Happy #NationalPoetryDay from our House to yours!

Happy #NationalPoetryDay 📚💙

"An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!"

In honor of National Poetry Day, I submit my favorite Rudyard Kipling #poem for your #reading pleasure:
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I #amreading #poetry

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Remember when Liverpool was overrun by Lambananas? 🐑🍌
For National Poetry Day 2026 and its theme of Wonder, I’ve written The Year the Lambananas Roamed Free — inspired by Liverpool’s unforgettable 2008. . .
👉 alisonlittle.blog/2026/10/02/t...
#NationalPoetryDay #Liverpool #Superlambanana

Happy #NationalPoetryDay! Celebrated on October 15 since 1947 to honor Pennsylvania Poet Laureate Ralph Cheyney. By 1977, #WorldPoetryDay was celebrated on this date in all 50 states and 41 countries.

Remember when Liverpool was overrun by Lambananas? 🐑🍌
For National Poetry Day 2026 and its theme of Wonder, I’ve written The Year the Lambananas Roamed Free — inspired by Liverpool’s unforgettable. . .
👉 alisonlittle.blog/20...
#NationalPoetryDay #Liverpool #Superlambanana

We’re a bit late for #NationalPoetryDay, but it’s worth the wait. 🧡

We caught up with Dr Georgi Gill, a researcher and poet, about how writing poems has helped her in managing her MS.

She shares how writing can help people talk about difficult topics.

Find out more: https://mssoc.uk/4rXZ7JR

Remember when Liverpool was overrun by Lambananas? 🐑🍌
For National Poetry Day 2026 and its theme of Wonder, I’ve written The Year the Lambananas Roamed Free — inspired by 2008✨
👉 alisonlittle.blog/2026/10/02/t...
#NationalPoetryDay #Liverpool #Superlambanana

Staff picks for National Poetry Day!🌀

Megan, our Publishing Intern, chose Later Emperors by Evan Jones.

To celebrate #NationalPoetryDay, we are having a 25% flash sale across our entire website! Use the code POETRYWEEK at checkout: www.carcanet.co.uk/

Remember when Liverpool was overrun by Lambananas? 🐑🍌
For National Poetry Day 2026 and its theme of Wonder, I’ve written The Year the Lambananas Roamed Free and revisit Liverpool’s colourful past! ✨
👉 alisonlittle.blog/20...
#NationalPoetryDay #Liverpool #Superlambanana

The dark/ink almost feels like a drowning in Salil Chaturvedi's 'torn lantern' for @poetrydayuk.bsky.social. Peer into its depths and #Wonder on inksweatandtears.co.uk/wonder-salil... ‎

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#InkSweatandTears #NationalPoetryDay #WordandImage

Our wonderful features are wiggling to an end; today's final flourish begins with Helen Anderson's 'I Wish This Phone Had a Better Camera' and 'Written by Candlelight in March' by @suejohns.bsky.social.

Here at: inksweatandtears.co.uk/day-seven-of...

#InkSweatandTears #NationalPoetryDay #Wonder

Staff picks for National Poetry Day!🛶

Alan, our Sales and Rights Director, chose Red River Valley by Ian McMillan.

To celebrate #NationalPoetryDay, we are having a 25% flash sale across our entire website! Use the code POETRYWEEK at checkout: www.carcanet.co.uk/

I am a little collier and gweithio underground
The rhaff will never torri when I go up and down
It's bara when I'm hungry
And cwrw when I'm dry
It's gwely when I'm tired
And nefoedd when I die
#nationalpoetryday

#Wonder is winding down, but while there's still more sand in the hourglass, please enjoy 'Prolonged Panic Attack II' by Martin McKenna and 'Do you know how your mum and dad met?' by Emma Dandy

Read them here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/day-six-of-w...

#InkSweatandTears #NationalPoetryDay #Poetry

Remember when Liverpool was overrun by Lambananas? 🐑🍌
For National Poetry Day 2026 and its theme of Wonder, I’ve written The Year the Lambananas Roamed Free — inspired by Liverpool’s unforgettable 2008 ✨
👉 alisonlittle.blog/20...
#NationalPoetryDay #Liverpool #Superlambanana

It's #NationalPoetryDay today so here's Wilfred Wilson Gibson's narrative poem (alongside specially composed music) about Flannan Isle lighthouse mystery when all lighthouse keepers stationed on Scotland’s Flannan Isles disappeared in year 1900
youtu.be/Fuh6DXaJCRs

Staff picks for National Poetry Day!🐚

Zoë, our Marketing and Events Manager, chose Killing Spree by Jorie Graham.

To celebrate #NationalPoetryDay, we are having a 25% flash sale across our entire website! Use the code POETRYWEEK at checkout: www.carcanet.co.uk/

Remember when Liverpool was overrun by Lambananas? 🐑🍌
For National Poetry Day 2026 and its theme of Wonder, I’ve written The Year the Lambananas Roamed Free ✨
👉 alisonlittle.blog/20...
#NationalPoetryDay #Liverpool #Superlambanana

Delighted to have my poem 'The Plough' included here. Especially since it was written for #NationalPoetryDay AND it's a love poem!

Today's poems meditating on the expansive theme of #Wonder are 'Incarnation' by Shanta Acharya, 'The Plough' by @suefinch.bsky.social and 'I create little worlds' by @[email protected].

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#InkSweatandTears #NationalPoetryDay #Poetry