Really appreciate that the Chichester Observer newspaper family covers poetry. Can’t wait to hear @suerose share her words on 27 May and meet the #BinstedPrize winners on 23 May. #SouthDownsPoetryFestival @TurnstonePress www.sussexexpress.co.uk/community/tw...

Oh, and after the poetry workshop tomorrow morning at Barnstaple Library I’m giving a talk about my new book, Three Pieces of Sea, a portrait of my sister the late artist Rebecca Lilley. @librariesunlimited.bsky.social #GoAllIn #NationalYearOfReading2026 www.ticketsource.com/librariesunl...

Beginner poetry workshop tomorrow! Love helping to show how accessible poetry is and how it can help us in these troubled times. Thank you to Barnstaple Library for hosting. #GoAllIn #NationalYearOfReading2026 @librariesunlimited.bsky.social www.ticketsource.com/librariesunl...

Such a treat to share poems with Ronna Bloom, Tom Wayman and the Planet Earth Poetry community in Victoria, BC, Canada. It takes a lot to organise such events and I’m grateful. And thank goodness for poetry in these troubled times.

Really looking forward to hearing @ronnabloom.bsky.social and Tom Wayman present their poems at #PlanetEarthPoetry in Victoria, Canada, on Friday. What a treat to get to read with such fine poets. @TurnstonePress #poetry

This Tuesday- Vancouver workshop led by Toronto poet and therapist @ronnabloom.bsky.social! May 5th at 6pm @ Upstart and Crow Books. upstartandcrow.com/event/postca...

Marion Cleland Lochhead (1902–1985) was born #OTD, 19 April, in Wishaw. A founding member of @scottishpen.bsky.social, Lochhead was a versatile figure of the 20th-century Scottish literary scene. 👇“Painted Things”, by Marion Lochhead, from Painted Things & Other Poems (Gowans & Grey, 1929) #poetry

Everyone loves an uplifting post like this, showing people helping out a wild animal in distress. But unless we address the practices that are causing the death of *entire ecosystems*, it's little more than making ourselves feel good. Just sharks: about 100 million are killed by humans every year.

What a thrill to be working with @TurnstonePress again on my latest #poetry collection, Three Pieces of Sea, out this spring. It's a collection of poems inspired by the life and works of my sister, the late artist Rebecca Lilley. #amwriting #breastcancer ravenstonebooks.com/news/in-the-...

Help shape Arc’s future! 📣 This National Poetry Month, share your thoughts in our community survey. Readers, writers, contributors & collaborators—your voice matters. 10-15 min: bit.ly/ArcSurvey2026 📝 Open all April. Opt in to win a $50 indie bookstore gift card! #NationalPoetryMonth #CanLit

Applications are open for #Yukon's Story Laureate. Lots of time to prepare your application – the deadline is 2 October. You need to have lived in Yukon for five years, so best to move here sooner rather than later! More at: commissionerofyukon.ca/story-laurea...

Want to connect with hundreds of editors, writers, communication professionals and small business owners? Join us from May 21 to 23 in Halifax for Editors Canada's national conference! Learn more: editors.ca/news/registr...

Delighted by this glossary of Yorkshire terms in @JennieGodfrey's novel #TheListofSuspiciousThings. A far better idea than the criminal act of replacing British words in North American editions. @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social #editing #writing #publishing

Making a husky-line for the Yukon River. This could be my snowiest spring equinox.

Eric Wagner recommends six essential books about birds by Adam Nicolson, J.A. Baker, Helen MacDonald, and more.

In March 2026, the Vegan and Animal Rights Conference will open its doors in Manchester to advocates, campaigners, and movement builders for a three-day gathering. 🌱 https://veganfta.com/articles/2026/03/04/vegan-and-animal-rights-conference-varc-2026-to-focus-on-movement-building-and-resilience/

The Yukon Magazine has started including poetry! Such a delight to have a poem featured in this fine publication. More about the magazine at: theyukonmagazine.com @turnstonepress

Very grateful to be one of 18,661 creators receiving a #publiclendingright payment for having books in Canada's wonderful public libraries. Thank you, libraries, the Canada Council for the Arts' Public Lending Right Program and everyone who reads books! #bringingtheartstolife @yukonpubliclibraries

This follows hot on the heels of Interpol's big wildlife trafficking sweep. Interpol-backed police make nearly 200 arrests in Amazon region gold mining sweep news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

The BC Foundation for Non-Animal Research (BC FNAR) is now open for applications for their 2026 non-animal research grants. #nonhumananimals #morethanhuman www.bcfnar.ca

Goodness, I'm honoured to be the judge of the 2026 South Downs Poetry Festival's Binsted Prize poetry competition. It's open to everyone, wherever you live and you have until 31 March to submit your entries. I can't wait to read them. Find all the details at www.sdpf.org.uk/competition/.

Such a phenomenal book by @trinamoyles.bsky.social. Had a sneak preview and can’t recommend it enough! #borealbears

Congratulations on the publication of Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival by Trina Moyles - out now with Knopf Canada and Pegasus Books in the US! Read more: transatlanticagency.com/2026/01/06/c...

