Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Thanks my lovely x

This translation reads very well, but obviously my brain sees and hears only the actors from the TV series.

Hurray, on this magnificent longlist. (A couple of the submitted poems are to be published by @dreich.bsky.social I think, so double hurray.) Please please cross fingers for me, I really like Dithering Chaps (and any excuse to travel to the south coast). #Poetry #BookSky 📚 💙

Treasures from the St Columbas bookshop in Canonmills! #Books #BookSky

AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I loved writing for Little Thoughts Press! Such great art :)

Submissions are now open for @afterpoetry.com
@markantonyowen.com, a lovely opportunity to showcase #ekphrastic or ‘after’ #poetry.
Here’s one of mine that was featured earlier this year.

Time for a Sunday poetry spotlight!

Check out "Ambition" by Lauren Camp, New Mexico's Poet Laureate, from our newly-released October issue:

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Not my favourite flavour of Angel Delight.

The You’re Still Doing This? award for poets aged 45-55

This could be a long and rambling thread. Be patient with me.

I bought an old mahogany bureau on Ebay. I didn't really want a bureau as we're meant to be downsizing, but it was a beautiful piece & obviously very old. Google lens suggests the brass chased handles are Queen Anne. That's 1702-1714 😯

Post someone who looks good in black 🖤

It just seems like your weekend would be best served by taking a stroll (however you define "stroll") to your local bookstore, browsing for a bit, & chatting with a bookseller about what you should read next.

This - which I explored today - is the kind of thing I live for on walks in the deep countryside: a 200+-year-old abandoned walled garden, totally overgrown and teeming with wildlife and ghosts.

Finding lost magic places like this, untouched and undeveloped, always fills me with weird kind of hope.

Bit breezy

Was not expecting this!

Our 32nd and October issue is live!

This issue kicks off our 5th year as a press with our trademark lively mix of poetry, prose poetry, a new column in our regular critique series, 2 music tracks, and 16 author readings.

Check it out:

ogre.red

My favourite Barry Cryer story is his account of Nicholas Parsons asking Ross Noble who his favourite comedian was. "Richard Pryor" Noble replied, "Genius! So sad he set himself on fire while freebasing crack cocaine".

Parsons, visibly upset, asked Barry later: "did you hear about Richard Briers?"

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This is a cracker and I am honoured to be a crone. #Poetry 📚 💙 #BookSky

this is how it feels to wear high rise pants