David Atkinson
@davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social
(he/him) Belfast/Coleraine poet. Black Eyed Peace, is available as free eBook from Wordpress, inc. the Pushcart nominated Hunting for the Aurora. MA student at MMU - davidatkinsonpoet.wordpress.com
Thank you for sharing that. Almost as monumental a commitment as the big book itself!
I will have a closer look tomorrow ❤️
I will have a closer look tomorrow ❤️
February 11, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Thank you for sharing that. Almost as monumental a commitment as the big book itself!
I will have a closer look tomorrow ❤️
I will have a closer look tomorrow ❤️
I really did hope someone would find this poem while eating in a restaurant alone
Billy would be pleased too ❤️🙏
Billy would be pleased too ❤️🙏
February 11, 2026 at 8:53 PM
I really did hope someone would find this poem while eating in a restaurant alone
Billy would be pleased too ❤️🙏
Billy would be pleased too ❤️🙏
I have eaten in the Chinese in Portrush where Mahon ate.
Love an out of season holiday town in the rain ❤️
Love an out of season holiday town in the rain ❤️
February 11, 2026 at 8:13 PM
I have eaten in the Chinese in Portrush where Mahon ate.
Love an out of season holiday town in the rain ❤️
Love an out of season holiday town in the rain ❤️
It's is. I would encourage you to read more of Leontia's work ❤️
February 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
It's is. I would encourage you to read more of Leontia's work ❤️
Love Billy. He was reading in Dublin recently. The 6 hour round trip put me off going. Kinda wish I had now
February 11, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Love Billy. He was reading in Dublin recently. The 6 hour round trip put me off going. Kinda wish I had now
I wonder what their stories were?
You know what is just as sad, couples out for dinner who barely speak through the whole meal. See it often
Thankful for a home cooked meal tonight with my wife at our kitchen table ❤️🙏
You know what is just as sad, couples out for dinner who barely speak through the whole meal. See it often
Thankful for a home cooked meal tonight with my wife at our kitchen table ❤️🙏
February 11, 2026 at 6:19 PM
I wonder what their stories were?
You know what is just as sad, couples out for dinner who barely speak through the whole meal. See it often
Thankful for a home cooked meal tonight with my wife at our kitchen table ❤️🙏
You know what is just as sad, couples out for dinner who barely speak through the whole meal. See it often
Thankful for a home cooked meal tonight with my wife at our kitchen table ❤️🙏
Glad to be home after two nights of eating in restaurants alone.
I like how this poem finds meaning in a quiet, ordinary moments.
There is also a paying of attention, a joy in noticing what is often missed when you are not alone
#poetry
#poemoftheday
I like how this poem finds meaning in a quiet, ordinary moments.
There is also a paying of attention, a joy in noticing what is often missed when you are not alone
#poetry
#poemoftheday
February 11, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Glad to be home after two nights of eating in restaurants alone.
I like how this poem finds meaning in a quiet, ordinary moments.
There is also a paying of attention, a joy in noticing what is often missed when you are not alone
#poetry
#poemoftheday
I like how this poem finds meaning in a quiet, ordinary moments.
There is also a paying of attention, a joy in noticing what is often missed when you are not alone
#poetry
#poemoftheday
Spent the best day with
super talented colleagues from various ethnic heritages, helping them achieve their potential despite the daily barriers they face
Here Leontia Flynn remembers a true hero, Frederick Douglass
Proud we have his statue in Belfast
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#blackhistorymonth
super talented colleagues from various ethnic heritages, helping them achieve their potential despite the daily barriers they face
Here Leontia Flynn remembers a true hero, Frederick Douglass
Proud we have his statue in Belfast
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#blackhistorymonth
February 10, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Spent the best day with
super talented colleagues from various ethnic heritages, helping them achieve their potential despite the daily barriers they face
Here Leontia Flynn remembers a true hero, Frederick Douglass
Proud we have his statue in Belfast
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#blackhistorymonth
super talented colleagues from various ethnic heritages, helping them achieve their potential despite the daily barriers they face
Here Leontia Flynn remembers a true hero, Frederick Douglass
Proud we have his statue in Belfast
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#blackhistorymonth
The whole collection is outstanding.
February 10, 2026 at 9:55 AM
The whole collection is outstanding.
Once you see it you can't unsee it 😂
February 9, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Once you see it you can't unsee it 😂
That's a great question ❤️
February 9, 2026 at 10:51 PM
That's a great question ❤️
I find myself nodding in agreement. Not everyone is left standing the war has ended & also the notion that some of those left standing have been irrevocably changed by their experience
But there is hope for a better future and an urgency to fight for what we might never see
#poetry
#poemoftheday
But there is hope for a better future and an urgency to fight for what we might never see
#poetry
#poemoftheday
February 9, 2026 at 10:16 PM
I find myself nodding in agreement. Not everyone is left standing the war has ended & also the notion that some of those left standing have been irrevocably changed by their experience
But there is hope for a better future and an urgency to fight for what we might never see
#poetry
#poemoftheday
But there is hope for a better future and an urgency to fight for what we might never see
#poetry
#poemoftheday
Hadn't seen that at all!
That's great. Thanks for sharing that thought 🙏
That's great. Thanks for sharing that thought 🙏
February 8, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Hadn't seen that at all!
That's great. Thanks for sharing that thought 🙏
That's great. Thanks for sharing that thought 🙏
It's very good. Worth every penny. I think the commentary at the end is very interesting too.
Hope you enjoy it ❤️
Hope you enjoy it ❤️
February 8, 2026 at 6:02 PM
It's very good. Worth every penny. I think the commentary at the end is very interesting too.
