Poetry retreats are the best way to bring in your 30s. Bittersweet final reading (and several bottles of wine, not pictured) at Château de Sacy last night 🌻📝🖋️ Huge thanks to our fab hosts Murphy Williams and @lukewrightpoet x

Pride & Prejudice a lot less impressive when you realise Austen ripped off the plot of Bridget Jones

Always so strange to see my name in print! Thank you Ellen Harrold metachrosis lit mag (subs closed)☀️ now on 🟦☁️ for the feature 🙏🏻

It feels like red flag behaviour that, as a society, we classify trampoline jumping as an Olympic sport. It’s giving ‘the fall of the empire’.

Title of my next poem

no more dear editors, no more dear [insert masthead], no more sir and madam, no more hi and hellos, no more sentences, no more emails, no more humans—scratch your writing on a post-it attached to a hot air balloon, addressed only with the words “To Whom It Will Concern”

Honoured to be included in this edit 🥰

Baby’s first poetry reading (me, I am Baby) alongside many other fab and much more established poets on 23 Aug! So excited for this x Book tickets! 👉🏻 eventbrite.com/e/internationa…

We can't lose another queer space in London! Help us save the Common Press by donating at the link below. Led by BIPOC, trans folks, and queer women, we have been ranked as one of London’s top 10 independent bookshops by The Bookseller 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🔥 crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-com…

Rejections like this honestly bring me so much joy—to know you’re on the right track with something you feel proud of is such a reassurance. Cannot wait to read the next pamphlet drop out of Little Betty 🙏🏻

Commiserations to Anglia Ruskin University, who have wasted thousands in resources to prove the obvious this AM

Islington Stanza had a fab time reading at The Poetry Society Stanza Bonanza last night! Thank you to @RawaneeCreative for hosting us✨✨✨

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Unreal to announce the Queer Poetry Collective, an initiative Rich Ware and I have launched under The Poetry Society to bring together #QueerPoetsForQueerCauses Our first event is The Common Press Bookshop fundraiser on 16 Oct with some truly beautiful voices ❤️ Join us: outsavvy.com/event/22859/qu…

Only the beginning 👀💃🏻

We're BACK for a night of LGBTQIA+ poetry & community! Join us The Common Press Bookshop on 26 November — all ticket sales donated to the fundraiser. We'll have readings from surrender dorothy & @p_scalpello & then…OPEN MIC — make sure to bring your beautiful poems. Queer Poetry Collective 💜

In other news I’m migrating to Bluesky, if you’re a poet follow me there bsky.app/profile/emwrot… 🦜🐦