𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟
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𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁: @subruria.com
𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿: @iambapoet.com / @afterpoetry.com
𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿: Hear me read at The Book Bag open mic (Nov 9th)
𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿: @iambapoet.com / @afterpoetry.com
𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿: Hear me read at The Book Bag open mic (Nov 9th)
Tell me, which of these images is genuine, and which was produced using AI?
November 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Tell me, which of these images is genuine, and which was produced using AI?
Another issue of this triumph of modern poetry publishing landed on my doormat today. To call it a journal is to do it a disservice; the quality of its production equal in every way to that of the work between its covers. Kudos to @maxwallis.bsky.social for having the vision to make this happen.
November 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Another issue of this triumph of modern poetry publishing landed on my doormat today. To call it a journal is to do it a disservice; the quality of its production equal in every way to that of the work between its covers. Kudos to @maxwallis.bsky.social for having the vision to make this happen.
Speaking of poetry open mics, I almost missed Lime Square Poets' session last night with Hannah Kiely. Thank God for phone reminders! Another great evening from our friends across the water in Ireland. I read my poem 'Parliament' – one I've aired at a few open mics since the summer.
November 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Speaking of poetry open mics, I almost missed Lime Square Poets' session last night with Hannah Kiely. Thank God for phone reminders! Another great evening from our friends across the water in Ireland. I read my poem 'Parliament' – one I've aired at a few open mics since the summer.
Adobe Illustrator would like a word ...
November 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Adobe Illustrator would like a word ...
For @victoriaspires.bsky.social's #promptcombo this week, something in the manner of #dreamlogic, albeit not from a human perspective. This comes from Release One of @subruria.com.
October 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
For @victoriaspires.bsky.social's #promptcombo this week, something in the manner of #dreamlogic, albeit not from a human perspective. This comes from Release One of @subruria.com.
This do you, John?
October 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
This do you, John?
Or upgrade and thin out the religious nutcases.
October 21, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Or upgrade and thin out the religious nutcases.
It's come around fast, but it's here at last: your final chance to try out for a place in @iambapoet.com in either 2026 or 2027.
Fewer than 20 spaces remain – so head over to iambapoet.com/audition before 23:59 BST today and submit your poem.
Auditions won't reopen till Sep 2027, so don't wait!! 😉
Fewer than 20 spaces remain – so head over to iambapoet.com/audition before 23:59 BST today and submit your poem.
Auditions won't reopen till Sep 2027, so don't wait!! 😉
September 27, 2025 at 6:50 AM
It's come around fast, but it's here at last: your final chance to try out for a place in @iambapoet.com in either 2026 or 2027.
Fewer than 20 spaces remain – so head over to iambapoet.com/audition before 23:59 BST today and submit your poem.
Auditions won't reopen till Sep 2027, so don't wait!! 😉
Fewer than 20 spaces remain – so head over to iambapoet.com/audition before 23:59 BST today and submit your poem.
Auditions won't reopen till Sep 2027, so don't wait!! 😉
POETS. DO. NOT. MISS. THIS!!
Audition SOON for a chance to appear in @iambapoet.com in either 2026 or 2027.
Everything you need to know to join some of poetry's most celebrated names is on the Audition page.
Fewer than 40 spaces available now. You'll need to be quick!
iambapoet.com/audition
Audition SOON for a chance to appear in @iambapoet.com in either 2026 or 2027.
Everything you need to know to join some of poetry's most celebrated names is on the Audition page.
Fewer than 40 spaces available now. You'll need to be quick!
iambapoet.com/audition
September 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
POETS. DO. NOT. MISS. THIS!!
Audition SOON for a chance to appear in @iambapoet.com in either 2026 or 2027.
Everything you need to know to join some of poetry's most celebrated names is on the Audition page.
Fewer than 40 spaces available now. You'll need to be quick!
iambapoet.com/audition
Audition SOON for a chance to appear in @iambapoet.com in either 2026 or 2027.
Everything you need to know to join some of poetry's most celebrated names is on the Audition page.
Fewer than 40 spaces available now. You'll need to be quick!
iambapoet.com/audition
The #promptcombo challenge this week (set by @victoriaspires.bsky.social) is on the theme of #ancestry. As luck would have it, I recently finished this little poem – a brief comment on my noticing that my late paternal grandmother's eyebrows had made their way, genetically, to my daughter's face.
