Ian Brownlie

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Meet the poets of Issue 3: Choices! @stefankarlsson.bsky.social @michnott.bsky.social @ianbrownlie.bsky.social @rburrows.bsky.social @shaunjexauthor.bsky.social Nila Erin Zampaglione Bethany Hernandez

Well, I'm not entirely sure what this is...but it's what I wrote for the prompt (via a circuitous route) so I may as well share it! #PoemsAbout

It is #PoemsAbout day once again, and after a very long and stressful month, I am definitely feeling a little #Hollow. I hope everyone else is faring better and bounding into the weekend with joy 😊 @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #Poetry #Pumpkin

#PoemsAbout #Hollow

Any Choose Your Own Adventure fans should also check out Stefan's excellent poem written in that style: epistemiclit.com/nimblewitlit... Completely unrelated, I'm also attaching the picture currently on my phone's lockscreen...

Delighted to get a poem - Coming off the Rails - in the new Choices edition of @nimblewitlit.bsky.social! Lots of other great stuff to check out there too: epistemiclit.com/nimblewitlit...

Not a children's poem in response to @thetoypress.bsky.social's prompt, for once. But it does involve a child...and a toy. #WordOfTheWeek #WritingCommunity #Rhythm #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #Poem #StarWars

I thought I’d approach #Possessed from the other end. Some things once had a remarkable hold on me. These days I can barely remember why. I made a song about it, too: 🎧 youtu.be/1xyUPc6heEc?... #PoemsAbout #writing #writingcommunity #poetry #skypoet #vss #poetrysky #poem #musiciansky

#PoemsAbout day is here again and I hope you are all having a good one. Here is my contribution to #Posessed with thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk #Poetry #Demons

#PoemsAbout #Possessed @thebrokenspine.co.uk I screwed up the hashtag

#PoemsAbout #Possessed

Very happy to have my short piece The Hat up on Free Flash Fiction. freeflashfiction.com/fiction/the-... (Especially as #Sondheim has been badgering me to get it done for aaages.) #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity #FinishingTheHat

Two of my poems up on the Halloween Cancelled ticket on The Poetry Express. Read mine and all the other fantastic poems here: scaryness.com/halloween-ca...

Oh dear me @societyofauthors.bsky.social #AI #WritingCommunity

Thanks @thetoypress.bsky.social #WordOfTheWeek #Horse #WritingCommunity #WritingForChildren #PoetryForChildren #PoetryCommunity

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan.”

One for #PoemsAbout #Bites @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetsofbluesky

something simple sweet and a bit raw for #PoemsAbout #Bites @thebrokenspine.co.uk a list in the spirit of anne carson. been really into the simple pleasures of the everyday lately. and longing! can’t forget the longing

Dating is never easy. #PoemsAbout #Bites

This poem is about a brilliant woman and her son. They continue to inspire me. He wasn’t able to remain at his local school which she was devastated about, but described her relief that ‘the walk of shame’ was over. #PoemsAbout #Bites @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry

So pleased to have this story in the fantastic Epistemic Lit!

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

Jeffrey Archer has died - here is the obituary of Monica Coghlan www.heraldscotland.com/news/1216989...

Thanks @thetoypress.bsky.social #WordOfTheWeek #Horse #WritingCommunity #WritingForChildren #PoetryForChildren #PoetryCommunity

It's #NationalPoetryDay tomorrow, and the theme for this year is WONDER. To celebrate, here are a few wonder-filled poems from past editions of The Toy! Happy reading and enjoy poetry day! #NationalPoetryDay2026 #PoetryCommunity #Poetryforchildren

This #PoemsAbout #Rot is for any football fans disgusted by wha been goin on at the Etihad. Thanks as ever to @thebrokenspine.co.uk

#poemsabout #rot @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #domesticviolenceawarenessmonth #poetry

Two for the price of one today on rotten drama masks #PoemsAbout #Rot #Poetry #Haiku #Limerick

Very excited to have my story Echo in the new issue of @epistemiclit.bsky.social. Read it along with lots of other great writing here: epistemiclit.com/current-issue

Our newest issue, AGENCY VS DETERMINISM, is out today! Read, enjoy, and share! We’ll be sharing individual pieces over the next week or so 😊 #LitMagWeek epistemiclit.com/current-issue/

A World of Animal Wonder Poems on National Poetry Day childrenspoetrysummit.com/2026/10/01/a...

Not so Super for @thetoypress.bsky.social #WordOfTheWeek #Super #WritingCommunity #WritingForChildren #PoetryForChildren #PoetryCommunity

@thetoypress.bsky.social

A #fridaypoem for @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poemsabout #poetryprompt #deadletters #sorrynotsorry #alttext #PoemAltText #poetry #poetrycommunity

I hate getting all of these kinds of letters #PoemsAbout #DeadLetters

“I use AI art because I wasn’t born talented at art” is something I hear a lot now and it’s so ridiculously insulting to artists I have to scream into a cupboard every time.

Piddington Bear (2026) : An orphaned bear arrives in the village of Piddington by bus having fled Siberia after a Vladimir Putin burns down the forest he called home. He's befriended by a small girl called Sasha before being hunted to his death by the local W.I. (PG)

I'm gathering good roasts for a thing....what are the best clean/not punching down ones you know? Or your kids know? Kids often know best on these matters. Every joker who replies with a picture of some roast lamb will be stopped. Perhaps not today. But one day. I mean insults and you know that.

A weed is just a wildflower in the wrong place, So they say, I find myself collecting things, Sayings, empty snail shells, other people's anxieties, Everything has it's place, Except for those stray nipple hairs, They, can go elsewhere. #PoemsAbout #Strays

This week I would like to present a representation of the inside of my brain in poem form. #WordOfTheWeek #Muddle #WritingCommunity #WritingForChildren #PoetryForChildren #PoetryCommunity

I hope everyone is having a good Friday. I am off to a poetry festival so am very happy. @ianbrownlie.bsky.social I tried to stay away from the darkness and mostly succeeded (mostly). @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #PoemsAbout #Strays #Poetry

What a statement. That's how you do it.

What a great statement by Macklemore

Absolutely over the moon (sorry) to have a poem in The School Magazine! Perfectly illustrated by Greg Holfeld too. #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #KidLit #WritingForChildren #Poem #Aliens

Things I was frightened of as a child: Triffids That disused first aid hut People without faces (thanks Sapphire and Steel) Spiders Dreams about that disused first aid hut The lizards from V Parts of the old Bromsgrove swimming baths, between the changing rooms and the pool (Backrooms vibes)

For this week's #PoemsAbout theme #FaultLines with thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk

And this morning I have given myself the earworm of 'Your Fault' from Into the Woods. Which is great, but even so. #PoemsAbout #FaultLines

I am chuffed to have a poem in the brilliant Rats Ass review along with @madp03t.bsky.social. Go have a look, there's some cool poems in it 🐭 ratsassreview.net?page_id=4627

Tech companies adding genAI features to their devices. 'Hey, what if this thing you like and use all the time did the most annoying fucking thing you've ever seen?'