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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The SPRING 2026 ISSUE OF @poetrylondon.bsky.social is full of brilliant, individual poems. One of my favs is ST SIMEON THE STYLITE @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social which also appears in his new collection CROWD VOLTAGE published by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social Support POETRY LONDON buy / subscribe!

A top-down, front cover of the striking maroon SPRING 2026 ISSUE of POETRY LONDON.

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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Hope you're in the mood for some poetry, friends, cause, you can hum We Are The Champions to this one (no, sorry , not really) but you could ( if you wanted to...) 😉 I give you my most recently published piece SONGS OF THE BRAVE in the latest issue of THE STORMS @thestormshelter.bsky.social issue V

SONGS OF THE BRAVE (c) JULIAN DAY 2025

The ghosts of trees rise
from the ashes of the banned
Degenerate Books.

Slowly
at first before
mixing wind,
stone, grit, leaf and gnawed down
bones to make faces
bare with rage.

And how the Oaks,
Cedars, Pine, and Silver
Birch raged in those hours,
days, and months of greedily
billowing smoke.

And let them continue
to be our witnesses
to that foolishness and pride
of mostly
white bread
men sat in their halls
housing
dismally washed
out slate
grey suits.
Their tongues
ballooning clowns

from terrible metal
and there real
text remains

written
underground
in the blood-line
songs
of the brave.

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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Hi Tom & all #smallpoemsunday Here is a delicious poem BERYL-THE-PERIL BLUEBELL by the very talented Geraldine Clarkson taken from her 2023 collection MEDLARS published by @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social

BERYL-THE-PERIL BLUEBELL

Tell blue, you flower:
tell a querulus of best
blue to the flat white
meadow stuck in
picture-book reverie.

Stalk joy with your stem
and your airy, fairy bell.
Stick your pistils out
and, in that shot-silk thimble,
ring like hell.

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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I'm v happy to say - as you can see from the pics below, that my contributors copy of THE STORMS @eatthestorms.com arrived. Yay!🥳🕺💃🦋Thks Dami & Rhona🙏🤗 📢 If there's enough interest, I'll post my poem, from the issue later today IF THIS POST GETS 50+ likes & 10+ reposts BY 10pm tonight (UK time)

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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Lots of love & hugs back to you, dear Sue. 🧡🤗🧡🤗🧡🤗

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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

My friends, I'm v happy to share that one of my poems has been accepted for publication in the forthcoming issue V of The Storms Journal! As some of you may know, one of my poems was published in issue III @thestormshelter.bsky.social Keep your eyes out for further news & promo! Yay! 🌬🌊🥳🎉🎊🕺⚡️🎸

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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Happy Saturday, Rosanna!☀️💙 It's starting to brighten up here in blightyland, though still a fair bit of cloud, as you see from my pic, below.

A photograph of fluffy white clouds and small patches of light blue sky poking through. On the bottom left and right-hand corners of the picture are silhouettes of trees, and in the bottom middle section, there is a slanted view of a neighbour's roof & window(s).

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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Thanks to Victoria @victoriaspires.bsky.social for this week's #poetryprompt on the subject of SUMMER. Here for your consideration, Victoria and friends, is a trip down memory lane, a summer holiday poem, re-mixed by some alternate bubble universe version of myself! 😂

Ready To Summer Like it's the Late

70's, whatever that exactly means in space-time flicker frame, roll-over
you're sandcastles, I'm already soaked through by the newsprint fingers
of 1976 - The summer
time will never
forget, until it, too,
goes senile, brimming
with a cat's salt
& pepper whiskers.

In a year's time from then,
or now, my feet will bellow
blue murder in silent howls
of sun-spoilt Rivera infectives.
Sweet & Sour swear words I don't quite know
how to write correctly, or even
pronounce with the right inflexion
until I'm ancient at twelve,
without causing a family
wide hubbaloo.

Call it a blue murder, something drawn
from Agatha Christie late Sunday
scheduling holdover, a counterclockwise movement / in time, as I find myself trussed up in an altogether funny business
after watching It's A Hard
Day's Night, in a Torquay hotel, somewhere
within walking distance
of dodgy sheer cliff face.

