Delighted to see my poem in Tyger Tyger magazine’s Issue 11, alongside other awesome poems. Check out the free issue here. tygertyger.net/project/tyge...

Got a pair of villanelles in this glorious magazine for children :) tygertyger.net/project/tyge...

I’m so excited to have 3 poems come out in Tyger Tyger today and to be in the company of so many wonderful poets in this fantastic issue! tygertyger.net/project/tyge...

#MidlandsFringe 30 shows taking place in Wolverhampton in various pubs, cafes, and Arena Theatre. All happening Friday 17th to Sunday 26th July 2026. We're looking for 40-50 minute performances from actors, magicians, spoken word artists, comedians, storytellers... www.midlandsfringe.co.uk/apply

Next Tuesday evening, at the Arena Theatre in Wolverhampton, we'll be serving up another piping hot helping of PASTA. This month's theme? Setting the world on fire. 🔥

We're delighted to announce that #MidlandsFringe2026 is now open for artist applications. You'll find the online form here: www.midlandsfringe.co.uk 😊

#MidlandsFringe 30 shows taking place in Wolverhampton in various pubs, cafes, and Arena Theatre. All happening Friday 17th to Sunday 26th July 2026. We're looking for 40-50 minute performances from actors, magicians, spoken word artists, comedians, storytellers... www.midlandsfringe.co.uk/apply

Congratulations to Sasha Debevec-Mckenney, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize! Sasha's book is Joy Is My Middle Name, from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office...

Black Country Society Babby Bulletin- May edition. As detailed by committee member, Vicky Roden.

Scouting out new venues for #MidlandsFringe today. Watch this space. Act applications are welcome from tomorrow.

Our May newsletter is out! We found nearly four dozen excellent free poetry and prose contests with deadlines between today and June 30. https://createsend.com/t/d-98EA67BA465C989A2540EF23F30FEDED

B roads let their tales unfold, mile by mile...

Loved this poem on Atrium...

Big thanks to @mattabbottpoet.com whose latest substack is about facilitating poetry for wellbeing, taking inspiration from our schools project, Steph's Poetry Space. Matt picks out some favourite poems & offers great ideas for exercises to do around them mattabbottpoet.substack.com/p/poetry-for...

Here's a book that's sold really well today. This morning, Reece Shearsmith announced "Things I Took From the Dark" which we'll have signed copies of. You can pre-order it here: bertsbooks.co.uk/product/thin...

Congratulations to arts organisation Multistory on their 20 Years of producing/facilitating brilliant work. Here's me rabbiting on about working with them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TkC...

Today...in Smethwick. Open mic opportunities available.

Thanks so much to @robinhoughton.bsky.social for including a few words of wisdom from us in the new edition of A Guide to Getting Your Poetry Published. We'd really recommend this guide, which contains loads of great help and advice. Copies available from robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk

Many thanks to the editors of Poetry Scotland for including my poem in issue 111. This one is part of a sequence I'm working on retelling a particular 1970s country song's narrative - I'm not saying which for now - from the pov of the narrator's girlfriend, who I always felt never got her say.

Tonight!

These two shows at Arena Theatre 16th April :)

Next Thursday, at Wolverhampton's Arena Theatre you get TWO one-person shows from pandemonialists! @emmapurshouse.bsky.social and @davethepitt.bsky.social will each be performing their full-length Fringe shows. Get your tickets here: wlv.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/... 😊

For anybody who saw/heard me talking to myself while I was picking litter this morning I was rehearsing for my one-woman show which is on at Arena Theatre in Wolverhampton on 16th April. It's a five bag show apparently!

This evening (Easter Sunday).

We've just sent our open mic poets the Zoom link for Sunday's Yes We Cant, which is going to be amazing! If you'd like to join our audience, drop us a line. 😊

Last weekend, @emmapurshouse.bsky.social and @bigstevepoet.bsky.social led a poetry 'walkshop' in a Walsall nature reserve. Read all about it! pandemonialists.substack.com/p/poetry-and...

afterword - Ronan McGuire atriumpoetry.com/2026/03/27/a...