Hope you enjoy it ❤️
Hope you enjoy it ❤️
My pleasure. Which book did you buy?
February 8, 2026 at 5:42 PM
My pleasure. Which book did you buy?
From ‘Stations’ a ‘Sliding Doors’ poem
I wonder what would have happened if he hadn’t won the scholarship?
Would all of those poems have been lost? On such small events worlds can shift
The benches on which he sat are now quite empty, circles are broken
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#seamusheaneysunday
I wonder what would have happened if he hadn’t won the scholarship?
Would all of those poems have been lost? On such small events worlds can shift
The benches on which he sat are now quite empty, circles are broken
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#seamusheaneysunday
February 8, 2026 at 8:22 AM
From ‘Stations’ a ‘Sliding Doors’ poem
I wonder what would have happened if he hadn’t won the scholarship?
Would all of those poems have been lost? On such small events worlds can shift
The benches on which he sat are now quite empty, circles are broken
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#seamusheaneysunday
I wonder what would have happened if he hadn’t won the scholarship?
Would all of those poems have been lost? On such small events worlds can shift
The benches on which he sat are now quite empty, circles are broken
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#seamusheaneysunday
Thank you for sharing this too. It's a great collection ❤️
February 7, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Thank you for sharing this too. It's a great collection ❤️
It's great. 💯 recommend
February 7, 2026 at 12:41 PM
It's great. 💯 recommend
It really is. Glad to have brought it back to you ❤️
February 7, 2026 at 10:34 AM
It really is. Glad to have brought it back to you ❤️
This is from Matthew Rice’s collection ‘Plastic’.
A microcosm of working class life set in a single 12 hour factory night shift.
It is an astonishing book, its acute observations are at times stark and bleak, at other surreal, funny and humane
#poetry
#poemoftheday
A microcosm of working class life set in a single 12 hour factory night shift.
It is an astonishing book, its acute observations are at times stark and bleak, at other surreal, funny and humane
#poetry
#poemoftheday
February 7, 2026 at 10:01 AM
This is from Matthew Rice’s collection ‘Plastic’.
A microcosm of working class life set in a single 12 hour factory night shift.
It is an astonishing book, its acute observations are at times stark and bleak, at other surreal, funny and humane
#poetry
#poemoftheday
A microcosm of working class life set in a single 12 hour factory night shift.
It is an astonishing book, its acute observations are at times stark and bleak, at other surreal, funny and humane
#poetry
#poemoftheday
Met a Ugandan man recently living in Belfast and learning Gaeilge
So much good work going on to cherish, share, and promote minority languages ❤️
So much good work going on to cherish, share, and promote minority languages ❤️
February 6, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Met a Ugandan man recently living in Belfast and learning Gaeilge
So much good work going on to cherish, share, and promote minority languages ❤️
So much good work going on to cherish, share, and promote minority languages ❤️
Ada Limón reflects on growing up with divorced parents and reframes the difficulties and challenges with gratitude for a twice lived experience
I think this also speaks of her dual nationality, rather than being one/other/neither, there is something to treasure in being both
#poetry
#poemoftheday
I think this also speaks of her dual nationality, rather than being one/other/neither, there is something to treasure in being both
#poetry
#poemoftheday
February 6, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Ada Limón reflects on growing up with divorced parents and reframes the difficulties and challenges with gratitude for a twice lived experience
I think this also speaks of her dual nationality, rather than being one/other/neither, there is something to treasure in being both
#poetry
#poemoftheday
I think this also speaks of her dual nationality, rather than being one/other/neither, there is something to treasure in being both
#poetry
#poemoftheday
I hear what you say. Perhaps the collection the poem is taken from, A Farewell to English (1975), is the ‘ending’ to the poem?
It was his statement that he was going to no longer write in English but rather write in the language of his people.
Or may he intended it to feel 'unended'?
❤️
It was his statement that he was going to no longer write in English but rather write in the language of his people.
Or may he intended it to feel 'unended'?
❤️
February 5, 2026 at 8:09 PM
I hear what you say. Perhaps the collection the poem is taken from, A Farewell to English (1975), is the ‘ending’ to the poem?
It was his statement that he was going to no longer write in English but rather write in the language of his people.
Or may he intended it to feel 'unended'?
❤️
It was his statement that he was going to no longer write in English but rather write in the language of his people.
Or may he intended it to feel 'unended'?
❤️
The poem stands well on it's own, but I agree the metaphor adds richness.
Glad you liked it ❤️
Glad you liked it ❤️
February 5, 2026 at 7:57 PM
The poem stands well on it's own, but I agree the metaphor adds richness.
Glad you liked it ❤️
Glad you liked it ❤️
Michael Hartnett's Irish woman is a metaphor for Ireland
A political elegy addressing the loss of culture, language & tradition. It isn’t nostalgia, it’s evidence
The line ‘I loved her from the day she died’ pulls you up before he moves into the final 6 perfect images
#poetry
#poemoftheday
A political elegy addressing the loss of culture, language & tradition. It isn’t nostalgia, it’s evidence
The line ‘I loved her from the day she died’ pulls you up before he moves into the final 6 perfect images
#poetry
#poemoftheday
February 5, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Michael Hartnett's Irish woman is a metaphor for Ireland
A political elegy addressing the loss of culture, language & tradition. It isn’t nostalgia, it’s evidence
The line ‘I loved her from the day she died’ pulls you up before he moves into the final 6 perfect images
#poetry
#poemoftheday
A political elegy addressing the loss of culture, language & tradition. It isn’t nostalgia, it’s evidence
The line ‘I loved her from the day she died’ pulls you up before he moves into the final 6 perfect images
#poetry
#poemoftheday