David Hanlon
@vespertine4.bsky.social
Cardiff poet. Best of the Net nominee. Author of two poetry collections - 'Spectrum of Flight' published in 2020 & 'Dawn's Incision' in 2024. Co-Poetry Editor @brokenspinearts.bsky.social
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David Hanlon
@vespertine4.bsky.social
· Feb 20
"Copies of this contemplative, lyrical queer masterpiece of precise poetics, exploring love, loneliness, desire, eco-poetics, interiority, space, abjection, renewal and object silence, are now available from Ice Floe Press." @icefloepress.bsky.social
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David Hanlon – Dawn’s Incision Poems
NOW AVAILABLE FROM OUR PRESS BOOKSHOP!A COMPLEX 1ST FULL-LENGTH COLLECTION David Hanlon’s Dawn’s Incision Notes on Dawn’s Incision David’s book involves a deep journey into the se…
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My latest poetry collection, Dawn's Incision, from @icefloepress.bsky.social - available here👇
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Our Christmas and winter anthology flying out like hot cakes. Gift this beauty this Christmas. 💝 🎁 📖
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December 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Our Christmas and winter anthology flying out like hot cakes. Gift this beauty this Christmas. 💝 🎁 📖
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#poetry #writingcommunity
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#poetry #writingcommunity
Overjoyed to share that my poem “An Ode to Sebastiane” appears in The Storms Journal's fifth issue 💜🤎
Grateful to @eatthestorms.com and @rhonagreene.bsky.social for selecting my work 🫶
Grateful to @eatthestorms.com and @rhonagreene.bsky.social for selecting my work 🫶
December 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Overjoyed to share that my poem “An Ode to Sebastiane” appears in The Storms Journal's fifth issue 💜🤎
Grateful to @eatthestorms.com and @rhonagreene.bsky.social for selecting my work 🫶
Grateful to @eatthestorms.com and @rhonagreene.bsky.social for selecting my work 🫶
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Get your free tickets for our Christmas and winter anthology live launch on ZOOM this Sunday, 14th December! 🎫
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December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Get your free tickets for our Christmas and winter anthology live launch on ZOOM this Sunday, 14th December! 🎫
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Excited to share that two new poems of mine are now published in @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social!
Read them both here:
www.darkwinterlit.com/post/a-fores...
Read them both here:
www.darkwinterlit.com/post/a-fores...
December 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Excited to share that two new poems of mine are now published in @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social!
Read them both here:
www.darkwinterlit.com/post/a-fores...
Read them both here:
www.darkwinterlit.com/post/a-fores...
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TONIGHT - our mystery guest feature writer on the open mic is none other than @helenlaycock.bsky.social
Book your tickets fast!
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Book your tickets fast!
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December 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
TONIGHT - our mystery guest feature writer on the open mic is none other than @helenlaycock.bsky.social
Book your tickets fast!
t.co/lSuoN8D5Mw
Book your tickets fast!
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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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We made final decisions on our Summer 2025 #Competition & notified all entrants today.
In 2026, we'll publish work by
@ronanmurphymusic.com
@lozzakidwriting.bsky.social
@belrimmer.bsky.social
The standard was phenomenal across the board, but these three truly stood out. Congratulations to all!
In 2026, we'll publish work by
@ronanmurphymusic.com
@lozzakidwriting.bsky.social
@belrimmer.bsky.social
The standard was phenomenal across the board, but these three truly stood out. Congratulations to all!
kermit the frog is leaning against a railing with the words `` we proud of you '' written on it .
ALT: kermit the frog is leaning against a railing with the words `` we proud of you '' written on it .
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December 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
We made final decisions on our Summer 2025 #Competition & notified all entrants today.
In 2026, we'll publish work by
@ronanmurphymusic.com
@lozzakidwriting.bsky.social
@belrimmer.bsky.social
The standard was phenomenal across the board, but these three truly stood out. Congratulations to all!
In 2026, we'll publish work by
@ronanmurphymusic.com
@lozzakidwriting.bsky.social
@belrimmer.bsky.social
The standard was phenomenal across the board, but these three truly stood out. Congratulations to all!
