Elizabeth Osmond
@bethosmond.bsky.social
Poet and Neonatologist. Pushcart nominated. Work in the Aftershock Review, IS&T, After…, Atrium, The Alchemy Spoon, Dust poetry, Intima, Black Bough, Artemesia and Hippocrates anthologies.
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So proud to be in the second Aftershock Review, can’t wait to read it all. Thanks so much @maxwallis.bsky.social
#poemsabout #poetsonbluesky
#poemsabout #poetsonbluesky
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‘Obituary’, from my forthcoming poetry collection ‘The Way the Water Held Me’. Sharing for National Grief Awareness Week (2-8 December) and sending solidarity to anyone experiencing grief, no matter how long ago you were bereaved x #bereavement #griefawarenessweek @theemmapress.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
‘Obituary’, from my forthcoming poetry collection ‘The Way the Water Held Me’. Sharing for National Grief Awareness Week (2-8 December) and sending solidarity to anyone experiencing grief, no matter how long ago you were bereaved x #bereavement #griefawarenessweek @theemmapress.bsky.social
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So happy to have this poem up on After... Poetry, for a few reasons:
More than any other art I've seen in recent years, Auerbach's charcoal heads have stayed with me.
I'm pretty sure it was either the first or second ekphrastic poem I wrote (really should do more).
I've waited a year for this!
More than any other art I've seen in recent years, Auerbach's charcoal heads have stayed with me.
I'm pretty sure it was either the first or second ekphrastic poem I wrote (really should do more).
I've waited a year for this!
What to do with scraps of light found in our battle with life's darkness. Victoria Spires makes this #ekphrastic poem from a Frank Auerbach drawing.
'Suggestible of something rending, something
Far from abstract – the exquisite flash
Of pain, as private teleology.'
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'Suggestible of something rending, something
Far from abstract – the exquisite flash
Of pain, as private teleology.'
afterpoetry.com/poem/dec-04-...
Read New Ekphrastic Poem 'Lightfastness' by Victoria Spires exclusively in After... | Poems Inspired By Other Art
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December 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
So happy to have this poem up on After... Poetry, for a few reasons:
More than any other art I've seen in recent years, Auerbach's charcoal heads have stayed with me.
I'm pretty sure it was either the first or second ekphrastic poem I wrote (really should do more).
I've waited a year for this!
More than any other art I've seen in recent years, Auerbach's charcoal heads have stayed with me.
I'm pretty sure it was either the first or second ekphrastic poem I wrote (really should do more).
I've waited a year for this!
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Over 150 calls for literary competitions and submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, and more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in December 2025. Please share & best of luck!
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Writing & Poetry Competitions & Submissions – December 2025 — WORDBOX
Over 150 calls for literary competitions and submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, and more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or ...
www.thisiswordbox.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Over 150 calls for literary competitions and submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, and more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in December 2025. Please share & best of luck!
www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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For this week's #PromptCombo #ThisPoem with thanks to the wonderfully playful host @victoriaspires.bsky.social and all those taking part. Something a little different, you say...
December 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
For this week's #PromptCombo #ThisPoem with thanks to the wonderfully playful host @victoriaspires.bsky.social and all those taking part. Something a little different, you say...
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The Poetic Licence has a 24-day advent calendar event.... every day a FREE post with a poem to consider and the chance to discuss it with other members. Here's the first! www.patreon.com/posts/advent...
Advent #1 : What's that coming towards us? | The Poetic Licence
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December 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The Poetic Licence has a 24-day advent calendar event.... every day a FREE post with a poem to consider and the chance to discuss it with other members. Here's the first! www.patreon.com/posts/advent...
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I'll be updating the poetry magazines spreadsheet this coming week, so if you're not on my mailing list, join now (it's free) and you'll never be short of places to send your poems... robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk/poetry-magaz...
Poetry Magazines Submissions Spreadsheet
Poets! Take the hard work out of submitting to poetry magazines What poetry magazines are there? What are their web addresses? How many poems can I send? Are they open for submissions now? You̵…
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November 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I'll be updating the poetry magazines spreadsheet this coming week, so if you're not on my mailing list, join now (it's free) and you'll never be short of places to send your poems... robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk/poetry-magaz...
