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Mat Pringle @matpringle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

FRIDAY SHOP PLUG! matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com 'Tis the season for ghoulish linocut prints that delve deep beneath the blood dappled soil into the gnarled roots of folklore and folk horror. This linocut bunting features graven illustrations inspired by corn dollies, standing stones...

Linocut artwork carefully printed the directly onto wooden bunting. There are nine different prints across nine bits of plywood measuring approximately 15cm x 13cm each. The three in the picture depict two skeleton lovers, a witch hare and mask of sticks.

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Sue Ibrahim @sueimnw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For this week's #PoemsAbout #Rot with thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk Out again today, so will catch up with everyone later.

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j r @osageorange.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For whom the shoe fits #PoemsAbout #Rot #Poetry @thebrokenspine.co.uk

voyeur destroyer

what
you’re sniffing for

ain’t a search
for beauty
or truth

is it

but to feed
the rot,

satisfy a sickness

is it not

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Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I didn't get very far with drafting a poem for #PoemsAbout #Rot this week, so here's the start of something that I might finish at some point... The skeletons bang on the closet doors, flesh, long since having rotted away,

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When you walked away, Your fading footsteps followed Me for far too long. #BSPP57 #FadingFootsteps #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

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Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Out with the old, Out with the new, Out with the royals, And the socialists too, Out with the righteous, Out with the poor, Out with everyone, And close the door. #Renounce #VSS365

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Alexander Fox @alexanderfox1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You and me both, Rosetta’s Comet, you and me both.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 22/09/2026

#PoemsAbout #DeadLetters starts Friday. Write what never arrived. What came back unopened. What you wrote and couldn't send. Or address the dead and see who answers. Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.

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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 17/11/2024

Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER! #litmags #writer #writingcommunity go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j

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Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Watching a spider carefully spinning its web in the most inconvenient place possible in my garden.

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B. Fowler @bfowler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Most of the time, her o’s were o’s, but on days when the wind came up hard, she couldn’t help slipping into her mother’s voice. "It’s getting #stormy outside", she'd say with the "a" where the "o" ought to be. She’d catch herself, feel that old flicker of embarrassment, and then miss her. #vss365

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Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Something I just found in my notes... Unfurling, hastened, By thick eyes, Scratching beneath the surface, Of skin slick with salt, Sweat and tears mingling, To form a crust, That cracks at the slightest touch, Revealing raw, red emotion, A warning flag, A sentinel of fear #Poetry #WIP

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Love is a well worn word. How readily it rolls off the tongue. So easy to forget it's not just a feeling— it's a value, an action, a way of living. It's what the world is missing. #mpprompt

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Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A weed is just a wildflower in the wrong place, So they say, I find myself collecting things, Sayings, empty snail shells, other people's anxieties, Everything has it's place, Except for those stray nipple hairs, They, can go elsewhere. #PoemsAbout #Strays

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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.

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Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Delighted you can read/listen to three of my poems: Problem Blood, Amphora, and Feel Real, in Wave 27 of @iamb.uk with thanks to @markantonyowen.com for curating the collection, including outstanding poets such as @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social and @johnadlam.bsky.social

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𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒃 ~ 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 @iamb.uk · 15/09/2026

That time of year again. You close the curtains earlier each evening. You want something warm, nourishing. Wave twenty-seven of @iamb.uk has got you. Make a nest on the sofa, pull the blankets around you, and settle down with 45 poems read by their authors. iamb.uk/index/wave/27

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wave twenty-seven | autumn 2026 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard

Hear the poets of wave 27 of literary poetry journal iamb read their poems for autumn 2026 .

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Anxiety, shallow breaths, lumpy catches in the throat, at the solar plexus, unmoored weightlessness of lung & head, the body paradoxically rooted, yet unable to find repose, mind flitting across preoccupations, not knowing where to focus yet focused on itself, preying on itself, is our condition now

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Today about 100 people took part in a mass trespass in the Prime Minister’s constituency. There’s a right to roam over just 1% of Makerfield, & today the landowner proved our point for us: putting up fencing & calling the police. @andyburnham.bsky.social - please open the door to the countryside!

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Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Rain caressing leaves, Autumn berries ripening, Blackbird song beckons. #Haiku #Poetry

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Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I very much enjoyed 'The Death of Robin Hood'. A little slow paced for some perhaps, particularly as a contrast to the grizzly start, but I appreciated the complex story of human nature it was telling. The soundtrack by Jim Ghedi was sublime. tidal.com/album/529869...

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Jim Ghedi - The Death of Robin Hood (Original Soundtrack)

Listen to The Death of Robin Hood (Original Soundtrack) on TIDAL

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Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The wind just undid all the buttons up the front of my skirt. Don't worry though, it was only in central Bristol so I only flashed 30 people or so...

