After months of living with & honouring poetry collections, single poems, performed poems including BSL poems,
@forwardprizes.bsky.social
anthology dropped through the letterbox. Cannot be more proud of what you'll find in these pages & the online collection of performed poems. Hope u Enjoy!

Looking forward to reading eco-poetry at Greenwich Library with Fiona Moore and @dancin5.bsky.social and musician
Alexis Bennett. Hope you can make it!

Thanks to everyone who attended my poetry workshop SEARCHING FOR A SIGN: MAKING MEANING OUT OF CHAOS for @cripticarts.bsky.social yesterday. The sharing of your creative responses was brilliant and the open mic readers were an absolute joy. Thanks to the CRIPtic Arts team for all your support! 🙌❤️

There are a lot of snakes around at the moment! We won't go there, but this one, this one is a grass snake and my first ever encounter with one in the wild !!! So excited. Hope you can see it looking like a curvy root in the centre of the picture if you zoom in 🐍

It was a week ago this lovely event happened where we met lots of @magmapoetry.bsky.social readers and poets and new friends. Free Verse Poetry Fair @poetrysociety.bsky.social was a very special day 😍

We had a brilliant time @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social with the @magmapoetry.bsky.social Magma Matters event. Thanks to everyone who came to support us and to Verve for making us so welcome.

Is this the most dirt BBC News could get on Rachel Reeves for breaking expenses limits.

"Receipts show that gifts bought by Reeves at Christmas 2008 included a £49 handbag for her PA, while she herself received £55 worth of wine from her boss."

And the blurred picture as if from MI5 files.

The undeniably beautiful cover of Oxford Poetry
opens up to reveal a selection of poems I'm grateful to feature alongside with "Erratum". Thanks to @paulstep456.bsky.social
and @dinomahoneypoet.bsky.social for inspiration and to editor Luke Allan. 🙌💕

Thrilled to have a poem in Live Canon Christmas pamphlet alongside poets including @fionalarkin.bsky.social @janeburn.bsky.social @alicestainer.bsky.social @marymulholland.bsky.social @tessafoley.bsky.social

If you're looking for a festive present, you can buy a copy here: tinyurl.com/msff7u2k

Great time at the Polari Prize award prize on Friday with @paulstep456.bsky.social and friends - shortlisted for his moving & funny Hard Drive @carcanet.bsky.social collection. Congrats to all the winners and everyone on the shortlist.

Last night at Torriano - pics thanks to Jennifer Wong who gave a brilliant reading w. fellow guest poet L Kiew & as always the host-with-the-most of Venn Diagrams Patrizia Longhitano.

Copying and pasting images from one side to the other for now....just so we can all join in the joy!

Looking forward to Venn Diagrams tonight at the Torriano Meeting House, Kentish Town. Lisa Kiew and Jennifer Wong hosted by Patrizia Longhitano. 7.30 and £6/5 if you're around - 99a Torriano Avenue, nearest tube Tufnell Park. Readers from the floor, as ever.

I'm getting into these small museums where you have to book ages in advance for a tour but worth it. This is David Parr House and looking forward to seeing the Arts and Crafts interior and learning about its history.
davidparrhouse.org
Any other recommendations?

Just over a week since the launch of Magma the Grassroots issue with Patrizia Longhitano and I'm still licking green icing off my fingers!