Carmella de Keyser

HUGE THANKS to @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social @yorkshiretimes.bsky.social for this beautiful review of #TheAmygdalaSafari.✨ "The poet promulgates a new aesthetic, subordinating all formal considerations to the moment of pure invigoration." Read the piece here.🔗 yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Venu...

🎬 BRISTOL PREMIERE: What Do You Really Know About Dairy? will be held at Bristol Uni - both students and non-students welcome! 📅 Wednesday 4 November 🕡 6.30–8pm 📍 Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol 🎟️ Book your space: viva.org.uk/bristol-uni

Who sings the “ahhhs” on The Beatles song ‘A Day in the Life’?

Living Room Made of Clouds.💭 Are you living in congruity with yourself? The hardest question any human being has to ask themselves... 💔A little poem I wrote asking whether you feel at home within your own life or not. Hope you like it... youtube.com/shorts/m_NOu...

With Halloween approaching, we look at the tale behind one of the best ghost stories ever written. #Halloween #ghoststory #themonkeyspaw #wwjacobs themadridreview.substack.com/p/the-hand-o...

HAPPY HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY to Sylvia Plath. 🖤 As we are approaching November, I thought you might like to listen to her reading #NovemberGraveyard a poem said to have been inspired by her walking amongst church graveyards in Yorkshire. (Penned in 1956). #SylviaPlath youtu.be/Y7ujeHnrT8A?...

My silly Halloween radio special is on Saturday at 8pm – stand by for odd things and great records on @madwaspradiomwr.bsky.social !

Today is my 40th bday. If you want to get me a present, please read, download, keep and share my new poetry pamphlet for adults. It represent my life's work up until this point, & I'm giving it away for FREE as a digital publication: archive.org/details/the-... sample poem below #BookSky #Poetry

THE SENSUALIST by John Updike Published in "The New Yorker" (Feb 16th 1957). This piece was written during Updike's early career while he was a staff writer & frequent contributor of light verse, poems, and "Talk of the Town" pieces to the paper. #JohnUpdike #TheSensualist youtu.be/NmlIT8QFrkI?...

I am reading 'Actioning the New University' by Oz Hardwick. It is incandescently fresh. Sharing my two favourite pieces here. #Recommended

Now re-watching...🍿 So I Married an Axe Murderer 1993 🥰 #MikeMyers #NancyTravis #AlanArkin #CharlesGrodin #BrendaFricker #Head #Sputnik #90s #CriminallyUnderrated #filmsky #missthe90ssomuchithurts

Patchwork day, bricolage, disjointed, jagging about. Wind rises one moment. Day fades from view into ragged grey fixity in another. Years pass in an instant then a monotony lasts decades. I sense I had something to do but didn’t. I feel caught in a Virginia Woolf story, in the style of Jacob’s Room

Good morning! Happy Friday! This was another tough one for me for #PoemsAbout #Hollow Thank you as always @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk I guess I should have found a blue-sky photo, but I liked this one. 😊

Feeling slightly unreal to be shortlisted in the Irish Independent's New Irish Writing Best Poetry category for this year's An Post Irish Book Awards. #poetry #IrishIndependent #NewIrishWriting #AnPostIrishBookAwards

Very pleased my poem ‘Ritual’ has now found a home at @oatleafpoetry.bsky.social 😊✨ They are new to Substack - I’d love to see them grow as they are great! 🧡 #PoetrySky #Poem oatleaf.substack.com/p/ritual?r=1...

Don McQuaid talks to Bob Chitester about poetry and protest in 1967. #Poetry #Protest #DonMcQuaid #60scounterculture 🎧▶️👇🏻 youtu.be/TJQYz7vdUvw?...

Hard to believe! 2 #artworks have been selected for #Botanical, an international online group exhibition. #CallaLilyCurves (#photo) #WindmillFarm (#mixedmediacollage) are the #4th & #5th pieces to be curated by #No.35Gallery #London The show opens Oct. 22. A catalog of will be available then.

Delighted to have a poem in the wonderful @maxwallis.bsky.social Huge thanks to the editor and publisher Max Wallis for his outstanding hard work and talents www.aftershockreview.com/product-page... #aftershockreview

Times we usually associate with weakness, even delusion, would then be the moments when, without falling into baseness, without abandoning our empathy & imagination, but with our capacity for wonder heightened as quotidian civilising safeguards are checked & muted, we’d become most capable of vision

Michael Crichton would have been 84 today. We look at what he squeezed in during his time on this Earth. #er #jurassicpark #westworld themadridreview.substack.com/p/beyond-jur...

Caving to craving, Your contempt for commitment, Carved into my heart. #vss365 #commitment #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity @rachelnewcombe8.bsky.social

Looking forward to listening. Thank you so much Mark Burns @drive105radio.bsky.social @drive105radio.bsky.social

Yesterday I read my poem ‘On Seeing A Heron In Regent’s Park’ at an event celebrating Camden Libraries. The work they do for the community is exceptional and should be applauded.

Ursula K. Le Guin was born #OTD in 1929. First female author to win both the Nebula & Hugo awards for Best Novel for "The Left Hand of Darkness," 1970. In total, she won 8 Hugo & 6 Nebula awards. Second woman Grand Master of the #ScienceFiction & Fantasy Writers of America. #SciFi #LitSky #BookSky

// OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS AND WRITERS // Labour, repetition and the act of printing. Deadline 6th November 2026 ALL MEDIA WELCOME --- painting, drawing, writing, poetry -- No submission fees, 1–3 artworks, short artist statement www.haus-a-rest.com/opportunitie... @hausarest.bsky.social

🎙️ Zappa Lore Drop: "A Token of My Extreme" (1979) 💜 Joe's Garage #FrankZappa #Zapppalore #Appliantology #TheCentralScrutinizer #JoesGarage #ATokenofMyExtreme #toxictechnology 🎧▶️🎵 youtu.be/tnSF36PBxbk?...

Today, the new autumn set of Poems on the Underground goes up on London Underground and Overground trains! Featuring poems by Bernard O’Donoghue, Jaan Kaplinski, Emily Bronte, Langston Hughes, Grace Nichols and Valerie Bloom. Discover the new set: poetrysociety.org.uk/projects/poe...

🎙️ Zappa Lore Drop: "A Token of My Extreme" (1979) 💜 Joe's Garage #FrankZappa #Zapppalore #Appliantology #TheCentralScrutinizer #JoesGarage #ATokenofMyExtreme #toxictechnology 🎧▶️🎵 youtu.be/tnSF36PBxbk?...

Robert Musil in The Man Without Qualities describes an emptiness at the centre of being, a void necessary for change, even genius. Though ordinarily immune to place or era, the void, Musil suggests, became in pre-WWI Austria the whole culture. What vacuity swirls round us now? What cataclysms await?

My poem Wilting Flower from my pamphlet Step into the Dark and some flowers for you 🙂🌼

Tristram 2 (b.~1830) Pearl Beach, St Clair County Michigan. 📸 Minolta Maxxum 7000i 🎞️ Harman Red #photography #film #filmphotography #believeinfilm #minolta #35mm #lomo #harman #oldbuildings #logcabins #historic #rural #wetlands #pearlbeach #stclair #michigan