Feels like just the right one to begin 2026. Thanks to @dreich.bsky.social for publishing. Do consider signing up tor free to receive monthly issues (Jack does lots of great work for poetry in UK and beyond) 🙏

Enjoying those lit mags sending out rejections today so we can end on rejection instead of beginning on it!

I just love this poem by Roger Matthews in Soft Union

A reminder that my latest chapbook is out if you’re wondering what to get the literature-lover who has everything (🔗 in bio.)

Stoked to have a poem about IKEA in the winter edition of @westtradereview.bsky.social 🛋️

We’re excited to present the Winter 2025 collection of Online Exclusives. It features poetry by Nathan Erwin, @ritamookerjee.bsky.social, @ewenglass.bsky.social, and @andhow.bsky.social among others; fiction by Janine A. Willis; CNF by @hillbillypilgrim.bsky.social Read it here:

In order to get my poems out there I've used social media a lot in 2025. At the risk of labouring THE MOST OBVIOUS THING I can say with some certainly it's had a deleterious effect on my mental health. Be grateful for any tips on a healthy approach to Social Media!

Reflecting on my year in poetry. I’ve been very lucky to have been published in some amazing lit mags and anthologies (some of which pictured). Thanks to everyone who has engaged with my work this year; it’s a total privilege for me ❤️

A new one in Scottish lit mag Sextet

For #promptcombo and @victoriaspires.bsky.social's prompt of #thispoem

Being an adult is basically exactly like Ratatouille except you're both the clueless human AND the rat who's trying so so hard to make him do things and also it's way less funny and you don't live in Paris

Seven years later I can finally write about it. I’m sure many can relate. 🐾

I miss the time when being horrible to people was not a viable career

I’m doing my phone voice in this 📞. A reading of my new poem ‘When I wish to feel abundance I go to IKEA’ for @WTRlitmag www.youtube.com/watch?v=h44t...

nice tenth revision you got there. would be a shame if the whole thing was better about four drafts ago

I don't want to get all bossy but for the love of all that's holy please read to the end

A final bump for this because I think it's a poem that captures what I'm all about (hahas, melancholy, stupidity) and I also love @burialmagazine.bsky.social so

Thrilled to see this brilliant poetry chapbook by @ewenglass.bsky.social riding high in the poetry ranks on Amazon! If You Stand in the Corner of the Spare Room You Can Just About See the Sea is full of beauty, magic, humour, and wisdom. You can buy it here: amzn.eu/d/2wSXZ3i

Its a desperate situation (thanks to @shinepoetry.bsky.social for publishing!)

Thanks to The Oxonian Review for publishing this slice of silliness

a) I know it's probably uncool to post b) it's all possibly a quirk of the Big River place c) I don't really care. I'm so touched by all the support this new book has had so far, I couldn't have imagined getting anywhere near top ten poetry books. Thank you! 🥹 @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social

This is out now and I’d be over the moon if you considered getting a copy. Thanks as always @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/Stand-Corner...

So happy that some of my favourite poets and authors had such kind words for my new poetry chapbook. Thank you @susanlleary.bsky.social! If You Stand in the Corner of the Spare Room You Can Just About See the Sea is out tomorrow from @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social 🌊

I’ve a poetry chapbook coming out in a week so putting it out there, if anyone's interested in reviewing it or is hosting a reading and looking for readers please hmu. Also, sorry if I don't get the ratio of interesting & selfless: self-promotion right on here, I am but an idiot

New one up on the excellent new issue of @paperboatswriters.bsky.social 🐦 (🔗 below)

I am a very serious poet. Thanks to Blood + Honey Lit for publishing this along with another poem called Bloom. Lots of good work up there. ✈️

true story

Excited for an acceptance from the mighty @westtradereview.bsky.social 👍🏽✨

Photograph of my actual soul leaving my body during an online reading I much prefer peopley readings where my soul stays put

You know a book is good when it has a coffee stain on it within a couple of days! This pamphlet from @victoriaspires.bsky.social on @salopress.bsky.social is so good; rich, varied, and always illuminating (soi-lui a personal fave)

Thanks to Azarao Lit for publishing 'Bad Mantra' in their latest issue, which is full of great writing! 🟩

You don't need to have read it to get the joke www.worldofmoose.com/products/tri...

Had such a good time writing football/soccer poems for Michigan Quarterly's special soccer folio, subs open until the end of the month. I reflected on growing up in 90s Northern Ireland, how football tops held currency, clear symbols of identity (not necessarily for the good) ⚽️

Pleased to feature in this beautiful little anthology from Temporal Lobe (thanks to @poetjohncompton.bsky.social for publishing this poem originally)

This one pretty much sums up the relationship I have with poetry and - who am I kidding? - with myself 😬😬. Thanks so much to @poolpartymag.com for publishing it recently; they’re doing really cool stuff 📱

Just want to let everyone know my reading period is open for acceptances, praise and sanguine nods of the head like you're doing alright kid

Have a new poem about prop comedy, shitty childhoods and The Mighty Boosh up at @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social! farewelltransmission.net/2025/10/in-t...

For the @havehashad.com call I'm working on something so haddy I've broken the official had-speed barrier into a place that, if you squint, looks like a fusty British Library that forbids both heart and levity.

Just found out @librelit.bsky.social have nominated my little flash thingummy ‘The Cost of Living Underwater’ for Best of the Net!

RIP Yorkshire poet and playwright, Tony Harrison. This is one of my favourite poems, perfectly illustrating the depths of emotion you can find in everyday language, in approaching writing with humility and honesty

Writing is the best, creating pasts that didn't break you or futures that might, creating worlds and making sense. That's extremely earnest but sometimes in the doing it hits you afresh.

My Beowulf

A reminder from @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social today, if one were needed, how amazing @toddedillard.bsky.social is www.onlypoems.net/poets/todd-d...

There's a call from one of the big lit journals for material on the subject of football (soccer) but I can't remember which one. Can anyone help?

This is my New York poem. It's also one in which I misquote Kent Brockman.

Hi (not prone to hyperbole but THIS JACKET HAS ACTUALLY CHANGED MY LIFE)

Anyone ever shape up to submit to a lit journal only to be put off by a series of pre-scolds masquerading as submission guidelines?

Follow @barracudacore.bsky.social’s The Cattle on Substack if you have it. Lovely work from John Compton, Andrew K Peterson and J.D. Smith up there today, alongside this silliness

Thrilled to say my new chapbook will be released 14th Nov by the good folk at Inkfish Press. Can’t wait to share these pieces. Also stoked by the kind words writers I admire have bestowed on this little collection (more of that later!) 📖🌊

So pleased to have this reprint in the first issue of @thomasonianmag.bsky.social alongside great work by @sreelekha2024.bsky.social @shauricherie.bsky.social and David Kenny. Do check it out.