Thank you so much! Happy new year! Xx

"No boots, no armour, nothing but love drives this. And love is where this comes from and love is who this is for." In fact basically the whole of @salenagodden.bsky.social's 'It Isn't Punk To Seek Permission' - one of my fave poems ever

Time flies when you're doing all sorts of things you weren't planning to. Later than planned, more poetry! On the top shelf you can see new arrivals from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social - The Footing collection, Steve Ely, Mark Goodwin, Angelina D'Roza and others. Shelves need some re-order... 1/2

Ahh thank you @thelitconsultancy.bsky.social Xx

🙌🏾💛 LAST CHANCE TO ENTER RAFFLE & WIN INCREDIBLE PRIZES & SUPPORT RCK! Refugee Community Kitchen serve nutritious food without judgement to those fleeing war, poverty, persecution and climate change and living in Northern France and the UK. Please repost. Thank you! raffall.com/400775/enter...

There's a lot of good things worth bidding for here, in the #creativesforsudan auction, please take a look and help fundraising for people escaping genocide in El-Fasher. @yassmin.bsky.social, via @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social app.galabid.com/creatives4su...

✨Last gig of this autumn tour tonight! Words On Wax: Poetry & Vinyl Listening session hosted by Repeat Beat Poet & Salena Godden - Looking forward to chatting about poetry and vinyl and the making of LIVEwire. Come along, Mason & Frith, Westbourne Park, 7.30-9.30pm - mason-fifth.com/event/words-...

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @hanvanderhart.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/11/poet...

This is such a generous review, thank you for sharing your thoughts, thank you SO much Paul! Xx @paulwritespoems.bsky.social

You can still DONATE to help those in Jamaica affected by Hurricane Melissa’s devastation & WATCH the recording of last night With a TON of amazing poetry, incredible hosting by Leone Ross & a beautiful atmosphere - but on a Karim Kamar one today, not sorry melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk

Oooo! Come and celebrate NPF's 10th year!

🙌🏾💚 This weekend I am in sunny Nottingham for a BIG gig sharing the stage with my poetry family, Henry Normal, Joelle Taylor and Lemn Sissay! What a line up! Grab ticket’s now, it’s gonna be a glorious evening, Saturday night, Nottingham Poetry Festival - nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/events/notti...

❤️✨ Calling the coven! I am going to be in Manningtree this evening, sharing poetry at the magic Manningtree Arts, love this place, a celebration of books and community, local to Manningtree, see you tonight! Xx www.manningtreearts.com/event-detail...

🇯🇲🙌🏾 Thank you to all who joined us online last night to raise funds for Jamaica, beautiful gathering of poetry and music and community and connection, loved it, love you, @outspokenpress.bsky.social here’s to more of this good stuff soon! BIGlove Xx

What are you up to this evening? If you are staying home then sign up for this online gig all for a great cause, and the line up organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social is epic: POETS READ FOR HURRICANE RELIEF FUNDRAISER. Please share and donate if you can! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...

What are you up to this evening? If you are staying home then sign up for this online gig all for a great cause, and the line up organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social is epic: POETS READ FOR HURRICANE RELIEF FUNDRAISER. Please share and donate if you can! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...

#Poetry 'I Cannot Wait To Breathe' by Salena Godden www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCTu...

“We turn our hearts into museums of the people that we love to keep them alive inside us.”

For anyone who needs to share a deep breath: Something new on my Substack and YouTube channels today, here's a live performance of a very timely poem 'I Cannot Wait To Breathe' recorded at Status Flo at the Brighton Dome 🎤✨https://salenagodden.substack.com/p/i-cannot-wait-to-breathe

🕷️Lovely review of the BOG PEOPLE anthology came through this week: morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fine...

✨Thank you to all at STATUS FLO, beautiful gathering at Brighton Dome. I'm coming to the end of my paperback tour now. I'm reading poetry with Out-Spoken to raise funds for Jamaica Hurricane Relief on November 19th, please donate if you can! See you soon, BIGlove Xx 🎟️links: www.salenagodden.co.uk

🎧 𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗡 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞 / 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗖𝗞 📧 You can now listen to yesterday's episode in full via the Soho Radio Mixcloud page! You'll find the listen back link plus all of the content from our round-ups in our latest Substack post. Our special guest was Iona Lee. roaring20sradio.substack.com/p/episode-56...

“Godden’s greatest gift is arguably her ability to convey love, not with the passivity of platitudes but as a conviction which is actively lived; a passion with the power to eclipse even hate’s most enduring shadows. Her empathy is captivating…” thank you! www.northernsoul.me.uk/cabaret-for-...

🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser: November 19th. Organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with an introduction from Akala, such an amazing line up, please show solidarity, donate and share and repost! Thank you! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...

