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Thrilled to have three poems in the latest episode of Poetry Worth Hearing. Meet a jaunty zebra, a ghostly octopus and a pair of love struck collared doves 🩷. Many thanks to Kathleen McPhilemy for featuring my words. #poetry #nature #ecology
Delighted to say that my poem ‘Life as a Shipping Container’ has been shortlisted in the Atomic Bohemian Katrina Collins Poetry Prize and will be published in their competition anthology. Grateful thanks to Briony Collins & judge @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social. Congrats to the winners! 💐
Thrilled to be collaborating with wonderful #folk group !nverse for this event on the 1st November, 7pm at St Lawrence’s Church, #Winchester. Expect an evening of riotous assembly as we tell a tale of insurrection and woe through #poetry, music and song!
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Very late posting this but it was a delight to perform #poetry and #song inspired by the Swing Riots at a recent event for Music in the City in Southampton with fabulous folk group !nverse. We’re now gearing up for a bigger show in Winchester on the 1st November. More details to follow!
Listen to what @petitecreature1.bsky.social is saying here. Not just the bit about how good @iambapoet.com is for poets looking to bring their words vividly to life, but also to the really important part about auditions being open RIGHT NOW (and for only the next five days).
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**AUDITIONS OPEN IN 14 DAYS**
From Sep 20th-27th, auditions for @iambapoet.com open for the first time since 2022 – and for just ONE week!
Be ready when the submission form goes live. Head to the journal's Audition page for full details.
Good luck with your audition! 🍀
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Thanks so much x
Thanks Lucy 🙏
Thanks Róisín!
Just logged in for the first time in a while to find lots of new followers. Bear with me, it might take a while to follow everyone back! And welcome!
UPDATED: The three special guests who'll read with me and @jenferoze.bsky.social at the launch event for 'Scenes from Subruria' have been announced. Huge thanks to @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social, @georgiahilton.bsky.social and @jitterbugwrites.bsky.social for agreeing to read.
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Congratulations again to Hilary Menos (@thefridaypoem.bsky.social), Tom Bailey (@andotherpoems.bsky.social) and Rowan Lyster for @iambapoet.com, and @georgiahilton.bsky.social, @esloudon.bsky.social and Suchi Govindarajan for @afterpoetry.com.
A poem I posted over at The Bad Place for Top Tweet Tuesday this week! ‘Phoenix’ was first published by the Poets Directory in 2021, and then in the collaborative anthology ‘Sea Between Us’ from Nine Pens Press in 2022.
Haha, maybe! I don’t feel like I’ve done that much really, but I’m glad if what I have done has made a difference :)
Thank you dear Julian :)
Thank you Hannah :)
Thank you! 🙏
Ah, thank you Niamh! 🙏
Very much appreciated, thank you Jayson :)
Thanks so much Eleanor 💐
To say I’m stunned would be an understatement! Thank you so much @markantonyowen.com for nominating my poem ‘We are not gold’ for Best Single Poem Written in the @forwardprizes.bsky.social and for publishing it in @afterpoetry.com last year. I am beyond grateful for your support of my work 🙏
‘In my beginning is my end’
Beginnings and endings are our theme for next week’s TopTweetTuesday on Twitter/ X.
Poet @georgiahilton.bsky.social will be hosting. Check our pinned tweet for the brief. ☝️ thank you 🙏
Word of the day is most definitely ‘hurkle-durkling’ (19th-century Scots): to linger in bed long after it’s time to get up.
Lovers of #ekphrastic #poetry will find this a very satisfying read. A powerful, punchy sonnet from @seanaaburke.bsky.social - Medusa gets the last word!
I still think the opening poem of my third collection, Imagined Sons (Seren, 2014), is one of the best I've written. tinyurl.com/awvfe39f
A wild poppy, growing solo on beach dunes, shown top-down. It's red around the centre zeppelin-stamen, then a pink fadeout to white at the papery edges of floppy, rounded petals. Strong shadows of the stems of other foliage, possibly tussock lines, stripe her face. Green tangles and pale sand blur below.
Unlike cynicism, hopefulness is hard-earned, makes demands upon us, and can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on Earth. Hopefulness is not a neutral position either. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism.
~Nick Cave
(the Red Hand files)
🌪️ The day is here! Share your #PoemsAbout #NaturalReckoning now and tag @alanparry83.bsky.social to have your work seen. This is your chance for personalised feedback, potential publication, and a shot at #TheWhiskeyTree #Wave3. Write boldly, engage deeply, and let’s end the year with a roar!
