If you’d like to join our facilitated safe space at Tara Theatre this week please email us at [email protected] before 5PM today to register your interest 💛

I’m excited about the workshop I’ll be running for this in November. It’s all about your name!😉

Copies of the latest issue of The North are now on their way to subscribers! Not a subscriber? Head to our website to pick up issue 70 now. With poems by Simon Armitage, Dzifa Benson, Graham Mort, Helen Mort, Pascale Petit, Michael Schmidt & many more! poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/the-no…

So good to get a glimpse of the latest issue of The North. I’ve got poems in it! 😍😍😍

Portfolio contributors include momtaza mehri 💆🏾‍♀️, Dr Nick Makoha, Jason Allen-Paisant, Dean Atta, Anthony Joseph, The Typo King FRSL / FRSA, Dzifa Afi Benson, 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus, Yomi Ṣode 🇳🇬, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Zakia Carpenter-Hall, Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa, Roger Robinson, Caleb, Malika Booker, and more.

You’ve got to sign up quick because when they’re gone, they’re gone!

I’m so excited to have two poems AND an essay(!), within the Black British Writing Portfolio edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf, in the current issue of Prairie Schooner. What company to keep and I’m LOVING that fantastic cover art by Sonia Boyce.

We’ll be at National Youth Theatre hq talking all things theatre and immersive technologies on Wednesday evening. Come on down!

This is the peekaboo look of a writer who has just been told her book is going to print this week. Hope you’re having a good day too!

All the butterflies in stomach feels today about sharing extracts from my-work-in-progress play, A Portable Grace, an adaptation of Roger Robinson’s TS Eliot Poetry Prize winning A Portable Paradise. Mostly, grateful to NationalYouthTheatre for the opportunity. shorturl.at/K8MV8

Ooh, thank you The Arts Foundation. For reading the poems and then sharing about Monster’s imminent publication. You’ve made me smile and made my day! 😃🙏🏾

What’s the current state of new writing for the stage? We’ll be ruminating on the good, the bad and the ugly of it this evening.

'It's kind of a homage to nurses because i don't think they get celebrated enough' A Portable Grace by Dzifa Afi Benson, directed by Adeola Yemitan TONIGHT at 7.30pm at our Workshop Theatre Based on poet Roger Robinson's award-winning A Portable Paradise 🎟️ shorturl.at/ivykT

Thank you so much for honouring it with your presence. So grateful!

🌈 Please help with reaching my target goal, we are half way there! £1,500 to go to get this beautiful show on its feet! Join us in supporting the arts and championing black queer stories. ✊🏾 gofund.me/7b631e42

So lovely to have you there last night!😍

I belong here. A loaded phrase for all sorts of reasons. This time, it's poetic, emphatic, immersive & geographical because Opus AR enables me & my work to belong here, there and everywhere too! It's brilliantly uncanny to be photographed beside a hologram of oneself!

So excited to see a photographic facsimile of myself watch my AR doppelgänger perform my poem Three Colours Black which is giving the phrase ‘me, myself & I’ layers of meta meaning!

September news: shorturl.at/xqUEo New books from Sarah Holland-Batt, Niall Campbell, Nia Broomhall and #LauraWittner & Juana Adcock; online launch 24 Sept; Bloodaxe events at Ilkley Literature Festival & Berwick LitFest in Oct; Katie Donovan reviewed in The Irish Times & more!