@kathrynreese.bsky.social @bts-adams.bsky.social @pamthepoet.bsky.social @inkyshaine.bsky.social look for the slimline 'Fragments' call.

@bts-adams.bsky.social @pamthepoet.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social poets. Me. Retired ten. Christmas #PoemsAbout [don't know if this is legit] 💓 the office hiatus is brief. Christmas anticipates New Year policy meetings. schedules targets efficiencies outcomes. meetings. Party.

@pamthepoet.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social @bts-adams.bsky.social just thought I saw my place in here; can you confirm.

Much to digest. Summer's height, unpredictable climate, sending warmth in and out of focus in a country now largely void of history, mulling our attachment with the US and relinquished ties with mother England. The Lucky Country is a 'work' by Donald Horne, a Historian. I feel the irony of loss

Thanks anyone who recognises the poet from Orstralia.

#PoemsAbout #Money @bsky.app @alanparrywriter.co.uk poets i know i do what i must do. balance prescription anxiety medication against insensitivity. stressing and relaxing tensing and flexing off workplace imbalance. tradition says take it on the chin. treat predisposition with less money

@pamthepoet.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social @bts-adams.bsky.social this context blows me away 💓

#PoemsAbout #NoFuture, my thanks always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and participating poets softly no future. denying tomorrow, won’t happen. our children have plans. imagine, no future without children. unviable 💓

For #PoemsAbout #NoFuture with thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and all poets participating.

@pamthepoet.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social Enjoyed these.

Why don't you check out Stripes Magazine, Issue 5.2 'Blank Spaces'? It is a thinner, though powerfully resonant thematically. Read the Editorial and prepare. stripesliterarymagazine.weebly.com/issue-5-blan...

@bloodhoneylit.bsky.social has posted three [3] poems, making me extremely happy. You'll enjoy them as well, without tuggin'. Take a look. Consider submitting, poets. Thanks to the editorial team. www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/aitke...

Shout out to 'The Closed Eye Open', announcing the release of ISSUE XIV. "The selection process was very careful, and honestly, there was some really great work that just didn't fit into our plans." [my own poem 'unpurposed' page 59] Enjoy the issue page on our website at theclosedeyeopen.com

Extremely happy and encouraged by this Aussie [Vol 13 Issue 2] Meniscus for page 2 or thereabouts to read 'no answer', written for my late mother and those women I saw while hospitalised. The whole Issue is extremely well curated. the editorial team 💓💓 www.meniscus.org.au/current-issue.

Many publications rely on 'us' to promote opportunities. "Submissions are open for the first issue of Meniscus for 2026, at meniscusliteraryjournal.submittable.com/submit; and keep an eye out for the 2026 prizes, if you’re interested in submitting work." Do share amongst writer/poets.

@pamthepoet.bsky.social @bts-adams.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social and again. @stacebot.bsky.social

#PoemsAbout #LockedDoors @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk [thanks for the timely 'prompt'] behind me now the exit door & years of contesting a lived experience disabling my clean bill of health no going back. caution going forwards

@pamthepoet.bsky.social @bts-adams.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social Whew.

Imagine the poetry. 😇

#PoemsAbout #Blood @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk As instructed

#PoemsAbout #Blood @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk Trying my 'lived experience' on. my Psyche Ward Robe how it drips the sarcasm the dress the status like blood during surgery onto sterility. how it trickles 'til you can’t get enough Thanks Alan; everyone.

@tracieadams.bsky.social The Shallot [Vol IV No 2] is officially published! It's not free but a digital version is only $8.00 AUD and having read my contributor copy I do thoroughly recommend it. Look for my poem 'i only dream i'm asleep' on about page 34. Thank you team. ✔️

This is a good idea; trust me.

