Did you know it is National Poetry Day on 3rd October? No? Then allow me to direct you to a flight of fanciful and extraordinary words, due to take off on that very day. The Dirigible Balloon 🎈 is a free online poetry webzine for children. Essential & excellent. 🎈 #poetry#poetryday

Really looking forward to this. If you'd like to join us on Oct 6th (via Zoom), get in touch with Steve, Emma and/or Dave by email at [email protected] Open mic slots are available and this is a 'pay-as-you-feel' event. What's not to like? Cheers. JH 🙂

"Poetry is not a career---it is a state of being." Joy Harjo #poetry #poets #versenovels #writingcommunity #writingprocess #booktwitter #books #authors Diverse Verse

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Happy #NationalPoetryDay ✨ We’re celebrating with the launch of our mighty Small Things edition - check out our 16 sensational poems on Sneezes! Seeds! Spiders! And much more besides! tygertyger.net/project/tyger-… #kidlit #poetry #readingforpleasure #poetrycommunity #poemsforchildren

Teachers! Schools! Kids! Mums & Dads! Happy National Poetry Day! Why not fly over to the Dirigible Balloon and have fun reading through the wonderful poems on our website (free-to-use and safe). #PoetryForChildren dirigibleballoon.org #Education

I’m delighted to have a new #poem in the latest flight of The Dirigible Balloon 🎈 alongside so many wonderful poets from all around the world! 🎈Thank you, Jonathan Humble, for spreading the joy of poetry far and wide! #NationalPoetryDay #poetryforchildren dirigibleballoon.org/poem/I-am-the-…

🔥OUT THIS MONTH 🔥 'Consolamentum', a collection of poems by @jamesmcconachi1 NOT LONG NOW! 'James McConachie is a man with a wilderness' #BOOKS #writing #readers #reading #readingcommunity #writers #poetry #poetic #poet #booklaunch

The very last (and 100th) publication from The Candyman’s Trumpet & 10red - congratulations on the century and thank you for your role supporting poetry Jack Caradoc

Thoroughly enjoyed listening to headliner Jonathan Humble editor of The Dirigible Balloon 🎈 read his poetry last night at #YesWeCant event by poetsandprattlers 👏 👏 👏 #Poetry #poetrylovers

Found an editing tool on my computer that I didn't know I had ... such fun #PoetryForChildren

A father with dementia recognized his daughter on her wedding day.

Very few people realise that the vast majority of hospice and palliative care is provided by charity - not by the NHS. I think this is a national scandal. Please RT if you do too 🙏

‘who was born in a storm with a rainbow inside her’ ⛈️ 🌈 ⛈️ Gorgeous poem by ⁦Julia Webb⁩ published in ⁦Atrium Poetry⁩ today: atriumpoetry.com/2024/10/18/for…

Thank you Richard Skinner for publishing my poem about pyjamas 🦎 in the beautiful new issue of 14 Magazine

Things have just got a lot more difficult . Here’s what I think . I had no control over what just happened . None . But I do have control over how I will react to it . And I am not going to give up on the beautiful and the good , the grip on my dreams just got tighter .

—Stanley Kunitz, “The Portrait”

I really love Jack Gilbert's poems for their quietness. I wish there could be more future Jack Gilbert poems.