Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North

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We’re not pretending this prize is important.
We’re saying it’s honest.
It rewards favourites, pays poets, and exists because you helped make it.
#TheBrokenSpineAward #ByPoetsForPoets #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky

Congratulations Helen! 🎉 this looks like a FAB PUBLICATION… will be checking it out xxx

Absolutely thrilled that my poem ‘Heavenly Bodies’ has been published in Issue 1 of @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social, 2026, alongside a host of wonderful #poetry.

Look out, too, for the #audio version! 🎧

#litmag #publication #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #skypoets #poetsofbluesky

Thank you John! 🙏 Fab to read your work in here too! 🙌 🙌. What’s a bumper issue of poetry, prose and amazing interviews and so much more in ❤️@madridlitmag.bsky.social

Issue 7 is out on Friday “You are what you love, not what loves you,” writes Michel Faber in his 2002 novel The Crimson Petal and the White and that could also be a description of Issue 7 of The Madrid Review, published this ...

Issue 7 of The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social - I am thrilled to bits that my poem 'The arrivants' is included amidst such wonderful company, including @eleanorholmes.bsky.social, to name but one! themadridreview.com/f/issue-7-is...

Black-and-white graphic of a vintage typewriter seen from above. Torn paper strips sit in the typewriter reading “£1200 RAISED” and “WIN CASH” in bold lettering. Below, the hashtags “#TheBrokenSpineAward” and “#ByPoetsForPoets” are printed. The overall style is gritty, high-contrast, and zine-like.

This prize won’t change your life.
Neither do most prizes.
It rewards one editor’s favourite poems and pays them.
You helped build it with us. That’s what matters.
#TheBrokenSpineAward #ByPoetsForPoets #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky

Call for Submissions: Poetry With Spit, Spine, and Something to Say - The Broken Spine Submissions Open Throughout February 2026 | Publication Later That Year

A5 page. 2 poems. 10pt Times New Roman.
That’s the formality.
Everything else? Break it.
Rip up the rulebook. Burn the workshop.
Write it like it matters.
#PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #PoetsOfBluesky #WednesdayWIPs #Poetry #SubmissionWindow

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This week: #Mouths.

Hunger.
Confession.
The place where wanting first shows itself.

Write the almost-touch.
The thing said too close.
The heat before contact.

New theme opens Friday.
Don’t post early.
Use Alt Text.
Tag #PoemsAbout to be found.

For today’s #LiftToTheSky shout out to the supportive #poetry peeps here, too many to name @alanparrywriter.co.uk @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @hool415.bsky.social @rotherwrites.bsky.social @missyerem.bsky.social @merrildsmith.bsky.social @markantonyowen.com Check them out

The effervescent @hool415.bsky.social is this week's #PromptCombo host, with the theme #Tracks. Plenty of scope for something interesting. Share your poems before 4pm Friday ☺️

To the #poetrycommunity Everyone must follow Paul Short @paulwritespoems.bsky.social Not only do his poems contain some of the most intricate & uncompromising poetic language on here. He’s also a tireless advocate for the importance of poetry & promoter of other poets. Paul deserves a #lifttothesky

Call for Submissions: Poetry That Remembers, Mourns, and Refuses to Let Go - The Broken Spine Submissions Open Throughout January 2026 | Publication Later That Year

We’re close to closing the window.

If you’ve read the call more than once, that’s your answer.

#PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry

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Last week bent time.
This week: #FalseCrowns — borrowed authority, inherited power, praise that doesn’t fit.
Who crowned you?
Who benefits from you believing it?

New theme opens Friday.
Don’t post early.
Use Alt Text.
Tag #PoemsAbout to be found.

A second starter pack of #Novelists on Bluesky. Please follow them and repost the pack #writingcommunity #booksky

A starter pack of people and poets associated with #prompts Please follow them and repost the pack #promptcombo #vss365 #poemsabout #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky

As a New Year lift for people who have been kind to me on here, a thread featuring all my starter packs. First up, a starter pack of Writers Looking for an Agent. Please follow the writers here and repost the pack #booksky #writingcommunity

Tongues tip-to-tip, our animal bodies carry what we share electricity of being alive, being together before we pulled the plugs. Drifting apart, we became the other static heart prongs in search of common grounding. Teeth bared, we stripped our own wires- exploding, sparks everywhere burnt us out. Seeking shelter from the fallout, we find familiar faces lips pressed one to another recharge the voltage of desire. Longing amps up. Wanting, wanting wanting to be whole again, our prayers must now travel like lightning between us. Karen Pierce Gonzalez

What causes and cures #static? @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #PoemsAbout #Poetry #PoetsSupportPoets #PoetsOfBlueSky

Static Skin in the game, soup in the pot, sizzle in the skillet. Who’s a chicken now? Leave the feathers out of it, a stick-to-your ribs libation, Wassail! me hearties! Oh pirates of poesy, this is my brain, can you hear it crackle? She cackles the way plastic cracks before the emergence.

#PoemsAbout #static @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Static

Vignettes From The Nineties 1. A television drones with venomous spitzing silver-cackle, as the aerial abseils from the chimney. 2. The council usurps from homes plants families into caravans tightly packed as if they were tinned meat. 6 weeks rolls into 18 months novelty into claustrophobia. 3. I am still. Breath hidden, like body in a bleach-choked sarcophagus. I can’t take torment today, my ocean eyes are droughting to grey. 4. Hair dances to electric pulse as jumpers lazily land on the floor. We stare at each other like strangers physics shifts to chemistry shifts to biology.

Hello all poemsabout poets, HNY.

For #PoemsAbout #Static here’s a very quick piece - Vignettes From the Nineties.

Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt.

Coming up this Friday! Don't miss this gorgeous feast of talent & creativity. Free tickets via Eventbrite: oncemorewithfeeling.eventbrite.co.uk

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Sharing this little-read (by me) poem from my @salopress.bsky.social pamphlet Soi-même, in honour of last night's #SuperWolfMoon.

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Out now! It's Time, a chronomemoir by @taniahershman.bsky.social is a beautiful book blending memoir, play and poetry, with this glorious cover by CF Sherratt and it's released today. Come and take a look on our website for more information and a few sample pages: www.guillemotpress.co.uk/nonfiction

#poetry friends - I'm looking for recommendations for some handsome and recent pamphlet publications. Particularly anything handmade, beautiful, minimalist, letterpress etc #PromptCombo #PoemsAbout

New notebook!

Let’s go! Favourite thing of the year- January Writing Hours @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social

When there are no #poemsabout or #promptcombo prompts and you need to fill the void...
Wishing everyone a poetic year.

Call for Submissions: Poetry That Remembers, Mourns, and Refuses to Let Go - The Broken Spine Submissions Open Throughout January 2026 | Publication Later That Year

Submissions are open.

Poetry that remembers.
That mourns.
That refuses to let go.

Read the call carefully. Take your time. Send the work that needs to exist.

#PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry

I Hate The Sound by Debra J. Nordyke Harsh, high-piercing cry of the Black Crow. Crow stares, eyes never blink. Peck…peck breaks apart weakened skin. Don’t wear that hat. [...]

Peck...peck... Heart wrenching new poetry I Hate The Sound by Debra J. Nordyke @dnwritespoetry.bsky.social now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/i-hate-...

Wooo hoooo 🎉🎉🎉 this is such super exciting news and I can’t wait to see your fabulous MS published with @vpresslit.bsky.social