One of my faves from Shakespeare Okuni’s (@i-shakespeare.bsky.social) brilliant A Twist of Rotten Silk, which I’m really enjoying today.
Laura McKee
Oh, I know all the arguments for and against my life—
Cameron Awkward-Rich
RIP Lieke Marsman 💔 (tr. Sophie Collins)
April by Mary Oliver
Cynthia Cruz
⸻ from the iowa anthology of new american poetries (2004)
Luke Kennard
Grace Paley
Join me and Rachel Long for a week of ‘love and terror’, a week long online course for The Writing School, May 11th-15th. JOIN US (she said in terrifying yet lovely voice) thewritingschool.co.uk/love-and-ter...
Dr. Han VanderHart
Tom Snarsky
Are you free next Tuesday 9th June, 7-9? Join me online here and become madly, desperately obsessed with line-breaks www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
Tom Snarsky
LOVE AND TERROR ‘The poem carries love and terror, or it carries nothing’ - Jane Hirshfield. What makes a poem haunt us long after its read?Join poets Caroline Bird and Rachel Long for a week-long wri...
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. – Leonard Cohen Line-breaks are thrilling, with multiple powers. They can enact the poem’s state of mind, unleash swathes of extra meaning...
