Reposted by Ruth HigginsElla Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · 19/08/2026clip from the Rough Trade Books showcase at the Queen Elizabeth Hall - collaboration with Aidan Moffat (Arab Strap) - ‘the body of a teenage girl’ (very nearly titled ‘Miracle Sauce’ ✨ 031
Reposted by Ruth HigginsThe Rialto @rialtopoetry.bsky.social · 01/08/2026New pamphlet now available. The Naming of Hunger by Rachael Davey. £7 inc P&P (UK) www.therialto.co.uk/pages/produc... 031
Reposted by Ruth HigginsVer Poets @verpoets.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Kathy Pimlott's poem, "How I do the grieving a few years on", was commended in the Ver Poets Open Competition 2025, judged by Rory Waterman. To enter this year's competition, which will be judged by Vanessa Lampert, go to verpoets.wixsite.com/verpoets/com.... The closing date is 30th April. 162
Reposted by Ruth HigginsAlison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social · 17/03/2026'Technically, the human walk is an interrupted fall.' I could fall into a morass of adjectives while trying to praise @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social 's new collection, 'Crowd Voltage' @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social . Instead, I will simply say that it is an uninterrupted walk into joy. 083
Reposted by Ruth HigginsAtrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Considerations – Peter Raynard atriumpoetry.com/2026/03/10/c...atriumpoetry.comConsiderations – Peter RaynardConsiderations . . Peter Raynard has three books of poetry, latest Manland (Nine Arches Press, 2022); pamphlet ‘The Harlot & the Rake: poems after William Hogarth; and academic essay on w… 022
Reposted by Ruth HigginsBrad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 03/03/2026These people have no plan or endgame. 51858128
Reposted by Ruth HigginsKatalin Halmai @eublogo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026The U.S. State Department is set to fund MAGA-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to spread the Trump administration’s policy positions. We eagerly await the patriots'/sovereignists' strong indignation and their demands for investigations to be carried out! 🕵️ft.comUS government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in EuropeState department grants to spread ‘American values’ are part of Washington’s 250th anniversary celebrations 43922
Reposted by Ruth HigginsRabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Follower of Rembrandt van Rijn, A Man Seated Reading at a Table in a Lofty Room, ca. 1628-30 715128
Reposted by Ruth HigginsDuotrope @duotrope.com · 05/02/2026Atrium Poetry @atriumpoetry.bsky.social (Poetry; non-paying) opened to poetry submissions. duotrope.com... #amwritingduotrope.comRe-opening: Atrium PoetryAtrium Poetry @atriumpoetry.bsky.social (Poetry; non-paying) opened to poetry submissions. https://duotrope.com/magazine/atrium-poetry-22300 #amwriting 044
Reposted by Ruth HigginsQuakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 05/02/2026The arms trade is a root cause of human suffering, facilitating deadly conflict and the suppression of human rights around the world. Quakers joined other peace campaigners in two days of protest to draw attention to the SDSC-UK arms fair hosted by Birmingham's NEC. Video credit: Zoe Broughton 1258
Reposted by Ruth HigginsOmg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue 5783269214042
Reposted by Ruth HigginsMike Okuda @mikeokuda.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Warm air masses in the atmosphere rise upward, causing cooler air from neighboring areas, sometimes from the arctic, to rush in. This is how atmospheric heat powers storms. In other words, global warming causes colder, more intense winter storms. www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxo...scientificamerican.comExxon's Own Models Predicted Global Warming--It Ignored ThemScientists working for the oil giant Exxon in the 1970s and 1980s estimated temperature increases with remarkable accuracy. Those findings could now be used as evidence in climate litigation 481201601
Reposted by Ruth HigginsGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Many don't realize that the most vulnerable or immune compromised depend on the rest getting vaccinated properly to keep diseases from spreading out of control. It's not just “my body, my choice” when it comes to saving lives. 58690472630
Reposted by Ruth HigginsJohn Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · 30/12/2025What really scares me about Reform is the way their heads are all mutually interchangeable. 082
Reposted by Ruth HigginsInk Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 27/12/2025On the Seventh Day of Christmas we bring you @pennyblackburn.bsky.social , @fionalarkin.bsky.social, @ruthhiggins.bsky.social. Read their work here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/on-the-seven... #InkSweatAndTears #FeaturedPoem #ChristmasPoem #12DaysOf 084
Reposted by Ruth HigginsBloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Poet & @poetrylondon.bsky.social editor Niall Campbell was @robinhoughton.bsky.social & @peter-kenny.bsky.social's guest on the Christmas edition of @planetpoetry.bsky.social. He was reading from and discussing his 3rd collection The Island in the Sound. planetpoetry.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...planetpoetry.buzzsprout.comSound | Shadow - with Niall Campbell - Planet PoetryNever mind the baubles... Here's the magic from Niall Campbell, who shares spellbinding poems from his Bloodaxe collection The Island in the Sound, which blend unique elements from his South Uist upbr... 062
