Many poets leave a book behind as soon as it's published, but that's the moment I feel I'm only just getting to know it...
05.12.2025 22:21 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Many poets leave a book behind as soon as it's published, but that's the moment I feel I'm only just getting to know it...
05.12.2025 22:21 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A perfect gift for the poetry lover in your life this Christmas. Or for your lover who mistakenly thinks poetry's not for them!
Drop me a DM and I'll sort out your signed copy...!
23.11.2025 12:21 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
10/9, 10/9, 10/9 syllabic patterning, the even-numbered lines generating expectations, the odd-numbered lines undercutting them, creating uncertainty that reflects the poem's unresolved questions...
28.10.2025 20:45 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
This poem from Whatever You Do, Just Don't is for anybody who's had to clear a house, who's found objects that must have had significance for someone no longer here to tell their story....
28.10.2025 18:48 — 👍 89 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 2
Poetry as an anchor for the poet. To places. To moments. To people.
Poetry that then implicitly reveals ia reader's anchors. That casts those anchors in a different imaginative light. That layers them with fresh nuances. That renews them in the reader's heart and mind.
16.11.2025 11:53 — 👍 29 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
What's it like to return to your home town years after leaving?
This poem from Whatever You Do, Just Don't finds that nothing's changed. But then everything's changed too...
02.11.2025 11:13 — 👍 86 🔁 15 💬 6 📌 5
Matthew Stewart reviews 'Still' by Alan Buckley (Blue Diode Press, 2025)
The Friday Poem on 5th December 2025
The coherent and cogent use of syllabics in English cannot ignore the natural stresses, the iambs and trochees, the anapests and dactyls – all surging and ebbing within a syllabic framework that offers a quieter music just below those stresses...
thefridaypoem.substack.com/p/matthew-st...
05.12.2025 10:30 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Matthew Stewart reviews 'Still' by Alan Buckley (Blue Diode Press, 2025)
The Friday Poem on 5th December 2025
The coherent and cogent use of syllabics in English cannot ignore the natural stresses, the iambs and trochees, the anapests and dactyls – all surging and ebbing within a syllabic framework that offers a quieter music just below those stresses...
thefridaypoem.substack.com/p/matthew-st...
05.12.2025 10:30 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks, Graeme!
05.12.2025 08:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks, John!
05.12.2025 08:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Can't quite believe The Last Carry has now hit a thousand likes on here, many of them from people beyond the poetry bubble...
27.11.2025 07:14 — 👍 24 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Very true!
04.12.2025 22:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As parents, we're supposed to remember the first time we did stuff with our kids, but the last time is equally as significant, if not more.
This poem is from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...
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04.12.2025 20:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This is a poem of loss, taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023)...
05.02.2025 17:56 — 👍 134 🔁 24 💬 9 📌 5
Certain numbers accompany us through our lives, connected to our memories of people and places, of significant events. What numbers remain with you decades later? And why?
This poem is taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...
11.09.2025 17:40 — 👍 247 🔁 39 💬 19 📌 8
If we don't use our small poetry presses, we'll lose them. This is why I refuse to flinch or shy from asking you to purchase a copy of Whatever You Do, Just Don't, my second full collection.
Here's a sample poem from the book. Just drop me a DM and I'll sort out a signed copy for you...
02.02.2025 12:02 — 👍 114 🔁 21 💬 6 📌 1
YouTube video by Matthew Stewart
The Last Carry, a poem by Matthew Stewart
Here's a video of me reading The Last Carry, now up on my YouTube channel...
youtube.com/shorts/W3oTH...
25.11.2025 10:56 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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04.12.2025 09:16 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
I'm already heading to the post office tomorrow with two copies in my rucksack, both soon to find their readers. Anybody up for making my trip even more worthwhile...?! 😜
02.12.2025 20:40 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Just contacted you via the form on your website. Hope it reaches you...!
02.12.2025 21:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ok, will do. Thanks!
02.12.2025 21:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Anthropology, Timoleon Vieta, Sour Grapes, etc..
Standards have fallen; my value has dropped.
https://danrhodes.co.uk
Black Library Warhammer 40,000 Editorial Lead. poet. views are my own. he/him.
UK author of the Deerleap Hollow Series. Poetry including haiku tanka haibun. Horror movies, nature, books, art, gardening. PhD. ND.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/farahauthor
BFI Southbank: Season curator
'From Censored to Restored' + 'Chasing the Real'
Programme & Research Coordinator + MicroMacro Film. Views my own.
Books and sport and the gym. Colchester United and London Irish. Apparently a Centrist Dad.....
2025 Irish Book Awards Winner for New Irish Writing Best Short Story
2025/26 London Library Emerging Writer
Building a merit-first poetry platform. Weekly comps, fast feedback, real rewards. Launching January. Follow for updates.
Mammal
Biped
Guitarist
Songwriter
New Music Generator Award Nominee 2025, 2024, 2023, 2021
Sometimes write things
https://linktr.ee/matt_guntrip_music
Journalist, Editor, Reviewer, Podcaster - Ex My Weekly - Ex BBC clairegillwrites.com
Author of 'The Attitudes' and 'My Shrink is Pregnant'. Strumming member of Fells and Such.
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social and Deputy Director Professor Paula Reavey, the Centre @stir.ac.uk is a dynamic, collaborative, interdisciplinary research project advancing knowledge in relations between place and memory - placememory.net
30 years a GP, now PhD palaeobiology. Six new dinosaurs for the Isle of Wight. Scientific associate Natural History Museum London. Worried about the destruction of the NHS.
historian of witchcrafts, folklore, France 18-20th c
ass. ed. French History
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
that’s an actual photo of me
Aspiring writer based in UK- check out my website www.kirstynottage.com
Writer, Poet, and Illustrator from Derby, UK. Doodling & Poeting across the globe. Seen a million faces, rocked one or two of ‘em.
Pacific Northwest poet, queer mama, somatic therapist, beekeeper, and lover of wild and tended gardens.
https://anyakirshbaumpoet.com
Poet, attorney, mindfulness teacher, guitarist, collage artist, environmental advocate. Editor, HERE: Poems for the Planet, Copper Canyon Press, 2019. Two poetry collections from Spuyten Duyvil Press. On Insta, Threads, Twitter, Facebook.
backseat poet with a rockstar ego
Photographer, walker and craft beer lover.