September 22, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The #promptcombo challenge this week (set by @victoriaspires.bsky.social) is on the theme of #ancestry. As luck would have it, I recently finished this little poem – a brief comment on my noticing that my late paternal grandmother's eyebrows had made their way, genetically, to my daughter's face.
This open letter to a plagiarist by @rustandmoth.bsky.social is an outstanding example of not only how to lay axe to the root of this pernicious literary theft but also how to appeal to the guilty party's better nature without dragging them, triggering a pile-on or destroying a chance at redemption.
September 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This open letter to a plagiarist by @rustandmoth.bsky.social is an outstanding example of not only how to lay axe to the root of this pernicious literary theft but also how to appeal to the guilty party's better nature without dragging them, triggering a pile-on or destroying a chance at redemption.
May as well switch her over to this. Too late to change her.
September 18, 2025 at 6:55 AM
May as well switch her over to this. Too late to change her.
My kind of #promptcombo, Ju! Here's my #winged contribution.
September 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
My kind of #promptcombo, Ju! Here's my #winged contribution.
This wrong 'un. Hold his pocket. #prisonbreak
August 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This wrong 'un. Hold his pocket. #prisonbreak
What's that saying about fools and their money? 🙄
August 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
What's that saying about fools and their money? 🙄
This sufficiently banal for @rfsmith.bsky.social's #promptcombo this week on the topic of #banality? I do hope so.
August 26, 2025 at 6:37 AM
This sufficiently banal for @rfsmith.bsky.social's #promptcombo this week on the topic of #banality? I do hope so.
Even something as prosaic as hanging out laundry can be made poetic. Shared early drafts of this little thing on Twitter many moons ago. Today, I think it's finally finished.
August 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Even something as prosaic as hanging out laundry can be made poetic. Shared early drafts of this little thing on Twitter many moons ago. Today, I think it's finally finished.
And look ... they ALMOST coloured inside the lines. Our brave patriots.
August 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
And look ... they ALMOST coloured inside the lines. Our brave patriots.
From Jeanette Winterson's Substack. I still can't believe we live in a world where this needs spelling out. Anyone justifying Israel's slaughter of Palestinians is not to be trusted.
August 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
From Jeanette Winterson's Substack. I still can't believe we live in a world where this needs spelling out. Anyone justifying Israel's slaughter of Palestinians is not to be trusted.
What happens when a 13-year-old boy trapped inside the body of a fifty-something 'man' is given too much money, power and ketamine.
August 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
What happens when a 13-year-old boy trapped inside the body of a fifty-something 'man' is given too much money, power and ketamine.
Brush strokes of genius from Ben Jennings in @theguardian.com ...
August 22, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Brush strokes of genius from Ben Jennings in @theguardian.com ...
Poem in which yes, it WAS essential for me to use a diaeresis diacritic over the 'e' like that actually, otherwise you lot might think one of my lines was a syllable short.
Thanks to all who fed back on this once upon a time on Twitter. Also to @victoriaspires.bsky.social, who saw it more recently.
Thanks to all who fed back on this once upon a time on Twitter. Also to @victoriaspires.bsky.social, who saw it more recently.
August 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Poem in which yes, it WAS essential for me to use a diaeresis diacritic over the 'e' like that actually, otherwise you lot might think one of my lines was a syllable short.
Thanks to all who fed back on this once upon a time on Twitter. Also to @victoriaspires.bsky.social, who saw it more recently.
Thanks to all who fed back on this once upon a time on Twitter. Also to @victoriaspires.bsky.social, who saw it more recently.
Coming at @victoriaspires.bsky.social's #promptcombo a bit slant this time – the #woods here reduced to a single tree. Every release of @subruria.com contains a poem with a title stolen from Larkin. This was Release Three's poem. I suspect you have to be my age (or older) to appreciate its ending.
August 21, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Coming at @victoriaspires.bsky.social's #promptcombo a bit slant this time – the #woods here reduced to a single tree. Every release of @subruria.com contains a poem with a title stolen from Larkin. This was Release Three's poem. I suspect you have to be my age (or older) to appreciate its ending.