Elizabeth Loudon
@esloudon.bsky.social
Poet, novelist, teacher, charity worker. MA 25 yrs, now back in UK. A STRANGER IN BAGHDAD (AUC) 2024 SIBF award for Best International Fiction. Best New Poets 2025. LL/Bridport. See www.elizabethloudon.com for more.
I’ve spent the afternoon editing a poem about living in a farm town and Midas’s donkey ears (don’t ask) and you’ve just given me the illustration.
November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I’ve spent the afternoon editing a poem about living in a farm town and Midas’s donkey ears (don’t ask) and you’ve just given me the illustration.
And the horror of submitting an abject failure and then revising it enough to lift it above the bottom failure line - two days after the submission window closed....
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 AM
And the horror of submitting an abject failure and then revising it enough to lift it above the bottom failure line - two days after the submission window closed....
A time zone lag plus my weird sleep habits mean I'll never get to submit - you go, Todd!
November 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
A time zone lag plus my weird sleep habits mean I'll never get to submit - you go, Todd!
The halloween kangaroo. Please somebody tell me he was real.
November 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The halloween kangaroo. Please somebody tell me he was real.
Shared on FB and will do here. How appalling. Let's hope Mark's story leads to some kind of change. I'd always assumed you could simply request assistance advance anywhere in the world - I never would have thought even of a letter of proof.
October 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Shared on FB and will do here. How appalling. Let's hope Mark's story leads to some kind of change. I'd always assumed you could simply request assistance advance anywhere in the world - I never would have thought even of a letter of proof.
We did everything you do to leave. I love endings like this - almost monosyllabic, plainsong, bittersweet.
October 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
We did everything you do to leave. I love endings like this - almost monosyllabic, plainsong, bittersweet.
Those were the days. Books had chutzpah.
October 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Those were the days. Books had chutzpah.
This one's so very apt today... (and yet another thank you to @janezwart.bsky.social!)
October 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This one's so very apt today... (and yet another thank you to @janezwart.bsky.social!)
What a run of gorgeous poems recently. This one's surely for all poets who wrestle with privilege and inequities alongside the poetic imperative. Again thank you.
October 22, 2025 at 7:11 AM
What a run of gorgeous poems recently. This one's surely for all poets who wrestle with privilege and inequities alongside the poetic imperative. Again thank you.
Anna! Congratulations, and lucky THEM to have such a creative, dynamic, original, and brilliant writer on their team!
October 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Anna! Congratulations, and lucky THEM to have such a creative, dynamic, original, and brilliant writer on their team!
And you should meet the staff. xxx
October 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
And you should meet the staff. xxx
Ah you're in Texas, let me zoom out. It's in southwest Gloucestershire, about 100 miles west of London, in a beautiful if rainy part of rural England.
October 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Ah you're in Texas, let me zoom out. It's in southwest Gloucestershire, about 100 miles west of London, in a beautiful if rainy part of rural England.
It's in Tetbury, near Westonbirt Arboretum, Stroud, and many other lovely things. It's a jewel of a bookshop, with the most wonderful staff.
October 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
It's in Tetbury, near Westonbirt Arboretum, Stroud, and many other lovely things. It's a jewel of a bookshop, with the most wonderful staff.
It is. It even carries MY book!
October 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
It is. It even carries MY book!
This looks mightily like my own local independent bookshop @ylbooks.bsky.social which is of course the very best bookshop on the planet bar none. But maybe it's a twin?
October 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This looks mightily like my own local independent bookshop @ylbooks.bsky.social which is of course the very best bookshop on the planet bar none. But maybe it's a twin?
This has to be the first poem I've ever read about buttons. Another ravelling/unravelling marvel, Jane!
October 20, 2025 at 6:41 AM
This has to be the first poem I've ever read about buttons. Another ravelling/unravelling marvel, Jane!
I loved this. And isn't @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social wonderful?
October 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I loved this. And isn't @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social wonderful?
Dangling modifiers bother me.
October 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Dangling modifiers bother me.