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@ecameron.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 3:28 PM

For #nationalpoetryday - a poem by my late younger sister Lucy Cameron, poet, artist and musician (member of The Househunters with #jowehead )

@neurocherub.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 3:25 PM

Reading Diane Di Prima's Revolutionary Letters today... #NationalPoetryDay

A photos of a poem from Diane Di Prima's book, Revolutionary Letters with a Halo filter edit. The text is a garamond font and it reads, "REVOLUTIONARY LETTER #26 'DOES THE END JUSTIFY THE MEANS?' this is process, there is no end, there is only means, each one had better justify itself. To whom?"

@northernjim.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 3:24 PM

The Book
#NationalPoetryDay
#PoetryForChildren
#DirigibleBalloon #GoAllIn 🎈

@billherbert.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 3:23 PM

‘This selection from thirty years of his verse confirms Cutler’s inimitable and indispensable genius.’

#IvorCutler #SelectedPoems #HoorgiΗοuse #NationalPoetryDay

@billherbert.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 3:20 PM

‘ #IvorCutler ‘s poems are distilled miniatures of the qualities we find in his stories and songs. Filled with highly uncertain narrators, eloquent, often moody creatures, and unsettling takes on domesticity, they brilliantly reproduce his distinctive cadences on the page.’

#NationalPoetryDay

@billherbert.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 3:19 PM

More Ivory Cutlery for #NationalPoetryDay!

Apparently the #SelectedPoems is out today - ie you can wander into a shop* and order a copy (the actual copies will follow shortly).

Here’s the back cover. (Text of the blurb in thread.)

*Preferably a bookshop.

#IvorCutler

@forumjournal.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 3:08 PM

✨ Today celebrates #NationalPoetryDay.

🖊️ Chris Searle shows how young poets used poetry to challenge racism and connect communities across continents.

🎙️ John Gordon explores the value of young people’s knowledge in studying poetry.

Read & subscribe here: https://beacons.ai/forumjournal

#Forum

Text image with a pink background featuring red and white text. The title reads: "Mandela, Manchester: a response to establishment pessimism." Below is a quote. At the bottom, it credits Chris Searle with the publication details: Forum, Volume 51, Number 2, 2009.

The image features text on a pink background. The title reads: "‘Strong in their Minds’: young people’s poems across an ocean." Below, a quote says: “In 2005, during a period of voluntary teaching in Tyendinaga, Ontario, a territory of the Mohawk indigenous nation, I used poems written by British inner-city children of Sheffield - mainly of Pakistani origins - as the stimulus to encourage the writing of poetry by the young Mohawk Canadians.” The text credits CHRIS SEARLE, Forum, Volume 51, Number 3, 2009.

Text overlay on a blurred background features a quote from a journal article. At the bottom, the text cites John Gordon and provides forum publication details: "Forum, Volume 58, Number 1, 2016."

@marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 3:00 PM

#NationalPoetryDay invites us to pause and appreciate the beauty of language every autumn.

his U.K. and Ireland observance encourages everyone to read, write, and share poetry.

Attend local readings, discover new poets, or share a favorite verse.

@notupmytrousersyoudont.com Oct 1, 2026, 2:54 PM

For #nationalpoetryday, here is the wonderful Black Country poet Liz Berry with The Republic of Motherhood. I'm not a parent and I can't get through this without tears so if you do have children, make sure you're not on public transport or in a police station...

youtu.be/eDyvUDZPyL0?...

@bloomunky.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 2:42 PM

If you look at all of the synopsis on your TVs programme guide, all of the ones for channel 4 are poems for #NationalPoetryDay 👍

@exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 2:42 PM

It's #NationalPoetryDay today 📝

We hold over 40 collections relating to South West writers, this includes the papers of the Cornish poet & writer Jack Clemo. Clemo's work was often inspired by the Cornish landscape and wildlife, as shown in this poem 'Gulls Nesting Inland'🪶

📷: EUL MS 68/Lit/3/6

@asls.org.uk Oct 1, 2026, 2:40 PM

“Publishable?” Perhaps she’ll advise him where to sell
Over a bottle of home-made later? Oh shit. She can tell
This is going to be The Gig From Hell…

—Liz Lochhead, “Hell for Poets”
from A Handsel: New & Collected Poems (Polygon, 2023)
#poem #poetry #NationalPoetryDay
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Liz Lochhead
HELL FOR POETS

It’s Hell for the poet arriving for the gig
Off the five thirty-three to meet the organiser
Who claps her in a car that reeks enough of dog to make her gag,
Tells her he’s looked at her work but he was none the wiser.
Call him old fashioned, but in the ‘little mag
He edits for his sins’ stuff rhymes – oh, he’s no sympathiser
With this modern stuff! Is it prose? What is it?
Perhaps the poet can enlighten him this visit?

