Glen Wilson

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

"The poet is like a mouse in an enormous cheese excited by how much cheese there is to eat."
-- Czeslaw Milosz.

Happy #nationalpoetryday

Thank you Dave!

Thank you Sarah 🙂

Crysse Morrison Prize for Poetry 2025 - Frome Festival Crysse Morrison Prize for Poetry 2025 - Frome Festival

Ecstatic to have won the Crysse Morrison Prize for Poetry @Frome_Festival , my thanks to Rosie and the committee, and judge Luke Wright for selecting my poem and congratulations to all the other prize winners!#Frome #poetry 😃
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This is a fantastic picture 🙂

Puppets…

Thank you Rachel, appreciate that 😃

Thank you, happy to connect

Thank you 😃

Poetry Competition Winner | Anthology | Luxury lifestyle magazine and creative awards Congratulations to Frank Lowry (England) whose winning poem will feature in a forthcoming issue of Anthology

Excited to have a poem highly commended in the Anthology Magazine Poetry competition 😀

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The Poetry Space_ with @Katie_Dozier is returning this week after a holiday hiatus, and we're going to be talking about "after" poems. I haven't written many, but here's a short one of mine after a line from James Tate (the title). Here's a quick 🧵 1/x

A gentle reminder that your attention is a form of currency. Spend it wisely.

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King

“The Yips” by Joe Barca I play pickleball—a lot can’t get my serve in the inkwell is dry my poems are all shitty I fail again and again someone says

a word thief hovers
in the attic of my mind

—Joe Barca @joebarca.bsky.social
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We Are Legion. We're pleased to present the Abridged 0 - 104: Legion Submission Call. Poetry and/or Art Required! See abridged.zone/abridged-0-104…… for info!

Femina Culpa's Christmas Reading We will be reading poetry exploring the lives of 19th working class and the legal system, using a blend of aresearch, oral history and myth.

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Here's the link to book tickets for a pre-Christmas reading at Clifton House with Emma McKervey, Lynda Tavakoli and me. We will be reading from our new collections.

A few wintry poems from my new collection, 'Four Thousand Keys', (Doire Press), which is just over a month in the world now!

Congratulations @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social 👏👏👏

Thank you Gaynor 🙂

Thanks Morna!

Finding the Words Literary Festival …

"Finding the Words Literary Festival - Poetry Compe…" literary.freedomfromtorture.org/pageview/?pa... Excited to have won the Freedom from torture 'Finding the words' poetry competition

Hi Lucy! 👋🏻 I'm here for the #poetry #writing #nature and #art ☺️

Here are 4 local (to me) #poetsonbluesky

@prudelaide.bsky.social
@lindamckenna.bsky.social
@glenhswilsonpoet.bsky.social
@purelypoetry.bsky.social

And a #writer of #fiction #flashfiction #plays and #sff

@byddi.bsky.social

Book cover showing anatomical Drawing of the inner ear. The title is The art of washing what you can’t wash by Ewen Glass

Just gonna put this out here. My poetry chapbook comes out in a week from Alien Buddha Press so if anyone is interested in doing a review or something hmu. A central theme is growing up in an under-considered part of the care system

Belfast's long-running open mic night Purely Poetry is back for another session at Crescent Arts Centre this Friday night! Tickets available via the Crescent box office, or purchase on the night.

crescentarts.org/events/purel...

#openmic #poetry #belfast #theowlcommandsyou #literature #spokenword

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