Newcastle Poetry Festival - thank you for having me! Had fun talking poetry and heritage for the anthology State of Play, as well as reading poems about my love for denim jeans and gold bracelets. Thank you to alice hiller for the photos!

Absolutely stunning to hear the conversation between Fred D’Aguiar & Jackie Kay on family, friendship and love.

Final day of NCLA' Newcastle Poetry Festival today, Saturday 11 May. #FleurAdcock will be reading with Liz Berry at 3pm, and American poets Carolyn Forché, Patricia Smith & Suji Kwock Kim will be reading at 5.45pm. Some in-person tickets still available.

it was a real honour to discuss poetry of refuge and exile alongside Carolyn Forché, Marjorie Lotfi, and Yousif M. Qasmiyeh today - a really moving, difficult, necessary conversation - thank you for having us PoetryBookSoc NCLA

In Toon tomorra morning? Why not come to the (free!) Newcastle Poetry Festival showcase? I'm on at 11:30 with Bridget Hamilton & other fab poets!
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My finished copy arrived yesterday and it's just delightful. Treat yourself this weekend!

Excited to be launching my first collection Red Handed online alongside the brilliant Aaron Kent & Stuart McPherson, MacGillivray, Kat Dixon, Katy Mack, Héloïse de Satgé, The Arkonauts - would love to see you there!

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Love Letter💕A poem by Harry Man imagining Ed Sheeran HQ's abundant love of typography.

Taken from POPULAR SONG, a jukebox of #POEMS , out now:
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& with Dr Theresa Muñoz (from the festival), looking forward to it! Come along & grab a copy!

Our next title is the PoetryBookSoc Recommended BELIEF SYSTEMS by Tamar Yoseloff

Available to order now, this beautifully illustrated #poetry book finds places of transformation where nature, music and art thrive at the margins.
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Looking forward to tomorrow ✨

Very excited to read this from Suzannah Evans

So excited to be reading at this…poems about Frogs & Giant African Land Snails impending 🐸 🐸 🐌 🐌

Exams will be over and Vanessa Lampert Jennifer Wong Patrick McGuinness and I will all be reading in Anne's--so excited to be the small fry amongst these really wonderful poets do come along

May 22nd, at 5.30 and 6.30pm, the first walking tour poetry reading events of my residency ShaldonWildlifeTrust on the beautiful coast of Devon! Please come and join David Spittle dr amy cutler Ellen Wiles and myself, if nearby. Tickets here shaldonwildlifetrust.digitickets.co.uk/event-tickets/…

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Over the moon to be revealing GREEN to you all this green May 💚💚💚 it’s been a joy working on this pamphlet with Little Betty & I’m looking forward to introducing my cranky leafy stunt double to the world!

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I just beat Britain First.

This will be a very special event with poets Fleur Adcock & Liz Berry celebrating their most recent collections, including Fleur’s ‘Collected Poems’ and Liz’s ‘The Home Child’ 📚
Sat 11 May, 3.30-4.30pm

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