Cover reveal: SARDINES A new collaborative pamphlet from me and @minorroarr.bsky.social 🐟
From @dialectwriters.bsky.social Some creative partnerships begin with a plan; others with a spark. Sardines began with something stranger & more serendipitous: a misremembered remembered Frank O'Hara poem.
'My jelly legs are off the couch
by grace of Prozac. Four months indoors
and the neighbourhood is treason.'
From our sold-out issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024) -- poetry by Vasiliki Albedo ⭐
@minorroarr.bsky.social
bansheepress.org/read/the-sta...
Vasiliki Albedo recommends 'The Snow Globe' by Jenny Pagdin. She says of the book: "With beautifully crafted, nuanced, lyrical poems rooted in the perosnal experience of postpartum psychosis, the collection traverses a stark emotional landscape giving way to glimpses of recovery, light, and love."
📚 It's August, which means the #SealeyChallenge is now underway! To help you on your journey to read a book every day this month, The Poetry Society has gotten in touch with poets we've recently worked with for some recommendations.
Today's recommendation comes from Vasiliki Albedo, who was (...)
A poetry prompt from Vasiliki Albedo which reads: Take a couple of poems you have almost given up on. Isolate images from each that strike you as interesting, arresting or surprising. Past those into a document and see if you can find an emotional through-line that connects them, perhaps in an unexpected way. Free write around your thoughts and draft some of these fragments into a new poem.
💭 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 Vasiliki Albedo, who was longlisted in the 2024 National Poetry Competition and commended in the 2018 (...)
thank you so much! 💕
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"And just as we know the dancing woman is dying
in the next scene, the villain doing a good deed
is dying in the next scene, and the playing kitten
is only practising to kill, we both know
what’s coming."
#TodaysPoem #poetry by Vasiliki Albedo (@minorroarr.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/ctcj2s22
thank you so much Vicki 💗🙏
Insanity
My mind blew open so wide, I couldn’t trust the sun to set
Jenny Pagdin
briefpoems.wordpress.com/2016/01/07/s...
Image courtesy @minorroarr.bsky.social
People who change your life:
Ted Schmidt taught highschool to my punk rock bandmates. When our band went on the road Ted gave us books on social justice and how to turn faith into action.
He has been part of my life ever since.
He is in his 80s and holds a weekly vigil on Kingston road for peace.
Apologies if the initial post was unclear; this competition is open to ALL persons who identify as female or non binary.
There is an ADDITIONAL category for emerging poets over 40 who have yet to publish a pamphlet or collection.
Any questions please email us 🍀 dillonjaxx@gmail.com
my dreams are becoming more pedestrian- I dreamt I was making pizza and arguing with my family 😑
The Bittersweet I speak only desire that summer, recite Anais Nin, Carson's Eros the Bittersweet, suffering the heat, my centre pulsing like a magnet. Sixteen, lodging with friends of the family, sweet on the son— brown eyed, freckled, biting his lip as he reels in a fish from the cliff where we burn through afternoons and I pray nothing catches, for the chance to linger after sunset. All night on the viscid sand our bodies soak in brine, as we watch ships bloat into focus, a frenzy of water behind them, until the sparrows awaken, their song more bait than romance. And I have wanted him so much to kiss me all that summer on Skiathos, with its inlets and pine forests, where the Greek flag was raised for the first time. Look at him, the Aegean at his fingertips swelling and splitting its body at his lightest touch.
Read 'The Bittersweet' by @minorroarr.bsky.social badlilies.uk/vasiliki-albedo
thank you so much @badlilies.bsky.social 🌸🌸
Meanwhile, by way of light relief, a cat poem, in today’s @badlilies.bsky.social Also a photo of ‘my tangerine Miranda’, clearly unaware she’s been such an inspiration.
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sorry for the typo, I was running out the door, Vicki!
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"biting
his lip as he reels in a fish
from the cliff where we burn through
afternoons and I pray nothing catches,
for the chance to linger after sunset."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
The Bittersweet by Vasiliki Albedo (@minorroarr.bsky.social) (2025 @BadLilies.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/44zv6hd5
oh thank you so much Vicky, really appreciate your support !
that is so bizarre- but very funny. Why is Dan easier than Ben? And Morgan doesn't sound difficult at all.
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You* are amazing! ❤️
thank you so much dear Gita! ❤️❤️
the three men were not shouting over each other, the two narcissist children were shouting over Zelensky and not letting him speak
"I'm aligned with the world" quote of the century
thank you so much Elizabeth 💜
thank you so much lovely Corinna ❤️I'm very glad you liked it, means a lot X
Beautiful poem by @minorroarr.bsky.social in the latest issue of @badlilies.bsky.social www.badlilies.uk/vasiliki-alb...
thank you so much Nora! 💗
