Di Slaney

Publisher/editor @poetrycandle / Founder Manor Farm Charitable Trust / Winner Plough Prize 2022 / Books at Valley Press & Aftershock Review

[Di Slaney @dislaney]

Thank you @BBCWomansHour! Loved doing the interview today about #rewardforwinter https://t.co/IYEscSnqNu

[BBC Woman's Hour @BBCWomansHour]

Ever wondered if you could knit a sheep? Poet @dislaney has & she enchanted us with her poem https://t.co/Zy8yeZHf7s

[Di Slaney @dislaney]

@stephenkeeler Gosh I wish! But thank you. Hair has been shorter for a while and mono is very flattering 😉

[Di Slaney @dislaney]

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[Jumping Jules Poetry @JulesJumping]

New book alert, new gifts and they’re absolutely brilliant. Well done @dislaney, @maxrobertwallisand and @AftershockPoets. I’m now reading Hard Graft again it’s that’s good! 💚

[Di Slaney @dislaney]

@JulesJumping @AftershockPoets Thank you so much! ❤️

[Di Slaney @dislaney]

Tomorrow Sunday 13th Sept at 6 pm (UK time), 1:00 pm (US-EST), 12:00 pm (US-CST) I’ll be talking to Emily and Trey on The Modern Romantic Podcast about my new collection Hard Graft. The podcast is live on Facebook and YouTube if you’d like to listen in.

https://t.co/rBCngHuFQi

[Di Slaney @dislaney]

@LindaMid7 @poetrycandle Thank you for your gorgeous poem! ❤️

[Linda Middleton 💜📚🌿 @LindaMid7]

I'm feeling the joys of spring and celebrating by sharing my poem from the gorgeous Almanac 2025 from @poetrycandle Thank you @dislaney #poetrycommunity #spring

[Candlestick Press @poetrycandle]

IN MEMORIAM – NEW EDITION

The quiet company of words – poems chosen to comfort and console.

https://t.co/OUqxXV33DZ

[Candlestick Press @poetrycandle]

New and available now!

TEN POEMS ABOUT OWLS

Poems by Niall Campbell, Daniel Webster Davis, Emily Dickinson, Victoria Gatehouse, Ian Humphreys, Gregory Leadbetter, Rob Miles, Angela Readman, AE Stallings and Edward Thomas.

https://t.co/aODTFBxrKd

[Candlestick Press @poetrycandle]

New!  Ten Poems about Daffodils, just in time for spring.

Poems by Jason Allen-Paisant, Moya Cannon, Gillian Clarke, Isobel Dixon, UA Fanthorpe, Phoebe Hesketh, Clinton Scollard, David Scott, Dorothy Wordsworth and William Wordsworth.

Cover illustration by Jane Burn.

[Di Slaney @dislaney]

Delighted to have a poem ‘Groundtruthing’ with the wonderful @pharelitmag - you can read it on the link below and listen to it here https://t.co/rT2hYNDTtf

Big thanks to @RobGMacfarlane on X in 2017 for the epigraph

[The Phare @pharelitmag]

Our Winter 25 issue is now live!

Thank you everyone who submitted your work and congratulations to our published writers and poets!

https://t.co/G8SCyzAaJl

#flashfiction #shortstories #poetry

[Di Slaney @dislaney]

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[Di Slaney @dislaney]

@NorthGravy Thank you 😊

[NorthernGravy @NorthGravy]

We're back with a helping of "Northern Gravy's Sunday Best" and a fabulous visual by @dislaney. You can read more of Di's work at https://t.co/kHuMAxK1I7

[Di Slaney @dislaney]

@AtriumPoetry @tina_sederholm Wonderful poem!

[Atrium Poetry @AtriumPoetry]

After Victoria dies, I drive to Shoreham - Tina Sederholm @tina_sederholm
https://t.co/70t52vKWnH

[Di Slaney @dislaney]

Very happy to have made this Australian longlist with three witchy poems - congratulations to Sue Burge also! Fingers crossed for the shortlist now. https://t.co/T2FvLtzXcY

[Di Slaney @dislaney]

Looking forward to this live reading at Waterstones Market Harborough on Thursday with Jonathan Taylor, Tim Relf and Maria Taylor – come join us if you can! I’ll be reading some playful poems for #nationalpoetryday

Starts 6.30pm - details here: https://t.co/J6U60zRuXk

[Di Slaney @dislaney]

Very much looking forward to this!

[timrelfwriter @timrelfwriter]

Fancy coming along to this? It would be great to see you if so. I’ll be joined by the wonderful @MariaTaylor_ @crystalclearjt and @dislaney at @WaterstonesHarb @Waterstones

[Atrium Poetry @AtriumPoetry]

Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - Half-dream by Pippa Little