An absolute tonic of a weekend PaisleyBookFest thanks for the invite and the warm welcome. We will be back. Dawn Watson Sheila Armstrong Martin Doyle Heather Parry

Heather Parry introduces Dawn Watson Dawn Watson & Jan Carson before they give a reading for the audience at the event 'The Place Which Shaped Us' their books can be bought from our book partners The Book Nook Stewarton #ImagineSomethinfDifferent

Just been to a scarecrow festival with the theme of sci-fi. I was unprepared for how folk horror it was.
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I’m delighted to be joining poet Martina Evans in conversation with Mícheál McCann as part of the Belfast BookFestival on June 9th. I read Martina’s book The Coming Thing (Carcanet) recently and I’m genuinely thrilled by it. Hope to see you there, friends crescentarts.org/events/belfast…

This is a beautiful, powerful work. An absolute gem at the Belfast Book Festival ❤️

Great to see our guest authors #NorthernSoulRoadshow Dawn Watson #WePlayHere & Shakeema Edwards on the Belfast BookFestival programme #writingcommunity check this out 👇

Beside myself to see there will be a three-day Reading Group on We Play Here next month at the Belfast Book Festival Crescent Arts Centre, hosted by poet Shakeema Edwards. Booking link here if you care to (*Black Christmas telephone voice*) sign up or know more: crescentarts.org/courses/readin…

Had the honour of visiting my old primary school last week — first time since P7 — as part of a BBC NI DoubleBand Films documentary project. Thank you to wonderful Seaview PS and NU for welcoming me back. Also: prize if you can spot me in the wall picture I found in a corridor!

Lovely to be interviewed today by Anne McMaster for DoubleBand Films TV doc 'Out of the Silence' BBC Northern Ireland. I read a poem from 'Sanctuary: There Must Be Somewhere' Seren

Glasgow and Paisley friends, would absolutely love to see you for this brilliant conversation and reading with Dawn Watson and @HeatheParryUK PaisleyBookFest on 28th April.

haven't done a proof drop in a while so here's some of my recent bookpost, feat Edward Carey, Dawn Watson, Jan Carson, Sean.Lusk and more - including one of my uni tutors, Geoff Ryman!

“Jump scares are much maligned. They have their place, but they don’t stick with you. The type of scares that stick with you, the really great ones, grow out of character, drama, and truth. I think you have to have developed characters, a well-constructed world, the texture of

Massively looking forward to joining Jan Carson and Heather Parry in Paisley in a couple of weeks.

Some great resources here - online conversations between me & Wendy Erskine, and Kathleen McCracken & Dawn Watson for the Belfast BookFestival

Congratulations to the eight poets announced in the shortlist for the #PollardPoetryPrize . The prize is awarded annually by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre for an outstanding debut collection of poetry in the English language. 📚 📚📚

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‘Reading these words is to stop reading. To continue reading in another way.’

Grateful to share these words from Bhanu Kapil, writing on Fady Joudah’s -[…]

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I’ve dog-eared so many pages in this. Rachael Allen has done something quite extraordinary with the ‘breakup poem’

So glad to see We Play Here on the John Pollard Poetry Prize shortlist alongside these brilliant books. I’m very grateful to the judges. Granta Books Seamus Heaney Centre

Uppa renaissance Belfastois Scott McKendry

Reader, I was.