Pushcart Prize Nominated. Cheshire Novel Prize Shortlist ‘25 Write Mentor Picturebook SL’23/LL’24 Poetry - The Dirigible Balloon, Northern Gravy, Tyger Tyger, The Toy, The Yorkshire Times, Motherhood Uncensored and BBC Upload.🏴
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Back to school season is upon us, but do you prefer a packed lunch or school dinners? Poems from our food edition by Sarah Ziman and Jonathan Sellars, and illustrations by Mietta Postlethwaite - available in our web shop. #Backtoschool #backtoschool2025
This Monday, I'd like to #LiftToTheSky the wonderful @alanparrywriter.co.uk. He works so hard to give feedback on ALL the poems for #PoemsAbout. And, well, he also runs @thebrokenspine.co.uk. He works so hard for the poetry community and I hope it's never forgotten. #PoetsofBluesky
Hullo I’m going to #lifttothesky @carolynthomas.bsky.social as I think she won’t expect it today, she’s also currently under the weather. Her work is always crafted and impactful and for me seems to hang around rent-free for days! (If I spoke Welsh I would insert the most apt phrase here for her!)
An enormous #LifttotheSky for the splendid and generous @hool415.bsky.social for stunning poetry, warm encouragement and support to the #poetrycommunity and being an all round good guy. Diolch, Ju. @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/08/five...
In our secondary library it’s Manga and this! My pinboard is full of rainy-breaktime Jack Skellingtons!
If you write for kids, check out these submission opportunities: ✍️Dirigible Balloon (until Aug. 26, theme: Imagine the Future) ✍️@paperboundmag.bsky.social (until Sept. 14, theme: Changes: Come as you aren’t!) ✍️@littlethoughtspress.com (until Sept. 22, theme: Better Together)
Thrilled to have a poem about #ReframingLoneliness within this unique, moving anthology! 🤍 Thankful to Charlie Castelletti and all at @panmacmillan.bsky.social You're Never Too Much: Poems for Every Emotion by Charlie Castelletti Pan Macmillan 04/09 #HopefulPoems #hope share.google/jrRau17GWuhq...
Thank you! 😊
Thanks! 😊
Congratulations!
Possibly time to replace my copy! A brilliant book!
Brilliant news - congratulations!
May 30th is #NationalCreativityDay . On this day a couple of years back, several poets composed this - The Day My Head Fell Off. brian-moses.blogspot.com/2023/05/on-n... @philipardagh.bsky.social @Janenewberry55 @carolebromley.bsky.social @lozzakidwriting.bsky.social @kidsstoryworld.bsky.social
So proud to be in this anthology with a host of talented writers. Thanks to Jonny Syer and @northerngravy.bsky.social for this! It's available to buy at northerngravy.com/shop/ And would be a great decision!
SUBMISSIONS are now OPEN for our next issue ‘Dear World’ which will be out in November. Please send 1-3 poems by September 20th. We can’t wait to read them 💜 www.dustpoetry.co.uk/submissions
Send us your poems! Submissions now open for Dust’s next issue ‘Dear World’ 💚 www.dustpoetry.co.uk/submissions
So proud to be in this anthology with a host of talented writers. Thanks to Jonny Syer and @northerngravy.bsky.social for this! It's available to buy at northerngravy.com/shop/ And would be a great decision!
Annabelle Sami, Marianne Pickles and Kathryn Clark have been shortlisted for the inaugural Sustainable Story Award 👇 #BookSky
Wonderful!
Announcing the launch event for 'Snap!' on Saturday Sept 13th 3-4pm at Hornsey Library in Crouch End. If you're London-based, why not come along? A reading/performance by me for children, with snacks & drinks.
Thanks Mike! Happy days!
Look at this! Can’t believe how beautiful, and brimful of wonderful writing it is! Very proud to be included. Thanks @northerngravy.bsky.social #kidlit #kidlituk #writing
Thank you Paul!
