#NEWCASTLE ! Last chance to book for #InternationalPoetrySymposium tomorrow 9-10th May to open NCLA Newcastle Poetry Festival!
🌎20 world poets read & discuss place, refuge, exile, inclusivity & more. Book now for as little as £12 for a day pass! > poetrybooks.co.uk/pages/northern…

I’m not cool but I did say this and do mean it. MotherFlux is a gorgeous collaboration and exploration of (m)otherhood between JP Seabright 💜 Dr Erica Gillingham and jemface is elsewhere. Order it from Nine Pens Press!

Just 8 days to go, and only a few tickets left!
MotherFlux Book launch - hosted by the Soho Poly - Buy tickets at buytickets.at/universityofwe… via Ticket Tailor

Many of the fundraising efforts for people in Gaza are necessarily grass-roots so it can be hard to verify what's legitimate. Please go via Gaza Funds if you're interested in direct campaigns. For all charity giving, always check charity details. Here are some, below.

Flowing gowns bordered by children being put into plastic bags, remaindered into fragments by missiles.

I know the peril of attention on the glamorous, when such wealth underpins extraordinary violence elsewhere.

There is nothing beautiful about that gala for me. Not now, no.

A statement from Book Workers for a Free Palestine on Zadie Smith’s recent essay in the The New Yorker, Shibboleth #zadiesmith

More than 600,000 children are sheltering in tents in Rafah right now as they are getting intensely bombed - nowhere else left to go.

ALL EYES ON RAFAH.

BREAKING: Israel is now bombing 1.7 million civilians trapped in Rafah, threatening an imminent invasion of the last “safe place” in Gaza.

Israel is committing the worst crimes in modern history, and Western regimes are calling it “self-defense”.

Never forget. Never forgive.

Glad to see Oxford Brookes staging a symposium (15 May) addressing translation across cultures, with keynotes from Prof Charlotte Ryland & Prof Matthew Reynolds, and other humanities scholars at Headington Hill Hall OX3 0BP, open to all & no RSVP (see flyer for details)

I've been helping out on this project. Every GCSE poem with resources, poet biographies and a 'way in' to the poem. All free. A brilliant resource really!

I feel so lucky that I got to read with Carrie right at the start of her four weeks of readings. Grief’s Alphabet is a very special book, so it’s no surprise it’s been a whirlwind 🌪️

Listen to this - a lapwing asking questions across the field

Considering proposals for Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal & eager to publish online features regularly for the rest of the year. Do share the call for pitches far & wide. And do let me know what you'd like to see as a reader too! Mags should be responsive & I'm always open to hearing ur thoughts. 🤓

i think about this louise bourgeois interview like once a week

I'm looking at poems, prose pieces, & proposals for Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal's digital content which will start dropping soon. It's high time I started commissioning again. DM me.

If you like #Lapwing and want to leave a nice review somewhere then i will do a small hop for joy as it’s genuinely lovely to know it’s not just birdsong in the void.