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
Goodnight from Beryl Brewer, wishing the cleaning supplies for the County Museum weren’t stored in the basement next to a room labelled Bone Depository. Goodnight from the cloud pond on Weland Hill, where a Harrowhound pack has come to slake their thirst. Goodnight from Hookland.
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Paul Connolly@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 4d agoI am absolutely delighted that my poem Doorstep, both as text and a #poemsaloud recording, is in the wonderful online poetry magazine Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social My eternal thanks to the wonderful editors Leia Butler @leiabutler.bsky.social & Lowena Olver. #poetrycommunity
Goodnight from the passengers of the glass-bottled SS Hookland Star, wondering why they never reach their intended port. Goodnight from Jemima Wooton, stretched full of wicked dreams of how to punish her brother for immolating her favourite Sindy doll. Goodnight from Hookland.
'clues to something... forgotten'. Might wait for flying ant day to settle down with this gem.
All are welcome to contribute. Please use hashtags #promptcombo and #stand and tag @jenthorne.bsky.social Jen bsky.app/profile/jent...
Jen Thorne@jenthorne.bsky.social · 2d agoThank you to @emteepoetry.bsky.social for last weeks #PromptCombo and to everyone who contributed. This week it's my turn and I've picked a word with over 300 definitions, so there's no excuse for not having a go 😂 This week I want you to #Stand with me 🙏 #PromptCombo #Stand #Prompt #Poetry
A fine start to the week Jen with your poem and new #promptcombo theme #stand Since the subject of my poem Doorstep published in text and #poemsaloud form at weekend in Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social is stood at the threshold, I’m presuming to share it with you👇 Have a great week!
Paul Connolly@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 4d agoI am absolutely delighted that my poem Doorstep, both as text and a #poemsaloud recording, is in the wonderful online poetry magazine Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social My eternal thanks to the wonderful editors Leia Butler @leiabutler.bsky.social & Lowena Olver. #poetrycommunity
open.substack.com/pub/thewinge... Lovely to be published in @anteroompoetry.bsky.social today. Thank you.
NEW POETRY 26 (2)
Martin Baxter Sara O'Grady
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Still buzzing - will be buzzing a while yet! - that this poem has been nominated for Best of the Net 2027. Thank you again @paulwritespoems.bsky.social ! This is my Substack repost with a wee commentary and more promotion of the anthology Unwhispered Legacy! 🥰 johnadlampoems.substack.com/p/wetland
Wetland
Dry is but the domain of distant memory.
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Got a small reading spot this evening as part of Lime Square Poets' online open mic after the brilliant @minorroarr.bsky.social's headline set. Tickets will cost you nothing. See you there? bit.ly/4au7Vjm
Vasiliki Albedo & Open Mic | Lime Square Poets
Join us on Zoom for a poetry reading by Vasiliki Albedo followed by Open Mic!
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I love all films that start with rain: rain, braiding a windowpane or darkening a hung-out dress or streaming down her upturned face… —Don Paterson, “Rain” Published in RAIN, @faberbooks.bsky.social 2010 #poem #poetry #WorldRainDay 🌧️ www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
I am sure that members of the #poetrycommunity who were at Paul Short’s @paulwritespoems.bsky.social Book Bag Open Mic this evening will want to pay tribute to the grace and fortitude he showed in hosting the event. Well done Paul, you’re a complete star. And from all of us: get well soon 💙
Yet another extraordinary evening of readings, courtesy of mine host @paulwritespoems.bsky.social #BookBag. I thought I was too tired after a very busy day..but I was wrong!
🧵Askham Bog. York is widely recognised as one of the most ecologically diverse wild spaces in Northern England, famously described by Sir David Attenborough as a "cathedral of nature conservation" The reserve has reopened after a five-month restoration ahead of its 80th anniversary celebrations.
For me "don't trust any assessments about your life on a day when you haven't even been outside"
Delighted to have a poem out with the new look press @anteroompoetry.bsky.social . Coming at the end of the month.
Goodnight from Mary Mantel, wishing the phantom ice cream van wouldn’t play it’s siren song so late and wake the children up. Goodnight from Jed Wyles, waiting in crowded casualty department as he regrets playing the big man in front of the Ashcourt Gutterbloods. Goodnight from Hookland.
Goodnight from Penny Hope, covering Nanna’s vintage snowglobe of Coreham Castle with a scarf now she knows the snow is made from bone fragments. Goodnight from Ann Buck, hoping her garden’s rowan tree will stop wandering ghosts finding her door. Goodnight from Hookland.
I’m properly excited to be dipping my toes back into poetry waters: replying to emails, developing new ideas & finally completing work that sat on the back burner for a LOOOONG time because of my ill health. It feels good to be returning to @thebrokenspine.co.uk projects!
The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)@thebrokenspine.co.uk · 2w agoA new Broken Spine workshop is in development. The Poetry of Cultural Debris will explore how mixtapes, cinema tickets, obsolete technology, childhood toys, half-remembered sitcoms & other pop-cultural remnants can become poems of memory, identity & private mythology. More soon.
‘The Plantationocene’ @northseanavigator.bsky.social Published 18 July 2026 ‘For Those Who Despair’ (Sunday Mornings at the River) amazon.co.uk/dp/9083389359 Deepest love & gratitude to EIC Rebecca Calles Rijsdijk 🖤 #poem #plantationocene #poetry #anthology #sundaymorningsattheriver
Quite a number of Ladybird artists also illustrated railway posters in the mid-20th century. This lovely is by Septimus Scott
A woman in a glittery white Stetson looks out of the train window at the day’s light fading over a lavender field near Northallerton.
Despite my wife's prodding, I am not a churchgoer. Yet on idle Sunday afternoons, I like to sit with the lingering congregation of ghosts. For in that space between mass and evensong, when folk have retired to pub or table with a roast upon it, churches are full of whispers. – #CLNolan
An acceptance for two new poems across the pond with @quillkeeperspress. #Howwelearnedtoleave anthology coming early 2027. Love an international collaboration.
I have been fully obsessed with this for a month, I think about it every day, here moley moley BONK is forever in my thoughts
Kym Deyn@kymdeyn.bsky.social · 2mo agoRough day, so have a poem about the Jar of Moles in the Grant Zoology Museum in London that everyone has regarded as too thoroughly batshit to publish
The current interest in The Odyssey should remind us of one important thing. For most of history, poetry has been viewed not as a marginal activity, practiced by cranks & hobbyists, but as a revered vocation, a central & indispensable feature of art & culture, of human communion & self-understanding
It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark
hello out there in the skies we have been going through some changes here at the magazine and have over a long period of discussion several other options decided on a new name. Anteroom. To celebrate this we are creating our first cash prize competition opening for submissions in mid September 🍀
