Also featuring poems by: Shannan Mann @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social | David McLoghlin | Rafael Mendes | Emma Must | @nessao.bsky.social | Kerri Sonnenberg | @bredaspaight.bsky.social | Anna Szilagyi | David Tom's | Jemma Walsh | Stella Wong
Launch details soon ✨️
Introducing Banshee 20 poets! We're delighted to be featuring work by
@colmbrennan.bsky.social | @hettycliss.bsky.social | Polina Cosgrave | @satyadash.bsky.social | Stephen de Búrca | @michaeldooley.bsky.social | Malcolm Greenlee Farley | @racheljeffcoat.bsky.social | Finn Dunne Leavy (1/2)
I wrote about the decision myself and other authors took to withdraw from the longlist of the Polari Book Prizes for LGBTQ+ writers www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
Extract from 'Thingamajiggied' by @hettycliss.bsky.social , published in Issue Seven. Read the full poem here: andotherpoems.com/2025/08/04/t...
Big thanks to Tom Bailey and Laurie Ogden for including me in an issue with poets whose work I adore and others I’m excited to discover. Check out the whole issue!
My poem ‘Thingamajiggied’ is out now in @andotherpoems.bsky.social It’s one that means a lot to me. Through it I was able to articulate big thoughts and emotions, the experience of loving and losing someone with dementia, that felt beyond language.
andotherpoems.com/2025/08/04/t...
Issue Seven is now live! We are so excited to share this brilliant issue with you all. Thank you to all the poets who submitted. Read the full issue here: andotherpoems.com/issue-seven/ #poetry #poems
New poem in www.aftershockreview.com edited by @maxwallis.bsky.social 💜
Beyond hyped for this one, the first in our summer event series! Join us for an incredible pride poetry night with @carolinebirduk.bsky.social, Richard Scott, Sophie Robinson and Roberto Salvador Cenciarelli ❤️
www.outsavvy.com/event/27015/...
Cover of The Age of Olive Trees by Haia Mohammed Off-white background with title text in serif font, green and black block-print style outline of olive leaves
🟢 NEW PAMPHLET 🟢
Haia Mohammed, The Age of Olive Trees
Pre-order now / All proceeds to author
www.outspokenldn.com/shop/haia
In 2023, Joelle Taylor read the work of Haia, a young poet in Gaza, at the fundraiser we did. We stayed in contact
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A person rides a bicycle down a long, straight road bordered by green fields and a blue sky with fluffy clouds.
CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS!
Editors Isabelle Baafi @timtimtmi.bsky.social & @sohinibasak.bsky.social can't wait to receive your submissions for Magma 93: The Liberation Issue.
What does ‘liberation’ mean to you?
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More info and to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...
The cover for my debut poetry pamphlet just dropped!! 🏡 You can order (In)Habit in all its red and pink beauty here: www.fourteenpoems.com/shop/inhabit...
What’s more exciting to me as an editor than under 30 debut lists? A poet who returns with something exquisite after a decade of silence. Books that take years to discover their shape, not more-of-the-same sequels to best sellers. Poets who reinvent themselves because life has reinvented them.
I’m losing the will to post on all these social media accts but this is an important one. @queer-poetry-co.bsky.social are hosting our first ever FLINTA* open mic fundraising for @thecommonpress.bsky.social on 26 Feb. I am beyond excited for this one 🥹
www.outsavvy.com/event/24804/...
It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.
Since we’re new to BlueSky and so many of you are too, we’ve decided to extend our submissions window to 10th December. 10 more days to send your queer crip erotic poetry!
Info here and below 👇🏼
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#PoetsOnBlueSky #poetry #disabled #queer #neurodivergent
god i love books. yes, reading them. but sometimes, just holding them. and i wish they could hold me. and then i see (again) that they do.
Sharing my own new poem from the Invisible Strings anthology. 🫶🏼✨
“let me map you to oasis. / let me show you where / the weapons are.”
From Danez Smith’s ‘Bluff’
If I listened to the critics I’d never write a word. Keep the vision for yourself, never mind what they want. Trust your instinct. Your gut. There is no other way to write. Follow your excitements. Perhaps no one has charted this route? Lead the fashion, don’t follow fashion.
Wrote a new poem yesterday. Every time this happens after a fallow period and I’m reimmersed in the mysterious attention poems call on, I feel present, contented and excited all at once. I love it. 💫
The wonderful @propelmagazine.bsky.social has now joined Bluesky.
An online and physical poetry magazine launched in 2022 that features poetry from the U.K. and Ireland exclusively from poets who are yet to publish a full collection.
AMERICAN SONNET FOR MY PAST AND FUTURE ASSASSIN by Terrance Hayes Suppose you could speak nothing but money And acrimony. Suppose all the sunflowers Van Gogh destroyed, all the stones in Virginia's Pockets & all the stones Georgia painted as vaginas Were simply a matter of making something greater Than money. Prince taught us a real man has A beautiful woman in him. Suppose we cannot Forget what happened in Money. Suppose You're someone who celebrates Thomas Jefferson's Birthday. Suppose he was someone whose love For a black woman was blinded by blackness, Hers & his, yours & mine. I ain't mad at you, Assassin. It's not the bad people who are brave I fear, it's the good people who are afraid.
“It’s not the bad people who are brave / I fear, it’s the good people who are afraid.”
Revisiting Terrance Hayes’ American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin.