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Poet. Mum. Teacher. Will definitely share too many photos from my walks with the dogs. Free substack @caitlinkendall83 Nothing is Yours - Written Off Publishing
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Evenings in the garden ☺️🌸🌱

A silly found poem for Star Wars day ⚡ #StarWarsDay #MayThe4th

On #StarWarsDay announcing this Friday’s #PoemsAbout theme is #Stardust Ash, cosmos, glamour, ghosts. 📅 Share your piece Friday for feedback from @alanparry83.bsky.social. 🖼 Use alt-text if posting images. #TakeRisks #LeaveScars #EndOnAnImage

Another glorious day of writing life yesterday - Poetry workshops exploring unusual imagery and gifts at Washington Academy and then Hexham Book Festival with @robinince.bsky.social which was both entertaining and important 😃

🎉 YOU DID IT! 🎉 Thanks to your support, we raised £X for the poetry award! This is just the beginning—stay tuned for what’s next! 🖤 Poetry thrives because of you. We're much closer now than we were at the beginning of April! You can still donate! ko-fi.com/brokenspin...

We had the most fabulous weather here in Glastonbury to celebrate Beltane. Blessings from the heart of Avalon. Part 1 as more photos to follow. #glastonbury #glastonburytor #Beltane #MayDay

Beltane 💚🌱🔥✨🌷

What a gorgeous evening at the inaugural Hexham Book Festival Fringe yesterday - what a joy to be a guest reader for headliner @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social The atmosphere was divine thanks to @sarahdavywrites.bsky.social and all at the festival and The Garden Cafe 💚💙🩷

Gorgeous morning of poetry at Excelsior Academy helping out with @newwritingnorth.bsky.social programme of creative facilitation with Jo and Jasmine

Poets! Is your weekend empty of the traditional poetic pursuits? Out of absinthe? Lost the keys to your garret? Down to your last stale bread crust? Worry not. Help is at hand. The Ironbridge Festival poetry competition is open for entries. 1st prize? £300. pandemonialists.co.uk/ironbridge-p... 😊

Join me at @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social for a workshop that celebrates the beauty of restraint. Learn to craft concise, powerful poems with precise details and effectively use white space. May 27, 7pm online. Read more and book www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...

Couldn't resist this Friday's #PoemsAbout #WolvesAtTheDoor prompt from @brokenspinearts.bsky.social @alanparry83.bsky.social Content Warning for mentions of SA

7k followers?! Wow! So pleased to see this platform grow, we're almost at our old Twitter level and love the engagement on here x

We are nearly there! Please give whatever you can to help us bring poetry to uk state school libraries. #fundraiser

"46% of UK adults say they struggle to focus on reading due to distractions around them – a figure that rises to over half of those surveyed aged from 16 to 44" Anyone know if figures are available for readers in Ireland?

A sonnet for #ShakespearesBirthday and #StGeorgesDay substack.com/@caitlinkend... #sonnet

#LouiseGlück

Louise Gluck 💙

This week’s #PoemsAbout theme is #WolvesAtTheDoor! 🐺🚪 🖋 Write your poem. 📅 Share it Friday for feedback from @alanparry83.bsky.social. Let’s create poetry that #TakesRisks and #LeavesScars! #Authentic #EndOnAnImage #LightAndDark

It's here! My essay that I worked very hard on about how Tolkien constructed his fictional histories to comment on real world nationalist mythmaking. It's free! It costs $0 to read! And I think it's very good.

#NaPoWriMo #April19

Pretty sickened by UK's Supreme Court 🤮 So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇

Lovely surprise today: the article I co-authored with Dr Andoni Cossio on JRR #Tolkien’s 1953 visit to Glasgow to deliver the W.P. Ker lecture on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight has been shortlisted for the @tolkiensociety.org Best Article 2025 Award! 1/5

The full story of #PoemsAbout is now live. If you didn’t know where it came from, how it works, or why it’s become the backbone of what we do — now you do. A prompt, a platform, a movement. Read it. Join us. Show up weekly. This is how you get seen. @alanparry83.bsky.social shorturl.at/EURix

Full moon journalling 🌕

Spring sunshine 🌷

@brokenspinearts.bsky.social #PoemsAbout #Saltwater

@joclement.co.uk 💙

Lovely springtime deer encounter 💚💚

I've been enjoying @marjorielotfi.bsky.social 30/30 workshops.I can't join live so I usually watch them late at night and it's been wonderful - meeting poems I don't know (and some I do), being read to, and then just writing. It's not too late to join! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/marjories-...

for this week's @newyorker.com magazine issue, I wrote a Profile of Bluesky, the site we are on right now! It's the deepest look yet at how Bluesky started as a Twitter side project and how CEO Jay Graber went from welding Bitcoin rigs to running a social network www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Hello! Here is our Blue sky account for Yaffle and Yaffle's Nest

A reading and writing kinda morning 💙 #DonnaAshworth #NaPoWriMo