‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins

Our author, Andrei Gomez Suarez (@andreigomezsuarez.bsky.social) is speaking at the Beyond Borders International Festival event in Scotland next week! bbintfest.com/events/curre...

Reading tonight on Greece but in Kentish Town: at the Owl bookshop with Julian Hoffman with his lovely new book on living in Greece

Tonight at @owlbookshop.bsky.social in London's Kentish Town I'll be speaking with the wonderful @ruthpadel.bsky.social to start my book tour for Lifelines! owlbookshop.co.uk/product/juli...

#Lifelines author @julianhoffman.bsky.social will be travelling to the UK in June for a series of brilliant events! Based in London? You can catch Julian and @ruthpadel.bsky.social in-conversation @owlbookshop.bsky.social on 11th June. 🎟️: owlbookshop.co.uk/product/juli...

Quick reminder that I'm popping up tomorrow morning alongside Imtiaz Dharker and Seni Seneviratne, as part of Khushwant Singh Literary Festival London, to help launch The Poetry Archive's poetry of South Asia collection. It'd be grand to see you. Tix are free: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/khushwant-...

I just did not expect the catastrophic insight into Turkey’s policy in the 30s - terrifying

In today’s Half-Life on BBC Radio 4, @joedunthorne.bsky.social follows in his great-grandfather's footsteps to Turkey where he was employed, it seems, making gas masks Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Its an amazing story and you have done it so well!

We cannot be supporters of this Israel. We assume some—possibly even many—Israelis agree. We’d like to hear from them.❤️❤️❤️ Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/w...

Thank you, @ebbooksellers.bsky.social, for keeping us informed about the ongoing travesty and censorship of the current administration. #censorship, #writingcommunity, #litsky, #poetrysky

🎨 Offering Tobacco and Coffee to the Foreign Ambassador Waiting at the Chamber of the Chief Scribe (Reisülküttab) in the Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, c. 1800

🧐 Did you know that in July 2024, California hit a huge milestone by supplying its electricity demand with 100% clean energy for 100 days? 🧵 #california #energysky

@thirdactorg.bsky.social template for contacting US Senators re: the damaging budget bill. @billmckibben.bsky.social @votersoftomorrow.org @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @envirovoters.bsky.social thirdact.org/act/urge-you...

Cool bewildering May

Fab evening at Cheltenham Poetry Festival last night with @ruthpadel.bsky.social @petitecreature1.bsky.social and Pat Edwards. Support the Festival. A great programme. @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social #poetry

Thank you Anna, Zoe & the @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social team for an amazing opening night! An honour to witness @ruthpadel.bsky.social's stunning reading from "Girl". @patwelshpoolpoetry.bsky.social cast her keen eye over Marys of religion, myth and history. Monica Piersky, fascinating folkloric poems.

Should we see ourselves as trapped by our narratives as much as we are dependent on them to make sense of the world? | iai.tv/video/lost-i... Join Matthew Beaumont, @ruthpadel.bsky.social , Theodore Dalrymple, and host Myriam François to discuss the power of narratives. #langsky

Happy Birthday Seamus Heaney! If he was born in Yorkshire, this would read: If we can winter this out Summer will kill us no doubt.

Wow - so honoured! 💃💃💃

I love beautiful coincidences. One of the poetry inspirations for Daughter of Fire, my poetry collection about Margaret of Anjou, was @ruthpadel.bsky.social. I recently found a copy of Ruth's 1993 collection Angel & its bookplate was from a library in Angers (Margaret country)! #Poetry #MedievalSky

The wonderful @patwelshpoolpoetry.bsky.social is on Bsky! Pat is inspirational - I'm currently reading her book Hail Marys and loving it 😍 @annasaund.bsky.social @zoebrooks.bsky.social @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social @ruthpadel.bsky.social

I would absolutely love to see you at @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social this May - our line up absolutely wonderful with some very fine poets and performers. They include @ruthpadel.bsky.social #MichaelSymmonsRoberts #SeanBorodale - read more www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...

'Permissions and Omissions'. I'll be talking to the Friends of Little Gidding on 14 May at 2.30 about my experience of editing poetry anthologies. - 'if you came this way', you'd be very welcome. #poetry

Could not be more excited for this #Poetry reading, alongside poetry goddesses @ruthpadel.bsky.social and Pat Edwards. I'll be writing more in the coming days about what Ruth's writing has meant to me. #FeistyFemales #MythicalWomen

So excited to be joining the wonderful @ruthpadel.bsky.social at London's @owlbookshop.bsky.social on June 11th for stories and poetry from Greece, on what will be the first stop of my book tour for LIFELINES this summer. Details and tickets via the link: owlbookshop.co.uk/product/juli...

