Suzanne Conway
@suzanneconwaypoet.bsky.social
Poet and writer. Teaches at Exeter University and the Poetry School. PhD: intimacy and distance in Edward Thomas’s poetry. Published in most leading magazines.
http://www.suzanneconway.co.uk.
Image from the Edward Thomas archive at Cardiff University.
http://www.suzanneconway.co.uk.
Image from the Edward Thomas archive at Cardiff University.
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TRY TO FIND ME
the third collection by Tessa Foley
Is available to buy from @livecanon.bsky.social
#poetry #poetrybook
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the third collection by Tessa Foley
Is available to buy from @livecanon.bsky.social
#poetry #poetrybook
www.livecanon.co.uk/store/produc...
Try To Find Me, Tessa Foley
The third collection from award-winning poet, Tessa Foley. <br><br>"A few poets are original, a few are distinct, a handful are sad, some wise, some funny. I can’t think of any recent English poe...
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March 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
TRY TO FIND ME
the third collection by Tessa Foley
Is available to buy from @livecanon.bsky.social
#poetry #poetrybook
www.livecanon.co.uk/store/produc...
the third collection by Tessa Foley
Is available to buy from @livecanon.bsky.social
#poetry #poetrybook
www.livecanon.co.uk/store/produc...
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Our Spring Term is now live & we’ve got a whole host of brilliant tutors & poetry courses lined up, so be sure to book promptly to avoid disappointment. Our handy Quick Course Guide is linked in bio, where you’ll find everything you’ll need to know…
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Spring 2026 – Quick Course Guide • Poetry School
Check out our Quick Course Guide for the Spring 2026 term which will help you pick a course to take at the Poetry School.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Our Spring Term is now live & we’ve got a whole host of brilliant tutors & poetry courses lined up, so be sure to book promptly to avoid disappointment. Our handy Quick Course Guide is linked in bio, where you’ll find everything you’ll need to know…
poetryschool.com/new-courses/... 🪻🌜
poetryschool.com/new-courses/... 🪻🌜
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Starts tonight. Let’s go! See you at Diane Seuss, Luke Kennard and Mona Arshi at 8.30pm? (Also live-streamed if you’d like to watch with wine and takeout) #winchesterpoetry www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on
What's on - Winchester Poetry Festival events in 2025
Details of our forthcoming events and collaborations.
Winchester Poetry Festival runs 2-12th October
www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org
October 10, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Starts tonight. Let’s go! See you at Diane Seuss, Luke Kennard and Mona Arshi at 8.30pm? (Also live-streamed if you’d like to watch with wine and takeout) #winchesterpoetry www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on
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I submitted my PhD thesis on Monday 6th October 2025 after nine years (part-time). I’ve kept going through pregnancy, raising my son, the covid pandemic, and ill health. In the photo, I’m about to return my library books. Joy has re-entered my life!
October 10, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I submitted my PhD thesis on Monday 6th October 2025 after nine years (part-time). I’ve kept going through pregnancy, raising my son, the covid pandemic, and ill health. In the photo, I’m about to return my library books. Joy has re-entered my life!
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Stopping in to Mrs Lofthouse’s Emporium to sign some copies of The Ghost Lake. Such a thrill.
September 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Stopping in to Mrs Lofthouse’s Emporium to sign some copies of The Ghost Lake. Such a thrill.
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Just a reminder that the Cafe Writers International poetry competition is open. Our wonderful (sole) judge this year is Jessica Mookherjee. Top prize is £1000 www.cafewriters.co.uk/home/poetry-...
Poetry Competition | Cafe Writers
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September 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Just a reminder that the Cafe Writers International poetry competition is open. Our wonderful (sole) judge this year is Jessica Mookherjee. Top prize is £1000 www.cafewriters.co.uk/home/poetry-...
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Very sad to hear Tony Harrison has died. What a wonderful poet he was: the School of Eloquence, V, ‘A Kumquat for John Keats’… I met him once too when I was in my twenties, and he was very kind about my terza rima.
September 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Very sad to hear Tony Harrison has died. What a wonderful poet he was: the School of Eloquence, V, ‘A Kumquat for John Keats’… I met him once too when I was in my twenties, and he was very kind about my terza rima.
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Just realised it’s #negroniweek so sharing again. #livesofthefemalepoets is now out! Cheers!
A poem about a Negroni from my forthcoming collection #LivesoftheFemalePoets ♥️♥️♥️
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September 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Just realised it’s #negroniweek so sharing again. #livesofthefemalepoets is now out! Cheers!
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Hope to see some of you at the Winchester Poetry Festival on Saturday 11th October 2025.
Hope to see some of you at the Winchester Poetry Festival on Saturday 11th October 2025.
