Delighted to receive my contributor's copy of #alchemyspoon Issue 19 - the poetry editor gods have been kindly this summer. www.clayhangerpress.co.uk/store/p68/Th...

The Alchemy Spoon Issue 19 (Child)

Issue 19 of The Alchemy Spoon

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www.outsavvy.com/event/39181/... Join me and many of the other poets from this new anthology for a free online launch, 3pm on Sunday 11 October. #poetry #poets #lgbtq+poetry

Up//Roar ONLINE Launch Tickets - - OutSavvy

Join Arachne Press and a bevy of queer poets to celebrate the launch ofUP//ROAR Poems of Queer Resistance.UP//ROAR is a follow up to our best-selling Joy//Us Poems of Queer Joy. The environment for t...

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Really proud to have a poem in this wonderful anthology, my author copies of which arrived this morning. Thank yous to @arachnepress.bsky.social, #CherryPotts and @jeremydixonpoet.bsky.social for all your diligent work in making this book possible. #poetry #poets #lgbtqpoetry

write.walklistencreate.org/wr_instance/on-pilgrimage-a-sacred-place/ Honoured to be runner-up in @walklistencreate.org's competition, On Pilgrimage - A Sacred Place, and have 3 other poems included. All manner of places can be pilgrimage sites: claypits, trees, riverbanks, unique public toilets...

On Pilgrimage – A Sacred Place

A spiritual journey on a sacred route, or a personal journey in search of oneself, a challenge for charity, a ritual of repetition, or a holiday with a difference, following a musical idol or sporting...

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Honoured to have a poem published today at Poem Alone, with thanks to Colin Dardis poemalone.blogspot.com/2026/07/dave... #poem #poemalone

write.walklistencreate.org/wr_writing/t... Delighted to have two poems (both inspired by the extraordinary summer of 2020) published as part of the Raising Voices Project by @mklitfest.bsky.social, both of which include audio recordings, photography and a marked location within the city.

The Plague Field, 2020

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Really pleased to have three poems published at MIR Online (produced at Birkbeck, my MA alma mater). The first two reference my late father, who would have been 100 this month. mironline.org/poetry/the-l...

Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking". (Info in alt text.)

Surprised, very pleasantly, to have a poem in the next issue of The Pomegranate, written in response to a Van Gogh painting and accompanied by its image. A beautifully designed magazine, btw: website at thepomegranatelondon.com where Issue 10 will be available shortly.

Join Geoff Andrews to explore Labour's hidden history and radicalisms through the ideas of its leading thinkers. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #politics #labourparty #history

Two wonderful poets - join them in-person or watch from home on livestream, 25 April. Tickets on sale now.

Writers of Bucks, Beds and Northants! You have 7 days to submit #poems/#shortstories/#creativenonfiction that could be performed at our April Festival! Submit a piece about a specific place in #MiltonKeynes by 30 March: www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice... #submissionsopen

Writer/broadcaster Jonn Elledge takes a witty, surprising look at world history through its borders, and stories they tell about political identities and human folly. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #border #geopolitics #jonnelledge @ouliterature.bsky.social

Creative Writing tutor Toby Litt offers advice, ideas, and tricks for writing better dialogue with greater ease and confidence. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #writingworkshop #writingdialogue

Join us on Sat 28 March for Earth Hour: Writing by Candlelight. We'll meet at 8pm GMT on Zoom for readings & inspiration before lighting candles & switching off for Earth Hour 8.30-9.30pm GMT. email poetsfortheplanet@gmail.com with the subject: Earth Hour & we'll send you the link the day before

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@davewakely.bsky.social and those who aren't on Bsky, but are just as keen on queer resistance Kate Foley Gwenhwyfar Ferch Rhys Joshua Linney Alyson Hallett Mwelwa Chilekwa Robert Hamberger Rowan Carteret Jane Aldous Donna Nì Conor Teddy Mills Abhi Abu Leila Arun Jeetoo Carmina Masoliver

Honoured to have a poem in Issue 18 of 14poems - available from them at www.fourteenpoems.com/shop/issue-18 for those who support small presses. Thanks to editors Troy Cabida and Helen Bowell, and to Sean Hewiit, Richard Scott, Derek Jarman and Jeanette Winterson for inadvertent inspiration.

