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This Is Just To Say I have eaten the poems that were in your typewriter and which you were probably saving for National Poetry Day Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so bold #NationalPoetryDay

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

For #poemsabout #faultlines Thankyou @alanparrywriter.co.uk Looking forward to reading everyone’s contributions.

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Happy birthday to Mary Shelley, born on this day in 1797 📕 At 18, she began writing Frankenstein, helping to invent a whole genre and giving us one of literature’s most iconic monsters. Not a bad legacy.

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Issue 10, pt.2, out now! andotherpoems.com/issue-ten-pa... (Image by Artem Stoliar on Unsplash)

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Catherine Redford @catherineredford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Day 26 of the #sealeychallenge. I was delighted to hear that @hannahl1n.bsky.social has a collection coming out next year, so today I’ve been rereading her superb pamphlet, ‘The Beautiful Open Sky’, which is published by @vpresslit.bsky.social.

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 19/08/2026

'Personal, clear, relatable, precise, human. Poetry.' Huge congratulations to James Mason whose poem 'Beginner's Italian' is the IS&T #PickoftheMonth for July 2026. You can read the poem and see more voters' comments at inksweatandtears.co.uk/july-2026-pi... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry

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Congratulations!

James Mason
Beginner's Italian

IS&T July 2026 Pick of
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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Issue Ten, pt. 1, is LIVE andotherpoems.com/issue-ten-pa... poems by Sapphire Allard, Tom Blake, Liz Byrne, Oliver Carmichael, Heather Hughes, Nathaniel King, Iona Lee, Jacob Mckibbin, Sarah Meehan, Sarah Rosengarten, Rosamund Taylor, Gabrielle Tse, Fiona Tracey, Mark Waldron, & Ramya Yandava

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Jim Young @oyoguhito.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 12/08/2026

Abegail Morley's 'Houseplant daughter' is a poignant look at depression as it takes a form you might not expect. Yet it feels right at home there. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/abegail-morl... #InkSweatAndTears #Poetry #MentalHealthMatters

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Text: Houseplant Daughter

At noon my houseplant daughter converts
carbon dioxide into sugar, and I carry on telling her
about things artificial, colour, I say,
and mime stirring a cake, and hearts,

Abegail Morley

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Just read this amazing, thought provoking poem by Tallulah Howarth in @carmeneterror.bsky.social current issue: carmenerror.com?page_id=730 Link to the artwork: www.artic.edu/artworks/152...

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"Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) | The Art Institute of Chicago

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, 1991

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I recently gave a poetry workshop at the Southwest Neonatal Professionals conference - and we made a community poem ! ✍️ 🥰

Reading poetry and reflecting together at the conference

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

My third book, IF YOU LOVE THAT LADY, is out now from @wwnorton.com. Please DM me if you'd like to purchase a signed copy. 🤍

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Can I draw your attention to 'Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country', the debut collection by @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social. Much to enjoy in it; you can tell there's a twinkle in this poet's eye. Was particularly taken by the below poem. The book's out on Valley Press: valleypressuk.com/products/ski...

Imperial Lather
My grandfather went to great lengths to acquire the Imperial Leather soap
- a rarity and a wasteful luxury in our Marathi-speaking
Kannada town.
Indian soaps, he said, were too hard and abrasive and smelled too much of jasmine or rose.
The soap had a sticker on it and when one was worn down a new one was pressed onto its slivers sticker and all.
Bar upon new bar of soap went into the dish
until the whole thing was reduced to an unholy lump scattered with black and red stickers.
'Does it,' I asked him 'make our skin like leather?'
'It is lather misspelt,' he said.
"The English are bad spellers.'
Grandfather may have been an imperialist.

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Thankyou so much @victoriaspires.bsky.social for reviewing Hatchery - the lovely thing about the poetry community is the support you feel from other poets- “feed the lake “ x

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Review of Hatchery by @bethosmond.bsky.social , out now with @vpresslit.bsky.social ✨

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

@anteroompoetry.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thewinge... Delighted to have a poem published by Anteroom today- one featuring the Odyssey, the amazing Alice Oswald, and my lovely husband (who doesn’t recognise poets ) ❤️

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NEW POETRY 26 (1)

Elizabeth Osmond & Gukhui Noh

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Anteroom (formerly The Winged Moon) @anteroompoetry.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

hello out there in the skies we have been going through some changes here at the magazine and have over a long period of discussion several other options decided on a new name. Anteroom. To celebrate this we are creating our first cash prize competition opening for submissions in mid September 🍀

a series of images that highlights our name change cracks blowing trees dancers a chair

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Watched The Odyssey last night ❤️

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Watched The Odyssey last night ❤️

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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - Future Perfect by James McDermott

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Really sad to hear that Meg Cox has died. She was an fine poet with many different registers. This poem of hers remains a top-notch, acerbic critique of the scene...!

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Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Super excited @atriumpoetry.bsky.social published this poem … dedicated to my son Idris 💚

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Such a pleasure to read at Waterstones from Hatchery this evening with a lively Q and A alongside the amazing Helen Sheppard

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Yesterday, I was delighted to read from Hatchery at a local event to celebrate the NHS’s birthday.

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Here’s me reading from Hatchery. I will be reading @waterstones.bsky.social in Bristol on 8th July- www.waterstones.com/events/a-poe... @vpresslit.bsky.social #poemsaloud

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roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

here’s me doing a bit of self promotion, if you like my “throwaway” poetry 🛋️ here’s a book full. Published by 60 Odd Press,thanks Mike @zoomburst.substack.com available from Amazon @jenthorne.bsky.social @rburrows.bsky.social @johnchmura.bsky.social @zentinl.bsky.social @stacebot.bsky.social

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Beth Brooke @bethbpoet.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Wonderful book. Thank you @bethosmond.bsky.social

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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

@emteepoetry.bsky.social #PromptCombo #Beach Here is one first published in similar form in Dreich Zoo Collection.

Stranded Seal

Sea foam
candy floss high
whipped into the penny arcade,
sand- caked spines shivered
twisted in the roughness of towels
before tumble driers
made us soft.

The boy,
storm blown skittish,
ran nut brown on shale
gulling his way
from suck to pebble pull,
the relics of our sunny afternoon
were all his world.

Then we saw grace pole-axed
by warm flanks
heaving a last breath,
but we could not hear his sobbing
for the offshore wind.

Sarah O’ Grady

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Hello @emteepoetry.bsky.social for #promptcombo #beach here’s a poem about a fossil, it’s from a great anthology to raise money for Give Peat a Chance www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe...

Belemnite
I was pretty disappointed to learn it wasn’t a bullet,
But the arse-end of a creature, beautiful parts long dissolved.

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I am a neonatologist and a poet, this poem is from my debut collection with @vpresslit.bsky.social

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Georgia O'Keeffe, Sunrise, 1916 #WomensArt

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

For Father’s Day From Hatchery #poetsonbluesky vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/2026/05/laun...

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

For Father’s Day From Hatchery #poetsonbluesky vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/2026/05/laun...

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

📚 New Review 📚 Some Dark God by Catherine Balaq, out with @vpresslit.bsky.social on 3rd July. Review at victoriaspires.substack.com

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 20/06/2026

Essay in which Don Paterson (@dharmabam.bsky.social) argues that poetry's falsehoods are often vehicles for truth – and that a poet's greatest ethical obligation isn't to factual accuracy, but to emotional and intellectual honesty ... much to the continued suspicion of philosophers. bit.ly/4vUnetI

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POETS ARE LIARS

Don Paterson on poetry, philosophy and lies

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