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Thanks so much to Nick Allen for his review of my pamphlet 'Angola, America' in Dream Catcher Mag Dream Catcher Mag 🖊️✨👇

At the 'Muses within Museums' workshop Heptonstall Museum on Sunday we created a collaborative weaving poem with overlapping voice-threads, mused over chiselled-forms for standing stones and sculptures and wrote our own museum-odes ~ thanks to all who came! 🏛️🐚🖊️🏺

🚀 PROGRAMME LAUNCH 🚀 2023 programme is live 😁 go explore & get set for this incredible literary journey, clear your diary 17 - 25 of Nov as we bring you to our world of words with Mick Herron, Adele Parks, joelle taylor and more!!!!!! 🔗todmordenbookfestival.co.uk/2023-programme Stephen May

Tod. Book. Festival. Tod. Book. Festival. with brilliant poets ~ Andrew McMillan Andrew McMillan Zaffar Kunial Zaffar Kunial & Joelle Taylor joelle taylor ✨🍃

We are so excited to launch the Tempest Prize, a brand new addition to the #NorthernWritersAwards – designed & funded by Andrew McMillan to shine a light on queer stories from the North 🥳 1 unpublished LGBTQ+ writer in the North of England will win £1000 & mentoring from Andrew!

Really enjoyed leading creative writing sessions at hoot creative arts in Huddersfield hoot creative arts ~ we explored writing with our senses and bodies, synaesthetic poetry, the changing of the seasons, autumn-collage poems, journeys & perspective shifts 🍂🚞🖊️✨thanks all who came!

Local fantastic poet Clare Shaw Clare Shaw leading this poetry workshop at Heptonstall Museum Heptonstall Museum ~ poetry + mudlarking...cake! This Saturday ~ eventbrite.co.uk/e/message-in-a…

Congratulations to this year’s shortlisted poets & publishers! Winners will be announced live at our Awards Nught next Weds 13th December. Book the date, it’s a free event. Read poems and get more info here: michaelmarksawards.org/awards-2023/sh… #guillemotpress

Utterly chuffed that my pamphlet Angola, America has been shortlisted for the Michael Marks Awards The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets ~ thanks to Mslexia ✨ for choosing it as their winning pamphlet 2021 & Seren Books for publishing ✨& lovely to be on the list with such a fabulous bunch of poets 🧡

Delighted to see Sammy Weaver reviewed in glowing terms in The TLS for Angola, America Seren Books the-tls.co.uk/articles/elusi… Seren Books

Had a brilliant evening The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets ~ celebrating the intense, beautiful worlds of pamphlets ~ empathic trinkets, rough-cut & refined 💥 lovely to hear the other shortlisted poets read & big congratulations to Courtney Conrad for the winning pamphlet 🧡

Chuffed to have this mushroom hunting essay published in Little Toller 🇺🇦🇵🇸 🍄🪸✨

🎟️ Tickets are now available! Join us at Summit this October for an inspiring ecopoetry festival with top UK writers & ecological thinkers. 🌍 Workshops, readings & more at Yorkshire Sculpture Park & University of Leeds Poetry Centre Get your tickets here: poetryschool.com/summit-a-poetr…

Looking forward to reading at the Manchester launch of 'No Net Ensnares Me: an anthology of prose poetry inspired by the Brontës and the wild' this Wednesday ✨

Chuffed to be the Poet-in-Residence at Poetry School's Summit Festival on eco & nature poetry this weekend Yorkshire Sculpture Park & University of Leeds Poetry Centre ~ ~ going to conjure my sea-sponge-self to absorb as much as possible & pen a poem in response 🦠🪸🖋️

Excited to be leading a poetry workshop at Westminster Abbey ~ we will be delving into how we memorialise (nationally & personally), the complexity of legacy, the poetry of power & prayer ~ Sat 23rd November ~ more info & tickets: westminster-abbey.org/abbey-events/s… Westminster Abbey