2 spots left for tomorrow! Last chance to join us ☕️ 🖋️

Reminder that Getting Started With Poetry returns on MONDAY at 7pm in The Community Works! All beginners are welcome to this FREE workshop series introducing some tools of the trade for writing verse. Make sure you register at the link below to come! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/getting-st...

Member of the Society of Authors? Thinking about practical ways to make a difference to other members, prospective members, and help ensure a more equitable literary ecosystem for all? How about considering joining the board? Come along Tues 9th to learn more. societyofauthors.org/event/luncht...

So excited to be heading back to Hitchin’s Shout or Whisper to share some poems alongside the lovely Holly Moberley. Join us on 25th June! 😍

🌞 ☕️ Poetry and Replenish 🖋️ 🌞 A poetry writing workshop 6th June 12-2pm This is facilitated by me and hosted by the wonderful Replenish, Derby. I look forward to seeing you there! www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-and...

Colin Grant and Michael Rosen will be at the shop on Tuesday 23 June to discuss WHAT WE LEAVE WE CARRY, which explores questions about assimilation, identity, belonging and the emotional cost of migration in twenty-first-century Britain. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/colin-gran...

Indie presses speaking at our publishing panel: Bearded Badger Publishing! 🦡 Their books: The Pachinko Parlour, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel and Step Forward, Harry Salt. 🧂🦩 Plus, poetry chapbooks from Midlands writers! Find out more about Bearded Badger and our panel HERE ⬇️⬇️⬇️ bit.ly/ARTPWEM

A period of very hot dry weather is being forecast for the coming Bank Holiday weekend and well into next week You can find information on coping with heatwaves with ME/CFS here: https://meassociation.org.uk/medical-matters/items/how-to-cope-with-a-heatwave-if-you-have-me-cfs/ #MECFS #pwME

Hey lovelies, Doing some research for my poetry commission. If you’ve lived or worked in Chesterfield, you may be able to help! Head to the Google doc below 👇🏻 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

There’s something magical about writing on the cusp of spring! 🌷 Absolute last chance to book yourself on for tomorrow’s workshop!

Great expectations for this Tulip Sylvestris on #TulipTuesday

Huge thanks to No Exit Press for my translator copies of Paul Halter's magnificent book, THE DEMON OF DARTMOOR! A brilliant impossible crime story by a master of the genre. I was honoured to translate it. Get your copy now!

✨ This Thursday, I’ll be running an online poetry workshop on magic realism and surrealism. Grab your tickets below 👇🏻

Long Covid awareness Day (March 15) aims to raise awareness of the long-term health problems people may experience after a COVID-19 infection. You can find out more about Long Covid and the symptoms here: https://meassociation.org.uk/vqei #LongCovid #LongCovidAwareness #LongCovidAwarenessDay2026

Confetti Bush blossom #art #photography #flowers #bloomscroll

Out and about in London town today with the legend that is @charlottelpoet.bsky.social !

This is in just over a week! Grab your ticket on Eventbrite ☺️

We've just found out we're the #Nibbies North of England Small Press of the Year 2026! 🎉🎉🎉 Thank you to the judges, our brilliant fellow Northern indies, our authors and translators, and our readers. This means so much. www.thebookseller.com/british-book...

This is my sculptural poem ‘Leaf laurel in the memory of bees’. Formally, the poem uses the leaf wreath, a universal symbol of glory and mourning. The materials used to form the wreath are: Letraset, skeleton rubber tree leaves and pure silk for the hanging ribbon. 🐝🌿👑

This Saturday myself and Matt Hedley Stoppard will be running some creative activities in connection to our Chesterfield commission as well as reading some poems. Join us from 11-2pm. Hosted by Creative Revolution at Chesterfield College Thank you for the invite Kate Burns🌞

Overjoyed to have been commissioned by Beam Arts UK and Chesterfield Borough Council to write a poem for A Sense of Chesterfield, a new heritage arts trail that will guide you around the town centre and help uncover hidden history.

The Magic and Surreal: A Poetry Workshop Thursday 19th March | 7-9pm What is the difference between magic realism and surrealism and how can we use them in our poetry? www.eventbrite.com/e/the-magic-...

