I get really irritated when someone questions the cost of creative work. Oh, you hate capitalism? Me too. Talk to my landlord about it. Talk to a politician. Talk to your boss. Talk to literally anyone in power. Artists can't fix capitalism for you on top of everything else we have to do.
It’s a hard time out here for anyone who cares about anything
What a great evening!
Happy #PromptCombo Monday! This week's theme is #ThingInItself (or #DingAnSich if you prefer the German). This is a WIP from something really cool I'm working on with @benedictan.bsky.social 👀
It's a short window this week – you've got until end of Wednesday only to join in as after I'll be away 🙏🏼
I really enjoyed writing about how Mary Shelley helped shape my poetry collection for the @bars.bsky.social blog. Mary was widowed two hundred years before me, but there are many parallels linking our experiences. Thank you very much to BARS for publishing my piece!
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6367
University of Oxford : maximising oil and gas extraction here would only save UK households up to £82 (€95) per year. A UK fully powered by renewable energy, would save households up to £441 (€510) a year on energy bills.
www.euronews.com/2026/03/27/e...
8 am update for you. The UK grid is currently close to fossil fuel free. Wind and solar 70%, nuclear 13%, gas… 4%. grid.iamkate.com
BREAKING: Political funding from British citizens living abroad should be capped at about £300,000 a year and donations in cryptocurrency temporarily banned, a government review has recommended.
If only someone had warned us
Cannon in foreground background is the river Thames looking from Greenwich to the lowest sky and water blue
View of the Thames looking east from Blackfriars
View of the Thames with a clipper and its wake
View if Canary Wharf at night with coloured lights reflecting in water
Views of the Thames #London
Acre authors in action! @bydanobrien.bsky.social signing copies of his books, including OUR CANCERS and SURVIVOR'S NOTEBOOK! #poetry #booksky 🎉📚🖊️
This feeling in my chest...hope? Unfamiliar
Despite the rain, the chill, winter's reluctance to cede his throne, spring arrives with daffodils, birdsong, the lengthening of days. Welcoming it are the 15 poets of wave twenty-five of @iamb.uk. Expect 45 poems, written and read – fresh as the incoming season.
iamb.uk/index/wave/25
Happy World Book Day! It’s been a rather good one for me; not only did I get a delivery of author copies of The Way the Water Held Me, but I got an Emma Press badge! This makes up for never winning a Blue Peter badge.
#worldbookday
Congratulations 🥳
Two Irish authors on Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist
Kit de Waal and Wendy Erskine nominated for award worth £30,000
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Help me out please, what’s the best dinosaur toy or other gift for an 18 month-old, no expense spared?
#dinosaurs #kids
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Pink Camellias in flower
Canary Wharf skyscrapers
Sunset over the Thames
Magnolia tree in flower
London
Our Book of the Week is this gorgeous facsimile edition of William Blake's *The Marriage of Heaven and Hell*: pick up your copy here - www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/the-ma...
Happy to launch this gorgeous book today. Grab a copy via the links in bio!
@jmatkin.bsky.social @richardnskinner.bsky.social
Exactly one month until ‘The Way the Water Held Me’ is published! If you haven’t already, you can preorder your copy via the link in my bio ✨
My husband marked the one-month countdown until publication day by giving me this gorgeous little brooch featuring the front cover. Isn’t it lovely?
...but a flat line you steer for.
A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying “ART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds “THEIR HUMANITY.”
Make Art (1/4)
Closing at midnight tonight, UK time...
Reviewing @louisepoetical.bsky.social 's The How in the World over at @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 📚
No wonder the orange toddler is unhinged once again.
The Obamas are competent, classy, loving, Harvard and Princeton graduates, loved by many, not on the Epstein files, got the Nobel Peace Prize, and gave us a steady economy to boot.
Repost this if you agree they are AMAZING and an inspiration!
Great to see a steady flow of poems finding their way to our submissions inbox. You've til midnight Sunday night if you've something you'd like us to look at...
Yes, it should.
