Fiona Lesley Bennett 💙

Poet, Facilitator and Podcaster
@PoetryExch Original Podcast Silver British Podcast Awards

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dear to my heart for so many reasons - what a meeting point indeed @Idharker in the company of Louis MacNeice 🧡

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'Time was away and she was here'

Our hearts are full as we share our latest episode - the glorious @Idharker talking about the poem that has been a friend to her: 'Meeting Point' by Louis MacNeice.

@BloodaxeBooks #PoemsAsFriends

https://t.co/LqehsFKsFh

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We love you, dear readers, dear poetry lovers, dear friends of Poems As Friends.

Find your copy of The Poetry Exchange 10th Anniversary Anthology in bookshops around the UK & online.

Send us a photo with yours here if you like!

#PoemsAsFriends @QuercusBooks

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This one - the brilliant Nick Laird with Zbigniew Herbert

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A friend to spend the years with in our latest episode...

https://t.co/Xpw8XAQUFJ

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What awful news. Surely our foremost poet. His poems could up-end you like a drug. Entirely attuned to the natural world, and the strangeness of worlds just beyond our senses. Novelist, essayist, columnist - a mighty talent.
https://t.co/ejcS8DjX4K

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@malucursino @BBCWorld Beautiful research and write-up - thank you

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Our next 'Poems As Friends' event is at the wonderful @NNFest on 25th May (10am). Fiona and Michael will be joined by Roy McFarlane and Hannah Jane Walker to share readings and insights on the power of poems as companions. Hope to see you there!

https://t.co/3Q2SrHPpBJ

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@Munross My god - the brazen shameless cruelty and stupidity …

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Enjoy a #blog post from @TamarYoseloff introducing 'Factum', an ekphrastic poem from Belief Systems inspired by Robert Rauschenberg's 'Combines'.

Read the poem alongside the artworks and learn about the poet's exploration of form:
https://t.co/9C6RI7Kso6

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Our next title is the @PoetryBookSoc Recommended BELIEF SYSTEMS by @TamarYoseloff

Available to order now, this beautifully illustrated #poetry book finds places of transformation where nature, music and art thrive at the margins.
https://t.co/d0O85lk0U1

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Sharing the final poem in Popular Song by @HarryManTweets
https://t.co/rrlcnckjX2
Then...

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@guta1610 @PoetryExch @MPShaeffer @malucursino Oh wow !! Love this pic … it will be in your hands soon and @malucursino def needs her own copy too.. will sort it x

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@AWitzkeSlot @PoetryExch @MPShaeffer @QuercusBooks Huge thanks to you for that beautiful conversation about diving into the wreck Adrienne Rich , and for being a superstar trustee

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@BetaRish @PoetryExch This means so much to me - you whose words I love to hang out with

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@TriciaJean44 Thank YOU 🧡🧡🧡

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The arrival of this beautiful book today has made me very happy. I’m delighted to be a part of it.
Thank you @PoetryExch and, as ever, for all that you do - which is truly one of the best things happening in contemporary anglophone literary culture right now, in my view:

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@GregMLeadbetter @PoetryExch Thank you so much , we are so proud to have your beautiful potent story of connection to Kubka Khan in these pages 🧡

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@NineArchesPress @TamarYoseloff Yes to that !!! Cannot wait to hold it 🧡

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Have you seen the striking cover of BELIEF SYSTEMS by @TamarYoseloff featuring Summerstorm by Robert Rauschenberg?
Poetry that serves to remind us of the enduring and universal power of art to move and change us.
Available to pre-order, out 6th June: https://t.co/MN65XChsyS

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Excited to host an ONLINE DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH for @HarryManTweets and @TamarYoseloff celebrating Popular Song and Belief Systems coming into the world.
With guest poet Sean O'Brien

📅 Tuesday 4th June, 7.30pm BST
📍 Online
🎟️ Pay by donation

https://t.co/RfHjTKnA99