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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Our NEW ISSUE featuring 30 remarkable new poems and stunning cover art by printmaker Molly Lemon is LIVE.
You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
Issue 15, Dear World
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November 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Our NEW ISSUE featuring 30 remarkable new poems and stunning cover art by printmaker Molly Lemon is LIVE.
You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
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Join us, tonight! Lots of stellar poets on board!
After researching for 3 weeks in Japan, I’m excited to introduce the astonishing poet, Fumiko Hayashi in my Zoom poetry workshop on Monday Dec 8th:
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December 8, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Join us, tonight! Lots of stellar poets on board!
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Delighted to have a poem in the wonderful new Christmas Anthology from @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social! 🎄
My copy arrived just as I discovered 'Hellebore' has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize! ❄️
My copy arrived just as I discovered 'Hellebore' has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize! ❄️
December 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Delighted to have a poem in the wonderful new Christmas Anthology from @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social! 🎄
My copy arrived just as I discovered 'Hellebore' has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize! ❄️
My copy arrived just as I discovered 'Hellebore' has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize! ❄️
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Amazing to me, but @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social and I began @badlilies.bsky.social five years ago this coming spring. Five years! A lockdown project of optimism in a sad time. The world continues to disappoint. Bad Lilies keeps going. Explore our archive: www.badlilies.uk/issues
Issues — Bad Lilies
Issues of Bad Lilies, a digital poetry journal.
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December 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Amazing to me, but @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social and I began @badlilies.bsky.social five years ago this coming spring. Five years! A lockdown project of optimism in a sad time. The world continues to disappoint. Bad Lilies keeps going. Explore our archive: www.badlilies.uk/issues
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A wonderful surprise to see that, due to recent interest and demand, my @vpresslit.bsky.social pamphlet '(m)othersongs' has just gone to a fourth print run – two years after publication! Get 'em while they're hot... ❤️🔥🍂❤️🔥
V. v. excited to have another new print run of @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social’s beautiful (m)othersongs in time for Christmas -- It’s rare to do a new run 2 years after publication & this may well be the last, so get a copy while you still can! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/mothersong...
December 5, 2025 at 9:55 AM
A wonderful surprise to see that, due to recent interest and demand, my @vpresslit.bsky.social pamphlet '(m)othersongs' has just gone to a fourth print run – two years after publication! Get 'em while they're hot... ❤️🔥🍂❤️🔥
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The @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Christmas-Winter anthology volume 6 arrived! Honoured to have 2 poems included with stunning work by poets worldwide & beautiful illustrations by Emma Bissonnet. Many thanks to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social ✨️
Order yours today 🎁
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Order yours today 🎁
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December 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Christmas-Winter anthology volume 6 arrived! Honoured to have 2 poems included with stunning work by poets worldwide & beautiful illustrations by Emma Bissonnet. Many thanks to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social ✨️
Order yours today 🎁
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
Order yours today 🎁
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
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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 ...
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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