Ruth Stacey

Thank you for this review of Feel Everything! @catherineredford.bsky.social

Ruth, Barbara and Jo sitting in conversation in the book shop

Another enjoyable evening last night at @scripthavenltd.bsky.social Alchemy of Words - in conversation with @drruthstacey.bsky.social & Barbara Erskine about resilient women in literature. A really insightful conversation & engaged audience.

One more event there for me - poetry panel tonight.

You are the most music packed music

I'm proud of it 🤔😁

Friends must always defend!

Your poems are your children. Love them. Tell other people you love them. Be ambitious for them. Don’t let them have their mates round when you’re not home.

Poets: what was your worst review? My favourites: (I, Ursula) 'This sounds like a feminist strain of madness.' & (How to Wear Grunge)'Here is an author that really hasn't got a clue: about poetry, language... sappy, half-arsed, melodramatic scribble...'
Embrace the bad reviews, they need love too ❤️

Laura Palmer Twin Peaks

Blue Velvet by Lynch

Wild at Heart by Lynch

Dune by Lynch

I watched Twin Peaks and other David Lynch films as a young teen. I think Lynch created visuals that seared themselves inside my mind, often uncomfortably, full of colour symbolism, surrealness, rawness. Incredible filmmaker.

Would be great to chat over a coffee on Teams sometime?

Secret Rooms, Bloody Chambers When I was twelve, my brother and I had a den in an unused outbuilding belonging to the house we lived in. We trod a narrow wi...

How many books did you read as a child, where the discovery of a concealed room was one of the most exciting parts of the story? Here's a post about secret rooms - and Bloody Chambers! steelthistles.blogspot.com/2016/07/secr...

Enjoyed this.

Now this word can dance inside my mind in those sorrowful moments before the dawn. Perhaps it will chase the worries away.

If you sign up to my monthly newsletter (assuming I've got all the link right!) you'll now get a FREE novella, True Voyage is Return, which was written last year for a special project.

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The text says: Last few places left! Permission writing workshop: Kickstart your New Year of writing. What are your writing taboos/habits and what might happen if you break some? Zoom, Mon Jan 13th, 7-8.30pm UK time.

Join me on Zoom next Mon Jan 13 (7-8.30-pm UK) to spot your writing habits/taboos & how you might be getting in your own way! Booking here - free & half price places for those who need - and if you can't make it live, all ticket-holders get the recording after: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

Me too! 🤗☕

Still can't believe my story won second prize in Anna's competition...gave me a big kick of self belief in my prose writing. Thank you @annasmithwrites.bsky.social for choosing my story and for running the comp with such amazing prizes...

Watch the episode with women driving in the cars they love, it's great!

This is the best advice and just what I needed right now. Thanks @pascalepetit.bsky.social

Lost myself in this incredible book by @rachelartsmith.bsky.social 'the moment is repeated. and again. her folded. present. is spread out. a tablecloth.' The erasures and layering of voice create the subjective, decorative experience I am fascinated by in my current research.

One of the uplifting parts of my job are the conversations I have with writers who come to the Hive Library in Worcester. November's guest was the poet Sabeen Chaudhry who was generous with her insights into her craft. 📝📖

My recent collection
www.serenbooks.com/book/youll-n...

Love the cover!

I am forever grateful I got to hear her read once. Incredible poet.

I had to stand most of the way from Newcastle to Birmingham once and my ticket was £130.

Thank you!

Hey poets! Check out BERNADETTE MAYER's list of poetry experiments/prompts. Blow your mind and never be stuck again: www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Maye...

One of my favourites 💗

Reading ‘Lamia’ by John Keats Part One

I’ve started a substack called CLARE’S POETRY CIRCLE. It’s free to read and subscribe. Today we’ve begun a readalong of Keats’ LAMIA 🐍🐍🐍 Do read part one and join the conversation!
clarespoetrycircle.substack.com/p/reading-la...

I run a Reading Series event at the Hive Library, Worcester where I invite a writer to chat about their practice, followed by a reading of their latest work. My next guest is Sabeen Chaudhry 27th Nov. And it's free, just book through the library. 📖

A brilliant line up and it's free!