Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 14hmoor cross-hatches in to itself: blur, day, blend, night. A melody: soup. #October 000
Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 15h‘The Huddersfield International Crisp Festival Friday 2nd to Sunday 11" October 2026’ #Huddersfield www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/the-hudde...eventbrite.co.ukThe Huddersfield International Crisp Festival 2026 by Beerhouses | EventbriteThe Huddersfield International Crisp Festival is the World’s Greatest Crisp Festival. Choose from over 200 crisps from around the world. Enjoy free live music, quizzes, competitions, and ticketed tast... 011
Reposted by Barb MilneBarnsley Museums @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social · 01/10/2026What better way to celebrate #NationalPoetryDay than with a poem about our mysterious Veiled Lady. Thanks to @kbrookes42.bsky.social for this poem about his favourite piece of art on display at The Cooper Gallery 53510
Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Night dusts itself in, cloth capping tweedy daylight. Windows: amber light. #October 000
Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026From ‘The Neep-Fields By the Sea’ Violet Jacob October-month Cam in a whilie syne, But the stooks are oot in Scotland yet, There’s green upon the tree, And oh! What grand’s the smell ye’ll get Frae the neep-fields by the sea! #NationalPoetryDay www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/neep-fi... 000
Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This lunchtime @mancathedral.bsky.social 🐝🐝🐝 ❤️ #Manchester 010
Reposted by Barb MilneCarcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Happy National Poetry Day! 📚 We're offering 25% off EVERYTHING, all week! Head to our website checkout and use the code POETRYWEEK: www.carcanet.co.uk/search-resul... 144
Reposted by Barb MilneDeryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It’s always a joy to announce our books each year. And here’s to all that is ahead! @livunipress.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social 0102
Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Light sorbets, lemon swatch sweeps sky. #October #SixWords 020
Reposted by Barb MilneChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A.I. and corporate lingo are dragging language ynto drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language must have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave wet dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them. Save us. 6543203
Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026sky, sponge-soaked, swallows what blue there is. Geese garner. Time’s pattern, cycle. #EndOfSeptember 010
Reposted by Barb MilneStephen Kerr @kidcobbler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Wind turbines whirling: A field of blades playing jacks With the morning sun. 082
Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Haar, St Michael & All Angels - Helen Boden ground is air is earth is mist is soil is light is loam is haze is bone is breath is foot is voice is lung is home to their remains their flesh made word beneath names and dates fixed on york stone www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/haar-st... #poetry 020
Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026purple powdery clouds cluster, crusting day, night, a crimpolene: dark. #September 020
Reposted by Barb MilneChloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Brown pylon with red vascular underpinning 324265
Reposted by Barb MilneWalks In Camera 🇺🇦🌳 @walksincamera.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Afternoon walk. Croham Hurst 🌳 #trees #woodland #treeclub 1539
Reposted by Barb MilneHelen Tookey @helentookey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Wow. @longbarrowpress.bsky.social always make beautiful things but this set of three pamphlets by Matthew Clegg is just gorgeous. The accompanying postcards are going in a frame on the wall! 2147
Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Straw jigsawed, fields blush, autumn sun. #September #SixWords 000
Reposted by Barb MilneThomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What I'm working on today. 25210
Reposted by Barb MilneThe Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Something for the weekend?? So many new fiction & non-fiction releases just waiting to be browsed. A wee book browse, then a coffee in one of the excellent Indie cafés in #Bruntsfield Go on, you deserve it! #books #livres #BookSky 2236
Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The weekend inks in, scribbles of walks, paper maps. For now though, cushions... #September 000
Reposted by Barb MilneJames Randall @randalljamesp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026under the conker tree, 5.30pm 2304
Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Epigraph from Jim Carruth's 'Bale Fire' published by Polygon, Edinburgh, 2019. #poetry 020
Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A frazzled duvet pooled, plumeing cigarette smoke. Awake all night face … #September2026 #BusStop 000
Reposted by Barb MilneLocal To Ossett @localtoossett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Peter Murray Gallery: Yorkshire Sculpture Park renames Underground Gallery to honour Park's founder #LocalToOssett #westyorkshirewakefieldexpress.co.ukThe Peter Murray Gallery: Yorkshire Sculpture Park renames Underground Gallery to honour Park's founderYorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) has renamed its main Underground Gallery The Peter Murray Gallery, in honour of the Park’s founder, Sir Peter Murray CBE. 021
