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What a wonderful time at the Arvon at The Hurst for the Arvon ‘landscape and the body’ poetry retreat! I’ve gained so much under the expert guidance of Pascale Petit FRSL🐅🌳🦜🌳🐆 & Clare Best. Massive shout out to all of my fellow poets from the retreat!

I’m in Ilkley tonight for this⬇️ … Dead chuffed to have a poem about my dad in this anthology! He would have been 88 yesterday.

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What a night at Ilkley Literature Festival with The Poetry Business, Sarah Wimbush & fellow Manchester Writing School classmate Laura Strickland! Read my poem about my dad, held back the tears, met lots of lovely poets!

Went to a fantastic evening of poetry at The Y Theatre last night organised by Literati Arts & hosted by the one and only @thaughtonpoetry. Fooking amazing night! Just astounding! #1 @thaughtonpoetry #2 Michelle Mother Hubbard #3 rmcfarlane63 #4 Dreadlock Alien 👏👏👏👏👏👏

Proof that I do things other than stand on stage and swear! Massive thanks to Rachel Long & the Oxford Poetry peeps for deeming my scribbles worthy of shortlisting!

We are pleased to present the stellar shortlist for the 2024 Oxford Poetry Prize, judged by Rachel Long ✨

My mate beckymaywriter is a superstar! Beautiful poem ❤️

And my mate, Amy L. King is another superstar! Another beautiful poem ❤️

I cannot imagine a Midlands poetry scene without Bad Betty Press - they’ve changed aspirations & expectations outside of London, their workshops have allowed me to produce not only some of my best work but to face fears, and they’ve grown community. Support if you can …

TWO of my poems made it to the Mslexia ✨ single poem long list this year … & one was about a lawnmower 🤷🏻‍♀️ Congratulations to other long and shortlistees as well as the winners!

Sooo excited to be able to share this! What an honour and a privilege to be a Nine Arches Press Dynamo poet!

Gooooo Bad Betty Press 👏👏👏👏

If you haven’t done so already, go support Bad Betty Press! Put simply, Bad Betty Press make the poetry world a better place!

Congrats Alice and to this amazing cohort of poets 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🔥

Sunday 4th May, 6pm Peggy's Skylight Jazz Club ✨Luke Kennard ✨Cara Thompson ✨John Berkavitch ✨Amy Acre ✨Robbert van Dongen ✨Bridie Squires peggysskylight.co.uk/events/bad-bet…

Me & beckymaywriter & Laurie Sansom on the Derby Poetry Festival shortlist - all Manchester Writing School MA’ers!

free submission open throughout june retweet for eternal happiness, love & peace on earth anthropocenepoetry.org/submissions ✌️

Got a poem in the latest issue of Shooter Literary Magazine . As a working class woman who came to writing in her mid-50s & who largely writes about s*x in some way - seeing my writing in the lofty halls of a literary magazine feels like a major achievement:) Link in bio …

Thanks to Mslexia ✨ & Imtiaz Dharker for choosing my pamphlet, ‘A life in brief men’ as one of four highly commended pamphlets in the 2024 Mslexia Pamphlet Competition. & thanks to all my brilliant poet friends who’ve helped me on this journey so far