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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟
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𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁: @subruria.com
𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿: @iambapoet.com / @afterpoetry.com
𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿: Hear me read at Last Saturday Poets (Jan 31st 2026)
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Proud of my Herculean efforts to fix/clean/improve @iambapoet.com over the past two weeks. I'd feared the amount that needed doing would take an absolute age. But, by being a little smart about things, I've managed to reduce the site's 'weight' by 100+ pages ... without sacrificing any poet's work!
Not one for regrets (seriously, I don't have a single one – though I am sorry for a great many things), but I do often wish I'd taken ecstasy when the 90s club culture was in full effect. Or, y'know, at any time since, really. Love to know how it is to feel THAT connected to everyone and everything.
December 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Proud of my Herculean efforts to fix/clean/improve @iambapoet.com over the past two weeks. I'd feared the amount that needed doing would take an absolute age. But, by being a little smart about things, I've managed to reduce the site's 'weight' by 100+ pages ... without sacrificing any poet's work!
December 23, 2025 at 7:17 AM
If the 1487 items I've just deleted from its history are anything to go by, my PC's clipboard app is unquestionably my most used. Who knew?
December 23, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I blush as I reskeet this. But I'm also a sucker for anything that flatters my ego, so ...
The level of professionalism @markantonyowen.com brings to @iambapoet.com is SO impressive. Just love his vision & focus b/c these are what make his projects a cut above the rest! Read #Wave24 yourself and see what I mean. #Poetry #StellarEditing
www.iambapoet.com/wave/24
December 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Who's joining me, not-so-mystery guest @victoriaspires.bsky.social, host @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and a ... er ... host of other talented types at tonight's @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social open mic? I'm bringing a Christmas vibe – albeit a typically dark one.

See you there?

bit.ly/BlackBoughPo...
Black Bough Open Mic - 18th December
Join us for our popular open mics where you can road-test your poems. 3 poems each!
bit.ly
December 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
At the risk of patting myself on the back, I do feel poets who appear in online publications should perhaps appreciate journals like @iambapoet.com and @afterpoetry.com a little more than they do. I've maintained both diligently, while other titles have vanished ... taking authors' work with them.
December 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
No secret sauce – just all the right ingredients: talent, talent and more talent.

If you've yet to dip a toe into wave twenty-four of @iambapoet.com – with its special guest poet @johnglenday.bsky.social – make time for it over the festive period. 🎄🎁🦌
Once again @markantonyowen.com produces a stellar collection of #poems by so many talented #poets. I hope someday he reveals the secret sauce of this success. In the meantime, thrilled to be riding #Wave24 #PoetsOfBlueSky #StayCreative bsky.app/profile/iamb...
Winter arrives beneath the cloak of the old blue-faced one. She moves over hills, through woods, in shadow. Tightening the land with frost. Shaping the weather. Come in out of the dark to where poems gather like embers. Listen and drink in the latest wave of @iambapoet.com.
www.iambapoet.com/wave/24
December 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Winter arrives beneath the cloak of the old blue-faced one. She moves over hills, through woods, in shadow. Tightening the land with frost. Shaping the weather. Come in out of the dark to where poems gather like embers. Listen and drink in the latest wave of @iambapoet.com.
www.iambapoet.com/wave/24
poets | wave 24 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard
Read 46 poems from 15 emerging and established poets – and hear their authors read them too. Welcome to wave 23 of iamb.
www.iambapoet.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Reposted by 𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟
Congratulations to Damien B Donnelly, Elizabeth Gibson, Ewan MacKinnon, Gill Macdonald, Holly Bars, John Glenday, Karen Pierce Gonzalez, Katrina Moinet, Laura Warner, Morag Smith, Phoebe Gilmore, Pratibha Castle, Rachel O'Sullivan, Sophia Argyris and Tom Weir.

www.iambapoet.com/wave/24
poets | wave 24 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard
Read 46 poems from 15 emerging and established poets – and hear their authors read them too. Welcome to wave 23 of iamb.
www.iambapoet.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:40 AM
'Another argument for remapping is productivity. Every time you switch between your keyboard and mouse, your brain is context-switching between typing and pointing. That's cognitive overhead you don't need.'

Er, no. That's just bollocks.

makeuseof.com/keyboard-layout-makes-no-sense-fix-it/
Your keyboard layout makes no sense — here’s how to fix it
Your keyboard layout is holding you back.
www.makeuseof.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM