AOP is open for submissions until the end of January! Guidelines and submission form here: andotherpoems.com/submissions/ (art by Alan Scales on Unsplash)

...All the writer has to do is find the words. However she warns, "You have to be alone to do this."

www.tickettailor.com/events/artce... This will be fab.

Whoop whoop I am now Poet in Residence with Wildlife Groundswell on The Lizard Cornwall. Looking forward to the journey and what it might bring over the next 6 months or so.

We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist! Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone." Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/

Delighted to be welcoming Isabelle Baafi to Cornwall @falmouthpoetrygp.bsky.social She will be offering a workshop and a reading at The Writer's Block Redruth on Sunday 19th October. Chaotic Good one of my favourite books @faberbooks.bsky.social Fingers crossed @forwardprizes.bsky.social

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Found this beautiful @janeclarke.bsky.social poem in Poets Lane way Roscommon today. Look forward to meeting her in N9vember with @marjorielotfi.bsky.social retreat in Scotland.

Placed my tote bag with @Zaffarkunials poem on Gaza in the window of @Cornwallpoetrylibrary. Such horrors in Gaza and elsewhere in the world. What can we do?

I'll be reading at #northcornwallbookfestival on Sat 27 Sept with @pascalepetit.bsky.social & running a workshop on writing from the body on Sun 28 at 10 am. Booking open now via #endelientaarts endelienta.org.uk/whats-on/ncb... #poetry #batteryrocks #danceasif #beast #poetryincornwall #festival

'dance as if' @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social will be launched on 25 Sept at the Edge of the World Bookshop in Penzance. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... Other events to follow. #danceasif #booklaunch #poetry #poetswhodance

Delighted to receive my copy of The North and find my poem nestled in here amongst many poetry friends. Fabulous magazine. Thanks for publishing A Night out in Tyrone. #Poetry #poetrymagazine

I support Palestine Action. I hate all forms of violence. I wish no harm on anyone. I just want a kinder, fairer, greener world. Apparently this makes me a terrorist. But I am the opposite of a terrorist.

No genre rules. Just style, guts, and urgency. Give me something that stinks of real life. Submit Aug 1–31. 👉 shorturl.at/eTSjI 👤 @AlanParry83.bsky.social

Inspired listening to @ericahesketh webinar on form @ninearchespress.bsky.social #poetryform #poetrywebinar

The John Hewitt Summer School in Armagh, a Festival of Literature, Arts & Politics is on from 28th July – 2nd August 2025 and has very generous bursaries available. Link here : johnhewittsociety.org/bursary-appl... Please share :)

Here's 'short & sweet' my #poetry newsletter us7.admin.mailchimp.com/campaigns/sh... feat Fiona Benson's #middenwitch plus **exclusive** book news for readers & subscribers. Also feat @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social @rtbspokenword.com

Back with a bundle of books from Launceston Poetry Festival. Inspired by a day of so many brilliant poets @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social @pascalepetit.bsky.social @FionaBenson @isabelleBaafi and more @ellafrears.bsky.social for her wit humour and poems. Loved both her performances.

Thanks to The Marrow Magazine for publishing a recent poem. Hymns of the Body 1. Always good to see a poem fly out into the world. #poem #publication

Guillemot Press has been helping the new Launceston Poetry Festival happening at the end of May in Cornwall. The list of performers is amazing... For more info and to buy tickets visit causleytrust.org/the-launceston-poetry-festival/

Spending this afternoon with Eavan Boland drinking cups of tea and wandering the ideas of exile, home place and womanhood in Cornwall Poetry Library. How I feel being exiled from Ulster, the language of my childhood and adolesence. How a war drove me out. How so many people are displaced by war.

Loving these early mornings with @marjorielotfi.bsky.social It's amazing what comes through your pen in the half awake morning

📢Announcing a new webinar series on Poetry Technique led by Erica Hesketh, Tamar Yoseloff and @betarish.bsky.social Sign up for the 3 sessions for just £45 June 9th, 16th & 23rd, 7-8pm BST 🎞️Recordings sent in case you miss them live Full details & booking: eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-tec...

✍️ #NaPoWriMo is here with the challenge to write a poem a day! Throughout April, The Poetry Society will be featuring poetry writing prompts created by poets that we've worked with recently through competitions, publications and projects. (...)

open.spotify.com/episode/41rj... This was on of my favourite events at Stanza. Really worth listening to

www.liznojanbooks.co.uk/events/belta... What an amazing way to launch a book. I love Fiona Benson's poetry.

