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I visited Ruskin Mill in Nailsworth today. I had a coffee in the cafe and viewed the magnificent exhibition of paintings. I’m currently researching Saint Sara-le-Kali and the Black Madonna so found the religious paintings hugely inspiring. #RuskinMill #Water #Goethe #Art

KIN: TENDING THE FLAME, Romany Words and Harp Music with @karendownsbarton.bsky.social Vanessa Wood-Davies & Raine Geoghegan. Please join us on 26th April @ Watershed at Harbourside, Bristol, performance with @Lyra Literary Festival. #Kin #Poetry #Harp @fft.bsky.social @travellerpride.bsky.social

‘Birds and Ghosts’ by Jess Richards is a sensitive and creative examination of loneliness, bereavement, and difference. Taking in our need to grieve, the Covid lockdowns, and a late autism diagnosis, this memoir also features the author’s beautiful artwork. It will stay with me for a long time.

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www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/wat... Please join us for this wonderful event on 26th April at the Lyra Literary Festival. It will be live streamed as well as a live performance.

I’m delighted to share with you that my second full poetry collection will be published with @salmonpoetry.bsky.social in Spring 2028. My first collection was published in 2022 with Salmon. I plan to take time out to research and write about the Patron Saint of Gypsies, Saint Sara-le-Kali. 🙏

Happy International Women’s Day to women everywhere. Don’t dim your light for anyone. 🌹

Looking forward to being involved in these exciting events over the next month and hoping to see some of you there. Links to tickets on my website: nicwilson.co.uk/events-talks... #naturewriting #naturememoir #nearbynature #landbeneaththewaves

Can't wait for this event - it'll be my first time at @gilbertwhites.bsky.social and I'm so looking forward to chatting to @nicolawriting.bsky.social and listening to the other writers, including @bsbicountries.bsky.social, @chawtonhouse.bsky.social, Melissa Harrison, Tristan Gooley & Peter Marren.

I’m over the moon to have been gifted this beautiful artwork of Saint Sara-le-Kali, the Patron Saint of the Gypsies. It is the work of Ildiko Nova, my Sister Artist who also painted the artwork for the cover of #Kin This artwork will adorn the front of my next pamphlet, to be out in 2026. 🙏

I’m delighted to be facilitating this Winter Workshop, ‘Caring for the Soul’ in Hampshire, UK. All creatives are welcome. Please contact me to book a place or for more information. @hedgehogpress.co.uk @wcorklitfest.bsky.social @craftygreenpoet.bsky.social @fft.bsky.social #Poetry #Story #Soul

Congratulations Anthony Vahni Capildeo 👏🥂🎉

Samhain Blessings. Tonight there is an opening between the worlds of the living and the dead. It’s time to remember our ancestors and put photographs on the altar. I carry out a simple ritual every year and often adapt the ritual by Barbara Ardinger. 🙏 #Ritual #Samhain #AncestralHealing

Two poems from my first collection ‘The Talking Stick: O Pookering Kosh’ published with @salmonpoetry.bsky.social -2022 @rteone.rte.ie @wcorklitfest.bsky.social @sallrock.bsky.social 🙏 #Poetry #Romany #HopPicking

I’m delighted that our wonderful anthology #Kin is selling well and orders continue to come in from all over the world. 🙏 @salmonpoetry.bsky.social

WRITING AS SANCTUARY: CARING FOR THE SOUL, a Transformative Writing Workshop in the Meon Valley. Facilitated by Poet Raine Geoghegan.

#Egypt: We welcome the long-overdue release of writer & activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah after nearly 6 years in arbitrary detention. Our thoughts are with Alaa and his family as they reunite after this painful struggle. Read our full statement ⬇️ www.pen-international.org/news/egypt-a...

I’ll be facilitating another Transformative Writing Workshop in October in the beautiful Meon Valley, Hampshire. Contact me for further information or to book a place. 🙏 #WritingasSanctuary #SoulWork #Poetry #FreeWriting #Ritual @wcorklitfest.bsky.social @rteone.rte.ie @salmonpoetry.bsky.social

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I’m looking forward to performing here on 27th September with contributors of #Kin, Poet AmandaGarrie & Nessie Wood Davies on harp. Hope to see some of you there. Huge thanks to the team @blakecottagetrust.bsky.social 🙏 @wcorklitfest.bsky.social @louisedoughty.bsky.social @salmonpoetry.bsky.social

It was so lovely to spend time in my spiritual home, Malvern and revisit Priory Park recently. On my return, I finished working on an operatic musical script for ‘The Legend of the Werewolf’ which will be performed in San Francisco Bay later this year and then on tour. Back to poetry. Peace. ❤️

I said goodbye to two aunts last week. My Welsh auntie Joan (98), pictured on her wedding day and my Romany auntie Mary (91) pictured with Mohammed Ali. Time passes swiftly. Love and appreciate every moment.