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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Congratulations, Sai! Love all those hooks! 👵🦎🍨🦹‍♂️

A painting of the writer Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.

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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

From an amorous wish of Merwin's to this "desire" from SELIMA HILL, captured in her poem PORTRAIT OF MY LOVER WITH A WATER BEETLE, taken from her 2002 collection PORTRAIT OF MY LOVER AS A HORSE @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

PORTRAIT OF MY LOVER WITH A WATER BEETLE

The more you keep
the more warm ponds there are
for me to whizz around in
like a water-beetle
glinting meanly
like a hot bazaar.

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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

DEAD SICK ART- A NEW POEM by Julian Day Feb 1st 2025

DEAD SICK ART

Pummelled back down to earth, we're
in storm-season. Eowyn's left this wind-raked, buried / past its neck-in-the-sand head
to fester, almost all alone.

Call it a sad article of passing, undignified as far / as a black headed gull - white winter feather / suit scuffed to hell - can go.
Who can say how long it took before / this gull succumbed to the greater / forces of nature; when was it exactly that / the fight left its scrappy body, to become / a writing prompt for poets, a sore / sight for the tragic-comic set for photographers / on this choppy County Clare beach?

One orange carrot beak opens
by itself, as if to once
again taste the floral and
salty tang of its coastal
elements. Tuffy and flayed
feathers, now formed into a gritty
business mohawk. An empty sack
of an eye, still peering lazily out
from peroxide blonde dunes.

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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The unforgettable master of contemporary surrealist cinema...#RIPDavidLynch. What an artist he was. What a loss. I still remember the impact of watching MULHOLLAND DRIVE @wshed.bsky.social for the first time, thinking this is as close to dreaming silencio...silencio..silencio

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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The new issue of THE RIALTO @rialtopoetry.bsky.social is one brilliant poem after another, with smashing titles, including this favourite one of mine by @hannahl1n.bsky.social THIS POEM IS A BLACK PUDDING (!) Other stand-out poems by @pascalepetit.bsky.social You simply must get your hands on it!

Top down view of the front cover of issue 102 of The Rialto poetry magazine. The letters of the magazines title appear in large green, jigsaw puzzle like pieces, which hang off each other asymmetrically.

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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Post a picture of yourself to show the newbies what they're dealing with. 💚🕊🌳😘

Selfie or self-portrait of a white skin guy with black rimmed glasses smiling, wearing a deep forest green scarf, wrapped around a navy cord bomber jacket, against an autumnal lighted tree, bush, cloudy blue sky and chimney background.

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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

A big thank you to Damien B. Donnelly @stormshelter.bsky.social and his issue 3 co-editor Nithy kasa for publishing my poem Prayers In Starlight in the extraordinarily special literary and visual arts journal that is The Storms Journal. It's one of my proudest achievements yet in my poetry journey

PRAYERS IN STARLIGHT

Beyond hungry ghosts who pray for better days.
Beyond smoking cities riddled with shock and awe.

Beyond all obvious hope. Beyond all we know
and don't know yet.

May we all be sheltered, as long
as summer days hold heat.

Rest under this cooling canopy
of green leaf shadow.

Away from all the stinging,
unhinged things.

Top-down view of the front cover of The Storms Journal of poetry, prose, and visual art. The front cover depicts two young, South Korean ladies sitting on the edge of a stone plinth within a temple

setting. We glimpse a blue sky and green rolling hills in the far distance, above the temple rooftops.

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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

I'm excited to share that I have been nominated in Best of the Net by #BlackBoughPoetry for my poem, Meg-Time, published by them earlier this year. Made my day & weekend! Congratulations to all my fellow Black Bough nominees! Well done, everyone! 👏 ✨️👏✨️👏

Screenshot from Twitter / X showing Black Bough Poetry's post with a list of six nominated poets, all published by them this year.

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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Looky...Looky....looky...Ah, why. So. Serious?!

A front facing view of a young male deer captured earlier this afternoon, in this photo, happily munching on some tasty green leaves whilst sitting on a patch of green garden grass.

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