🧵(2/6) Ft Irvine Welsh @JonRonson Jackie Kay Salena Godden Andrew McMillan joelle taylor Brian Reade Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 Kamila Shamsie Jah Wobble + more!

Happy May Day to one and all. Perfect day to seek out the fantastic new poetry collection from Jackie Kay

What a night and what a brilliant bunch of folk . Loved hearing Olivette and Olatunde. A balm for me ! Thank ye yin and all! Round Table Books CIC Camilla Elworthy

It was magic! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿💚

Thank you! And thanks to Andrew Kelly! What a man and what a loss to the fine city that is Bristol !

Great to meet you and what a lovely therapist! Here’s to you and to her! Xxx go well xxx

My final day as director of Bristol Ideas, the last day of the company, but we go out on a high with an event by Jackie Kay, the publication of fine research on Bristol Broadsides, a new video interview on the Labour left, and our new book on our work. Thread below.

Looking forward to tonight's event on the #MayDay tour: Jackie Kay reading from the collection and in conversation with Andrew Kelly. A bittersweet occasion: this will be the swansong for Bristol Ideas after more than 3 brilliant decades. More here bristolideas.co.uk/read/our-proje…

Oh wish I was there xxx

🤩WoW! The wonderful Writing on the Wall starts this week & runs throughout May in #Liverpool Celebrating diversity & storytelling through controversy, inquiry and debate, it hosts fantastic events from Salena Godden Luke Wright 💥 Jackie Kay jon ronson & more!

writingonthewall.org.uk/whats-on/

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✨ (1/2) Coming up this week at Kings Place...
🔴  Wed 1 May: Jackie Kay May Day launch event (SOLD OUT)
🔴 Thu 2 May: Wrighty's House  Live with, Ian Wright , Flo Lloyd-Hughes , Musa Okwonga & Ryan Hunn (SOLD OUT)
🎟️ kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/

🙏🏿 it was a great night in Galway - good to end Cúirt Festival with poetry! And the craic in the pub after was just as philosophical! 🥃🍺💚❤️

Love Lucille Clifton! 👏🏿👏🏿

In today's Herald Mag & Arts I'm talking to the wonderful human being Jackie Kay about protest, grief, Glasgow and poetry: heraldscotland.com/news/24273767.… Picador Books

On my way to Galway now… looking forward to tomorrow night. The strange life of the peripatetic poet’s been peachy so far!! Thanks to Camilla Elworthy for putting this together!

Thanks Hexham Book Festival for a
Lovely night and special thanks to Claire Malcolm Claire Malcolm for such perfect chairing. Was a lovely book signing queue full of interesting folk and odd coincidences!
Thanks Camilla Elworthy ! 👏🏿❤️🥂

Thank you Claire Malcolm! A great night. Hope your sessions tomorrow go well and you got home safe? Xx

I like that - poetic glee a good cousin of poetic license

So touched by this Lemn! 👏🏿👏🏿 made my day, made my nearly May Day xxx👏🏿❤️👏🏿❤️