Roger Hare
@hareontherun.bsky.social
Poetry scribbler, cricket lover, art appreciator living in the Midlands. (Not doing the Bluesky age verification protocols so please initiate any desired direct contact via open posting/tagging ( or by insta messaging) not via chat, thanks 😊)
If you're an American (of any political persuasion) then these few minutes are an important viewing (imho)...........
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 21, 2025 at 8:52 AM
If you're an American (of any political persuasion) then these few minutes are an important viewing (imho)...........
I Hope all #promptcombo folk will forgive one of my very occasional forays among your number 🙏..... just couldn't resist the current #workinglove prompt from @hool415.bsky.social !!!
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I Hope all #promptcombo folk will forgive one of my very occasional forays among your number 🙏..... just couldn't resist the current #workinglove prompt from @hool415.bsky.social !!!
With much gratitude to all at Wee Sparrow Press for including me in their latest anthology 🙏
www.theweesparrowpoetrypress.com/lines-of-com...
www.theweesparrowpoetrypress.com/lines-of-com...
November 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
With much gratitude to all at Wee Sparrow Press for including me in their latest anthology 🙏
www.theweesparrowpoetrypress.com/lines-of-com...
www.theweesparrowpoetrypress.com/lines-of-com...
Near Cheltenham on Nov 13th? A great free poetry event with Hannah Lowe & Stewart Carswell 😊 👇
October 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Near Cheltenham on Nov 13th? A great free poetry event with Hannah Lowe & Stewart Carswell 😊 👇
Fab recent interview/reading by Diane Seuss on the Red Door Poets youtube channel - well worth an hour of your time 👍. Thanks to @reddoorpoets.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Fab recent interview/reading by Diane Seuss on the Red Door Poets youtube channel - well worth an hour of your time 👍. Thanks to @reddoorpoets.bsky.social
Haven't done anything imagist for a while so rather rusty, but couldn't resist the new @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Halloween competition! 14 word max...
More dust, more
mist, more melted
than before, he
admires curlicues
on his headstone.
🪦
More dust, more
mist, more melted
than before, he
admires curlicues
on his headstone.
🪦
October 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Haven't done anything imagist for a while so rather rusty, but couldn't resist the new @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Halloween competition! 14 word max...
More dust, more
mist, more melted
than before, he
admires curlicues
on his headstone.
🪦
More dust, more
mist, more melted
than before, he
admires curlicues
on his headstone.
🪦
Looks fun! ............ 👻 👇
🚨 Competition time 📣
👻 🧛♀️ 🐺
Post one chilling, spooky imagistic, inventive 14 word (max) micropoem on Halloween tagging in @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and the favourite poem/poet will receive @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social ‘Drench Me in Silver’ or another Black Bough publication.
#poetry
👻 🧛♀️ 🐺
Post one chilling, spooky imagistic, inventive 14 word (max) micropoem on Halloween tagging in @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and the favourite poem/poet will receive @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social ‘Drench Me in Silver’ or another Black Bough publication.
#poetry
lucas & friends spooky season glows brightly in the dark
ALT: lucas & friends spooky season glows brightly in the dark
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October 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Looks fun! ............ 👻 👇
Big congrats to all prize winners & commended 👏👏.... & to all longlisted - including me 🤗🤗 - who'll appear in the comp anthology
The results are in! Full list and judge’s note on instagram.
October 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Big congrats to all prize winners & commended 👏👏.... & to all longlisted - including me 🤗🤗 - who'll appear in the comp anthology
October 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Wednesday mornings, 30-40 writers gather online (cameras off, cameras on, always with coffee) for Marjorie’s Table. We look briefly at craft then write - poetry or prose or essay or memoir - to 3 prompts. Join us for £8 per month via Marjorie’s Table on Substack: substack.com/@marjorielot...
Marjorie Lotfi | Substack
Facilitator of Marjorie's Table Weekly Workshops, Writer (Forward Prize Best First Collection 2024, PBS Special Commendation - The Wrong Person to Ask, Bloodaxe Books), Mentoring & Retreats Galloway H...
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October 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Wednesday mornings, 30-40 writers gather online (cameras off, cameras on, always with coffee) for Marjorie’s Table. We look briefly at craft then write - poetry or prose or essay or memoir - to 3 prompts. Join us for £8 per month via Marjorie’s Table on Substack: substack.com/@marjorielot...
Hi to all at #promptcombo 👋. Here's my bash at this week's prompt, #visitor from @hool415.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Hi to all at #promptcombo 👋. Here's my bash at this week's prompt, #visitor from @hool415.bsky.social
't will be a good 'un !! 👇
🚨 Happening this Friday!! 🚨
Let me know if you want the zoom link. You're not going to want to miss these incredible readers ❤️
Let me know if you want the zoom link. You're not going to want to miss these incredible readers ❤️
October 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
't will be a good 'un !! 👇
Can think of no more appropriate a way of saying #HappyNationalPoetryDay to all poet'ers than by reposting this beauty..........
You ask for a poem
I offer you a blade of grass
The late, great Brian Patten wishes you #HappyNationalPoetryDay
I offer you a blade of grass
The late, great Brian Patten wishes you #HappyNationalPoetryDay
October 2, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Can think of no more appropriate a way of saying #HappyNationalPoetryDay to all poet'ers than by reposting this beauty..........
Latest collection from a super poet! 🤗
GIVEAWAY ALERT! 💛
Circulaire is a month old today and to celebrate I'm giving away two FREE copies! ☕️
Please like, share, and drop a comment below if you want to be entered into the draw - which will happen on Thursday, National Poetry Day! ✨
Circulaire is a month old today and to celebrate I'm giving away two FREE copies! ☕️
Please like, share, and drop a comment below if you want to be entered into the draw - which will happen on Thursday, National Poetry Day! ✨
September 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Latest collection from a super poet! 🤗
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It's nearly time again ...
If you've been looking for a home for that 'after' or ekphrastic poem, @afterpoetry.com is the place for you.
Submissions reopen tomorrow – October 1st 2025.
You then have the entire month to send in your poem for a chance to feature in After... in 2026.
Good luck! 🤞🏼
If you've been looking for a home for that 'after' or ekphrastic poem, @afterpoetry.com is the place for you.
Submissions reopen tomorrow – October 1st 2025.
You then have the entire month to send in your poem for a chance to feature in After... in 2026.
Good luck! 🤞🏼
September 30, 2025 at 6:27 AM
It's nearly time again ...
If you've been looking for a home for that 'after' or ekphrastic poem, @afterpoetry.com is the place for you.
Submissions reopen tomorrow – October 1st 2025.
You then have the entire month to send in your poem for a chance to feature in After... in 2026.
Good luck! 🤞🏼
If you've been looking for a home for that 'after' or ekphrastic poem, @afterpoetry.com is the place for you.
Submissions reopen tomorrow – October 1st 2025.
You then have the entire month to send in your poem for a chance to feature in After... in 2026.
Good luck! 🤞🏼
Celebrating a successful poetic secondhand haul from the excellent Westwood Books in Sedbergh 🤗.
September 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Celebrating a successful poetic secondhand haul from the excellent Westwood Books in Sedbergh 🤗.
Here's a spur-of-the-moment bash at responding to today's #poemsabout prompt from @thebrokenspine.co.uk - #riots ...
Riots
How anything can serve
a purpose other
than it was created for -
a bottle, a paving slab,
a streetside cafe table, a
young man, a song.
Riots
How anything can serve
a purpose other
than it was created for -
a bottle, a paving slab,
a streetside cafe table, a
young man, a song.
August 29, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Here's a spur-of-the-moment bash at responding to today's #poemsabout prompt from @thebrokenspine.co.uk - #riots ...
Riots
How anything can serve
a purpose other
than it was created for -
a bottle, a paving slab,
a streetside cafe table, a
young man, a song.
Riots
How anything can serve
a purpose other
than it was created for -
a bottle, a paving slab,
a streetside cafe table, a
young man, a song.
Doubtless will scribble a poetic something after a memorable visit today to an underground sculpture exhibition at Clearwell Caves in the Forest of Dean!!!
August 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Doubtless will scribble a poetic something after a memorable visit today to an underground sculpture exhibition at Clearwell Caves in the Forest of Dean!!!
Happy Monday! For a poetic #lifttothesky with @thebrokenspine.co.uk today I'd like to throw a light on this poem by @victoriaspires.bsky.social that was commended in last year's TPW Poetry Prize - a beautiful piece of 3 stanza observation & a 💥 finale!
August 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Happy Monday! For a poetic #lifttothesky with @thebrokenspine.co.uk today I'd like to throw a light on this poem by @victoriaspires.bsky.social that was commended in last year's TPW Poetry Prize - a beautiful piece of 3 stanza observation & a 💥 finale!
Mary Oliver poems - whats not to like?!!!
Yesterday’s newsletter on Mary Oliver’s Augusts:
Mary Oliver's Augusts
Writing about a month across a lifetime
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August 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Mary Oliver poems - whats not to like?!!!
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It's here! Over 150 calls for literary competitions & submissions incl. poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in August 2025. Good luck & pls share.
www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
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August 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
It's here! Over 150 calls for literary competitions & submissions incl. poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in August 2025. Good luck & pls share.
www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
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Competition time! Our latest competition is on the theme of Turning Points judged by Rebecca Watts. All info available on our website.
#poetrycompetition #poetry
#poetrycompetition #poetry
August 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Competition time! Our latest competition is on the theme of Turning Points judged by Rebecca Watts. All info available on our website.
#poetrycompetition #poetry
#poetrycompetition #poetry
Reposted by Roger Hare
Every Wednesday morning from 7:30-8am, a group of writers gather round my virtual table to explore the work of one poet, noting craft, and then write to 3 prompts (w/ recording available for those who prefer to write at another time). Join us via my Substack - shorturl.at/Ox9P4
July 30, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Every Wednesday morning from 7:30-8am, a group of writers gather round my virtual table to explore the work of one poet, noting craft, and then write to 3 prompts (w/ recording available for those who prefer to write at another time). Join us via my Substack - shorturl.at/Ox9P4
I find depictions of age more interesting as I get older!!! This one, a Stanley Spencer self portrait, is among works of his acting as an inspiration for me to write a series of poems based around his art
July 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I find depictions of age more interesting as I get older!!! This one, a Stanley Spencer self portrait, is among works of his acting as an inspiration for me to write a series of poems based around his art
I know folk have mixed reactions to the world of literary prizes, but I welcome their shortlists as a nudge towards what I wouldn't otherwise read. Currently enjoying 'Southermost Sonnets' by Leo Boix as a result of its Foward shortlisting
The Forward Prize for Best Collection – We’re proud to reveal the #ForwardPrizes 2025 shortlist for Best Collection! Five powerful books from some of the most compelling voices in poetry today. 👏 Congrats to the poets & publishers!
🔗 Full list: buff.ly/SS35YlZ
#PoetryAwards #BestCollection
🔗 Full list: buff.ly/SS35YlZ
#PoetryAwards #BestCollection
July 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I know folk have mixed reactions to the world of literary prizes, but I welcome their shortlists as a nudge towards what I wouldn't otherwise read. Currently enjoying 'Southermost Sonnets' by Leo Boix as a result of its Foward shortlisting