Tonight! Drop into the Bookshop between 6 p.m and 8 p.m. and get 10% off all books. St JOHN will also be open late for food and drink. Attendance is free, but booking is essential! Get your ticket here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/march-late...

If you leave your globe artichokes too long, don't worry there is a silver lining - their magnificent flowers! 🌸 Nature's beauty never ceases to amaze, even when our gardening timing isn't perfect. #GardeningJoy #Nature #gardening #vegetables #growyourown #planning #allotment

The Magic and Surreal: A Poetry Workshop Thursday 19th March | 7-9pm This is an online workshop via zoom. Concessions are available on tickets. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-magic-...

Having a bit of an emotional week saying goodbye to a phase of my family’s life, and this latest endorsement from the wonderful Mary Jean Chan that came in this morning tipped me over into tears I’d been holding in. I’m so so grateful to all these early readers and their reception of these poems.

I wrote about how much of Robert Lowell's best poetry was originally prose that he wrote as therapy and edited into verse

We’re 117 years old today! The Poetry Society has been championing poets and poetry since 1909. If you want to help us continue our mission to promote the reading and writing of poetry, consider joining us as a member, or donating to us. We’d be delighted to have you. poetrysociety.org.uk

The Magic and Surreal: A Poetry Workshop Thursday 19th March | 7-9pm What is the difference between magic realism and surrealism and how can we use them in our poetry? www.eventbrite.com/e/the-magic-...

For anyone travelling in #Derbyshire this week!

Shared my thoughts with the #BBC about the recent changes to #Vinted: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not Vinted deciding to change all the sizing for women’s clothes so now everything I’m trying to sell on my profile has the wrong size on it and I have to change it manually! #vinted People are not happy. There wasn’t an issue with sizing. Please change it back!

Sadly me and @tommeadauthor.bsky.social are super poorly and will no longer be able to make tomorrow!

Come see us at the Lichfield Book Extravaganza next weekend! 😍

Final call for Diabetes and ME/CFS/LC survey! Do you have Diabetes and ME/CFS or Long Covid? Please consider taking our survey to help us better understand your experiences of these conditions: https://meassociation.org.uk/zmq1  Survey will close on the 31st October. #MECFS #LongCovid #Diabetes

Autumn showing off today #VaVaVoom

New print on the drying rack!

Eee! Can’t wait for this. Come and say hi 👋🏻

Nothing like an impromptu call from DWP to ask some questions before your assessment to derail your day 😩🙄

Last chance to grab your tickets for this!

Went to Venice and got a bunch of photos of things I thought I should paint. May abandon this one. Not feeling it.

Love this book @pollyrowena.bsky.social 🩷 @serenbooks.bsky.social Ps. Look at Chappell Roan’s pink pony Reading Fest wristband and how she is perfect at marking poetry pages.

✨ BIG NEWS ✨ You may have already heard from the grapevine but I officially wanted to share that on the 16th September (which is my Birthday 🎂 😍) I’ll be beginning my masters in writing poetry with the Poetry School in London. It’s part time…

📚 Final Days of Our Summer Sale! There’s still time to grab 20% off all Salt books – including our stunning 2025 titles. From chilling ghost stories to bold new fiction, treat yourself today. 🛒 Use code CWS6ED0C7KCX or click: 👉 www.saltpublishing.com/discount/CWS... Offer ends 31 August.

How does where you live shape your identity? Come and explore writing about place with me in this online poetry workshop, this Thursday! Book your ticket below: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-and...

Love this photo of Monarch Butterflies in Ontario Canada probably Point Peel National that i went to yearly in Sept in my twenties as they gathered to cross Lake erie migrating south waited for the wind to change

The view from my campsite.

📚 Summer reading, sorted. We’re offering 20% off all our 2025 titles until 31 August. Perfect time to pick up the books everyone’s talking about. 👉 Browse here: www.saltpublishing.com/discount/CWS... Or just use the code CWS6ED0C7KCX at checkout. #SummerReads #BookRecommendations #BookSky