MotherFlux coming soon! 💜

Live London Launch at The Soho Poly on 16th May. Tickets free but must be booked! Come join us for an evening of poetry celebrating queer parenting.

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📢 Friday evening reminder that you’ve until Sunday might to apply for our Spring courses this May!

> 6-week Standard with naa adukwɛi Jack Underwood & Anthony Anaxagorou

> 4-week Mini with the brilliant John McCullough 🏳️‍🌈 & Fran Lock

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Dinner, as I had once thought, seemed out of the question for 6, with Ted’s family coming. So I stopped, after my shopping, to ask the three ladies, Ruth, Marjorie and Nicola, to tea on Saturday. 4/19/62

I have just realised late night is 7pm. It feels like 10pm. Which is really late to me.

Celebrating the weekend with late night coffee. Because that is the way I live my life wildly.

Join us on April 28th for the launch of 'Piecemeal' by Ahana Banerji (18:30 on Zoom). Tickets now available from the Nine Pens website (and Eventbrite). With special guests Bhanu Kapil, Prerana Kapur and Leo Kang.

I went to the Sargent exhibition at the Tate yesterday. No wonder women loved being painted by him; he made them look like people with active inner lives.

Who's in London Town tomorrow for the The Poetry Society Book & Magazine fair?

If you are, come and say hi! I'll be on the team Broken Sleep Books table with Aaron Kent & Emma Kennedy

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This week: charity shop, jumper from my mum’s clothes (sob) weird sale rail dress with huge bow and a skirt I was given. & my very old Calvin Klein Jacket from when I had money and wanted to look ‘businessy’ in the early 2000s.

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It’s amazing how motivating it is when someone just believes in you

In editing my forthcoming book Seren written during my MA OxfordBrookesEnglish, i’m thinking of the brilliant teaching I had in the Creative Writing Dept and how, as a result of these departments being cut, how many books won’t get written now.

Mine certainly wouldn’t exist.

I’m coming to read Oxford Poetry Library next week. I’ll read from my pamphlets and share some of the new poems from my forthcoming book Seren ❤️

The speaker of my poems and I agree that Flashdance by Irene Cara and Runaway by The Corrs are a perfect summary of my forthcoming pamphlet.

An afternoon in Worcester.

Charity shops, took myself out for food, reading, got lost on way home.

Lancaster friends! I started my journey as a baby poet in Lancaster and I'm going back to my roots next week! Come along to my workshop on 'Writing the Body'
Lancaster Litfest English Literature and Creative Writing

We are very excited about Dr Betty Doyle s return home! She is running a workshop and headlining this month's The Wordarium on the 24th April. Betty studied her BA and MA with us, and has already published her first collection and completed her PhD. What a star! ✨✨💕💕

Your hosts of ⁦Wendy Allen and Charley Barnes⁩ and editors of ⁦Annie Journal⁩ together for once! ❤️

The team in action last night! 🔥

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