Reposted by Barb MilneGerman Shakespeare Society (DSG) @dsg-shakespeare.bsky.social · 23/09/2026📣 Registration is open! Join us in Weimar on 6–7 November to discuss authority and its abuses, governance, and legitimacy in #Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure! We're very much looking forward to welcoming our distinguished speakers, including @pascaleexeter.bsky.social and @lizschafer.bsky.social.🎭 097
Reposted by Barb MilneJames Randall @randalljamesp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Perovskia in the light of the sky 1162
Reposted by Barb MilneLiverpool Irish Festival @livirishfest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026🍀 Step inside The St Brigid’s Arms and discover the stories of Irish women across generations. Follow the exhibition tour, with a Q&A exploring the project and the importance of preserving these stories. 📅 11am, Tues 20 Oct 📍 VG&M 🎟️ Free www.liverpoolirishfestival.com/events/the-s... 122
Reposted by Barb MilneKen Brookes @kbrookes42.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Had a great day, recording poetry, museum meeting and then dinner. How much better can it get. 0273
Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026soft pillows, grey smoke levitates, holding its own. A winding down, still… #September 030
Reposted by Barb MilneKen Brookes @kbrookes42.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Welcoming autumn with a South African Malbec. 1222
Reposted by Barb MilneSam Johnson @analoguelass.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Silence - Lake District Observations 📷Pentax 17 🎞️Ilford FP4 developed with DDX #believeinfilm #lakedistrict #WWHFPD #landscape 1114614
Reposted by Barb MilneAsher Sanderson @asher-sander.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Tall dahlia. #bloomscrolling #dahlia #autumn 1474
Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Light, strong, swaying to sachets of blue, overcome, nearly, by night’s time… #September 0110
Reposted by Barb MilneRadio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Seeing lots of lovely flowering ivy at the moment. Stood by a bush today and there were so many bees. #WildflowerHour 2522
Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Night pulls into place, plumming sky, pops of stars glint. Marshmallows dip, float. #Sunday 010
Reposted by Barb MilneSarah @sarahfaulkner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026A rather grey walk was brightened up by this glorious Chicory flower. I love blue flowers so had to stop for a closer look. The reproductive structures inside the flower are incredible - long blue & white striped tubes with branched tips curling out the top of each. Stunning. 💙 #wildflowerhour 415619
Reposted by Barb MilneJennifer Ruth Jackson @jenruthjackson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"Simon Armitage pledged to dedicate his writing to environmental issues when he was appointed as poet laureate in 2019 and has long argued that poets can help fight climate breakdown..." www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...theguardian.com‘We are in the inferno’: diaspora writers lead new movement of nature poetryUK anthology inspired by question: ‘Where are our black and Asian nature writers?’ has boosted interest in genre 022
Reposted by Barb MilneGraham Usher @bishopnorwich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Good to join the congregation at St Peter’s Neatishead in the Norfolk Broads for their harvest festival, as well as thanksgiving for the restoration of the bell and boundary wall. 062
Reposted by Barb MilneSiobhan Logan @siobhanloganwriter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Derby’s one-day SFF festival is perfectly timed for cusp of spooky season. Loved this fun & friendly convention. Here’s my review of Edge-Lit panels, workshops and author events and the book-folk who made my day. @alexdavis1981.bsky.social #booksky 📚 👽🐉✍️ siobhanlogan.substack.com/p/edge-lit-2...siobhanlogan.substack.comEdge-Lit 26: Spiders, Ink-spills & Unearthed PowersReview of Edge-Lit 2026 Genre Festival 19th Sept. 182
Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Air sings, autumn’s tune, leaves copper, concertina. Apples? wait, crumble. #SundayDinner 030
Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Siblings compete for the skin on the rice pudding. Sunday lunch recall. #Sundays 071
Reposted by Barb MilneKen Brookes @kbrookes42.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The kingfisher dives. Fishes move so very fast The circles ensue. 0205
Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Amber ambience, assorted warm-light sources soften mauve cool night #September 030
Reposted by Barb MilneRichard @palaeoboy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026In all seriousness. I use my Nettar when I am away because it was cheap (very cheap) and small but in some ways it has the best lens. I'm not sure if I even prefer it to the one on my Flex. 2142
Reposted by Barb MilneFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 19/09/2026Caramelised onions, browned meat, glossy gravy, slow-cooked curries: the richest food on earth tends to come in the shades the algorithm ignores. But which one steals our critic’s heart? ft.trib.al/76OkFZA 4355
Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Herds of umbrellas trouble buses, yellow splash. Coffee, shelter, pub... #Deansgate #Manchester #SaturdayVibes 010