Hello, here is your #wordoftheweek! #writingcommunity #writingforchildren #writingprompt #poetryforkids #poetryforchildren #PoetryCommunity #Kidlit
1/3 Thank you to all the folk who made the second half of The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Of Artwork And Poetry such a repast: @sprihakant.bsky.social, Vidya Hariyan, Anthony Brough, @lawrencemoore.bsky.social @feversof.bsky.social Patrick Wright, @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social @sueimnw.bsky.social,
Thanks Lou! 😊
2/3 Thank you to all the folk who made the second half of The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Of Artwork And Poetry such a repast Paul Cannon, Mick Jenkinson. Royal Rhodes, Stephanie Bowgett, @helenlaycock.bsky.social, @rburrows.bsky.social @samanthaterrell.bsky.social,Sam Szanto, Charles A Perrone
Chuffed to bits to be on the Guppy Books Open Submission longlist! Congratulations to everyone who submitted - and thank you @guppybooks.bsky.social t.co/KaeSJc5T6y #kidlituk #writingforchildren
Just a little reminder ... dirigibleballoon.org/poem/Autumn-... #PoetryForChildren #DirigibleBalloon 🎈 #ImagineTheFuture 🙂
Writers of poetry, prose & everything in between, this is for you. #WednesdayWIPs launches 20 August. Scraps. Struggles. Works in progress. shorturl.at/YY1dr #PoemsAbout #Writers #PoetsOfBluesky #BlueskyWriters Let’s build this.
On #Nationalrollercoasterday, can you speak the language of roller coasters? brian-moses.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-la…
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Indeed! Thank you for your comments Karen - much appreciated as always! 😊
Thanks Sue!
Thanks Alan! Have a great rest of your Friday!
Thank you Anna - I’m so pleased it works!
Thanks Merril - that’s made me very happy!
Thanks Carolyn. I possibly put my anguish about topical ceasefires into a domestic piece!
The poetry of Rachel Burrows
Thanks - again! 😊
Sorry! 😬
Welcome To The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Of Artwork And Poetry Issue Eleven Day Twenty-Two featuring the poetry of @clareobrien.bsky.social Clare O'Brien and artwork by Ruairdhri Wright. open.substack.com/pub/the880/p...
Thanks for reading and commenting Jan. 😊
Glad it’s got 🥊! Thanks John.
Morning! A very short non-current events #PoemsAbout #ceasefire. Happy Friday! #poetry #blueskypoets Thanks as always @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt. Will catch up when I can.
Attention wildlife artists! 🎨 🪶 Last chance to submit your work for the Society of Wildlife Artists 62nd Annual Exhibition: The Natural Eye 2025! Sign up➡️ www.mallgalleries.or... 🎨 Gannets around the Bass by Kittie Jones.
This year, we’ll also be presenting a BTO Award of £500 for the best work in the show that celebrates the wonder of birds. 📆 Submissions are online only and close on Friday 22 August 2025 at 12 noon. 🎨 Preening Black-headed Gulls by Ben Woodhams.
NEW BOOK NEW BOOK I MADE A BOOK www.vivianeschwarz.co.uk/sometimes-yo...
Now that’s my kind of prompt! 😊
We also have some short reviews of seaside themed books including The Last Pebble by @alexhorne.bsky.social Changing Tides by Julia Moscardo @littletigeruk.bsky.social Our Pebbles by Jarvis @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social and Vanishing Edge by Zillah Bethell @fireflypress.bsky.social #UKkidlit #KidLitUK
Lorraine Mariner: childrenspoetrysummit.com/2025/08/10/l...
The poetry of Neal Zetter
Thank you!
Thank you to The Madrid Review for including me within this issue. Hope there are ripples of good from this collection. 🤍 @madridlitmag.bsky.social Wishing all who are suffering, that your dignity may be fully restored, and that justice and lasting peace, prevails over dehumanization and war.🙏🏼
Happy World Elephant Day everyone! #WorldElephantDay #Elephant #Illustration #KidLitArt #BlueSkyArt
Thanks Sausage! Happy Wednesday!
Thanks for appreciating my absurdity! 😊
Absolutely!
#TheStarbeckOrion Five more days of feasting until the end of our first Summer Feast Of 48 poets and two artworkers over the last fifty days. I hope you have indulged and enjoyed the repast. What would you say to another next summer?
For a project as part of my PhD I want to publish an anthology which will be a physical manifestation of my metaphorical 'paper dolls'. What I'm imagining, is that I get a group of you willing and wanting to be part of it, then, like a chain, one person writes a poem,
Well if it isn’t old Charlie Joke-Pants in the Guardian’s top ten jokes list www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/a...
Glenn Barker @rotherwrites.bsky.social was featured on #sixtyoddpoets in July last year with #poetry musing on nature, body image, a British lunar outing and the speech for his daughter's wedding.