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 01/09/2026

How I support myself as a writer is by not supporting myself as a writer and having an entirely different job and pretending this is a fun adventure I get to go on to make friends

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Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thank you to @markantonyowen.com for choosing to include me alongside wonderful poets for the latest @iamb.uk wave of #poetry. I very much look forward to reading everyone's contributions. #PoetryCommunity

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Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Today. Tomorrow. Monday. Then we close. Get those subs in!

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Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk for #PoemsAbout #EndofSummer prompt. Here is Walking with Hogweed and her Black Dog. This one can be seen and heard here! @iamb.uk share.google/QcthDB8SyblT... Happy Friday everyone! #poetry

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Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My local, The Fallen Tree Micropub, has won the CAMRA best pub of the year South West. A proud moment for beer drinkers. But the best part is they've rewarded us all with free snacks.

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Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The ocean floor provided the pillow for his final resting place. The seaweed wrapping his body in a royal green shroud, fit for the forgotten prince he had become. #VSS365 #Pillow

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Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Absolutely. Well, maybe my fantasy has always been more inclined towards a bookstore/library bar with an aloof, beautiful feline found roaming the tables and bookshelves, but basically, the exact same, yes.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 25/08/2026

#PoemsAbout #EndOfSummer starts Friday. Empty beaches. Cooling nights. Sun-bleached memories. The last swim. The first goodbye. We favour vivid imagery over explanation. Draft now. Use Alt Text.

Wooden jetty stretching into calm blue water beneath a pale sky, suggesting the close of a quiet summer day. Overlay text reads: “#PoemsAbout #EndOfSummer”.

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I recently realised that one of my favourite tropes is "self-entitled people get their comeuppance". In fiction and non-fiction. In films and series. In life. Actually, in everything.

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

There has been a lot of confusion recently around trans employees’ rights at work. Here’s what you need to know! transactual.org.uk/law/workplac...

Image shows multicoloured post it notes with a basic outline of a person on each. Text reads: Your Rights
in the Workplace. There has been a lot of confusion recently around trans employees’ rights at work.
Here’s what you need to know.

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Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Soap, soap suds, sea foam, that scuzzy foam that forms in the corner of harbours, polystyrene cups floating about, cups of coffee, cups of coffee with you, burnt tongues, sharp tongues, our last argument, soap. #VSS365 #Soap

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Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

In the darkness, Lorna lit a match and whispered a quick prayer before it sizzled out. The cellar was damp and cold. The matches didn't provide any real warmth, but she was sure if she kept trying, one of the flames would answer her prayers and someone would find her. #VSS365 #Matchbox

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Wyrd Wednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Wyrdlings! With the birthday of a weird literature icon due this week, we give you: "Pulpo Fiction - Wyrd Things from the Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea" as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic. Share your tales of sunken cities, eldritch gods from the abyss & deep, dead ones that crawl up the beaches!

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

TransActual is launching the Trans Lives Survey 2026. It's quick, anonymous and will help us campaign for our community! Take the survey here: form.typeform.com/to/BRppksJ3 #TransLives #TransSurvey #Trans

A pink and blue graphic with a black and white cartoon of some people on the bottom.

Text reads: TransActual is launching its biggest survey for the trans community yet!

TRANS LIVES SURVEY

2026

We want to hear about your experiences as a trans person living in the UK.

It's quick, anonymous, and will help us campaign for our community!

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Joy Sullivan

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Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Some sort of bee fly or hover fly enjoying the helenium flowers. I've noticed lots of insects appearing shortly after watering the plants to get a much needed drink from any splashes that land on the patio.

A golden yellow helenium flower with a honey yellow and black stripey fly sitting on it.

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Great work. 👏 🏳️‍⚧️ 🚽 📍 Someone has set up an open lavs app mapping gender inclusive toilets. This worked with loo codes for cafe toilets and I hope this works for inclusive toilets too.

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Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Looking forward to reading the different interpretations of the #ThriftStore prompt for #PoemsAbout #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Writers

A poem titled 'Donations' by Francesca L Rolle:
My memories find space between the threads binding the old jumper together,
Part of me will trickle into its new owner,
Like when heart transplant patients talk about suddenly craving their donor's mother's stew,
This jumper that was thrown on the day you were born,
That softly embraced all my emotions as I cried over spilled milk, literally, the day we brought you home,
But you've grown up and I've grown fat,
So, into the crumpled plastic bag for life it goes,
Along with the jeans that will pass on the memory of hiking through woodland getting muddy and kicking up wet leaves,
Cherubim cheeks and giggles all the way home,
A bargain buy, some old clothes for a few quid,
With the wisdom of another life, for free, on the side.

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Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We dive into Prawn on the Lawn, Escaping in-laws, Eating oysters and, Drinking champagne, A still moment, In a weekend storm. #WildWalkPrompt #Oyster

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