Find myself wondering (with utmost patience) when @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social might be hosting another #PoetryTheme prompt...

On Feb 1 2026, @iamb.uk celebrates six years online. Join @louisepoetical.bsky.social and creator/curator @markantonyowen.com on Jan 31 – plus a hand-picked selection of poets from the 380 who've featured in the journal so far – for a free, fun evening of poetry readings. 🥳🎂 bit.ly/iamb_is_six

Winter Moon - by Chinese contemporary woodblock printer, Shi Yi, who is celebrated for his technically stunning designs of village life and rural China. #art #woodblock #printmaking

Getting on the bus only to realise your jeans stink of stir fry from last night. #Monday

For all the women sick of seeing women represented as #Kooky in TV and film as if there were no diversity in how women should behave. #VSS365

She's a kooky lady, they say. Meaning she doesn't conform to stereotypical gender norms. She wears trousers and shirts, and she might even have bangs. She prefers takeout to cooking and she doesn't want kids. She's kooky, they say. She doesn't give a shit what they say. Kooky, they say, kooky.

I'd say happy new year to the #PoemsAbout crew but this one's not exactly happy... #Static #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoetry #Politics

cradled inside the pages of a book a smile reignites #smallpoemsunday #poetry

Here's something I wrote earlier for #poemsabout #static. Happy new year everyone and thanks as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the great prompt! #poems #poetry

I'd say happy new year to the #PoemsAbout crew but this one's not exactly happy... #Static #PoetryCommunity #BlueSkyPoetry #Politics

freeze-dried mint leaves taste like spring days about to come tongue tickling sharpness #BraveWrite mint #poetry #senryu #poetrycommunity

here’s a poetry evening in Sheffield if you’re passing it’d be great to see you and your friends (that’s if you’ve got any friends that do poetry) 🚮🗑️🤷‍♂️

From 2025. As I have not succeeded at making good poached eggs I guess this one can roll over to 2026... #Poem #Poetry #Resolutions #NewYear

Thanks @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for our first 2026 #promptcombo. My #nightfall poem is steeped in ancient Turkish traditions, superstitions and folklore. Happy new year to all. #poetry #poems

#poetry friends - I'm looking for recommendations for some handsome and recent pamphlet publications. Particularly anything handmade, beautiful, minimalist, letterpress etc #PromptCombo #PoemsAbout

This poem is dedicated to anyone heading back into work and having to endure dull conversation about what they got up to during the Christmas holidays.

Gently Entering a Nubile state Treat me Lightly, Enough. #Gentle #AcrosticJanuary #Acrostic

This week: #Static — interference, distortion, the hum beneath the signal. What’s left when the message breaks down? When the screen refuses clarity? New theme opens Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout to be found.

I think we all need Bodega Cats right now. A small smile among the madness.

In 2025 I was lucky enough to get my first poem published in the fantastic @epistemiclit.bsky.social. This year I'm aiming to push past the nerves and submit to a few more places. #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #GettingPublished

Marty Supreme was excellent although extremely intense; not a moment of reprieve. #Films #Movies

In talk of abstraction, I lose myself. Ellipses of memories scattered between presence. Am I now or then, or when? #VSS365 #Abstraction

When the SS Great Britain returned to her birthplace of Bristol in 1970 (after being scuttled and abandoned for decades in the Falklands) a banquet was held to celebrate. One of the side dishes was mussels which had been scraped from the hull of the ship as it entered the dry dock.

First snowdrop of the year in my garden. A good sign for the year ahead I think 🤍 #BloomScrolling

A subtle smile, An expectant glance to you, Delight is to come. #VSS365 #Delight #HappyNewYear

Happy New Year! Butterflies and moths are often seen as a symbol of hope and new beginnings 🦋 Keep an eye out for these species in your gardens and local green spaces this month, and let us know what you see.

2026 Peace, justice and equality That’ll do 🙏

#NewYearsEve plans: go for a walk, read my book, make fresh pasta, play boardgames.

If travel through time and space had allowed Dante and Samuel Beckett to collaborate on something, they would have created Jools Holland’s Hootenanny

It's been a strange year for weather and wildlife in the UK...

I was not prepared for the colour of this sour beer from Yonder! #Beer #Futurama #Slurm

My cartoon for the latest @newscientist.com

Daytrip to Lyme Regis. Beautiful day ☀️ #Ammonites #Seaside

Merry Christmas one and all! May the festive season be whatever you need it to be 🌟❤️

We're recruiting a Communications Lead to join our fantastic team. . We are looking for someone with excellent interpersonal skills who can run our press office and lead the way in creating and implementing our new Comms Strategy. For more info go to transactual.org.uk/jobs #hiring #vacancy

A trip to Tredegar House has made me feel a little more festive 🎄 a few more sleeps to go...

Solstice blessings ☀️ let the light return.

I'm not sure if this is a poem... but it's what I've written for #PoemsAbout #Money it's probably a #WIP and/or a stream of consciousness 🙃

The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2026 is NOW OPEN! The winning poems will be published in future issues of The London Magazine. There will also be an award ceremony held in London for the winners. Further details here: thelondonmagazine.org/the-london-m...

Here is a cat, a cat called Lenny, who didn't want to spend the afternoon in the rain. #NotMyCat ps. no, I don't feed him.

It's too painful to say 'in my memory' because that would be to admit that you no longer exist elsewhere. #VSS365 #Memory

A guy just told me “it’s a woman’s job to have babies” and when I informed him “even if that is true, which it is not, it’s not any woman’s job to have babies with YOU” he lost his entire mind. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone turn quite that shade of purple before.

If you haven’t read Issue 7: Integrity yet, I have to ask you — what are you waiting for? epistemiclit.com/current-issue/

Just been baptised by the bus stop. Protected from the sin of late buses and the smells of greasy takeaways forever more. #Blessed

Hullo #promptcombo #memorial Unusually, a second one from me.

Everyday, a soliloquy / Main character energy. #VSS365 #Soliloquy

Gentle raindrops fall/ Sea’s soliloquy echoes/ on glassy shoreline #vss365 #soliloquy #haiku

Open until 16th December for our Cat Poetry Book! Don't forget we are also open for Poems for Protest AND The Rough Diamond Poetry Prize! Check out the website for details - www.roughdiamondpoetry.com

Thrilled to have my poem 'If Facts Were Hamburgers' published in the Integrity issue of @epistemiclit.bsky.social. You can read it online now along with lots of other wonderful pieces of writing: epistemiclit.com/current-issu... #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Integrity

Green Party London Assembly Members stand strong against the Home Secretary’s cruel new asylum plans.   Migrants aren’t the cause of inequality, the housing shortage or cuts to services, and they shouldn’t be treated as scapegoats.   We reject reforms that replace compassion with conditionality.