Summer Sale 📚🕶️☀️Throughout August, we’re offering 50% off selected titles in our #SummerSale. Use the code ‘summer2024’ at checkout for 50% off any featured title serenbooks.com/book-category/…. Sale ends 11:50pm Sunday 1st September 2024.

Patients have been saying this about #LongCovid since mid-2020. Will doctors hear it now, 4 years on, now that medical scientists are confirming it.

THREAD: the summer Covid wave in the UK continues. Basically, there is a LOT of Covid around and not a lot of other respiratory viruses. If you have cold or flu symptoms, it's probably Covid. The latest hospital data from England shows steady, quite high levels. 1/8

For #YorkshireDay - here is #SylviaPlath sitting on a dry stone wall in Heptonstall, West Yorkshire in September 1956

Day 3 of #SealeyChallenge is this gently stirring beauty by Hannah Copley Nicole Sealey The Sealey Challenge #poetry #poems

If you don't know this great man's work why not come along to this - there will be a selection of poets reading his work and top musicians from Ireland. Should be a fantastic night. Check out "For the Present – Celebrating Michael Donaghy" eventbrite.co.uk/e/for-the-pres… @Eventbrite

WE'RE HALF WAY through this year's zoom workshop series - we've had sell-outs left right and centre - but we have spaces on some of our autumn workshops (some are overflows to be fair) that are up for grabs - you can read about them here: tinyurl.com/2s3k6h7v

Thank you so much to everyone who sent us their work as part of our open submission call! We have had to dedicate an entire desk to the stacks of brilliant poetry we have received! Deryn Rees-Jones

Delighted to be hosting and taking part in these Ted Hughes Birthday celebrations in Hebden Bridge 17/18th August. Book your tickets asap The Elmet Trust Heptonstall Museum Zaffar Kunial Steve Eely Ian Humphreys

🙏🏽🌺🕊️💫💗The Poetry Society The Poetry Review, Summer 2024

TODAY we are celebrating Pavilion Poetry whose brilliant and highly selective list is in its 10th year - such wonderful books, like these from Hannah Copley Helen Calcutt Janette Ayachi alice hiller & #BhanuKapil. Find these and more at vervepoetrybookshop.com Deryn Rees-Jones

TODAY VERVE Poetry Bookshop is celebrating Pavilion Poetry whose brilliant and highly selective list is in its 10th year - such wonderful books, like these from Hannah Copley Helen Calcutt Janette Ayachi alice hiller & #BhanuKapil. Find these and more at vervepoetrybookshop.com Deryn Rees-Jones

Starting September 23rd, Kickstart Your Poetry, an online course for beginners NCW Academy tutored by me. Ideal for those looking for inspiration, guidance, feedback and the chance to make new writing friends. Book now: nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/kicksta… National Centre for Writing

Dinesh Allirajah Short Story Prize 2025🏆📢 Just over a month left until submissions for the 2025 Dinesh prize close!⌛️ Free to enter and open to all, with a £500 grand prize, submit your story via the link below👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Missed my book launch? 📚🚀💫 Here's a recording from Carcanet Press. Some key moments: Sasha Dugdale's intro: 0:08-3:05 Poetry Reading: 5:37-19:04 Conversation w/ Sasha and the audience: 19:16-56:30 youtube.com/watch?v=Jd4yYw…

Reading Round at Open Eye Gallery! The group will be run by Pauline Rowe , a writer-associate at Open Eye Gallery since 2016. ➡️openeye.org.uk/whatson/readin… Reading Round is weekly meetings discovering stories and poems, looking at how writers weave their effects. No homework!

I’m a great fan of Martin Crimp #MartinCrimp and a great fan of eira murphy too everymanplayhouse.com/whats-on/yep-d…

I wrote about tracking down the historic Liverpool orchids Croxteth Hall & Country Park tended by lead gardener Gerard Weaver LiverpoolBotanics for the summer 2024 issue of the exquisite Hidden Compass edited by the dynamic Sabine Bergmann.🪷(1/2) hiddencompass.net/story/the-glam…

Sex, work, money, children, strange neighbours, and cleaning the fridge… I’m directing Martin Crimp’s ‘Play House’, 27th-28th September at Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse theatres everymanplayhouse.com/whats-on/yep-d…

Happy #SealeyChallenge! The challenge to read a book every day of August is well underway & to help with your reading the Poetry Society has curated a list of book recommendations. Today Natalie Perman recommends Eira Murphy's (eira murphy) 'whetstone' (BrookesPoetryCentre).