A poem in the new edition of Caduceus Journal, with thanks to the poetry editor, Dawn Gorman @dawnpoet.bsky.social caduceus.info

Tomorrow night (Tues 9th) in-person or online: a fascinating new website launches, with live readings of 12 excellent pieces of original writing about our city Tickets (free): www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoiceslaunch

Milton Keynes Literary Festival@mklitfest.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK. www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice... #creativewriting #poetry #shortstories flashfiction creativenonfiction writingcompetition

Honoured to be shortlisted for this forthcoming anthology - please support @arachnepress.bsky.social through their crowdfunder if you are able (and spreading the word is also a fine form of generosity)

Arachne Press@arachnepress.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We have a #shortlist for Up//Roar #Poems of #Queer #Resistance Everyone who submitted has been informed, so now we can tell *you*. Our shortlisted poets are: Abhi Abu Leila Alyson Hallett Arun Jeetoo Carmina Masoliver Claire Hennessy Conway Emmett Cynthia Rodríguez Juárez David Wakely continues...

Join @mklitfest.bsky.social online on Wed eve for 5 superb poets: Zoe Brooks, Anna Saunders, Julia Webb, Leo Boix and Lesley Sharpe. www.mklitfest.org/poetryspotli... #poetry #poets #poetryreading @julwe1.bsky.social @lesleysharpe.bsky.social @zoebrooks.bsky.social @annasaund.bsky.social

Poetry Spotlight: Zoe Brooks and Anna Saunders | MK Lit Fest 2025

Zoe Brooks and Anna Saunders aren’t just the driving forces behind Cheltenham Poetry Festival: they are compelling poets in the own right. We welcome them as they read from their latest and forthcomin...

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@annasaund.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Quite an astonishing line up for @mklitfest.bsky.social - I am honoured to be reading with these wonderful poets! Please join us, we would love to see you in the zoom room and you would be supporting a superb festival - @davewakely.bsky.social

Delighted and more than a little honoured to be reading in such talented company at 3pm on westwiltsradio.com today (and available on the Play Again pages from early next week). "There should be a recipe. How to Make a Perfect Day at Home..."

In collaboration with @mklitfest.bsky.social in August we held an online masterclass – Digging in the Dirt: adventures in ecopoetry with @clareshawpoet.bsky.social , @betarish.bsky.social , @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social & @jessmookherjee.bsky.social poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/the-magic-of... 1 /3

For #nationalpoetryday

Delighted to be reading tonight for @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social fundraiser event - all welcome! www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...

Delighted to have a poem, As if, on Poem Alone. Thx editor Colin Dardis (@purelypoetry.bsky.social‬_, and ‪@annasaund.bsky.social‬ (Cheltenham Poetry Festival) and ‪@clareshawpoet.bsky.social‬, whose workshops helped mould my imagination into finer shape. poemalone.blogspot.com/2025/08/dave...

Join local author Will Burns for a place-based creative workshop providing a framework for new writing with Milton Keynes and its environs at its heart. www.mklitfest.org/cityofstories @troubledstriker.bsky.social #WillBurns #writingworkshop #shortstories

Last call for tickets for an exclusive, free creative writing workshop with @grindrod.bsky.social, looking at how to write non-fiction about places, locations, and modern cities. Thurs 7 Aug, 6pm Last few tickets: www.mklitfest.org/writingthecity #writingworkshop #CreativeNonfiction #miltonkeynes

Writing the City with John Grindrod (Raising Voices) | MK Lit Fest 2025

As part of our Raising Voices project, this free creative writing workshop with social historian John Grindrod looks at ways of telling true stories about life in – and the life of – places in Milton ...

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