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So thrilled to have Midnight Swingball out there in the world with @inksweatandtears.co.uk 🤩
Paul Short's 'Midnight Swingball' captures the vertigo and shape of the restless unease before sleep arrives. @paulwritespoems.bsky.social
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/paul-short/
#Insomnia #InkSweatandTears #Poetry
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/paul-short/
#Insomnia #InkSweatandTears #Poetry
November 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
So thrilled to have Midnight Swingball out there in the world with @inksweatandtears.co.uk 🤩
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Super grateful to the @madridlitmag.bsky.social for choosing a poem of mine for their stunning new issue, which is out now ❤️
November 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Super grateful to the @madridlitmag.bsky.social for choosing a poem of mine for their stunning new issue, which is out now ❤️
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So a short poem today for #poemsabout #nofuture
A meditation on the climate emergency
Thank you as always for the prompt @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
A meditation on the climate emergency
Thank you as always for the prompt @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
So a short poem today for #poemsabout #nofuture
A meditation on the climate emergency
Thank you as always for the prompt @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
A meditation on the climate emergency
Thank you as always for the prompt @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
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Good morning #BlueskyPoetry Community on this Friday’s #PoemsAbout #NoFuture @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
I wrote this about Mum’s Dementia. A #WIP still. Look forward to reading the other takes on the theme. #poetry #poems
I wrote this about Mum’s Dementia. A #WIP still. Look forward to reading the other takes on the theme. #poetry #poems
November 28, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Good morning #BlueskyPoetry Community on this Friday’s #PoemsAbout #NoFuture @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
I wrote this about Mum’s Dementia. A #WIP still. Look forward to reading the other takes on the theme. #poetry #poems
I wrote this about Mum’s Dementia. A #WIP still. Look forward to reading the other takes on the theme. #poetry #poems
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...listen to @carolinebirduk.bsky.social's documentary through BBC Sounds (or in the Falling Tree archive) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, When the Words Leave
The poet Caroline Bird explores the silences when it feels like the words have left you.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
...listen to @carolinebirduk.bsky.social's documentary through BBC Sounds (or in the Falling Tree archive) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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🧵/ Today a damning parliamentary report on the state of palliative care services in England was published.
Services are patchy, underfunded & “ill-equipped” to address end-of-life needs.
Bereavement support is “frequently inaccessible.
The palliative care workforce is in a “critical” situation”.
Services are patchy, underfunded & “ill-equipped” to address end-of-life needs.
Bereavement support is “frequently inaccessible.
The palliative care workforce is in a “critical” situation”.
November 28, 2025 at 8:25 AM
🧵/ Today a damning parliamentary report on the state of palliative care services in England was published.
Services are patchy, underfunded & “ill-equipped” to address end-of-life needs.
Bereavement support is “frequently inaccessible.
The palliative care workforce is in a “critical” situation”.
Services are patchy, underfunded & “ill-equipped” to address end-of-life needs.
Bereavement support is “frequently inaccessible.
The palliative care workforce is in a “critical” situation”.
Are you afraid you might be difficult? – Julia Webb @julwe1.bsky.social
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Are you afraid you might be difficult? – Julia Webb
Are you afraid you might be difficult? . . Julia Webb is a neurodivergent writer/editor based in Norwich. She has four collections with Nine Arches Press: Bird Sisters (2016) Threat (2019) The Tell…
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November 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Gender-based violence has no place in a free and equal society.
No woman or girl should have to live in fear.
On International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we call for an end to all forms of violence and affirm the right for every women to live in safety and dignity.
No woman or girl should have to live in fear.
On International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we call for an end to all forms of violence and affirm the right for every women to live in safety and dignity.
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Gender-based violence has no place in a free and equal society.
No woman or girl should have to live in fear.
On International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we call for an end to all forms of violence and affirm the right for every women to live in safety and dignity.
No woman or girl should have to live in fear.
On International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we call for an end to all forms of violence and affirm the right for every women to live in safety and dignity.
This is a truly fabulous way to spend each morning in January/ as many as you can !
