gbclarkson.bsky.social @gbclarkson.bsky.social · 17hI drink to you in smoke-mirled, blue- black sloes, bitter and dependable. Seamus Heaney, Sloe Gin 120
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialBad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026An update for those who recently submitted to us...we've been a bit delayed on processing your work thanks to a whole lot of day-to-day life stuff impinging. But we're trucking on now and should be in touch over the next few weeks.static.klipy.comLes Sept Nains de Blanche-NeigeALT: Les Sept Nains de Blanche-Neige 196
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialIan Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Woman walks into a Hull hairdresser and asks for a perm. Certainly, he replies: 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' #NationalPoetryDay 012738
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialHugh Harrop @hughharrop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Over the moon (to put it mildly) to find this first year male SIBERIAN BLUE ROBIN in our garden at Hillwell, Shetland this morning. The fifth record for Britain and a first for Shetland. #BirdingScotland #UKbirding #RareBirdsUK #Birds #UKWildlife 1637342
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialChrissy Williams @chrissywilliams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Happy National Poetry Day! Here’s a little Frank O’Hara for you. 0112
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialIan Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This 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 15019
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialJames Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Breaking the 4th wall with this here sonnet. #NationalPoetryDay 0113
gbclarkson.bsky.social @gbclarkson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For the new month, The London Magazine is out, in all its glory...🍁 In Dylan Thomas's birthday month, Kasra Lang writes on his time in Iran... Plus Rowland Bagnall on flowers in art and literature, Joey Connolly on why reality is screaming, & short fiction & poems (among which one of mine, happily!) 063
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialLucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 01/10/2026National Poetry Day, you say? It has to be this: 38523
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialVenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Dahlia is a birth flower for those born in October. In the language of flowers, it symbolises dignity and elegance. Dreaming of brightly coloured Dahlias is said to bring good fortune, while in flower magic they are associated with “spiritual evolution”. #FolkloreThursday 314827
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Delicate crocheted/sewn leaf sculptures by UK artist Susanna Bauer #WomensArt #October1st #Autumn 4764112
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialMabel Logan @mabellogan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Red skies sunset - Isle of Skye #Scotland 225424
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialRhona Greene @rhonagreene.bsky.social · 01/10/2026What a gorgeous surprise! Thank you @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social I’m bursting with excitement. Congratulations to all you fab poets, thrilled to be in your company💖🥰🥳🥳🥳🥳🙏🎉blackboughpoetry.bsky.socialBlack Bough Poetry (@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social)Welsh poetry press based in Swansea with a focus on imagist poetry. Edited by Matthew M C Smith 0105
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialRachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Morning. Waxwings in Juniper, Kent Ambler. 48517
gbclarkson.bsky.social @gbclarkson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026From far out in the center of the naked lake A loon's cry came-- It was the cry of someone who owned very little. Robert Bly, Fall 075
gbclarkson.bsky.social @gbclarkson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all... --Robert Frost, October 052
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialDaniel Hinds @danielghinds.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Happy National Poetry Day! This year's @poetrydayuk.bsky.social theme is "Wonder" so if anyone is "wondering" what to read next they could give my UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award winning collection New Famous Phrases a go. Message me if you would like a signed copy. #NationalPoetryDay 1106
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialJeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Good to see @lukekennard.bsky.social spitting truths in The Guardiantheguardian.comAI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study findsResearcher says simpler writing by AI is easier to read and digest, but this does not mean human authors are obsolete 0224
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialThe Dispatch @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Join founding editor Kate Knowles as she sits down with @lukekennard.bsky.social to unpack the madness, heart, and romance behind one of 2026's most talked-about books. 1106
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialDublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Books Upstairs is now in its fourth Dublin home, in its very elegant D'Olier Street premises. It was founded by Maurice Earls and Enda O'Doherty in 1978 and after 1984 run by Maurice alone. The D'Olier Street shop is now run by his daughter Louisa. 0174
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialphillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Winter is coming, folks W.S. Merwin, born on this day in 1927 2236
gbclarkson.bsky.social @gbclarkson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Enamoured of Blue Diode Press's two-tone pamphlet livery! Very happy to be between Eimear Bush's Edinburgh & Flora Leask Arizpe's Vagabonda in this year's Blues in 'D' Pamphlet series, 4-6. Coverart for Palomines by Evgeniia Lipatova... All three available here, @ £7 each: bluediode.co.uk/shop 020
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialHelen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 30/09/2026On this day 30th September 1868 the first volume of 'Little Women' by Louisa May Alcott was published. Artist: Terry Gabbey 644970
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialLongbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Sheffield! Tonight! 076
