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Miranda Peake
@mirandapeake.bsky.social
Poet, bookseller, happy to be here
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DEADLINE: 1st July 2025

LIVE CANON POETRY PAMPHLET COMPETITION

For pamphlets of between 18 and 24 poems.
(This is based on average length poems).

Submit here: livecanon.submittable.com/submit

10 pamphlets will be long listed and 3 pamphlets will be selected for publication by Live Canon.
June 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Arresting Quaker women for non-violent protest and breaking into a meeting house to do so. The first time anyone has been arrested in a meeting house in living memory. Despicable behaviour from a Labour government’s Home Office/the Met Police.
🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️
👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
www.quaker.org.uk
March 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Save the date 📅: My @ninearchespress.bsky.social stablemates, @jsaphra.bsky.social, Amaan Hyder, & I will be reading together & having a discussion at the wonderful #ChenerBooks in East Dulwich - Tue 18 March @ 7pm 🎤📖📚 Join us! Free event - but please register 🎫👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nine-arche...
Nine Arches Press Poetry
Join us for readings from Nine Arches poets, Amaan Hyder, Kostya Tsolakis and Jacqueline Saphra
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Translator Philip Terry will be reading from and discussing Célina by Catherine Axelrad next Thursday 13 March at the Deptford Lounge, along with other amazing authors and/or translators shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize.
March 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Looking forward to reading some Witch poems in Oxford tomorrow! *cackle* @livecanon.bsky.social
February 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Katie Byford, Maia Elsner, Helen Ivory and Martin Figura and @mirandapeake.bsky.social join us for an evening of spoken word.

📖Poetry Reading in Summertown United Reformed Church

creationtheatre.co.uk/show/poetryr...

#poetry #poems #spokenword #livecanon #summertownarts
February 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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January 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Very excited to be part of this reading series. Thank you @livecanon.bsky.social for wonderful arranging!
We are back for 2025 with our poetry reading series!

On the 24th February, we have Katie Byford, Maia Elsner, Helen Ivory and Martin Figura and @mirandapeake.bsky.social joining us for an evening of spoken word.

creationtheatre.co.uk/show/poetryr...

#poetry #poems #livecanon #summertownarts
January 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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I know it's late on a Monday night, but do you possibly think you could help make a poet's year? And help make something meaningful out of chaos? After trauma what next? An afttershock is coming. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/aftershock...
Help fund The Aftershock Review Poetry Magazine
Raising money for the publication of The Aftershock Review and pamphlet series, promoting exceptional poetry around the aftershocks of life.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
January 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Everyone has their own individual sneeze and it’s vitally important to be comfortable with that. Never try to sneeze like somebody else. It will totally fuck you up.
January 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Charlotte Mew being completely bloody amazing x
January 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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We have a couple of sea view cottages still available for our catered March Writing Retreat (17-23rd) at Galloway House Estate - workshops, 1/1 tutoring, time to write and explore and optional yoga and massage. Get in touch via my website or drop a comment for more info! www.gallowayhouseestate.org
January 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I deeply love that this is happening..
ICYMI: Dua Lipa in conversation with Olga Tokarczuk discussing DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YRx...
Dua Lipa In Conversation With Olga Tokarczuk, Author Of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
YouTube video by Service95
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January 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Really looking forward to this happening at Chener Books over the next two Sundays with @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social who is a brilliant tutor and poet. You can sign up here, £27 for both sessions: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1100887848...
January 13, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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🔵 Submissions are OPEN for Propel 14, Edited by Susannah Dickey and launching end March 2025 🔵

If you've yet to publish a first full collection, we'd love to read your poems!

>> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit
January 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Went to see Van Gogh, it was amazing. So many paintings i’ve never seen, particularly loved the portraits and the colour, the colour the colour….
January 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Happy new year everyone! Here is a wonderful Ruth Stone poem which somehow feels like the right thing x
January 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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An extract from Selima Hill's 'The Person with a Cauliflower', published in Issue Five of And Other Poems.

Read the rest of the poems here:

andotherpoems.com/2024/12/11/t...
December 30, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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Last call for January Writing Hours! If you or anyone you know would like to come but can't afford to, please send me a message. I'm doing admin later today and have some complimentary spaces to give out.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/january-wr...
January Writing Hours 2025
Come and join Kim Moore and Clare Shaw in a daily Writing Hour throughout January 2025
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 31, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Thanks so much to @andotherpoems.bsky.social for including my poem. It’s a really great issue with so many brilliant poems x
Here's Miranda Peake's (@mirandapeake.bsky.social) poem 'My mother refuses to go in', published in Issue Five of And Other Poems.

Read the rest of the issue on our website!
December 29, 2024 at 8:27 PM
This really got me today x
December 27, 2024 at 8:41 PM
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Fulfil all of your poetry desires by visiting the Live Canon bookstore & treating yourself, & all the other poetry lovers in your life, to a poetry book from the amazing selection.

Available publications from tons of super talented #poets. Browse now!

www.livecanon.co.uk/store
December 22, 2024 at 7:53 PM
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An extract from 'Sweetbriar Rose & Bindweed' by Michelle Szobody.

Read the full poem in AOP Issue Five:

andotherpoems.com/2024/12/11/s...
December 18, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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Delighted that @nigella.bsky.social included French Cooking for One by Michèle Roberts in her list of perfect stocking-fillers as “an enduring delight for readers and cooks alike.” See the full blog post here www.nigella.com/latest/stock... The book is available to order on our website.
December 17, 2024 at 8:26 AM
It feels really great that the first thing I have to share on here is a poem published by @andotherpoems.bsky.social thank you Tom and Laurie for including my weird maze/marriage/HamptonCourt poem x
Issue Five of And Other Poems is out now!

andotherpoems.com/issue-five/

Cover photo by Mari Madriz on Unsplash.
December 13, 2024 at 9:16 AM