How would we package things in a post-fossil fuel world? How could we live w/o single use plastics? Japan’s deep history of natural packaging shows the way Straw, leaves, & bamboo make exceptional packaging materials: pliable & soft, they turn to compost when you’re done

We are delighted to share the writers shortlisted for The London Magazine Poetry Prize 2024 🎉 Our 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners will be announced later in the week...

I am extremely sad to have to pull out of this last-minute – partner has broken his ankle and the baby is crawling rings around me. I'll be cheering you on à distance, Harry!

INTO SUMMER CHEERIO Publishing presents an evening of poetry, with readings from joe dunthorne, Sarah Fletcher, Ali Lewis, Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Martha Sprackland and professional person. FREE ENTRY, booking required: tickettailor.com/events/cheerio… Wednesday 22nd May, 7-9pm Tristan Hoare Gallery 6

This is more important than a window at Columbia.

Where are all the children? The tunnel howls. The Mother reads to them, timetables and maps. If they could only be deciphered she could go and see them, wherever they live now. —Martha Sprackland in the May issue of POETRY. bit.ly/3UJLyyY

Great to see professional person’s COWBOY here in good company CHEERIO Publishing

There are still (free!) tickets for this hot event. I'll read poems about invisible newts, milky elephants, wooden pallets, etc. JOE DUNTHORNE SARAH FLETCHER ALI LEWIS OLUWASEUN OLAYIWOLA MARTHA SPRACKLAND KANDACE SIOBHAN WALKER tickettailor.com/events/cheerio…

Five or six tickets left for this event, now.

There will be *some* standing-room tickets on the door so do turn out even if you haven’t got a ticket!

Impossible to think of anything beyond those in Gaza right now. It’s so starkly incomprehensible to be checking on my baby asleep in his cot and thinking of the horrors they are living through, dying through. There must be a #CeasefireNow

You can make small donations to help evacuate families from Gaza here instagram.com/coffeesforgaza/ 🇵🇸

Do you want to hear Martha Sprackland & I writing poems live on air with special guest Oluwaseun Olayiwola? Of course you do. Rough Trade Books Soho Radio m.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/roug…

🧵 BREAKING: New data reveals Baillie Gifford holds £61million in Babcock, an arms company significantly involved in arming Israel. Writers Against the War on Gaza Naomi Klein Palestine Festival of Literature

I chatted archaeology, Ancient Greek, serendipity, masks, Jung, curse tablets and fallopian tubes with James Merry, creative collaborator with björk, for Good On Paper. Pick up a copy, and come see him at Hidden Notes next month.

I’ll be talking to Dan about the brilliant Climbing Days by pioneering climber Dorothy Pilley. Come down! It’s in a v nice pub and perhaps we’ll have some late summer weather for the evening.

Worrying that Jo & Jo @ Broadhursts Bookshop are unable to say more about the closure... Maybe Harvey James Brown, alpaca farmer, who seems to have taken control of the company, could tell us more? … …te.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/006120… Andrew Brown (Stand Up For Southport) Ewan Gawne #BroadhurstBooks #Southport

This promises to be marvellous