Delighted and excited to be helping @TrinaMoyles launch her new and very amazing book, Black Bear, in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, at 7pm on Friday 9 January at the Beringia Centre. Join us! #blackbear @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social

That's exactly why the van Gogh episode of Doctor Who is my absolute favorite episode of all time and I'll never be able to get through it without bawling through the museum scene... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubTJ...

Ice inside and out as the sun slowly rises at minus 42 on the day after the solstice. #Whitehorse #Yukon

'Don’t expect to be a genius; you get better by working hard. Don’t rip up your work in a fury if it’s going badly. Set it aside, sit in the garden, drink tea, read the Guardian for a while. Return to your desk. Try again.' – @ameliagentleman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The Whys, Why-Nots, and How-Tos of Writing about Trauma - my latest Substack for Day 14: 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. shawandmoore.substack.com/p/day-14-16-...

“To what extent do we create these stories, and to what extent do they create us?” In Death of Persephone: A Murder, Yvonne Blomer reframes the myth of Persephone as a detective murder mystery set in a modern city. Discover this gripping mystery in verse reviewed by Kate Rogers here: buff.ly/QiIXpeJ

Emma Beddington @theguardian.com expresses so well a key cultural difference between the UK and Canada that I experience yet struggle to articulate. It feels all bound up in the class system to me as well, which I also haven't yet worked out how to express. (Oh, I live in Canada but am from the UK.)

If imposter syndrome was more contagious I feel like we’d be in a better place

The snow came late this year to Yukon. The ice formed first and waxed and waned like the moon.

Tomorrow in Halifax I am hosting a poetry reading to celebrate two years of my micropress, Opaat Press. This reading will feature more than fifteen poets and is free and open to all. I'd love to see you there! Saturday, November 22, 2-4 pm, Halifax Central Library, Paul O'Regan Hall.

Does everyone in Britain say ‘I’ve not been there in years’ nowadays rather than ‘I’ve not been there for years’? Being English but living in Canada, my prepositions seem to fall with a splash into the mid-Atlantic. #amwriting #dividedbyacommonlanguage dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/brit...

This will be terrific 👌

Oh, my productivity naturally also included attempting to accurately attribute the quotation my post was inspired by, regarding spending the morning taking out a comma and the afternoon putting it back again, which may or may not have been an Oscar Wilde gem: quoteinvestigator.com/2015/10/25/c...

What a productive time I'm having. I removed all the commas from a poem and then put them all back again. #amediting #poetry

MELTDOWN is an exploration of identity, gender power dynamics, work-life balance, competing goals and dreams, support for mental health, imposter syndrome, and the delights of writing. https://bit.ly/41lawaq ##Science #Glaciers #Hydrology #Fieldwork #Memoir #WomenInSTEM @snowhydro.bsky.social

Hey friends, our next reading is 3 weeks away! It will feature Betsy Warland (reading H.D.), Justyna Krol (reading Adam Zagajewski), Cabil Martinez (reading Jim-Wong Chu), and Kyle McKillop (reading Bill Knott). It all happens November 16th, 3pm at Outisiders and Others. Save the date!

A photograph by my sister the British artist Rebecca Lilley taken at Uppark House in Hampshire in 2013, not long after her cancer diagnosis. She posted a couple of her poppy photographs on social media at the time, titling one of them 'Fallen'. #RemembranceDay #Lestweforget #NationalTrust

There is no humane market for bodies. No ethical metric for killing. No “price” that makes oppression acceptable.

Delighted to be offering two writing workshops with @YukonWords on Sunday 23 November – in-person in Whitehorse from 9.30 to 11.30am and online from 1.30 to 3.30pm. All welcome. No experience needed. Free but email [email protected] to register. More to come at: www.yukonwords.ca/events

In this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, I speak with 2025 Governor General Literary Award finalist Farah Ghafoor about her poetry collection, Shadow Price (House of Anansi)— the poetry that single-handedly made me interested in economics. (I know I know.) newbooksnetwork.com/shadow-price

Joy, growth, and abundance are not usually associated with art-making. Join Antonio Michael Downing in this workshop on how to transform your fiction through joyful work. Get tickets here: wildwriters.ca/product/tran...

The Canada Post strike held it up but it was definitely worth the wait. I'm chuffed to have a little poem in the Love Loves Our Loving chapbook edited by @radiasilencia and published by @canadianpoets.bsky.social. What fine company I'm in. Oh, and the pages are all soft and creamy. @TurnstonePress

Happy International Plain Language Day! Still waiting for Hallmark to get on board with it. But in the meantime, here's an interview I did with WordRake (which would likely not fit on a greeting card.) Special thanks to Ivy Grey and KateCallahan www.wordrake.com/blog/an-inte...

‘I wanted to write more than I wanted to have children’: author Sarah Perry on rejecting motherhood

Iris and the Dead author Miranda Schreiber, & Joana Mosi, author of The Mongoose from Pow Pow Press, chat about writing grief, the blurry line between reality & fiction, & more for #ALUWomenAskingWomen from @alllitupcanada.bsky.social alllitup.ca/women-asking-women-joana-mosi-miranda-schreiber/