Lawrence Moore

The cover of MOUNTEBANK by Tom Snarsky, out March 31st from Broken Sleep Books.

hello everyone! today is #smallpoemsunday and it’s also the first day of March, the month at the end of which my new book MOUNTEBANK will be out from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social :)

each day in March I’m planning to share a #soapboxpoem, a small series of poems(/etc.) named for the origin of the…

Lovely work, David 👏

POEM 314: "Winter on My Feet" by David Hanlon (@vespertine4.bsky.social)

"Yes, I’m in my head all day again.
It’s cold in here—arctic, even.
Every inward road looks identical,
erased beneath unbroken ice.

That’s why I’m shaking."

stonecirclereview.com/winter-on/

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Welcome back! 🌞

Joe and I are busy getting ready for submissions for our Sunday Poetry Series, and I can't wait to read your poems!!!! Submissions will open on Tuesday 3, March and close at midnight on Saturday 7, March. Links to our guidelines and submission form will be posted early next week.

XRAY Submissions XRAY Literary Magazine submissions are open for fiction and creative nonfiction up to 7500 words. Pitch interviews & essays.

we're gonna open 4 subs tomorrow at 12 noon, texas time

xraylitmag.com/submissions/

Thank you Susan, have a lovely weekend! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

This is an Amazing deal for a truly Glorious collection!

'The poems here, hopeful and forgiving, are a balm and an antidote to the current coldness of the world. I look forward to getting happily lost in them again and again.' - Steve Denehan, author of 'A Quarter Dead and Half Alive'

In 'This Joyful Interlude' Lawrence Moore shares a tender and reflective collection of poems that explore love, memory and the quiet wonder of the natural world. With a gentle voice and vivid imagery, Moor invites readers to slow down and notice the beauty in both the outer landscape and the inner life. From rustling leaves to quite moments of longing and reflection, these poems speak of the joys and sorrows that shape us. A follow-up to 'Aerial Sweetshop' and 'The Breadcrumb Trail', this full-length collection marks Moore's growth as a poet, blending tradition with openness and emotional clarity. 'This Joyful Interlude' is a warm, thoughtful companion for anyone drawn to poetry that comforts, questions and uplifts. 'The poems here, hopeful and forgiving, are a balm and an antidote to the current coldness of the world. I look forward to getting happily lost in them again and again.' - Steve Denehan, author of 'A Quarter Dead and Half Alive'

Sleeping Foxes When all dust has settled on the narratives of our lives, there shall be peace within this garden. The ivy’s creep will continue, unimpeded, over the paws of sleeping foxes, whilst industrious dormice muster in numbers, gathering midnight treats. Those weeds, so thinly scattered between the concrete may have their day, sunflowers sway in a peopleless springtime breeze.

For another five days, the eBook version of This Joyful Interlude is available for 99p / 99¢!

UK amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FWKQBX77
US amazon.com/dp/B0FWKQBX77
CA amazon.ca/dp/B0FWKQBX77
FR amazon.fr/dp/B0FWKQBX77
DE amazon.de/dp/B0FWKQBX77
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So pretty! 🐦❤️

Issue twenty-three — Bad Lilies

OUT NOW. Issue twenty-three: 'Wildfires' badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-three

Poem 'The Ideal' by James Fenton

We have no grand metaphors, just an insistence to say where we come from without shame.

The plain and direct language is the emotional core of the piece

He acknowledges facing your past is difficult and that the bravest thing is not reinvention, but recognition.

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#poemoftheday

Great work!

