Rebecca Goss
@gosspoems.bsky.social
More on Instagram @gosspoems Poet & mentor. Books with Carcanet Press. Poet-in-Residence for CW+, the official charity for Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals. Writing for Life Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund.
Details of our next Zoom event with @gosspoems.bsky.social & Christina Thatcher (+ open Mic) are in the newsletter link below: preview.mailerlite.io/preview/1366...
CW on Zoom 14th September: Rebecca Goss, Christina Thatcher & open mic!
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New poem magmapoetry.com/archive/magm... My thanks to editors Leo Boix and Stav Poleg
Magma Poetry@magmapoetry.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe are delighted to announce Magma 95 'Architecture' is now published and available to buy on our website. Edited by Leo Boix and Stav Poleg. Get your hands on a copy here: magmapoetry.com/latest-issue/
So many good poets!Including @zoebrooks.bsky.social @daydreamacademy.bsky.social @hannahcopley.bsky.social @kymdeyn.bsky.social @gosspoems.bsky.social @godzillakent.bsky.social @adamhorovitz.bsky.social @jlmmorton.bsky.social I could & should go on, but I'm there throughout & hope to hear all!
LOVELY mentee book post ♥️📚 Congratulations to Sarah Salway & Olive M Ritch on their new publications #WorplePress #DrunkMusePress From a small batch of poems to a collection, I can offer detailed feedback & support. Summer sessions available. Email for more info: rebeccagoss.wordpress.com/tutoring/
Are you free next Tuesday 9th June, 7-9? Join me online here and become madly, desperately obsessed with line-breaks www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
Masterclass: Line Breaks | How the light gets in | Arvon
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. – Leonard Cohen Line-breaks are thrilling, with multiple powers. They can enact the poem’s state of mind, unleash swathes of extra meaning...
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Forty poems, still no title but an insight into what my next collection is shaping up to be. Plus a new poem. All at Plume, latest issue out today plumepoetry.com/the-artist-d... plumepoetry.com/poets-and-tr...
Pleased to have a new poem in the ’Home’ issue @poetryireland.bsky.social My thanks to editor Sinéad Morrissey
Poem in here 🙏 Pre-order now to celebrate 10 years of @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social and support its future www.vervepoetryfestival.com/vervaceous
Our next Writing Workshop is with Ian Humphreys on Tuesday 26th May 7-9pm BST 'Poems with Wings' promises to be an inspiring flight into poems that soar, with writing prompts and sharing a host of nature poems - get ready to fly. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-i...
Join us this evening for our May online launch event with Tishani Doshi, Patricia Smith and Jennifer Lee Tsai. All three poets will be reading from their new books and discussing them with Bloodaxe editor Neil Astley. Watch live at 7pm BST (or later) on YouTube: youtube.com/live/4x0gzWr...
Huge congratulations to past mentee Sarah Salway. It was a joy to work with her on these terrific poems. Delighted they have found a home with Worple Press: worplepress.com/product/the-...
The Hands of a Gardener - Worple Press
Capability Brown and the English Landscape Garden AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER In The Hands of a Gardener, Sarah Salway conjures up the magic of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (1716–83), the man responsible f...
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Design legend Margaret Calvert is 90 today. Look at that cake! If you've ever admired a road, rail or metro sign in Britain it's likely she had something to do with it. One of Britain's design heroes - happy birthday to her. Photo by: @oshgallerylondon (IG) Cake by: mybaker.co
So great to see mentee Satya Bosman here
The London Magazine@thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe are delighted to share the shortlist of 8 poems for The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2026! Congratulations to all shortlisted writers, and thank you to our judges Isabelle Baafi, Dean Browne and Luke Kennard. Winners will be announced later this week.
I've introduced some new mentoring packages, as of Spring 2026. Get in touch for more info: rebeccagoss.wordpress.com/tutoring/
MENTORING
I provide private, one-to-one mentoring (online) for the development of poetry writing projects and manuscripts. The packages I offer suit poets who have some experience already, either starting to…
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April is for Earth Day. Here's my essay published Earth Day 2025 @modronmagazine.bsky.social exploring thoughts on a stepdaughter living across the Atlantic, love complicated by distance, the need for plane travel and the presence of big tech companies in our lives modronmagazine.com/earth-day-20...
Earth Day 2025: An Essay by Rebecca Goss
Rebecca Goss reflects on the complexities of being a stepmother, the emotional turmoil of geographical distance, and the impact of ecological crises on familial connections. She navigates sorrow an…
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New poem coming soon...
Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann@poetryireland.bsky.social · 5mo ago✨Poetry Ireland Review Issue 148, edited by Sinéad Morrissey, is now available for pre-order!✨ It features new poems from Leontia Flynn, Frank Ormsby, Mai Ishikawa, and Jim McElroy, Judy O’Kane and Joshua Beatty, among many others. 🔗Pre-order: www.poetryireland.ie/publications...
Congratulations @jennywcreative.bsky.social and all contributors. Great to see the inclusion of past mentee Katy Mack www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page... @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
Woman, Mapped | flyonthewallpress
A Rebecca Swift Foundation AnthologyEdited by Jennifer WongPoetry and Essays Pre-order: Shipped to arrive on publication day 7th July 2026 'Here are women on the brink - whether turning into sharks, d...
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Looking forward very much to reading with this amazing group of poets - save the date! Zoom link from Sue Burge (email on poster) @michpenn.bsky.social @marcchamberlain.bsky.social @tamsinhopkins.bsky.social
Chris Routledge, my 'Carousel' co-collaborator, talking about how we met and the early ideas that led to our award-winning pamphlet @michaelmarksawards.bsky.social @guillemotpress.bsky.social youtu.be/1dhAzUvG6ow?...
Photo Stories Chris Routledge
YouTube video by Nigel Walker
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It was nice to make this short video about my role as Writer-in-Residence at West Middlesex University Hospital. Thanks to CW+ team and staff & patients on the oncology and haematology day unit. @cwpluscharity.bsky.social www.cwplus.org.uk/latest/cw-wr...
CW+ Writer in Residence featured in The Lancet
CW+ Writer in Residence, Rebecca Goss, is featured in The Lancet for her work using poetry to support patient experience at West Middlesex University Hospital.
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The Lancet, featuring my reflection on my residency @cwpluscharity.bsky.social Thanks to @thelancet.com & the oncology and haematology day unit at West Middlesex University Hospital. Most of all thanks to the patients, for their time and our unforgettable exchanges www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
A pleasure to judge this year's SNAP Prize at University of Suffolk. Congratulations to the winner Aruna Stannard and all shortlisted writers: www.uos.ac.uk/about/news/2...
Winner of University’s East Anglian-inspired writing competition is unveiled
The winner of the University of Suffolk's 2026 Student New Angle Prize competition has been announced, The winner of the University of Suffolk’s Student New Angle Prize (SNAP) for writing inspired by ...
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As a kid, I spent a lot of time as a patient in a children's hospital. It's lonely, boring and frightening. So every scrap of human contact was welcome. This is such a bad, dehumanising idea. www.independent.ie/irish-news/c...
Thrilled for mentee Matt Haw. His beautiful debut full collection 'Nordic Sublime' is coming this year with @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social www.shearsman.com/store/Matt-H...
Matt Haw - Nordic Sublime
Published 2026. Paperback, 92pp, 8.5 x 5.5ins, £12.95 / $20 ISBN 9781837380305 [Download a sample PDF from this book here ] Rooted in the geographies of the Nordic region—Oslo, the Norwegian fjords, t...
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