Newcastle welcoming @NCLA_tweets with a double rainbow of colour over the shimmering jet black Tyne after a truly extraordinary reading by Abigail Parry & Jane Clarke drawing the lives of those denied this security & plenty felt like light in our darkening times
PBLJ10 IS OUT NOW! 🪲Guest-edited by @NuzhatBukhari7, this special issue is nearly 160 pages long & marks the journal's return after a hiatus. 🪲
The issue features poems by Paul Muldoon, J. H. Prynne, Fran Lock, @KazimAliPoet, @LukeKennard, @ginpitnancy, @ariskindt, & others.
⭐ Wales Book of the Year Award 2024 ⭐
Literature Wales is proud to announce which books have pleased the judges this year.
Congratulations to all the successful authors and publishers! #WBOTY24
https://t.co/xuerest5wy
Heartfelt thanks to the Southword team for having me, and to Clíona for talking with me, and to James O’Leary for the really moving introduction. These podcasts are gems 💎
"The body of this work promises blood, and brutality, and ridiculousness, plus every mistake anyone has ever made fletched through with gold." – Shivanee Ramlochan
Episode 12 of the Southword Poetry Podcast featuring Abigail Parry out now!
https://t.co/WoGTjoo0vt
Poetry Reading: @joeyrconnolly, Abigail Parry @ginpitnancy and K Patrick
Sat, 27 Apr, 9pm @mlallytheatre
🎟️ €8/10 https://t.co/aUdIicBJna
Experience work by three of the UK’s most exciting contemporary poets, all approaching questions of identity from different vantage points.
Very happy to reveal the cover of Battery Rocks. Image is by Nina Leen, entitled 'Au Bord de la Terre' (1949). Battery Rocks is published by @SerenBooks on 8 July. With thanks to @rrobinson72.
The Cardiff launch for my poetry collection 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' is on Thursday, 14th March, 7 pm at the g39 gallery, Oxford St. Reading with me are the fabulous @ginpitnancy & @NSarwarSkuse, details below, all welcome 😍
Poems by Refaat Alareer, Fady Joudah, Hiba Abu Nada, Olivia Elias, Samer Abu Hawwash, Maya Murry, Ahlam Bsharat, Basman Aldirawi, Ghassan Zaqtan; art & actions
We'll have print copies free at Free Verse Poetry Book Fair in LDN, 20 April. Come by, read & share
#poemsforpalestine
At 7.30pm on Tue 20 Feb, I'm hosting GRAVY BOAT (@getmoregravy), a poetry night aboard a 1913 cargo ship. It will be amazing. Tickets here: https://t.co/tamFUHZX3U
Submissions for the Prototype Prize close at 23.59 tonight (please don’t leave it til the last minute as late entries will not be accepted).
Judged by Bhanu Kapil, Tom McCarthy and Elizabeth Price.
Details/submission link here: https://t.co/Gr4uDWRlQQ