Sign in

Andy Williamson

@andywilliamson.com
2.7K followers 2.5K following 1.7K posts

Writer, poet, creative thinker & architect for democracy / Sgrìobhadair, bàrd, neach-smaoineachaidh cruthachail agus ailtire airson deamocrasaidh | Aotearoa & Isle of Skye | urbanbadgercollective.com/links

PostsRepliesMedia
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 17h
I noticed a few of the more foaming Brexiteers complaining. More interesting to me is that the London-centric media has not noticed that he announced a reduction in the future living standards of Scottish pensioners to fund a service they already have.
111
Reposted by Andy Williamson
The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Next up: #Rot. Flowers rot. Houses rot. Governments rot. Love can rot beautifully if you leave it somewhere warm enough. New theme begins Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout. Read. Repost. Reply.
A dark, close-up photograph of wilted and decaying flowers, their curled brown petals lit by warm orange light against a near-black background. The Broken Spine logo appears at the top left and @thebrokenspine.co.uk at the top right. White text at the bottom reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #ROT”.
03122
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 27/09/2026
Thanks, Stace. I was trying to imagine just that, the intensity fading to nothing until, one day, suddenly remembered.
010
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 26/09/2026
Thank you, Dean. You got it and glad you enjoyed it! 🙏
000
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 26/09/2026
Thank you, Steve 🙏
000
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 26/09/2026
Thank you 🙏
110
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 26/09/2026
Thanks, Sue 🙏
010
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 26/09/2026
Thanks, Rachel, glad you enjoyed it 🙏
110
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 25/09/2026
Thank you, Clare!
000
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 25/09/2026
Thanks, David 🙏
100
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 25/09/2026
Good to see you yesterday, Phil. I’m definitely going to have a play around with this!
110
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 25/09/2026
Thank you, Merril 🙏
110
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 25/09/2026
Thanks, John 🙏🙏
000
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 25/09/2026
Thanks, Lin, that's very kind of you 🙏
010
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 25/09/2026
🙏🙏
010
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 25/09/2026
Thanks, Jude 🙏
010
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 25/09/2026
So deceptively simple but says so much; says everything!
111
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 25/09/2026
Happy #PoemsAbout folks, here's my quick contribution to #DeadLetters - will check back later to read others! Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry #poetrycommunity
Correspondence

every day of summer
I wrote you a letter
heartbeats
hand shaking
ink staining my fingers

I still have them
at the bottom
of a box
at the back
of the attic

I look out
over the sea
and wonder 
how this day would feel
if I had posted them
154914
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 20/09/2026
You’re very welcome, Stace 🙏☺️
000
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 20/09/2026
Thanks, Paul. I was trying to write it with a thread of compassion (or was it resigned sadness?)
110
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 20/09/2026
Read it and loved it; read again and loved it more! You really nailed the prompt, Stace 👏👏
111
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 18/09/2026
Thanks J R, that's very kind 🙏
000
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 18/09/2026
Thank you, Merril. Sadly, the toxic right has nurtured those our society has left behind.
120
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 18/09/2026
Thanks, John, I was aiming for that! 🙏
010
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 18/09/2026
Thanks, David 🙏
000
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 18/09/2026
Love this, Dawn 👏👏
010
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 18/09/2026
Thanks, Jan. That's what I was aiming for 🙏
010
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 18/09/2026
Good morning everyone, still not finding time to write much this week but did manage this draft poem for #poemsabout #strays. Will pop back later to read others! #poetry #poetrycommunity
Education

you showed no interest
or aptitude 
for angles, Angles
Saxons or parallels
more the flames
licking the classroom walls
before they expelled you

forty years later
your social media 
hate-filled ignorance 
smoke screen across the stars
denying our rainbow reality

I imagine
a life spent running 
towards where 
from what
you neither know
nor care
6389
Reposted by Andy Williamson
The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 17/09/2026
Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #Strays. Who gets taken home? Who gets left outside? Who learnt they were better off there? Don’t post before Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.
A black stray dog stands in a narrow, cluttered outdoor passage beside a rust-red corrugated metal wall, looking directly towards the camera. The Broken Spine logo appears at the top left and @thebrokenspine.co.uk at the top right. White text at the bottom reads: “Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #STRAYS”.
095
Reposted by Andy Williamson
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Crypto billionaires must be stopped from undermining democracy. This is more than that. Politicians are bought by corporations and the super rich. Normal people can't compete in the auction. Must ban all political donations. Let parties be funded by modest membership fees and public money.
theguardian.com
The Guardian view on Reform UK: crypto billionaires must be stopped from undermining democracy | Editorial
Editorial: The vast sums given to Nigel Farage’s party in recent days must lead to action on political funding
12425172
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 14/09/2026
Thank you, Paul 🙏
110
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 13/09/2026
Thank you, Stace, really appreciate that 🙏🙏🙏
010
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 11/09/2026
Thanks, John 🙏 well, maybe it’s just short 😂
111
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 11/09/2026
🙏
010
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 11/09/2026
👀🙏
010
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 11/09/2026
Thanks, Jan 🙏
010
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 11/09/2026
I did the same with this week's post... the original third stanza was all tell, so just took it out! Glad I was helpful!
010
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 11/09/2026
What a powerful poem, Lin. I think it works really well without the last stanza?
110
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 11/09/2026
Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for this week's #PoemsAbout #FaultLines, here's something short and sweet... will check in on others later! #poetry
Before the divorce we ate canapés

this must be your muse
the artist asked me
sparkling wine in hand
as we small talked
the gallery opening

no, I said
this is my wife
have you met?
7317
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 02/09/2026
Away again this week so won’t manage this rather good prompt…
042
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 02/09/2026
Finishing the final changes to a 50,000 manuscript before it heads to the editor and I head for a plane - the perfect time to share this photo... He's a forest bug (a type of shield bug)... he lives in the forest and looks like he has a shield on his back. What's not to love?
Photograph of a forest bug on a jacket. A forest bug is a species of shield bug and he's dark brown with what looks like a shield on his back.
030
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 01/09/2026
I had to google 'Masdevallia' 😂
130
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 01/09/2026
Delighted to be part of this!
030
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 01/09/2026
The previous anthology was brilliant and this promises to be too with @paulwritespoems.bsky.social and @leiabutler.bsky.social as editors!
031
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 31/08/2026
Aww, thanks, Jen, that’s too kind 🙏🙏
010
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 31/08/2026
Thanks, David 🙏
110
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 31/08/2026
Thanks, Matthias, a good to hear you're by the sea - can't beat it!
010
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 31/08/2026
'Wildly undercaffeinated' is such a wonderful start and then this steers so beautifully into a lovely meditation, love it!
110
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 31/08/2026
Hey Jen @jenthorne.bsky.social, thanks for the excellent #PromptCombo #Morning; had a few false starts on this one, so here goes! #poetry #poetrycommunity
Tidemarks

mussel shells crack 
under your feet
the beach 
stretches away
on an ebb tide

in the first 
crack of dawn
as the birds 
call out 
I reach for you
  
a memory
persists
4206
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com · 31/08/2026
Thanks, Paul, very kind of you!
110