One of our satellite-tagged Cuckoos has hitched a ride on a cruise ship and is now in the UK, the earliest one of our superstar Cuckoos has ever reached us! 😮🛥️🧵

'Lewis has long been a writer of rare skill, but this latest shows her at the height of her imaginative and intellectual powers.’ - @mabjones.bsky.social, Buzz Magazine, on Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis's new collection First Rain in Paradise. www.buzzmag.co.uk/new-poetry-m...

Here's the list of events! @ruthpadel.bsky.social opens the festival. Among the many highlights are @robinince.bsky.social, Michael Simmons Roberts, Robert Seatter, @josephpconlon.bsky.social, Sean Borodale, Fiona Benson, & the 15th Festival Slam. www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...

Our 2025 workshops are here! Nature Writing: @pollyrowena.bsky.social; Short Story: Ross Raisin; Writing Places: Sarah Moss; Novel Writing: Paul McVeigh; Travel Writing: @helenscales.bsky.social and Poetry: @ruthpadel.bsky.social. Booking opens Monday 24 March at 12pm westcorkmusic.ie/LFworkshops

'How a group of ordinary people who shared a fear that they were losing their democracy could figure out how to work together to reclaim it.' open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

we’re going to have to talk sensibly and honestly about the ramifications of this very soon. for literature, for publishing, for the assessment of talent, for the creative writing degree. Anyway - first time I’ve read any AI fiction or poetry and thought: Oh. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Signing GIRL in Toppings St Andrews after lovely reading last night at stanza poetry festival: beautiful audiences beautiful day

Thrilled to be reading from GIRL at Stanza Poetry Festival Opening Night March 14 - online and in person event 7.00 - with a galaxy of poetry stars

Really looking forward to hearing the wonderful @ruthpadel.bsky.social read from her brilliant collection ‘Girl’ this evening. Us open miccers will be reading poems of girlhood too. #GoToThePoets ❤️ Book tickets here: www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

Imagine how much effort you have to put into looking at the terrible state of the arts in Britain and then deciding that it must be protests and boycotts that are responsible rather than wilful neglect and underfunding.

opening @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social 2025 - 3 powerful poets share work that shines a light upon the representation of women and girls in myth, legend,history. @ruthpadel.bsky.social @petitecreature1.bsky.social Pat Edwards. @zoebrooks.bsky.social May 7. www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...

So looking forward to reading @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social with @petitecreature1.bsky.social @zoebrooks.bsky.social on 7 may

a completely brilliant and beautiful book…

Have a great time! And thanks again for coming on our podcast. The more I read, and think about, Girl the more I love it.

So looking forward to hearing it!

Loved talking to @ruthpadel.bsky.social about her fabulous collection Girl, and hearing her exquisite poems. From the annunciation to a serpent goddess glimpsed from a London bus. Plus poignant work by Siegfried Baber listen to @planetpoetry.bsky.social here www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

So looking forward to doing two #poetry readings next weekend: Valentines Night 14 Feb 7 pm with sitar player Vijay Jagtap Forty Hall Enfield and Sunday 16 Feb 2.30 pm @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social with @carrieetter.bsky.social Padraig O Tuama and Helen Calcutt sunday

Words meet the wonders of science at this year's @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social and tickets are now available! Our sparky themes include 'science' ! Highlights include #MichaelSymmonsRoberts @ruthpadel.bsky.social #fionabenson www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...

Hi Marcelle, it's a fabulous line-up, congratulations on your event! I'm reading on 7th May with @ruthpadel.bsky.social and Pat Edwards ✨ #PoetsOnBluesky #PoetryFestival

Under my conservation hat, my @theguardian.com review of sophy roberts’ wonderful book on the colonisation of Congo has just come out www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Today, just today, you can buy Girl on Kindle for only 99p I think that may be 99 rupees in India. Or cents in Greece.

Our photo group did a night hike to reach this special and secretive spot in the salt flats of the Altiplano in Chile. I did a 20 second exposure with a 14mm lens, while a flashlight revealed this incredible blue lagoon. Another otherworldly place on Earth. #astrophotography #chile #bluelagoon