Having missed the last three calls I’m more determined than ever to have a HAD summer ☀️ 💀
Thanks to @welterjournal.bsky.social for publishing this one recently 🐝 🐝
Googling 'is a patchy beard okay?' feels antithetical to the carefree images a beard connotes yet HERE I AM
So happy to have this one up at B O D Y. It’d be swell if you took a look
www.bodyliterature.com/2026/06/16/e...
The Quinn Brothers (aged 9, 10 and 11) died when their house was firebombed by UV F in 1998, in my hometown of Ballymoney, Northern Ireland. Thanks to @scrivener1980.bsky.social for publishing.
It's #weirdpoemwednesday convened by @tomsnarsky.bsky.social. Here's a wee one from me.
Thrilled to get my hands on an advance copy of Cat Balaq’s new book from @vpresslit.bsky.social. Some collections sing, this one dances. Vital, dark and ultimately life-affirming, it's out 3rd July.
Something a wee bit different from me for #smallpoemsunday convened by @tomsnarsky.bsky.social - this is a poem in the Ulster-Scots register (I *think* it’s comprehensible!)
Been on something of a short novel/novella kick so thought I’d share what I’ve been reading and (mostly) enjoying!
POEM 338: "A Single Sign in Three Parts" by Ewen Glass (@ewenglass.bsky.social)
"echoes
feel hard won;
we celebrate
disappearing,
ask what if
something lives
at the bottom?"
stonecirclereview.com/a-single-sign/
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