Philippa Bowe
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Philippa Bowe
@philippabowe.bsky.social
Flash fiction, poetry, translation, in English/en français. Published online and in print (Ghost City Press, NFFR, Reflex Fiction, Bath Flash Fiction, Spark2Flame, Neither Fish Nor Foul, The Hooghley Review). Pushcart Prize nom. Dance, LFC, la belle vie.
Short and sweet for this week's #PoemsAbout prompt, #Desire. Thought I'd try and get away from the obvious but didn't happen...😆Looking forward to reading others over the weekend.
Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Slipping a piece in late in the day for the #PoemsAbout prompt #LockedDoors (after a day being poorly), will return tomorrow to read the others. Thanks as every week to @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk 💜🙏
November 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Also very happy to have a piece of flash fiction shortlisted for the wonderful @bridportprize.bsky.social! 🙏💜
November 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Early morning piece for the #PoemsAbout #Blood prompt. A never-confirmed rumour about my great-grandfather was the starting point. Look forward to reading lots of other wonders this evening after work! Happy Friday poets. ❤️🎃
Thank you @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Tokay's #LiftToTheSky goes to The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem - such a rich and compelling exploration of the form and the breadth of prose poems is breath-taking! 💜
@thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Quite a late one for this week's #PoemsAbout prompt, #BurnForTheCamera, it went pretty weird. Will read and comment tomorrow. Thanks as ever to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk Happy Friday night poets! 💜
October 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
My offering from this week's #PoemsAbout prompt, #BreaktheMould.
Thanks as ever to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social for stepping in! 💜
October 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Today's #LiftToTheSky goes to @holliemcnish.bsky.social and her book Slug, one of my current reads. To borrow the words of Kate Kellaway in The Guardian: 'it frisks, rages and rejoices.' All excellent things! 😀✨
@thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I was planning to write something centring on my total inability to be on time for anything for this week's #PoemsAbout prompt, #ImperfectMe - but it took my in a very different direction! Weekly big fat thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk. Happy Friday poets! 💜
October 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Got my piece in to the @bathflashaward.bsky.social with a whole two hours to spare!! 😆✨
October 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Last minute piece for #PoemsAbout and the #Mannequin prompt - will read and comment on others tomorrow! Big thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Very hard to respond to this week's #PoemsAbout prompt, #NeverAgain. Very hard to put words to the horror. Thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk for pushing us week in week out with so many challenging prompts. 🙏💜
September 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
This is what Friday's are like now - @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk you are a poetry fireworks catalyst! 🙏✨
September 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
My offering for this week's #PoemsAbout prompt, #SilentPlanets. A fun one. Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk 🧡
September 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Sad to leave Brussels after the @saloneurope.bsky.social - a whole weekend in a lovely city with a big gang of amazing writers for inspiration, talk, sharing and howls of laughter - what could be better? Bravo to @deborahzafer.bsky.social and the management team! 🙌🏽🎉✨💜
September 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
My response to this week's #PoemsAbout prompt #Candelight turned out to be unusually brief - started as a haiku then expanded a little, but not much! Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk Happy weekend poets! 💜
September 12, 2025 at 9:44 AM
For today's #LiftToTheSky I'm celebrating a book: A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year, a gift I snubbed for a while, finding the poems too 'trad' for my tastes. I'm now trying a new approach, reading them aloud, and hugely enjoying the daily beauty!
@thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk
September 8, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This week's #PoemsAbout prompt is as inspiring as ever: #Facades. Thanks, also as ever, to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk. Happy Friday poets! 💜
September 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
My offering for today's #PoemsAbout #Riots prompt. Look forward to reading people's responses - they're always so varied! - over the weekend. Thanks merci gracias to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk 🔥❤️
August 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Nothing was coming to me for this week's #PoemsAbout prompt, #Chandeliers - until it did (this morning)! Dancing in chains 'n all that... Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk and happy Friday, all you poets! 💜
August 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
August 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This Friday's #PoemsAbout prompt is #Ceasefire. So hard to address. I've tried, poorly, to express my thoughts on the use of words as well as bombs and bullets as weapons to justify the unjustifiable... @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk
August 15, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Loved this week's #PoemsABout prompt, #BlackSky. And was musing on what a precious thing this poetry community it, so much inspiration and support - the positive face of our virtual world! And all thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk! 🙏💜
August 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Love the way the #PoemsAbout prompts from @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk turn Friday into play day! This week's prompt, #Starcrossed, took me into the sky on the tail of a star... 😅✨Happy Friday poets! 💜
August 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This is where today's #PoemsAbout #Glamour prompt took me: an ode to those kickarse women of my teen years. Big fat thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk and happy poetry Friday to all! 💜
July 25, 2025 at 7:57 AM