Killer last line 👏

In the pile on consensus With no scope for doubt We’ve looked at our checklists And now you are out There’s no room for nuance There’s no growth today The mob points you out Then throws you away All the minutiae Our purity tests We think we’ve got you So now we’re obsessed What it boils down to Is meaningless bones To be picked over On millions of phones A distant landscape A flag is unfurled While we were distracted Someone broke the world

#obsessed
#vss365

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Dear moon
never speak of
what you’ve seen me do

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Dear moon
you are sworn
to secrecy

#haiku #senryu #noai

Haiku by Anthony Lusardi, Cezar Ciobîcă, and Jacek Margolak weather forecastneighbors discussing             which tree might fall where — Anthony Lusardi (USA)previously in Hedgerow, issue #151, 2025 Commentary …

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weather forecast
neighbors discussing
which tree might fall where

— Anthony Lusardi

train from Ukraine
her nesting dolls
full of scars

— Cezar Ciobîcă

scraping fish
a few scales fall back
into the river

— Jacek Margolak

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Cover of Doomscroll by Corey Stano.

Adulting Some days I hold myself to high standards and expectations. Other days I measure success by not drowning myself in the bath. Adulthood is a whimsical spectrum of mundanity and horrors.

Poetry enjoyers and other weirdos! My first chapbook of poetry is available via Bottlecap Press! Doomscroll is a frenetic little mish-mash of introspection and cultural commentary. Tell your friends! Tell your enemies! Tell Your enemies' friends! Grab a copy today!

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Thank you Anders! ❤️

This Joyful Interlude, a full-length poetry collection by Lawrence Moore. Cover illustration by Jane Cornwell

Here's the cover for The Joyful Interlude (with many thanks to my talented publisher @janes-studio.bsky.social) and a couple more book links ✨

FR amazon.fr/dp/1068432330
AU amazon.com.au/dp/1068432330

I also have signed author copes available via pm.

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Below the Buddleias From nowhere, neighbour s garden, two gnomes occurred, grinning and waving together with their bright and bushy beards. Perhaps they failed to appreciate the buddleias at their feet already plotting a path to next year's sunshine, for when next summer arrived, they were good as buried;

my brothers, sisters, cousins came and went not mentioning beards, lacking the memory for sensing all waves beneath. Likewise, I am a disappearing gnome. One day, having watched me disperse in smoke from chapel chimney pot, you will scatter my ashes in a field of butterflies, brandishing goodbyes, but when you do, cast a glance below the buddleias and know I am waving too.

For one week, the eBook version of my collection This Joyful Interlude is only 99p / 99¢

Here’s a poem from the book, ‘Below the Buddleias’

Book links

UK amazon.co.uk/dp/1068432330
US amazon.com/dp/1068432330
CA amazon.ca/dp/1068432330
DE amazon.de/dp/1068432330

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Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the State of the Union:

Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the #SOTU:

Thank you! 😀

Samantha Terrell: Moore's new book is truly a 'joyful' read. Lots of dog-eared pages in my copy! A delightful collection — well done.

Just bumped into this lovely little review of This Joyful Interlude on Goodreads.
Thank you so much @samanthaterrell.bsky.social! ❤️

Some book links:
UK: amazon.co.uk/dp/1068432330
US: amazon.com/dp/1068432330
CA: amazon.ca/dp/1068432330

The Ebook is also on sale for a week from Thursday.

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Such a wonderful, calming, therapeutic poem ❤️

So sorry to hear about your sister Merril.

Contemplation Monday Morning Musings Sunset Feb. 21, 2026, before the blizzard, Delaware River at Red Bank Battlefield Contemplation “You say we should wait—It must have snowed all night or season, “–Brian…

"Here is a celebration of clouds,
here, a wake of robins
here, ghosts drift beneath
February’s skeleton branches..."
Beautiful words for sad times by Merril D. Smith.
Contemplation merrildsmith.org/2026/02/23/c...

Yet another former OKD contributor, Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social (August 2024), has her first full-length poetry collection on the way! You can pre-order Allison’s collection, All That Blue, at www.finishinglinepress.com/product/all-.... Out March 20th.

Oh, thank you for the shout-out @paulwritespoems.bsky.social !

Anyone wanting to come along to @corinnaboard.bsky.social's launch for her stunning @salopress.bsky.social pamphlet Mædwe on 3rd March (and why wouldn't you?!), let me or Corinna know and we'll send you the registration link x