DEADLINE: 1st July 2025 LIVE CANON POETRY PAMPHLET COMPETITION For pamphlets of between 18 and 24 poems. (This is based on average length poems). Submit here: livecanon.submittable.com/submit 10 pamphlets will be long listed and 3 pamphlets will be selected for publication by Live Canon.

Arresting Quaker women for non-violent protest and breaking into a meeting house to do so. The first time anyone has been arrested in a meeting house in living memory. Despicable behaviour from a Labour government’s Home Office/the Met Police.

Save the date 📅: My @ninearchespress.bsky.social stablemates, @jsaphra.bsky.social, Amaan Hyder, & I will be reading together & having a discussion at the wonderful #ChenerBooks in East Dulwich - Tue 18 March @ 7pm 🎤📖📚 Join us! Free event - but please register 🎫👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nine-arche...

Translator Philip Terry will be reading from and discussing Célina by Catherine Axelrad next Thursday 13 March at the Deptford Lounge, along with other amazing authors and/or translators shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize.

Looking forward to reading some Witch poems in Oxford tomorrow! *cackle* @livecanon.bsky.social

Katie Byford, Maia Elsner, Helen Ivory and Martin Figura and @mirandapeake.bsky.social join us for an evening of spoken word. 📖Poetry Reading in Summertown United Reformed Church creationtheatre.co.uk/show/poetryr... #poetry #poems #spokenword #livecanon #summertownarts

Very excited to be part of this reading series. Thank you @livecanon.bsky.social for wonderful arranging!

I know it's late on a Monday night, but do you possibly think you could help make a poet's year? And help make something meaningful out of chaos? After trauma what next? An afttershock is coming. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/aftershock...

Everyone has their own individual sneeze and it’s vitally important to be comfortable with that. Never try to sneeze like somebody else. It will totally fuck you up.

Charlotte Mew being completely bloody amazing x

We have a couple of sea view cottages still available for our catered March Writing Retreat (17-23rd) at Galloway House Estate - workshops, 1/1 tutoring, time to write and explore and optional yoga and massage. Get in touch via my website or drop a comment for more info! www.gallowayhouseestate.org

I deeply love that this is happening..

Really looking forward to this happening at Chener Books over the next two Sundays with @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social who is a brilliant tutor and poet. You can sign up here, £27 for both sessions: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1100887848...

🔵 Submissions are OPEN for Propel 14, Edited by Susannah Dickey and launching end March 2025 🔵 If you've yet to publish a first full collection, we'd love to read your poems! >> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit

Went to see Van Gogh, it was amazing. So many paintings i’ve never seen, particularly loved the portraits and the colour, the colour the colour….

Happy new year everyone! Here is a wonderful Ruth Stone poem which somehow feels like the right thing x

An extract from Selima Hill's 'The Person with a Cauliflower', published in Issue Five of And Other Poems. Read the rest of the poems here: andotherpoems.com/2024/12/11/t...

Last call for January Writing Hours! If you or anyone you know would like to come but can't afford to, please send me a message. I'm doing admin later today and have some complimentary spaces to give out. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/january-wr...

Thanks so much to @andotherpoems.bsky.social for including my poem. It’s a really great issue with so many brilliant poems x

This really got me today x

Fulfil all of your poetry desires by visiting the Live Canon bookstore & treating yourself, & all the other poetry lovers in your life, to a poetry book from the amazing selection. Available publications from tons of super talented #poets. Browse now! www.livecanon.co.uk/store

An extract from 'Sweetbriar Rose & Bindweed' by Michelle Szobody. Read the full poem in AOP Issue Five: andotherpoems.com/2024/12/11/s...

Delighted that @nigella.bsky.social included French Cooking for One by Michèle Roberts in her list of perfect stocking-fillers as “an enduring delight for readers and cooks alike.” See the full blog post here www.nigella.com/latest/stock... The book is available to order on our website.

It feels really great that the first thing I have to share on here is a poem published by @andotherpoems.bsky.social thank you Tom and Laurie for including my weird maze/marriage/HamptonCourt poem x

I am running an 8-week online course, ‘First steps in creative non-fiction', exploring the possibilities of this wonderful form: including personal essays, life writing, memoir and diaries. Tuesday evenings from 18th Feb to 8th April 2025, 6.30pm to 8.30pm (on Zoom).

Anne Carson will be giving a lecture for @londonreview.bsky.social in January 2025. i’ve already booked my ticket!!!! www.lrb.co.uk/winter-lectu...

Friday reminder that our submissions for Propel Issue 13, edited by @helenmort.bsky.social CLOSE 11.59pm UK tomorrow Saturday 30 November >> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit

I'd like to find like-minded #HybridWriting folk here: writers, lit mags and publishers who leap over genre boundaries & out of boxes, ignoring labels & definitions - in their own writing and in what they publish! Can you point me in the right direction, lovely people of BlueSky? #UnboxYourWords

Sharp Maura Dooley poem in today's Irish Times