Reposted by Ruth HigginsAlexandra Corrin-Tachibana @corrintachibana.bsky.social · 20/12/2025It’s a privilege and lovely to be featured on the Two Way Poetry podcast by Chris Jones, poet & Senior Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University. You can find us here, talking Kimiko Hahn, the Japanese zuihitsu form, and many other things poetry! twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/alexandra-... poetry!twowaypoetry.podbean.comAlexandra Corrin-Tachibana on Kimiko Hahn's poem 'Compass' and her own poem "Madam Gout' | The Two-Way Poetry PodcastIn this episode, I talk to Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana about Kimiko Hahn’s poem ‘Compass’ and her own poem ‘Madam Gout’. We discuss all things zuihitsu - reflecting on Kimiko Hahn’s own approach to the... 0116
Reposted by Ruth HigginsAtrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - Christmas 1984 by Moira McPartlin 032
Reposted by Ruth HigginsAtrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 16/12/2025The Mistress Replies – Ruth Higgins @ruthhiggins.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/12/16/t...atriumpoetry.comThe Mistress Replies – Ruth HigginsThe Mistress Replies . . 142
Reposted by Ruth Higginslucynoakes1.bsky.social @lucynoakes1.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk 31236287
Reposted by Ruth HigginsBlack Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 09/12/2025A gift for the season 📖 💝 🎁 Our Christmas and winter anthology. Get it now, before Christmas! Hardback and paperback versions. 🦌 ❄️ 💫 www.blackboughpoetry.com/news 0188
Reposted by Ruth HigginsJulia Webb @julwe1.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Delighted to have my sightly ranty poem about being a difficult woman over at Atrium today! 0145
Reposted by Ruth HigginsAtrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Are you afraid you might be difficult? – Julia Webb @julwe1.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/11/28/a...atriumpoetry.comAre you afraid you might be difficult? – Julia WebbAre you afraid you might be difficult? . . Julia Webb is a neurodivergent writer/editor based in Norwich. She has four collections with Nine Arches Press: Bird Sisters (2016) Threat (2019) The Tell… 1115
Reposted by Ruth HigginsSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 26/11/2025"More winter rain has flooded makeshift tents housing displaced families in Gaza as Israel continues to restrict the entry of aid into the strip" 01622
Reposted by Ruth HigginsEmma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Structural engineer Roma Agrawal & historian of sex @k8lister.bsky.social share A Good Read with @harriettsg.bsky.social 3pm @BBCRadio4 - The woman who took on Georgian Britain's worst husband and won; an artist's childhood & a novel about a Sri Lankan architect. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Roma Agrawal and Kate ListerA structural engineer and a historian of sex share favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. 0125
Reposted by Ruth HigginsVer Poets @verpoets.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Don't forget our poetry open mic at 7.30 pm tomorrow (Wednesday 19th November) in The Saint & Sinner, St Albans, when our featured poet will be Estelle Price. It's free and open to all. Sign up on the night from 7.00 pm, if you want to read. 022
Reposted by Ruth HigginsAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 16/11/2025“And what is home if not the choice – over and over again – to stay?” Marjorie Lotfi – winner of the 2024 Forward Prize for Best First Collection for THE WRONG PERSON TO ASK – on becoming a writer, from fleeing Iran as a child in 1978 to arriving in Scotland writersmosaic.org.uk/people/marjo...writersmosaic.org.ukMarjorie Lotfi | WritersMosaic MagazineForward Prize winner 2024 for The Wrong Person to Ask, Lotfi moved to Tehran as a baby from the US and fled during the Iranian Revolution 2208
Reposted by Ruth Higginsperversemag @perversemag.bsky.social · 17/11/2025The first poem in PERVERSE 9F is 'The leaflet with the lightbulb says do not swallow' by Em Gray @em-words.bsky.social. Read all five poems in this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9f 093
Reposted by Ruth HigginsRishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 11/11/2025If you want – need – an argument as to why Reform and this incarnation of the Tory party are just horrible, look no further than this: they want shot of Poems on the Underground: www.express.co.uk/news/politic...express.co.uk'TfL 'splurges £72,000 on poetry in Tube carriages instead of driving down faresEXCLUSIVE: Transport for London has defended the ‘Poems on the Underground' scheme despite criticism over spending priorities. 41410
Reposted by Ruth HigginsJorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Read this. This is America. poems.com/poem/the-inc...poems.comThe Incognito LoungeThey’re perfectly visible this evening, about as unobtrusive as a storm of meteors, these questions of happiness plaguing the world. 1143
Reposted by Ruth HigginsAnne Bailey @anne-bailey.bsky.social · 09/11/2025SO THRILLED to be in the ‘poetry rupture’ that is The Aftershock Review Issue2. Thanks @maxwallis.bsky.social 153
Reposted by Ruth Higginsottilie mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social · 08/11/2025I really enjoyed reading this review. I wish it had mentioned Krasznahorkai's translators. George Szirtes translated The Melancholy of Resistance. I translated Herscht 07769, the book under review here. Even a simple byline at the top. 'Translated by...' It's important.+ 4248
