Rachel Burrows

Absolutely giddy to hear that John Agard has chosen my poem for The Guernsey Literature Festival exhibition #PoemsOnTheMove 🚌⛴️✈️ poemsonthemove.com Thank you - and congratulations to everyone there! 🥳 #poetry #writing

Hullo #poetry #poetsofbluesky #storm

morning campers here’s my little “throwaway” poem for #PoemsAbout #Hollow and thank you to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetry #poems enjoy your weekend everyone everywhere even if you’re doing nowt🛋️

Travelled up from London to go for lunch with Mum and my sister. I saw her face as a buffet of memories, carved by time ... #mother #poetry #blueskypoetry #ageing #blueskypoet

Morning! Here is my #fragmentsfriday Thanks @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and guest judge @helenlaycock.bsky.social Have a wonderful Friday. #poetry #micropoetry #18words

I can’t believe the year I’m having! Enormous thanks to @paulwritespoems.bsky.social and huge congratulations to my wonderful poet friends! 🥳🥳🥳

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...

I’m excited to share this interview about Where the Light Shines In that’s featured in the latest issue of Nimblewit Magazine! 💜💜💜 @nimblewitlit.bsky.social @epistemiclit.bsky.social epistemiclit.com/nimblewitlit...

The newest issue of @nimblewitlit.bsky.social is available, and I'm fortunate enough to have a poem featured! Read the rest of the incredible work at the link below: epistemiclit.com/nimblewitlit...

Read this awesome interview with Jenny Mattern @jengelmattern.bsky.social talking about her new book Where the Light Shines and the role choices play in it! @nimblewitlit.bsky.social love this book!

A poem for children about hobbies; a poem for adults about why you mustn’t to do housework. 🥳 Something for everyone! Thank you @nimblewitlit.bsky.social for choosing it for your latest edition Choices. epistemiclit.com/nimblewitlit... #poetry #poetryforkids #poetryforchildren #kidlit

Very happy to have my poem Hobby House in Choices - the latest edition of the lovely @nimblewitlit.bsky.social #poetry #kidlit #poetryforkids #poetryforchildren @epistemiclit.bsky.social

Hello Tuesday. 🖼️ Edward Gorey

A huge thank you to @northerngravy.bsky.social! Deeply honoured to have my poems included in Edition 18 alongside fantastic writers! Congratulations to all the contributors. #kidlit northerngravy.com/poems-by-jos...

Hello, here is your #wordoftheweek! #writingcommunity #writingforchildren #poetrycommunity #poetryforchildren

More spooky poems by top children's poets. brian-moses.blogspot.com/2023/10/anot... @valpoet.bsky.social @lozzawriting.bsky.social @attielime.bsky.social

So pleased and grateful to have six poems published in Sixty Odd Poets this week. Thank you to Mike O’Brien @zoomburst.substack.com and Sixty Odd Press! sixtyoddpoets.substack.com sixtyoddpoets.substack.com/p/112-dean-n... #PoemsAbout #promptcombo #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry

Just when a Friday couldn’t get much better - a second Pushcart Prize nomination came in! This one is from Like a Blot From the Blue for my poem For Those Who Passed, Thank You. Thank you Fin Hall! Congratulations to all on the list. 👏🥳 #poetry #Writing #pushcartprize

Looking forward to this evening’s open mic. 🎙️🎙️🎙️

Nominees for the Pushcart are heading off tomorrow… Congratulations to… @sarahraybould.bsky.social @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social @richlyevocative.bsky.social @rburrows.bsky.social @helenlaycock.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social

So happy to have Sentinel Species 🌊nominated for The Pushcart Prize! Thank you @paulwritespoems.bsky.social and congratulations to all my poet friends on the list! 🤩 #poetry #pushcartprize #writing #barnacles 😊

Spooky poems for Hallowe'en by top children's poets. brian-moses.blogspot.com/2021/10/spoo... @carolebromley.bsky.social @joshuaseigal.bsky.social

Next up: #Hollow. Trees. Promises. Victories. People. Places where something used to live. New theme begins Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout. Read. Repost. Reply.

2nd place 🥈 Julian Cason @hool415.bsky.social #fragmentsfriday #poetry

Can’t quite believe it 🤩

Joint 3rd 🥉 #fragmentsfriday - @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social #poetry

1st place 🥇 #fragmentsfriday 🔥 🙏 😇 @helenlaycock.bsky.social #poetry

#PoemsAbout #Possessed So many great pieces already this week, and its not even 8am yet!

morning Friday here’s my little “throwaway” poem for #PoemsAbout #possessed and thank @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk hope everyone everywhere enjoys their weekend

For this week's #PoemsAbout #Possessed @thebrokenspine.co.uk

My piece, Dear Claire (usually) or Caroline, which is about submitting a savoy cabbage to picture book literary agents 🥬 will be on the radio tomorrow! 😂 Thanks @adamcrowther.bsky.social #BBC #Upload #poetry #pucturebook #submissions #rejection #writing

Very happy to have a piece in this beautiful anthology! 💔 Just hope my mum doesn’t read it! 😂 #heartbreak #poetry #writing #womenwriting www.deathofworkerswhilstbuildingskyscrapers.com/product-page...

Not sure if this should be a new tag of arsey poem Sunday. Thoroughly depressed about seeing the shop shelves stacked with landfill. 💀👻🎃 #halloween #plastic #sealife #pollution #poetry

Great selection of poems for children here on books and reading. Thanks for including mine Brian.

Not sure if this should be a new tag of arsey poem Sunday. Thoroughly depressed about seeing the shop shelves stacked with landfill. 💀👻🎃 #halloween #plastic #sealife #pollution #poetry

Next up: #Possessed. By love. By rage. By money. By memory. By the thing in the dark that absolutely promised it wasn't there. New theme begins Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout. Read. Repost. Reply.

More poems about books and reading by top children's poets. brian-moses.blogspot.com/2026/01/poem... @ciaraoconnor.bsky.social @valpoet.bsky.social @rburrows.bsky.social @josiedefalco.bsky.social

A poem for the @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetryprompt #bites My slant on it after the wind blew in from the sea. #poetrycommunity #poets #poems #poetsofbluesky #poemsabout

For this week's #PoemsAbout #Bites I'm thinking about how much we can do with our teeth without ever biting anyone. @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #prompt #poetry #blueskypoetry #writesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poets #creativewriting

#PoemsAbout #Bites

Good morning! My poem for #PoemsAbout #Bites is a revision of a poem I wrote for Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social ekphrastic challenge with art by @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social Thank you as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk I'll be back later!

it’s Friday it’s Crackerjack it’s #PoemsAbout It’s #Bites it’s thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk it’s thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk it’s a song before I go 🎤🥁🪕🪊🎻🎷🎹 “early one morning just as the sun was raisin I saw a fair cake tin in the valley below” 🛋️ enjoy your weekend everyone everywhere 🛋️🫶🏿

Here's a fun poem to kick off your day - MY SISTER'S GONE MISSING joshuaseigalpoet.blogspot.com/2026/10/my-s... #BookSky #Poetry #KidLit

For #fragmentsfriday With thanks to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social #Oulens #micropoem #micropoetry #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #blueskypoetry

A poem.

Hullo #poetry #blueskypoets #fragmentsfriday