What a superb winner for the National Poetry Competition - congratulations @fionalarkin.bsky.social 🎉 poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/absenc...

APRIL! Rachel Long, Minal Sukumar and Ioney Smallhorne. Ridiculously exciting.

Antony Dunn, Nathan Walker and me - reading at Rise Up! last night. Such a beautiful evening - huge thanks to all poets and guests!

Such beautiful textile art from Rob Burton up in the Bluebird Bakery at the moment 😍

Feeling nostalgic for Lumb Bank on Sylvia Plath’s anniversary @arvonfoundation.bsky.social I was there in 2023 for a life changing residential and met friends for life @deborahfinding.bsky.social @estelleprice.bsky.social @imogenforster.bsky.social @carolinebirduk.bsky.social @chadpie.bsky.social

RISE UP! With Antony Dunn, Lisa Coates and Nathan Walker 🎉 26/02, nowhere better to be on a Wednesday in February (or any other Wednesday)

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

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@wendypratt.bsky.social’s Blackbird Singing at Dusk - both the whole book and the title poem - just excellent! I keep excitedly reading bits out to Eloise while she tries to do her homework 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

Cannot believe the last thing I watched on my crap old telly before it went to the electronic afterlife was a reality show about selling houses worth more than every single property in York added together, instead of something more high brow.

Everyone’s a critic eh.

2024 Headline of the Year nominee (January)

Stevie Ronnie and Ella Frears in conversation with @gregorykearns.bsky.social are excellent company on the A1 this morning

Happy Winter Solstice! These photos were taken with a pinhole camera I made from a beer can and left out from Summer to Winter Solstice - a 6 month exposure. Bottom line = Winter Solstice. Top line = Summer Solstice. The lines are the Sun moving across the sky w/some reflections. No line = clouds

Thank you @annierutherford.bsky.social for the introduction to Ella Risbridger’s ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Cheese,’ which made me well up on the school run this morning. ‘The women I know get together and talk about their mothers./ Oh God, my mother, let me tell you about my mother…’

I set the kids a selfie challenge. The instruction for this one was ‘write a Christmas message’ 🤣

👀 it’s going to be a very Happy New Year! Caroline Bird, Oliver Carmichael and Minal Sukumar - what more could you want? 🎉

Moon tell me the truth 🌕❤️ poems from this beautiful book are decorating the walls at York Uni’s Festive Bazaar for Palestine tonight www.handsupproject.org/shop/moon-te...

Really looking forward to reading alongside some awesome poets @poetrysociety.bsky.social’s Stanza Bonanza on 12/12! I will be on the ginger wine and biscuits. 🎄

Morning pages, coffee and a sky like this ❤️

I am SO happy to have a poem in the beautiful new Under the Radar, from @ninearchespress.bsky.social and edited by @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social!

Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed. (Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).

Really excited about our next #RiseUp! It’s on 27th November & we’re welcoming Helen Mort, Charlotte Oliver & Jazmine Linklater. Hosted by @chadpie.bsky.social & yours truly. Selling fast, but tix on sale here: www.eventbrite.com/e/november-r...

Hey loves - I've made a @poetrysociety.bsky.social Young Poets Network challenge around sharing our built environments with our fellow earthling critters. Please pass this on to the young poets in your lives. Get writing - I'm excited to see your poems! ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/workshop/ear...

I may not have mentioned on here yet but I’m running an Arts Council funded project with @agparker.bsky.social called eff-able, a spicy anthology of queer crip poetry, published by fourteen poems. We’re open for submissions until 1st December and we pay! See here for more info effable.uk

go.bsky.app/VrQHhKJ want to catch up with more Post Muskalyptic Poets? Refreshed starter pack here for #PoetsOfBluesky

Had a lush day at Winchester Poetry festival where I was super happy to have Guided Breathwork for Grief commended, & to meet so many fab poets including Oliver Carmichael who won with a belter of a poem, You Ask About My First Kiss. Massive thanks to the festival organisers and to judge Clare Shaw!

I loved this last year - so glad Annie’s doing it again!

Tried to set a cover photo and very nearly uploaded one of my (clean) laundry pile that I’d taken to shame myself into tidying. Pretty trees now successfully uploaded, phew.