Rosie Hadden

www.tickettailor.com/events/artce... This will be fab.

Whoop whoop I am now Poet in Residence with Wildlife Groundswell on The Lizard Cornwall. Looking forward to the journey and what it might bring over the next 6 months or so.

Amazing list and how lucky are we that Isabelle Baafi is coming to Cornwall this month to offer a reading and a workshop at The Writers Block hosted by @Falmouthpoetrygroup

We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist!
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."

Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/

Delighted to be welcoming Isabelle Baafi to Cornwall @falmouthpoetrygp.bsky.social She will be offering a workshop and a reading at The Writer's Block Redruth on Sunday 19th October. Chaotic Good one of my favourite books @faberbooks.bsky.social Fingers crossed @forwardprizes.bsky.social

Love this image.

Found this beautiful @janeclarke.bsky.social poem in Poets Lane way Roscommon today. Look forward to meeting her in N9vember with @marjorielotfi.bsky.social retreat in Scotland.

Placed my tote bag with @Zaffarkunials poem on Gaza in the window of @Cornwallpoetrylibrary. Such horrors in Gaza and elsewhere in the world. What can we do?

NCBF 2025: Poetry with Pascale Petit & Katrina Naomi - Endelienta Arts

I'll be reading at #northcornwallbookfestival on Sat 27 Sept with @pascalepetit.bsky.social & running a workshop on writing from the body on Sun 28 at 10 am. Booking open now via #endelientaarts
endelienta.org.uk/whats-on/ncb...

#poetry
#batteryrocks
#danceasif
#beast
#poetryincornwall
#festival

Book Launch with Katrina Naomi Join us in the bookshop for an evening celebrating local, award-winning poet, Katrina Naomi, for the launch her new pamphlet 'Dance As If'.

'dance as if' @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social will be launched on 25 Sept at the Edge of the World Bookshop in Penzance. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Other events to follow.
#danceasif #booklaunch #poetry #poetswhodance

Delighted to receive my copy of The North and find my poem nestled in here amongst many poetry friends. Fabulous magazine. Thanks for publishing A Night out in Tyrone. #Poetry #poetrymagazine

I support Palestine Action.
I hate all forms of violence.
I wish no harm on anyone.
I just want a kinder, fairer, greener world.
Apparently this makes me a terrorist.
But I am the opposite of a terrorist.

The Broken Spine Summer Competition 2025: Submit Bold Poetry and Fearless Prose for Publication - The Broken Spine This August, The Broken Spine opens submissions for our 2025 Summer Competition. We’re seeking poetry and prose that refuses to flinch, writing that risks,

No genre rules. Just style, guts, and urgency. Give me something that stinks of real life. Submit Aug 1–31.
👉 shorturl.at/eTSjI
👤 @AlanParry83.bsky.social

An old poem, perfectly relevant today. 🇮🇷 💔

Inspired listening to @ericahesketh webinar on form @ninearchespress.bsky.social #poetryform #poetrywebinar

The John Hewitt Summer School in Armagh, a Festival of Literature, Arts & Politics is on from 28th July – 2nd August 2025 and has very generous bursaries available.

Link here :

johnhewittsociety.org/bursary-appl...

Please share :)

Copy of Midden Witch by Fiona Benson, a dark cover with a blue flower, on wooden floor board

A smiling woman with long hair and a quiff, in a lively blue and white Hawaiian shirt, with a backdrop of sea and an island

Here's 'short & sweet' my #poetry newsletter us7.admin.mailchimp.com/campaigns/sh... feat Fiona Benson's #middenwitch plus **exclusive** book news for readers & subscribers. Also feat @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social @rtbspokenword.com

Back with a bundle of books from Launceston Poetry Festival. Inspired by a day of so many brilliant poets @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social @pascalepetit.bsky.social @FionaBenson @isabelleBaafi and more @ellafrears.bsky.social for her wit humour and poems. Loved both her performances.

Thanks so much Wren

Marrowmagazine.com/hymns-of-the-body/

Thanks to The Marrow Magazine for publishing a recent poem. Hymns of the Body 1. Always good to see a poem fly out into the world. #poem #publication

Guillemot Press has been helping the new Launceston Poetry Festival happening at the end of May in Cornwall. The list of performers is amazing...

For more info and to buy tickets visit causleytrust.org/the-launceston-poetry-festival/

Spending this afternoon with Eavan Boland drinking cups of tea and wandering the ideas of exile, home place and womanhood in Cornwall Poetry Library. How I feel being exiled from Ulster, the language of my childhood and adolesence. How a war drove me out. How so many people are displaced by war.

Loving these early mornings with @marjorielotfi.bsky.social It's amazing what comes through your pen in the half awake morning

📢Announcing a new webinar series on Poetry Technique led by Erica Hesketh, Tamar Yoseloff and @betarish.bsky.social

Sign up for the 3 sessions for just £45
June 9th, 16th & 23rd, 7-8pm BST
🎞️Recordings sent in case you miss them live

Full details & booking: eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-tec...

✍️ #NaPoWriMo is here with the challenge to write a poem a day! Throughout April, The Poetry Society will be featuring poetry writing prompts created by poets that we've worked with recently through competitions, publications and projects.

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'How we feel': Live at StAnza - Nuala Watt & Charlotte Van den Broeck Lantern Scottish Poetry · Episode

open.spotify.com/episode/41rj... This was on of my favourite events at Stanza. Really worth listening to

Beltane at Ashley Court | Liznojan Books Join us at Ashley Court for Beltane celebrations with dancer Hayley Matthews, and poet Fiona Benson.

www.liznojanbooks.co.uk/events/belta... What an amazing way to launch a book. I love Fiona Benson's poetry.

Thanks Wren. Hope you hot home alright? Up in Teignmouth tonight to see Raymond Antrobus again. X

Thanks John. Miss our Tuesday sessions. X