulaire! #poetry www.samszanto.com/post/bex-hai...

Absolutely loved being interviewed by the wonderful @samszanto.bsky.social about my new pamphlet, Circulaire. 💛☕

It was wonderful to interview the brilliant Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social on her truly amazing poetry collection Circulaire - she's got some fascinating things to say about her poems and process so please read and share, then buy Circulaire! #poetry www.samszanto.com/post/bex-hai...

afternoon Friday hope you’re well here’s my little “throwaway” poem for #PoemsAbout #BreaktheMould and thanks once again Alan 🙋‍♂️ @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetsonBlueSky #WritingCommunity enjoy your weekend everyone everywhere 🚶🏽‍➡️

This is me right now.

Thrilled to pieces to be on this amazing Dithering Chaps longlist [email protected] and to share the space with friends @samszanto.bsky.social, @katenoakes.bsky.social and other wonderful poets. Good luck to us all!

Grateful to the marvellous Nolcha Fox at LatinosUSA for republishing my interview with Beth Brooke today! @bethbpoet.bsky.social latinosenglishedition.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/w...

Grateful to the marvellous Nolcha Fox at LatinosUSA for republishing my interview with Beth Brooke today! @bethbpoet.bsky.social latinosenglishedition.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/w...

Great poetry readings at Blackwell's Newcastle this week from @corrintachibana.bsky.social @samszanto.bsky.social and @marymulholland.bsky.social. Always lovely to meet a fellow @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social author too! @saltpublishing.com @livecanon.bsky.social