Just arrived, this 1st edition, limited, numbered edition of 125 copies, paperback only. Available through me, or try your local bookshop. Yes, a novel writ by me!

Two hours of National Poetry Day with Poetry ID and friends at Hitchin Library. Fun and games, (including war-games) in poetic form.

Poetry ID books and Poems in Royston, 27th Sept. 12-4.00pm

Playful poetry on 2nd Oct.

Awaited.

Poetry ID workshops start again on 18th Sept at 7.30pm. in ‘The Settlement,’ Letchworth. No, there will not be peaches.

Thanks to Alex for his numerous poems as well as the others for their poems and readings. We may have been a select few but it was a great evening of fun, discovery and chat.

The latest John Clare selection by Mike Mecham. £12. From bookshops or direct from The John Clare Society.

Asking for a friend: Will vets do pro bonio appointments?

Before or after?

If it is a little out of your way, we would be even more pleased to see you.

Hopefully winging its way to me………

But the crab apple is definitely the successful show off!

Not to be outdone, the proper James Grieve has offered some minimal blossom.

@poetryemmameier.bsky.social Cox apple-blossom in a few places on a young tree grown from a pip, from a Suffolk farm, supermarket pack.

A sell-out evening in Stony Stratford with narration by Liz and Robert Gifford on life and poems, and much music and song from the John Clare collected songs of the day by Innocent Hare.

My avatar’s bobble hat.

Early snowdrops waiting for the snow to drop.

Yes! Read this book. Buy this book. Give it as a gift!

Lament, By Edna St. Vincent Millay

A little poetry pamphlet

A young Chinese writer in English portrays a life at the starvation level of rural farming and into an industrial city to survive, a sort of rags to rags story. A shift of narration and self acceptance offers a better future. Available now from. Yorkbookshop.com

A new collection, in English, by Yuko. First rate, ingenious and skilfully written. A step above many new collections. Available from the author: see website.

Modern China with its carpet slightly raised shining a light on its poorest lives. A novel, written in English, a triumph in following an artistic dream. Available from. Yorkbookshop.com

Mary Celeste, found abandoned, badly rigged, 5th December 1872.