Bad Lilies is delighted to be part of the inaugural Firelit Poetry Prize. We're in exciting company! firelitprize.org

Very happy to have a Blake poem, "London Pride", alongside wonderful poems from @kathrynmaris.bsky.social @lisadmkelly.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social @taylor-strickland.bsky.social, Róisín Tierney (title poem!), Caleb Leow, & more more, in Bad Lilies "The Erratics", kudos to the florists 🌷🌼🪻💐

Bad Lilies@badlilies.bsky.social · 3w ago

OUT NOW: Issue twenty-five: 'The Erratics' badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-five

I love the @badlilies.bsky.social style -- the distinctive blush setting; the showcase of circa 15 blooms per issue; each deftly hand-tied (spot the ingenious links between poems!)-- a tour-de-force of floristry craft from super-editors @kathryngray.bsky.social & @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social! 🙏🌹💐

Bad Lilies@badlilies.bsky.social · 3w ago

A poem by @gbclarkson.bsky.social badlilies.uk/geraldine-clarkson-2

One of the best little magazines in the UK.

Bad Lilies@badlilies.bsky.social · 3w ago

OUT NOW: Issue twenty-five: 'The Erratics' badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-five

OUT NOW: Issue twenty-five: 'The Erratics' badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-five

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Issue twenty-four of Bad Lilies

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Memories of, and tributes to, Douglas Dunn from many poets, including @kathleenjamie.bsky.social @georgeszirtes.bsky.social @paintedspoken.bsky.social @kathryngray.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social 💜

Scottish Poetry Library@byleaveswelive.bsky.social · 3w ago

Douglas Dunn RIP. A titan of Scottish poetry is gone. Douglas Dunn's fellow poets respond. www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2026/10/a-ti...

Next Friday! badlilies.uk

We're pinching ourselves at Bad Lilies Towers as our 25th issue will be out later this month! More soon... badlilies.uk

Richard Sherman #25 Football Player Waving

ALT: Richard Sherman #25 Football Player Waving

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Delighted to be a bad lily. With huge thanks to editors @kathryngray.bsky.social & @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social

Bad Lilies@badlilies.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Two poems by Emma Harding badlilies.uk/emma-harding

OUT NOW: Issue twenty-four: 'Hopes Unspool' badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-four

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Issue twenty-four of Bad Lilies

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I’m reading online for the Transatlantic Poetry Series on 19 June at 7pm GMT. Tickets—free—available at the link to book. Would be lovely if you’d like to join me for poems on Hollywood, musicians, poets, desire, memory, and the middle life. ❤️

It’s a beautiful day in Winchmore Hill.

Very much looking forward to reading next Wednesday evening alongside @kathryngray.bsky.social and @kmahonpoet.bsky.social in support of @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social for the York launch of his wonderful Blue Diode collection Little Griefs at @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social, Coney Street, 7pm

Really looking forward to this event on 7 May to celebrate @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social’s beautiful and stunning Little Griefs @poetrysociety.bsky.social!

Andrew Neilson@andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Book launch postponement! Now taking place...same time, same venue, same readers...on Thursday 7 May. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/little-gri...

Years far, far, far away and unknown from the now, someone will be studying Travelodge art.

Caught some good films over the past few days: A Real Pain (so v long overdue—absolutely adored it, will stay with me) and Project Hail Mary (v good fun and touching, too). Oh, how I love the movies!

53 tomorrow. We’ve come a long, long way together—little one, little me—through the bad carpets and the good.

Happy St. David’s Day from my late bampy (that’s a grandad, to the non-Welshies). Greatest publican South Wales ever knew. Here he is in The Greyhound (now The Llanfabon Inn), with two of his most wonderful, no-nonsense bar staff. A blessing on their beautiful memory.

The "Bookish Beck" blog likes "Dirt Rich" - you might like it too...

Happy Birthday, Cal.

Buy this wonderful book!

Annie Brechin@anniebrechin.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Dumped on Valentine's? Read all about heartbreak in my sexy new book www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page...

OUT NOW. Issue twenty-three: 'Wildfires' badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-three

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Marty Supreme! What a film—fantastic.

Painting one’s toenails in January is an embrace of the coming spring.

I have a book out in a couple of months. It's only taken me 50 years to get there. So of course I have been mired in total lethargy as I regard its emergence on the event horizon. Then I fixed a toilet lid yesterday and now I am all POETRY ACTION. #DIYDONTDIE

Very grateful for this generous and perceptive review from Jade Cuttle - observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Confessions of a parish priest | The Observer

In frank, witty, soul-searching poems, clergyman turned archaeologist Graeme Richardson draws on both strands of his career for his debut collection Dirt Rich

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‘Tis the season to flog my poetry. Hollywood or Home—a Tinseltown of the mind. An unusual stocking filler for the cinephile in your life.

It’s my 28th year in London. In 1997, I turned up with a suitcase and no prospects but for the kind loan of a friend’s room while she was on the other side of the world. I thought it would likely be a momentary adventure. It became my life. Here’s my favourite view.

So incredibly sad about Rob Reiner. youtu.be/c9imHz0nBd4?...

Stand By Me — Deer

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Amazing to me, but @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social and I began @badlilies.bsky.social five years ago this coming spring. Five years! A lockdown project of optimism in a sad time. The world continues to disappoint. Bad Lilies keeps going. Explore our archive: www.badlilies.uk/issues

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Issues of Bad Lilies, a digital poetry journal.

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