I’m delighted to have a poem published in the latest edition of ‘Poetry & Jazz’ magazine alongside some fabulous poets. Thanks to Barry Smith for choosing my poem, ‘When I Wear Black’ @suefinch.bsky.social @hedghogpress.co.uk @wcorklitfest.bsky.social @salmonpoetry.bsky.social

Thank you Lucy. I’m delighted to see my first pamphlet on your list. 🙏

What a wonderful time we had performing poetry and harp music at the church in the woods on Bramdean common on Saturday. It’s also known as the Gypsy Church. It was absolutely packed with some people sitting outside on the grass, thankfully they were able to hear the music and poetry. 🎶🙏♥️

I’m so honoured to be reading in the Church in the Woods, also known as The Gypsy Church on Bramdean Common, nr Alresford in Hampshire. I’ll be joined by poet and harpist Vanessa Wood-Davies and poet Allison Hulmes. All welcome. @nicolawriting.bsky.social @wcorklitfest.bsky.social #KIN

Thanks to @rainegeoghegan.bsky.social, I wrote about my experience in this beautiful book KIN by @salmonpoetry.bsky.social Things I recognise as part of that purlieu, that diaspora; whispered winds of words themselves, too often packed away. And at the weekend, new revelations, goosebumps .. 3/7

Connecting with my own English Gypsy heritage has been a lifelong background hum, that I can sometimes barely hear; or swells to a choir, as it has recently, thanks to poets & writers such as @joclement.co.uk @rainegeoghegan.bsky.social @louisedoughty.bsky.social @profdavidmorley.bsky.social 2/7

Celebrating ‘#KIN’ Poetry & Harp Music with Allison Hulmes, Nessie Wood-Davies & myself at the #ChurchInTheWoods on Bramdean Common, Alresford, Hampshire (also known as the Gypsy Church) August 2nd @ 3pm - all welcome. @lillianhowan.bsky.social @nicolawriting.bsky.social @poet-pratibha1.bsky.social

Thanks to Linda Raedisch and the New Providence Memorial Library in New Providence, New Jersey, for bringing Orchid to the library bookshelves and to the Roma Words, Roma Worlds Book Club. @stelliform.press @romanistanpodcast.bsky.social #orchidfens #riverspirts #Romany #ecohorror #ecofiction

This is the strongest, most unequivocal language on Gaza I think I’ve heard out of the UK and France. And Canada’s position has notably changed this year too www.gov.uk/government/n...

WRITING AS SANCTUARY: TRANSFORMATIVE WRITING & HEALING WORKSHOPS IN THE MEON VALLEY. Facilitated by International Romanichal Poet, Raine Geoghegan.

My poem ‘SHELTER’ commissioned by the TT, a tribute to the Church in the Woods, also known as the Gypsy Church on Bramdean Common. @fft.bsky.social @travellerpride.bsky.social @nicolawriting.bsky.social @romanistanpodcast.bsky.social

Beltane Greetings from Brockwood, Hampshire. May the creative juices flow, may your heart be filled with love and light. I will spend this afternoon in the garden writing poetry and giving thanks for this day. Love and Peace to those in darkness. ♥️

I live in the beautiful Meon Valley in Hampshire. I write poetry and prose, sometimes plays and monologues. I run ‘Writing as Sanctuary’ a Transformative Writing Programme’ and am going to be facilitating Creative Retreats for individuals. Love and Peace.

Creative Retreats for Poets, Writers, Artists and all Creative Practitioners in the beautiful Meon Valley, Hampshire, UK. #CreativeRetreats #WritingasSanctuary #Poetry #Prose #Art #TransformativeWriting #AncestralHealing

I’m going to be facilitating two Transformative Theatre Workshops in June. See below. #Theatre #Transformation #MaskWork #Improvisation #PhysicalTheatre #Movement #Upham #Hampshire #TheMeonValley

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We interviewed artist and curator Sharon Svec about this exhibit featuring Ceija Stojka and Daniel Baker at Art At The Cave in Vancouver, WA from March 4-29. Amazing works on display! Listen here or wherever you get podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

We’re launching The Broken Spine Poetry Award—a cash prize for poets who deserve real recognition. No token sums. No empty prestige. Just real prizes for real work. 💰 £5000 goal | 🏆 Cash prizes for 1st, 2nd & 3rd place | 📢 100% goes to poets 📝 Read more & donate: 👉 thebrokenspine.co.uk...

Have you heard Gaza's exceptional #poetry yet? Read by Katie Leung, 'In Gaza' tells of a life lived on the limits of endurance and survival. Written by Jomana Zaqout, it is part of a series of poems written by Gazan students, narrated by acting talents from stage & screen. Listen free: link in bio

What a fantastic feature, endorsing our beautiful anthology KIN, published with @salmonpoetry.bsky.social . Thank you @irishtimes.com 🙏 @nicolawriting.bsky.social @louisedoughty.bsky.social @wcorklitfest.bsky.social #Roma #Poetry #Story #Nomad