Alison Lock
@alil.bsky.social
North Wales. Dysgu Cymraeg. Author of 8 books, and pamphlets. Writer of short stories, poetry, non-fiction. Latest book - Thrift (2024) Palewell Press. Poetry/music/art collaborations. Qigong. BBC Radio 3, Between the Ears: Lure
If you're in London on Thursday, 20th March, come and join me at the ETNA Centre. I'll be reading from 'Thrift' and more. There's an open mic too! #poetrycommunity
March 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
If you're in London on Thursday, 20th March, come and join me at the ETNA Centre. I'll be reading from 'Thrift' and more. There's an open mic too! #poetrycommunity
'no drum beating – just sheer poignancy – showing rather than telling.'
From @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
From @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
I'm delighted my collection, 'Thrift', Palewell Press, is Poetry Book of the Month at Black Bough Poetry.
'It is this sense of freedom that we experience on Alison Lock's experiential poems which take us not only out of (...)
oppression but outside the self.' Diolch!
'It is this sense of freedom that we experience on Alison Lock's experiential poems which take us not only out of (...)
oppression but outside the self.' Diolch!
Our Feb/ March book of the month 🥁
❄️ 🌼 🦢
Alison Lock’s ‘Thrift’ with Palewell Press
‘Thoughtful, sensitive, understated’ 🖊️
Review by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
👇 👇 👇 @alisonlock25.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/book-reviews...
❄️ 🌼 🦢
Alison Lock’s ‘Thrift’ with Palewell Press
‘Thoughtful, sensitive, understated’ 🖊️
Review by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
👇 👇 👇 @alisonlock25.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/book-reviews...
March 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
'no drum beating – just sheer poignancy – showing rather than telling.'
From @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
From @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
I'm delighted my collection, 'Thrift', Palewell Press, is Poetry Book of the Month at Black Bough Poetry.
'It is this sense of freedom that we experience on Alison Lock's experiential poems which take us not only out of (...)
oppression but outside the self.' Diolch!
'It is this sense of freedom that we experience on Alison Lock's experiential poems which take us not only out of (...)
oppression but outside the self.' Diolch!
Our Feb/ March book of the month 🥁
❄️ 🌼 🦢
Alison Lock’s ‘Thrift’ with Palewell Press
‘Thoughtful, sensitive, understated’ 🖊️
Review by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
👇 👇 👇 @alisonlock25.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/book-reviews...
❄️ 🌼 🦢
Alison Lock’s ‘Thrift’ with Palewell Press
‘Thoughtful, sensitive, understated’ 🖊️
Review by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
👇 👇 👇 @alisonlock25.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/book-reviews...
February 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I'm delighted my collection, 'Thrift', Palewell Press, is Poetry Book of the Month at Black Bough Poetry.
'It is this sense of freedom that we experience on Alison Lock's experiential poems which take us not only out of (...)
oppression but outside the self.' Diolch!
'It is this sense of freedom that we experience on Alison Lock's experiential poems which take us not only out of (...)
oppression but outside the self.' Diolch!
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Sarah L Luginbill, US Fine Art artist working in watercolour, and batik #womensart
January 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Sarah L Luginbill, US Fine Art artist working in watercolour, and batik #womensart
Sometimes I choose a theme for #poetryforwellbeing at Conwy Culture Centre. This time we shared a variety of poems by @sheenaghpugh.bsky.social, Leo Boix, Gillian Clarke, Henry Normal, Mary Robinson, @caldwell10.bsky.social,@glynedwards.bsky.social, Rudyard Kipling, John Masefield, Derek Walcott.
January 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Sometimes I choose a theme for #poetryforwellbeing at Conwy Culture Centre. This time we shared a variety of poems by @sheenaghpugh.bsky.social, Leo Boix, Gillian Clarke, Henry Normal, Mary Robinson, @caldwell10.bsky.social,@glynedwards.bsky.social, Rudyard Kipling, John Masefield, Derek Walcott.
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My camera isn't working properly after I fell over and dropped it in the snow! 🙄 So, here's my recent drawing called 'Eyes on the prize' capturing the moment just before a lovely vixen pounced on her prey! 🧡 Happy new week everyone! 🕊️
#SciArt #NearbyNature2025 #mammals #FoxOfTheDay #wildlife
#SciArt #NearbyNature2025 #mammals #FoxOfTheDay #wildlife
January 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
My camera isn't working properly after I fell over and dropped it in the snow! 🙄 So, here's my recent drawing called 'Eyes on the prize' capturing the moment just before a lovely vixen pounced on her prey! 🧡 Happy new week everyone! 🕊️
#SciArt #NearbyNature2025 #mammals #FoxOfTheDay #wildlife
#SciArt #NearbyNature2025 #mammals #FoxOfTheDay #wildlife
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After living through the Nazi & atomic bomb eras, Finnish author/artist Tove Jansson's writings would often encompass fearful ideas about loss of a familiar world. However she would balance this with characters who encompassed kindness & community, even in the darkest times #WomensArt
January 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
After living through the Nazi & atomic bomb eras, Finnish author/artist Tove Jansson's writings would often encompass fearful ideas about loss of a familiar world. However she would balance this with characters who encompassed kindness & community, even in the darkest times #WomensArt
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Today is Blue Monday (supposedly the saddest day of the year). If you need a little joy in your life, take a look at our beautiful new issue of Dust Poetry Magazine 💙
If you need some joy today 🩵: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
Issue 13: Joy
www.dustpoetry.co.uk
January 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Today is Blue Monday (supposedly the saddest day of the year). If you need a little joy in your life, take a look at our beautiful new issue of Dust Poetry Magazine 💙
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This book got the synapses firing. Find out which poem I liked most in @tazrahman.bsky.social’s collection.
@serenbooks.bsky.social
@serenbooks.bsky.social
We have a new book of the month coming up but check out our last feature, which was on Taz Rahman’s @tazrahman.bsky.social collection ‘East of the Sun, West of the Moon’ @serenbooks.bsky.social
Review by Welsh writer @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/book-reviews...
Review by Welsh writer @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/book-reviews...
January 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This book got the synapses firing. Find out which poem I liked most in @tazrahman.bsky.social’s collection.
@serenbooks.bsky.social
@serenbooks.bsky.social
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Over 160 calls for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, non-fiction, art, photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in January 2025. Best of luck & pls share! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
January 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Over 160 calls for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, non-fiction, art, photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in January 2025. Best of luck & pls share! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
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Hello friends and poets. I’m
Joining Bluesky on a high - with a poem selected by @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social for their Poetry Archive Now! 2024. Congratulations to all the winners and huge thanks to the judges.
Joining Bluesky on a high - with a poem selected by @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social for their Poetry Archive Now! 2024. Congratulations to all the winners and huge thanks to the judges.
We're thrilled to unveil the Winners' Collection for Poetry Archive Now! 2024. Huge congratulations to the winners and a heartfelt thank you to all participants! 🎉 Explore the collection here:
Wordview 2022 Winners' Collection
The Wordview 2022 collection showcases our winning 2022 poets and their work that captures this extraordinary year for future reflection.
buff.ly
December 13, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Hello friends and poets. I’m
Joining Bluesky on a high - with a poem selected by @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social for their Poetry Archive Now! 2024. Congratulations to all the winners and huge thanks to the judges.
Joining Bluesky on a high - with a poem selected by @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social for their Poetry Archive Now! 2024. Congratulations to all the winners and huge thanks to the judges.
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Hello people!
Would you like to know that Atrium will be opening our inbox for a very small submissions window of 10 days from 27th January?
There you go then.
Details of how to send will appear on the site on 28th.
January 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Hello people!
Would you like to know that Atrium will be opening our inbox for a very small submissions window of 10 days from 27th January?
There you go then.
Details of how to send will appear on the site on 28th.
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Please follow the Penrhos campaign 👇 to save a beloved nature reserve. #follow #followFriday #saveourforest #ecocide
January 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Please follow the Penrhos campaign 👇 to save a beloved nature reserve. #follow #followFriday #saveourforest #ecocide
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"To be a witch, then, is to know words," So Mayer
January 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"To be a witch, then, is to know words," So Mayer
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Midwinter is behind us now of course, but I thought I'd share a recent piece by me about ice and salt, the tenacity of rock pipits, and the working class mystic Jacob Boehme... (and thanks to Sustainable Wales for publishing it)
www.sustainablewales.org.uk/a-kenfig-jou...
www.sustainablewales.org.uk/a-kenfig-jou...
MIDWINTER AT SKER — Sustainable Wales
Ice on the rockpools and salt in the hail that lashed across the black shipwrecking hooks of Sker Point. I shrank into my coat, tugged my hood over my eyes and retreated.
www.sustainablewales.org.uk
January 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Midwinter is behind us now of course, but I thought I'd share a recent piece by me about ice and salt, the tenacity of rock pipits, and the working class mystic Jacob Boehme... (and thanks to Sustainable Wales for publishing it)
www.sustainablewales.org.uk/a-kenfig-jou...
www.sustainablewales.org.uk/a-kenfig-jou...
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Perhaps Yona is a penguin pebble.
July 19, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Perhaps Yona is a penguin pebble.
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'The people
triumphed with this flame,
retelling my story
as if I was a cheat'
Prometheus regrets his allyship with humanity.
