Esther Lay
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Esther Lay
@estherlay.bsky.social
Poet, Royal Navy wife, priest, singer. 2025 Forward Prize nominee, 2025 winner of East Riding Festival of Words. 2024 Winner of Write By The Sea. Poems in lots of places. Literary Agent: Kirsty McLachlan at Morgan Green Creatives.
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This event with renowned poet Imtiaz Dharker is going to sell out fast. Get your tickets now — especially as there’s a deadline of 25 Feb (catering requires it; a curry dinner is included!) www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening... @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @imtiazdharker.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 7:25 AM
This is going to be a brilliant poetry evening! I’m interviewing the wonderful @imtiazdharker.bsky.social on March 8th in Wootton by Woodstock. Get your tickets (which include dinner) here: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...
6.30 talk
7.30 dinner
8.30 open-mic
February 8, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I am running a poetry workshop on ekphrastic poetry - writing inspired by visual art - on Tuesday the 11th of February at 11am in Wootton Church (OX20). If anyone from here would like to come along, please drop me a line!
February 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Very exciting post just arrived from Canada. I couldn’t be prouder to have been published in Grain Magazine (now available for the first time as a digital issue!). grainmagazine.ca
January 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Glorious family Christmas.
December 26, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Issue 8 of The Waxed Lemon is out at last and available in
The Book Centre in Waterford. You can also grab a copy on their website. The first time a poem of mine has appeared in physical print! Go on, you know you need one... shop.thebookcentre.ie/Books/WAXED-...
December 6, 2024 at 1:10 PM
I’ve designed my first cross stitch pattern: to make for my husband, who uses this phrase constantly (every time he sees something worthy of approbation). Can’t decide if I like the red version or the purple version best. But the purple reminds me of rosemary flowers.
November 26, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Utterly thrilled to see a poem of mine in print in a physical magazine. Issue 8 of The Waxed Lemon arrived today with my prizewinning poem from the Write By The Sea 2024 competition inside. And the darling subject came home shortly after the magazine: all the sweeter. #navywife #poetry
November 23, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Morning prayer in Wootton: natural light.
November 22, 2024 at 8:24 AM