Would recommend picking up Necrosmologies while its on sale (or even if it wasn't)...alternate realities, strange creatures and an industrial setting, what more could you want?
We're having a sale at thebraag.co/shop, with up to 50% off a whole BUNCH of our titles, including work by @timothyfox.bsky.social,
@sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social
@sarahkat.bsky.social
Kirsten Luckins, Nina Murray, & Anthony Cartwright ✨
💚 Sale ends February 10th 💚
@sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social
@sarahkat.bsky.social
Kirsten Luckins, Nina Murray, & Anthony Cartwright ✨
💚 Sale ends February 10th 💚
January 22, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Would recommend picking up Necrosmologies while its on sale (or even if it wasn't)...alternate realities, strange creatures and an industrial setting, what more could you want?
I've got a couple of poems in the latest @frazzledlit.bsky.social which is a BUMPER issue...perfect reading for a cosy Sunday morning! www.frazzledlit.com/p/issue-4-ha...
Issue 4 Has Landed!
Welcome to our Spring 2026 issue!
www.frazzledlit.com
January 11, 2026 at 9:57 AM
I've got a couple of poems in the latest @frazzledlit.bsky.social which is a BUMPER issue...perfect reading for a cosy Sunday morning! www.frazzledlit.com/p/issue-4-ha...
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‘Well, here you are again with your plucked lurex tights’
Sally Baker in our Christmas winter anthology.
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Sally Baker in our Christmas winter anthology.
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January 1, 2026 at 9:51 PM
‘Well, here you are again with your plucked lurex tights’
Sally Baker in our Christmas winter anthology.
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
Sally Baker in our Christmas winter anthology.
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
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Front cover of Issue 4 of Frazzled Lit @frazzledlit.bsky.social. We'll be launching the issue in nine days time, on the morning of January 11th, and boy, is it going to be a great issue!
Back cover coming tomorrow!
Back cover coming tomorrow!
January 2, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Front cover of Issue 4 of Frazzled Lit @frazzledlit.bsky.social. We'll be launching the issue in nine days time, on the morning of January 11th, and boy, is it going to be a great issue!
Back cover coming tomorrow!
Back cover coming tomorrow!
A bargain! Absolutely love this book
SPOTLIGHT #poetry book - Belief Systems by Tamar Yoseloff
- finding places of transformation where nature, music and art thrive at the margins.
‘Modern art comes alive in these poems' - Jonathan Jones
Now in our seasonal sale, just £7.99 ninearchespress.com/shop
- finding places of transformation where nature, music and art thrive at the margins.
‘Modern art comes alive in these poems' - Jonathan Jones
Now in our seasonal sale, just £7.99 ninearchespress.com/shop
December 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
A bargain! Absolutely love this book
Visual Studio tends to ask me this right at the time I'm dealing with some weird bug or other. "Now is not the time to be needy VS"
"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried
December 4, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Visual Studio tends to ask me this right at the time I'm dealing with some weird bug or other. "Now is not the time to be needy VS"
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AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re-
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
January 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re-
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
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Today is #FuelPovertyAwarenessDay so why not pick up a copy of the FUEL anthology of prizewinning flash fictions - it's a great read and profits go to four #fuelpoverty charities, including @nea.org.uk. The brand new ebook has 75+12 bonus stories = 87 flash stories! Buy here: www.fuelflash.net
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Today is #FuelPovertyAwarenessDay so why not pick up a copy of the FUEL anthology of prizewinning flash fictions - it's a great read and profits go to four #fuelpoverty charities, including @nea.org.uk. The brand new ebook has 75+12 bonus stories = 87 flash stories! Buy here: www.fuelflash.net
Really interesting stuff: "the architecture of disordered discourse"...
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 20, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Really interesting stuff: "the architecture of disordered discourse"...
Probably maybe my favourite Fall album (today anyway)...certainly the first one I bought. A fine choice to start with.
"It’s not a deliberate thing to be experimental. Sometimes random things work, sometimes they don’t. In my mind Paintwork isn’t any different to any other song I’ve done… that’s just the way I am.”
Many Happy Returns to #TheFall's This Nation's Saving Grace, which turns 40 today!
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Many Happy Returns to #TheFall's This Nation's Saving Grace, which turns 40 today!
buff.ly/TfSV8x2
September 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Probably maybe my favourite Fall album (today anyway)...certainly the first one I bought. A fine choice to start with.
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The Rigg, Bingley, Yorkshire, painting by Jane Fielder. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
September 13, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The Rigg, Bingley, Yorkshire, painting by Jane Fielder. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
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Today’s poem is selected by Chen Chen (@chenchenwrites.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry.
