stitchartabstractions #coasttocoasttocoast MapLine&Stitch Poetry In Aldeburgh (coast of Ireland complete!) John Mee Katharine Towers 🍃 Robin Houghton Katrina Naomi Erika Glenday 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪🇨🇭🇮🇹 @will_daunt Janet Poetry School (no longer active) The Poetry Society Munster Literature Centre New Writing North Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann

Dive into #sea inspired #poems and #poetry with Elizabeth Jane Burnett, Emily Hasler, Fiona Moore & Patricia Helen Wooldridge Poets who Swim & Steal the Sea | Saturday 3rd November | 11.30am Tickets: snapemaltings.co.uk/whats-on/poets… Snape Maltings @ejbpoetry @HaslerPoet Fiona Moore

Saturday 3rd Nov: join David Spittle, Chris McCabe & Philip Terry for surrealism, experimentation & (not) meeting John Ashbery No Hollow Places: On Meeting & Not Meeting John Ashbery Saturday 3rd Nov | 11.30am Tickets: snapemaltings.co.uk/whats-on/on-me… @DSpittlepoet Chris McCabe #poetry

Women in the Room ♀️ - Time to be Heard . A call to action and fascinating session on social media from veronica bennett #LCRLabourWomen

runners-up & winners Coast to Coast to Coast hand-stitched journal competition: Maureen Boyle Dr Pam Thompson Susie Violetta Finola Scott Mara A Scrupe; winners:Isabel Bermudez Lydia Harris Poetry School (no longer active) The Poetry Society Munster Literature Centre New Writing North Irish Pages @poetclare National Poetry Library

. Channel 4 #MAFS Aus episode 28 series 8 on 4od audio completely gone for middle part of the episode and then returns totally out of sync. Please rescue my Friday night.

🙏 Thank you Maria Iza B for this lovely review of our Poetry In Aldeburgh Bad Betty showcase with @niroshinisoma Joel Auterson Shareen K. Murayama @ImeldaSays 🙏 Also great write-ups of Guillemot Press & Poetry London's Aldeburgh events, & more. Read it here: ​poetryinaldeburgh.org/maria-isakova-…

. TfL on behalf of housemate who lacks twitter but wanted to say ... Driver of bus 128 in Ilford early this aft. Housemate worries not enough passengers applauded your full santa outfit. You're a magical man and thanks for cheering up a commute no end.

Excited-my next book, Painting the Mersey in 17 canvases published Hazel Press this year. Wonderful to be part of amazing projects by this press Cover artworks Jeffrey Fisher- look fwd to sharing Painting the Mersey in 17… cover. Many thanks Hazel The Poetry Society Poetry School (no longer active)

Coming this year… Julia Blackburn; Martin Shaw; collaborations between Kate Fletcher and Helen Mort, Edmund de Waal and Norman McBeath; Maggie Wang’s debut pamphlet; radical-botanical anthologies edited by Ella Duffy and Maria Isakova Bennett’s Painting The Mersey in 17 Canvases

.easyJet thank you for my 13.5zl 'meal voucher' for my delayed flight. My meal will consist of 5/8ths of a small bottle of coke *or* 4/9ths of a sandwich at the only shop in the airport. If I'm delayed another two and a half hours, please can I get the full sandwich?

performing a vital ritual as we book in copies of *Painting the Mersey in 17 Canvases*, by Maria Isakova Bennett, from Hazel Press - order your copy here: londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/painting… Each copy guaranteed to have been 'crossed' by a copy of David Ferry's translation of the *aeneid*

big thanks to all Hazel Press ...my book 'Painting the Mersey in 17 Canvases' is in London Review Bookshop and ready to sail out into the world The Poetry Society Poetry School (no longer active) New Writing North Crosbyparkrun Mersey Care NHS FT 🏳️‍🌈

Throughout the pandemic 2020-Dec'21 I hand stitched 6 new Coast to Coast to Coast limited edition journals, & in August Three Stephen Keeler @maria_mcmanus karen izod will launch Open Eye Gallery Congratulations ALL The Poetry Society Poetry School (no longer active) New Writing North @WindowsProject_

I try to avoid bias - fortunately I can say objectively that this collection by my mum Maria Iza B is a truly beautiful reflection on the Mersey: an affirmation of love for our city and landscape that you all should buy immediately. hazelpress.co.uk/product/preord…

Lovely to have one of my Mersey poems placed in gorgeous Oxford Poetry Partus alongside writing from Jodie Hollander, Nancy Campbell, @Kit_Fan_ and Holly Corfield Carr amg others. Thanks to Luke Allan for his careful Editor’s note- beautifully considered writing about closure