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Alex Scarborough
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I nerd out on words (by night) and data (by day) 🤓
UK-based poet and advocate of the absurd.
First pamphlet is in the works 📓
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Alex Scarborough @ascarborough.bsky.social · 1d
Thrilled to be published on @inksweatandtears.co.uk this week - one of my favourite poetry magazines.

Please do give my new poem ‘Hiking’ a read.
inksweatandtears.co.uk Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 1d
Alex Scarborough's 'Hiking' considers alternative ways of mapping space, time and our relationships to others. @ascarborough.bsky.social

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/alex-scarbor...

#FeaturedPoem #InkSweatAndTears #NaturePoetry
Photograph of a forested mountain ridge with a monarch butterfly in the foreground. Text overlayed on photo reads: I want to ask in the ridges in your face would soften. Top left text reads: Hiking. Bottom right text reads: Alex Scarborough ©
ascarborough.bsky.social
Thrilled to be published on @inksweatandtears.co.uk this week - one of my favourite poetry magazines.

Please do give my new poem ‘Hiking’ a read.
inksweatandtears.co.uk Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 1d
Alex Scarborough's 'Hiking' considers alternative ways of mapping space, time and our relationships to others. @ascarborough.bsky.social

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/alex-scarbor...

#FeaturedPoem #InkSweatAndTears #NaturePoetry
Photograph of a forested mountain ridge with a monarch butterfly in the foreground. Text overlayed on photo reads: I want to ask in the ridges in your face would soften. Top left text reads: Hiking. Bottom right text reads: Alex Scarborough ©
January 13, 2026 at 9:57 PM
ascarborough.bsky.social
In the U.K. it’s normally weather for ducks. But this morning, it’s weather for MF polar bears. Wearing ushankas. 🐻‍❄️
A very cold landscape outside of my window. Frost sweeps the ground and all cars are frozen, unmoved. There’s a house with all the curtains closed. And I don’t blame them. Dean it’s cold.
January 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
ascarborough.bsky.social
Genuine question for the #poetrycommunity…

Why did you join Threads? And what sort of stuff do you like seeing on here?

#poetry #writers #writingcommunity
January 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
ascarborough.bsky.social
Quotes by My Wife (the real #poet in our relationship): Number 1

Whilst giving her a shoulder rub as she works:

💬 “Oooo it feels like a belly scratch to my soul. I love it”.
January 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
ascarborough.bsky.social
Excited to start a new weekly series of posts featuring great #writing spots I’ve visited. Keen to scout out some amazing ones this year ✍️

I’ll start with the OG spot: My home office 😃

#poetrycommunity - tell me any more amazing places I should visit for a day of scribbling 👇
A side view of an office on a sunny January day. The light shines through bifold shutters onto an old wooden desk, which has an open MacBook screen and a cricket ball on top of it. Some poetry books are behind the laptop, including books by Brian Patten and James Fenton. There is also a cosy cosy blue chair to the right, awaiting to be sat in by a handsome British writer.
January 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Reposted by Alex Scarborough
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Melville: here’s a whole chapter on why pictures of whales are wrong and bad

Any sane person: ok can you give us a good picture of one at least

Melville: absolutely not. go whaling.
January 2, 2025 at 2:58 AM
ascarborough.bsky.social
Happy New Year 🥳

A little #haiku to kick off 2025…

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬

I don’t want to make
resolutions. They call it
Auld Lang Sy-ety.

#poetry #poem
January 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
ascarborough.bsky.social
Pray for the person who had this bad a start to their Boxing Day hike 😬 🙏
The muddiest trainer the world has ever seen abandoned on a very wet bench. In the background is a large muddy puddle. The mud in the puddle and on the abandoned are the same dark yellow colour.
December 26, 2024 at 4:26 PM
ascarborough.bsky.social
Okay BlueSky. Hit me up with your best Christmas #haiku.
I’ll go first…

𝐀 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐇𝐚𝐢𝐤𝐮 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐖𝐢𝐟𝐞

The only present
I could ask for this Christmas
is you. In stockings.

