Thrilled to have a new poem, 'Summoning' up on @inksweatandtears.co.uk theme 'Colouring Outside the Lines' chosen by the brilliant Zakia Carpenter-Hall, and in such great company!
#ukpoets #poetrysky #mondayreads
Finally met amazing publisher @kymdeyn.bsky.social & fellow @thebraag.bsky.social poet @andrewblair.co.uk at the lovely 1b books in Heaton, Newcastle! Kym & Andrew definitely look like they’re in a folkish indie band while I’m giving proud mum vibes.
#ukpoets #poetrysky
Empirical and Polblar Tmolkop launch 7pm 27/03/26 Image of hennaed hand holding tiny man in spacesuit
Poets, poetry lovers (or even poetry curious) in Newcastle/the North East?
Come to a free reading at lovely indie bookshop 1b books in Heaton tomorrow!
I’ll be reading from ‘Empirical’ &
@andrewblair.co.uk from ‘polblar tmolkop’
our new pamphlets with @thebraag.bsky.social
#ukpoets
It's here! Huge thanks to the wonderful @thebraag.bsky.social and @kymdeyn.bsky.social
#poetrysky #ukpoets
Order here:
thebraag.co/product/empi...
“A gorgeous book; there are so many moments of transcendence in Empirical, a collection which sets ‘the blood singing.’”
—Mona Arshi, author of Mouth
Anthologies of poetry: Remembrance (Renard Press) Tendrils (Silver Press) Nature Matters (Faber) Family Lines (Faber) Wonder (Macmillan Poems for a Green and Blue Planet (Hodder) For in Your Tongue I Cannot Fit (Westland Books) Heroes and Villains (Macmillan)
Happy World Poetry Day!
A few of my favourite anthologies:
Titles/publishers in Alt
#ukpoets #poetrysky #worldpoetryday
Very excited to be part of the @thebraag.bsky.social family and to be edited by the amazing @kymdeyn.bsky.social !! #poetrysky #ukpoets
Can't wait to read!! #ukpoets
I found this conversation, between two poets and writers, @romalynante3.bsky.social and Marjorie Evasco, in itself so beautifully sustaining.
"Prizing Our Poems: On Sustaining a Life in Poetry Beyond Recognition"
Via @poetrylondon.bsky.social
#poetrysky #ukpoets
poetrylondon.co.uk/prizing-our-...
Thanks to @arachnepress.bsky.social great to be part of this uproarious anthology. #UKPoets
'if there was no moving through your history but the history was you over and over and over again, wouldn’t you be a mudslide, a haunt, a great unspoken secret?'
@kymdeyn.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social
#ukpoets #poetrysky #Folkish
ninearchespress.com/publications...
'if there was no moving through your history but the history was you over and over and over again, wouldn’t you be a mudslide, a haunt, a great unspoken secret?'
Love this Kym! #ukpoets #poetrysky #Folkish ninearchespress.com/publications...
Thrilled that my new pamphlet is available for pre-order from the wonderful @thebraag.bsky.social
thebraag.co/product/empi...
#ukpoets #poetrysky
Tigress with Wings Rupinder Kaur Waraich In the Lily Room Erica Hesketh In the Hollow of the Wave Nina Mingus Powles Light Year Jennifer Wong Tendrils & The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K Le Guin anthologies from Silver Press.
Material for KS2 poetry workshops
Quote from ‘Poetry is not a Luxury’ by Audre Lorde
Cover of ‘Family Lines’ anthology published be Faber & edited by Simon Armitage & Rachel Bower
Last minute preps for poetry workshops this week, from primary schools to undergraduate scientists to teacher CPD. And some wonderful poetry reading!
Titles/ authors in alt
#poetrysky
#ukpoets
Another lovely feature for #poemsontheunderground
40th anniversary
If there’s a poem you loved, you can buy the poster from @poetrysociety.org.uk
here:
poetrysociety.org.uk/projects/poe...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/b...
#poetrysky #ukpoets
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
Lovely piece about Poems on the Underground at 40.
If you’ve ever spotted a poem you’d like a poster of, you can order one for the cost of postage from @poetrysociety.org.uk
here:
poetrysociety.org.uk/product-cate...
#poetrysky #ukpoets
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Such a joy to be part of this amazing project bringing poetry into primary schools!!
