Alison McCrossan

you know there's an award in backward?

Yeah! just drop the bck and high kick it over the moon.

a poem in latest Abridged by me. About the sea, the sea, about the world, Bach, of course, and a little bit of insignificent me in there. @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social

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Novelist Kit de Waal, a leading voice for working class writers, joins Dr Dan Taylor to discuss how to challenge the class ceiling.

www.mklitfest.org/online-event...

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taking a dive

My poem in The Honest Ulsterman this month. Inspired by the Villanelle form, but went off on one. Gunpowder mills and prayer, what more could you want?

The sea, the sea

Afternoon. We're pleased to present Abridged 0 - 108: Adrenochrome. Read it at www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1... for free! The print version will be available in libraries throughout Northern Ireland and in our usual arts organisations and comic shops soon.

soon the flowers, Oil Pastels

Very end of january

see when people who don't like me make "that" face, I just know it's their pooing face.

Seriously, lifelong learning that, Molly

why Roisin (curious), aside from not having external validation, maybe getting them published at a later date....is there another reason, like looked upon poorly or something?

Just in Limber lake featuring Lustin Bieber

Feck, those fascists creeping out of their holes aren't they? I might take a look, though I'm thinking about quitting social media altogether.

Before I go looking, presumably needing to set up an account, what is Substack?

oh my cuteness overload, taking a meditative moment, chilling out.

Painted this some years ago with a can of cider or two on the go

Strange that the US kidnapped a foreign country’s president and then will try him in US courts for drug trafficking yet the former Honduran president was recently pardoned for…drug trafficking

haha, moi?

I've had life altering kindness, but I won't delve into that. Instead:

Was on bus, foggy headed and dithery with middle-age. Gave driver too little money, and he was gruff telling me so. Tap on back. Young fella behind me held out handful of coins. 'Do you need change', in other words 'I'll pay'.

1. Hell's Kitchen

An optimistic 2. A Farewell to Arms

the title alone would draw me in, but that (blurb?) most certainly has me interested too. Look forward to reading it.

You too, Molly! 🎄

my heart says yes, it was wrong. We don't listen to the heart enough.

Lovely light touch in this poem with a tug.

Lots of new reading for me going into new year. Ta very much, agus go raibh maith agat!

Cover of 'Time's Guest' is different blocks of rectangular shapes in reds, gold, orange and grey

Weather If there'd been tension or disagreement over a bill you couldn't tell. In an instant the whole restaurant fell silent as if a spell had been cast. Each heart in the room was a bell-wether, feather-light and mysterious. Snow sank through the imperious night over candles floating behind the glass like a Hollywood movie. Inside sudden mass beauty we bonded naturally and watched like children the heavens open, the clock stop. Each flake seemed to carry something that couldn't be expressed and so we clung to the flurry passing, the wideness of the world gifting what couldn't be possessed.

Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 24 is 'Weather' from Kevin Graham's 'Time's Guest' 🌹✨ @thegallerypress.bsky.social

They are!

coz their cute as a bird and have a red hue as does the robin on its breast, maybe a robin visited you the day you chose each other.