Fiona Larkin @fionalarkin.bsky.social

Winner of National Poetry Competition 2024. Rope of Sand - Pindrop Press, A Dovetail of Breath - @RackPressPoetry, Vital Capacity - @brokensleep.

[Moon @moondailys]

On May 31, 2026, the Moon will reach its full phase. It will be the second Full Moon of May, which makes it a calendrical Blue Moon.

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Looking forward to our fully-booked reading very soon!

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden."
~ T.S. Eliot, 'Burnt Norton'

[Kamran Javadizadeh @kjavadizadeh]

On Seamus Heaney’s birthday.

[Ian Duhig FRSL @ianduhig]

Happy Birthday Beckett!

[Richard Siken @richardsiken]

A long-form essay on how the poets Richard Siken and Anne Carson responded to losing their language.
https://t.co/wHSqfarxAQ

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Britain is home to almost half of the world’s bluebells, found in ancient or semi-natural woodlands, flowering in April and May. 'Bluebell woods' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt

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As a pedant (and someone who’s used a bit of Finnish in a poem) I feel seen! Great thread.

[Adam Sharp @AdamCSharp]

The Finnish word for an auction, huutokauppa, means “shout market” (or “shouting shop”)

* read on for more of my favourite Finnish words (a thread in honour of today being Day of the Finnish Language)…

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Easter weekend

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Looking forward very much to reading with this amazing group of poets - save the date! Zoom link from Sue Burge (email on poster) @suekburge @jcsugarman @indeskidge

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Very many thanks to @Poetry_London and Niall Campbell for featuring my poem today 🙏🏻❄️

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@BorisDralyuk like the snow ❄️

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Encountered one of my favourites again today ❤️

[The HU @HonestUlsterman]

Since it's Valentine's Day this week, our highlighted feature is 'The Heart as Metaphor', a striking new piece exploring how the heart, both physical and symbolic, shapes our understanding of love, loss and courage.

Read it here:
https://t.co/AGqkEFipBg

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https://t.co/n8yVTzC65t

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https://t.co/DDWeRa6nI3

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Epiphany - I’v loved for many years James Joyce’s extraordinary short story The Dead, set on Epiphany night. This year it inspired a poem, and I was lucky enough to have it appear in Richard Skinner’s beautiful annual journal 14, among an amazing poetic company. Link in comments

[Celandine @GBClarkson]

‘A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
The very dead of winter.’

#Epiphany 🐪🐪🐪👑👑👑

Journey of the Magi https://t.co/B164PtZdPP

[Celandine @GBClarkson]

Snow dawn

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https://t.co/mmCr033Xhx