#poetrysky #ukpoets #kidlituk #ukkidlit
Super thrilled at this lovely news!! My children’s poetry collection has been shortlisted by the wonderful @theemmapress.bsky.social
🥰 #ukpoets #poetrysky #kidlituk #ukkidlit
Very thrilled to join the wonder that is @thebraag.bsky.social !! #ukpoets #poetrysky
Lovely to have a poem (an ode to the dandelion!) in the new issue of wonderful online children’s poetry magazine Tyger Tyger:
Read here: tygertyger.net/project/tyge...
#kidlituk #ukkidlit #ukpoets #poetrysky #kidlit
Thank you Elsewhere Journal for a nice Christmas present - four of my poems in the latest issue 😀
Us English
The Moho Discontinuity is exposed
Ars prosaica
Gaza 365
www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2...
#Poems #Poetry #UKPoets #Place #BoatPeople #Geology #Cornwall #Oxfordshire #Dartmoor #Gaza
*Address to a Grapefruit* /for Sarah, Community Champion on the Macmillan Cancer Support forum/ O Grapefruit! We shall sound thy praise and celebrate with tuneful lays from breakfast time til end of days — Thou choicest fruit! — for gifting us with such a taste none dare dispute. All other fruit doth seem to fade when set against thy marmalade or halved and on a dish arrayed with grapefruit spoon to segment with serrated blade thy rosy moon. O Citrus paradisi fair! O Pamplemousse beyond compare! Thy globe doth cross the world ensnare — Annwyl Grawnffrwyth! — yet lovers need thy pips beware nor take thy pith. Fair full thy zesty sunset rind, Great Chieftain of the citrus kind! Alas! These years I am resigned — I must thee slight for in thy radiant star I find my kryptonite. © Clare Bryden With apologies to Burns and his haggis https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/address-haggis/
A friend recently started chemo, and I wrote her a poem about the foodstuffs she'll be missing. I posted it here 👇and on some forums, with her blessing. A response on Macmillan led to this (even more niche) second poem. I hope they bring a little joy.
#Cancer #Chemo #Diet
#Poem #Poetry #UKPoets
*You can keep the kimchi* /For Penny/ When chemo’s done, I’ll drink a sea of whole untreated milk in tea. I’ll eat a Ferris wheel of Brie, but you can keep the kimchi. I’ll feast on oysters, meat done rare, eat frites with moules marinières, break bread in molten Camembert, but you can keep the kimchi. I’ll wolf down Wiltshire ham for two, quaff casks of home-made scrumpy brew, scoff sourdough toast with Danish Blue, but you can keep the kimchi. /Bring cockles, mussels live-alive-o!/ Eggs Benedict would fill a hole or licking out the mixing bowl then gorging on a Gorgonzol- a — you can keep the kimchi. Salami, sushi, scallops, clam, smoked salmon, mayo, mousse, meringue, prosciutto, pâté, Parmesan, just kindly keep the kimchi! © Clare Bryden
A friend of mine recently started chemo. After she bemoaned the need to abstain from various foodstuffs she enjoys (especially soft cheese, but emphatically not kimchi) I wrote her this poem. She is very happy for me to post it. Words in ALT text.
#Cancer #Chemo #Diet
#Poem #Poetry #UKPoets
Great round up of new poetry by @betarish.bsky.social #ukpoets
*Mar-A-Lago lies* Mar-A-Lago lies on Seminole land. The White House is built on Nacotchtank bones. Because of bygone savage sleights of hand Mar-A-Lago lies on Seminole land, so claims of rich white men are built on sand and storms are rising, caring not for thrones. Mar-A-Lago lies on Seminole land and the White House is built on Nacotchtank bones. © Clare Bryden
I think it's about time I posted this
#Poems #Poetry #PoetsOfBluesky #UKPoets #Triolet
#WhiteHouse #EastWing #Ballroom #NativeLand #Climate
It draws on native-land.ca, a living map of indigenous land, knowledge and stories
Happy Ada Lovelace Day!!
Here's a poem illustrating how far we've come in computing and its applications since her time clarebryden.co.uk/selling-my-s...
Thanks @ampliconpress.bsky.social for publishing it in ionosphere
#ALD25 @adalovelaceday.bsky.social #STEM #Technology #IT #Poetry #UKPoets
