Now on sale - w/ our headliner, @ianduhig.bsky.social ✨

We can’t wait to host Ian, Kirsten & Henry. Tickets on sale from Weds.

Can’t WAIT for this. 💫

It’s half term but work must continue. The eternal juggle. After a lovely zoom reading with @reddoorpoets.bsky.social last night, I opened my door to this message from my youngest. The poem was called BOOM and I loved it. 💥

Sunday! 💫

Comin’ up @ Rise Up! Got your tickets yet? www.eventbrite.com/e/rise-up-a-...

Couple of spots left for this Thursday’s online workshop for Granta Writers’ Workshop tixoom.app/pwalecturer/...

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A week today! online! come and join me as I chat owls and share pictures #TheCompanyOfOwls #BookEvent #Litfest #BookSky #Owls www.huddlitfest.org.uk/tag/pollyatk...

We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.

What a brilliant Rise Up! Rachel Long, Ioney Smallhorne & Minal Sukumar were absolutely captivating. Thank you, poets! 🩵✨ Next up….Nafeesa Hamid is headlining! Join us on Weds 21st May for what will be an extraordinary night. Tix on sale now… eventbrite.com/e/rise-up-a-ce…

Yay! To launch my new collection 'This is How I Fight' I'm sharing a virtual stage with fabulous poets Erica Hesketh & @julwe1.bsky.social 🌹 Tues 22 July, 19:00-20:00 BST www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/triple-onl... Bookings are via Eventbrite and tickets are 'Pay What You Can' @ninearchespress.bsky.social

Far/Out with @gcthewriter.bsky.social 💚

Beach read - thanks to the extraordinary work of @no1emily.bsky.social 🕰️

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Mmmm ☀️

Thoughts on pinning a poem to the page - part 3 of my series on writing poetry for @rte.ie 🐸🐸🐸 www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

Really chuffed that my poem, Janet’s Foss, is @poetrysociety.bsky.social ‘poem of the month’ after being chosen by @janeclarke.bsky.social as a winning entry on the theme of stone. Thank you. 🪨✨

My poem, PIP, was published in The Frogmore Papers (2023). Solidarity to everyone who is worried about the changes 💖

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On Wednesday 26th March at 7pm, please join us online to celebrate the launch of Father's Father's Father by Dane Holt. The event will be hosted by Caroline Bird and will feature readings, discussion & audience Q&A. Book your ticket here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6JazB...

Bark, barker, barkest.

Poets reading at StAnza Poetry Festival in St Andrews (& online) 14-16 March include @imtiazdharker.bsky.social and Gwyneth Lewis. Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck will take part in a live recording of the Lantern Scottish Poetry podcast. www.bloodaxebooks.com/events?artic...

Great to see all the positive thoughts on the new issue! We're biased but we think it is a really special issue: Why not subscribe and check it out for yourself: poetrylondon.co.uk/subscriptions/

Please join us at Castlefield Gallery on Thursday 3rd April for PN Review's Spring Readings 2025, featuring recent contributors to the magazine: Stav Poleg, Ophira Gottlieb, Philip Terry and Alex Wong! More info and tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/carcanetpress...

'They fuck you up, your mum and dad'

Next up at Rise Up! Tickets on sale now. Rachel Long! Minal Sukumar! Ioney Smallhorne! ✨

In the vicinity of York on Wednesday? See you at the bakery perhaps?! Super excited for this 🤩

Poem of the Day: Love by Hannah Lowe poemsontheunderground.org/love

Only a few days until the return of Rise Up! This time we’ll be welcoming poets Antony Dunn, Lisa Coates & Nathan Walker. A few tickets left! Find ‘em at www.bluebirdbakery.co.uk/rise

Moss of the day. Mouse tail, I think. 🐁

‘Tonight I lingered over your name’ -Naomi Shihab Nye

Honoured to feature as an epigraph for one of three new poems by Anthony Vahni Capildeo in the new LRB. See them all here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Tonight, the Snow Moon rises. 🌕❄️ Named for February’s deep snows, this full moon was also called the Storm Moon or Ice Moon in Old English, reflecting winter’s cold grip. Look below its glow tonight, and you may spot Regulus...one of the brightest stars in the sky. Moonrise: 17:06*

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Northern folkies - see you in Boro for some poems? Freespill x Butcher's Dog x Borderlands present THRESHOLDS, 5.30-8 pm Tuesday, 18th February in The Crypt. I'm told it isn't as creepy as it sounds... Tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/borde...

Absolute cracker of a night at Rise Up! with the wonderful @carolinebirduk.bsky.social @coliverpoet.bsky.social & @oliverinthenorth.bsky.social - thank you, ace poets - & (always) my brilliant co-host @chadpie.bsky.social

Revisited a story by Amy Hempel, a Taoist parable, and a poem by D.H. Lawrence in today's newsletter, a faith boost revisiting the question "How do we know that what happens to us *isn't* good?" mayacpopa.substack.com/p/faith-boost

Books to beat the January Blues 📚 Sign up to our newsletter before 6pm to receive a special #BlueMonday treat sure to brighten up the dreary days of January www.serenbooks.com

Cover reveal! ⭐ Pre-orders are now open for PLEASE DON'T READ THE FOOTNOTES PLEASE by Rob Walton ⭐ A middle-grade book breaking all the rules, inviting readers to zig-zag across the page between the funny stories and the* footnotes. *even funnier PREORDER HERE: https://buff.ly/4aaCrxm

R102 is out now. Free UK delivery. Still only £9 per issue. Order one here, go on, dare you. www.therialto.co.uk/pages/produc...

i read this poem by Olive Franklin yesterday and woke this morning with its lines ringing around my head. it’s that good. give it a read www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

On January 11th from 3-5 PM EST, I’m teaching an online class on the Prose Poem—that hybrid creature that wields the techniques of poetry but forgoes its line breaks—for the 92Y. There are still spots left; I hope you’ll join me! www.92ny.org/class/the-pr...

2025 at Filey Brigg 🌊

“Call it lucky” 🍀

Always this one at this time. Old years blow back… 🌬️ Shared via the wonderful Substack of @mayacpopa.bsky.social ✨

Only a few tickets left for the workshop now…don’t leave it too late if you fancy the double-bill! 🛼

Good morning! I've begun a starter pack for prose poets. go.bsky.app/EdpM3cb Please share.

So many dramatic sunsets. Is this the end, then?

Another glorious episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way dropped today. Gather yourselves around the wireless and listen to my conversation with the legendary @helenmort.bsky.social.