I think my MS is 'go thunderbirds'! Later tonight local time a submission package; cover letter in the body of an email / attached documentation / press enter. 🤞

@alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #NeverAgain thank you to those whose poems said so much to my reading needs for #NeverAgain and also for sharing to and fro my own contribution. My footy team lost but I feel such a winner after Friday. G

@alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #NeverAgain climax park i have no desire to be a sole survivor alone at the end on cold concrete steps at the suburban ground in slanting rain the game lost. no desire to know anyone who does

@bts-adams.bsky.social @pamthepoet.bsky.social Happening for 24 hours. Get onto this. Good show. Fwd to Katherine [can't load her]

Did I even address that correctly. Muddle headed today. #WednesdayWIPs @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Poetry / football on the telly with a mate and pizza and beer? It is a Prelim and my Cats are playing for a spot in the GF. I'll be back to look some more at #PoemsAbout#SilentPlanets later. Thanks for the replies to my post. G

@alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout#SilentPlanets it was close enough. she was the one an ambience unidentifiable to anyone else no conversation no interruption no distractions excepting the eventual need to share food. beyond us, deep space; for giant steps

@thebrokenspine.co.uk #WednesdayWIPs #PoetsOfBluesky #BlueskyWriters #PoemsAbout Have a MS. 77 pps. All but. Two Aussie calls from October 1st. Not necessarily local contexts. Social conscience punching wry humour and the irony of daily life. Minimalist images and language. Eight years grinding. 🤔

@suburbanwitchlit.bsky.social huge thank you to Mirjana who, under extraordinarily trying conditions has won hearts by still launching Issue10 as promised - only better. Check out page 126, Sarah Jimenez [just sayin']. 👏 suburbanwitchcraft.com/issue10

Part 3: I am here; mandeliterary.com/by-order/ I did not write this for $$$s but Kate and Scott rewarded my poem in USD. I am extremely grateful for the acknowledgement. I forgot my manners and didn't even check the site until today.

Part 2: Scott now serves as Mande’s informal consulting editor. We aim to publish the art and writing of bipolar creatives and those who know them. The name “Mande” combines the first syllables of manic depression.

Get this my friends who seek company and belonging while reading likeminded poetry from people like yourself. Mande began as a conversation between two bipolar friends, Kate Ardis Oden, a writer and copyeditor, and Scott Neuffer, the founder of the successful literary journal trampset.

Thank you Darren Carlaw Editor at Stepaway Magazine, for publishing my poem 'city light'. I encourage contemporarily curated poetry mag readers to take the entire collection to bed with you. Each poem is a winner.💖 stepawaymagazine.com

@mattkendrick.bsky.social introducing Shaino @inkyshaine.bsky.social who has overcome a legacy that would have grounded most writers to break open the poetry scene in our city and is now moving amongst the Australian poetry community where we all anticipate greater things. I commend Shaino to you.

Sometimes when your mentals are out of alignment you could reimagine childhood moments for something more sustainable; see 'washed out' as my offering. Geoffrey. Thanks to the Amazine Community for making this shareable.

Thank you Iva and The Amazine Community for accepting and now publishing my poem 'washed out'. Extremely grateful. GA✔️

Thanking 'Twenty-Two Twenty-Eight magazine for posting two of my poems in the spirit intended and for those who like me move in circles beyond the madness to save our mental health from dismantling. @alanparrywriter.co.uk I'll keep thanking you - link www.twentytwotwentyeight.com/single-post/...

Thank you Macrame Literary Journal www.macramelit.com for posting my poem '40 rue Saint Paul' alongside some very classy writing overnight. The poetry is short and enticingly delicious and my piece fits into the Journal as neatly as if a pin. Find my poem here; macramelit.com/articles/40-... 😋😋😋

@alanparrywriter.co.uk Hi Alan. Now the dust has settled, a huge thank you for the kick start you gave me earlier this year with my MS and a belief [cost free it seems] that finds me writing more consciously and conveying meaning with a depth to satisfy readers. 👏

@thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #Keepsakes Couldn't 'cut and paste' everyone's @ but my gratitude to each of you for your incredibly kind words...Carolyn Thomas; Alan Parry; Julian (Hool); Mike O'Brien; Rachel Burrows; Paul Connely; C. Oulens & Jan Peters.

Yes. Great tune. Lyrics very suitable if not defensive. Thanks. I have already shared the link. G

Check the call. Follow the prompts; post your response. 'Get it on'.

@thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #Keepsakes keepsakes said hers was in the large jar on the dining room sideboard that photograph a memory still alive in her mind softly coloured my early vulnerability unready for adult sanity

A highly recommended read. A great Mag. Time well spent. Loved the interview and now I know Iva a little better.

Sharing. Underbelly Press alive and well. Issue Four for us all. Get a look at this. Let it sink in; the authority, the curation and the commitment. 😍 underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/copy-of...

Thank you all at Underbelly Press for posting this snippet. You've made my night [land downunder].😍