Delighted to have two poems in @rustandmoth.bsky.social this autumn - one of my favourite magazines. rustandmoth.com/artists/esth...
Esther Lay – Rust & Moth
A Journal Of Poetry And The Arts
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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. estherlay.com
The bird book said magpie. The window said rain. The memory said jam jars and giant’s grief. Jen Feroze turns softness into spellwork in #TheCodex. ➡️ thebrokenspine.co.uk... @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @jenferoze.bsky.social
#TheCodex - Jen Feroze - The Broken Spine
Jen Feroze lives by the sea in Essex with her husband and two small sleep thieves, who inspire a lot of her poetry. A former Foyle Young Poet, her work has
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There’s my husband! Somewhere in the bowels of Duncan…
Navy Lookout@navylookout.bsky.social · last yr.HMS Duncan and HMS Somerset in Plymouth Sound yesterday Via: Kevin Kelway
HMS Duncan sails from Portsmouth this morning for sea trials and shakedown after 6-month maintenance period. Via: PortsmouthProud / Steve Wenham
Delighted to have placed joint second with myself (!) with two poems in the Write Out Loud poetry competition, judged by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social's wonderful editor Neil Astley. Read his remarks (and all the winning poems) here: www.writeoutloud.net/public/bloge...
Di Slaney wins Write Out Loud’s ‘Echoes’ competition with ‘Dolly Parton’s wig’ - in memory of a ‘dear friend and inspiration’ | Write Out Loud
Di Slaney wins Write Out Loud’s ‘Echoes’ competition with ‘Dolly Parton’s wig’ - in memory of a ‘dear friend and inspiration’
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First taste of the cover and colours of Ghost Stations, out in September from @cbeditions.bsky.social . Essays on trains, stations, places, not-quite-places, centres and perpheries, imaginary poets and real artists, memory and forgetting. Ghost signs and missing letters.
Well this was a nice surprise. Turning to see my first born sitting on the shelf next to me while drafting her younger sibling.
If we hit our £5,000 goal, we’ll launch a poetry competition unlike any other—free to enter, big cash prize, real support. We’ve done it before with chapbooks & Reader’s Choice. Now, we need your help to go bigger. Donate today. #TheBrokenSpinePoetryAward 🔗 shorturl.at/G2mMo
If you haven't discovered @marjorielotfi.bsky.social yet, she is one of the best contemporary poets out there (Forward Prize winner 2024), and also a tremendous teacher. She's running an editing workshop on the 2nd of May - highly recommended. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/editing-po...
Editing Poetry
Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned poet, this session will give you practical tips and techniques to refine and edit your work.
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Tomorrow - Saturday!
Esther Lay@estherlay.bsky.social · 2y agoThis 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
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, even Barbie knows, that Ash Wednesday's a must. Tomorrow at St. Mark's; 7 a.m, noon, and 7 p.m. ⚓
Looking forward to tuning in at 12:00 today #PrivatePassions @imtiazdharker.bsky.social + Michael Berkeley #illustration #poetry (currently available on BBC Sounds) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 🎨🖌️📻
Private Passions - Imtiaz Dharker - BBC Sounds
Michael Berkeley's guest is the poet Imtiaz Dharker.
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Only five days now until I interview the wonderful poet Imtiaz Dharker @imtiazdharker.bsky.social in Wootton Village Hall, just north of Oxford. 6.30pm, 8th of March. Get your tickets while there are still some left! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening...
An evening with Imtiaz Dharker
Join distinguished poet, artist, and filmmaker Imtiaz Dharker in conversation with prizewinning poet and Rector of Wootton Esther Lay
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Floored — totally and utterly — that one of my poems has been submitted for consideration in the @forwardprizes.bsky.social 2025. Hurrah!
There are still tickets left for this incredible opportunity to hear the poet Imtiaz Dharker speak in Wootton by Woodstock. 6.30pm on the 8th of March, curry supper included! Book here: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...
An evening with Imtiaz Dharker
Join distinguished poet, artist, and filmmaker Imtiaz Dharker in conversation with prizewinning poet and Rector of Wootton Esther Lay
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Esther Lay@estherlay.bsky.social · 2y agoThis 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
See you there!
Esther Lay@estherlay.bsky.social · 2y agoThis 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
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
I’m delighted to share that £5m of funding has been confirmed for the National Poetry Centre ✒️ When I learned that the funding for the Centre was under review, I began working with Simon Armitage & the Centre to lobby the Gov. to secure the funding. #NationalPoetryCentre
I’m thrilled to have just found out I’ve won the East Riding Festival of Words Poetry Competition 2025 — the poem will be published in ebook form with others, and will also be available to read shortly at estherlay.com
Esther Lay
Poet
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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
1. Sketch | 2 Feature on the New Yorker website | 3. Closeup of my favourite character in the ink drawing.
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!
I’m done dating humans. I’ve got a better idea—
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
Also, while I’ve got you, my new book ‘A Dress With Deep Pockets’ is available for pre-order now from the @poetrybusiness.bsky.social shop. Which is rather exciting. Grab yourself a copy here, if you like: poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/a-dr...
A Dress With Deep Pockets - The Poetry Business
Jen Feroze's poetry pamphlet A Dress with Deep Pockets is a Winner of the 2024 International Book & Pamphlet Competition judged by Jane Clarke
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Next Monday 20 January, it is the Eve of St Agnes. Join us on zoom for a friendly event which combines new poems by Helen Farish and a communal relay reading of Keats’s atmospheric poem. 7pm UK time. Book free tickets at the link below.
The Poetry Society@poetrysociety.org.uk · 2y agoJoin The Poetry Society for a Keatsian evening in honour of St Agnes' Eve! For more info and booking, click here: poetrysociety.org.uk/event/vision...
In around 4 weeks’ time the first blossom will appear in the hedgerows. Cherry plum flowers (Prunus cerasifera) are delicate & unassuming but that subtle glimmer of white (sometimes pink) is perhaps the most beautiful as it marks the end of winter & the prospect of warmer days.
