DJs Jimmy Two Shoes and Dr Aditi will provide some sweet tunes at our next MUSHAIRA — a night of poetry, music, and food 🎶 June 14 2025 7:30pm ‪@cafeotodalston.bsky.social We’ll be joined by poets✨ @sarahali.bsky.social @sabadilla15.bsky.social @susanpoet.bsky.social @rushikawick.bsky.social

Rushika Wick (@rushikawick.bsky.social) will be joining us at our next MUSHAIRA — a night of poetry, music, and food. June 25 2025, 7:30pm ‪@cafeotodalston.bsky.social‬ Tickets at the link in bio! DJs Jimmy Two Shoes & Dr Aditi will provide tunes, while Chef Yogi sells delicious Sri Lankan food ✨

Sale at @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social - my pamphlet Vital Capacity now £5.25, and so much else to explore. Have just picked up recent work by @danielghinds.bsky.social & @rushikawick.bsky.social & Rhian Elizabeth 📚 www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

A special summer edition of MUSHAIRA — a night of poetry, music, and food. We’ll be joined by poets @sarahali.bsky.social @sabadilla15.bsky.social @susanpoet.bsky.social @rushikawick.bsky.social DJs Jimmy Two Shoes & Dr Aditi will provide tunes, while Chef Yogi sells delicious Sri Lankan food ✨

💫 We’re delighted that Boiled Owls by @azad-ashim.bsky.social is shortlisted for the 2025 Jhalak Prize for Poetry 💫 ❤️‍🔥 to see Gboyega Odubanjo’s Adam there, & alongside titles by @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social @rushikawick.bsky.social 🙏 to the judging panel & congrats to all the shortlisted poets

PREORDER (28.02.2025): Opening Line is a £3.99 poetry anthology built on the principle that access to the arts should not be a privilege. This anthology dismantles economic barriers that too often limit audiences from engaging with contemporary poetry. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Excited for this curated by the super-talented and equally just lovely human being @hannahcopley.bsky.social

I’ve come up with a new quarterly event series called @writeback.bsky.social at the British Library. The format is each writer presents for 20 min on a subject of their choice, then in the second half the writers interview each other. It’ll be hosted by @helenmort.bsky.social.

Join us! Dark times, let’s be together and be lit by creation and community

How lovely! Thank you @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social

Horse is being shared tomorrow night 7 pm at Morocco Bound Books - there’s a film, music and guest readers - free, you are invited!

Congratulations to the winners of the #JamesBerryPoetryPrize 2024: Clementine Ewokolo Burnley Nadine El-Enany Roshni Gallagher All three will have their first full-length collections published by Bloodaxe in 2026. Find out more about the poets and the prize: bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

TRY TO FIND ME, the latest collection by Tessa Foley is available to order from LIVE CANON. Read endorsements from Fran Lock & Glyn Maxwell if you need to be convinced! Buy here now! www.livecanon.co.uk/store/produc...