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Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"survivor of hat crazes" is what always comes to mind when I read about beavers www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... (just like I can't see a toad and not think "stop looking like a purse").

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Paul Farley · Poem: ‘A Rewilding’

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"Map of terror and pleasure, ardent junk, passionate congress filled with the arguments of chemicals" This gorgeous poem on the body. Just wow 🤍 'Body' By Alissa Leigh (Alissa Valles) Via @poetry.foundation www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi... #poetrycommunity #poetry #body

Body

By Alissa Leigh (Alissa Valles)

Map of terror and pleasure,
ardent junk, passionate congress
filled with the arguments of chemicals,

Echo chamber for the fanatical cries
of stubborn generations, all the quaint invisibles
death has grown a beard on,

labyrinth of desire, playing field of impulse,
factory where decay's silent armies clock in,
philosopher-clown blowing a horn at each epiphany.

Washed by the rough nurse of morning,
wheeled into the ward of the afternoon,
feeds, grateful, on the rich broth of dusk.

Reads the erratic cards of dreams,
turns on the rack of insomnia,
steals the two-bit grace of sleep.

Loses its name in foreign embraces,
forges a passport to the country of tenderness,
gestures like a child at the thing that it wants,
opaque from its own breath on the glass.

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National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

If you have enjoyed NFFD please consider buying our anthology ‘Mudlarking’ to support us. Full of fab stories on the theme of BRIDGES & micros by our micro comp winners it is available as a paperback or thrifty e book! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/bo...

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National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

National Flash Fiction Day is two weeks today 13 June). If you are celebrating the day with an event, pls let us know. Please consider supporting us by buying our new anthology ‘Mudlarking’. Other NFFD anthologies available from our bookshop: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/bo...

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Adelle Stripe @adellestripe.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

New record from Vini. Just what the doctor ordered.

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National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

We’re thrilled to introduce the title & cover of our 2026 anthology which is now available to pre-order from our bookshop. The cover is by our artist-in-residence @joannacampbell.bsky.social & the title is taken from a flash from @rachaeldunlop.com www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...

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Adelle Stripe @adellestripe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

New favourite writer alert. This novel is brilliant. Now going to read everything by her.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

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Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Thanks @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for giving a home to the poem I wrote about how I was not very good at therapy!

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 18/03/2026

If there is a point to being human, it probably is something stupid like writing poems and songs. So go write your book. Do your part.

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Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

This is my weekend reading also - loving it so far

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Happy #WorldPoetryDay Let's celebrate together, use the LOVEPOETRY code at the Nine Arches checkout for 25% off #poetry books when you spend £15+ What's missing from your shelves? ninearchespress.com/shop #ReadMorePoetry

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Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Excited to have one of my rare forays into fiction appearing in this

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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I’ve just added a few more free and pay-what-you-can places - come join us! www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

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Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Spending Sunday morning writing a poem attempting to unpick some of my feelings about technology. I had one published in the latest @frazzledlit.bsky.social as well www.frazzledlit.com/p/two-poems-.... Definitely a theme I keep returning to...

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Two Poems by Jo Rigg

The reassurance machine

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Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Would recommend picking up Necrosmologies while its on sale (or even if it wasn't)...alternate realities, strange creatures and an industrial setting, what more could you want?

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Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I've got a couple of poems in the latest @frazzledlit.bsky.social which is a BUMPER issue...perfect reading for a cosy Sunday morning! www.frazzledlit.com/p/issue-4-ha...

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Issue 4 Has Landed!

Welcome to our Spring 2026 issue!

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

‘Well, here you are again with your plucked lurex tights’ Sally Baker in our Christmas winter anthology. www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

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Jennifer McMahon @jmcm.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Front cover of Issue 4 of Frazzled Lit @frazzledlit.bsky.social. We'll be launching the issue in nine days time, on the morning of January 11th, and boy, is it going to be a great issue! Back cover coming tomorrow!

