Daniel Sluman talks about his collection 'Single Window', disability poetics and the Forward Prize 📚📺✨It was such a pleasure to have him on the channel! youtube.com/watch?v=zj0Hrd…

If people insist on putting Claudia’s name on my work, can I at least get some of her checks

I did an interview with the lovely Danne Jobin talking about poetry, disability, and judging, that’s now online youtu.be/zj0Hrd5gCOw?si…

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Hemingway on writing, just brilliant

Hunter S. Thompson, so simple

link!! planetpoetry.buzzsprout.com/1414696/episod…

We're so thrilled to reveal the judging panel for the 2025 #ForwardPrizes! 📣 Celebrated author Sarah Hall will be this year’s Chair of Judges, joined by poets Lisa Kelly, Hannah Lavery, Sean O’Brien and Rommi Smith. Read more about each judge here: buff.ly/4aNnH7y

We are thrilled to reveal the cover for Owning It: Our disabled childhoods in our own words. Out 24 April. Edited by The Catchpole Agency and Jen Campbell (is mostly elsewhere), and illustrated by @sophiekamlish.

Are you free 16th February, 6-7.30? I’ll be giving a poetry workshop on the movement of the mind across the page… in all its erratic glory. It’s hosted by the brilliant Sustenance community and you can register here: lu.ma/0butddbk?local…

One of my favourite poets Matthew Zapruder is reading poems and talking about process with me online on Wednesday night - This is the first proper event of my residency, it’s pay what you can, and it would be amazing to see some familiar faces there 🙏 arvon.org/writing-course…

elated, delighted, fizzing to say that my debut full poetry collection UNDER THE BLUE will be published by Bloomsbury Books UK in September!! 📖💫more info + pre-orders here: bloomsbury.com/uk/under-the-b…

#OwningIt published by Faber Children's is an essential purchase for both primary and secondary school teachers. 22 authors share their own experiences of growing up disabled with honesty and strength. Reading this book will leave you changed. 24 April 2025 scopeforimagination.co.uk/2025/04/22/own…

Our live online launch for VERSUS VERSUS: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets is tomorrow at 7pm BST. Watch live or later on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/live/07usVjBxJ…

Poet and anthology editor #RachaelBoast will be joined by poets #KarthikaNaïr, Chisom Okafor and Daniel Sluman, who will be reading their work from the anthology and in discussion with Rachael and Bloodaxe editor Neil Astley. youtube.com/live/07usVjBxJ…

Semi regular update on how many jobs there actually are for disabled people in the UK, according to DWP Find a Job All Jobs: 110.737 Fully Remote: 813 Of which are disability confident: 169 Of which are part time: 10 TEN WHOLE JOBS #TakingThePIP

THANK YOU to our brilliant judges — Lisa Kelly, Hannah Lavery, Sean O’Brien, Rommi Smith, and chair Sarah Hall — for their dedication and insight in selecting the #ForwardPrizes 2025 shortlist from hundreds of outstanding entries. Your passion shapes the future of poetry! 🙏

Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?