🥁Thrilled to share our 2026 #poetry list.
Full details and tantalising glimpses into these new titles are here: ninearchespress.com/about-us/news
Including books by @jennywcreative.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @kymdeyn.bsky.social @marymulholland.bsky.social & @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
04.12.2025 12:26 — 👍 28 🔁 11 💬 4 📌 4
What someone you love needs for Christmas is obviously my ‘strong, masculine collection filled with brooding Spanish vistas and culture.’ Asi de claro.
Ugh. Self-promo.
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
04.12.2025 13:40 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
Thank you Paul
01.12.2025 22:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Very proud to be part this poetic conversation from @yaffles-nest.bsky.social
‘over 250 pages filled with a chain of poetry that started out as lots of smaller chains, exemplified by the gorgeous cover photo.. webs are fragile and strong, vulnerable and powerful.’
01.12.2025 07:39 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Festive Evening Celebration
Get ready for a night of joy at our Festive Evening Celebration - it's going to be a virtual party you won't want to miss!
Next event, 5 Dec 6.30pm, is our annual festive get-together - an online festive evening of words and music, come along to share, enjoy and celebrate! @nbissell.bsky.social @dauvitf.bsky.social
Book your place here: tinyurl.com/3ksnvw5b
28.11.2025 13:31 — 👍 7 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you so much, Paul!! Congrats to @penny-walker-sd.bsky.social and to all of the long- and shortlistees! With thanks to the poetry judges Damaris West end @marcellenewbold.bsky.social
30.11.2025 18:43 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
We loved your poem, so well crafted and balance between the said and unsaid. Congratulations
30.11.2025 19:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
What a year! The ending notes are as high (and magnificent) as the opening ones were. My #microchap #SpeakUpSpeakOut (includes some #poemsabout) is one of four included in #BookTen #FourFeathersPress #SpringRelease @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #StayCreative #YouNeverKnow
30.11.2025 18:21 — 👍 23 🔁 6 💬 7 📌 0
An immense pleasure today to receive from @walklistencreate.org the anthology of shortlisted poems & stories in the Walking in the Dark competition (supporting Women Walking, the City, at Night). Beautifully presented. My poem Devon Gothic is accompanied by a wonderfully atmospheric image
28.11.2025 12:13 — 👍 40 🔁 11 💬 8 📌 2
I wrote a thing about sexy poems.
bit.ly/4pFH8Wo
28.11.2025 15:37 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Sunday 30th Nov @modronmagazine.bsky.social & @poetrywales.bsky.social are celebrating:
‘Abeer Ameer whose poem in Modron won Best Single Poem (Written) in this year's Forward Prizes’ @forwardprizes.bsky.social
I'll be reading my poem from Poetry Wales' 60th anniversary issue '60 poets to watch’
28.11.2025 13:53 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Festive Evening Celebration
Get ready for a night of joy at our Festive Evening Celebration - it's going to be a virtual party you won't want to miss!
Next event, 5 Dec 6.30pm, is our annual festive get-together - an online festive evening of words and music, come along to share, enjoy and celebrate! @nbissell.bsky.social @dauvitf.bsky.social
Book your place here: tinyurl.com/3ksnvw5b
28.11.2025 13:31 — 👍 7 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Smack in the street’s mouth by Matt Gilbert — Full House Literary
Recently published over on the Featured Creator section, the brilliant piece 'Smack in the street’s mouth' by
@richlyevocative.bsky.social 👏
www.fullhouseliterary.com/poetry/smack...
27.11.2025 22:51 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Out in the next few days, our 6th Christmas anthology with a whole host of amazing poets and the illustrations of Emma Bissonnet.
28.11.2025 00:54 — 👍 32 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 2
Just starting to ship! Publisher and Editor of Hedgehog Poetry Press, @hedgehogpress.co.uk Mark Davidson, says it is a “gorgeous book, filled with some of the finest poetry I’ve read in years.” Which is so lovely! Order signed copies here: witchbottlepoetry.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/t...
27.11.2025 20:38 — 👍 11 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1
NEXT WEDNESDAY I'm reading #SpeakUpSpeakOut (#poems abt #SocialIJjustice). Includes some of my #poemsabout offerings. #OpenMic register when #SacredGrounds zoom opens). Hope you can join me! 7-9PM PST. DM for link. #Sexism #Racism #Abuse #PoetsOfBlueSky #Poetry #PoetsSupportPoets #NeverADullMoment
26.11.2025 15:01 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Two days to go! If you're near Cambridge, drop by our book launch to chat with the writers and editors, knock back a tot of rum or wine, and listen to some very weird poems.
Details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
26.11.2025 19:13 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Great poem Paul!