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Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

A bargain! Absolutely love this book

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Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Visual Studio tends to ask me this right at the time I'm dealing with some weird bug or other. "Now is not the time to be needy VS"

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sam @samthielman.com · 05/01/2025

AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re- BEASTIES: MORSE AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of Beasties: COURSE MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy BEASTIES: MOOCHER MCA: We’re Christmas Past MIKE D: Christmas Present BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE

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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Today is #FuelPovertyAwarenessDay so why not pick up a copy of the FUEL anthology of prizewinning flash fictions - it's a great read and profits go to four #fuelpoverty charities, including @nea.org.uk. The brand new ebook has 75+12 bonus stories = 87 flash stories! Buy here: www.fuelflash.net

The cover of the FUEL anthology of prize-winning flash fictions raising funds to fight fuel poverty, with a brightly-coloured petrol pump, and a banner on the right hand side saying "Ebook with 12 bonus prize-winning stories". Edited by Tania Hershman

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Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Really interesting stuff: "the architecture of disordered discourse"...

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Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Probably maybe my favourite Fall album (today anyway)...certainly the first one I bought. A fine choice to start with.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

The Rigg, Bingley, Yorkshire, painting by Jane Fielder. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Today’s poem is selected by Chen Chen (@chenchenwrites.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. “It will all work out okay” appeared in High Lonesome by Allison Titus, published by Saturnalia Books, 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Castlefield Carnival, Manchester, 1985 (Manchester Libraries).

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Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Been a good two days for post! TBR pile now quite large thanks to @taniahershman.bsky.social @thebraag.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social @jamiewoods77.bsky.social Bring on the rainy weekend

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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Last few seats in the Zoom room for the launch tomorrow night of my hybrid creative non-fiction book on time: 'It's Time - A Chronomemoir' (@guillemotpress.bsky.social). Come join us, I'd love to have you there! (It's also my birthday 😊) Grab a free ticket here: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

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Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

This dvd is probably the only reason I keep my dvd player

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 10/06/2025

“They asked me, where did they go? The trees, the salamander, the tropical fish, Edgar, the poppas and mommas, Matthew and Tony?” Fiction by Donald Barthelme, from 1974.

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“The School,” by Donald Barthelme

Fiction, from 1974: “They asked me, where did they go? The trees, the salamander, the tropical fish, Edgar, the poppas and mommas, Matthew and Tony?”

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Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Despite my general dislike of all things morris I have a total soft spot for the coconutters. The power of childhood nostalgia!

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Friends, a little announcement: we’re now accepting submissions year-round for a new essays feature. We want this to be a space for new and original thinking about poetry and poetics, but also about how poetry fits in or around our lives. We can’t wait to hear from you!

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Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Pleased that one of my poems has found a home here amongst some great company...

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create

From NYT article about the increasing use of AI in the classroom: “Writing is one of the most challenging tasks for students, which is why it is so tempting for some to ask A.I. to do it for them. In turn, A.I. can be useful for teachers who would like to assign more writing, but are limited in their time to grade it.”

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Issue Six of And Other Poems, out on Wednesday 16th. We can't wait for you to read these poems.

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Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

The reasons below are all true...and reading this lovely piece about the similarities of writing and running after my run this morning was my reason for hitting the 'buy' button today. longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2016/05/15/c...

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The Craft Muscle | Fay Musselwhite

It’s occurred to me lately how many years I’ve been honing and flexing the parts of my mind I write poetry with, and how transferable the craft skills I learned as a child and in early adulthood ha…

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Girl on a Spacehopper, Byker, Newcastle, 1971, by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen.

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Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Having a restful afternoon ahead of tomorrow's running endeavours. Reading Diane Seuss' Modern Poetry which is EXCELLENT

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Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Been writing a poem this week that fits for #poemsabout #dawn so finally time to post after enjoying people's contributions @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

Resurgence

I step out into the dark where he’s lurking.
Autumnal coat, spindly legs,
paused squat in his quest
for life’s scraps. Dissected
bin bag, egg shells, scant bones.
A beep of my watch. I leave

him behind, find my stride.
I settle my mind to the rhythm
of music from nights in places
I’ll never remember.

Now connect.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
Darkness begins to give way.

I run past the tree whose trunk
is swallowing the do not climb sign.
Spring sun floods low mist with gold.
Electric blue sky goes live
with the promise of day.

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Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Absolutely this, writing is about so much more than the outcome

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/01/2025

"Inject creativity into your day in small ways. Doodle on your leg with a random pen some idiot left within reach. Redecorate the couch with a Play-Doh slipcover. Change up your look by styling your freshly washed hair with pancake syrup."

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New Year’s Resolutions for Toddlers

1. Finish what you start Resilience is a difficult skill to learn, so work up to it in small doses. Instead of watching the first three seconds of ...

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Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Nice snowy morning walk before it all turns to slush and ice

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