Elizabeth Osmond
@bethosmond.bsky.social
Poet and Neonatologist. Pushcart nominated. Work in the Aftershock Review, IS&T, After…, Atrium, The Alchemy Spoon, Dust poetry, Intima, Black Bough, Artemesia and Hippocrates anthologies.
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I am very excited to share that my first poetry pamphlet is being published in 2026 with @vpresslit.bsky.social
#poemsabout
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#poemsabout
#poetsonbluesky
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I love quiet days of sunshine and bitter cold. I love mince pies and morning mist. I love snow, dark mornings, blackbirds and robins. I love new books and detective programmes. I love dusk in the late afternoon, long evenings. I love January.
Let’s go! Favourite thing of the year- January Writing Hours @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social
January 2, 2026 at 6:11 PM
I love quiet days of sunshine and bitter cold. I love mince pies and morning mist. I love snow, dark mornings, blackbirds and robins. I love new books and detective programmes. I love dusk in the late afternoon, long evenings. I love January.
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This poem is part of a sequence of Mary Shelley widowhood poems that feature in my forthcoming collection, ‘The Way the Water Held Me’, which will be published by @theemmapress.bsky.social in March (link to preorder in my bio).
January 1, 2026 at 6:59 PM
This poem is part of a sequence of Mary Shelley widowhood poems that feature in my forthcoming collection, ‘The Way the Water Held Me’, which will be published by @theemmapress.bsky.social in March (link to preorder in my bio).
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Mary Shelley’s novel ‘Frankenstein’ was published on this day in 1818. Here’s a poem that I had published in Magma last year, in which I imagine Mary Shelley - who was also a young widow - as a companion in my grief.
January 1, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Mary Shelley’s novel ‘Frankenstein’ was published on this day in 1818. Here’s a poem that I had published in Magma last year, in which I imagine Mary Shelley - who was also a young widow - as a companion in my grief.
Let’s go! Favourite thing of the year- January Writing Hours @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social
January 1, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Let’s go! Favourite thing of the year- January Writing Hours @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social
I am very excited to share that my first poetry pamphlet is being published in 2026 with @vpresslit.bsky.social
#poemsabout
#poetsonbluesky
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/our-poets....
#poemsabout
#poetsonbluesky
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/our-poets....
December 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I am very excited to share that my first poetry pamphlet is being published in 2026 with @vpresslit.bsky.social
#poemsabout
#poetsonbluesky
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/our-poets....
#poemsabout
#poetsonbluesky
vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/our-poets....
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Happy to be running another workshop with a Japanese twist for The Poetry Business, on Monday January 5th:
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Buy tickets – Online Workshop: “Akemashite Omedetou! New Year Haiku & more” with Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana – Zoom
Online Workshop: “Akemashite Omedetou! New Year Haiku & more” with Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana – Zoom, Mon 5 Jan 2026 - Akemashite Omedetou!
New Year Haiku & more
This Japan-themed workshop will ge...
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December 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Happy to be running another workshop with a Japanese twist for The Poetry Business, on Monday January 5th:
www.tickettailor.com/events/thepo...
www.tickettailor.com/events/thepo...
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Delighted to be part of this wonderful seasonal feature from @inksweatandtears.co.uk with my poem ‘Evensong’.
Always such a wonderful array of poems over the 12 days.
Always such a wonderful array of poems over the 12 days.
On the Ninth Day of Christmas we bring you @markconnors.bsky.social, @michelleadiaz.bsky.social, and @suefinch.bsky.social.
Read their work here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/on-the-ninth...
#InkSweatAndTears #FeaturedPoem #ChristmasPoem #12DaysOf
Read their work here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/on-the-ninth...
#InkSweatAndTears #FeaturedPoem #ChristmasPoem #12DaysOf
December 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Delighted to be part of this wonderful seasonal feature from @inksweatandtears.co.uk with my poem ‘Evensong’.
Always such a wonderful array of poems over the 12 days.
Always such a wonderful array of poems over the 12 days.
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Melon Moon, a filmpoem by me, published by @inksweatandtears.co.uk on Christmas Day! 🥳
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all the wonderful #poemsabout #promptcombo poetry crowd, what a fab #poetrycommunity you all are! I've been not posting much recently, but getting back on that horse in the NY!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all the wonderful #poemsabout #promptcombo poetry crowd, what a fab #poetrycommunity you all are! I've been not posting much recently, but getting back on that horse in the NY!
Melon Moon
A Filmpoem published by Ink, Sweat & Tears for their '12 Days of Christmas'
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December 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Melon Moon, a filmpoem by me, published by @inksweatandtears.co.uk on Christmas Day! 🥳
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all the wonderful #poemsabout #promptcombo poetry crowd, what a fab #poetrycommunity you all are! I've been not posting much recently, but getting back on that horse in the NY!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all the wonderful #poemsabout #promptcombo poetry crowd, what a fab #poetrycommunity you all are! I've been not posting much recently, but getting back on that horse in the NY!
I have a poem included in this anthology from the fantastic Intima Journal which you can pre order for three days only (until Jan 1st) with a 25% discount with the code PREORDER25 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/where-it-h...
Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of Medicine|Paperback
Candid literary accounts from frontline health care workers shed light on the challenges and triumphs of working in medicine, in this testament to human resilience, ingenuity, and compassion.Health ca...
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December 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I have a poem included in this anthology from the fantastic Intima Journal which you can pre order for three days only (until Jan 1st) with a 25% discount with the code PREORDER25 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/where-it-h...
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So exciting! My winning poem (and a bio and a big picture of my very worried-looking face) is now available. Please give it a read 🥹
www.new2thescene.co.uk/blog/bad-hab...
www.new2thescene.co.uk/blog/bad-hab...
Bad Habits - Poetry Competition winner 2025
Jenni Thorne. New2theScene poetry winner 2025. Poem, winning entry, Bad habits. Read poem for free.
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December 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
So exciting! My winning poem (and a bio and a big picture of my very worried-looking face) is now available. Please give it a read 🥹
www.new2thescene.co.uk/blog/bad-hab...
www.new2thescene.co.uk/blog/bad-hab...
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“Tracing my lips like the brimming rim
of a wine glass learning how to sing.”
Sarah James, from Darling Blue (Indigo Dreams)
IDP: https://indigodreamspublishing.com/sarah-james
Or https://www.sarah-james.co.uk/?page_id=17191
#IndigoPoets
With thanks to Dawn & Ronnie at Indigo Dreams
of a wine glass learning how to sing.”
Sarah James, from Darling Blue (Indigo Dreams)
IDP: https://indigodreamspublishing.com/sarah-james
Or https://www.sarah-james.co.uk/?page_id=17191
#IndigoPoets
With thanks to Dawn & Ronnie at Indigo Dreams
December 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
“Tracing my lips like the brimming rim
of a wine glass learning how to sing.”
Sarah James, from Darling Blue (Indigo Dreams)
IDP: https://indigodreamspublishing.com/sarah-james
Or https://www.sarah-james.co.uk/?page_id=17191
#IndigoPoets
With thanks to Dawn & Ronnie at Indigo Dreams
of a wine glass learning how to sing.”
Sarah James, from Darling Blue (Indigo Dreams)
IDP: https://indigodreamspublishing.com/sarah-james
Or https://www.sarah-james.co.uk/?page_id=17191
#IndigoPoets
With thanks to Dawn & Ronnie at Indigo Dreams
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Merry Christmas to poets and poetry lovers everywhere!
As a seasonal gift to you all, @iambapoet.com has a new, simpler web address:
iamb.uk
It's not yet 'official' across the site – but it works right now.
URLs for individual poets' pages may misbehave for a while till everything settles in. 😉🎄
As a seasonal gift to you all, @iambapoet.com has a new, simpler web address:
iamb.uk
It's not yet 'official' across the site – but it works right now.
URLs for individual poets' pages may misbehave for a while till everything settles in. 😉🎄
December 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Merry Christmas to poets and poetry lovers everywhere!
As a seasonal gift to you all, @iambapoet.com has a new, simpler web address:
iamb.uk
It's not yet 'official' across the site – but it works right now.
URLs for individual poets' pages may misbehave for a while till everything settles in. 😉🎄
As a seasonal gift to you all, @iambapoet.com has a new, simpler web address:
iamb.uk
It's not yet 'official' across the site – but it works right now.
URLs for individual poets' pages may misbehave for a while till everything settles in. 😉🎄
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Merry Christmas Everyone! So excited to have my first ever solo Filmpoem published by @inksweatandtears.co.uk today for their 12 Days of Christmas
#poetrycommunity #filmpoem it’s been such a brilliant year publishing under my real name, exploring new creative paths & relationships! Hap🎉🍈 🌒🐸🙏
#poetrycommunity #filmpoem it’s been such a brilliant year publishing under my real name, exploring new creative paths & relationships! Hap🎉🍈 🌒🐸🙏
Eleanor Holmes' 'Melon Moon' is a surreal collage which evokes the magic of storytelling shared between a mother and her child.
@eleanorholmes.bsky.social
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/eleanor-holme
#12DaysOf #FilmPoem #ChristmasPoem
@eleanorholmes.bsky.social
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/eleanor-holme
#12DaysOf #FilmPoem #ChristmasPoem
December 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Merry Christmas Everyone! So excited to have my first ever solo Filmpoem published by @inksweatandtears.co.uk today for their 12 Days of Christmas
#poetrycommunity #filmpoem it’s been such a brilliant year publishing under my real name, exploring new creative paths & relationships! Hap🎉🍈 🌒🐸🙏
#poetrycommunity #filmpoem it’s been such a brilliant year publishing under my real name, exploring new creative paths & relationships! Hap🎉🍈 🌒🐸🙏
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Eleanor Holmes' 'Melon Moon' is a surreal collage which evokes the magic of storytelling shared between a mother and her child.
