Green Ink Poetry

The Winter Solstice 2024 — Green Ink Poetry

Our Winter Solstice edition is available digitally on our website now! Some stunning work from Green Ink regulars as well as incredible new poets!

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Today's #GNU Sir Terry Pratchett #Discworld #PratchettQOTD comes from the novel #Mort

PRE-ORDERS ARE OPEN: “Thoughts on Life” – Fiona Halliday Ah, now I have to say that this collection is a total joy, and I am more than verily chuffed to say that Pre-orders are NOW OPEN! Fiona’s collection is to be officially released on the 14th o…

PRE-ORDERS ARE OPEN: “Thoughts on Life” – Fiona Halliday

Well, it is top excitement in Hogland,
as we can announce that the rather
awesome debut collection,
planned for January from @FionaHalliday is

NOW AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER

Yay!

If you came to last night's excellent Reading for Pleasure #poetry Newsletter Live! and have more questions about #PoetryByHeart or missed it & want to know more, we're on zoom 4pm today Thursday ready to chat. Meet other teachers too and get their tips #EduSky

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Thanks to @brokenspinearts.bsky.social for including my poem ‘Landing’ in this wonderful poetry collection ‘Reels Cinematic Poetry’.

Thanks so much to @alanparry83.bsky.social for the encouragement, support and these opportunities to learn, develop & contribute.

#writingcommunity
#writercommunity

9 years ago, no prize money, but my poem on a bus in Guernsey. My cousin lives in Guernsey and read my poem for me at the Poems on the Move prize ceremony. My grandad was once a bus conductor who read poetry to his kids. If I peaked with this so be it. 🥰

Our final submission window for 2024 closes in 3 days! Our first annual Winter Solstice edition combines retrospective with brand new poetry - all the guidelines are on our website!

So I am thinking this is the little poem I want to give you today. Hope you like it. #poetry.

Thank you @burnedthumb.bsky.social for this absolutely stunning review of Constructing a Witch. My goodness! #constructingawitch @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

obsessed with whomstever made a chunk of local footpath whiff delicate with guerilla mosaic

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 4
#BookSky
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#Books
#BookChallenge
#20daybookchallenge

I'm adding to the chorus of poets grateful for Jack Caradoc's work with @dreich.bsky.social over the years, and proud to be in the final issues, alongside so many poets I've admired all this time. Thank you Jack!

Issue 2 from our incredible friends @librelit.bsky.social will go live soon! An incredible mag, check them out! #poetry

A recent photo of the river Exe and some trees in the mist.

Sorry, I apologise for posting Exe/tree/mist views on Bluesky.

Lucy Heuschen: “Petersberg” — Green Ink Poetry These windows, thrown open, show you these things. A mountain, rocks, ruins, lowering clouds. A river, blue, cool-glazed, mirroring trees. A swallow is building a nest for its babies. A little white...

I'm sharing some of my #poetry and hope to uplift some #PoetryJournals and #IndiePublishers at the same time. Here is one which appeared first in @greeninkpress.bsky.social and then in my debut pamphlet, We Wear The Crown @hedgehogpoetry.bsky.social

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15 intrepid souls are embarking on a 2-hr workshop this Wednesday focused on writing plans for the next 12 months - focusing on goals and what needs to be done to get there. FOCUSED!

Join us - we don't mind a few more bookings. £25 pp.

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"Thin" from 'Consolamentum' (@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social) by @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social. A collection which I had the joy of previewing & providing a testimony for.

Beautiful elegiac poems exploring a breathtaking historical landscape against the tenor of humanity 🔥

#books #poetrycommunity

A place for every Storm ⚡️

The Horse who Died in Thomas Street is a poem by Séamus ua Trodd featured in The Storms issue 4.
Minutes after leaving Thomas street last Sunday, I found quite a few horses, all still alive & kicking, inhaling the Guinness air

eatthestorms.com/the-storm-sh...

I once landed in workshop w/ Sophie Cabot Black, who’d quote Stanley Kunitz, saying the line must read as a cohesive thought, standing on its own. I guess that is always in my mind at editing stage. Not saying we need to follow rules or advice every time tho. Thanks! I like craft discussions :)

I have a poem up on the wonderful Ink Sweat and Tears today. Massive thanks to editor Helen Ivory for selecting it. inksweatandtears.co.uk/julia-webb-3/

The Saturday from 5pm, on most podcast platforms, the #poetry #podcast Eat the Storms is playing host to a luscious league of poets including @moraganderson.bsky.social @scyflynn.bsky.social & Koss sharing work from new or recent collections
On Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Podbean & more

Here in Aotearoa it's Trans Day Of Remembrance.

Every year, we light the candle Cate was gifted in Thailand, pour love & memory into the flicker & smoke, let it reach the dead. And we cry. This year, in the current shadow, more than ever.

Friends, how we love you. Stay with us, any way you can.

Delighted to have one of my favourite poems - Red Earth Returning - in Last Light: ​Apocalypse Poetry.​ An eclectic, beautiful and brilliant collection

Huge thanks to @brokenspinearts.bsky.social and @alanparry83.bsky.social

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#Slimlines #poetry #apocalypsepoetry #brokenspine

Poems on a Conditional Form a book by Blake Gibson A collection of 21 poems ranging on race, gender, family, music, culture, and tenuous understandings of astrology.

I should probably share my #poetry collection on here, even if it was written under a name now on life support. The majority of these were written on the doorstep of starting a medical transition bookshop.org/p/books/poem...

Snippet from "rag doll" YouTube video by Tara “Ghost in the Machine” Vanhonacker

I have been working on a long poem called "rag doll" for "songs of earth (take two)" to appear in 2025. This is a snippet of it. Enjoy ...
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A Handful Of Prayers: Fallow 1 YouTube video by peterlillypoetry

Introducing my 2nd poetry collection "A Handful of Prayers", and reading the poem "Fallow 2". You can pick up a copy through the Publisher Wipf & Stock, or any online retailer.

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We love to hear about the other publications that have worked with our contributors - it's a community, not a competition. Very well said!

A bright, but misty Monday helps us greet the week - what have you been reading and writing over the weekend? #poetry

Still Book of the Month for a few more days!
#poetry

Green Ink Winter Solstice: Reflections 2024 — Green Ink Poetry In the first of a new yearly digital collection, we will be looking back at all our favourite poems from the year and combining them into one glorious collection! A limited number of new poems will al...

Submissions are open to our Winer Solstice digital collection. In Reflections 2024, we'll be looking back at all our favourite poems from the year, alongside new poems exploring nature:

www.greeninkpoetry.co.uk/submissions/...

#poetrycollection #poetrysubmissions #poetrypublisher #opensubmissions