Beautiful summer garden in Yorkshire. The perfect writing retreat.

www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l... Delighted to have some work in this wonderful anthology, edited by Clare Shaw and Anna Chilvers. #bogs #peatlands

The Book of Bogs

This new anthology from over forty writers, including Robert Macfarlane, Amy Liptrot, Alys Fowler and Patti Smith explores peatlands and bogs, and argues for their importance.

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A great get together with my Royal Literary Fund Mentee Writers and my final day as an Advisory Fellow. It’s been great!

Delighted to have sphagnum - a poetry/dance film at this festival - massive thanks to collaborators Lewis Landini Filmmaker and dancer Inari Hullkonnen hebdenbridgepicturehouse.co.uk/movies/hebde...

Hebden Bridge Short Film Festival

Hebden Bridge Film Festival is proud to present a day celebrating SHORTS. We will be having 3 sessions: A showcase, a Calderdale competition and our loved HBFF National and International shorts compet

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Introducing North Sea Poets. We run online masterclasses, workshops and webinars for poets and readers in the UK and Ireland (and for early birds and night owls planet-wide). northseapoets.com 🌊 Follow @northseapoets.bsky.social to learn more #NorthSeaPoets #Poetry

Really looking forward to running this again this summer. Places still available.

There are many takes on the William Carlos Williams original of this poem but this one sounds most like it is being spoken by someone from Leeds.

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Sídhe Press@sidhepress.bsky.social · 2y ago

We`re opening submissions for our new anthology 17th February! Very happy to work with my magic co-editor @suefinch.bsky.social again.💚We will announce the theme a day before. Looking forward to reading your work. #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Anthology Photo by Noah Usry, Unsplash

A gorgeous sunset this evening. Red sky at night shepherds delight! But it is very chilly out there. I saw a kestrel today and three roe deer.

Our Poetry Review reading groups have been meeting this week to discuss poems from the winter issue of the magazine, including poems by Crispin Best, Nejra Ćehić and Meg Day. Why not join us next time - groups meet online and in person every quarter.

This is well worth looking at

Bberlin lit@berlinlit.bsky.social · 2y ago

Very sad to hear this news.

Angela T. Carr@angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social · 2y ago

Sad to see the news of Michael Longley's death - a beautiful poet and a terrible loss. RIP. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

A very useful starter pack for Canadian poets compiled by @phillipcrymble.bsky.social

phillip crymble@phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here's one I made listing some of the poets who've appeared in our pages over the years. There are other Canadian poetry starter packs out there too.

The New Writing Flash Fiction Competition 2025 is open for entries: newwriters.org.uk/flash-fictio... - Top prize: £1,100 - Head Judge: Shreya Sen-Handley (@shreyasenhan on Insta) - Donating £1 from each entry to the brilliant creative writing charity First Story #flashfiction #writingcommunity

‘Hiccoughs’ and ‘Angelica’: Two newly discovered poems by Virginia Woolf www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/p...

‘Hiccoughs’ and ‘Angelica’: Two newly discovered poems by Virginia Woolf

Two poems by Virginia Woolf have resurfaced. I found them tucked in the back of a folder of letters to her niece Angelica Bell in the Harry Ransom Center

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I hope you enjoy this wintery prose poem from my collection, ‘ Alice and the North’. It was down to about -10 here last night!

Glad to be home. A cold night ahead here in Yorkshire. I am editing anew poetry collection for Valley Press - do you like the working title - ‘The Language of Now’ ?

A great winter walk in the Craggs today, West Yorkshire - freezing and skeletal

Always loved the shipping forecast!

Emma Harding@emmaharding.bsky.social · 2y ago

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...

youtu.be/D04ayybGW_Y?... windswept is a poetry film by me with Filmmaker Lewis Landini inspired by an exercise by Dance Artist Inari Hulkkonen. It comes from a residency at Wainsgate Chapel. I hope you enjoy it. #poetryfilm #poetry #poetrycommunity

Poetry Film - Wainsgate - Anne Caldwell, Lewis Landini inspired by dancer Inari Hulkkonen

YouTube video by Anne Caldwell

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I thought this was fabulous

The Writing Web@thewritingweb.bsky.social · 2y ago

What does reading do to a child's brain? As part of his #R4Today guest edit, @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social visits the BabyDevLab at the University of East London to chat to developmental cognitive neuroscientist Dr Sam Wass. 🙌🏾 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Great selection of reading for the Xmas break! Poetry and short stories that are a delight - Books from @helenivory.bsky.social Amanda Dalton and Gaia Holmes.

Hello Bluesky people! I have just joined. A very merry festive season to you all. I am working on a new collection of poems at the moment. Watch this space!