Dom Conlon

@domconlon

Disabled poet / author. Books nominated for the Carnegie / Greenaway. Inspired by nature and space. UNESCO poet. Award-winning poet. Cake poet.

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Dom Conlon@domconlon· 2h

Poetry by the wonderful Professor James Carter

Dom Conlon@domconlon· 2d

Just someone from the FBI trying to reach me. On a Sunday morning. GO. AWAY. AGENT. SCULLY.

Photo of a computer screen showing an image of Scully from X Files. The caption reads “last name Conlon”

Dom Conlon@domconlon· 8d

A old poem by me in Colin’s amazing photography book

A poem by Dom Conlon which reads:

that strength is in wounds that peace is not perfect that a sound shatters silence like a sight stops light and to heal is to change and to change is to live

It was written in 2017

Cover photo of a book. The book is olive green with the title Healing. It’s a book of photos by Colin Bell with a foreword by Joe Cornish

Dom Conlon@domconlon· 12d

This is a dream of a book - pure imagination @katewakeling.bsky.social @vivschwarz.bsky.social

Dom Conlon@domconlon· 13d

WTAF? General Election. Now. And more roast potatoes, please

Dom Conlon@domconlon· 14d

Noooo… because beauty and poetry and the health of the oceanz

Dom Conlon@domconlon· 16d

Hatred by Wistawa Szymborska

Dom Conlon@domconlon· 25d

It has to be… By @stuartatkinson.bsky.social and still the best book about space

Dom Conlon@domconlon· 28d

It’s #WorldSharkDay and this is our wonderful celebration of sharks and underwater poetry. Anastasia’s art is a wild jet stream of colour, rippling through the heart and I love working with her so much @graffegbooks.bsky.social

Dom Conlon@domconlon· Jun 28

I’ve been a little unwell but today took my first faltering steps into a cooler world a nearby coffee shop where I spent an hour catching my breath and then losing it again because of this beautiful book by @coralrumble.bsky.social

Photo of a book. The book is called When Skeletons Rise, written by Coral Rumble

Dom Conlon@domconlon· Jun 23

My body is broken but this poem is wonderful and I can’t stop thinking about it

A poem called Envoi In Chalk by Emily
Cullen

I'm calling my son from the end of the estate when my eye snags on green pastel words.
He has chalked on the pavement:
The world is great

This is just the line I need to read,
my mother in hospital, my shoulder inflamed, future employment uncertain, Earth eyeballing Armageddon.

Yet how right, his perception.
He bolts up on his yellow scooter, eight-year old fringe quiffed with gel, on the cusp of the age of cool.

Dom Conlon@domconlon· Jun 19

No. This one around the corner

Dom Conlon@domconlon· Jun 3

A pact of poetry for all readers

$The text of a poem by Dom Conlon called The Wild Agreement which reads: I, the undersigned, understand that by living in this wild land I may become completely stuck within the pages of this book where nothing's locked inside a cage where danger leaps from off the page where wild is a fact of life and words are sharpened like a knife where broken hearts and paper cuts and tickled ribs and startled tuts and endless dreams and fractured time are not preceded by a sign so l agree that if I drift I could change and slowly shift into a different type of me a me who is entirely free. The poem has an illustration by Korky Paul which shows a man in a tall hat signing a piece of paper with a huge pen.$

Cover illustration of Welcome to Wild Town by A F Harrold and Dom Conlon with illustrations by Korky Paul. The cover is mostly red with wild animals running from left to right over buildings. The O in Wild Town is a mouth with fierce teeth.

Dom Conlon@domconlon· May 31

Sunday roast

Photo of a half-eaten Eton mess cheesecake

Dom Conlon@domconlon· May 26

Nice impromptu concert on a nearby car park this evening. Delightful. Celebrate a tradition this way rather than waving silly flags

Dom Conlon@domconlon· May 18

They did warn you

Dom Conlon@domconlon· May 10

My son is dismantling an old door frame and we think we’ve found the nails used to crucify Jesus

Dom Conlon@domconlon· May 4

Today, I ate

Dom Conlon@domconlon· May 3

Shelfie Sunday

Photo of part of a bookcase containing Thornhill by Pam Smy, The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch, Sharp North and Blown Away by Patrick Cave, The Children of Hurin by JR R Tolkien, and Christmas Days by Jeanette Winterson.

Dom Conlon@domconlon· Apr 25

Whup whup

Dom Conlon@domconlon· Apr 11

More space

Dom Conlon@domconlon· Apr 10

This is a sight

Dom Conlon@domconlon· Apr 10

Treated myself to a brand new television which is state-of-the-art but doesn’t track you, is easily repaired, carries no subscription overheads, and is entirely ethical