‘Too soon. Too soon’. What a loss the wonderful Kathryn Bevis is to poetry and the world 💔

When you want to look at the lights but your favourite book as a teenager was The Day of the Triffids …

Schools in #Farnham - don’t forget I am available for fun poetry visits (from Sept) and a few days left in June.
South Farnham School
William Cobbett Primary School
St Peter's C of E Primary School, Farnham
Assembly/class visits/w/shops - suitable yrs 3-6. For more info please visit my website valharrispoet.co.uk

We transferred the first installment of royalties from #AlwaysFire to Sarah today. These will go to the hospice as a donation. Thank you to everyone who has bought the book so far, please pass it on, buy it as a present, leave it as a book faerie…sidhe-press.eu/books/always-f… #Poetry

The most beautiful day for a spring poetry workshop last week at Painshill with some brilliant poets. Next workshops are 22nd June for teens and the summer workshop for adults on 9th July. painshill.co.uk/events-at-pain…

To mark the World Snooker Championship final, every ball needed for a 147 break in sonnet form.

If you enjoyed our #NaPoWriMo prompt series we have now collated these into resource sheets for future use in workshops and your own writing practice.

Find and download them here: poetrysociety.org.uk/projects/napow…

Beautiful morning of poetry and flowers and sunshine and lovely people @painshill ❤️🪻🪻🪻

I read this by the lovely Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana two days ago and haven’t stopped thinking about it since. You should definitely read it ❤️

Still a couple of spaces left on my Spring poetry workshop at beautiful Painshill tomorrow! Forecast looking lovely ☀️🤞

Very happy to be on this list 😊

Own up then: who disrupted the Great Chain of Being?

Oh it’s not very imagistic, but Lady Macbeth isn’t even close to being sorry. I apologise on her behalf Matt Gilbert TopTweetTuesday 🗡️

Publication day! Always Fire by Sarah Connor Sarah is The Poet who Spells Her Name. is out today! Watch/listen to Lucy Heuschen reading the title poem (with the perfect backdrop) and get your copies here: sidhe-press.eu/books/always-f…
All proceeds go to North Devon Hospice. #Poetry #AlwaysFire #SidhePress

On the SureStart thing: I taught Adult Ed and Family Learning for a few years, working with many SureStart centres, and those places were absolute lifelines. I cannot stress that enough. And all that support, all that early intervention they did, just stopped. What a loss.

📝Winchester Poetry Prize 2024 is open!

Judge: Clare Shaw
1st: £1000 | 2nd: £500 | 3rd: £250

🦋Introducing Kathryn Bevis Prize for best entry by #Hampshire -based poet: 1yr Writing School tuition + £150

Full details 👉🏿 winchesterpoetryfestival.org/prize

Paris Smith | The Writing School

Know a young person who loves writing? I’m running a poetry workshop at beautiful Painshill on April 8th for 11-16 year olds. It’s in the afternoon because my daughter told me nobody would get up for poetry in the morning during the holidays 😂

painshill.co.uk/events/poetry-…

Parenting teenagers is wild. I keep thinking there’s a strange man talking downstairs and then realising it’s my youngest child 😳