Just back from a great literary festival in Wexford after being placed in the poetry comp, such a joy to be back in Ireland 🇮🇪 & to spend time with Claire Keegan & hear the wonderful @kitdewaal.com

Denmark eliminates 25% book tax to combat declining reading boingboing.net/2025/08/22/d...

Very much enjoyed ‘The Opposite of Swedish Death Cleaning’ such true & well crafted work including powerful poems on Alzheimer’s from @alisonbinney.bsky.social (& good luck with Gladstone!)

Fantastic performance 🎭 from @creationtheatre.bsky.social last night - no summer should be without - only a week left tix creationtheatre.co.uk/show/midsumm...

This looks excellent

A perfectly poetic cafe in Copenhagen : )

why are we doing age verification? we're all 38

Soooo excited to be on the Alpine Fellowship Shortlist for 2025 : 0

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut. If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

We have just seen this in London it was fabulous can’t wait to see it again Oxford next week #creationtheatre #dalloway100 #woolf #oxfordtheatre #mrsdalloway

Looking forward to reading at Creation on Monday in Summertown, Oxford, see you there ! creationtheatre.co.uk/show/poetryr...

Looking forward to reading at Creation on Monday in Summertown, Oxford, see you there ! creationtheatre.co.uk/show/poetryr...

Up the May 🎉

“There is reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as an ancient friend.” ― James Baldwin, No Name in the Street

Exciting Icelandic Activity Bókmenntahátíð í Reykjavík / The Reykjavik International Literary Festival & Arts Council England - Anne Carson / Claire Keenan / Andrev Walden, volcanoes 🌋, stone stories & double rainbows.

Sign of the day…

Seems like a good time to repost (admittedly probably to the converted) :) X

UK contemporary sculptor known as Anna & the Willow creates nature-inspired sculptures made from rods of willow #womensart

Picked this up on the way out of my local bookstore today and was happy to hear it's been flying out the door.

Enjoying first @rialtopoetry.bsky.social and daff of the season - great sequence from @lorrainemariner.bsky.social

“It seems to me that I have wanted to write for the whole of my life. The intensity of this insistence, despite its implausibility, suggests an emotional, rather than literal, accuracy. I think my life didn’t seem my life until I started to write,” Louise Glück writes.