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Mslexia @mslexia.bsky.social · 13d

Our 2025 Poetry Competition is ✨ OPEN FOR ENTRIES ✨

Prizes: 1st: £2,000; 2nd: £500; 3rd: £250; Unpublished Poet Prize: £250
Judge: Liz Berry
Entry Fee: £10
Closes: 8 December 2025

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Poetry #PoetryCommunity

Women's Poetry Competition 2025 - Poetry (Single Poem) - Competitions : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.

mslexia.co.uk

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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 2h

Ok. Just made my Christmas request...

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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 18h

The Endless Coloured Ways.. similar compilation of Drake covers is also worth a listen..

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Maud @maud-bailey.bsky.social · 12d

'If he had a preference for night trains, it was because he sensed in them something strange, almost wicked . . . He had the impression that people who catch the night train are leaving for ever'

Georges Simenon, The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By

#BookWormSat
🎨 Hans Baluschek

'Trainstation Concourse' by Hans Baluschek, 1929. People waiting on a busy platform. Lit carriages and billowing steam under a row of electric lights.

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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 1d

Morning @hookland.bsky.social. One for Nokes & Callaghan perhaps?

Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 2d

Important news from the bone pit:

The council have grassed over the flowerbed in the graveyard so though bones will continue to rise and still surface occasionally, their main escape route has been cut off, and their appearance should be less regular.

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 10d

🧪 Open to Science Poetry Submissions 🖋️

The Consilience journal is now open for submissions of science-themed poetry and artwork! Issue 23 explores the topic of ‘Tension’.

Submit your work for free here:

www.consilience-journal.com/submit

#SciComm #SciArt #Poetry

submit — Consilience

For each issue of Consilience we invite submissions of poetry or artwork. All submissions must have a link to science, fit the theme of the upcoming issue, and also be in line with our inclusivity sta...

www.consilience-journal.com

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Robin Houghton @robinhoughton.bsky.social · 12d

Poets! Take the hard work out of submitting to poetry magazines. Subscribe to my list of over 200 (mostly) UK & Ireland publications: when they're open, what to send & more. All for free and updated quarterly. robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk/poetry-magaz...

Poetry Magazines Submissions Spreadsheet

Poets! Take the hard work out of submitting to poetry magazines What poetry magazines are there? What are their web addresses? How many poems can I send? Are they open for submissions now? You&#821…

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 2d

The Chip Shop, painting by Eric Satchwell, 1926-2012 (Salford Museum) #NorthernArt

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Mike O’Brien @zoomburst.substack.com · 2d

I'm on the countdown to Saturday night in the basement at Ziggy Green, Mayfair London. (as everyone knows, Ziggy Green was Ziggy Stardust's real name.) #poetry #Bowie More info in Alt text. See you there?

Poster for Up North, Down South - an event where a bunch of yorkshire poets - myself included, will be reading at the colony room green, accompanied by music from Sister Chain and Brother John - and Clifford Slapper, of David Bowie piano fame. The whole event being in close proximity to where the album cover photo of The Rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars was taken.

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Colchester Museums @colmuseums.bsky.social · 2d

A Roman jug handle in deep blue glass with a stamped face medallion. A small disc of hot glass was pressed into a mould, then applied to the vessel before the handle was shaped. Many faces are generic. This one is probably Bacchus or Silenus rather than Medusa.

Cobalt blue Roman glass fragment from a jug handle, the base decorated with a small moulded face medallion, probably Bacchus or Silenus. The thick pulled handle rises from the medallion and spreads into two wing-like flares where it would have joined the vessel wall. Surface shows bubbles and wear; object is propped on a clear mount against a bright background.

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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 2d

A Celebration – Roy Marshall

atriumpoetry.com/2025/10/07/a...

