This is brilliant

Looking forward to celebrating International Women's Day with the women who collaborated with @gillcresearch.bsky.social Safety in Numbers anthology tonight... poem chains in response to other women's poems. Glorious. Happy Women's Day everyone.

The Cafe Writers Poetry Competition results are up! www.cafewriters.co.uk/home/poetry-...

On my website tomorrow my review of the fabulous collection’Grey time’ by @julwe1.bsky.social Don’t miss it. #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers. www.nigelkentpoet.wordpress.com

Love this poem by Hannah Linden.

I have a poem up on @theprosepoem.bsky.social site. It's one of my Mr Green poems and was longlisted in their competition in 2024

theprosepoem.com/mr-green-is-...

Wonderful poem Hannah!

Review of ‘Grey Time’ by Julia Webb Grief is one of those enduring subjects of poetry, and I guess I must have read a hundred poems based on that theme. It is a brave poet who takes it on. Julia Webbdoes just that in her new collecti…

A rather lovely and insightful review of my poetry collection 'Grey Time' on @kent-nj.bsky.social's blog today. nigelkentpoet.wordpress.com/2026/02/21/r...

Thanks Hannah!

I always find it fascinating when poets talk about how they wrote a poem. I love this poem so it's wonderful to hear @julwe1.bsky.social talk about the background of this poem in her latest collection.

Drop-in by Julia Webb I’m delighted to welcome writer and artist, Julia Webb, to the blog to introduce you to her fabulous latest collection. My fourth collection Grey Time (Nine Arches Press, 2025) circles around…

Delighted to have a poem from Grey Time with a bit about how I wrote/edited over on Nigel Kent's Drop-in blog nigelkentpoet.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/d...

If you love poetry and are in or near Bedford I am reading at Ouse Muse tomorrow (3 Feb) The venue is the Eagle Bookshop, readings start at at 8 p.m. #poetry #UKpoets

If you are in or near Bedford I am reading at Ouse Muse tomorrow (3 Feb) The venue is the Eagle Bookshop, readings start at at 8 p.m..

Please do consider voting - Jess Mookherjee wrote such a brilliant review!

Reviews of Rachael Boast's Versus Versus anthology and of recent poetry collections by @jesstraynor.bsky.social and @pascalepetit.bsky.social feature in Issue 36 of Under the Radar. With thanks to reviewers @julwe1.bsky.social, @jennywcreative.bsky.social, @betarish.bsky.social.

Here is my review of @julwe1.bsky.social ‘s Grey Time. On @inksweatandtears.co.uk inksweatandtears.co.uk/jessica-mook...

Thank you @inksweatandtears.co.uk & @jessmookherjee.bsky.social for your review of GREY TIME by @julwe1.bsky.social

'Elegy does not erase harm. Webb honours that contradiction.'
'Grey Time does not console. It stays. And that feels like truth.'

Read in full inksweatandtears.co.uk/jessica-mook...

New podcast episode with five fabulous poets, recorded for our November 2025 Poetry Spotlight event. 

www.mklitfest.org/podcasts

@julwe1.bsky.social @lesleysharpe.bsky.social @zoebrooks.bsky.social @annasaund.bsky.social #poetry @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social #poetry

New podcast episode with five fabulous poets, recorded for our November 2025 Poetry Spotlight event. @julwe1.bsky.social @lesleysharpe.bsky.social @zoebrooks.bsky.social @annasaund.bsky.social #poetry @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social #poetry

www.mklitfest.org/podcasts

Cafe Writers Jamuary 2026 Cafe Writers Featuring Pádraig Ó Tuama and Reshma Ruia

@cafewriters.bsky.social has just released a few extra tickets for tomorrow night's event with Pádraig Ó Tuama and Reshma Ruia www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cafe-write...

Lighthouse Submission Guidelines - Story Machine We have regular submission windows for submitting work to Lighthouse; these are here and advertised on our our Facebook, and Twitter.

Lighthouse is open for submissions of poetry, short fiction and art. storymachines.co.uk/portfolio/li...

"The prose poem can be a comic operetta, or it can be a theatre for grief." Jeffrey Skinner

"The prose poem can be a comic operetta, or it can be a theatre for grief." Jeffrey Skinner

Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - Are you afraid you might be difficult? by @julwe1.bsky.social

Thanks so much for reading your wonderful poems!

Delighted to have my sightly ranty poem about being a difficult woman over at Atrium today!

Thank you!

Because of website issues we have extended the deadline until Wednesday - get those poems in!

Only a few days left to enter the Cafe Writers poetry competition. Our sole judge is Jessica Mookherjee. First prize is £1000 and there are other prizes too. #poetry #poetrycommunity cafewriters.co.uk/home/poetry-...

Thank you.