Peter Lilly Poetry
@plpoetry.bsky.social
Pushcart & BoTN nominated Poet 1st collection: "An Array of Vapour" with TSL Pubs: https://tslbooks.uk/product/an-array-of-vapour-peter-lilly/ 2nd: "A Handful of Prayers" with Wipf & Stock. https://wipfandstock.com/9798385204373/a-handful-of-prayers
Sad to see @doorisajarmag.bsky.social closing. I wanted to share a reading of "Humblebrag", 1 of my poems that found a home in their wonderful pages. Thank you to @maxwellbauman.bsky.social & the team for everything! youtu.be/3q3NKGPtC3c?... #Poetry #ContemporaryPoetry
Humblebrag
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I've been reading The Hobbit to my son recently, so here's "Tolkien" from my 2nd collection, "A Handful of Prayers," published by @wipfandstock.bsky.social Originally published by @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social youtu.be/C5l2qx5bbTI?... #Poetry #ContemporaryPoetry #Tolkien #PhilosophicalPoetry
A sonnet for TOLKIEN
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I am thrilled to share our new Featured Writers Page. Just click on a photo or name and learn more about the Featured Writer! athousandshadesofgreen.com/featured-wri...
Featured Writers - A Thousand Shades of Green
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Also alongside these brilliant TSG featured writers: @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @maryearnshaw.bsky.social @elcurwen.bsky.social @plpoetry.bsky.social @samanthaterrell.bsky.social @lawrencemoore.bsky.social @bethbpoet.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social @rhonagreene.bsky.social @julianday.bsky.social
A Kitchen is more than a meal... youtu.be/txECOSfmztQ?...
Kitchen - A Poem
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Living without a kitchen for four months last year gave this poem, written a few years earlier, a whole new meaning. Grateful to @feversof.bsky.social for including it in my poetry showcase. youtu.be/txECOSfmztQ
Kitchen - A Poem
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I've been discussing Barfield and Wittgenstein today. Brings me back to this poem I was honoured to have published on the Owen Barfield literary estate blog. owenbarfield.org/a-sonnet-for... Come, let us participate in being.
A Sonnet for Barfield - The Owen Barfield Literary Estate
‘…the poetic… that bodiless ocean of life out of which all works of art spring.’ Owen Barfield We participate in one and the same Consciousness, feeling its sudden changes. Hark! Our keel scraping a...
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A Poem about my son and l'etang de l'or (the golden lagoon) and an instrumental guitar piece. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UAd... #instrumental #guitar #poetry #nature #sunset
l'étang de l'Or
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzTk... My Poem GROW, and a video of my son painting sunbeams into puddles. (originally published in DREICH, and featuring in my 2nd book "A Handful of Prayers @wipfandstock.bsky.social)
Poem: Grow
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..."And you still have the scar on your finger from the suction blister you gave yourself in the womb — it has grown with your digits, that pushed through mittens..." From "Index" published my @inksweatandtears.co.uk inksweatandtears.co.uk/cheryl-snell...
Cheryl Snell, Alice Gregorio, Peter Lilly | Ink Sweat and Tears
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Exploring the #ManyWorlds of #Families are the poets Cheryl Snell, Alice Gregario and @plpoetry.bsky.social. The poems express vastly different perspectives and experiences yet also speak to each other when read in sequence. inksweatandtears.co.uk/cheryl-snell... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry
Delighted to have my poem 'Index' published by @inksweatandtears.co.uk (a dream come true) My son's little scar on his index finger, from a suction he gave himself by sucking his own finger in the womb, is what inspired the poem. I hope you enjoy it. inksweatandtears.co.uk/cheryl-snell...
Cheryl Snell, Alice Gregorio, Peter Lilly | Ink Sweat and Tears
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For today's Sunday Poetry Series poem, I am delighted to share a piece by @plpoetry.bsky.social , whose poetry I have loved since first hearing it on Eat the Storms. You can also hear more of Peter's poetry Season 3 of A Thousand Shades of Green bhrater.podbean.com/e/peter-lilly/
Delighted to have this poem shared by the wonderful Susan Richardson @shadesofgreen.bsky.social as part of the Sunday Poetry Series. The poem comes towards the end of my 2nd collection "A Handful of Prayers."
A Thousand Shades of Green@shadesofgreen.bsky.social · 3mo agoFor today's Sunday Poetry Series poem, I am delighted to share a piece by @plpoetry.bsky.social , whose poetry I have loved since first hearing it on Eat the Storms. You can also hear more of Peter's poetry Season 3 of A Thousand Shades of Green bhrater.podbean.com/e/peter-lilly/
Thrilled to share that a poem of mine was accepted by The Windhover — a magazine I love, which has published writers I deeply admire. After 25+ rejections, it finally found its home. Out FEB next year!
Image. A poem of circular liturgy, originally published in @paddlerpress.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch8Y...
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In March, I was delighted to have 3 poems in The Candyman's Trumpet, family edition, alongside so many wonderful poets. This parenting poem pushes back against making your children grow up.
Delighted to have 3 poems in The Candyman's Trumpet issue 9... A beautiful issue on the theme of family. Thanks to Jack Caradoc! This is the first of the three: Rhyming my son is rhyming in a language I cannot speak and I, lost to the rhymes, am found in his glittering eyes.
I'll have some family-themed poems out later today... So I'm revisiting "TO MY SON AT THREE DAYS" "...You are enormous. An entire universe laying between my chin and my navel." Read the whole poem here: archetypemag.com/two-poems-by...
Two poems by Peter Lilly | Archetype: A Literary Journal
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Night to day pours forth speech in silent sweet’ In muted awe we make the choir complete
BREAK YOUR IDOLS An acrostic sonnet from my 2nd collection A Handful of Prayers, that is a call to humanity in the face of The Machine. wipfandstock.com/979838520437... Paul Kingsnorth's new book AGAINST THE MACHINE gives such wonderful language to many of these concerns.
New post on my blog: Escalation, A Poem for Minneapolis, Observing with Sadness from Afar peterlillypoetry.blogspot.com/2026/02/esca... "... ice will meet the people’s fire, having doused the streets with the accelerant of death."
Escalation — A Poem for Minneapolis, Observing with Sadness from Afar
Escalation It twists against itself— the spring-loaded serpent pushing the bullet from the cartridge into the chamber. Wound in metal— a cha...
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My review of @pauljpastor.bsky.social 's fantastic collection "The Locust Years" with Wiseblood Books, has just been published by Radix Magazine. Read it here: www.radixmagazine.com/2025/12/13/t... I hope it inspires you to read Paul's book, it is a real gift.
“The Locust Years” by Paul J. Pastor: A Meeting of Opposites – Radix Magazine
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Last year I had the pleasure of reading 3 poems for @eatthestorms.com Christmas episode. 1 about #shepherds & social media, 1 about #Scrooge & #consumerism, 1 TS Eliot infused celebration. Hear me read them & the rest of the wonderful episode: peterlillypoetry.blogspot.com/2025/12/chri...
Christmas at Eat the Storms (From Christmas 2024)
Last Christmas, I gave you my heart I had the pleasure of featuring on the beautiful Christmas Special of the wonderful poetry podcast Eat ...
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