Unpublished poem. 🔥
triumphed with this flame,
retelling my story
as if I was a cheat'
Prometheus regrets his allyship with humanity.
Unpublished poem. 🔥
January 20, 2025 at 6:06 AM
'The people
triumphed with this flame,
retelling my story
as if I was a cheat'
Prometheus regrets his allyship with humanity.
Unpublished poem. 🔥
triumphed with this flame,
retelling my story
as if I was a cheat'
Prometheus regrets his allyship with humanity.
Unpublished poem. 🔥
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While I am busy putting together another Substack article, I realise I forgot to share a link to the one I wrote a few days ago - this one is a thinkpiece on the idea of Muses.
burnj.substack.com/p/the-univer...
burnj.substack.com/p/the-univer...
The University of the Self #48
The Muses of Yore
burnj.substack.com
January 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
While I am busy putting together another Substack article, I realise I forgot to share a link to the one I wrote a few days ago - this one is a thinkpiece on the idea of Muses.
burnj.substack.com/p/the-univer...
burnj.substack.com/p/the-univer...
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VOIDSPACE 13 🖤 now live. Including Cut It Up! texts from other works, reworked. Several of my works are included
Huge thanks to Katy Joyce Naylor and everyone at @voidspacezine.bsky.social
#literature #immersive #interactive #art #litmag #voidspace #poetry
voidspacezine.com/cut-it-up-sp...
Huge thanks to Katy Joyce Naylor and everyone at @voidspacezine.bsky.social
#literature #immersive #interactive #art #litmag #voidspace #poetry
voidspacezine.com/cut-it-up-sp...
Cut! It! Up! Special
Visit the post for more.
voidspacezine.com
January 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM
VOIDSPACE 13 🖤 now live. Including Cut It Up! texts from other works, reworked. Several of my works are included
Huge thanks to Katy Joyce Naylor and everyone at @voidspacezine.bsky.social
#literature #immersive #interactive #art #litmag #voidspace #poetry
voidspacezine.com/cut-it-up-sp...
Huge thanks to Katy Joyce Naylor and everyone at @voidspacezine.bsky.social
#literature #immersive #interactive #art #litmag #voidspace #poetry
voidspacezine.com/cut-it-up-sp...
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A little bit of news I'd like to share - my new poetry pamphlet, 'How To Shape Our Mouths' will be published by Black Cat Poetry Press in 2026. Black Cat are one of my favourite indie poetry presses, so I'm delighted to be joining their author list! Thanks so much to Satya, Catherine and Ophira 🐈⬛❤️
January 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A little bit of news I'd like to share - my new poetry pamphlet, 'How To Shape Our Mouths' will be published by Black Cat Poetry Press in 2026. Black Cat are one of my favourite indie poetry presses, so I'm delighted to be joining their author list! Thanks so much to Satya, Catherine and Ophira 🐈⬛❤️
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You can get my book of short fiction 'Like Fado and Other Stories' here in the @saltpublishing.com winter sale:
www.saltpublishing.com/collections/...
www.saltpublishing.com/collections/...
Graham Mort
Welcome to Salt, one of the UK’s great independent publishing houses. Since our founding in 1999, we have published some of the world’s foremost writers.
www.saltpublishing.com
January 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
You can get my book of short fiction 'Like Fado and Other Stories' here in the @saltpublishing.com winter sale:
www.saltpublishing.com/collections/...
www.saltpublishing.com/collections/...
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Beautifully produced reading of ‘The Dead’ (broadcast on the Epiphany) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #RadioThreeDrama #radio #JamesJoyce
Drama on 3 - The Dead - BBC Sounds
Epiphanies at a Twelfth Night party in Dublin. By James Joyce. Read by Jonathan Forbes.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Beautifully produced reading of ‘The Dead’ (broadcast on the Epiphany) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #RadioThreeDrama #radio #JamesJoyce
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Copies of DAUGHTER OF THE SUN by Rachel Spence have arrived! 🎉
A retelling of Medea, reimagined not as a murderous witch but a child-free scientist ahead of her time...
You can pre-order here: https://buff.ly/4ii3HNS
A retelling of Medea, reimagined not as a murderous witch but a child-free scientist ahead of her time...
You can pre-order here: https://buff.ly/4ii3HNS
January 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Copies of DAUGHTER OF THE SUN by Rachel Spence have arrived! 🎉
A retelling of Medea, reimagined not as a murderous witch but a child-free scientist ahead of her time...
You can pre-order here: https://buff.ly/4ii3HNS
A retelling of Medea, reimagined not as a murderous witch but a child-free scientist ahead of her time...
You can pre-order here: https://buff.ly/4ii3HNS