Carmella de Keyser
@carmellapoetry.bsky.social
Prizewinning poet Harlow Stanza founder Judge Harlow Open🏆 5 books published/forthcoming|Hedgehog Press|Alien Buddha Press|Parlyaree Press|Seventh Quarry Widely published inc by Macmillan Beatles|90s nostalgia https://www.carmella-de-keyser.com/about
When I found out I was joint-winner of the Hedgehog LBB Poetry Prize, I cried for hours, it made me so happy. Still brings a smile to my face. Thank you @hedgehogpress.co.uk for that sweet moment. Here is an oldie from that time... It's called An Odyssey Through You! 🖤 #theliminallightofthenight
amazon.com/dp/B0HJ83CSC2 In The Alien Buddha’s Dreams is made of 183 pages of sweet revelations and spicy night terrors. This lucid, looping collection from 28 dreamers is a cosmic and liminal nocturnal emission of fiction, poetry, and prose.
This poem stayed close to me this week, it's called CASSETTE and it's from a collection called MUSICOLEPSY by Jonathan Taylor. #Musicolepsy #JonathanTaylor
Good morning! I seldom write form #poetry, but I thought I'd try this (procrastinating with poetry)! It's a prompt for Tanka Tuesday. The form is a pi-ku, syllable count of 3-1-4. merrildsmith.org/2026/09/10/p...
Pi-ku Sequence
Great Blue Heron, Delaware River at Red Bank Battlefield, Sept. 9, 2026-Merril D. Smith silent, stillpausedblue heron stands sentinelofblue river dreams stick in handyes!test positive man, womanjoy…
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I am so proud of this collection. #Poetry #NewJersey #Pines #People #SugarSand #Ghosts and, of course, #PorkRoll
This poem stayed close to me this week, it's called CASSETTE and it's from a collection called MUSICOLEPSY by Jonathan Taylor. #Musicolepsy #JonathanTaylor
Delighted to have a poem in this wonderful anthology - includes many of those in the Morecambe Poetry festival - Dr John Cooper Clarke, Nick Helm, Henry Normal and Brian Bilston Huge thanks to Matt Panesh Festival runs Friday 18th - Sunday 20th September 2026 www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Lan...
The thread below👇 features the poem The Lane by Edward Thomas, a beautiful and suitably strange reflection on the uncanny interpenetration of the seasons and how this can seem to suspend time itself. I felt impelled to read and record it for #poemsaloud #poetrycommunity
Kirkdale Bookshop@kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 3d agoOne mile. Roughly speaking. ONE MILE
A small poem from yesterday. Shared as part of @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social TopTweetTuesday weekly imagistic poetry share
Prose poems are an interesting departure for Heaney. Stations is less gnomic & perhaps of more autobiographical immediacy than Geoffrey Hill’s Mercian Hymns, which Heaney admired. But a comparable spareness in Heaney’s pieces creates a similar feel of historic fragments, loaded with mythic resonance
Here’s the start of my poem See a Wish published in the gorgeous anthology Cosy Poems from Macmillan, now out in paperback. I really recommend. Many thanks to Gaby Morgan 🌺
Feeling really appreciative towards @pdevonald.bsky.social & the London Grip for this lovely #review .🙏🏼 My hopes for the book are that when young people read it, they will feel empowered & compassionate towards themselves & view their own minds as best friends. londongrip.co.uk/2026/09/lond...
New on the blog today - we look at The Condor Daughter, a Bolivian film about ancestral songs, cultural memory, ambition, and finding your own voice. themadridreview.com/f/the-condor... #cineboliviano #bolivia #quechua #movie
The Condor Daughter and the Voices of the Andes
A new film from Bolivia about inheritance, ambition and finding your own voice.
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Thank you @parlyareepress.bsky.social i really believe in the book we have created and hope it will help young people feel empowered and compassionate towards their own life stories. Thankful for these lovely reviews. 🌈🙏🏼💫 #parlyareepress #theamygdalasafari #SkyAndStars
Parlyaree Press@parlyareepress.bsky.social · 3d agoThe Reviews Are In! Thanks to @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social with the Yorkshire Times & @pdevonald.bsky.social with the London Grip for this amazing shout outs to @carmellapoetry.bsky.social's THE AMYGDALA SAFARI!
The Reviews Are In! Thanks to @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social with the Yorkshire Times & @pdevonald.bsky.social with the London Grip for this amazing shout outs to @carmellapoetry.bsky.social's THE AMYGDALA SAFARI!
YT Poem of the Week - Children's Special! : 'Catamaran Smile' by Carmella de Keyser @northernjim.bsky.social @carmellapoetry.bsky.social yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Chil...
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Thank you to Steve Whitaker for picking Catamaran Smile as Poem of the Week for the Yorkshire Times. It was first published in the wonderful Dirigible Balloon. I feel really grateful to have my poem shared with a different audience and I hope Catamaran Smile is enjoyed by Yorkshire Times readers.🚤🐬🙏🏼
Steve Whitaker@stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 4d agoYT Poem of the Week - Children's Special! : 'Catamaran Smile' by Carmella de Keyser @northernjim.bsky.social @carmellapoetry.bsky.social yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Chil...
Feeling really appreciative towards @pdevonald.bsky.social & the London Grip for this lovely #review .🙏🏼 My hopes for the book are that when young people read it, they will feel empowered & compassionate towards themselves & view their own minds as best friends. londongrip.co.uk/2026/09/lond...
How Maugham’s mysterious talisman became a literary trademark and how artists turn symbols into powerful personal brands. themadridreview.substack.com/p/the-mark-o... #books #Prince #Ledzeppelin #symbols #symbolism #art #Morocco #Somersetmaugham
The Mark of Maugham
Why W. Somerset Maugham adopted a mysterious Moroccan symbol—and what it reveals about authors, identity and fame. By James Hartley.
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A poem I wrote about incongruity, kindly homed by @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social in @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social I am in the middle of writing another link-poem to this today...🖤 #Incongruity #Discordance #Dissonance #SpilledInk lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2026/05/two-...
A poem I wrote about incongruity, kindly homed by @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social in @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social I am in the middle of writing another link-poem to this today...🖤 #Incongruity #Discordance #Dissonance #SpilledInk lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2026/05/two-...
I enjoyed this and thought you might too. It is Michael McClure reading Raven's Feather... 🐦⬛ #MichaelMcClure #BeatGeneration youtu.be/jmRmwblr48A?...
Michael McClure: Raven's Feather
YouTube video by Optic Nerve Ltd
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Huge thanks to all the great writers and poets - and the wonderful eight @postcommunitynews.bsky.social for publishing these every month
Before the waking Light, unseen fights and struggles, Dignity takes time. #BSPP57 #WakingLight #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @blueskypoetry.bsky.social
Tossing out a reminder that I write books and this is one of them. 📚💙
In this political climate, where so many of us are idling on the edge of despair, of shutting down, of wondering what more we can do, I find myself needing to consistently remind me that ART in and of itself IS RESISTANCE.
Thank you for this lovely review of The Amygdala Safari @valpoet.bsky.social it has really warmed my heart. 🩶