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I’ve been working hard on my upcoming collection 'Headroom', forthcoming with @thebrokenspine.co.uk. I’m both excited and terrified—this is the most vulnerable work I’ve ever created, exploring mental health and my lived experiences with depression, anxiety, and healing.
November 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I’ve been working hard on my upcoming collection 'Headroom', forthcoming with @thebrokenspine.co.uk. I’m both excited and terrified—this is the most vulnerable work I’ve ever created, exploring mental health and my lived experiences with depression, anxiety, and healing.
Thank you @sageciggs.bsky.social for publishing my poem Nightglow, named after my favourite album by my favourite artist! Read the full poem here: sagecigarettes.com/nightglow/
December 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Thank you @sageciggs.bsky.social for publishing my poem Nightglow, named after my favourite album by my favourite artist! Read the full poem here: sagecigarettes.com/nightglow/
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So thankful to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for my first ever Pushcart nomination! 🏆 And thank you to everyone who has shared their love and congratulations — I’m incredibly grateful.
Our #TopTweetTuesday @PushcartPrize nominations this year!
Congratulations 🍾🥂
Sarah Raybould @sarahraybould.bsky.social 🩰
Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social 🐦⬛
David Hanlon 🏴
Gayle J. Greenlea @gjgreenlea.bsky.social ✒️
Kate Vanhinsbergh 🎁
Paul Short @paulwritespoems.bsky.social 📚
#poetry
Congratulations 🍾🥂
Sarah Raybould @sarahraybould.bsky.social 🩰
Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social 🐦⬛
David Hanlon 🏴
Gayle J. Greenlea @gjgreenlea.bsky.social ✒️
Kate Vanhinsbergh 🎁
Paul Short @paulwritespoems.bsky.social 📚
#poetry
December 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
So thankful to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for my first ever Pushcart nomination! 🏆 And thank you to everyone who has shared their love and congratulations — I’m incredibly grateful.
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Thrilled to have my contributor’s copies of @foglifterpress.bsky.social arrive yesterday!! Much love to Chad Koch & the editors—I couldn’t dream of a better home for these poems that are so dear to me. 💙💙
December 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Thrilled to have my contributor’s copies of @foglifterpress.bsky.social arrive yesterday!! Much love to Chad Koch & the editors—I couldn’t dream of a better home for these poems that are so dear to me. 💙💙
So thankful to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for my first ever Pushcart nomination! 🏆 And thank you to everyone who has shared their love and congratulations — I’m incredibly grateful.
Our #TopTweetTuesday @PushcartPrize nominations this year!
Congratulations 🍾🥂
Sarah Raybould @sarahraybould.bsky.social 🩰
Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social 🐦⬛
David Hanlon 🏴
Gayle J. Greenlea @gjgreenlea.bsky.social ✒️
Kate Vanhinsbergh 🎁
Paul Short @paulwritespoems.bsky.social 📚
#poetry
Congratulations 🍾🥂
Sarah Raybould @sarahraybould.bsky.social 🩰
Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social 🐦⬛
David Hanlon 🏴
Gayle J. Greenlea @gjgreenlea.bsky.social ✒️
Kate Vanhinsbergh 🎁
Paul Short @paulwritespoems.bsky.social 📚
#poetry
December 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
So thankful to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for my first ever Pushcart nomination! 🏆 And thank you to everyone who has shared their love and congratulations — I’m incredibly grateful.
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If you pick up Soot & Boots, show us where you're reading. Indie lit grows through community. #SootAndBoots
December 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
If you pick up Soot & Boots, show us where you're reading. Indie lit grows through community. #SootAndBoots
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Philosophy and form: Sara Cline’s “Null” and “Unimagining,” Simon Ravenscroft’s “Shyly shying away.” Edited by @vespertine4.bsky.social & @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social. Free download.
Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025 - Eds. David Hanlon & Katie Jenkins (Digital) - The Broken Spine
Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025 (Digital Edition) Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025 brings together bold, contemporary voices from across the globe. Edited by David Hanlon and Katie Jenkins, this downloadable PDF anthology features work by Michael Conley, Patrick Wright, Jill McCabe Johnson, Heather Wastie, Henry Bladon, and many more. Designed by Alan Parry, with cover art by Alan Parry and Andrew Lloyd, it continues The Broken Spine’s commitment to accessible, high-quality poetry that challenges, moves, and inspires. Download now and experience poetry without limits. This is a digital product. No hard copy will be sent out.
thebrokenspine.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Philosophy and form: Sara Cline’s “Null” and “Unimagining,” Simon Ravenscroft’s “Shyly shying away.” Edited by @vespertine4.bsky.social & @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social. Free download.
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Spires vanishing into gloom. Incredible imagery in these two new poems A Forest Gasping Underwater and Survival Ritual by David Hanlon now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/a-fores...
A Forest Gasping Underwater; Survival Ritual by David Hanlon
The memory is dense:
a forest gasping underwater—
kelp bowing,
spires vanishing into gloom. [...]
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December 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Spires vanishing into gloom. Incredible imagery in these two new poems A Forest Gasping Underwater and Survival Ritual by David Hanlon now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/a-fores...
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💅 Want to slip something a little spicy in their stocking?
This isn’t socks—it’s sass, sex, and social commentary in heels.
Rainbows in the Rough is the gift they’ll remember.
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👤 @dukestking.bsky.social
This isn’t socks—it’s sass, sex, and social commentary in heels.
Rainbows in the Rough is the gift they’ll remember.
📚 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/...
👤 @dukestking.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
💅 Want to slip something a little spicy in their stocking?
This isn’t socks—it’s sass, sex, and social commentary in heels.
Rainbows in the Rough is the gift they’ll remember.
📚 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/...
👤 @dukestking.bsky.social
This isn’t socks—it’s sass, sex, and social commentary in heels.
Rainbows in the Rough is the gift they’ll remember.
📚 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/...
👤 @dukestking.bsky.social
What gives me the courage to write and share is the support and uplift of others—friends, fellow poets, and everyone committed to breaking the stigma, shame, and silence around mental health. I hope this collection can offer something meaningful to anyone who is struggling. @thebrokenspine.co.uk
I’ve been working hard on my upcoming collection 'Headroom', forthcoming with @thebrokenspine.co.uk. I’m both excited and terrified—this is the most vulnerable work I’ve ever created, exploring mental health and my lived experiences with depression, anxiety, and healing.
November 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
What gives me the courage to write and share is the support and uplift of others—friends, fellow poets, and everyone committed to breaking the stigma, shame, and silence around mental health. I hope this collection can offer something meaningful to anyone who is struggling. @thebrokenspine.co.uk
I’ve been working hard on my upcoming collection 'Headroom', forthcoming with @thebrokenspine.co.uk. I’m both excited and terrified—this is the most vulnerable work I’ve ever created, exploring mental health and my lived experiences with depression, anxiety, and healing.
November 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I’ve been working hard on my upcoming collection 'Headroom', forthcoming with @thebrokenspine.co.uk. I’m both excited and terrified—this is the most vulnerable work I’ve ever created, exploring mental health and my lived experiences with depression, anxiety, and healing.
I’ve been working hard on my upcoming collection 'Headroom', forthcoming with @thebrokenspine.co.uk. I’m both excited and terrified—this is the most vulnerable work I’ve ever created, exploring mental health and my lived experiences with depression, anxiety, and healing.
November 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I’ve been working hard on my upcoming collection 'Headroom', forthcoming with @thebrokenspine.co.uk. I’m both excited and terrified—this is the most vulnerable work I’ve ever created, exploring mental health and my lived experiences with depression, anxiety, and healing.
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Thrilled to share that I have a poem in the new issue of @mosspuppymag.bsky.social 🌱🐶
Check out Issue 9: Echoed Howls:
mosspuppymag.com/issue-9-echo...
Check out Issue 9: Echoed Howls:
mosspuppymag.com/issue-9-echo...
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Thrilled to share that I have a poem in the new issue of @mosspuppymag.bsky.social 🌱🐶
Check out Issue 9: Echoed Howls:
mosspuppymag.com/issue-9-echo...
