Fiona Larkin
@fionalarkin.bsky.social
Winner of National Poetry Competition 2024. Debut collection Rope of Sand Pindrop Press (2023). Pamphlets Vital Capacity (Broken Sleep, 2022) and A Dovetail of Breath (Rack Press, 2020). Corrupted Poetry projects. https://fionalarkinpoetry.wordpress.com
Wonderful launch for Ode to Joy by @sophieherx.bsky.social & Sarah Gavron, a haunting and beautiful book. www.waterstones.com/book/ode-to-...
Absolute pleasure to read at @poetryireland.bsky.social for the new issue, edited by Colm Tóibín. Good to visit the Museum of Literature too and see the first edition of Ulysses, on a trip that was far too short. Looking forward to coming back.
Honoured to have a poem in this wonderful issue 🙏🌷
Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann@poetryireland.bsky.social · 2mo ago🥁Poetry Ireland Review Issue 149, edited by Colm Tóibín, is now available for pre-order! 🥁 🔗Subscribers will receive Poetry Ireland Review 149 later this month, or pre-order your copy: www.poetryireland.ie/publications...
It’s very special to share this interview with @forwardprizes.bsky.social , I’m thrilled to have a poem on this list! Deep thanks to the judges, and to @poetrysociety.org.uk for nominating ‘Absence has a grammar.’ 🙏 forwardartsfoundation.org/poem/absence...
Bill Herbert@billherbert.bsky.social · 2mo agoFire, sleepwalk with me, as Europe’s politicians say. #SeanOBrien’s new poem contemplates a continent dazed by its entirely predictable new reality but carrying on carrying on anyway. newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2026/08/15/s... #NewBootsAndPantisocracies #EuropeIsBurning
👀 - glad to add to my tbr pile new work from @fiddes.bsky.social & @jakeareynolds.bsky.social - and my own pamphlet Vital Capacity also still available from the excellent @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social !
Broken Sleep Books@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 2mo agoFLASH SALE: 20% off until Sunday night. If there's a book you've been circling, or you fancy taking a punt on something new, now's a good time. Every order goes straight back into publishing writers the bigger presses overlook. That's the whole point of us. www.brokensleepbooks.com/books
Excellent readings this week at Red Door Poets - Hannah Lowe and Nasim Luczaj guesting - and Sudeep Sen there and in Kingston at the calm and lovely Quaker Centre. Thank you @marymulholland.bsky.social and all the organisers! And to Sudeep for most of these pics.
Huge thanks to @forwardprizes.bsky.social for long-listing my poem, and to @poetrysociety.org.uk for nominating it, along with great poems from @nickykippax.bsky.social and Matt Barnard! 🙏🏻
Thrilled to have a poem in fine company in this brilliant issue!
Bberlin lit@berlinlit.bsky.social · 4mo ago
issue eleven is out now! berlinlit.com
Lovely poem here
Association for Scottish Literature@asls.org.uk · 5mo agoI never felt so much Since I have felt at all The tingling smell and touch Of dogrose and sweet briar, Nettles against the wall, All sours and sweets that grow Together or apart… —“A Birthday”, by poet, novelist & translator Edwin Muir (1887–1959), born #OTD, 15 May #poem #poetry 1/10
Design legend Margaret Calvert is 90 today. Look at that cake! If you've ever admired a road, rail or metro sign in Britain it's likely she had something to do with it. One of Britain's design heroes - happy birthday to her. Photo by: @oshgallerylondon (IG) Cake by: mybaker.co
On the west coast of Ireland, you have to get your heat where you can.
Brand new edition of @robinhoughton.bsky.social ‘s excellent guide to getting your poetry published, glad to have made a small contribution to it along with a host of insightful editors and poets. More details and ordering here apoetsguide.co.uk
Poets get ready... our next submission window for full poetry collections will be reopening on Friday 1 May for 2 weeks! We’ll share more details of exactly what we’re looking for on our submissions page when the window opens so keep an eye out here www.serenbooks.com/submissions/
The Finnish word for an auction, huutokauppa, means “shout market” (or “shouting shop”) * read on for more of my favourite Finnish words (a thread in honour of today being Day of the Finnish Language)…
Looking forward very much to reading with this amazing group of poets - save the date! Zoom link from Sue Burge (email on poster) @michpenn.bsky.social @marcchamberlain.bsky.social @tamsinhopkins.bsky.social
such a beautiful, tiny painting on glass, backed with silver paper from a cigarette packet Dora Carrington ‘The Barque Harmony in the Ice off the Labrador Coast’, 1929
Looking forward very much to this tonight!
perversemag@perversemag.bsky.social · 8mo agoPlease come to an awesome PERVERSE poetry reading with Annie Katchinska, Crispin Best, Edward Doegar, Joe Carrick-Varty, L. Kiew, Michelle Penn, Natalie Shaw and Phoebe Gilmore on Weds 18th March | Basement @The Betsey Trotwood (EC1R 3BL) | from 7pm | free
Really pleased to hear this. I benefited from Declan’s guidance while doing my MA at Royal Holloway, and the poets he’ll edit are lucky!
The Bookseller@thebookseller.com · 8mo agoJonathan Cape has appointed Declan Ryan as its new poetry editor, to take up the role in summer 2026 following the retirement of Robin Robertson 👇 #BookSky
We are so excited to be on Bluesky! This year’s festival is from the 5th-8th November. Will we see you there? With huge thanks to Vici MacDonald and Andrew Lindesay for creating our beautiful logo 🌊 💛 #newlogo #poetry #writing #poetryfestival #suffolk
OUT NOW. Issue twenty-three: 'Wildfires' badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-three
Issue twenty-three — Bad Lilies
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Wonderful launch last night at the Swedenborg Hall for @michpenn.bsky.social ‘s superb new collection Retablo for a Door from @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social - poems that are questioning, powerful, beautiful - with an enthusiastic crowd!
It's time to choose the last IS&T Pick of the Month for 2025. Will December's be Toby Cotton, @michelleadiaz.bsky.social, @greeningpoet.bsky.social, Paula R. Hilton, Usha Kishore or @fionalarkin.bsky.social. More at inksweatandtears.co.uk/december-202... #InkSweatandTears #PickoftheMonth
Excited to be starting the new year with a reading at @reading-poets-cafe.bsky.social on Friday 9th January - do join us! link in comments
