Ian Seed

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

Beautiful

Thank YOU, Mike, for these poems!

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

Ah, thank you @disruptedblue.bsky.social !

Now available: @ianseedauthor.bsky.social’s
Forgetfulness, from Shearsman Books.

In its tragicomic navigation of different forms of loss, Forgetfulness moves from the allegorical to the abstract lyric, through to the surreal-absurd, & finally to a series of splintered memories….

Ah thanks for sharing that!

Thanks to Sally the Cat

The Heinlein Society
Well, that’s ironic

Good to get my @bigissue.com at Cortonwood Retail Park. Mind you, I do miss the Big Issue North.

www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/2-poems... @leafepress.bsky.social @anthropocenempg.bsky.social Enjoying these new poems by Alan Baker in the wonderful Anthropocene

Honoured to be in such company

RLF Fellows’ News – Feb 2026 ✍️

📖 New: Ian Seed’s Forgetfulness & Jim Beckett’s children’s book
📜 Sanjida O’Connell’s ‘Meat’ in The Monster, Capital
📕 Wren James sells The Victors
🏆 Penny Boxall longlisted
✨ Maisie Chan named Storyteller in Residence

📍 Read the full roundup: https://bit.ly/4agPrlp

I like the word ‘peregrination’ and also its Latin root (peregrinus, "foreign" or "traveling abroad"). It carries a sense of being a stranger, a pilgrim almost, wondering through the world.

See you all later for Verb excitements! @bbcsounds.bsky.social

We need volunteers with or without pinnies!

I like this glorious list poem from Martin Stannard’s forthcoming Collected Poems.

While waiting for Martin Stannard's terrific Collected Poems, I urge you to check out "I AM AWAKE WAY, WAY TOO EARLY" - the first flipbook from 1000000 elephants.
It can be read online here: heyzine.com/flip-book/41...
I guarantee you'll enjoy it.

A very happy birthday to the wonderful Imtiaz Dharker (who'd be the UK's current poet laureate had she not turned the job down). Rather than post one of my many favourites, here's Imtiaz's selection of twenty of her own poems. Why not do your soul some good and read 'em all?

imtiazdharker.com/poems

A correction: Martin Stannard's huge A Relation of Years (which I have in pdf) is a selected not a collected. Luckily I'm a huge fan & have all the individual collections/pamphlets. By way of apology a link to his new review of Joe Brainard's Complete C Comics internationaltimes.it/a-thing-of-b...

Online Flipbook Created with the Heyzine flipbook maker

A great new flipbook, I am awake way, way too early, by Martin Stannard is now available for free. It’ll make you smile and no one else but Martin Stannard could have written these poems heyzine.com/flip-book/41...