Delighted to open the Spring edition of Poetry Society’s Poetry News and find Alyson Hallett’s lovely essay.

Ithell Colquhoun in her garden

I'm running a workshop @thewritersblock on Sunday and there's a reading and open mic after - would be great to see you there if you can come along :) thewritersblock.org.uk/events/walking…

Huge thanks to Katrina Naomi for this rave response to my new pamphlet 😎

instagram.com/p/C0nDPsavTyE/…

Poets and authors - not long to wait now. The Interpreter's House will be opening its Autumn submission window on 1 October. Dust down your best writing, agonise over those semi-colons - prepare to submit!
Please retweet.
theinterpretershouse.org/submissions

Help me raise £1750 to write a book: Impact - Listening to Bodies on Earth. Please #donate on @justgiving and RT. Thanks! justgiving.com/crowdfunding/A…

And they're off! Submissions to issue 19 are now open. Send us three of your best unpublished poems. Deadline: midnight, August 31st 2023.
butchersdogpoetry.submittable.com/submit/269318/…

Wonderful enables arrive in the post to join my migrating stones project. Thank you Mia Thomas.

This
poetry
which is
written
to effect
change
in the world
Usually printed in
editions of
less than
1000
& read
Only by poets
O how I love it

Jeremy Noel-Tod on poetry pamphlets poetrysociety.org.uk/magic-papers/

'The Alphabet Fades Away'

The rivers, forever five rivers
Driving down through limestone, carving grit —
Every vista the city delivers
Forged at their silvering hand

Pete Green's 'Sheffield Almanac' (out of print for the last 12 months) is available in a new edition from Monday

The Nan Shepherd Prize is back!

Submissions open today for an unpublished book of nature writing from an underrepresented writer.

More information and resources on how to apply in the link and thread below:

do not follow the fashions, be the fashion, if it happens, but be yourself, write what you must write… it’s a hard road to take as there aren’t the hits of following fashion, but it’s the only road I think?

🗨️ International 💭 Pamphlet 💬 Woman Penelope Shuttle Katrina Naomi Aaron Kent Clare Shaw Morag Smith Alyson Hallett Of course it's gofund.me/bc11ef18

If you missed me and Alyson Hallett w/ the SCGeopoetics last week, you can catch up here:
Geopoetics in England Conversation 30 March 2023 youtu.be/BefwOaMq1x8

We're holding a live reading to raise funds for our author Morag Smith, who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Join us as we celebrate Morag's poetry, with poets reading from her book Spoil.

All ticket sales will go direct to Morag's GoFundMe.

eventbrite.co.uk/e/600466139387

Migrating stones and chain coral choruses...

Alyson Hallett and R. M. Francis are doing excellent work at the intersection of #poetry and #geology - come hear more about it at this SCGeopoetics event!

Online on Thursday at 5pm 👇

rlf.org.uk/showcase/alyso… - a little piece by me on rejection 😎