Making her After... Poems inspired by other art debut this May #newmoon is Georgia Hilton, with a poem inspired by Henry Moore's sculpture, 'King and Queen'.

'We are not gold' began life as an email prompt in an online course run by Wendy Pratt back in 2021. Read it for free tomorrow from 9pm BST.

Really excited & privileged to have a poem coming out tomorrow in the exquisite After... Poems inspired by other art. Written during the dark days of the winter lockdown in 2021 & inspired by Wendy Pratt’s ‘Fantastic Ekphrastic’ course, I can’t wait to share it with you. Huge thanks to 𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟

Brilliant ekphrastic poem from Georgia Hilton:

New #ekphrastic poem at After... Poems inspired by other art. Read Diana Raab's 'Our Hands'. #fullmoon

'And so I have closed my eyes, my love,
for six decades, to feel this even better,
as I turn away from the dark knowing

that one day it shall be no more.'

afterpoetry.com/poem/apr-24-20…

New #ekphrastic poem at After... Poems inspired by other art. Read Penny Ayers' 'How Many Miles to Babylon?' #newmoon

'So one girl follows another,
each breast pulsing with candle flame,
until lightness tugs at their heels,
tips them star-wards.'
afterpoetry.com/poem/apr-08-20…

New #ekphrastic poem at After... Poems inspired by other art. Read William Cordeiro's 'Poem in the Manner of Du Fu'. #fullmoon

' ... from the glancing lace

of water,
where the careworn

moon appears.
My eyes

have vanished
into birds.'

afterpoetry.com/poem/mar-25-20…

A wonderful ekphrastic poem by Matt Gilbert (Matt Gilbert) published this week in After... Poems inspired by other art. I'm now intrigued to find out more about the artwork that it was written after.

New #ekphrastic poem at After... Poems inspired by other art. Read Matt Gilbert's 'Our days were'. #newmoon

' ... small white flecks, on the legs of distant cows, all
suspended in dry paint and time. And waiting, there,
amongst the dead, the girl keeps on growing younger.'

afterpoetry.com/poem/mar-10-20…

Something a bit special coming to After... Poems inspired by other art from 9pm GMT tomorrow. A new #ekphrastic poem from Matt Gilbert based on a painting he practically grew up with – one that takes its title from the final line of Thomas Hardy's 'After a Journey'.

(Yes, it IS all very meta.)

New #ekphrastic poem at After... Poems inspired by other art. Read Anne Westbrook's 'I Don't Want To Be A Casino'. #fullmoon

' ... a place where your biggest risk
will be rolling the dice
on a writer you’ve never read –
maybe Frederik Backman,
J. R. R. Tolkien, or Anne Lamott.'
afterpoetry.com/poem/feb-24-20…

I'm not massive on films, so I'm as surprised as you are that two poems I wrote about films just came out. Cheers to Broken Sleep Books for putting my take on Grease in their phenomenal Masculinity anthology and to After... Poems inspired by other art for publishing my weird sequel to Patrick Swayze's Ghost.

Big up to After... Poems inspired by other art for putting out my very weird take on the 1990 classic film Ghost starring Patrick Swayze yesterday.

afterpoetry.com/poem/feb-09-20…

New #ekphrastic poem up at After... Poems inspired by other art. Read Laurie Eaves' 'after the film 'ghost''. #newmoon

' ... swayze spends most days questioning / why he went to heaven / when he basically killed willie / god says don’t think about it so much ... '

afterpoetry.com/poem/feb-09-20…

Poets and poetry-lovers, do you know any *after* poems that you prefer to the originals? And/or have you read anything that examines *after* poems? All examples appreciated. 🌱

Whether you've been with iamb ~ poetry seen and heard from its birth on February 1st 2020 or joined the journey at any point since, thank you for visiting, reading, listening and sharing. You've helped make these past four years incredible.

After... Poems inspired by other art Jennie E Owen Huge thumbs up from this Shirley Jackson fangirl! Loved it.

New #ekphrastic poem up at After... Poems inspired by other art – the second one for 2024. Read Jennie E Owen's 'Hilldale Diner'. #fullmoon

' ... dreaming all the time
of setting one foot before the next, away

from the rolled sleeves of her mother,
her father’s belt.'
afterpoetry.com/poem/jan-25-20…

New #ekphrastic poem by @jenola101 up on After... Poems inspired by other art in 24 hours' time. It'll be of particular interest to fans of Shirley Jackson – especially if you enjoyed 'The Haunting of Hill House'.

New #ekphrastic poem up at After... Poems inspired by other art – the first of 2024! Read Mary Ford Neal's 'Lux in tenebris lucet'. #newmoon

' ... I am not an owl, or a mole.
Look at the evidence—it is not dark here.
I was a boy, and now
I am a candle.
Lux in tenebris lucet.'

afterpoetry.com/poem/jan-11-20…