1 week today Piranha #poetry is back again at the #stroud Ale House with Sharon Larkin and Jonathan R Muirhead plus open mic! Poster art by Thomas S Brown. Good On Paper Heart Of Stroud Glos Writers Network TheGloucestershireFarmer Nimue Brown Sarah Snell-Pym Dear Reader @chopparoberts

Looking forward to words+music at Poetry Cafe Refreshed in Cheltenham PoetryCafé Refreshed Smokey Joe's Chelt when poet Raine Geoghegan, MA & musician Simon Callow are on the bill on 18 March, plus an open mic. Sounds good!

This charity event for International Women's Day is a collaboration between The Gloucestershire Poetry Society and Discover DeCrypt. Join us at 1.45pm till 4.30 to hear 20 local women poets voice their words. CheltenhamPoetryFest Cheltenhampoetrysoc Glos Writers Network Four Gates of Gloucester The Nelson Trust #poetry

Excellent headline set by Sharon Larkin at Piranha last night! Thanks to ʐɨɢɢʏ ℘ơɛɬ for stepping in at short notice :) We're back on 11th May with Jonny Fluffy Punk, Casey Bailey and Gary Death plus open mic. Thomas S Brown CheltenhamPoetryFest Glos Writers Network

On Good Dadhood today – a poem celebrating fatherhood: 'Kicking the Bar' by Wynn Wheldon with a lovely photo of Wynn and his father, the much admired, fondly remembered broadcaster and BBC executive Sir Huw Wheldon. gooddadhood.com BBC Arts @IndigoDreamsPub Acumen Poetry

Fun wordy fact of the day for kids: the first freelancers were knights who weren’t attached to any single lord and master, and so were *free* to use their *lances*, or weapons, for anyone who paid them. #homeschooling

Here’s my review of Christina Thatcher's startling, collection ‘How to Carry Fire’ published by @parthianbooks Christina Thatcher Thanks to Isabelle Kenyon (Kenyon Author Services - Book PR) Fly on the Wall Press for the invitation to join the blog tour for this superb collection. Do order a copy! wp.me/p4mE82-t3

Good Dadhood Good Dadhood is proud to have two wonderful poems by @SarahJames on the 'front page' today. Please do visit the site, read and enjoy 'The Nook and the Knack' and 'Our Time'. wp.me/p8aXiK-nH

Magma 76, Resistencia, edited by Leo Boix and Nathalie Teitler. Order it here: magmapoetry.com/buy-magma/

Three lovely poems by Sarah L Dixon Sarah L Dixon have just been published on the 'front page' of Good Dadhood Thank you, Sarah, for supporting the project to celebrate good Dads! wp.me/p8aXiK-nU

I have another C19-related poem up at Atrium this morning. With thanks to Claire Walker & HollyannePoet

I have another C-19 related poem up at #PostcardsfromMalthusia from #NewBootsandPantisocracies with thanks to Bill Herbert and Andy Jackson

A wonderful poem by Veronica Aaronson has just been published on Good Dadhood. Please read ‘Cold Calling’ about Veronica’s father here: wp.me/p8aXiK-o6

Thank you, CheltArtsCouncil ! We can’t wait to be able to hold events again ... and use our new projector and screen to show off our anthology of Poetry from Gloucestershire and the poetry films we’ve been making during lockdown! Thank you so much for the grant to enable this!

A poem by CPS Chairman, Roger Turner, has been published on Good Dadhood Good Dadhood. Please click the link and read the poem! gooddadhood.com/2020/06/02/a-p…

A ‘grandfather poem’ by Catherine Baker just published on Good Dadhood, is sure to bring a smile to your face ... as it did to mine. Thank you for supporting the Good Dadhood project with such a delightful poem, Catherine! gooddadhood.com/2021/05/11/a-p…

Last week’s CPS Awayday (writing retreat) at Dumbleton Hall was a huge success, judging by feedback questionnaires: 100% said it helped them with their writing, 100% want to do something similar again. So, a very rewarding result ... for poets, organizers & venue!

Just published: The Elements, an anthology of 59 poems by 17 poets, with 30 photographs, on themes of Earth, Air, Fire and Water. Endorsed by David Clarke and Rona Laycock. Available from the poets or Eithon Bridge Publications eithonbridge.com

Pre-Christmas workshop. Looking forward to another year of poetry in 2024.

Cheltenham Poetry Society’s Annual Awayday Writing Retreat at Bowden Hall, Upton St Leonards, May 2024. An enjoyable, productive day of thinking about – and writing – poetry. We wrote on themes of work and play, ‘down to earth’ and ‘out of this world’.