Fiona Larkin

Fiona Larkin

@fionalarkin.bsky.social

Winner of National Poetry Competition 2024. Debut collection Rope of Sand Pindrop Press (2023). Pamphlets Vital Capacity (Broken Sleep, 2022) and A Dovetail of Breath (Rack Press, 2020). Corrupted Poetry projects. https://fionalarkinpoetry.wordpress.com

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Fiona Larkin
@fionalarkin.bsky.social

What a night! Congratulations Nur, Sarah, Biff & Tara for your brilliant work, to @forwardprizes.bsky.social for making it possible, to the judges and great host Joelle. Such warmth & support backstage & from the lovely audience, an utter pleasure & privilege to be part of it 🙏🏻🌷🥂

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The Poetry Society
@poetrysociety.org.uk

Fingers crossed for Fiona Larkin, whose National Poetry Competition winning poem 'Absence has a grammar' is shortlisted in this year's Forward Prizes for Poetry. (The deadline for this year's National Poetry Competition is close: head to our website to enter before midnight on 31 October)

Fiona Larkin
@fionalarkin.bsky.social

I can only echo Alison 💛

Alison Brackenbury@abrackenbury.bsky.social

Delighted to have work in the new online journal, 'Yield' How could I resist a magazine which mentions harvest, and which is filled with poets whose new work I'm eager to see? Highly recommended! Search for YIELD POETRY!

Fiona Larkin
@fionalarkin.bsky.social

Honoured to have a poem in this wonderful issue 🙏🌷

Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann@poetryireland.bsky.social

🥁Poetry Ireland Review Issue 149, edited by Colm Tóibín, is now available for pre-order! 🥁 🔗Subscribers will receive Poetry Ireland Review 149 later this month, or pre-order your copy: www.poetryireland.ie/publications...

Fiona Larkin
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Bill Herbert@billherbert.bsky.social

Fire, sleepwalk with me, as Europe’s politicians say. #SeanOBrien’s new poem contemplates a continent dazed by its entirely predictable new reality but carrying on carrying on anyway. newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2026/08/15/s... #NewBootsAndPantisocracies #EuropeIsBurning

newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.comSean O’Brien: What We Did on Our HolidaysAt 30,000 feet we are absconding from mortality by skirting the inferno, watching wildfires racing to the lakes near Perpignan as though to douse themselves since we cannot. We seem to recognize th…
Fiona Larkin
@fionalarkin.bsky.social

👀 - glad to add to my tbr pile new work from @fiddes.bsky.social & @jakeareynolds.bsky.social - and my own pamphlet Vital Capacity also still available from the excellent @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social !

Broken Sleep Books@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

FLASH SALE: 20% off until Sunday night. If there's a book you've been circling, or you fancy taking a punt on something new, now's a good time. Every order goes straight back into publishing writers the bigger presses overlook. That's the whole point of us. www.brokensleepbooks.com/books

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Jeremy Noel-Tod
@jntod.bsky.social

Lovely poem here

Association for Scottish Literature@asls.org.uk

I never felt so much Since I have felt at all The tingling smell and touch Of dogrose and sweet briar, Nettles against the wall, All sours and sweets that grow Together or apart… —“A Birthday”, by poet, novelist & translator Edwin Muir (1887–1959), born #OTD, 15 May #poem #poetry 1/10

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Duille
@duille.com

Design legend Margaret Calvert is 90 today. Look at that cake! If you've ever admired a road, rail or metro sign in Britain it's likely she had something to do with it. One of Britain's design heroes - happy birthday to her. Photo by: @oshgallerylondon (IG) Cake by: mybaker.co

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Adam Sharp
@adamcsharp.bsky.social

The Finnish word for an auction, huutokauppa, means “shout market” (or “shouting shop”) * read on for more of my favourite Finnish words (a thread in honour of today being Day of the Finnish Language)…

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Philip Hoare
@philiphoare.bsky.social

such a beautiful, tiny painting on glass, backed with silver paper from a cigarette packet Dora Carrington ‘The Barque Harmony in the Ice off the Labrador Coast’, 1929

Fiona Larkin
@fionalarkin.bsky.social

Looking forward very much to this tonight!

perversemag@perversemag.bsky.social

Please come to an awesome PERVERSE poetry reading with Annie Katchinska, Crispin Best, Edward Doegar, Joe Carrick-Varty, L. Kiew, Michelle Penn, Natalie Shaw and Phoebe Gilmore on Weds 18th March | Basement @The Betsey Trotwood (EC1R 3BL) | from 7pm | free

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Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival
@poetryinaldeburgh.bsky.social

We are so excited to be on Bluesky! This year’s festival is from the 5th-8th November. Will we see you there? With huge thanks to Vici MacDonald and Andrew Lindesay for creating our beautiful logo 🌊 💛 #newlogo #poetry #writing #poetryfestival #suffolk

Fiona Larkin
@fionalarkin.bsky.social

Delighted to have a deep winter poem feature on @inksweatandtears.co.uk wonderful 12 Days of Christmas series in lovely company 🎄❄️✨

Ink Sweat & Tears@inksweatandtears.co.uk

On the Seventh Day of Christmas we bring you @pennyblackburn.bsky.social , @fionalarkin.bsky.social, @ruthhiggins.bsky.social. Read their work here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/on-the-seven... #InkSweatAndTears #FeaturedPoem #ChristmasPoem #12DaysOf

Fiona Larkin
@fionalarkin.bsky.social

Wow! @sophieherx.bsky.social & @matthewepaul.bsky.social reading their wonderful work & being interviewed by Katie Griffiths tomorrow night - looking forward to this one very much www.riverhousebarn.co.uk/events/136679

riverhousebarn.co.ukLive Poetry At RiverhouseIntroduced by Riverhouse Poets Tutor Katie Griffiths.Live Poetry at Riverhouse is a monthly series bringing the spoken word to the warm, intimate setting of the Barn stage. This se...

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Matthew Stewart
@roguestrands.bsky.social

Rogue Strands are making a Live Poetry Mix Tape...!

Matthew Stewart@roguestrands.bsky.social

When Mat and I are working out what poets to invite to read with us at Rogue Strands events, it feels like we're generating our own Live Poetry Mix Tapes... roguestrands.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-li...

roguestrands.blogspot.comA Live Poetry Mix TapeBack in the day, we used to create mix tapes for our mates. Of course, they were really made up of the music we enjoyed listening to ourselv...
Fiona Larkin
@fionalarkin.bsky.social

Three weeks today, at Riverhouse Barn in Walton on Thames, delighted to be reading with the wonderful Jill Abrams hosted by excellent poet, singer and tutor Katie Griffiths, plus open mic - do join us! link in comments.

Fiona Larkin
@fionalarkin.bsky.social

Excited to be part of this amazing night - do join us!

Mat Riches@matriches.bsky.social

Got a couple of hours spare on 22nd October between 6.45 - 8.30pm? We'd love to see you for an evening of ace poetry from @hannahcopley.bsky.social @jonathandavidson.bsky.social @fionalarkin.bsky.social @roguestrands.bsky.social Philip Hancock & me.