“Rain Light” by W.S. Merwin

Carolyn Forche • The Country Between Us

If you live anywhere remotely near New Mills go visit this place as soon as you can. It’s a real treasure, with lovely owners (even if they take the piss out my music tastes on occasion) and an amazing record store downstairs. Support independent. Support local.

If you're around Manchester next Friday and looking for something to do then come along to this free ecopoetry workshop I'm running at the beautiful Castlefield Viaduct – drop me a message if you wish to sign-up on September 27th 2-4:30pm 🌿

Submissions for the Manchester Cathedral Ecopoetry and Place Competition open until October 23rd judged by myself, Ella Duffy and Emily Oldfield. Free entry for your first poem and £200 to be won! 🌿

Robley Wilson:

Under the harvest moon, When the soft silver Drips shimmering Over the garden nights, Death, the gray mocker, Comes and whispers to you As a beautiful friend Who remembers. —Carl Sandburg poets.org/poem/under-har… #AutumnEquinox

Want to know more about the judges of this year’s Poetry Competition? Our comp is open for submissions until 23 Oct & our judges have the gruelling task of reading through hundreds of anonymous entries. Read more about them here bit.ly/3TOVDJX

📣Our Poetry Competition closes in 1 week!📣 You have just 7 days left to send in your poems on the theme of ecopoetry & place and be in with a chance of winning £200, £50 or £25 as well as having your poems displayed Manchester Cathedral. Full info here bit.ly/4dIeCxu

Very excited for the next More Song event with Edwina Attlee, David Mullin and Jazmine Linklater. I hear Jazmine read over the weekend and was blown away. You don't want to miss this at the 1 in 12 Club, Bradford. Our open mic is fully booked but come along for the ride!

Blackwell's, Oxford’s Bookshop, Nemonie @ Jonathan Clowes, .John Mitchinson The mysticism of musical encounter as contemporary, heightened escape via Nick Cave, Julian Cope and other punkish visionaries are illuminated in this lucid philosophical rumination. Brilliant erudition. nyrb.com/products/mysti….

1 year of boar (Broken Sleep Books) very pleased by all the places and people this feral pamphlet has introduced me to 🐗

Really looking forward to this (and now correctly tagged!) - thanks @jeffyoungwriter Little Toller 🇺🇦🇵🇸 x

your annual reminder that the perfect poem exists

Carol Ann Duffy Collected Poems

Join us for the last More Song event of the year this Thursday The 1 in 12 Club Library, launching Edwina Attlee's debut collection 'a great shaking' (Tenement, 2024) with readings from Edwina, with David Mullin and Jazmine Linklater. Free entry. Open mic full. 7-9pm.

Approximately 1 in 3 women around you have been subjected to this - so it is important to know what to say if and when they disclose to you. It’s very likely you will have someone disclose to you at some point, if you haven’t already. Here are six simple but effective and