Sam Raine
@samraine.bsky.social
I write poetry. I’m playing around with writing short ones on here (what’s a poem for? Who’s it for? Is Poems on the Underground the most hopeful idea ever devised?) For my longer stuff https://allpoetry.com/Sam797
Extraordinary poem
Amira Cheung Simhani, a Top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2025, reads winning poem 'Why the sky never closed behind her'.
Read this year's winning poems and find out more about the Award: bit.ly/FoyleYoungPoets
Read this year's winning poems and find out more about the Award: bit.ly/FoyleYoungPoets
November 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Extraordinary poem
Reposted by Sam Raine
When Mat and I are working out what poets to invite to read with us at Rogue Strands events, it feels like we're generating our own Live Poetry Mix Tapes...
roguestrands.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-li...
roguestrands.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-li...
A Live Poetry Mix Tape
Back in the day, we used to create mix tapes for our mates. Of course, they were really made up of the music we enjoyed listening to ourselv...
roguestrands.blogspot.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
When Mat and I are working out what poets to invite to read with us at Rogue Strands events, it feels like we're generating our own Live Poetry Mix Tapes...
roguestrands.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-li...
roguestrands.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-li...
I just got this down on paper and have posted without any editing whatsoever, so it’s messy but IMO the heart of it is there. I’ll repost once I’ve tidied it up.
*I lied to you*
(poem thread)
(poem thread)
October 3, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I just got this down on paper and have posted without any editing whatsoever, so it’s messy but IMO the heart of it is there. I’ll repost once I’ve tidied it up.
*I lied to you*
(poem thread)
(poem thread)
October 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
*I lied to you*
(poem thread)
(poem thread)
After some redrafting
September 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
After some redrafting
Reposted by Sam Raine
Reposted by Sam Raine
free book fair and gala show, over 50 publishers and authors all day reading
come and meet our authors
doors open 10 am Conway Hall WC1R 4RL Gala Show 6pm at The Square Pig more readings and open mic
Saturday 6th Sept 2025
come and meet our authors
doors open 10 am Conway Hall WC1R 4RL Gala Show 6pm at The Square Pig more readings and open mic
Saturday 6th Sept 2025
August 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
free book fair and gala show, over 50 publishers and authors all day reading
come and meet our authors
doors open 10 am Conway Hall WC1R 4RL Gala Show 6pm at The Square Pig more readings and open mic
Saturday 6th Sept 2025
come and meet our authors
doors open 10 am Conway Hall WC1R 4RL Gala Show 6pm at The Square Pig more readings and open mic
Saturday 6th Sept 2025
Reposted by Sam Raine
Pause whatever you're doing and fall into this poem.
Today on Glass!
"Event Horizon" by Rachel Bunting (@rebunting.bsky.social)!
www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
"Event Horizon" by Rachel Bunting (@rebunting.bsky.social)!
www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html
August 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Pause whatever you're doing and fall into this poem.
OYSTERS
(a poem in five bites)
(a poem in five bites)
July 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
OYSTERS
(a poem in five bites)
(a poem in five bites)
IN MY NOVEL
In my novel
neither one of us
need speak
nor hear
to know all
the other holds
to their heart.
Tragically
no-one will buy my novel.
No-one will read it.
If they did
it would only
disappoint them
because our story
would tell no story
at all.
In my novel
neither one of us
need speak
nor hear
to know all
the other holds
to their heart.
Tragically
no-one will buy my novel.
No-one will read it.
If they did
it would only
disappoint them
because our story
would tell no story
at all.
July 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
IN MY NOVEL
In my novel
neither one of us
need speak
nor hear
to know all
the other holds
to their heart.
Tragically
no-one will buy my novel.
No-one will read it.
If they did
it would only
disappoint them
because our story
would tell no story
at all.
In my novel
neither one of us
need speak
nor hear
to know all
the other holds
to their heart.
Tragically
no-one will buy my novel.
No-one will read it.
If they did
it would only
disappoint them
because our story
would tell no story
at all.
