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Feather printing Birmingham Roller bookmarks to be hidden inside library books for the Birmingham Loves Libraries Library Art Drop 🖤

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Poetry-lover Frank Skinner is Roger Mcgough's special guest Poetry Please in our new broadcast time 16.00 Tuesdays BBC Radio 4 Frank chooses poems by Liz Berry Jean Sprackland Jen Hadfield & W H Auden. Producer @mairbosworth Catch up BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

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“A portal seemed to open up for me between our world and theirs…” I loved listening to this beautiful, thoughtful discussion about writing historical fiction with Lucy Caldwell Lucy Caldwell on BBC Radio 4 Book Club bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Went on a micro-writing-residency at Kingstanding Library for @brumlibraryzine. I loved exploring the stacks, watching nursery children choose books & chatting to librarian Shugufta who told me a beautiful story of how “libraries changed my life”. Libraries are truly amazing❤️

So proud to be part of the fight for Birmingham's libraries. My mom was a librarian and I grew up in Black Country libraries, falling in love with books and poems. I want every child in Birmingham to have that opportunity.

We're so excited to publish Small Moon Curve by Roz Goddard next month and just look at this glowing quote from Liz Berry. 📙 You can pre-order your copy now buff.ly/3RqRH0R 🎤 Join Roz & Liz at the Heath Bookshop, Birmingham on 17th July buff.ly/4aXlKnB

"To take away the joy & possibility of reading from thousands of young people is an act not just of cultural but of social vandalism & it must be fought tooth & nail." Brilliant Mark Billingham Mark Billingham championing the library that made him a reader & writer: Kings Heath.

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How poetry can enrich and feature in the lives of children by the wonderful poet Liz Berry. Liz Berry 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭 childrenspoetrysummit.com/2024/07/11/liz…

How lovely to be on The Verb chatting about libraries, a poem I love and a magpie's proposal 🖤

Completely delightful thread for Black Country lovers everywhere! Intensely yam yam 🖤💘

Join me for Shared Reading at Kings Heath Library every Monday 10am - 11.30am, beginning September 2nd. A FREE, friendly group where everyone is welcome. Kings Heath Library LibraryofBirmingham

So incredibly proud to be part of Brum Library Zine, Birmingham writers celebrating and fighting for the community libraries that we love. We started in the school playground and today we're in the The Bookseller! ❤️‍🔥 Keep pushing back!

We're in The Guardian, baby! ❤️‍🔥

Who are the brilliant women poets who published their first books after the age of 40? I want to make a list to inspire my students to hold fast to their dreams.

I wrote a long-read for Birmingham Dispatch about my teenage love for zines and why action is beautiful and powerful exactly when we feel most powerless. Brum Library Zine Birmingham Loves Libraries birminghamdispatch.co.uk/p/where-are-we…

Read this. An inspiring story of DIY zines & writers resisting library closures in Birmingham. As a lover of zines & libraries & resistance to cuts it hit home. Reminded me too that my own 90s zine Rebel Inc was born via Muirhouse Library Writers Group. #dontcloselibraries