#Christmas #Poetry
December 24, 2024 at 2:31 PM
ascarborough.bsky.social
Heavy snow. Cosy pubs. Cute little Doggos. What’s not to live about the Yorkshire Dales?
A snowy landscape in Yorkshire against grey and snowy skies. Me in an old pub sneakily taking a photo of a sweet small dog, looking happily at the camera. Think it wanted the attention really.
November 25, 2024 at 11:50 AM
ascarborough.bsky.social
BREAKING NEWS: New Zealand is in talks for the return of the king…😳
A close up shot of Sauron from Lord of the Rings. Scary looking dude.
December 31, 2023 at 5:21 PM
ascarborough.bsky.social
Going over my favourite #poetry books for 2023. British poetry is thriving and I’m all here for it 🙌

#poetrynetwork - do you have any recommendations for my 2024 reading list?

#poetrycommunity #writerscommunity
Selection of books including: Peach Pig by Cecilia Knapp, Shine Darling by Ella Frears, Selected Poems by Paul Farley, The Forward Book of Poetry 2023, Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan, The English Summer by Holly Hopkins, Slide by Mark Pajak, Indiom by Daljit Nagra and Yellow Tulips by James Fenton
December 31, 2023 at 3:53 PM
ascarborough.bsky.social
#Poetry and #writing squad - I’ve got a fever.

And the only prescription…is finding more amazing poets, writers, literary magazines etc to follow on BlueSky.

Do you have any recommendations?

Even if you want to shamelessly plug yourself - I’m all ears.
Christopher Walken (playing The Bruce Dickinson) in black leather jacket, black t shirt and sunglasses about to ask for more cowbell. From Saturday Night Live, aired on 8 April 2000.
December 19, 2023 at 10:50 PM
ascarborough.bsky.social
Well, it's about time I shared an early poem of mine.
Heads up. It's a bit emo.
#poetry
No more - a poem by Alex Scarborough no more fish and chip Fridays no more Sundays in bed no more slap-happy Saturdays leaving us sore in the head we used to be drunk on love soused on each other’s allure but the haze that used to blind us blinkers our vision no more whatever happened to adventures we used to embark on at the quays? & how are we too old for artless food fights by the tills at Sainsbury's? I miss our salsas in the kitchen & the lamplight serenades we used to jump on trains to nowhere & take sick-note holidays but now the glee of feeling fancy-free no longer swells our cores & so this Catherine wheel of highs will spit out sparks no more There is an image next to the poem of a man in camo trousers, black hi-top trainers and a black jumper holding a big old vodka bottle. He is also wearing a fluffy panda head, masking his whole face. He is probably trashed.
December 19, 2023 at 6:58 PM
ascarborough.bsky.social
So…todays been a productive #poetry writing day 😬
A computer screen with Microsoft word open. The document is blank. With no poems on. Nightmare.
December 16, 2023 at 4:27 PM
ascarborough.bsky.social
It pains me how true this is.
jackgroundhog.bsky.social Jack Groundhog 📸📝 @jackgroundhog.bsky.social · Dec 16
Unfortunately given my experiences with my family and literature, the best way to interest them in a book of poetry is to cover it in a sticky BBQ sauce and place it in a toasted bun.

Yes, they’d like fries with that
December 16, 2023 at 10:38 AM
ascarborough.bsky.social
#Poetry Squad. I'm looking for poetry books to get my family for Christmas. But they all don't really read poetry...

So, any books that will make them realise poetry is awesome sauce.

Any recommendations? Please and thank you in advance.
December 15, 2023 at 8:11 PM
ascarborough.bsky.social
Me looking for other poets and wordsmiths on Bluesky.

Would love to meet some keen #poetry beans and scribblers on here. If you're out there, let's follow each other.
A senior woman wearing a light blue jumper and glasses looked fantastically bemused at a computer screen. I think she has just found something raunchy.
December 15, 2023 at 5:59 PM