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Thank you, for including mine, Brian!
Thank you, Carmella! 😊📚
Thank you very much, Neal! Books available from me, please dm for details.
Thank you very much, Julie! 😊
Thank you, Carmella! Copies are available from me, please dm for details. More information regarding an official zoom launch to come! This book was written for children from around 7-11, but has poems that may be enjoyed by those of other age groups!
Thank you, Carmella! 😊💕
Thank you, Julie! 😊
Thank you for reposting, Ian @ianbrownlie.bsky.social !
Thank you, Shaun! 😊📚
I’ve been quiet here, here’s why! Thank you to Liz Stirk (Insta lizstirkart) for all your amazing illustrations, time and support. ‘A Promise of Poems’ will be available soon!
SHARE AWAY!!! Announcing a new project - a platform each Friday.
#FRAGMENTSFRIDAY’ - 18 words or less
- a startling, inventive poem.
Tag in #fragmentsfriday and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social & share one startling fragment of your own poetry.
No A.I. generated poetry!
Happy Anniversary! And congratulations! 🥳 🌟
Feels rather fitting that on the day my first journal (@iamb.uk) celebrates its sixth anniversary, my second journal (@afterpoetry.com) is publishing its next #ekphrastic poem.
You can read @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social's 'Paper tiger: a zuihitsu' for free from 9pm GMT.
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Congratulations, Claire, it looks great!
Poetry prompt: The Day My Head Fell Off. Create a class poem with everyone contributing brian-moses.blogspot.com/2023/05/on-n...
Hope you’re ok, Claire. Sending best wishes.
‘planted you a boat/ a pyre’ 🔥
@marcellenewbold.bsky.social from the Christmas and winter anthology.
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January 14th is #InternationalKiteDay so here is a poem about a lost kite. brian-moses.blogspot.com/2020/08/word...
Recommended Books for Year 13 including titles by Qais Akbar Omar, Zadie Smith, Wole Soyinka, Tom Pollock, Richard Feynman, Alastair Campbell & more. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/secondary-ks... #YA
Here are the 7 phenomenal BlueSky versions of my 1/3/26 #HaikuSaturday #haiku posted so far. I'll post the complete list on Monday so more people can join in if they wish to do so.
Forest Girl (and Happy Cat)
Thoroughly enjoyed 'Forest Girl' by @jumpingjulespoetry.bsky.social (and so did Bugsy 🐱)
#poetry #books #cats
‘Two headless snowmen— glove-craft: sculpted stone and swan-ice’ ⛄️ ⛄️ 🪓
@vespertine4.bsky.social from our Christmas-Winter anthology. 🦢 🧊
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40 great books for children in year 3 aged 7-8, including modern and classic titles by Lara Hawthorne, John Steptoe, Roald Dahl, Zanib Mian, Dick King-Smith, Derek Keilty, Jon Scieszka, Helen Cresswell & more.
#kidlit #teachertwitter
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Thank you for all you’ve done in 2025 and I hope you have a great 2026 too!
Happy New Year! 😊🌅
I love the bare branches simile, ‘blackened fireworks
burst with sunset’ is a great image!
‘New Year’s Eve’ by Ruth Higgins.
‘the moor’s a wave about to crest’
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More poetry for children! Happy New Year! 🥳 📚