I can’t believe it—my first flash fiction publication is out in the world! 🤩 Big thanks to Toil & Trouble Magazine for giving it a home! toilandtroublelitm.wixsite.com/magazine/pos...

I can’t believe it—my first flash fiction publication is out in the world! 🤩 Big thanks to Toil & Trouble Magazine for giving it a home! toilandtroublelitm.wixsite.com/magazine/pos...

Myth and modernity: Antonia Kearton’s “Ariadne offers Theseus a Ball of Thread,” Bill Anderson-Samways’ “Tiresias,” Lila Zokni’s “How to Live it Up Stateless, Waif & Stray.” Eds: @vespertine4.bsky.social & @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social. Free.

Thinking ahead? This fits in a stocking, hits harder than most hardbacks, and costs less than a round. @martinkennedyyates.bsky.social #ThisWilderness www.amazon.co.uk/Wil...

Excited to see my poem published today at @maudlinhouse.bsky.social! Huge thanks to the editors! 🤖

Grateful to @inksweatandtears.co.uk for publishing a new poem of mine. You can read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/40945-2/

Work, class, and memory: Ben Bruges’ “A Goring of Butchers,” Michelle Diaz’s “Your Sister is Semi-Detached,” Jacob Mckibbin’s “In My Community.” Edited by @vespertine4.bsky.social & @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social. Free download.

I’ve started reading @susanlleary.bsky.social's Dressing the Bear, and it’s nothing short of miraculous. “Have we not all been crushed by what shelters us? By a sun hauled from the sky & collapsed into rubies, my brother carrying the wreck of it in his hands.”

Claustrophobic and ominous, today's featured poem is 'Location of Incident' by David Hanlon / @vespertine4.bsky.social Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/40945-2/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #FeaturedPoem

Pinch me #Trilogy #wife #widow #witch

Craft and edge: Henry Bladon’s “The Rubies and Pearls of a Lovesick Eye” and “DTs,” Jessica Boatright’s “Leptocephalus crossed the placental barrier,” Jo Colley’s “Almost Vendage.” Eds: @vespertine4.bsky.social & @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social. Free.

This week isn’t about escape. It’s about what stays shut. Secrets with a latch. Regret with a bolt. Write the room you can’t re-enter. The letter never sent. Tag your post. Use Alt Text. Share from Friday. Sign up: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

Eco-poetics and wonder: Jill McCabe Johnson’s “Scientists Confirm the Origin of Water,” Heather Wastie’s “Where the mushrooms grow,” Stuart Pickford’s “The Bees.” Edited by @vespertine4.bsky.social & @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social. Free download.

Every order so far—thank you. This book’s finding its people. Want to help? A quick review on Goodreads or Amazon makes a real difference. @martinkennedyyates.bsky.social #ThisWilderness www.amazon.co.uk/Wil...

My latest article with @thebrokenspine.co.uk explores my twelve favourite albums. I’d love to know yours. thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/07/26/t...

This may very well be the first copy of Trilogy to land on someone’s doormat! And doesn’t he look happy about it! Be more this guy, and grab yours too 🕸️ amzn.eu/d/2m2G5MQ

My latest article with @thebrokenspine.co.uk explores my twelve favourite albums. I’d love to know yours. thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/07/26/t...

Over the moon to have three poems accepted by @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social! Heartfelt thanks to the editors for choosing my work! ❤️💛🖤

From political bite to intimate elegy: Michael Conley’s “The Tremendous Legislator…” and “Honeymoon Moon Cruise,” plus Patrick Wright’s “Listening to the Black Box” and “April, 2003.” Edited by @vespertine4.bsky.social & @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social. Free.

Hullo @victoriaspires.bsky.social for #promptcombo #dreamlogic I’m so far behind with stuff, I’m going to post an old poem, first in Ink Drinkers. Still marvelling that train Pom spark you struck to set the whole week off! 🏆

Delighted to have a poem in The Broken Spine's Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025 😊 Thank you @vespertine4.bsky.social and @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social 😊 Loved reading this issue!

It was an honour to read all the work you sent us at @thebrokenspine.co.uk. This was our strongest batch of submissions yet! The poetry that @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social and I selected truly blew us away. Please do read this issue — it’s filled with stunning work!

Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #BurnForTheCamera. Not glitz—grit. Don't post before Friday. That heat? That’s your moment. Tag it. Use Alt Text. Sign up for Saturday inbox prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

This stunning poem by @hool415.bsky.social! ❤️

Two new poems featured this week on @dialogist.bsky.social—read “Transition Diary II” & “Transition Diary IV” here: dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

Thrilled to receive an acceptance for a poem from @passionfruitlit.bsky.social 💜💛

New theme lands tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe. Don’t post early—Friday to Thursday only. Give the mess its moment. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout to be seen. Get sharp prompts sent direct: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

This is fantastic see how your poem paints the garden,such a joy to read your work

Thanks @vespertine4.bsky.social - I didn’t realise that poem was online ❤️💜🧡 It was such a thrill to appear in @lucentdreaming.bsky.social Stunning production quality!

Meet the Stormers of Issue V  Sheena Hussain is a poet, writer, essayist. A former lawyer who turned to poetry after receiving a cancer diagnosis. In 2024 she was commissioned as a New Northern Poet by Ilkley Literature Festival. The Storms is supported by #fingalarts @dublincityoflit.bsky.social

Hullo @alanparrywriter.co.uk and to #poemsabout #neveragain Found this tricky, so it’s not quite fully on topic. Apologies.

Hullo #vss365 and to #sonorous

"while our breakfasts turn cold the way our hearts did when the snow fell and one pair of eyes wandered, and the other didn’t shed any tears. We don’t cry about that any more." @amandamwrites.bsky.social in @anthro-poetry.bsky.social ❤️ www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/2-poems...

"After years spent wanting to die I have come to terms with life. Call it a new lease with a landlord determined to sell the floor from under me." @thejayestofzees.bsky.social in Wildness ❤️

Up on The Shore now, “Transition Diary I,” a poem about naming, about the difficulty of relating to the world when my relation to myself was off-kilter. Check out issue 27 for more excellent poems from Jane Zwart, Jacob J Billingsley, Natalie Eleanor Patterson, & many more!

The link is live!! You can now order my debut chapbook BLISS ROAD from @sevenkitchenspress.bsky.social!! Many thanks to Ron Mohring, who has been wonderful throughout this process. sevenkitchens.blogspot.com/2025/07/josh...

"Years I spent abandoned in that lonely totem of loss my braid a dead gold chain the crone my only caregiver bitterness lacing my blood." @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social in @lucentdreaming.bsky.social ❤️ lucentdreaming.com/origin-story...

"Instead of your crutch, I lean on the eastern slopes of Marxism and offer to sell my beauty – my hair, my teeth – to keep the linked chain of my woman’s spine gliding when I move." @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social in @feralpoetryandart.bsky.social ❤️ feralpoetry.net/turning-away...

Thanks to the amazing @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social and @alanparrywriter.co.uk!🤩

So excited for this! Lots of striking and powerful poetry coming your way soon. Thanks to all who submitted and congrats to the poets included. It was a pleasure to read and spend time with all the work we received - thank you! ❤️

All responses to submissions for #SelectedPoetry #Autumn2025 have now been sent out. The work will be published as a free downloadable PDF on The Broken Spine website in the coming weeks. Huge thanks to our Co-Poetry Editors — @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social & @vespertine4.bsky.social

Thrilled and grateful to have three poems out today with @anthro-poetry.bsky.social 🤩 www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/3-poems...

Thanks for sharing this, @splitlipthemag.bsky.social!

Thrilled and grateful to have three poems out today with @anthro-poetry.bsky.social 🤩 www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/3-poems...

Hi Ronnie, @rfsmith.bsky.social. Excellent #promptcombo #banality. Here's my fourth:"Moon Coins, I", about the act of washing up:

Happy to have my poem "Do Not Bring Me Flowers (for Carmen)" featured here 😊🌿💚

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After a year and a half of trying, I finally got an acceptance from a poetry journal I’ve been aiming for — and on my twentieth submission, they took not one, not two, but three poems! Never give up! #persistence #poetry

After a year and a half of trying, I finally got an acceptance from a poetry journal I’ve been aiming for — and on my twentieth submission, they took not one, not two, but three poems! Never give up! #persistence #poetry