Bite The Day To The Core: workshop with Suzanne Conway
A poetry workshop inspired by Edward Thomas and Keats. As part of Winchester Poetry Festival 2025.
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September 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Hope to see some of you at the Winchester Poetry Festival on Saturday 11th October 2025.
Hope to see some of you at the Winchester Poetry Festival on Saturday 11th October 2025.
Just received my teaching texts for the Creative Writing module Write after Reading that I’ll be teaching at the University of Exeter this term. Hoping that reading across genres will inspire my own short stories / novella. And poems about unexpected subjects.
September 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Just received my teaching texts for the Creative Writing module Write after Reading that I’ll be teaching at the University of Exeter this term. Hoping that reading across genres will inspire my own short stories / novella. And poems about unexpected subjects.
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Congratulations to all the writers shortlisted for the 2025 @cwfcreatives.bsky.social Short Story Prize! We're especially stoked that Dushi Rasiah – whose short story 'Ripening' was shortlisted for the 2023 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize – is featured in this impressive list!
Ripening by Dushi Rasiah
This intimate fictional piece by Dushi Rasiah depicts the narrator's uncertainties, family secrets…
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April 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Congratulations to all the writers shortlisted for the 2025 @cwfcreatives.bsky.social Short Story Prize! We're especially stoked that Dushi Rasiah – whose short story 'Ripening' was shortlisted for the 2023 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize – is featured in this impressive list!
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Dis Poetry: A tribute to Benjamin Zephaniah will be held in Bristol at @lyrafest.com on 27 April, 6.30pm (in person & online).
Dis Poetry: Selected Poems & Lyrics, bringing together Benjamin Zephaniah's poetry for adults, is published by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social tomorrow, Tuesday 15 April.
Dis Poetry: Selected Poems & Lyrics, bringing together Benjamin Zephaniah's poetry for adults, is published by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social tomorrow, Tuesday 15 April.
Today is the inaugural Benjamin Zephaniah Day. He was one of the most influential and remarkable poets in living memory, with immeasurable contributions to poetry, activism, nature, health and social justice.
Join us to celebrate his extraordinary work and enduring legacy www.lyrafest.com#e124291
Join us to celebrate his extraordinary work and enduring legacy www.lyrafest.com#e124291
April 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Dis Poetry: A tribute to Benjamin Zephaniah will be held in Bristol at @lyrafest.com on 27 April, 6.30pm (in person & online).
Dis Poetry: Selected Poems & Lyrics, bringing together Benjamin Zephaniah's poetry for adults, is published by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social tomorrow, Tuesday 15 April.
Dis Poetry: Selected Poems & Lyrics, bringing together Benjamin Zephaniah's poetry for adults, is published by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social tomorrow, Tuesday 15 April.
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Absolutely love the narrator in this book, I want to go to for coffee with them, criticise politicians with them, discuss the smell of Mooncup as ‘a meat vermouth’ - I devoured this book, and I’ve found my favourite protagonist in any book. @poetclare.bsky.social @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
April 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Absolutely love the narrator in this book, I want to go to for coffee with them, criticise politicians with them, discuss the smell of Mooncup as ‘a meat vermouth’ - I devoured this book, and I’ve found my favourite protagonist in any book. @poetclare.bsky.social @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social
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Feature in the London Evening Standard on yesterday's inaugural #BenjaminZephaniahDay festival at Brunel University.
Benjamin Zephaniah's poetry for adults has been brought together in Dis Poetry: Selected Poems & Lyrics, out from Bloodaxe on Tuesday 15 April.
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Benjamin Zephaniah's poetry for adults has been brought together in Dis Poetry: Selected Poems & Lyrics, out from Bloodaxe on Tuesday 15 April.
www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/cele...
Music, poetry and joy mark the first Benjamin Zephaniah Day tribute
The dub poet, who appeared in hit BBC show Peaky Blinders, died at the age of 65 in December 2023, shortly after being diagnosed with a brain tumour.
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April 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Feature in the London Evening Standard on yesterday's inaugural #BenjaminZephaniahDay festival at Brunel University.
Benjamin Zephaniah's poetry for adults has been brought together in Dis Poetry: Selected Poems & Lyrics, out from Bloodaxe on Tuesday 15 April.
www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/cele...
Benjamin Zephaniah's poetry for adults has been brought together in Dis Poetry: Selected Poems & Lyrics, out from Bloodaxe on Tuesday 15 April.
www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/cele...
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It's publication day of my new novel - The Best of Everything! Here I am telling you a little bit about it!
April 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It's publication day of my new novel - The Best of Everything! Here I am telling you a little bit about it!
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Watch this space! Our first call for poetry chapbook submissions from UK authors is coming soon!
