Peter Lilly Poetry

Pushcart & BOTN nominated poet
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[Peter Lilly Poetry @PeterLillyPoems]

I'm really excited to announce that my 2nd collection is officially published, you can pick up a copy here:

https://t.co/510vt47bBv

Thanks to Silje for the beautiful cover, to @whitlynnrioross, @pauljpastor, @malcolmguite @gwpm and Landon loftin for endorsing the book.

[Peter Lilly Poetry @PeterLillyPoems]

Delighted to have my poem 'Index' published by @InkSweatTears (a dream come true)

My son's little scar on his index finger from a suction he gave himself by sucking his own finger in the womb is what inspired the poem. I hope you enjoy it.

https://t.co/kbId6eL9dg

[Peter Lilly Poetry @PeterLillyPoems]

@Jessicawhippl17 @InkSweatTears Thank you @Jessicawhippl17

[Peter Lilly Poetry @PeterLillyPoems]

..."And you still have the scar on your finger
from the suction blister
you gave yourself in the womb —
it has grown with your digits, that pushed through
mittens..."
From "Index" published my @InkSweatTears

https://t.co/kbId6eL9dg

[Peter Lilly Poetry @PeterLillyPoems]

@InkSweatTears Utterly delighted to be included alongside such beautiful writing.

[Ink Sweat & Tears @InkSweatTears]

Exploring the #ManyWorlds of #Families are the poets Cheryl Snell, Alice Gregorio & @PeterLillyPoems. The poems express vastly different perspectives and experiences yet also speak to each other when read in sequence.
https://t.co/6z0c9PO3mD…orio-peter-lilly/

#InkSweatandTears

[Peter Lilly Poetry @PeterLillyPoems]

Delighted to have my poem 'Index' published by @InkSweatTears (a dream come true)

My son's little scar on his index finger from a suction he gave himself by sucking his own finger in the womb is what inspired the poem. I hope you enjoy it.

https://t.co/kbId6eL9dg

[Peter Lilly Poetry @PeterLillyPoems]

Thrilled to share that a poem of mine was accepted by @WindhoverMag—a magazine I love, which has published writers I deeply admire. After 25+ rejections, it finally found its home. Out FEB next year!

[Peter Lilly Poetry @PeterLillyPoems]

Image. A poem of circular liturgy, originally published in @PaddlerPress

https://t.co/sXP28ckV5u

[Peter Lilly Poetry @PeterLillyPoems]

@Jessicawhippl17 Thanks, it's really encouraging that you noticed my absence! 🥲 Becoming freelance has been rather taxing on my time! But I'm staggering towards more balance 😂😂

[Peter Lilly Poetry @PeterLillyPoems]

In March, I was delighted to have 3 poems in The Candyman's Trumpet, family edition, alongside so many wonderful poets. This parenting poem pushes back against making your children grow up.

[Peter Lilly Poetry @PeterLillyPoems]

Catching up on the @NewYorker poetry podcast, and the recent episode with @MayaCPopa is fantastic. A wonderful exploration of 2 generous poems: her “The World Was All Before Them” and Brenda Shaughnessy’s “Artless”.

[Peter Lilly Poetry @PeterLillyPoems]

I'm now a freelance teacher. If you know anyone who could use English literature or philosophy tutoring, or creative writing coaching, please share 🙂

[Peter Lilly Poetry @PeterLillyPoems]

Delighted to have 3 poems in The Candyman's Trumpet issue 9... A beautiful issue on the theme of family. Thanks to Jack Caradoc!

This is the first of the three:

Rhyming
my son is rhyming in a language I cannot speak
and I, lost to the rhymes, am found
in his glittering eyes.

[Sanjeev Sethi @sanjeevpoems3]

The Candyman's Trumpet has just dropped issue 9. It is a Family Special. It carries four poems by me. I am posting one of them—my thanks to Jack Caradoc.

[Peter Lilly Poetry @PeterLillyPoems]

I'll have some family themed poems out later today... So I'm revisiting "TO MY SON AT THREE DAYS", originally published by @a_journal
"...You are enormous.
An entire universe
laying between my chin
and my navel."

Read the whole poem here:
https://t.co/CEpVNIbDfw

[Paul J. Pastor @pauljpastor]

Hellebore, the “Lenten Rose.”

[Peter Lilly Poetry @PeterLillyPoems]

“Night to day pours forth speech in silent sweet’
In muted awe we make the choir complete”

[Peter Lilly Poetry @PeterLillyPoems]

@pauljpastor I love a lot about mediterranean France where I now live. But one of the things I miss the most about where I grew up in the UK, is the daffodils heralding spring's arrival.

[Peter Lilly Poetry @PeterLillyPoems]

This is one of the reasons why I used specifically the sonnet for my 2nd collection “A Handful of Prayers: Poems and Sonnets for the End of Modernity”
https://t.co/510vt46DLX

[Malcolm Guite @malcolmguite]

Here I have a deeper reason yet for employing the sonnet form. For me it is an act of countercultural resistance. https://t.co/c5pIgScvGN

[Peter Lilly Poetry @PeterLillyPoems]

I'm now a freelance teacher. If you know anyone who could use English literature or philosophy tutoring, or creative writing coaching, please share 🙂