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My #LiftToTheSky goes to @jumpingjulespoetry.bsky.social for composing one of the most #sensitive and #truthful collections abt one's ability/disability to walk. Her honesty enlightens me. Here is her #ForestGirl, quite at home in my #SFBayArea #backyard #poetry
#TheCut featuring @jumpingjulespoetry.bsky.social Interview. Exclusive poetry. Promo video. A full-on glimpse into the work and world of Julie Stevens. 🔗 thebrokenspine.co.uk...
It's #WorldElephantDay and I, for one, am grateful to know that 'Elephants Can't Jump' brian-moses.blogspot.com/2016/08/elep...
This coming week is #ElvisWeek so here are a couple of poems about the King. brian-moses.blogspot.com/2014/08/elvi...
So pleased to be in this wonderful anthology - coming in September Huge thanks to @samanthaterrell.bsky.social and everyone involved #shine #shinepoetry #shinequarterly @shinepoetry.bsky.social
Seconded! 😊
A #LiftToTheSky for Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social for his excellent poetry (the few I had the chance to read) and for his great support to members of the #poetrycommunity. @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Sometimes feels a bit disloyal promoting my 2nd book while my 1st is still new, but this pic by Nadine Licence is bang on. I'm proud in my Blue Jelly and Strawberries t-shirt, introducing A Welly Full of Christmas ❤️ #KidLitUK Pre-order 'Welly' amzn.eu/d/5slmg8i Buy 'Jelly' on offer amzn.eu/d/hX1cuW8
We're excited to be thinking about long-term planning of events. We'll run one #PoetryWorkshop a month - plus our regular #PoemsAbout #OpenMics and any forthcoming #NotJustPretty nights! Lots to be excited for! Alan will write new workshops to keep things fresh too!
For #StarterPackSunday here's a third full starter pack of brilliant members of the Poetry Community. Please follow and repost #writingcommunity #poetsonbluesky #poetrycommunity #poetry #booksky
For #StarterPackSunday here's a full starter pack of brilliant members of the Poetry Community. Please follow and repost #writingcommunity #poetsonbluesky #poetrycommunity #poetry #booksky
For #StarterPackSunday here's a starter pack of poets associated with prompts like #promptcombo #vss365 and #poemsabout Please follow and repost #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #booksky #poetry #writingcommunity
Wholeheartedly agree with Carolyn's post. She's too modest to say but she has a cracking poem in the August edition. Details below on how to subscribe to this new mag from Jack Caradoc. #poetrycommunity #poetsofBluesky #poetryvoices #poetssupportpoets
Aaah! This is lovely. Thank you @brianmosespoet.bsky.social
A tiny little oddity called Moving On for #smallpoemsunday - which can be found, with some others of mine, over here! #sixtyoddpoets @zoomburst.substack.com open.substack.com/pub/sixtyodd... #poetry #blueskypoets
Do you know what Mike - I realised when I read this again that you were the third person to quote my arch-lever as lever arched - and I googled it. I can happily announce that I’ve been saying it wrong for about 40 years! 😂 I like it wrong in the poem though!
Are you thinking what I’m thinking? It’s a good crop. #hedgerow #sloe 🍷
Galling! #wasplove
They do!
Katherine Rundell on why every school needs a library AND a librarian www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The "AND a librarian" is key here, when holding the government to account about their promise for a library in every primary by 2029. Recommend listening to this too!
DreamBeast Poems: "Bereavement Poems for Children: Poems of Reflection, Hope & Empathy" kennn.com/7vd2Cg #ChildrensPoetry #Poetry4kids @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social
"He marched into the inn, ordered the best luncheon that could be provided at so short a notice, and sat down to it eat it in the coffee-room." I adore this illustration. Shepard has Toad sauntering not marching into The Red Lion and in the most wonderfully smug manner. Wonderful. #BookWormSat
The poetry of Rachel Burrows
Thank you! 😊 Happy Saturday!
‘Green Noah Demon Tree Evil Fingers Can’t catch me!’ The Children of Green Knowe - Lucy M Boston #BookWormSat #trees
The tilt of a Wren’s head, the shadowed curve of a hare in long grass. The weight of an owl's gaze... Moments live again in art. 🎨 Are you an artist inspired by our natural world? The SWLA's Annual Exhibition returns in October. Submit by 22 Aug: www.mallgalleries.org.uk/open-calls/s...
Thanks for reading! 😊
Your poems ground me! 😂❤️I look forward to them on a Friday!
Absolutely! I am so familiar with the fox and owl but the seal was new to me and gorgeous!