A Celebration – Roy Marshall

A Celebration . . Roy Marshall lives in Leicestershire where he works in adult education. His books are The Sun bathers (2013), The Great Animator (2017) and After Montale (2019). A new collection …

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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 2d

Goodnight from the Man In The Moon, winking at Master Nye, watching the rest of us sleepwalking. Rest easy Hookland.

A photograph of the moon with halo over York 6th October 2025. Leaves of Virginia Creeper in silhouette in the foreground.

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𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒃 ~ 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 @iambapoet.com · 3d

**PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINEES ANNOUNCED**

Please join @iambapoet.com in congratulating Theresa Donnelly, Kerry Trautman, Rishika Williams, @jahshabby.bsky.social, @victoriaspires.bsky.social and @johnglenday.bsky.social on their nominations for the next edition of the @pushcartprize.bsky.social.

Promotional poster announcing the six nominees for the 51st edition of The Pushcart Prize, as chosen by the editor of online poetry quarterly iamb.

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Dr Victoria Xiaoxiao Ma @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social · 3d

Found it yesterday in Waterstones. Heard of the book from the publisher’s skeet. Love the cover: ‘To Walshaw Dean’ by Angie Rogers. Many good proses and poems inside. A wonderful project and anthology! Need this more!

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Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 3d

My #LifttotheSky today goes to the lovely Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social , a fine poet and generous supporter of #poetrycommunity #BlueskyPoers #PoetsSupportPoets
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 3d

It's the irrepressible @hool415.bsky.social hosting #promptcombo this week, and the theme is #visitor. As ever, you have all week to respond ☺️

Julian (Hool) @hool415.bsky.social · 3d

Hullo @rfsmith.bsky.social @dragonslayerma.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social I’m hosting #promptcombo with #visitor All welcome, use the #promptcombo to post and me @hool415.bsky.social (Please note: I’m not around all Tuesday but will catch up the next day!) Ju

Walk

That afternoon
the clouds were sullied
holding their breath of rain,
and the wind
one-handed, shyly
circled the trees again.

It was an hour
when the streets were clear
just an old man, his slowed dog,
and the nearby knock
of a Macmillan Nurse.

It felt like a hole in the day:
where time had fled
and the emptiness left
carried no anticipation.

I thought much of that nurse
and the house overrun
with the dry rot
of cancer,

how perhaps
round a downstairs bed
she helped like a priest,
dissolve the glass,
so the clouds and the wind
could be welcomed.

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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 3d

There are some total spanners beyond the Hookland boundaries,sorry they've got under your skin. I imagine a Hookland stamp might be affixed to it's Basildon Bond with bone glue, post delivered via a very pale 'child' on a Chopper. I prefer Bluesky.

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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 3d

😇.. very very bitter and dark but enough jarred in January to last until the winter solstice.

Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 3d

Her girls. 😉

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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 3d

Had to explain to our Brazilian visitor what a hot water bottle was...

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 4d

The Jarrow Crusade, in which 200 unemployed men marched to London calling for government intervention to restore jobs, began on this day 1936. Unsuccessful at the time, but helped to shape postwar attitudes to employment and social justice.

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NigelSadler @nigelsadler.bsky.social · 5d

For those that might not know we're at the start of the Orionid meteor shower now and it'll last almost 3 weeks. Fingers crossed for clear skies 🤞 🔭

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Orionid meteor shower: How to see it

Get to an area with low light pollution and look towards Orion to see the meteor shower, says BBC Weather's Sophia Herod.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 5d

You will thank yourself next spring (& wonder why it is such a good bulb year😉).

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Signe Maene @signemaene.com · 5d

'as if awakened, she turns her face to yours;
and with a shock, you see yourself, tiny,
inside the golden amber of her eyeballs
suspended, like a prehistoric fly.'
-Black Cat, Rainer Maria Rilke

🎨Arthur Rackham
#BookWormSat

Illustration of a black cat who doesn't seem to be very amused. The cat is sitting on a tree branch. Black and yellow colours.

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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 5d

3 weeks..

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