Eleanor Holmes

@TopTweetTuesday by @blackboughpoems 120 word limit for this week’s offering kindly hosted by @sandrajnoel I’ve gone back to a project I was writing years back called Flora Speaks, that I hope to revive. This is called ‘Safe Passage’

I spent last year taking Chekhov on dates and finally we got married. Enormously grateful to @IMcMillan for liking this crazy love poem well enough to award it 2nd prize in @RialtoPoetry's Nature & Place competition. Final line comes from The Cherry Orchard, Act 2.

Boosting literary press @thewingedmoon for our @TopTweetTuesday #poetry boosting day Our Editors | The Winged Moon Check it out! 🪽🌘

Next up for @TopTweetTuesday reviews week is Soi-même by @vic_spires ‘…intimate and filled with poems exquisitely crafted’ paulwritespoems.com/2025/05/18/the…

Calling all poets!📢 SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN for the Passionfruit Poetry Prize! Send us your best! Tell your friends! For more details, see our website (link in bio).

Our chapbook open reading period is open through September 30! We’re seeking poetry (20–40 pgs) or prose (20–50 pgs) from writers of all backgrounds—especially those from marginalized communities. 🔗Submit here: smallharborpublishing.com/chapbook-open-… #poetry #prose #indiepublishing

Saraswati will be part of The Second Half of The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Of Poetry And Artwork.

I want to give a @TopTweetTuesday boost to @MarkAntonyOwen, although I see he's just announced his imminent departure from here. Not only is he an astonishing poet himself (check out @Subruria), he also does so much to champion other poets through @iambapoet & @after_poetry

For our @TopTweetTuesday sharing werk, boosting the @blackboughpoems book of the month. Review by @vic_spires blackboughpoetry.com/book-reviews-m…

Book boost on @TopTweetTuesday to Prof. M Wynn Thomas for ‘Transatlantic Vistas’ launched last autumn. @UniWalesPress

It’s a reviews and poetry boosting week this coming Tuesday! Post your poetry pics, promote others’ poetry sites and books. Make a fuss of the poets!

For @TopTweetTuesday sharing @eliot_north’s feature on shiny platform. iambapoet.com/eliot-north

For @TopTweetTuesday boosting a new poet on the scene, Sarah Raybould @raybould_drs ‘wicks alight on haloes’ 🕯️

Poetry reviews and author boosts. Here praise goes out to @BevisKathryn who is sadly no longer with us, @CharlotteLPoet and @RegineEbner For @TopTweetTuesday

Submissions are open for the next issue! 💙 We can't wait to see your work 😍

Here's a blog post by Nina Mingya Powles and 'Patterning' from In the Hollow of the Wave - out this week. Adopting the poetic form of 'germination' to reflect the structure of a quilt results in this striking poem, beautifully "enfolding memory". ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/06/in-con…

Are you a UK poet looking for a publishing and mentoring opportunity? Enter PRIMERS 8. What's our selecting editor @LaurieBolger looking for? Read her blog for encouragement, tips & motivation: ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/06/primer… Full PRIMERS submission criteria ninearchespress.com/primers

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Come to Quarry Bank Mill this Saturday and write some poems with me based on Natural Identity, Northern Heritage. It’s a FREE event, open to all ages and abilities - there will be art activities going on too. Perfect way to spend the first Saturday of the summer holidays! 💚

Oh my this sounds an amazing evening ! I wish I could be there 👇