𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝙉𝙀𝙓𝙏 𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙉𝙏 📚🎤 Join us at Hyde Park Book Club on Wed 18 June for our 'Poetry, Yorkshire & Beyond' event as part of @leedslitfest.bsky.social! One of our two very special guests for the evening is @mlferg.bsky.social. 🎟 £10 (£8) www.leedslitfest.co.uk/events/poetr...

This, from @mlferg.bsky.social, is a masterpiece. A beautiful piece of writing, a world in a book and a soul shared with us all. Deeply moving and often hilarious

Announcing the lineup for our next Loud Poets Showcase! We're so excited to be featuring poets @mlferg.bsky.social, Lorna Callery-Sithole, Biff Smith, and Ciara Maguire at the @scotstorycentre.bsky.social in March! Tickets: scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:58...

Good to see Ian McMillan earlier, talking about Barnsley Book Festival. One highlight is @mlferg.bsky.social, in town on 8 March. A quote from Ian, freshly written down today! "For my money Maria Ferguson is one of the best up and coming poets in the country, and Swell is a swell book!" #booksky

Here it is - the first in a three-part series in which I'm in conversation with @mlferg.bsky.social for The Day Job 🗣 In Part 1, we discuss the creative process behind Maria's brand-new collection 'Swell'. #PoetsOnBluesky

In conversation with Maria Ferguson (Part 1)

Listen now | An insight into the creative process behind Maria's brand-new poetry collection 'Swell'

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A bonus post to The Day Job, gushing about @mlferg.bsky.social's brand-new collection. Just because. This post is free for everybody to read 😘 #PoetsOnBluesky

BONUS POST: Maria Ferguson publishes 'Swell' with Penguin

A stunning new poetry collection for you to get your teeth into

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Did you catch @mlferg.bsky.social on BBC Woman’s Hour reading from her new poetry collection, Swell? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (around 46mins in) Maria will be joining us at #DeptfordLitFest, Find out more and book your free ticket - www.spreadtheword.org.uk/events/movin...

Woman's Hour - Polar Preet, 'Swell' poetry, Ballet body-shaming - BBC Sounds

Preet Chandi's attempt to cross 500 miles of sea ice to reach North Pole within 70 days.

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If you're local to Leeds, you can see @mlferg.bsky.social as part of Leeds Storytelling Festival on Tue 25 Feb! This PAYF event is designed for parents with babies (pre-walkers), but you can attend without any offspring if you just want to enjoy the poetry 👌 www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/lee...

“When I think about it, tucking the label / back into my husband’s shirt / is not that different from eating him.” Read two poems by @mlferg.bsky.social from the collection Swell.

“Intimacy” and “Endurance,” Two Poems by Maria Ferguson

“Intimacy” When I think about it, tucking the label back into my husband’s shirt is not that different from eating him to survive on a desert island. The musk of cologne as I go straight for the ne…

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Swell is published by Penguin next week but it's available to pre-order now. Looking forward to sharing these poems and chatting about the process. All tickets available through my Instagram 🧡

Hear me out. Breaking Bad but Walt & Jesse are poets. Instead of cooking meth, they're writing commissions for banks. No one can know.

Hear me out. Eastenders but everyone's poets. Open mic in the Queen Vic hosted by Ian (McMillan). There's always a Submittable email before the doof doofs. At Christmas, you have to work out who's shagging. Carol Ann Duffy stars. Her catchphrase is Get Outta My Pub(lishing House).

Hear me out. The Traitors but everyone's a poet. The missions are all tasks from The Artist's Way. Every day someone gets a rejection. John Cooper Clarke is Claudia. The winner gets published in a print only magazine and invited to read on Guernsey. Travel will not be covered.