We are delighted to announce the first of our 2025 festival readers. Taking the stage for our gala reading on Saturday night will be the incredible Richard Scott. His latest collection, That Broke into Shining Crystals, is a Poetry Book Society Choice Faber Books

In a state of grateful overwhelm about this, to be honest. Just the biggest thanks to Poetry London and to Dr Victoria Kennefick (She/Her)🍉. It means such a lot to be read by people I admire so hugely.

Always, always brilliant: open.spotify.com/track/4a01Clus…

Waited all summer for this to open.

This is gender apartheid by the Taliban. Women aid workers are banned. Men are not allowed to treat women. That means women and girls are left with no care, and they die from preventable causes.

⚡️JUST IN: Over 40 celebrities including Billie Eilish, Finneas, Cillian Murphy, Joaquin Phoenix, Steve Coogan, Annie Mac, and Peter Gabriel, appear in a Together for Palestine video calling for a Gaza ceasefire, released ahead of today’s benefit concert in London.

I've never felt so ashamed of my country as I feel right now; government and so called royalty pandering to the only tyrant in the world who has the power to stop the bombing and starvation of Palestinian families and their children. As for my vote, The Labour Party just lost it.

Sending support for this family by posting. US immigration: Harjit Kaur's ICE arrest stirs Sikh community - BBC News share.google/3eRXXjuBB2GJKZ…

Great seminar this morning with Don Paterson.Thanks to North Sea Poets

Holywells park for peace of mind, great coffee, kindness, and community spirit ! Thankyou Ipswich Borough Council

Looking forward to this thegeorgecommunitypub.co.uk/whats-on/adult…

Brave man, brave musician. We mustn't forget him

Have a beautiful day

Tomorrow 7.30 Humans will be reading poems at this brilliant community pub Rachel Curzon Verve Poetry Press @gretastoddart Poetry In Aldeburgh Poetry London The Poetry Society

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Suggest read today's The New York Times front page article by Henry J Farrell 'Strategising where Trump is Vulnerable'. Explains how to stand up to Trump's accelerating attempt to seize power that he is not entitled to. How to stop 2 + 2 equalling 5, how to halt authoritarianism.

Beautiful reading of this poem by Pablo Neruda share.google/dXHBJgTQjwWm6e…

Extraordinary readings by Clare Pollard and Richard Scott this evening Poetry In Aldeburgh

Enjoying Clare Pollard's intimate collection 'Lives of the Female Poets' in which she weaves poems about her own creative process / life with poems that speak more directly to the work of her chosen poets. Daring, inspirational. Bloodaxe Books Rachel Curzon Greta Stoddart

Suggest watch this perfect little film on your biggest screen The Shepherd share.google/Gym47CS7pLBH00…