Reposted by Ruth HigginsAtrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 07/11/2025R.I.P. The Bay Horse – Carole Bromley @carolebromley.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/11/07/r...atriumpoetry.comR.I.P. The Bay Horse – Carole BromleyR.I.P. The Bay Horse . . Carole Bromley is a York-based poet who writes for both adults and children. Winner of a number of prizes, including the Bridport, Hamish Canham and the Caterpillar prize, … 0147
Reposted by Ruth HigginsRory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 22/10/2025But nothing to see here if your news comes from the UK media…. 1741872
Reposted by Ruth HigginsThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament. But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside. Good night. 672005298
Reposted by Ruth HigginsAtrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Fireweed – Ruth Higgins @ruthhiggins.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/10/17/f...atriumpoetry.comFireweed – Ruth HigginsFireweed . . Ruth Higgins has published poems with Alba, Arachne Press, Ink Sweat & Tears and Strix Magazine. A poem was commended in the Verve Festival competition 2025. 163
Reposted by Ruth HigginsAtrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Words and music for a wounded network – Dominic Fisher @domfishpoet.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/10/14/w...atriumpoetry.comWords and music for a wounded network – Dominic FisherWords and music for a wounded network . . Dominic Fisher lives in Bristol, was a co-editor of Raceme magazine, was highly commended in Poetry Wales Award 2025, is widely published, and sometimes br… 064
Reposted by Ruth HigginsSarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 10/10/2025This... try reading it out loud to yourself. Fantastic work @leiabutler.bsky.social 👏 164
Reposted by Ruth HigginsJohn Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · 10/10/2025open.substack.com/pub/northsea...open.substack.comOn What The Angel of History Might SeeNiall Campbell writes a first part on private histories 182
Reposted by Ruth Higginsten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Haven't read anything by László Krasznahorkai (yet!) BUT I can recommend The Book of Mordechai and Lazarus by Gábor Schein from Seagull Books' Hungarian list, also translated wonderfully by Ottilie Mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social 10mh.net/2020/07/08/t...10mh.netThe Book of Mordechai and Lazarus review - 10mh.netThe Book of Mordechai and Lazarus review: from Seagulls Books, Gabor Schein's book is translated by Ottilie Mulzet and Adam Z. Levy 052
Reposted by Ruth HigginsRabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Goodnight, all Reading to My Father by Jorie Graham www.divasofverse.com/2018/04/read...divasofverse.comReading to My Father by Jorie GrahamReading to My Father I come back indoors at dusk-end. I come back into the room with your now finished no-long... 0155
Reposted by Ruth HigginsAmerican Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 07/10/2025"Three years ago, after a difficult state legislative session in TX that aimed to restrict access to books and disparage the work of librarians, I recognized the urgency of helping my community understand how our libraries operate." - San Antonio school librarian Lucy Podmore bit.ly/4nEV0iQbit.lyWalk with a Purpose | American Libraries MagazineInstead of simply highlighting censorship statistics or bemoaning what we can’t read, the Freedom Walk celebrates our right to read. 1339
Reposted by Ruth HigginsAtrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Thank you for sharing today's poem - A Celebration by Roy Marshall 063
Reposted by Ruth HigginsAtrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - Sonnet for Perimenopause by @victoriaspires.bsky.social 1122
Reposted by Ruth HigginsAtrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - UFO by @em-words.bsky.social 032
Reposted by Ruth HigginsAtrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 30/09/2025UFO – Em Gray @em-words.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/09/30/u...atriumpoetry.comUFO – Em GrayUFO . . Em Gray is a neurodivergent poet living in Brighton, UK. She has been highly commended by the Forward Prize, shortlisted for the Creative Future Writers’ Award and has won second priz… 242
Reposted by Ruth HigginsAtrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - brassband by @niaandthepoems.bsky.social 083
Reposted by Ruth HigginsLaura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Single harebell on a hilltop today. #WildflowerHour 0355
Reposted by Ruth HigginsTessa Foley @tessafoley.bsky.social · 10/09/2025If there are ANY tickets left for this, I advise you to snap em up. Standing ovation on the first night. It’s feckin brilliant. Caroline Bird’s THE LAST STAND OF MRS MARY WHITEHOUSE nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/events/the-l... Starring Maxine Peake and Samuel Barnett. Mind blowing. 073
Reposted by Ruth HigginsAtrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Three dreams of distress – Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/09/05/t...atriumpoetry.comThree dreams of distress – Sue SpiersThree dreams of distress . . Sue Spiers works with Winchester Poetry Festival. Her poems appear with Atrium, The High Window, The Lake and Ink, Sweat & Tears and print magazines. Sue … 032
