Tessa Foley

Up to town to hear the inestimable @tessafoley.bsky.social read at The Devereux, where I had my book launch a month ago. Fancy buying our books? They go very well together 😘 www.livecanon.co.uk/store/produc... from @livecanon.bsky.social &
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Really enjoyed poems from @marymulholland.bsky.social ‘s wonderful new @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social pamphlet The Elimination Game last night at The Devereux, with great support from @tessafoley.bsky.social Tamsin Hopkins & Kit Ingram all hosted by Jill Abram - such a good evening

Tomorrow night at The Devereux, Temple, London. Do join us for a dazzling evening! Free- register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-dazzling...

Tessa Foley: 'I like to be as honest as possible' A chat with Tessa Foley about her poetry collection Try To Find Me (Live Canon, 2024) How would you describe Try To Find Me in one sentence?A slightly comical ramble through deep-seated trauma, workin...

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Brilliant to interview the very talented poet Tessa Foley @tessafoley.bsky.social on her poetry collection 'Try to Find Me', out with @livecanon.bsky.social. Tessa was such an interesting interviewee - please have a read and share #poetrycommunity

AND now the final.

You did it, Lionesses.
💜

Print featuring a woodland scene with dappled sunlight

Linocut by contemporary UK printmaker and artist Alexandra Buckle who is inspired by her local countryside #womensart
#summer #sunday

MA in Writing Poetry Alumni Profiles • Poetry School Meet our MA in Writing Poetry Graduates, hear their stories and check out their achievements. Applications for the MA in Writing Poetry are currently open. Please visit the accrediting university, New...

Thank you @poetryschool.bsky.social
And @tessafoley.bsky.social for this profile!
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First page of A WOMAN TAKES OFF HER SHIRT (poem about Chloe Kelly by TESSA FOLEY)

Watching Michelle Agyemang’s stunning late equalizer then Chloe Kelly putting the boot in, my poem originally written about Kelly and her shirt wave, from my book TRY TO FIND ME.

YASSSSS LIONESSSES!!

#poetryinfootball #lionesses #trytofindmepoetry #football #agyemang

A graphic shows a beach scene with a shovel digging up some books and the words POETRY TREASURE HUNT are across the picture.

SUMMER 2025 POETRY TREASURE HUNT!

STARTING 1ST AUGUST!
More info & book here: shorturl.at/G2CbE

Each day you’ll receive an introduction to a poet with links to readings.

There will also be a clue. You’ll need to hunt in the work of the poet to find the answer.

#poetry #treasurehunt #gift

A Microsoft Word document entitled "Poetica"

Almost human again after #mawritingpoetry @poetryschool.bsky.social #SummerSchool - Friday saw a storming reading by the students. They're so inspiring, passionate, talented: thanks to our conversations this year, I'm #writing #poems again.

@tessafoley.bsky.social made it all happen, what a star!

First of 2 new poems in Fulcrum Review 3:"Glitched Narratives". This one gradually collapses a triolet to evoke both the confusion of dementia and the social decay which means that our elderly people are being comforted by machines. www.fulcrumreview.org/issue-3

A picture of the cover of my book, which says "it's time: a chronomemoir" "tania hershman" in the bottom right corner. The background is cream coloured and there is what looks like a flow chart with images of apples, teeth, seeds and seeds growing and a tree.

Delighted that my 10th book, ‘It’s Time: A Chronomemoir‘ - an eclectic, playful hybrid creative non-fic book on Time - will be published on July 17 by @guillemotpress.bsky.social! taniahershman.com/its-time-a-c... Grab a free ticket to my Zoom launch to hear more www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

Tessa Foley poet headshot - text saying she’ll be reading in Winchester school of art on Monday 14 July.

See you in Winchester a week on Monday.

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Photo from Tuesday's launch of 'Crippled'. Amazing crowd despite the heat, mesmerising readings from @tessafoley.bsky.social
Glyn Maxwell & Tamar Yoseloff.
Delighted that @imtiazdharker.bsky.social could make it. Copies here or DM me for a signed one: www.redsquirrelpress.com/product-page...

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.

However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

What Britain looks like after Brexit DANIEL HANNAN JUN 21, 2016 It's 24 June, 2025, and Britain is marking its annual Independence Day celebration. As the fireworks stream through the summer sky, still not quite dark, we wonder why it took us so long to leave. The years that followed the 2016 referendum didn't just reinvigorate our economy, our democracy and our liberty. They improved relations with our neighbours.

Happy Daniel Hannon Day to all who celebrate it. I hope you all enjoy the fireworks as we mark perhaps the worst piece of political forecasting going.
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Hoping to post more about poems I love! "Everything you ever gave me was purple" from "Try to Find Me" by from @tessafoley.bsky.social (Live Canon) nails how some relationships define us whether we like it or not. The increasingly queasy imagery evokes the boiled-frog syndrome of a toxic dynamic.

Only a couple of spots left on Alexandra's online workshop this Monday evening!

Poetry's Makeshift Shelter: Contemporary Haiku
Monday 16 June, 7pm
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@corrintachibana.bsky.social
@saltpublishing.com

PRIDE FLAG FLYING

Pride March Portsmouth

UK PRIDE in Portsmouth!

Flip off the phobes.

We’re here.
🩷💜💙

Just one more day to enter your poems into the LIVE CANON SINGLE POEM COMPETITION!

Get your entries in before Sunday 8 June at 11.59pm.

£1000 prize to the overall winner.

Shortlist performed by the LC ensemble.
Longlist published in the 2025 LC anthology.

#poetrycompetition #poetrycommunity

QPC PRIDE POETRY EVENING with Caroline Bird, Richard Scott, Sophie Robinson & Roberto Salvador Cenciarelli
Fantastic-looking event next week at Mimosa House on 11 June 2025 @ 19:00 with ticket proceeds donated to Mimosa House and Mosaic LGBT+ Young Person’s Trust.
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Just a few days left to enter the LIVE CANON SINGLE POEM COMPETITION.

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50 poems to be longlisted & published in our annual anthology.

15 poems to be shortlisted & performed at our annual prize-giving event.

The overall winner will be awarded a £1000 prize.

Print featuring a lush green woodland scene with dappled bright sunlight and reflections on a stream to the right

Alexandra Buckle, contemporary printmaker known for her woodland scenes created via linocuts #WomensArt

Poems published in their hearts National Canal Laureate Roy McFarlane on being inspired by the great Benjamin Zephaniah — and two poems from the recently published Dis Poetry: Selected Poems & Lyrics

National Canal Laureate Roy McFarlane on being inspired by the great Benjamin Zephaniah — including two of Zephaniah's poems from the recently published collection Dis Poetry: Selected Poems & Lyrics @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

3 weeks left to get your entries in to the LIVE CANON SINGLE POEM COMPETITION.

£1000 first prize!

Deadline Sunday 8th June, 11.59 p.m.

#poetrycompetition #poetrysubmission

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Could your poem…

• Be published in the 2025 Live Canon Anthology?

• Be performed by the Live Canon ensemble?

• Win a prize of £1000?

There’s only one way to find out.

#poetrycompetition
#poetrycommunity

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Patience Agbabi

Niall Campbell

Michael Hofmann

The T. S. Eliot Foundation is delighted to announce the judges for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025. Michael Hofmann will chair and will be joined on the panel by fellow poets Patience Agbabi and Niall Campbell.

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