@bethosmond
Poet and Neonatologist. Pushcart nominated. Work in the Aftershock Review, IS&T, After…, Atrium, The Alchemy Spoon, Dust poetry, Intima, Black Bough, Artemesia and Hippocrates anthologies. https://linktr.ee/elizabeth.osmond
A person with a tail plays a horn to a hat with a snake drawn on it, while being watched by a rabbit and possibly a gnome who are underground, because that’s how art works.
They’re a bit like poetry tarot.
Three weeks to go.
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My brilliant poetry friend @corrintachibana.bsky.social ! Congratulations on your win 🏆
Fab interview!
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a white neon sign spelling “YES YES” glows against a dark background, with visible wiring and a power box beneath. The Broken Spine logo sits top left, “@thebrokenspine.co.uk” appears top right, and the lower right text reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #CONSENT”.
#PoemsAbout #Consent starts Friday.
Write the clarity.
The moment the body relaxes because it’s heard.
The heat that arrives only after agreement.
Consent isn’t the absence of refusal.
It’s the presence of want.
Draft now.
Share from Friday.
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Order this right now. It’s FAB!
Gorgeous gorgeous book - you'll be wanting to pre-order this one!
God, but this is good.
Goodness what a line up!! Have booked a workshop and 2 events ! Thankyou Lyra x
Super excited to announce that #MOTH is now available to pre-order with @the-ethelzine.bsky.social … details of the on-line launch to follow! Save the date for Sunday 19th April, 19.30 GMT 🎉 🦋
Massive TY to both @taniahershman.bsky.social & @carolebromley.bsky.social for their fab endorsements and support from inception to completion of #MOTH, and to my bestie Rachel Ali, who will be hosting the on-line launch on Sunday 19th April, 19.30 GMT. Pre-orders: www.ethelzine.com/shop/moth-by...
Hi @corinnaboard.bsky.social and @victoriaspires.bsky.social
I really enjoyed the launch last night, what amazing poems from everyone. Thankyou ❤️
Awaiting delivery of maedwe - can’t wait to read the whole thing 😊
Wrote a post today sharing the blurbs for IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY for the first time.
Profoundly grateful to anyone who pre-orders (wrote a whole post about why pre-orders matter to the literary ecosystem, too!). 🤍
Great line up!
Every poem speaks of lived experience of caring, something undervalued and ignored by a society that prefers not to think about illness. It's easy not to understand something if one hasn't experienced it. Poetry matters because it can communicate this experience in a visceral way.
Poster introducing the 15 poets whose work will appear in wave twenty-five of online poetry journal iamb.
Meet the 15 poets whose work you can read (and hear read) from March 15th 2026 as part of wave twenty-five of @iamb.uk.
#poetry #newpoetry
As the warmongering of a self-styled ‘peacemaker’ scatters shrapnel & body parts across the Middle East, & sends flames soaring over the region, which may yet engulf the world, it seems appropriate to dwell on what war is & what it isn’t in the company of one of its greatest witnesses, Wilfred Owen👇
Fantastic article!
As a poet and neonatologist, I wrote a poem about these tiny nappies- which appears in my new poetry chapbook out this year about all things neonatal www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/the-tin...
Loved your poem Catherine ❤️
The whole anthology is amazing 🤩
It was a real privilege to read at the launch of ‘Craft of Care’ yesterday evening. The anthology - collated by @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social and Charley Barnes - brings together creative responses to the act of caregiving.
My Species Jane Hirshfield
keep testing the spiny leaves
Thankyou so much for the lovely feedback- I’m glad you enjoyed the poem
Thank you so much for the lovely feedback, I’m glad you enjoyed the poem!
Thankyou!
Thankyou Debra! I’m so pleased you liked it!
Elizabeth, what a clever poem for #UnderTheSkin! I smiled from the title all the way through to the end! Simply delightful! And you show with vivid imagery, all the sad things we do to be beautiful!!! 🤣
This week in The Book Bag, we try not to get tangled in spokes as we cycle Along The The Home Roads with Andy Perrin as we heal in nature and live with hope.
A real tonic of a book. And just what I needed this week.
Plus news, opps, shoutouts and of course the playlist, so settle down and take 5.
Love this!
Poem by Em Gray titled 'Slow', that reads; The sloth is standing like a toddler imploring to be held. A man lifts her from her armpits. It takes some scrolling through the hearts and bless yous to learn this arms-up stance is to appear larger and to communicate STEP BACK (if one so round-faced and mossy were permitted to yell). There's debate as to where the sloth was heading – if she had, in fact, come from the verge where she's been placed, and if, before this intervention, the aisle of that late-sunned track was just where she needed to be. It is difficult for some to relate to such a creeping peristalsis, to one for whom the world so vertiginously spins her toes have evolved to hold on – she who would not answer, busy but sing of clouds, the slow piñatas of figs.
My #poem 'Slow' and accompanying interview are in Modron magazine today, amongst lovely company, including a thoughtful and timely editorial.
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My ten year old daughter asks me why she doesn’t have a skincare routine
For #poemsabout #undertheskin
Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Ace! Although now I’m itchy!