Dr Karen Jane Cannon

Rawhead is open to submissions of poetry, cnf, fiction, visual art, and hybrid pieces through March 1st.

#poetrysubmissions #litmag #poets #submitwriting #poetry

Dirt Rich: Carcanet Online Launch - Carcanet Press Join us online to celebrate the launch of Dirt Rich by Graeme Richardson. The event will be hosted by Jeremy Noel-Tod.

Join us online to launch 'Dirt Rich' by Graeme Richardson on Tuesday 3 February at 7pm BST! 💻📖

The event will be hosted by Jermey Noel-Tod and will feature reading and discussion, alongside time for audience questions.

More information and tickets here:🎟️
www.carcanet.co.uk/events/dirt-...

School of Humanities and Social Sciences (Ref: RDF26/SC/HASS) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com PhD Programme - School of Humanities and Social Sciences (Ref: RDF26/SC/HASS) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com

Northumbria Uni PhD scholarship applications open NOW tinyurl.com/yc27frzv

I want to supervise imaginative, critically curious researchers ready to push the boundaries of their creative practice. My specialisms are poetry and experimental writing. Drop me an email:
joanne.clement@northumbria.ac.uk

On this day, November 4th 1918, a week - almost to the very hour - before the Armistice, the poet Wilfred Owen was killed in action. He was 25.

Here is my recording of one of his most famous poems.

Dulce Et Decorum Est

#warpoetry #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky

🌲🌷🌲Hello, I am opening limited slots for illustration commissions as wonderful gift ideas to give to your loved ones come Yuletide Season. This includes your favourite flower/s with its own fairy.

Kindly DM or email me for details.

🌿🌷🌿Sharing of this post is much appreciated.

Many thanks to Waterstones for including Upon A White Horse in their best travel books of 2025 list. Lovely to see @megaheid.bsky.social and @stonelands.bsky.social in there, too. www.waterstones.com/blog/the-bes...

Drawing of a walker on a winding path walking through mountains to the sea

I'm on BBC Countryfile's Plodcast www.countryfile.com/podcast
I talk about how I got into poetry, coming from a working-class background, how I write, my love of Penzance & Cornwall, & writing on difficult subjects.
#poetry #bbccountryfile #theplodcast #poetryonpodcasts
#workingclasspoet #Penzance

What's on - Winchester Poetry Festival events in 2025 Details of our forthcoming events and collaborations. Winchester Poetry Festival runs 2-12th October

Winchester Poetry Festival is approaching. online events are so important for accessibility, but they’re also costly to run & we haven’t sold many online tickets yet. Just wanted to shout that our headline events are
live-streamed and BSL interpreted! 1/3 www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on

DEADLINE EXTENDED – as there were problems with EVENTBRITE today we've extended the deadline to Tuesday 21 October, midnight (UK time).

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So delighted to be included here! Good luck to everyone on the longlist!! Many thanks to the lovely editors of Dithering Chaps!

Recommended!

OUR STORY - The Workhouse Welcome to the Workhouse Fáilte go dtí an Teach na mBocht The Workhouse is a community heritage centre situated just South West of the village of Dunfanaghy, 250m from Holy Cross Church. The Workhouse has been a centre for heritage and cultural events for the community and a central tourist information hub for visitors since

Tomorrow at 7pm, join Moya Cannon as she reads from some of her Carcanet poems, as part of Culture Night at the Workhouse in Dunfanaghy.

For more information, see here:
dunfanaghyworkhouse.com/

Details: Wednesday 8 October, 7:00pm - 8:00pm, Zoom or The Poetry Cafe, Free to attend, donations welcome!

The Poetry Society is delighted to present the launch readings for the Autumn 2025 issue of The Poetry Review, edited by Wayne Holloway-Smith, with guest readers Safa Khatib (video), Matthew Dickman, Joelle Taylor, Claudine Toutoungi and Safia Elhillo (video).

Reserve your spot via our website! 🎤

NCBF 2025: Poetry with Pascale Petit & Katrina Naomi - Endelienta Arts

I'll be reading at #northcornwallbookfestival on Sat 27 Sept with @pascalepetit.bsky.social & running a workshop on writing from the body on Sun 28 at 10 am. Booking open now via #endelientaarts
endelienta.org.uk/whats-on/ncb...

#poetry
#batteryrocks
#danceasif
#beast
#poetryincornwall
#festival

Text reading: Tuesday 16 September, 4-5pm, Zoom. Join The Poetry Society’s poet-teacher network for a free online CPD session on this year’s National Poetry Day theme, ‘Play’. We’ll share activities and resources you can use to explore the theme in the classroom. Free to attend, open to all teachers and poet-educators. Email aboutus@poetrysociety.org.uk for the link. A light blue background with a pink star saying 'National Poetry Day theme: Play!'. Logos for Cloud Chamber and The Poetry Society.

