'Upon my word! I do declare I observed some body say that Pride & Prejudice was written in 3rd person *present* tense. My dears, can you imagine?' She replied.

Here in Dublin & all red from pinching myself! Feeling immeasurably honoured… All gratitude to Trinity College Dublin, the Pollard Foundation, the judges & congrats again to the rest of the finalists (seriously go read those awe-inspiring books!) McGill-Queen's University Press

Thanks Cathy Hayward for interviewing me for The Creative Writing Programme - with a shout out to Clare Best & w thanks to Portobello Literary & Footnote Press #MovingMountains & the process of #writing - thanks also to New Writing South who ran CWP at the time!

creativewritingprogramme.org.uk/five-minutes-w…

No longer any denying its really here. Whole patches open now in the woods. #BluebellSeason #AncientWoodlands #EnglishBluebells

Itching to write some new poems this Spring?

We're teaming up with People Need Nature and poet Polly Atkin to challenge you to write about how sound shapes our relationship with nature. Think dawn choruses, rustling leaves, and more...

Enter by 3 May: bit.ly/YPNSongworlds

Shockingly, at least 77% of patients in hospital with Covid in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 caught it WHILE THEY WERE THERE.

It’s probably a similar story in England, but they don’t publish the numbers anymore. 🙄

What’s it going to take for hospitals to reinstate infection controls, like masks?

Characterizing a new clinical phenotype: the co-existence of cerebral venous outflow & connective tissue disorders
frontiersin.org/journals/neuro…
'patients endorse severe symptoms at ↓intracranial pressures than expected, challenging the traditional understanding of CVD symptomatology'

I am joining Fossil Free Books in voting for Palestine and Planet 🇵🇸✒️🍉

Are union is what WE make it!

If you're an eligible author, translator, or illustrator, you can join the Society of Authors - and register to vote at the May 2nd meeting 🌿🌿🌿
www2.societyofauthors.org/event/egm-2024/

More costs added to the ‘eat out to help out’ scheme as documents finally released about the £2 million spent on focus groups to try and get public to support an idea for which no scientists were consulted and almost certainly accelerated a second wave 😡 theguardian.com/business/2024/…

This month we are publishing that which appears by Thomas A Clark!

so excited to be doing an online masterclass for Nine Arches Press on May 22nd - I’ll be exploring how to write long form poetry, using my third book as a jumping off point

ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Perspec…

another Severe ME patient being mistreated by the medical system: if everyone who was involved in #BringMillieHome could sign and share this please

'Like all flatness, if you look close it's a thousand tiny vibrations.'

Noreen Masud ,'Morecambe Bay' *A Flat Place* (Penguin 2024),pp.98-122,p.118

#TheConsolationOfBooks

Do you like poems about disability joy/rage/hope/community? Or poems that scream back at the aching void that is capitalism? My NI book launch is taking taking place tonight! In my fave No Alibis Bookstore
No Alibis Bookstore
Dedalus Press
#poetry #dis

Happiest of publication days to Jack Cornish's hugely anticipated #TheLostPaths Penguin Michael Joseph! We've got some signed copies on the bookshelves... samreadbooks.co.uk/product/TheLos…

Gem from Dr Jo Clement’s searingly brilliant debut collection, Outlandish (Bloodaxe, 2022).

A privilege to speak to activist Nemonte Nenquimo of the Waorani people of the Amazon & her partner & co-writer @MitchNAnderso about her magnificent memoir, 'We Will Not Be Saved' from Wildfire Books in July. Interview next week The Bookseller

Dear lord I am not going back to the theatre if this is the new normal

Safe voyage little one - Undercurrent publishes in paperback today x

Join me in conversation with guest authors Dr. Sarah Thomas Dr. Amanda Thomson Samantha Clark Dr Joanna Wolfarth as we deep dive into identity, belonging & the interplay of art & writing in creative practice. Tickets available (Pay What You Can) #memoir #inspiring eventbrite.co.uk/e/wild-women-w…