👻🧟♀️🦇 #ISmellToast 🦇🧟♀️👻 The artwork is all done. @madp03t.bsky.social is beavering away making it all look fabulous. We are on track for the 31st October launch 🎃🎃🎃
Halloween Pumpkin Head Dance
ALT: Halloween Pumpkin Head Dance
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Sarah O
@palimpsest22.bsky.social
Mainly poetry in independent presses, art, glass, theatre & people playing. Allotment life. York with Glasgow links. UK. Not every act of kindness is part of a plan. Website :www.sarahowriter.com
We wanted BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOLS to look gorgeous. Of course we did. It's a book about glamour. But glamour gets interesting when you ask what it's hiding. A beautiful hardback with teeth. Edited by Alan Parry He/Him & Karen Pierce Gonzalez shorturl.at/126Ks
Very excited that three prints are on their way from @gailmyerscough.co.uk - they are of Durdle Door, the Malvern Hills and Chester's Eastgate clock - representing where we grew up and where we live. We commissioned them but I believe they will be available to buy from Gail's shop in future.
Goodnight. May we sail the river of night gently until we reach the safe harbour of morning. 🖼️ Mandy Tsung
@hookland.bsky.social Goodnight from Shirakawa-go where the spirits of ancient Japan are alive & waiting in the cedar trees, the water & the rocks. Hookland is not a long journey home from here.
Hat tip to the East End Women's Museum for this one! eastendwomensmuseum.... 2/2
Women at the Battle of Cable Street — East End Women's Museum
Today is the 80th anniversary of the 'Battle of Cable Street', one of the East End's proudest moments. The Battle of Cable Street On 4 October 1936, Oswald Mosley's fascist Blackshirts attempted to march from Tower Hill, through Aldgate and Shadwell, a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood at that ti
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Throughout October, @markantonyowen.com will be assisted and supported by @victoriaspires.bsky.social as they pick their favourite 'after' and #ekphrastic poems from those sent in. Don't miss your chance to appear in @afterpoetry.co.uk in 2027. Polish that poem and go to afterpoetry.com/submit.
I keep noticing that a mystery and a joke are built the same way: withhold one crucial thing, and the moment you hand it over everything the reader assumed rearranges itself. The only real difference is whether they gasp or laugh.
There's a type of red clay soil you find on some parts of the county's western border. People call it 'Hookland Red'. It used to be said witches would come from the other side of the county to collect it because it had 'special properties'. I just reckon it's good for growing. – Tom Rudd #VOH
Woman walks into a Hull hairdresser and asks for a perm. Certainly, he replies: 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' #NationalPoetryDay
We were pylon pilgrims. Each transmission tower a sacred destination in the electric ley of the land. The Hum called us to walk to them, to move under their steel legs and into our temporary temples. We marched lines of electrical ecstasy. – Tattoo Labyrinth Dave #VOH
Campaigners welcome Miliband’s claim Palestine Action ban not meant to criminalise ‘grannies’ 🍕Ed Miliband has said it was never anyone’s intent to criminalise “elderly people, vicars and grannies” who have been arrested for supporting Palestine Action. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Campaigners welcome Miliband’s claim Palestine Action ban not meant to criminalise ‘grannies’ – UK politics live
Defend Our Juries welcomes ‘honesty’ from foreign secretary and says his remarks will help in its legal challenge
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Goodnight from Charlie Hazelgrove, sitting on the deck of the Narrow Escape and listening out for the telltale tuck-tuck-tuck of a black-lanterned canal boat in hopes of procuring certain illicit goods. Goodnight from Lizzie Pecksmith, waiting for the voices to arrive. Goodnight from Hookland.
Happy #PoemsAbout folks, here's my quick contribution to #DeadLetters - will check back later to read others! Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry #poetrycommunity
A flush of acceptances for the Christmas and Winter anthology no 7 with @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social - excellent submissions and a tricky project.
Snow Day
ALT: Snow Day
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@thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #PoemsAbout #DeadLetters Off for a long trip today..I may be sometime. Taking you lovely poets & @hookland.bsky.social with me to Japan via Bluesky. There might be a Haiku. Here's a poem I made earlier.
#PoemsAbout #DeadLetters starts Friday. Write what never arrived. What came back unopened. What you wrote and couldn't send. Or address the dead and see who answers. Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.
#LiftToTheSkies Poet and all round good egg @markantonyowen.com . His platforms iamb and After are just brilliant.
1/x In 1933 a crewed schooner picking through Arctic ice was overtaken by a ship with nobody at the helm. Ghost ships speak to the imagination, and most are fiction. This one is real, and she drifted for 38 years. This is the story of the SS Baychimo. #maritimehistory
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.