Teachers & poet-educators, getting ready for National Poetry Day and looking for ideas? Join our poet-teacher network, Cloud Chamber, for a free online CPD session!

✨ Zoom
✨ 16 Sept, 4-5pm
✨ FREE
✨ Ideas for activities & resources on the NPD theme 'play'

bit.ly/CloudChamberPoetry

⭐ The Poetry Society Annual Lecture/ Liverpool University Allott Lecture 2025 ⭐

Burlesque Picaresque in the Rural Midwest: My Education in Poetry with Diane Seuss

More info below...

Poetry | Acropolis Journal acropolis journal, poetry, artwork, magazine, zine,

We are open for proposals with Acropolis Journal Projects through September. We're also looking forward to getting back to submissions for our next issue in early 2026, stay up to date with our site:

acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

“Debris” Daniel Huws (Carcanet) – book review Daniel Huws Debris book cover “Debris” collects poems from Daniel Huws’ first two books, Noth (Secker, 1972) and The Quarry (Faber, 1999), alongside a substantial selection of new poems…

My review of Huw Daniels’ “Debris” (Carcanet) emmalee1.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/d...

Flight: A Literary Sampler

Welcome to Flight: a Literary Sampler!

We’re a literary journal, publishing four interconnected pieces in each edition.

You can learn more about us at our website: flight-literary.ghost.io

Endemic: Discover the hidden wildlife found nowhere else on Earth In his book, Endemic, naturalist James Harding-Morris explores Britain’s rarest and most remarkable native species.

In two days I'm back in Cambridge and giving a talk on the species unique to Britain.

🗓️ 26 August at 6pm

I’ll share stories from the book and extra tales that didn’t make it into print, including a spotlight on Cambridge’s very own endemic buttercup! 🌼

📍 Tickets: tinyurl.com/36aamfsw

Just finished reading this. Breathtaking, devastating and deeply moving. A confluence of environment justice, philosophy and personal/physical journey, with indigenous wisdom at its heart.

'a flavour or feeling builds up, almost a sculptural shape that could be a living creature, or a dance or a painting'.
Alice Oswald 🦋

Forest of Imagination has not been granted Arts Council funding.

So we are calling out to the community to people interested in supporting: pls donate! It’s beautiful, life changing work, shining a light on nature, community & collective imagination. Pls share! 💚🌈

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Otters for 1 ¾ Miles – Alice Stainer Otters for 1 ¾ Miles . . Alice Stainer teaches English Literature and Creative Writing to visiting undergraduates in Oxford. Recent work appears in Dust, Bad Lilies and Under th…

Otters for 1 ¾ Miles – Alice Stainer @alicestainer.bsky.social

atriumpoetry.com/2025/08/12/o...

Honey bee on orange nasturtium

Honey bee on orange nasturtium

🌿☕Morning🌞

Fluffy honey bee stalking this morning on the nasturtium

In ancient Egyptian mythology it was said in the Salt Magical Papyrus that honey bees were believed to be born from the tears of the Sun god, Ra

Seems apt today that we expect 31°C in Cheltenham today & lots of☀️🌞
#bloomscrolling

Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers like lots of woodland, but not woodland management and forestry. Interesting implications for the remaining populations in Britain: expanding unmanaged (or lightly managed) natural native woodland seems helpful. #ukbirding #ornithology

Second wave of bluetits! I'm glad I left the rose hips in place, as they seem to be harbouring insects for the birds...

Poetry prompt by David Keplinger which reads: Tell a story about a childhood memory. In the middle of the poem, ask a question about its significance, but don't tell your readers what it is. Begin by describing the exact mental photograph that comes to mind when you remember this story. Let the very order in which you remember the events be the intelligence of the poem, embellishing nothing, explaining nothing.

💭 To help inspire your entries for this year's National Poetry Competition, The Poetry Society will be releasing a series of prompts throughout the competition.

Today's prompt comes from David Keplinger, who was longlisted in the 2024 National Poetry Competition. Thank you, David!

Good morning

The Book of Bogs - edited by Clare Shaw and Anna Chilvers

Publishing September.

Nature writing at its finest.

With some brilliant words from the legendary Patti Smith too!!

@thebookseller.com
@theguardian.com
@horatioclare.bsky.social

"and there was the night, too: but the night was fondest of wandering & wandering among all the bright & gentle kinds of flowers which you & i call ‘stars’ because we don’t know what they really may be "

fairy tales by e. e. cummings