@eleanorholmes.bsky.social
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/eleanor-holme
#12DaysOf #FilmPoem #ChristmasPoem
@eleanorholmes.bsky.social
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/eleanor-holme
#12DaysOf #FilmPoem #ChristmasPoem
December 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Eleanor Holmes' 'Melon Moon' is a surreal collage which evokes the magic of storytelling shared between a mother and her child.
@eleanorholmes.bsky.social
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/eleanor-holme
#12DaysOf #FilmPoem #ChristmasPoem
@eleanorholmes.bsky.social
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/eleanor-holme
#12DaysOf #FilmPoem #ChristmasPoem
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Sarah Raybould's 'When it used to snow wild and bottomless' – a collage of word & image evoking the childhood nostalgia of warming up from the biting December cold @sarahraybould.bsky.social
Watch it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/sarah-raybou...
#FilmPoem #InkSweatAndTears #ChristmasPoems #12DaysOf
Watch it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/sarah-raybou...
#FilmPoem #InkSweatAndTears #ChristmasPoems #12DaysOf
December 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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A #LifttotheSky and festive greetings to all my friends in tha amazingly brilliant and supportive #poetrycommunity #BlueSkypoets #PoetsSupportPoets who come together in #PoemsAbout #promptscombo. Have a fine time and may ‘26 be kind to us all
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December 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
A #LifttotheSky and festive greetings to all my friends in tha amazingly brilliant and supportive #poetrycommunity #BlueSkypoets #PoetsSupportPoets who come together in #PoemsAbout #promptscombo. Have a fine time and may ‘26 be kind to us all
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@alanparrywriter.co.uk
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I’m so grateful to the wonderful Liz Berry for this endorsement of my forthcoming poetry collection, ‘The Way the Water Held Me’ (available to pre-order now using the link below 👇)
"A beautiful, heartbreaking book that charts deepest grief and deepest love. Catherine Redford is a luminous writer and her poems will touch your heart." ~ Liz Berry
We are so pleased to have received such stunning praise for THE WAY THE WATER HELD ME!!
Pre-order here: buff.ly/QdrHsEX
We are so pleased to have received such stunning praise for THE WAY THE WATER HELD ME!!
Pre-order here: buff.ly/QdrHsEX
December 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I’m so grateful to the wonderful Liz Berry for this endorsement of my forthcoming poetry collection, ‘The Way the Water Held Me’ (available to pre-order now using the link below 👇)
This is absolutely gorgeous! 🎄 ❄️ 🥰
Really excited to be able to share my film poem published today by ink sweat and tears for the first day of their 12 days of Christmas project #inksweatandtears #poetry #winter
inksweatandtears.co.uk/sarah-raybou...
inksweatandtears.co.uk/sarah-raybou...
December 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This is absolutely gorgeous! 🎄 ❄️ 🥰
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Artwork and winter landscape poem written for #toptweettuesday this week #poetry #winterpoetry #illustration
December 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Artwork and winter landscape poem written for #toptweettuesday this week #poetry #winterpoetry #illustration
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Final #ekphrastic poem of 2025, and a second consecutive outing for poetry inspired by the work of Frank Auerbach.
'For two years he has worked her
rich in black and white,
scraped her back to canvas,
ghost and bone.'
afterpoetry.com/poem/dec-20...
'For two years he has worked her
rich in black and white,
scraped her back to canvas,
ghost and bone.'
afterpoetry.com/poem/dec-20...
December 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Final #ekphrastic poem of 2025, and a second consecutive outing for poetry inspired by the work of Frank Auerbach.
'For two years he has worked her
rich in black and white,
scraped her back to canvas,
ghost and bone.'
afterpoetry.com/poem/dec-20...
'For two years he has worked her
rich in black and white,
scraped her back to canvas,
ghost and bone.'
afterpoetry.com/poem/dec-20...
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So thrilled to be sharing a third piece in this month’s Book Bag: Poetic Voices feature from @sophiedumont.bsky.social exquisite debut collection Sculling
instinct of a glass eel is one of my favourites in the book
Link 🔗 shorturl.at/zHPMn
📸credit Jae Frederick
#bookSky
instinct of a glass eel is one of my favourites in the book
Link 🔗 shorturl.at/zHPMn
📸credit Jae Frederick
#bookSky
December 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
So thrilled to be sharing a third piece in this month’s Book Bag: Poetic Voices feature from @sophiedumont.bsky.social exquisite debut collection Sculling
instinct of a glass eel is one of my favourites in the book
Link 🔗 shorturl.at/zHPMn
📸credit Jae Frederick
#bookSky
instinct of a glass eel is one of my favourites in the book
Link 🔗 shorturl.at/zHPMn
📸credit Jae Frederick
#bookSky
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#PoetryCommunity I’m thinking that my next collection/chapbook might have to be self-published. What do people think?
December 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
#PoetryCommunity I’m thinking that my next collection/chapbook might have to be self-published. What do people think?
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Second read of the latest @poetrywales.bsky.social and this poem is superb. Hats off to @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social for a piece of cleverly-staged theatrical brilliance
December 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Second read of the latest @poetrywales.bsky.social and this poem is superb. Hats off to @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social for a piece of cleverly-staged theatrical brilliance