Because we're going to Shetland together I give her Storm Pegs. Because she asked about Jen Hadfield I show her Nigh-No-Place. Then read it myself. Eighteen years! Forgotten Canadian poems a bonus. The Shetland poems still so alive. Her remembered voice scoops them off the page. It's a joy!
#smallpoemsunday Back in the days half a century ago when this was an issue I wrote a 1 word poem with a 2 word title To Rome Pill Grim Age
Moving against Quakers is not a sign of intelligent policing. We share the mission: 'Keeping the peace'. Let's work on it together.
Quakers in Britain@quaker.org.uk · 7mo agoYesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists. STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
He was younger than the atom bomb. All his life he experimented with hard-boiled eggs. He won't be home this evening, so don't worry; don't hurry to report him missing Brian Patten was young. That was the whole point. As you can tell, i'm a little bit cross
'The Labour MP Helena Dollimore said it would be a “great shame” if 1066 country – the area named after the battle – was locked out of “this national moment”.' The MP for Hastings and Rye thinks that the greatest defeat in English history was a "national moment" Macron knows what he is doing!
A wake up call to publishers everywhere. No matter what gendre. I couldn't stop flicking back to the cover as I read the poems. I didn't get all the connections but it was fun trying. Make Bookcovers Relevant Again! ps there is much more to this important collection, but this one great idea
Robin Houghton@robinhoughton.bsky.social · last yr.About the cover art of The Mayday Diaries: robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk/2025/05/28/t...
viewed from Perthshire it's called a Saltire! Thank-you for your wish which came true though we are off to the local drama club performance tonight with our macks under our sensible arms because the rain is due to start during the second act.
Alison Brackenbury@abrackenbury.bsky.social · last yr.Glimpsed past wayside pylons - an X or a kiss! I wish you a (radiant) blue morning.
I love that the cover picture is part of a collection in which work colleagues touch each other corporately, parents inevitably age, friends and siblings are lost and found. @robinhoughton.bsky.social is the radiologist who in showing us more than we can see Illuminates our darkness. Precious poetry
I buy small press poetry books a lot. I always order and buy through my local shop, The Watermill in Aberfeldy, when I can even though most presses encourage me to buy direct. I assume what I do is better for press and poet - moving books through distributers - but am I wrong?
Polly Atkin@pollyrowena.bsky.social · last yr.As a poet I used to be so frustrated by the limited range of poetry in most bookshops. Now I see how the odds are stacked against booksellers ever hearing about poetry publications let alone being able to stock them without making a loss. Writers don't see their books in shops & don't know why.
I'm loving everty minute of 'sat with and reread'ing it.
Carcanet Press@carcanet.bsky.social · last yr.'It is a book to be sat with and reread: Dugdale is certainly performing very subtle and subversive work, writing about violence with an awareness of the flawed nature of storytelling.' Zoë Brigley on Sasha Dugale, in Magma 91. Get the book here: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017408...
Yea @robinhoughton.bsky.social the wonderful Watermill bookshop got this to me in Aberfeldy on publication day. lovely to have met you at the #poetry book fair on Saturday. this counts as my seventh purchase from that event. Looking forward to your next edition of @planetpoetry.bsky.social
On my way to Free Verse #Poetry Book Fair at St Columba's in London, I'll be helping out on the Frogmore Press table... See you there?
I took 3 goes to get into Lapwing @hannahcopley.bsky.social but now I’m in I can't get out. My father was not like yours. I did have an arable childhood among pee-wits, skylarks and hares, but neither the wit nor courage to stitch that stubbly dangerous world into an important book. Congratulations!
Deaf Republic - A book everyone should read. If you haven't, do it now!
Deborah@deborahzafer.bsky.social · 2y agoThis just gets more relevant all the time
Hi @ailsamacpherson.bsky.social welcome to Bluesky - just what we had over our heads on our walk this morning in sunny bluesky Aberfeldy.
The Quakers are a really important & authentic voice for humanitarian values, have been for over 300 years. Unless the police had credible evidence that the Meeting House had been infiltrated by terrorists, this should be treated as an attack against religious freedom & peaceful protest.
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
quaker.org.uk
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2y agoYou think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Got this from @rosannamcglone.bsky.social ‘s book ‘The Making of a poem’. Sarah Holland-Batt, published in the UK by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social , shows us what we could see for ourselves if we only knew where and how to look. Her insightful descriptive poems deserve to be hung in a gallery.
Really looking forward to this dropping through the letterbox
Catherine Redford@catherineredford.bsky.social · 2y agoIn what is turning out to be the best World Poetry Day ever, I received my contributor copy of @magmapoetry.bsky.social today! I’m so thrilled to be the Selected Poet for the issue, which means that five of my poems are in it 😊
Quite right Rosanna this is exciting news. But what a mountain of work - she must be a glutton for it!
Rosanna McGlone@rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 2y agoGreat to hear. #Regional #theatre #bringiton
I don't often post about a book before I read it but I want to try to capture the frisson I feel when reading the opening pages of @sashadugdale.bsky.social 's The Strong Box which only yesterday morning she read to us at Stanza. It's exciting it's new - and it's familiar. Now, on with the book ..
I just get home from the Stanza poetry festival in St Andrews after an intensely rich poetry weekend and look whats in my letter box! Once poetry starts perhaps it never stops.
My last two years at school we had the Beano Album and A Hard Road and then along came Are You experienced. But it’s not Clapton, Green or Hendrix that turn me blue as I listen by chance to the Bluesbreakers playing All Your Love. It's this man and I know exactly what I’m missing.
Nothing prepared me for the last 5 poems in Audrey Molloy’s ‘The Important Things’. If you havn't already, please read it; be drawn in by the straightforward honest unravelling of her life’s tapestry which is a joy, sometimes wonderfully risque, always relatable. And then? Reader I wept.
The big poems in A God At The Door are not at all heavy because they are garnished with the magical light touch of a dancer. They are an absorbing joy to read, and to revisit over and over. Tishani Doshi is the 2nd find (after Isabel Galleymore) I came to via @planetpoetry.bsky.social Listen up!
This is a true delight. I bought and read his books in th 1970s but never heard him read. Now I have his voice and his pace I will read him again but differently.
Carcanet Press@carcanet.bsky.social · 2y agoThis week our Meet the Author video is by Tom Raworth, writer of Cancer, which is published this month! 📃 Click below to hear Tom read Logbook, one of three sections of Cancer, at San Francisco State University on November 3, 1976. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mw3...
Wherever light is spilled My cat will be found curled up in a puddle of white bedspread An off-white cat In pure white light Dreaming of heaven With one eye open
Warning to anyone (and you all should) buying this lovely book direct from @rosannamcglone.bsky.social - she is an enthusiastic and prolific master of sellotape so you need to put time aside for getting into the package! Loved the zoom launch Rosanna and am excited to read the book.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge 12
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge 11