Thankyou to excellent host @imcmillan.bsky.social Ian McMillan who welcomed so many talented people into Darfield Museum 's Open Mike. Here are a few photos from the evening. Apologies for not capturing everyone:

I had a lovely time this evening chatting to Ann Grant who was a fabulous guest on 'Unsung'.

Tonight. Get in touch if you'd like to be in the Zoom Room...

This is tomorrow night. And it's going to be amazing. 😊

Our online shop stocks more than 50 titles about the Black Country. Whether you're interested in history, our canals, or Black Country poetry, you can treat yourselves to great writing about our region at unbeatable prices! www.blackcountrysociety.com/shop

There are now just three – yes, three – copies of ‘Black Country Miners: A Struggle For Justice’ left in our online shop. Get yours at www.blackcountrysociety.com/shop Once they’re gone, they’re gone!

Our online shop is THE best place to pick up any one of more than 50 titles we have in stock. Treat yourselves to some great writing about our region! www.blackcountrysociety.com/shop

County Express: Confessions of a Newsagent’s Son is now down to its last twelve copies. Get yours at www.blackcountrysociety.com/shop Once they’re gone, they’re gone!

We’ve just eleven copies left of Remembrance. Get yours at www.blackcountrysociety.com/shop Once they’re gone, they’re gone!

Congratulations @kitdewaal.com: #TheBestOfEverything on @womensprize.bsky.social 2026 fiction long list 🤞 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

As the days grow longer and the seasons turn, our little Black Country town welcomes once again the song of the first ice-cream van of the year, returned from wherever it is they migrate to in winter. #WarmsTheHeartITellYou

Join us at our TRIPLE ONLINE LAUNCH Tuesday 21st April, 7pm Featuring #poetry from @jennywcreative.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social and @kymdeyn.bsky.social as they celebrate these wonderful new books. Pay what you can: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/triple-onl...

Thank you, Luton. Last night's gig was amazing. 😊

🎉🎉🎉 IS&T's February #PickoftheMonth? Choose from Tim Brookes, Stephen Chapell, May Garner, Louella Lester, Rob A. Mackenzie or Surmaya Talyarkhan. 🎉🎉🎉 inksweatandtears.co.uk/february-202... #InkSweatAndTears

1/ I love performing at spoken word nights in different parts of the country to where I'm based as I get to see performers that I've not seen before. Utter Lutonia was splendid last night. Fantastic hosting by Lee Nelson . Great to meet and hear Karene Horner-Hughes and Cheryl Prince.

Want to know where @emmapurshouse.bsky.social is gigging over the next couple of months? Well, you're in luck... 😊

6th March today...so I'm sharing this poem again in memory of the girls and young women who died on this date in 1922 in a factory explosion in Dudley Port in the Black Country. I recorded the poem in 2022. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3v7...

Happy #WorldBookDayUK - it's also a year since we moved to our lovely new #Birmingham office. Let's celebrate together, use the LOVEPOETRY code at the Nine Arches checkout for 25% off #poetry books when you spend £15+. What's missing from your shelves? ninearchespress.com/shop #ReadMoreBooks

Coming up this weekend, it's a Saturday afternoon gig in Wolverhampton for @blackcountrysoc.bsky.social. With contributions from @alexvann.bsky.social @emmapurshouse.bsky.social and Jane Seabourne. It'll be great!

I am gigging in Luton this evening. It'd be great to see you if you can make it along :)

So happy to be a finalist in this year's Mslexia competition, and you can read my poem, "Osprey", in issue 109 along with all the others - congrats to the winners and all the finalists! Huge thanks to @mslexia.bsky.social and judge Liz Berry.

Jeff Phelps review of 'Unsung' by @emmapurshouse.bsky.social takes stock of this embodied collection which responds with love and attention to Wolverhampton's history and people. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/jeff-phelps-.... #InkSweatandTears #PoetryReviews #Wolverhampton

A reflective, moving, witty and nuanced view of a writer's life, its loneliness, frustrations – and wonders – in Mark Czanik's 'Scavengers'. inksweatandtears.co.uk/mark-czanik-4/ #InkSweatandTears #ThisWritingLife