Check out Issue 9: Echoed Howls:
mosspuppymag.com/issue-9-echo...
Thrilled to share that I have a poem in the new issue of @mosspuppymag.bsky.social 🌱🐶
Check out Issue 9: Echoed Howls:
mosspuppymag.com/issue-9-echo...
Check out Issue 9: Echoed Howls:
mosspuppymag.com/issue-9-echo...
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Thrilled to share that I have a poem in the new issue of @mosspuppymag.bsky.social 🌱🐶
Check out Issue 9: Echoed Howls:
mosspuppymag.com/issue-9-echo...
Check out Issue 9: Echoed Howls:
mosspuppymag.com/issue-9-echo...
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Stocking filler for under a tenner. Beautifully brutal. Quietly radical. This one says more in 50 pages than most say in 400.
@martinkennedyyates.bsky.social #ThisWilderness
www.amazon.co.uk/Wil...
@martinkennedyyates.bsky.social #ThisWilderness
www.amazon.co.uk/Wil...
November 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Stocking filler for under a tenner. Beautifully brutal. Quietly radical. This one says more in 50 pages than most say in 400.
@martinkennedyyates.bsky.social #ThisWilderness
www.amazon.co.uk/Wil...
@martinkennedyyates.bsky.social #ThisWilderness
www.amazon.co.uk/Wil...
This morning, I finished reading @susanlleary.bsky.social's Dressing the Bear on the train to work. When I looked up, sunlight was flooding the fields rushing by, and I felt completely moved. This collection is beautiful—so tender, so staggering. I highly recommend it.
November 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
This morning, I finished reading @susanlleary.bsky.social's Dressing the Bear on the train to work. When I looked up, sunlight was flooding the fields rushing by, and I felt completely moved. This collection is beautiful—so tender, so staggering. I highly recommend it.
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Standouts: D. R. James’ “Ugly Duckling,” Hana Wilde’s “Corporate Trainer,” Anna Starkey’s “building, roar” and “ashes.” Edited by @vespertine4.bsky.social & @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social. Free.
Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025 - Eds. David Hanlon & Katie Jenkins (Digital) - The Broken Spine
Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025 (Digital Edition) Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025 brings together bold, contemporary voices from across the globe. Edited by David Hanlon and Katie Jenkins, this downloadable PDF anthology features work by Michael Conley, Patrick Wright, Jill McCabe Johnson, Heather Wastie, Henry Bladon, and many more. Designed by Alan Parry, with cover art by Alan Parry and Andrew Lloyd, it continues The Broken Spine’s commitment to accessible, high-quality poetry that challenges, moves, and inspires. Download now and experience poetry without limits. This is a digital product. No hard copy will be sent out.
thebrokenspine.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Standouts: D. R. James’ “Ugly Duckling,” Hana Wilde’s “Corporate Trainer,” Anna Starkey’s “building, roar” and “ashes.” Edited by @vespertine4.bsky.social & @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social. Free.
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Global voices, shared stakes: Ray Carey’s “Blackers,” Susan Butler’s “Helmand Revenant,” Mary McQueen’s “That Girl,” Clare O’Brien’s “Excommunicate.” Eds: @vespertine4.bsky.social & @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social. Free.
Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025 - Eds. David Hanlon & Katie Jenkins (Digital) - The Broken Spine
Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025 (Digital Edition) Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025 brings together bold, contemporary voices from across the globe. Edited by David Hanlon and Katie Jenkins, this downloadable PDF anthology features work by Michael Conley, Patrick Wright, Jill McCabe Johnson, Heather Wastie, Henry Bladon, and many more. Designed by Alan Parry, with cover art by Alan Parry and Andrew Lloyd, it continues The Broken Spine’s commitment to accessible, high-quality poetry that challenges, moves, and inspires. Download now and experience poetry without limits. This is a digital product. No hard copy will be sent out.
thebrokenspine.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Global voices, shared stakes: Ray Carey’s “Blackers,” Susan Butler’s “Helmand Revenant,” Mary McQueen’s “That Girl,” Clare O’Brien’s “Excommunicate.” Eds: @vespertine4.bsky.social & @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social. Free.