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialBrian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Woman with geese, Lake District, by Joseph Hardman, 1893-1972 (Lakeland Arts). 09214
gbclarkson.bsky.social @gbclarkson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026With thanks to the editors of Anthropocene, Ice Floe Press, The Dark Horse, The London Magazine, and The Los Angeles Review, who previously published some of the poems included in #Palomines 184
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialScottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social · 29/09/2026IAN HAMILTON FINLAY concrete as an ART form Film and Live Performance Wed 21st Oct, Biggar Corn Exchange 023
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialIan Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A wonderful book about an amazing place, its people, and nature 193
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialTony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Literature Live — next episode of my monthly radio books programme is Monday 12 October 2026, 8:00–9:00pm. My guests this month are @lukekennard.bsky.social and @judecook.bsky.social — readings and chat with the emphasis on writers reading from their fiction. @resonancefm.bsky.social — don’t miss! 01713
gbclarkson.bsky.social @gbclarkson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I've just spotted that this is available!! 😲👙👙 A few sample poems--& outrageously kind blurbs from @lukekennard.bsky.social & @billherbert.bsky.social--on the link below... Thanks to Rob Mackenzie & the Blurbers! 🎶🎸 Buy multiple copies here NOW to make them smile --😊 bluediode.co.uk/product-page...bluediode.co.ukPalomines by Geraldine Clarkson | Blue Diode PublishinISBN: 978-1-915108-43-3Published 27 September 202632 pages (pamphlet) “These poems are anarchic and erotic but also delivered with an emotional and historical precision I find breathtaking. Palomines ... 041
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialIan Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026 Virginia Woolf said of him, 'Here comes Tom Eliot in his four piece suit." Could this waistcoat be from that suit? 2152
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialThe London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026'It’s hard not to conclude that the fate of Sycamore Gap parallels that of post-1930s Britain more generally.' Three years on from its felling, @alexniven.bsky.social on the Sycamore Gap Tree: thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...thelondonmagazine.orgEssay | It's a Devil of a Gap by Alex Niven - The London MagazineNearly three years on from its felling, Alex Niven considers the implications of the Sycamore Gap Tree crime, looking back at the history of the site. 032
gbclarkson.bsky.social @gbclarkson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A euphonic & distinctive contemporary translation by @kathrynmaris.bsky.social of 'Ta matoklada sou lampoun’ (Your eyelashes are glowing') by Markos Vamvakaris (1905-1972), a "pioneer of the musical style rebetiko, sometimes called 'Greek blues'..." The Little Review No. 4 @kathrynmaris.bsky.social 021
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialThe Hermit of Everything @hermiteveryday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Tiny wonders. ✨ 17715
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialSkog @skog100.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Fungi from the forest today 🍄 423916
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialBrian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Quiet Mountain, west of Ireland, painting by Padraig McCaul, Irish artist with studios in Mullingar and Achill Island. 231259157
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Eridan Xharahi (Albanian, Birthdate unknown) "Cactus Bloom", 2025. Watercolor on Cotton Paper, 12 × 17 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt 352261375
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialIan Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026What do you call the huge grey poet in the middle of the room being ignored by everybody? TS Elephant #HappyBirthdayTSEliot 0213
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialBad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026One for the New Englanders...our co-florist @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social is reading on Tuesday 17 November at Bank Street Books in Mystic, CT. More info here: www.jamesmerrillhouse.org/event-detail...jamesmerrillhouse.orgMerrill Fellow, Andrew Neilson to read at Bank Square Books | James Merrill HouseAndrew Neilson will read at Bank Square Books. 063
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialsanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be. Ursula K. Le Guin 14312
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialminor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Berlin weekender ... 16th & 17th October ... details here: minorliteratures.com/minor-incide... 11511
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialThe Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 25/09/2026Congratulations to Fiona Benson, winner of this year's Laurel Prize with Midden Witch @jonathancape.bsky.social ! 🌿 082
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialIan Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Another sky view 1133
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialAnteroom (formerly The Winged Moon) @anteroompoetry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The wonderful @mwoodrowwriter.bsky.social wrote an insightful review of Holly Pester's collection, Cafes, published by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social, and you can read it now over on our #Substack: thewingedmoon.substack.com/p/made-of-pu... #PoetryCommunity #PoetryReviewthewingedmoon.substack.com‘Made of Public’ Cafes by Holly Pesterreviewed by Milly Woodrow 1117
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialMedha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"Another Life" from my book Afterbody (Blue Diode Press, '25) appears in the @edinburghtrams.bsky.social. Thanks to @edincityoflit.bsky.social. Wild this is happening/happened. 292
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.socialBen Morgan @benjlmorgan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026love this poem. i am sure isabelle would intuit just what was coming in the circumstances. 131