– For which his lady-wife’s made up a futon hard as boulders
In the boxroom. ‘So much friendlier than an hotel!’
Will anyone turn up tonight? Shrug of his shoulders.
‘Even for McGough or Carol Ann Duffy tickets have not been going well.
Meanwhile: here’s his stuff.’ Each ode encased in plastic in three folders.
‘Publishable?’ Perhaps she’ll advise him where to sell
Over a bottle of home-made later? Oh shit. She can tell
This is going to be The Gig from Hell ...

But it’s real hell for real poets when love goes right
When the war is over and the blood, the mud, the Muse depart
Requited love, gratified desire ‘write white’
And suffering’s the sweetest source for the profoundest art.
Blue skies, eternal bliss, bland putti – Heaven might
Not be the be all and end all ... ? For a start
Hell itself’s pure inspiration to the creatively driven.
Hell was (f’rinstance) Dante’s idea of Hog Heaven.
Hell’s best! Virgil knew it too before him. Heigh ho!
Man calls himself a poet? St Peter’ll bounce him.
(Unless he’s maybe Milton – it’s Who You Know.)
Could end up in Hell with Burns? (Hear his rolling r’s announce him).
Could end up with Villon, Verlaine, the Rabelaisian Rimbaud,
With Don Juan, Don Whan – however you pronounce him –
Bunked up with Byron, still so mad, so bad, and so delic-
iously dangerous to know? Not a snowball’s chance, but oh, I wish.

@hellohistoria.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 2:38 PM

#NationalPoetryDay ✒️

Roses are red,
Water comes in litres,
Trebuchets can use a counterweight to launch a 90kg stone projectile over 300 metres.

#Wales

A wooden replica siege engine, stands in front of a stone castle. A piece of purple fabric is wrapped around the tall central support beam.

@belleroach.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 2:30 PM

Happy #NationalPoetryDay! What a perfect opportunity to bring attention to the upcoming Regeneration anthology from @renardpress.com 🦊 which I’ve been shortlisted for! Keep an eye out for my poem ‘Foxhunter’ when the book is released in November 🍂

@niallmachin1.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 2:28 PM

#NationalPoetryDay poem that featured in 192 Magazine - a lockdown lament

@trincolllibcam.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 2:23 PM

"I lose in them my instant of brief ills.
There is great easing of the heart,
and cumulance of comfort on high hills."

Geoffrey Winthrop Young, poet, author and mountaineer features in the current exhibition - Higher Education, Trinity in the Mountains.
#nationalpoetryday
#mountaineering

Black and white photograph of a man sitting on a rocky overhang with text Higher Education Trinity in the mountains.

Text and on black and white photograph of a mountain side-

Only a hill, but all of life to me’.
When poet, mountaineer and Trinity College
student Geoffrey Winthrop Young published these
lines in 1909, he captured a spirit of vertical
ambition and elevated joy which, in one
form or another, has pervaded Trinity’s five
centuries of history. From the likes of John
Ray, Isaac Newton and Adam Sedgwick,
who viewed mountains as theological
and scientific sites of wonder and
experiment, via the dizzyingly sublime
poetic peaks of Lord Byron, to the
pioneering mountaineers of the
modern age, this exhibition
explores how Trinity members
have repeatedly sought out
alternative forms of higher
education, whether atop the
roofs and spires of lowland
Cambridge itself or upon
the lofty heights of the Alps,
Andes and Himalaya
far beyond

@tommyreckless.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 2:16 PM

For #NationalPoetryDay here's Simon Armitage reciting the poem he read on The Fall Futures and Pasts weekend, set to music:

@bloomsjo.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 2:13 PM

#Haiku #NationalPoetryDay