Spent today sending out poems to magazines entering poetry competitions and feeding Annie one of our triplets. Love our Shetland Sheep First time we have had triplets. Think Mum is a bit confused. #poetry #poet #lambing #poetrysubmissions

What an amazing line up for Launceston Poetry Festival. @pascalepetit.bsky.social @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social @ellafrears.bsky.social and Fiona Benson....need to book some tickets asp

Finally catching up on the great series of classes with @ninearchespress.bsky.social and Jane Commane on Getting Your Poetry Published. Fab session on Monday on editing. #poetry #poetrypublishers #editing Now of to edit some poems.

On the way home after Stanza Poetry Festival St Andrews. Wonderful weekend glad of a long slow journey back to Cornwall to digest all the rich nourishment of 3 intensive days of feasting on poetry.

Had a wonderful time hosting Anthony Joesph at The Writers Block Redruth. He offered a Masterclass and a heart opening reading as part of his Spring Tour Catch him if you can #TSEliotwinner #Poet #inspiration #sonnetsforalbert

Today I read some of my Ulster Poems at The Poly in Falmouth as the support for a very talented pianist from Portugual Marcelo Montes. One woman said they broke her heart open so she could receive the music. I thought that was beautiful. #poems #Poetry #Ulster #TheTroubles #music

The inaugural Launceston Poetry Festival takes place 30 May – 1 June 2025. Poets and performers include Pascale Petit, Ella Frears, Isabelle Baafi, Nina Mingya Powles, Alycia Pirmohamed, Rachael Mann, Katrina Naomi, Judy O’Kane, Susie Campell and Rose Ferraby.

Over the moon to be in Mslexia Magazine after being shortlisted in their competition judged by the amazing Jane Hirshfield. Stunned to be here alongside all the other amazing poets. @mslexia.bsky.social

So pleased these 'I am a poet' pencils arrived so I can give one to every child who entered the poetry competition for St Piran's Day that I judged. Poems on display at Falmouth Library. #iamapoet

Beautiful afternoon hosting The Companionship Cafe on behalf of No One Dies Alone in Cornwall. Drew this beautiful card from a new Oracle pack based on plant medicine. #grief #griefconversations

Delighted to have some poetry on prescription here from @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social at Cornwall Poetry Library. Pop in today if you need some Courage, Comfort or a remedy for Seafever.

Entries are invited for the 2025 Ver Poets Open Competition, judged by Rory Waterman (closing date 30th April). Please submit poems of no more than 30 lines on any theme and in any form. For more information and details of how to enter visit our website: verpoets.wixsite.com/verpoets/com...

Big thanks to Robin Houghton and Peter Kenny for having me on the ace @planetpoetry.bsky.social podcast. Really enjoyed our chat about How to Think Like a Poet, taking in selection dramas, John Donne, Aimé Césaire, the future of rhyme, and lots more besides. www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

📢JUST ANNOUNCED Poetry Masterclass Webinars: Getting Your Poetry Published, a series of 3 x 1hr sessions led by Jane Commane on Mondays 10th, 17th and 24th March, 7-8pm. Sign up now for one (£17) or buy all three (£45). Recording sent to ticket-holders. Details eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-mas...

Back in The Cornwall Poetry Library today drawing up a workshop for Falmouth Poetry Group on What can we learn from the winners? Collating inspiration from the shortlist and winners of the #TSEliotprize and @forwardprizes.bsky.social Workshop 19 Feb Falmouth Library. 10-12pm

I wrote an article 'How to Get Your Poetry Published' for the Poetry School @poetryschool.bsky.social I hope you will find it useful poetryschool.com/theblog/how-... #poetry #howtogetpublished #poetrycommunity

Currently I am chair of Falmouth Poetry Group. The group was set up by Peter Redgrove in 1972. Our President is Penelope Shuttle. Think we are the longest running poetry group....quite an achievement #poetry #poetrygroup #poets

‘Boreen’ by Michael Longley - 27/7/39 - 22/01/25

Loving these early morning starts with a month of writing with @marjorielotfi.bsky.social Such a great way to start the day poetry and sunrises getting January of on the right foot #poetry #writing #poet #lworkshops

Walking the bog river in Ardara Donegal. Water bubbling along at such a pace the river swollen after snow melt. Love this walk. In the distance snow still caps the mountains. Always feel at home in a bog. #bog #bogriver #Donegal

Beautiful morning at The End of the Road cafe with a ritual to acknowledge and remember all our dead. There were many souls in the room and acknowledging the privileged life we live send this energy out into the world. #endoflifedoula #ritual #grief #sorrow #love

Delighted to come home and find my contributors copy of Acumen 111 waiting for me. Its been such a great couple of months for me with acceptances after a lean year. #nevergiveup #poetry