Bright green lupin leaves forged in a spiral pattern, with droplets of water on their surface.

Lupins,
carats,
diamond weight
water #SixWords #Afternoon#Sunshine

'The World Through a Circle, ca.1970' Nancy Holt (1938 - 2014).
#ConcretePoetry #poetry

holtsmithsonfoundation.org/world-throug...

Waxing Moon,dangling
star, a canvas of highness.
Birds settled ‘til dawn.

#Evening

Leafletting blossom
brushes lingering pink bling.
Cats stencil paw prints ...

#Blossom #Evening #Spring

“Stylistically it has the feel of a Fellini movie that has been edited by David Lynch and it all makes for a really unusual and unsettling experience”
www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2017/11/page...

Last Year's Poetry Winner - Fish Publishing Janet Murray won the Fish Poetry Prize 2018 with her poem, Vernacular Green, which is published in the Fish Anthology 2018 along with nine others selected by last year’s judge, Ellen Bass.   Vernacular Green  by Janet Murray (i.m. Howard Hodgkin 1932-2017)   Hodgkin sees common green in privet, grass, chestnut husks blown horsetail, chickweed crushed […]

The final stanza ‘Vernacular Green’ Janet Murray

(i.m. Howard Hodgkin 1932-2017)

In this moment he speaks

Indian green where a greener green

can be unleashed, somewhere between

emerald and jade, a brush dipped

in feathers round a teal duck’s eye.

fishpublishing.com/2019/02/01/l... #poetry

sheets of beeze dance through trees, throwing shapes, shadows.
Days lengthen, warm, rest.

#April

A baking tray of succulent scones with a yellow kettle in the background.

My son has learned how to make scones. This could be huge for our relationship.

British novelist Gwendoline Riley wins a $175k Windham-Campbell prize Awarded to writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, other recipients include S Shakthidharan, Adam Ehrlich Sachs and Kei Miller

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

Two ceremonial guards in red uniforms and tall black bearskin hats stand outside a building. A large grey dog, also wearing a red coat, stands between them.

On Lord Street #Liverpool

Powder puff pink cut-
outs, blossom jigsaws blue sky.
The Moon's up there too...

#April

We are very excited to announce our longlist for the 2026 Observer Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism.

Congratulations to these excellent writers, whose subject matters included a cover of The Specials’ Ghost Town, an exhibition of autonomous robotic dogs, Brad Pitt racing motor cars, >

Easter @mancathedral.bsky.social #Lilies #Manchester 🌸🐝

Blossom, burnished blush,
cherry, candy floss coral.
Pub bench, peppered, rain...

#Easter #EasterSaturday

Saddleworth Morris Men at Saddleworth Museum and Gallery #Uppermill

Black and white photograph of Haarlem railway station in The Netherlands. Photographed on Ilford HP5+ film in 2026, using a Leica M2.

Dutch railway stations are usually super modern, but Haarlem is a lovely Art Nouveau design. All the waiting rooms and whatnot are on a central island platform. In that respect it's a bit like Preston, Lancashire. Unlike Preston it's beautifully maintained and is really very striking. #BelieveInFilm

A black and white photograph shows two wrestlers at Grasmere sports day with a referee looking on and a large audience in the background

Series of paintings in vivid colours depict cumberland and westmorland wrestling. Amazing that seemingly blocky images can portray movement

A spelk basket with the amazing makers label - Lorna Singleton. Spelk is strips of oak woven together. Probably got that wrong and sister will kick me... but theyre amazing tactile pieces of functional craft

Top day seeing l'al sis and the Cumberland/Westmorland wrestling exhibition at Grizedale!

Including some amazing stuff from mates @chrisroutledge.bsky.social @lizziwake.bsky.social!

WATERCOLOR It is the first hour. From the orient comes the sun. The moon, despoiled of the gold of night, goes down slowly towards the west that waits for it under the line of the horizon....

From ‘Watercolor’ Meira Delmar (1922-2009)

On the basso continuo
of the shore
the waves unravel,
one by one,
the music they bring
from as far
as time,
and it’s a tune, and another tune
and a thousand more tunes,
rhythmic, repeated,
spilled on the sand.

Transl -Nicolás Suescún

tinyurl.com/upwrz89w

Corrugated, fields'
static strata, projected
future. Winds rattle ...

#EasterHalfTerm

@barnsleymuseums.bsky.social

I'm visiting Penistone Arts week,
Where artists and authors speak,
Of work completed just in time,
And of the hills they had to climb.

A market town set upon a hill,
Round every corner, find a thrill,
Market's held in the market barn,
Stories told, make a good yarn.

If this isn't an award winner then it certainly should be.

A poem for #spring ‘Instructions on Not Giving Up’, by Ada Limón

poets.org/poem/instruc... #poetry

#LenDeighton obituary in this weekend's @yorkshirepost.co.uk

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Oral tradition and oracy Anne McElvoy and guests look at speaking fluently in politics, the classroom & communities

This evening at 21:00 'Oral tradition and oracy' #philosophy #poetry 📻

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Artworks - Under a Cloud - BBC Sounds The poet laureate, Simon Armitage, gets his head in the clouds.

‘Under a Cloud’ Simon Armitage ☁️🌨️🌩️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #Meteorology #poetry 📻

A newspaper cutting featuring a dish of sausages covered in a Guinness and onion gravy, with a side serving of colcannon, on a white plate. Looks delicious!☘️

A #StPatricksDay recipe from last weekend's @yorkshirepost.co.uk ☘️

A square with a background image of people attending a book festival. In the centre of the image is a glowing circle, with the words ‘Free Verse Poetry Book and Magazine Fair’ in large bold font laid over the top. Beneath this are the words ‘Free Entry.’ Along the top of the image are four circles in yellow, blue, pink and green. The circles include the words ‘60+ Publishers’, ‘Activities’, ‘Panels’, and ‘Readings’. Along the bottom of the image are details about the time and place of the event: Saturday 25th April 2026, 12pm- 6:30 pm, St Columba’s Church, Pont Street, London.’

The Free Verse Poetry Book and Magazine Fair is back for 2026!
The event is unticketed and free - but if you want to be in with the chance to win £50 to spend on poetry books at the fair, then you can sign up at the link in our bio.
We'd be delighted to see you there!

This weekend's @yorkshirepost.co.uk remembering Kenith Trodd (1936-2026).

'I see it daily; dogs running freely across farmland, owners wandering nonchalantly somewhere in the distance without a care or hope of recall.' Jill Thorp, this weekend's @yorkshirepost.co.uk #lambing #spring 🐑🐑🐑