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Kay Medway

@kaymedway.bsky.social

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I’m a library assistant and poet with work published in The Dirigible Balloon, Disabled Tales, Dreambeast Poems, and featured on Brian Moses’s blog. My poems are forthcoming in Scaryness Express.

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 4d

Jenny George—

Fortune
Autumn, with its vivid exchanges,
streams the avenues
of an old city. The falling leaves
produce a kind of wedding.
There's a thinness to the air.
Golden cottonwoods tremble with their visions.

We walk along the street
with our shoulders nearly
touching. One of us
carries a bag of delicate pastries
wrapped in paper like sticky jewels.

Here, says the Future, that famous comic.
Here are your lives. They are yours
to live in extravagantly.

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Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday Supplement
Leaf through the fashion glosses
Where to buy the new

#SmallPoemSunday #Haiku

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely love that final phrase.

From @kathyfagan.bsky.social's book, Bad Hobby: bookshop.org/a/862/9781571315458

#poetry #books #writing

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Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 6d

Calling all poetry lovers: Expedition Press is hosting their first-ever broadside contest!

We've long partnered with Expedition Press for broadsides and more. To participate, submit your work by October 31st! ✨ More details at their website: https://bit.ly/485ByHb

A carousel of three images. The first has a yellow background and reads: "Expedition Press' Broadside Contest is now open! Expedition Press is hosting their first-ever broadside contest, and we wanted to share the love, spread the word, and let you know! Scroll through to see their stunning broadside of Victoria Chang's poem from The Trees Witness Everything."

The following two pages depict the broadside in its packaging and against a worn wooden table backdrop. The poem reads: "There is a bird and a stone / in your body. Your job is not / to kill the bird with the stone." —Victoria Chang

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Skins Poetry @skinspoetry.bsky.social · 6d

We’re looking for your #poetry that encapsulates ‘connection’ on however you interpret it. We’ve just opened #submissions for our first publication, and we want to read your #words. Submit here: skinspoetry.weebly.com #poem #poems #writingcommunity #poet #Writing #poets #poetrysky #writingsky

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The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 3d

Something Gothic this way comes… Submissions are OPEN for The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry. We want poems of neon dread, fractured love, haunted minds.

Closing date: October 31st

#PoetrySubmissions #SubmissionWindow #TheHavishamSteps #ModernGothicPoetry

Something Gothic This Way Comes: Submit to The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry - The Broken Spine

Submissions Open Throughout October 2025 | Publication in 2026

thebrokenspine.co.uk

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Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social · 3d

The Ghost in the Display Window Prompt:
#Poem #Poetry #PoemsAbout

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 4d

One of my favorite Autumn poems.

From Robert Bly's Morning Poems: bookshop.org/a/862/9780060928735

#poetry #booksky #writing

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Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social · 4d

#poem #poetry

Like running out of songs,
or through the list of them too quickly.
That would make the rhyme time I lead for a nephew too short.

From experience,
half an hour will be filled
like a fayre in a community hall,
brimmed with seasonal stalls,
with an introduction of the softest animal hand puppets,
a prop,
a visual cue,
an Old MacDonald clue
that the song is about to be sung,

before bubbles set free
from a direction he'll already know,
poised,
their glisten launched.

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 5d

Casual reminder that we're open for chapbook submissions all month long. Send in your loves and rages, your scars and scares, your humors and porpoises. Your weird visions of the future. We're here for it all, fam!

www.glass-poetry.com/submissions....

Submissions Guidelines | Glass Poetry Press

www.glass-poetry.com

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Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social · 4d

#poem #poetry #poetrycommunity

I know you said not to excessively
buy, but

those educational wooden blocks and toys:
a sewing machine toy set for Theodore,
a garden of flowers in wood to tend to,
as with Daddy,
on the ideal for a football goal garden,
but his own.

For Alma:
xylophone, musical,
all at such a good price.

I will keep them,
but till I see them,

I still have them.

Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social · 5d

#poem #poetry #numerical

Legal Inventory
by Kay Medway
1. Constitutional and administrative law tutorial.
2. Two years for an intensive fast track style degree.
3. European law seminars, then known as European Union law.
4. Law of Tort lectures.
5. Family law lectures.
6. Months into the course until an option offered of deferring entry.
7. Expensive criminal law course textbooks.
8. First term exam results of 2.2 marks on a law school building wall.
9. Red university folders stamped with a gold crest.
10. Sessions in legal databases and case search with the librarian in its library.

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Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social · 5d

"The rooster is dreaming of a fox whose “colour was betwixe yelow and reed.”
An excerpt from This Is Orange by Rachel Poliquin and Julie Morstad https://bit.ly/46D4fKs #kidlit

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Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social · 5d

#poem #poetry

I notice my hair never moves unless I want it to,
like under evening lamp or bright light,
on an afternoon of big, tedious projects:
beading, threading, folding, pressing, painting.

My crafts may cause a pause,
a ripple of things to correct,
but my hair knows to keep where I say.

A lady in a documentary said your hair is your beauty.

Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social · 5d

#poem #poetry #prompt

Choosing to do something difficult.
How to tell on you.

Choosing to do something difficult.
How to tell on you.

Some, and I don't know how they always are
or sometimes are with others,
but to us, they're often rather prone to a cheekiness,
a quick, sharp flicker of comments,
like pellets of harsh, unasked-for rain,
a doubt that what we've already said is true.

The housekeeping, I don't know how or why,
falls to only a certain two of us,
like a mountain of litter,
accumulating until it demands our attention.

The acceptance: someone must tend to it.
The notes, diaries,
like condolences to a friendship's end
I wish had never needed writing.

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ella t. holmes (wizard) @ellatholmes.bsky.social · 7d

I want your empowering/supportive/disability justice messages, poems, and sentiments for the Disability in Dystopia Anthology!

I'm going to make them into art for the collection.

Submit a picture or typed message to [email protected] 💌 from now until November 1st!
#books #disability

This image contains text on a two-toned green background. Header text in white reads "Handwritten message submissions wanted". Below that, a ripped piece of paper has brown handwriting that reads "We will survive. Together!".
In the bottom left there is a slightly askew neon green mail sticker with the image of a green gas cloud and a skull. To the right of that is light pink text that reads "Write an empowering and supportive disability justice message, poem, or sentiment. Take a picture & submit to dis-anthology@outlook.com It will be included in a collage inside the upcoming anthology!"
At the very bottom, centred, in bright green text, is the message "if you cannot hand write it.I can do that for you! Simply submit it as a typed message."

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Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social · 5d

#rippatriciaroutledge

Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social · 6d

#Poem #Poetry #triolet

She was, for many a fan, a first savouring of any form of comedy.
An earliest memory from when watching television.
Watching with a great grandma, her afternoon get-well remedy.
She was, for many a fan, a first savouring of any form of comedy.
Her surname spelt, so famous for any sketch of melody.
A how-to approach the day with a laughter revision.
She was, for many a fan, a first savouring of any form of comedy.
An earliest memory from when watching television.

Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social · 6d

#Poem #Poetry #triolet

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 6d

Goodnight, Kitty. You'll be dusting your knick-knacks in the hereafter from here on. x

#rippatriciaroutledge

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Patricia Routledge Kitty

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Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social · 6d

A flattened, with age and use, red material
of an oversized settee
where we would sit for years,
replaced by a softer navy new corner of chairs.

A little spider runs quickly free
as it's manoeuvred, turned on its side,
while experts prepare for its removal
through the hall & door

#poem

Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social · 6d

#poem #poetry

It is inspired by the Michael Rosen Day Party Pack.

I am
as treasured as toasties,
left till gold to be a toppling-with-fillings treat at snack time.
As marvelling at the miraculous of the world
as marmalade.
As frequent with finery and flattery
as flapjacks.
As rich as a ribbon-red layer
of raspberry jam in a biscuit.
As glad as a grain of spicy rice
in a rinse.
I am happy.

Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social · 6d

My poem is inspired by “Did You Always Have a Passion for Staying Very Still? Questions I Have for Living Statues,” by Iona Lee. #PoemsAbout #Mannequin @thebrokenspine.co.uk

How do you push
red words from a campaign of adverts and heavy reductions,
with its potential for unravelling
the wheres of how you are,
as signs above you,
to the back of your mind,
to be here, mannequin, unfailingly still?

Does the day console you
when you over-apologise for your lack of invention,
for merely filling its hours?

Does a passerby or two hear anything of your secrets,
your impressions of them formed,
discomforts in that stillness that is yours?

Do they borrow your single flower
from a spray-painted top of silver colour you model and present?

Did they train you in a circular poem
to shape your presence?

Would we notice your flickering on,
of a switch,
even with you without a crowd to entertain?

Will I see my fashion write-up review
make an outlet of magazine news,
a news story of us.
by Kay Medway

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Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social · 6d

My most recent poem is inspired by the poem “I Would Like to Be a Dot in a Painting by Miró,” and was written during a poetry workshop led by Georgia Conlon. #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #illustration #greetingscards #memories

Bonnet
by Kay Medway

I’d like to be a bonnet signature feature
in a 1980’s illustration,
an American Greetings card by Sarah Kay.

A pastel tone of her bluebirds
patterns my already pink florals with flowers,
in a meadow, by a cottage window,
bigger than a stamp, paler than the sun,
a card tucked free from envelope in a dresser drawer.

More pastel than the brightest sun.

If I were drawn with less detail to who I resemble,
coaxing a turn of attention:
a bonnet more featured than a smile,
more than an expression in a face,
more nostalgic than a glance.

People would collect me,
swap me,
fill a stationery greeting card store
with walls of wonders.

There’s no forgetting a 1980’s
with gifts given of me.

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 9d

A small boon for those who have contributed to the #PoetryTheme prompt is that they can now be found in this new starter pack. Please follow, share, repost

#poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #poetry #prompts #booksky #writingcommunity

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Jools Wilson @bearsgetcrafty.bsky.social · 7d

A new cat art

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