‘Come and be happy at Morecambe’

‘Come and be happy at Morecambe’

Morning Dave

Thank you.

My thanks to Rupert M Loydell for publishing Daybreak, Switzerland’ in the Travel edition of Stride magazine. stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

I like these sheep at Cartmel Priory

That’s really good to know. We lived in Wales for a couple of years when I was a child.

Thank you very much, Tristan. It’s a poem that means a lot to me. It took me ages (a year or more) to get the poem anywhere near to what it wanted to say. And I’m still not sure about it now.

My huge thanks to @helenivory.bsky.social and @inksweatandtears.co.uk for publishing ‘Draenog’, a poem which has a strong personal connection for me .

My huge thanks to @helenivory.bsky.social and @inksweatandtears.co.uk for publishing ‘Draenog’, a poem which has a strong personal connection for me .

Scenic North Wales Coastal Landscape View. Title: Draenog. Quotes: 'He was wandering across fields and streams, and then what seemed like forever along a winding lane.' Poet: Ian Seed.

In @ianseedauthor.bsky.social's 'Draenog', it's as if the speaker wanders through the fields and streams of his own memory to recover a forgotten word.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/ian-seed/

#InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submission

My thanks to Ian Pople for this perceptive review of Forgetfulness in the London Grip londongrip.co.uk/2026/03/lond...

Wonderful to receive the latest The Visual Poetry Times from @thepoetrykiosk.bsky.social as a physical thing - through the post box! - with the bonus this time of having a visual poem included, here on the For Your Eyes Only page

My thanks to Charlie Baylis, H. R. Link and Anthropocene @charliebayliss.bsky.social www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/bus-sta...

Many thanks, Tristan. That means a lot to me.

My thanks to Charlie Baylis, H. R. Link and Anthropocene @charliebayliss.bsky.social www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/bus-sta...

Last Fortnight on Anthropocene plus a few takeaways from the Aftershock / Gutter censorship row

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Sunset this evening, Morecambe Bay

Sunset this evening, Morecambe Bay

Spring is here

The cover of Sampson Starkweather’s chapbook Slip on the Ski Mask of Night

List of Demands all we want is life a boss-less world a cosmic commons all the animals and people set free our souls (bought and sold) given back the land given back the planet resuscitated respected nourished loved to be able to breathe

all we ask is for everything and more

happy #twopageplustuesday! feel free to share a poem you love (or wrote) that runs a little longer than usual :)

here’s one by @sampsonstarkweathr.bsky.social from his new chapbook Slip on the Ski Mask of Night (Blush Lit/Illicit Zines)~

A great early morning listen on @bbcsounds.bsky.social

When my father died, I had to
pick him up
and carry him

One day I hope
to put him down

By John Phillips

The Verb - Michael Laskey, Michael Schmidt, Michelle Penn, Rachel Douglas-Jones - BBC Sounds Michael Laskey, Michael Schmidt, Michelle Penn and Rachel Douglas-Jones join Ian McMillan.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Great edition of The Verb Thank you! @imcmillan.bsky.social

For full index and links to poets’ work on Shadow Train, see web.archive.org/web/20130502... @imcmillan.bsky.social

I started Shadow Train online magazine in 2006, and it ran for 44 issues until 2015. The first issue featured work by Martin Stannard, Rupert Mallin Rupert M Loydell, Rosmarie Waldrop, Douglas Messerli and K.M. Dersley: Shadowtrain.com/id9.html

WORDSWORTH THINKS ABOUT THE MESSAGES HE GOT

Emoji recollected
In Tranquility

"Poetry" by Asja Bakić

Roses are red,
Bottoms need tops,

Am moved by Mike Ferguson ‘s gem of a collection Drawing on Previous Learning. One to make you smile and cry. Published by Wrecking Ball Press. @mferguson-writer.bsky.social