@julianday.bsky.social
Published by Blackbough Poetry, The Storms Journal, FolkHeart Press. Featured writer in Patricia's Pen, and on A Thousand Shades Of Green podcast and a regular guest reader on Eat The Storms podcast. Best of The Net nominated.
You're welcome, Peter. Thanks. 🙏
05.02.2026 23:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you Billy! Here's the link to your most kind review (mine is the 2nd one up.) 🌹
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Don't miss this on Tuesday eve ONLINE - Morag's book is so brilliant and necessary - a vital amendment to so much walking lit - an intersectional feminist history of walking as creative practice, radical act and resistance, with a focus on queer, disabled & working-class lives. #BookSky #WalkingLit
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The cover of The Drift of Memory by Dermot Murphy. A dark figure of a woman stands beside a ferry railing and stares out across the sea, the whole image being greenwashed
Dermot Murphy’s The Drift of Memory focuses on Irish female experience. Women staying in Ireland are on journeys; in the diaspora, they carry place with them. Murphy’s poems are vivid & meaningful. Plainly personal, the collection yet reaches towards universality. Recommended @fiftywords.bsky.social
05.02.2026 10:55 — 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0Awesome!! 👏👏👏
05.02.2026 14:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Holy wow.
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this, for example, which i just posted: newly posted: Elena Zhang : Two poems
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Sir 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
Cover image of book, Becoming Altar, New and Selected Poems by Kyla Houbolt. Book is turquoise blue with yellow type and white on the spine. Pretty thing!
Smack It was the red lipstick era, the time of skillets and aprons, permed hair, gelid poems wafting sentimentally around the joint, like cigarette smoke. Oh the good old. I rustle in the bottom of a battered purse, maybe there's still a tube of red lipstick in there. All dried out. Still, I paint some on. Lips. What a weird body part. Let's decorate them! Someone once said. So we did.
#Poetry #Booksky
By now you've probably heard enough from me about this book. 😎 You might even want a copy. You can get one here: asterismbooks.com/product/beco... Or for a signed copy, send me a DM.
have you found any new-to-you poets recently? maybe through a literary journal? maybe one who doesn’t have a full length book out yet? I would love love love to be introduced to some new writing
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Next season of Cahal Dallat's exciting, stimulating (& productive!) weekly creative/critical #coffeehousepoetry masterclass, #betweenthelines, starts Fri 27th Feb — booking opens today!
see: tinyurl.com/betweentheli...
coffeehousepoetry.org/classes
art: 'zebra in nyc', dagmar pels
📢 POETS ASSEMBLE! 🐻🐱🐺🥁SOUTHWORD POETRY PODCAST-
produced by the cool
@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
An essential podcast for all poets, at whatever stage, or level of their art & craft
Check them out, wherever you listen to your pods! 🎺🎙🎶
We are now taking Fiction submissions for Southword. Just over 3 weeks to get your entry in!Click on the website link to submit your entry. Good luck!
#poetry #southword #fictionwriting
A minimalist book cover on a white background. At the top, the title ‘Mountebank’ appears in bold black serif lettering, with the author name ‘Tom Snarsky’ printed beneath it in a smaller serif font. Centred on the page is a mirrored black-and-white illustration of two identical theatrical masks facing each other, each held by delicate hands pressing against the mask’s cheeks. The masks have hollow, dark eye sockets and neutral expressions, rendered in fine stippled detail, creating a symmetrical, uncanny effect. Near the bottom of the cover, the publisher name ‘Broken Sleep Books’ is printed in small black serif text.
MOUNTEBANK is a book of bells and bodies, of vows made in a kitchen and broken in public, of love that keeps asking for water and coffee and proof. @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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A stark, minimalist book cover with a flat mustard-yellow background. At the top left, the title ‘The Dead Are Always Laughing at Us’ appears in large black serif type, set across multiple lines. Beneath the title, in smaller black serif text, are the credits ‘Words by Dominic Hoey’ and ‘Design by Trudi Hewitt’. The lower portion of the cover is largely empty, emphasising negative space. Near the bottom centre, the publisher name ‘Broken Sleep Books’ is printed in small black serif lettering.
The Dead Are Always Laughing at Us is Dominic Hoey at full voltage: funny, tender, furious, and absolutely committed to being understood.
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
Congratulations, Peter!
05.02.2026 13:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This awesome book is out today: the most inspiring poetry I've ever read.
Delighted to have a poem in it.
Huge thanks to @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social great writers and editors - Simon Barraclough and Aaron Kent:
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
#BrokenSleepBooks #poetry #poetrycommunity
You're welcome! Brilliant! ✨️
05.02.2026 13:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You're always v welcome, Patrick. There are some other cracking cover art permutations for this issue, as well!
05.02.2026 13:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations & best wishes, Emily!
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The release of my new poetry book 'Sonogram {soundwriting}' will be accompanied by an online launch with other @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social poets also reading their new poems.
Sat 28th Feb at 8pm local time, pay what you can afford:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...
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#poetry
Poet Desree and Poetry Society staff member Billie in the Poetry Cafe. They are smiling and standing beneath a sign saying 'POET'
Poet Desree performing at a microphone for a live audience.
Thanks to everyone who came to our open mic in the Poetry Cafe tonight - those who shared their work and those who offered moral support! From football to flowers, ballads to limericks, we heard it all. And special thanks to headliner Desree who brought the house down!
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Looking for another chance to share your poems? We've a Stanza Bonanza coming up on 26 Feb in the Poetry Cafe: as well as headline slots from members of Folkestone & Margate Stanzas, anyone can perform on the open mic. Head to poetrysociety.org.uk/event/folkestone-margate-stanza-bonanza/ to book.
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Two fantastic new online workshops for you next week!
🌳 Deep Green with Romalyn Ante
Monday 9 February, 7pm
❤️ Writing Love with Laurie Bolger
Wednesday 11 February, 11am
Sign up: buytickets.at/thepoetrybus...
@romalynante3.bsky.social
@lauriebolger.bsky.social
@ninearchespress.bsky.social
Submissions now open for The North!
Deadline end of February.
The North 72 is The Library Issue, so, as well as your poems, we're looking for short prose pieces about, or featuring, libraries. All library-themed work welcome!
Send us your work: poetrybusiness.co.uk/about-the-po...
O Bhéal go Béal - Poetry Night 🖋✨
📆Monday 9th February
🕢7.30pm
📌The Hayloft, Long Valley Bar, Cork City
🎫Free event
Guest readers for February: MA Creative Writing Students, UCC
See details on www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/bhe...
❤ Join us for the launch of Poetry Ireland Review Issue 147, edited by Theo Dorgan.❤
Thursday, February 12th from 6:00pm at Notre Dame Dublin.
We look forward to launching this special love-themed issue ahead of Valentine's Day.
Book your spot at www.eventbrite.ie/e/launch-of-...
Have a hankering to listen to some literature this February? Check out our brand new listings!
Each month, we'll be rounding up what's going on across the island. With over 50 events in February alone, there's something for everyone🎤
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We are delighted to announce the writers awarded a five-day residency on the beautiful grounds of Kylemore Abbey this year: @drrachelgough.bsky.social, @shanejlarkin.bsky.social, Anne Tannam and @aislingwalsh.bsky.social.
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Zoom screenshot of Mark Corcoran during his headline poetry set
Watch Crafty Crows February online poetry event featuring Mark Corcoran, plus open mic, on the Gloucestershire Poetry Society YouTube Channel:
youtu.be/eNDe0m-dsr0
#poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetrysky #writingcommunity
