Nothing more exciting than knowing that your book has been printed and actually exists as a physical entity!!!!! Ahhhh!!!!!!!!! #bookish #poetrycommunity

I'm presenting a paper on Saturday at the Singapore Literature Conference, 2pm Singapore time, via recording, on 'Unmaking the Lyric: Hamid Roslan and the new poetics of Singapore.' Thanks, Anna Reckin, who encouraged me at the University of East Anglia to write the initial essay. #poetry #singlit

My first full collection of poems, A Place to get Better, is being published by erbacce press this summer/autumn! Interested in pre-ordering a signed copy from me? You can send me a DM. Priced at £9 😊 #poetry #writing #newwriting #disabledwriting

My first full collection of poems, A Place to get Better, is being published by erbacce press this summer/autumn! Interested in pre-ordering a signed copy from me? You can send me a DM. Priced at £9 😊 #poetry #writing #newwriting #disabledwriting

Oh hey, I wrote this! It was such a pleasure to write for Scarleteen and to get to share an article which I'm really proud of!

July is Disability Pride Month 🩶❤️💛🤍💚💙🩶 Happy #DisabilityPrideMonth to everyone with visible and invisible disabilities. To everyone who cares for someone with a disability, and to everyone who is gonna learn about disability pride this month. Disability Pride is a fight and a celebration⭐

It's just words and you're just meat and nothing actually matters. Now go write your book.

Hooray and congratulations to the winners + highly commended poets 🎉

Warmest Congrats to all poets on the shortlist for the Kathryn Bevis Memorial Prize 2025!

Very very big news! I have been selected as runner-up for the erbacce-prize for poetry 2025! Super excited and grateful, congratulations to all highly commended and of course the winner! www.erbacce-press.co.uk/erbacce-priz...

It's a huge honour to have made the long list of Highly Commended Poets for the 2025 erbacce-prize for poetry. Extremely exciting!!!

I had a lot of fun with this lil blanket :)

Osteospermum 🌸

Submitting poems is actually really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really hard.

Clicking on the duolingo app instead of finch app is like. Wrong bird WRONG BIRD.

Writing is fine. It's literally the most embarrassing thing on earth to put yourself on full display for rejection or validation, but it's fine. I enjoy it. I find it therapeutic to set myself on fire.

On this day in 2006, Neil banged out the tunes

Best friends.

Submissions close for IN THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS in 10 days. We are looking for poetry, Flash fiction and nonfiction, short story, and photography/visual art. Spread the word ✨️

✍️ #NaPoWriMo is here with the challenge to write a poem a day! Throughout April, The Poetry Society will be featuring poetry writing prompts created by poets that we've worked with recently through competitions, publications and projects. Today's prompt is from @joedunthorne.bsky.social, (...)

Poem Status: SICK

It was a great honour to take 2nd prize and even greater to be listed alongside such incredible poets. This prize truly means the world!

LAUNCHING APRIL 1st! www.vervepoetryfestival.com/poem-of-the-month

Today is the day!! #disabledpoets #poetry

AI art is always ugly. The image itself may be conventionally beautiful, but the message behind it, its very creation and exsistence, is profoundly ugly. It can't escape that ugliness.

Maybe spring IS coming.

Can confirm it is the worst possible time to be waiting for the decision on my PIP review :/

Don't forget that you can tune into the Disabled Poets Prize winners announcement this Saturday! As one of the shortlisted poets I am very excited for the event! @disabledpoets.bsky.social #poetry #disabledpoets #writing www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/disabled-p...

As always I feel that I must encourage all writers in the UK to become members of the @alcs.co.uk to collect those much deserved royalties on your work! Hooray for the ALCS! #writing #authors #alcsday