“It will all work out okay” appeared in High Lonesome by Allison Titus, published by Saturnalia Books, 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.
“It will all work out okay” appeared in High Lonesome by Allison Titus, published by Saturnalia Books, 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.
August 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Today’s poem is selected by Chen Chen (@chenchenwrites.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry.
“It will all work out okay” appeared in High Lonesome by Allison Titus, published by Saturnalia Books, 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.
“It will all work out okay” appeared in High Lonesome by Allison Titus, published by Saturnalia Books, 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.
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Castlefield Carnival, Manchester, 1985 (Manchester Libraries).
August 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Castlefield Carnival, Manchester, 1985 (Manchester Libraries).
Been a good two days for post! TBR pile now quite large thanks to @taniahershman.bsky.social @thebraag.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social @jamiewoods77.bsky.social Bring on the rainy weekend
July 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Been a good two days for post! TBR pile now quite large thanks to @taniahershman.bsky.social @thebraag.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social @jamiewoods77.bsky.social Bring on the rainy weekend
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Last few seats in the Zoom room for the launch tomorrow night of my hybrid creative non-fiction book on time: 'It's Time - A Chronomemoir' (@guillemotpress.bsky.social). Come join us, I'd love to have you there! (It's also my birthday 😊) Grab a free ticket here: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...
I’d love you to join me on Zoom next Thurs July 17 to help launch my first hybrid creative non-fiction book - ‘It’s Time: A Chronomemoir’, published by @guillemotpress.bsky.social! Tickets are free: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania.... More about the book here: taniahershman.com/its-time-a-c...
July 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Last few seats in the Zoom room for the launch tomorrow night of my hybrid creative non-fiction book on time: 'It's Time - A Chronomemoir' (@guillemotpress.bsky.social). Come join us, I'd love to have you there! (It's also my birthday 😊) Grab a free ticket here: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...
This dvd is probably the only reason I keep my dvd player
My VHS of this wondrous document died many years ago. Finally, after years of having an eBay search set up for the DVD, I’ve snaffled it. Plus live in Leeds!
July 16, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This dvd is probably the only reason I keep my dvd player
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“They asked me, where did they go? The trees, the salamander, the tropical fish, Edgar, the poppas and mommas, Matthew and Tony?” Fiction by Donald Barthelme, from 1974.
“The School,” by Donald Barthelme
Fiction, from 1974: “They asked me, where did they go? The trees, the salamander, the tropical fish, Edgar, the poppas and mommas, Matthew and Tony?”
www.newyorker.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
“They asked me, where did they go? The trees, the salamander, the tropical fish, Edgar, the poppas and mommas, Matthew and Tony?” Fiction by Donald Barthelme, from 1974.
Despite my general dislike of all things morris I have a total soft spot for the coconutters. The power of childhood nostalgia!
Britannia Coconut Dancers of Bacup, Lancashire, 1968, photo by Tony Ray-Jones.
May 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Despite my general dislike of all things morris I have a total soft spot for the coconutters. The power of childhood nostalgia!
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Friends, a little announcement: we’re now accepting submissions year-round for a new essays feature.
We want this to be a space for new and original thinking about poetry and poetics, but also about how poetry fits in or around our lives.
We can’t wait to hear from you!
We want this to be a space for new and original thinking about poetry and poetics, but also about how poetry fits in or around our lives.
We can’t wait to hear from you!
April 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Friends, a little announcement: we’re now accepting submissions year-round for a new essays feature.
We want this to be a space for new and original thinking about poetry and poetics, but also about how poetry fits in or around our lives.
We can’t wait to hear from you!
We want this to be a space for new and original thinking about poetry and poetics, but also about how poetry fits in or around our lives.
We can’t wait to hear from you!
Pleased that one of my poems has found a home here amongst some great company...
Issue Six of And Other Poems is out now on our website.
Read it here: andotherpoems.com/issue-six/
(Cover photo by kat_katerina on Unsplash)
Read it here: andotherpoems.com/issue-six/
(Cover photo by kat_katerina on Unsplash)
April 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Pleased that one of my poems has found a home here amongst some great company...
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Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
April 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
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Issue Six of And Other Poems, out on Wednesday 16th.
We can't wait for you to read these poems.
We can't wait for you to read these poems.
April 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Issue Six of And Other Poems, out on Wednesday 16th.
We can't wait for you to read these poems.
We can't wait for you to read these poems.
The reasons below are all true...and reading this lovely piece about the similarities of writing and running after my run this morning was my reason for hitting the 'buy' button today. longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2016/05/15/c...
March 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The reasons below are all true...and reading this lovely piece about the similarities of writing and running after my run this morning was my reason for hitting the 'buy' button today. longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2016/05/15/c...