The evening will be hosted by Leone Ross, with an introduction from Akala, a piano recital from Karim Kamar and readers too many characters to list but in the flyer >>

📚 RLF Fellows’ News – November 2025 ✍️ New books, theatre premieres & award nods, plus Collected Live in Liverpool & Birmingham, and Mosaic Monologues from Writers Mosaic. Award nods for C.D. Rose, Gillian Allnutt, Nick Makoha, Salena Godden & Trish Cooke. Read more: https://bit.ly/3LoP2Vc

💜🎤✨My next live show is STATUS FLO Monday 10th November in BRIGHTON with Aflo Poetry and Pablo Franco at the Brighton Dome Studio Theatre! 🎭 See you down there for an uplifting night of poetry and story telling by the sea. Looking forward to being back in Brighton! brightondome.org/whats-on/LmI...

🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser: November 19th, 7-9pm UK and 2-4pm EST organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with and introduction from Akala, amazing line up, please join us and please donate and please share! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...

Get your ears on this! 💜💜💜

𝙉𝙀𝙓𝙏 𝙀𝙋𝙄𝙎𝙊𝘿𝙀 🔜 We're back on Soho Radio this Monday from 2-4pm, when we'll be joined live in the studio by Iona Lee! Tune in at sohoradio.com or via DAB. Two hours of art, culture, books, poetry, and activism. Co-presented by @salenagodden.bsky.social, @amahrose.bsky.social & @mattabbottpoet.com

“New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant,” Mamdani said. “So hear me President Trump when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us." -- www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“So hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us. - New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani

#Books #Poetry With Love, Grief and Fury by Salena Godden A Review Now available in paperback canongate.co.uk/books/4921-w... www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3Jn...

With the devastation of Hurricane Melissa, we’re hosting an online event to raise funds to help those affected Please join us Weds 19 Nov 7pm UK/2pm EST to hear from stellar poets who’ll share their work & offer some insight into the situation on the ground melissafundraiser.eventbrite.co.uk

hope is a group project

🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser: November 19th, 7-9pm UK and 2-4pm EST organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with and introduction from Akala, amazing line up, please join us and please donate and please share! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future. Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.

TONIGHT Anoushka Shankar & Friends! Winter Fundraiser for Choose Love at The Union Chapel, Anita Rani, Denise Gough, Elif Shafak, Inua Ellams, Nikita Gill, Nish Kumar, Nitin Sawhney, Shappi Khorsandi, Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Misan Harriman, Salena Godden & more... unionchapel.org.uk/whats-on/ano...

Here’s a link for donations too! Thank you so much for all shares and reposts! More soon! BIGlove 🇯🇲❤️

🇯🇲🙌🏾 Here we go! Steeze Factory, Run N’ Bass, and Love Music Hate Racism, raising money in aid of Jamaica following one of the most disastrous hurricanes the region has seen. We will be partying with a purpose featuring a line up of heavyweights! November 12th! foxfirkin.com/event/jamaic...

Not enough posts for Jamaica on Bluesky: Here’s some information from the Black Music Movement. An open call for ways you can help and show up. This time last week, the Category 5 hurricane Melissa did her worse, I’ll keep sharing what I can find, let’s unite, Jamaica needs help 🇯🇲❤️

happy to be on this excellent podcast talking about Lives of the Female Poets @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social with @gregorykearns.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0rMp...

🇯🇲 please share and donate if you can - supportjamaica.gov.jm/donate

🎤✨ TONIGHT! Looking forward to a gorgeous evening in Ipswich, I'm headlining SOAPBOX at The New Wolsey Theatre, I think there are a handful of tickets left up for grabs so if you live in the area and fancy some live and lively poetry, join us! www.wolseytheatre.co.uk/events/soapb...

If you are looking for something spooky but also tuneful to watch tonight, my film All You Need Is Death, about a couple of musicologists who get themselves in trouble by recording a song that was never meant to be recorded, is available on many streamers; linktr.ee/paulduane

It doesnt stop there. Did you know "zombies" are an African creation? Zombie comes from the Haitian creole "zanbi," which itself comes from the Kikongo word "nzambi" that translates to "spirit of a dead person.' It embodied the spirit of haitian slavery. Body is alive, the soul is not short🧵

When I think of Zombies and Hoodou and our heritage in that area and phenomenon my mind immediately goes to Zora Neale Hurston, read this - www.litpubcrawl.com/thescrape/zo...

a poem about halloween masks worn all year round

#ConsciousWritingMonth continues with Page Presence, 7pm GMT tomorrow Try new tools to tell your story your way, guided by Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social Recognise how you can share your story with both readers and the industry 🍂 Free for Being a Writer members 🍂 £15 tickets available