20.11.2025 16:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thrilled to be SHORTLISTED for @walklistencreate.org's WALKING IN THE DARK competition supporting the great 'Women Walking, the City, at Night' cause. My thanks to judges @marcellenewbold.bsky.social & Damaris West. Shortlist below. My poem Devon Gothic in the thread #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky
20.11.2025 07:32 — 👍 94 🔁 17 💬 20 📌 0
Photograph of the full moon, with impact craters and dark patches.
So happy that 'Seeing the Moon' has been short-listed for this prize! walklistencreate.org/2025/11/20/d...
Thank you to judges @marcellenewbold.bsky.social & Damaris West, and to @walklistencreate.org for organising.
#AmWriting #FlashFiction #EcoHopeful #SpeculativeFiction #DeindustrialFiction
20.11.2025 10:22 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
We really enjoyed your poem, thank you for sending it
20.11.2025 16:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Super excited my poem 'Hand to mouth' and story 'The Knife Sharpener of Alzira' have been shortlisted for the 'Walking In The Dark' comp by @walklistencreate.org judged by @marcellenewbold.bsky.social and Damaris West for poetry, @chantallyons.bsky.social and Matthew Beaumont for prose
Whoop 🥳
20.11.2025 11:26 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0
Very proud to co-edit, with @wennieevans.bsky.social, The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press’ 5th anthology ‘lines of communication’. Lovely comment from @alixklingenberg.bsky.social 👇❤️
Available now: www.amazon.co.uk/Lines-Commun...
11.11.2025 17:32 — 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 46
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
This week in the poetry blogs with @roguestrands.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @mcrucefix.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @chaucercameron.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social 1/3
www.vianegativa.us/2025/11/poet...
17.11.2025 22:44 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
Morning #promptcombo #poemsabout crews, save the date for another night of quality poetry I'm hosting in Jan. Readers to be revealed soon, but they are all incredible talents who you won't want to miss.
Would love to see some of you there ☺️
18.11.2025 06:54 — 👍 26 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 0
So happy to be included in the 2026 list of poems published by After. My poem will be published on Jan 18th. Thanks so much @markantonyowen.com
16.11.2025 16:10 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
My poem Not Yet has been published in The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press new anthology Lines of Communication and I’m thrilled. I recommend. It’s a great read. Thank you 🧡
18.11.2025 09:07 — 👍 37 🔁 19 💬 6 📌 0
We loved your poem, thank you for sending it our way
18.11.2025 09:18 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Flyer for the Dublin Small Press Fair. https://dublinsmallpressfair.com
Looking forward to bringing Longbarrow Press (and @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social) to the inaugural @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social at the end of the month, alongside 30+ excellent presses. Fri 28 Nov & Sat 29 Nov, Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2, all welcome, admission free. dublinsmallpressfair.com
14.11.2025 09:16 — 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
Poet, teacher, music nerd, landlubber | Chapbook: 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘋𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘰𝘯 via Pinhole Poetry, Spring 2026 | Poems in CV2, The Malahat Review, QWERTY, ROOM, Crab Creek Review, The New Quarterly.
| BLM 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉🌻 | www.jessicaleemcmillan.com
Speculating…
…in fiction and non, eco hopeful. Likes: compost, air, salvage. Dislikes: AI slop, shouting.
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☘️ Irish community worker, writer & teacher living in London with work selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 2023, Best of the Net 2024 & Best Small Fictions 2024, now researching the impact of story on social change & can be found @ http://52quotes.blogspot.com
Canadian in Scotland (via Denmark (got lost on the way home (sorry mom))) | Current fixation: #FlashFiction | #AmWriting | She/Her
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Writer, walker, storyteller, anecdoter, guinea pig scruffler, nature lover. Works with rescued primates. Loves wildlife, music, languages and books. Dorset, UK.
Procaffinator. Veteran. Artificer. Bodger. #Author. #Poet. Lost #Mayo Man.
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Novels, poetry, film, academia. Kelpies Prize winner; Bridport Poetry Prize Highly Commended. Placed/shortlisted: Bridport, Four Corners, Winchester, National Poetry Competition.
Writer naval/aviation history. Words. Art. Photography. Silken Windhounds. He/him. Free Palestine. Cannot receive DMs
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Midwestern Gen Xer scouting for hope
Poet, essayist, novelist & Director of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics. Author of Slate, Sea and Sky, Barnhill and Living on an Island Expressing the Earth.
2nd prize National Poetry Competition 2019
Published in Lighthouse, Shearsman, Tears in the Fence, Obsessed with Pipework, Ambit
black & jewish poet & phd student in Detroit | work @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social and @blacklawrence.bsky.social and @deadmallpress.bsky.social | Cave Canem fellow | just very glad to be here.
Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover.
Poet. PhD on the Ecopoetics of Robert Frost. Waterfalls and fell walking. Wrestling fan.
A poet member of Louth Writing Group. MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway. Well travelled. Lived in Houston, Texas for several years.
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Writer. Pie enthusiast. Historically preserved beard site. Cheese poet. Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, Cinnamon Challenge: honorable mention.