Sign in

gbclarkson.bsky.social

@gbclarkson.bsky.social
521 followers 244 following 168 posts

Singletary (@shearsmanbooks.bsky.social) The Vitalist Sees the Signs (@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social) Palomines (Blue Diode Press, 2026)

PostsRepliesMedia
gbclarkson.bsky.social @gbclarkson.bsky.social · 17h
I drink to you in smoke-mirled, blue- black sloes, bitter and dependable. Seamus Heaney, Sloe Gin
Sloe fruits in sunshine, close up. A collage.
120
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
Bad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An 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.com
Les Sept Nains de Blanche-Neige
ALT: Les Sept Nains de Blanche-Neige
196
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Woman 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.social
Hugh Harrop @hughharrop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Over 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.social
Chrissy Williams @chrissywilliams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy National Poetry Day! Here’s a little Frank O’Hara for you.
0112
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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
15019
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Breaking the 4th wall with this here sonnet. #NationalPoetryDay
0113
gbclarkson.bsky.social @gbclarkson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For 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.social
Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
National Poetry Day, you say? It has to be this:
Kim Addonizio
TO THE WOMAN CRYING UNCONTROLLABLY
IN THE NEXT STALL
If you ever woke in your dress at 4 A.M. ever 
closed your legs to a man you loved opened 
them for one you didn't moved against 
a pillow in the dark stood miserably on a beach 
seaweed clinging to your ankles paid good money for a bad haircut backed away 
from a mirror that wanted to kill you bled 
into the back seat for lack of a tampon 
if you swam across a river under rain sang 
using a dildo for a microphone stayed up to watch the moon eat the sun entire 
ripped out the stitches in your heart 
because why not if you think nothing & no one can / listen I love you joy is comingTattoo on my arm that reads “listen I love you joy is coming”
38523
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The 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
A colourful display of dahlias in full flower, with large coral, apricot and vivid pink blooms rising among green leaves and unopened buds.
314827
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Delicate crocheted/sewn leaf sculptures by UK artist Susanna Bauer #WomensArt #October1st #Autumn
Photo of an oval shaped brown leaf with lace like cream coloured embroidery along the outside edge,  all against a white background
4764112
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
Mabel Logan @mabellogan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Red skies sunset - Isle of Skye #Scotland
225424
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
Rhona Greene @rhonagreene.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What 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.social
Black 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.social
Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Morning. Waxwings in Juniper, Kent Ambler.
Five waxwings in juniper bush, pale green background, woodcut.
48517
gbclarkson.bsky.social @gbclarkson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
From 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
From 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

Published in Poetry, September 1964
075
gbclarkson.bsky.social @gbclarkson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
O 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
Single golden leaf on a frosted treeAutumn tree at the road-edge in evening lightA close-up of orange and yellow leaves by the canal yesterday
052
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
Daniel Hinds @danielghinds.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy 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
A copy of the poetry collection New Famous Phrases by Daniel Hinds
1106
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Good to see @lukekennard.bsky.social spitting truths in The Guardian
theguardian.com
AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds
Researcher 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.social
The Dispatch @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Join 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.social
Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Autumn signs
0101
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Books 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.social
phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Winter is coming, folks W.S. Merwin, born on this day in 1927
W. S. Merwin
DUSK IN WINTER

The sun sets in the cold without friends 
Without reproaches after all it has done for us 
goes down believing in nothing
When it has gone I hear the stream running after it 
It has brought its flute it is a long way
2236
gbclarkson.bsky.social @gbclarkson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ohh wowww💙💥🐦‍⬛
130
gbclarkson.bsky.social @gbclarkson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Enamoured 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
Mauve and dark blue cover of Edinburgh by Eimear Bush, Blues in 'D' Pamphlet Series: 4Red and tangerine cover of Palomines by Geraldine Clarkson, Blues in 'D' Pamphlet Series: 5Dusty pink and sky blue cover of Vagabonda by Flora Leask Arizpe, Blues in 'D' Pamphlet Series: 6
020
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On this day 30th September 1868 the first volume of 'Little Women' by Louisa May Alcott was published. Artist: Terry Gabbey
Two houses stand at dusk in a snowy street. One is smaller and brightly lit. The other is larger and mainly in darkness. 
644970
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
Lee Zimmerman @zim2918.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sunflower
This work © 2026 by Lee Zimmerman is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
016025
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sheffield! Tonight!
076
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Woman with geese, Lake District, by Joseph Hardman, 1893-1972 (Lakeland Arts).
09214
gbclarkson.bsky.social @gbclarkson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
With 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.social
Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY concrete as an ART form Film and Live Performance Wed 21st Oct, Biggar Corn Exchange
023
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A wonderful book about an amazing place, its people, and nature
193
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Literature 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 · 28/09/2026
I'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.uk
Palomines by Geraldine Clarkson | Blue Diode Publishin
ISBN: 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.social
Ian 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
gbclarkson.bsky.social @gbclarkson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Leaning tower of Coventry
Church spire at an angle against a blue-pink evening sky; lights on side of building and Celtic cross showing above
000
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
The 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.org
Essay | It's a Devil of a Gap by Alex Niven - The London Magazine
Nearly 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 · 27/09/2026
A 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
Song: 

‘Your eyelashes 
are glowing’

Girl, your lashes are aglow
Like flowers in the meadow
Girl, like flowers in the meadow
Your lashes are all glow
Your cute little eyes, doll
Break my fragile heart
They break my aching heart
Your little eyes, dear heart
When you flutter them, coquette
You make me lose my head
I lose my head, coquette
When you lower your lids, my pet
Sure, look around, sweet pea
There’s no one else like me, see?
You’ll find no one better than me
If you look elsewhere, sweetie

 MV, translated by KM
021
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
The Hermit of Everything @hermiteveryday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tiny wonders. ✨
A tiny fir cone on a thin branch.
17715
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
Skog @skog100.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fungi from the forest today 🍄
423916
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Quiet Mountain, west of Ireland, painting by Padraig McCaul, Irish artist with studios in Mullingar and Achill Island.
231259157
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Eridan 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.social
Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What 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.social
Bad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One 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.org
Merrill Fellow, Andrew Neilson to read at Bank Square Books | James Merrill House
Andrew Neilson will read at Bank Square Books.
063
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It'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.social
minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Berlin weekender ... 16th & 17th October ... details here: minorliteratures.com/minor-incide...
11511
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 25/09/2026
Congratulations to Fiona Benson, winner of this year's Laurel Prize with Midden Witch @jonathancape.bsky.social ! 🌿
082
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Another sky view
1133
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
Anteroom (formerly The Winged Moon) @anteroompoetry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The 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 #PoetryReview
thewingedmoon.substack.com
‘Made of Public’ Cafes by Holly Pester
reviewed by Milly Woodrow
1117
Reposted by @gbclarkson.bsky.social
Medha 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.social
Ben Morgan @benjlmorgan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
love this poem. i am sure isabelle would intuit just what was coming in the circumstances.
131