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'Exhibitions from the Maritime Museum & the City', @ThinIce for @HullMaritime (2023). Read it for free here:
beccadrake.weebly.com/poetry…
My chapbook, 'The Maritime Museum & The City', beautifully worked by @thinicepress for @HullMaritime 🌊🐟🧜
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Excited to be up in Manchester for the day/night on 21st March (a week after the book comes out). I'll be reading poems and talking about John Dee, and there's a very good cathedral to enjoy - come!
Join us for this free two-part event between @McrWritingSchl @ManMetUni and Manchester Cathedral on Christianity and poetry.
Hosted by the Cathedral's Writer-in-Residence @tombranfoot, the events will feature Camille Ralphs, Michael Symmons Roberts and Malika Booker.
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Fran, Scott & Dan reading at More Song last night! Thanks everyone for coming @TheRecordCafe 🪶
Headed to Durham to talk about shipwrecks and whales and entanglements 🕸️😊
The best time performing my poems with @Mayamnc and Anthony Capildeo last night at the Bluebird Bakery. It was a sellout, with people queuing outside for spare seats! Thanks to @Chadpie for the invite ❤️
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Video & In Person — ONE- & TWO-DAY WORKSHOPS: Intensive classes on inspiring topics & 1-2-1 surgeries w/ renowned tutors: @Elspethwriter, Laura Scott, Soul Patel, @SuzannahVEvans, @imlcc
Reposting to get a bit more traction for this. If you're in York, come! It promises to be a fantastic evening.
Many exciting poetry things are happening in York this February, but above all, I cannot wait to welcome the brilliant
@a_pirmohamed
to read as part of Writers at York
@UoYEnglish
'Water Poetics' series.
If you are in the York area, come along to this free event! Tix -->>
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Many exciting poetry things are happening in York this February, but above all, I cannot wait to welcome the brilliant
@a_pirmohamed
to read as part of Writers at York
@UoYEnglish
'Water Poetics' series.
If you are in the York area, come along to this free event! Tix -->>
Tis that time of year when I listen to Beowulf on the long walk into campus.
#beowellbeing (are hashtags still a thing?)
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New Haunted Shores cfp! Details for our fourth annual online symposium: 10–14 June 2024. Abstracts due 31 March.
Please share widely: abstracts welcomed from absolutely anyone interested in any manner of haunted shoreline!
Many exciting poetry things are happening in York this February, but above all, I cannot wait to welcome the brilliant
@a_pirmohamed
to read as part of Writers at York
@UoYEnglish
'Water Poetics' series.
If you are in the York area, come along to this free event! Tix -->>
Image text reads: 'Writers at York presents: Water Poetics in conversation with Dr Alycia Pirmohamed / 5pm - 7pm / 22.02.2024 / P/L/002 / University of York campus
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Hello, this is one of the most beautiful things that my small press @PoemAtlas has put out!
Today, at the start of LGBTQ+ History Month, we are bringing to you an AMAZING poetic object by Māori poet Marama Salsano! Mini bisexual poems is a series of micro poems about life as a bi-wahine (woman) from the Pacific. 💜 Get your pack here: poematlas.com/product-page/s…
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I discussed my 'Faulty Copy' project in the latest issue of The Hopkins Review - a digital copy can be accessed via Project Muse!
muse.jhu.edu/issue/52008
This week, I have been exploring new-to-me landscapes in this brilliant trip of pamphlets from @GuillemotPress, publishing writing from @WillowherbRvw
A must read series for anyone working on nature writing, the environmental humanities & co. 📚🔎
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We did it!!!!!!!!!!
Still more than 8 hours to go, and we have hit our £30,000 crowdfunding target. We will be unlocking the doors to an amazing new venue, and can't wait to share our future plans! Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who has supported us. 🍾💕
yustart.hubbub.net/p/Heritag…
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And of course a new issue of Propel means you have until midnight UK TONIGHT to send us your poems for Issue Ten, edited by @InuaEllams
>> propelmagazine.submittable.c…
🔵 Propel Issue Nine is out NOW! 🔵
You can read and listen to the 20 poems selected by Issue Editor Fran Lock, here:
propelmagazine.co.uk/nine
Huge thanks to Fran, each of our contributors and to each of you who takes the time to read & share Propel 💙
ALT Cover of Propel Issue Nine January 2024, edited by Fran Lock. Contributors listed on cover are: Natalie Moores Vanessa Ackerman Flora Leask Arizpe Debmalya Bandyopadhyay Katherine Collins Meredith MacLeod Davidson John Keenan Jon Alex Miller Charlotte Murray Rachel Chanter Rachel Bruce Finola Cahill Aysar Ghassan Dorothy Spencer Sam Furlong Hetty Cliss Gwen Sayers JP Seabright Patrick O'Donoghue Julia Ireland
Dragging my boots out the door next Wednesday to finally get to @tombranfoot 's poetry night in Bradford. 🥾🥾
Holly Hopkins, Qudsia Akhtar, and Naoise Gale will be performing at More Song at the Record Café on Wednesday 7th February.
Since we got funding from Bradford City Council, we’ll have zines available at the night, featuring poems from the readers – made by @ben_brumpton.
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