one great mystery of our age is how the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money for no reason but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to take away loads of their money for no reason
Gorgeous
I’ve been overdoing it of late – Paul Stephenson
atriumpoetry.com/2025/03/25/i...
This is an amazing scheme and one we should all support to keep poetry flourishing!
A person rides a bicycle down a long, straight road bordered by green fields and a blue sky with fluffy clouds.
CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS!
Editors Isabelle Baafi @timtimtmi.bsky.social & @sohinibasak.bsky.social can't wait to receive your submissions for Magma 93: The Liberation Issue.
What does ‘liberation’ mean to you?
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More info and to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...
Poets working in BSL! Did you know you can enter the @forwardprizes.bsky.social for Best Single Poem - performed?
Judge Lisa Kelly has written about why she'd love to see your work in BSL limpingchicken.com/2025/03/05/l...
Deadline = 16 March
Info at forwardartsfoundation.org/forward-priz...
I'm on the lookout for a talented reporter to come and work with the team at @bylinetimes.bsky.social as we continue to grow.
Please get in touch at adam@bylinetimes.com if you're interested
Kate Wakeling: Send Me Your Poems! (Thoughts on Judging the Caterpillar Prize) childrenspoetrysummit.com/2025/02/13/k...
I've had great fun working on this with my co-ed @hexnhart.bsky.social, @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social, and the authors. You can order it here (or at the other usual places): fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/product/linc...
Link to the first launch, in Notts, below. With thanks also to the AHRC and to NTU.
Two poetry books on a background of worn wooden floorboards.
I’ve been a bit rubbish lately at sharing poetry I’ve enjoyed, so here are two books that I thought were great. Both Kathy Pimlott’s @pimlottkathy.bsky.social ‘After the Rites and Sandwiches’ from @theemmapress.bsky.social and Peter Gizzi’s ‘Fierce Elegy’ explore grief, 🧵
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Today’s Joy poem is The Happiest ‘Happy Birthday’ Ever by Paul Stephenson.
Read it here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/the-hap...
Wonderful, Sarah x
Hurray!! x
Lovely to have this generous review on London Grip. www.facebook.com/100001010692...
Hi poetry folks,
We’re new on here! Do give this a like and share so we can reach as many of you poetry lovers as possible.
Much love 🤠
Awe. Thank you Vicky.
Applications for 2025 Illustrator in Residence now open at The RSL for twelve months to explore the relationship between literature and illustration. This is a paid residency of £5,000 from springtime 2025 until springtime 2026.
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And a special edition of Poetry Please at 15.30 in which Roger McGough & Paul Farley explore poems inspired by the Shipping Forecast- Heaney, Duffy, Plath, Cope, as well as a new poem from Roger. With some guest star @bbcradio4.bsky.social readers...Producer Eliza Lomas www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
I've finally started 'How to think like a poet' - three chapters in and I love it. Happy Christmas to you and your family.
Beautiful poems, beautifully read.
You clearly have never been regaled by a junior school 'choir' singing every single verse and chorus of FD as the entertainment at a pensioners' Christmas lunch (there was a free raffle too).
Hello friends and poets. I’m
Joining Bluesky on a high - with a poem selected by @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social for their Poetry Archive Now! 2024. Congratulations to all the winners and huge thanks to the judges.
Finally, we had poet Paul Stephenson on our podcast this week to discuss writing as balm in times of grief, Oulipo restraints and the ‘uber-sincerity’ of poems.
You can listen to that here, and find all our other podcast episodes to catch up if you need: open.spotify.com/show/5PP5Vrj...
Love the artwork on the cover
After the Rites and Sandwiches by @pimlottkathy.bsky.social is a Book of the Year from the fantastic @burleyfisher.bsky.social! Thank you!! 🙏
My poem Essay on Craft is up for IS&T's poem of the month - do consider voting for it if you like it. My poem is at the bottom of the page - the link to vote is in the text at top of page. inksweatandtears.co.uk/november-202...
Mimi reading at the London Buddhist Centre tonight - room full of love.
Oh wow, Katy, how thrilling - it should make your week at least. X
Currently updating my quarterly spreadsheet of poetry journals and their submissions windows, to be sent out later in the week. If you're a poet looking to submit work, and are not already on my list, sign up here - tinyurl.com/robinsubslist
