Sheffield folks, please join Suzannah Evans and I as we launch our twin poetry pamphlets on 10th July! Guillemot Press Bad Betty Press

✨WORKSHOPS IN JUNE✨

Tues 18 June, 11am
'Writing, mindfulness & chi gong' with River Wolton (River Wolton)
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Wed 19 June, 11am
Writing Poems with Cliff Yates (@cliffyates81)
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Plus more June workshops here:
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very excited for this - i’ll be joined by Louise Kenward and Wendy Allen on 21st of June Manchester Poetry Library Manchester Metropolitan Uni for a showcase of our poetry, following the threads that link our work - we hope to see you there!

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BAD BETTY LIVE THIS SUNDAY!

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It’s going to be epic come join us at Peggy's Skylight Jazz Club Doors at 6pm for food!

Hosted by Bridie Squires
Tickets: peggysskylight.co.uk/events/bad-bet…

There are still a few places remaining for this week-long course at Arvon Totleigh Barton with two Bloodaxe poets, Greta Stoddart and Shazea Quraishi (10 - 15 June)
Greta Stoddart Shazea Quraishi
Arvon Arvon Totleigh Barton

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The #JamesBerryPoetryPrize is open for submissions until 31 July. 

Launched in 2021, it is Britain’s first and only poetry prize offering both expert mentoring and book publication for young or emerging poets of colour.

Full details here: bloodaxebooks.com/news?articleid…

✨WORKSHOP NEXT WEEK✨

Mon 3 June, 7pm
'How might poems transform experience?' with Greta Stoddart (Greta Stoddart)

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The excellent Greta Stoddart joins us again for another of her very popular and inspiring online poetry workshops

‘I wrote the poem about the kind of anxieties that are associated with trying to live life normally in very precarious and strange times.’

Luke Samuel Yates on ‘Song about putting a bird in a pie’ from Dynamo (The Poetry Business) lttr.ai/AS7gl

#ACEsupported #poetry

DON'T MISS last in this series of in-person Miners' Strike poetry workshop ncm.org.uk/whats-on/confl… with outstanding tutor and poet, Ian Parks, then submit to the Coal Anthology poetrybusiness.co.uk/2024/01/22/the… timfellowspoetry.substack.com/p/review-ian-p… Tim Fellows: figtreepoetry.substack.com The Poetry Business Calder Valley Poetry

In memory of Michael Donaghy, Arvon are raising £8K to support a poet to attend the first Arvon Advanced Writing Programme starting in 2024. Link here if you would like to donate: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-michael-…

#HighlyRecommended
As a writer there are some books you need to fully immerse yourself in: this wonderful book is definitely one of them: Michael McCarthy’s #LikeATreeCutBack
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Cliff Yates and Jonathan Davidson will be joining us on Sunday 23 June for a very special online poetry reading!

Find out more about this event, and register, here: buytickets.at/thepoetrybusin…

Cliff Yates Jonathan Davidson

The first time that you think
you are a woman, you don’t
even know what the fuck that is.
You can get a lot of compliments.

Lenni Sanders' Bi+ Lines poem unpicks gender (and species!) boundaries. See them read this Wednesday Queer Lit/SocialRefuge: bit.ly/bi-lines-mcr

✨WORKSHOP TOMORROW EVENING✨

Mon 20 May, 7pm
Writing Legends and Tales with Romalyn Ante (🦋Romalyn Ante FRSL🗡)

Romalyn will guide us through writing poems inspired by tales and legends from across diverse cultures and traditions

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Mahogany Eve, the new poetry collection from Alan Payne, is out now!

Now based in Sheffield, Alan’s poems are rooted in the Caribbean, evoking a sense of separation and loss, and touch on the contradictions and betrayals of colonialism.

Read more here: poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/mahoga…

✨EVENING WORKSHOP NEXT WEEK✨

Mon 20 May, 7pm
Writing Legends and Tales with Romalyn Ante (🦋Romalyn Ante FRSL🗡)

Romalyn will guide us through writing poems inspired by tales and legends from across diverse cultures and traditions
buytickets.at/thepoetrybusin…

Looking to try out short stories? Or develop your short story writing further?

The brilliant Christopher Wakling (Christopher Wakling) will be joining us in a few weeks to help you do just that! ✍️

More details here: buytickets.at/thepoetrybusin…

Our wonderful co-directors Ann and Peter Sansom will be leading a 5-day poetry course at The Hurst in September. Applications welcome from poets at stages of their writing life.

More details on our website: poetrybusiness.co.uk/2024/05/14/wri…

'Careful, considered, thoughtful, and full of insight and wisdom.' — Hilary Menos reviews 'On Poetry' by Jackie Wills (smith|doorstop, 2022). buff.ly/3w8X4tX #TheFridayPoem The Poetry Business