April 10, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Watch this space! Our first call for poetry chapbook submissions from UK authors is coming soon!
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“I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.”
― Samuel Beckett
― Samuel Beckett
April 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
“I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.”
― Samuel Beckett
― Samuel Beckett
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We’re really looking forward to this event on Thursday (10th April) celebrating publication of ‘Cling Film’ and ‘Beyond/Tu Hwnt’ @lucentdreaming.bsky.social. Remember to RSVP for free here if you’re hoping to join us forms.gle/y5yTk5YpC7D1...
April 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
We’re really looking forward to this event on Thursday (10th April) celebrating publication of ‘Cling Film’ and ‘Beyond/Tu Hwnt’ @lucentdreaming.bsky.social. Remember to RSVP for free here if you’re hoping to join us forms.gle/y5yTk5YpC7D1...
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🎉 We’re thrilled to announce that PERFECTION by Vincenzo Latronico, tr. Sophie Hughes, has been shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize. 🎉
Read more about the full shortlist here: thebookerprizes.com/the-internat...
@thebookerprizes.bsky.social #internationalbookerprize2025
Read more about the full shortlist here: thebookerprizes.com/the-internat...
@thebookerprizes.bsky.social #internationalbookerprize2025
April 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🎉 We’re thrilled to announce that PERFECTION by Vincenzo Latronico, tr. Sophie Hughes, has been shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize. 🎉
Read more about the full shortlist here: thebookerprizes.com/the-internat...
@thebookerprizes.bsky.social #internationalbookerprize2025
Read more about the full shortlist here: thebookerprizes.com/the-internat...
@thebookerprizes.bsky.social #internationalbookerprize2025
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Join us in two weeks for our next online event! We'll be launching titles by Pascale Petit and Vidyan Ravinthiran, and by the late and much missed Benjamin Zephaniah.
Tues 22 April, 7pm BST
Watch live or later on YouTube
shorturl.at/k3Q2e
@pascalepetit.bsky.social @poems-not-opinions.bsky.social
Tues 22 April, 7pm BST
Watch live or later on YouTube
shorturl.at/k3Q2e
@pascalepetit.bsky.social @poems-not-opinions.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Join us in two weeks for our next online event! We'll be launching titles by Pascale Petit and Vidyan Ravinthiran, and by the late and much missed Benjamin Zephaniah.
Tues 22 April, 7pm BST
Watch live or later on YouTube
shorturl.at/k3Q2e
@pascalepetit.bsky.social @poems-not-opinions.bsky.social
Tues 22 April, 7pm BST
Watch live or later on YouTube
shorturl.at/k3Q2e
@pascalepetit.bsky.social @poems-not-opinions.bsky.social
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✍️ #NaPoWriMo is here with the challenge to write a poem a day! Throughout April, The Poetry Society will be featuring poetry writing prompts created by poets that we've worked with recently through competitions, publications and projects.
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April 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
✍️ #NaPoWriMo is here with the challenge to write a poem a day! Throughout April, The Poetry Society will be featuring poetry writing prompts created by poets that we've worked with recently through competitions, publications and projects.
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April is #NaPoWriMo and we're offering 20% off all our #poetry writing handbooks to help your writing month take shape.
Use the code WRITING at the checkout and get yourself ready to write with the help of all these packed guides.
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Use the code WRITING at the checkout and get yourself ready to write with the help of all these packed guides.
ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Writi...
April 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
April is #NaPoWriMo and we're offering 20% off all our #poetry writing handbooks to help your writing month take shape.
Use the code WRITING at the checkout and get yourself ready to write with the help of all these packed guides.
ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Writi...
Use the code WRITING at the checkout and get yourself ready to write with the help of all these packed guides.
ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Writi...
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'The sort of matrix that we’re in right now is our metaphor for time, and in a lot of places in my poetry I think I’m calling attention to the absurdity of it, or the pathos of it.'
Read an interview with John Ashbery, originally published in 1992: oxfordpoetry.substack.com/p/interview-...
Read an interview with John Ashbery, originally published in 1992: oxfordpoetry.substack.com/p/interview-...
Interview with John Ashbery
‘the sort of matrix that we’re in right now is our metaphor for time, and in a lot of places in my poetry I think I’m calling attention to the absurdity of it, or the pathos of it’
oxfordpoetry.substack.com
April 7, 2025 at 10:09 AM
'The sort of matrix that we’re in right now is our metaphor for time, and in a lot of places in my poetry I think I’m calling attention to the absurdity of it, or the pathos of it.'
Read an interview with John Ashbery, originally published in 1992: oxfordpoetry.substack.com/p/interview-...
Read an interview with John Ashbery, originally published in 1992: oxfordpoetry.substack.com/p/interview-...