Well, this is starting to get interesting... 📚😍

Picked up my comp. copy of the Aesthetica Anthology 2026 with my #shortlisted poem 'The Almazara' yesterday at the post office!

Huge thanks to:

@aestheticamagazine.com.web.brid.gy @poetrywales.bsky.social
@zoebrigley.bsky.social
Taylor Edmonds

Thank you so much @leiabutler.bsky.social for your appreciation of 'Let Go' among so many brilliant pieces, and for giving it a place in @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social again – it feels like home

Delighted to see 'The Almazara' on p. 44 of the Aesthetica Anthology 2026, in such company. Congrats to the winners, Christina & Cait (I know the feeling 😉) & renewed thanks to @zoebrigley.bsky.social for first giving my poem a home in @poetrywales.bsky.social

aestheticamagazine.com/creative-wri...

So grateful to The Shanghai Literary Review for publishing these pieces – and for this insightful description of the work. It means so much when editors connect with the heart of what you're trying to express. 🖤 Thank you for the care you bring to poetry. ✨
www.shanghailiterary.com/tslr-online-...

Our Submittable for 103 is now open, please send us your best, max 6 in one submission. Please also have a look at a magazine to gain a flavour of what we tend to publish.
Website is here. www.therialto.co.uk

Three years. I started this poem the day after. Two opposing sides – the indifferent vs the suffering – as it goes on & on. It was shortlisted for the Aesthetica Award, later published by @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social

thelondonmagazine.org/poetry-three...

Three years… 'But nothing ever changes.'