This was the first poetry event I’d been to in months and months and it was a cracker in Llanelli. Great review by Ben Wildsmith here. Buy these books!

Poets, how did you enter the poetry world?-
Open mic
Poetry group
Academia
Parents are poets
How else?

A poem for #EarthDay2024 on this year’s theme of #PlanetVsPlastics , originally published in @MagmaPoetry’s ‘Poems for Schools’ issue.

Plastic pollution is a global problem demanding a global solution – sign the Global Plastics Treaty today: action.earthday.org/global-plastic…

My poem for Christopher Cornwell: ‘Incomplete Text’ by John Lavin | The Lonely Crowd thelonelycrowd.org/2024/04/19/chr…

Read 'Early Doors' by John Goodby, a beautiful poem in tribute to Christopher Cornwell.

thelonelycrowd.org/2024/04/19/chr…

This is my favourite one:

A painful but important collection of tributes to Chris as both a person and a writer. Diolch to @TheLonelyPress for asking me to contribute. Thinking of all his loved ones.

You can read our tribute Christopher Cornwell Christopher Cornwell here.
Featuring contributions from John Goodby Jo Mazelis John Lavin Rhys Owain Williams Adrian Osbourne, Amy McCauley, Michou Burckett St. Laurent, Greg Chatterton, Chris Hall & James Aust.

thelonelycrowd.org/2024/04/19/a-t…

No matter what I do it seems that I will always confuse Brian Eno for Phil Spector and I can’t apologise enough to Brian Eno for that

it’s something i cherish deeply

We are devastated to learn about the passing of Christopher Cornwell, who joined us as a guest on The Crunch back in 2017 and became a dear friend. Such a beautiful and generous person and a very talented poet, he will be missed by so many. RIP Chris x youtu.be/b7kayLhw6c0?si…

R.I.P. Christopher Cornwell, one of the kindest, most talented people I’ve ever met.

Read his ‘A Hidden Orchard’ here thelonelycrowd.org/2017/12/06/chr…