January Writing Hours are up! Come and join Clare Shaw and I every day throughout January at 10am for a Writing Hour. Pas as you go and bursary tickets available www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/january-wr...
January Writing Hours 2026
Come and join Kim Moore and Clare Shaw in a daily Writing Hour throughout January 2026
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November 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This is a truly fabulous way to spend each morning in January/ as many as you can !
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On December 21, from 2-4 PM EST, I’ll be teaching a 2‑hour generative craft class diving into the underrated, luminous work of poet Laura Gilpin. We will read well beyond “The Two-Headed Calf,” discussing the work of caregiving & poetry, approaching both with deep curiosity & attention to mystery.
Generative Craft Class with Maya C. Popa · Zoom · Luma
On December 21, from 2-4 PM EST, I’ll be teaching a 2‑hour generative craft class diving into the underrated, luminous work of poet Laura Gilpin. We will read…
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November 25, 2025 at 12:48 AM
On December 21, from 2-4 PM EST, I’ll be teaching a 2‑hour generative craft class diving into the underrated, luminous work of poet Laura Gilpin. We will read well beyond “The Two-Headed Calf,” discussing the work of caregiving & poetry, approaching both with deep curiosity & attention to mystery.
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Today’s joy is a poem, inspired by words on a vending machine, on a lilac page in @eatthestorms.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Today’s joy is a poem, inspired by words on a vending machine, on a lilac page in @eatthestorms.com
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Hullo @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social and to #promptcombo #onroofs
Love the theme, as great as Fidel’s from last week!
Love the theme, as great as Fidel’s from last week!
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Hullo @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social and to #promptcombo #onroofs
Love the theme, as great as Fidel’s from last week!
Love the theme, as great as Fidel’s from last week!
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Last year’s Christmas - Winter anthology featuring Matthew Hollis, a dazzling array of poetic talent, and artwork by Emma Bissonnet.
❄️ 🧊 🐻❄️ 🌟 🌊
www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
❄️ 🧊 🐻❄️ 🌟 🌊
www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Last year’s Christmas - Winter anthology featuring Matthew Hollis, a dazzling array of poetic talent, and artwork by Emma Bissonnet.
❄️ 🧊 🐻❄️ 🌟 🌊
www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
❄️ 🧊 🐻❄️ 🌟 🌊
www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
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❛ There will be dying, there will be dying, / but there is no need to go into that. / The poems flow from the hand unbidden / and the hidden source is the watchful heart.
Poet Derek Mahon, who was born #OTD in 1941.
Poet Derek Mahon, who was born #OTD in 1941.
November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
❛ There will be dying, there will be dying, / but there is no need to go into that. / The poems flow from the hand unbidden / and the hidden source is the watchful heart.
Poet Derek Mahon, who was born #OTD in 1941.
Poet Derek Mahon, who was born #OTD in 1941.
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For this week's Sunday poem, I want to share the opening piece from my newest collection, Smatterings of Cerulean, published by @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social The 50 poems in this collection are each accompanied by a sensational photograph from @kenwhytock.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
For this week's Sunday poem, I want to share the opening piece from my newest collection, Smatterings of Cerulean, published by @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social The 50 poems in this collection are each accompanied by a sensational photograph from @kenwhytock.bsky.social
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Not able to find your fellow poets' posts? Here is one way to set up tabs to follow favourite hashtags and poetry communities:
1/ swipe right until you have the 'Following' tab on the left at the top.
1/ swipe right until you have the 'Following' tab on the left at the top.
November 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Not able to find your fellow poets' posts? Here is one way to set up tabs to follow favourite hashtags and poetry communities:
1/ swipe right until you have the 'Following' tab on the left at the top.
1/ swipe right until you have the 'Following' tab on the left at the top.
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Out winter anthology from last year in paperback and hardback with artwork by Emma Bissonnet 🔥 ❄️ 🔥 ❄️ 🔥 ❄️
www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
November 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Out winter anthology from last year in paperback and hardback with artwork by Emma Bissonnet 🔥 ❄️ 🔥 ❄️ 🔥 ❄️
www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...