On this day, November 4th 1918, a week - almost to the very hour - before the Armistice, the poet Wilfred Owen was killed in action. He was 25.

Here is my recording of one of his most famous poems.

Dulce Et Decorum Est

#warpoetry #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky

My recording of my poem Storms, first published in Guttural Magazine, posted here for @rfsmith.bsky.social's #promptcombo theme #storm #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #booksky

Here’s my reading of Isaac Rosenberg’s extraordinary Break of Day in the Trenches. #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #neveragain #warpoetry #WWI #poppy #rat

And on the subject of Wyatt, there really aren’t that many better sonnets than this one. Nor are there many better illustrations of just how dangerous - creatively and literally - poetry can be.

Thomas Wyatt’s ‘Whoso list to hunt’. Read by me. #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #thomaswyatt

And reposting full recording of my poem Branscombe Coast, read by me at the @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social open mic last night #poetrycommunity since it failed to load first time

The @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social open mic ended with a great privilege for me when our wonderful MC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social asked me to play the session out by reprising my poem Distant Pigeon. Here's a recording of it

Black Bough open mics are brilliant. Highly recommended

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Here's my recording of my poem Zhu Bang's Fishermen, read by me at the @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social open mic last night #poetrycommunity

So. It’s the #spooky season. #Halloween approaches. But far more alarming than confected sprites are the impulses of our ambitions and promptings from the daggers of the mind. For #ShakespeareSunday this is me reading the dagger of speech from #Macbeth #poetrycommunity #Shakespeare 🗡️ 💀

My recording of my #poem Six Balloons, first published in Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #booksky

As many outside the UK can't use BBC Sounds here's the Vis Aeternitatis recording used in the Upload programme
My thanks again to the brilliant @takahemagazine.bsky.social The poem's had a good afterlife because of their kindness in publishing it during the pandemic🙏 #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky