One of my poems has been chosen to be displayed on buses in Brighton & Hove as part of their Poems on the Buses scheme! If anyone lives in that part of the world and spots my poem out in the wild, I’d be very grateful if you could take a picture for me 🚌

Can't wait to do it all again in 2024!

Having got to know one of the children saved from Nazis by Nicholas Winton it was great to see that story told so movingly in the film #OneLife. Glad too to have watched it in Sanctuary on Sea 🧡 where refugees can feel welcome & included. Congrats to screenwriter Nick Drake et al

The new poetry year is off to a flying start with a substantial new work from David Harsent. A sequence intimate with darkness, precise in its calibration of loss and longing, and at the same time endlessly inventive, elegant and witty. Faber Books

🍀Get ready for our week-long #StPatricksDay2024 celebration at @myicclondon! From electrifying #IrishMusic to side-splitting comedy & family events, there's something for everyone. Don't miss out! See our full lineup & get tickets: bit.ly/StPatricksDayI… #StPatricksDay2024

Equinox. Today was meant to be the day to launch my latest book. A new Spring’s day to welcome Birds & Flowers a collection of Michael Longley’s poems illustrated by Sarah Longley. Instead it’s my 1st chemotherapy treatment. Hopefully a turning point for my recent ill health.

I have a new poem up on this brilliant new arts & culture website. ‘The Passion of Joan of Arc’ is taken from my forthcoming collection ‘Flickers’, a collection of poems drawn directly from individual films. Thanks so much to editor J.W. Wood. arsnotoria.com/2024/03/22/a-n…

A brand new project from Rack Press: a series of engaged poetic “broadsides”, the first provoked by the current state of the River Wye. Paypal link to buy:paypal.com/ncp/payment/6F…

"Winter, dealing in bare truths, does not expect / or deceive: takes us as it finds us." A poem from Nicola Healey's debut pamphlet, 'A Newer Wilderness', is now up on Wild Court: wildcourt.co.uk/a-poem-by-nico…

Congratulations to Nicola Healey whose terrific debut poetry pamphlet is out today. Nicola takes her title, A Newer Wilderness, from Emily Dickinson, a kindred spirit in these intimate, haunting poems which find consolation & strength in contact with nature. #poetry #earthday

This week is your last opportunity to visit Illuminate, the current exhibition in the Mappa Mundi & Chained Library! In this video Jennifer shows one of the highlights of the exhibition which explores the different forms of light found in the cathedral. 📽️Caroline Potter

THE THOMAS HARDY BIRTHDAY WEEKEND is fast approaching! Join us on the 1st and 2nd of June to celebrate the 184th birthday of one of Britain's most celebrated writers, with a weekend of walks, lectures, poetry readings and more. You can find more info at hardysociety.org/oxo/571/thomas…

impressive attention to detail from these Canada geese working the daisy field Kew Gardens today - plucking single blades of grass at speed, never touching any flower

A note about the late John Burnside, for the New Statesman.

Such sad news about John Burnside, one of the most interesting & serious of poets: his instinctively lyrical connection to the natural world fused with a spiritual searching that resonated with the times. It was a delight & privilege to work with him on publishing Apostasy

some stunning work in this year’s summer show ⁦West Dean College⁩ across so many genres: painting, sculpture, furniture, musical instruments, book conservation, tapestry & many more. the range is amazing. congratulations to the students & their teachers

Happy 85th birthday Michael Longley! Here, finalists in his annual lookalike contest celebrate their medals.

I'm really looking forward to reading at the Lumen with the amazing David Harsent and Nicola Nathan

It's a busy September at Dare-Gale Press HQ with 4 new titles coming out. First up is Sean O'Brien's wonderful Juniper - poems of journey and movement, arrivals and departures, greetings and farewells. daregale.com

The cultural highlight of the summer for me was the extraordinary work of young Bahamian artist-explorer Tavares Strachan which filled the Hayward Gallery on the South Bank. Adventurous, thought-provoking and expansive in so many ways.