Mia Farlane

I love that poem - 'Weathering' in Below Loughrigg (@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 1979) by Fleur Adcock

Fleur Adcock at her Collected Poems @thwupbooks.bsky.social @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social book launch at Unity Books in Wellington Aotearoa NZ Photo credit Mia Farlane

Fleur Adcock at her @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social book launch @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk wbookshop.co.uk in Feb 2024 Photo credit: Mia Farlane

Happy Birthday to dear Fleur, who'd have been 92 today

#poetry

Fleur Adcock at her @thwupbooks.bsky.social @vicuniwgtn.bsky.social book launch at Unity Books Wgtn.

And at her @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social book launch @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk wbookshop.co.uk in Feb 2024

Photo credit Mia Farlane

The Society of Authors #JusticeForCreators

Mia Farlane (face visible) holding her debut novel (Viking / Penguin Books UK) #TheWriterBehindTheWords #JusticeForCreators

#TheWriterBehindTheWords ✍️ #JusticeForCreators 📚

'Brave New World? Justice for creators in the age of GenAI'
Author: Dr Rachael Drury
Co-authors Deborah Annetts and Ed Phelan

- to read this report, see links @societyofauthors.bsky.social

Thank you. Am inspired - I'm going to prepare a reel #JusticeForCreators #TheWriterBehindTheWords

Reading for Push-Up Challenge Mental Health Foundation NZ Fundraiser — Mia Farlane I'm completing the equivalent of 2,000 push-ups in 23 days to raise awareness & funds for the Mental Health Foundation NZ .

Day one done!

I read It's Kind Of A Funny Story by Ned Vizzini

More info re the book and the fundraiser 🔽
#mentalhealth #fundraiser #amreading

miafarlane.com/news/reading...

It’s time for arts reviews to be trauma-informed  | Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival Theatre-maker and facilitator Libby Taylor from our Volunteer Collective reflects on adopting a trauma-informed approach to arts reviews, highlighting the significant impact that feedback from critics...

As an author with a forthcoming novel 🎗️, And How Are Things With You (Mākaro Press, Sept '26), I found it helpful to read this by Libby Taylor on trauma-informed reviewing 🖋️📚

- re benefits of reviews, need to acknowledge that reviews are personal viewpoints etc.
www.mhfestival.com/2026/01/its-...

Norfolk Grief Tending | Transforming Pain into Beauty A platform for workshops and circles that help us find our way into the ancient practice of tending our grief in community.

www.norfolkgrief.com

Norfolk Grief Tending on Future Radio Tabitha Smith, Future Radio Norwich in conversation with Liz Day, Norfolk Grief Tending

#grief 🎗️ #bereavement 🎗️ #healing 💚

soundcloud.com/norfolk-grie...

Great timing, just before book draw next week 📘

Thank you 🙂 to my latest Farlane on Writing subscriber for letting me know that: when you first 📩 sign up to the #newsletter 📩the 'please confirm' email may not go to your inbox

🔽 for link to website.
#writinglife

Farlane on Writing subscribers in Feb draw for memoir by Linda Collins — Mia Farlane Are you subscribed to the Farlane on Writing newsletter ? If so, you’re in the February draw to win a copy of Loss Adjustment (Awa Press, 2020) signed by the author Linda Collins .

In lead up to publication of my 2nd novel #LitFic And How Are Things With You (Sept #WSPD2026🎗️), I have book gifts for my newsletter subscribers

- will spin wheel in Feb for winner of Loss Adjustment
@lindacollins.bsky.social #suicidebereavement

For where to join 🔽
miafarlane.com/news/loss-ad...

#suicideprevention 🎗
#suicideawareness

Thank you for sharing this, @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
#suicideawareness #suicideprevention 🎗

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Farlane on Writing 🖋️📚 subscribers will have chance to go in Feb draw for a signed copy of Loss Adjustment by @lindacollins.bsky.social

A beautifully written, helpful memoir about #suicidebereavement 🎗️ #creativenonfiction 💙

About the author, Linda Collins 🔽 lindacollinswriter.com
#writingcommunity

Wow, that's amazing - great news!
Chinese edition of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY - congratulations, @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social ㊗️

Thanks so much for sharing this, @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
🎗 📚

Thanks so much for sharing this, @lcwinter.bsky.social 📚💙

Farlane on Writing newsletter subscribers go in the Feb draw for a copy of Loss Adjustment signed by the author Linda Collins

Loss Adjustment by Linda Collins

With thanks to author @lindacollins.bsky.social for this signed copy of Loss Adjustment.

#creativenonfiction
#memoir
#suicidebereavement

Winner of this copy chosen in Feb 2026.

Link in bio to my author website - for more info and the Farlane on Writing sign up form

oh no : /
🌳 💚

The Push-Up Challenge I am taking on The Push-Up Challenge to raise funds and awareness for mental health. Funds raised will help the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand support mental illness recovery and foster posit...

PS More info

And thank you 🙏 💙 to friends who have already donated direct to the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand

#mentalhealth
#suicideawareness 🎗️

www.thepushupchallenge.co.nz/fundraisers/...?

I look forward to going to this 💙🖼️

Push Up Challenge fundraiser for the Mental Health Foundation of Aotearoa NZ

I'm completing the equivalent of 2,000 push-ups in 23 days to raise awareness & funds for #mentalhealth

Each day I'll spend 87 minutes doing exercise or reading a novel or nonfiction on #suicideawareness🎗
(2,000 ÷ 23 days = 86.9 = about 87)

Donations go direct to Mental Health Foundation of NZ

Are you subscribed to the Farlane newsletter. If so, you go in the December draw to win a signed copy of A Counter of Moons 🌙 🌚 (Artwork: Kirstie McKinnon) by Iona Winter. #suicidebereavement #creativenonficton

Front cover of A Counter of Moons by Iona Winter. 'the last taboo in Aotearoa' - or is that changing? #changethenarrative #starttheconversation #suicideawareness

I've got one signed copy of A Counter of Moons by Iona Winter to give away 📘 🩷

#creativenonfiction
#memoir
#suicideawareness

If you're subscribed to the Farlane on Writing newsletter you'll be in the draw - winner announced at the end of the week

Link in bio - for more info + the sign up form

oh excellent - 'Missing You' from the collection Slow Puncture by Miles Burrows. (Making a note of this.)

Looking forward to this. I don't get to quite as many poetry readings as I used to - when I was working all those years at the National Poetry Library in London.

Thanks, @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social - looks helpful.

Perfect - my literalism/precision has occasionally been read as humour, but generally it's unintentional #humour #actuallyautistic

'ill-advised by Bill Nighy' - a podcast. October 2026 is about procrastination.

'ill-Advised by Bill Nighy' - a wonderful podcast 💙

- includes book recommendations, too.
#blueskybooks

This one is on #procrastination

#billnighy 📻 📚

Will get a copy of no. 250.
I was looking through old issues of Landfall Tauraka recently for poetry and stories by Marilyn Duckworth - her first appearance in Landfall is in 1969 with 3 poems: ‘Karori Cemetery’, ‘Wilton Tip’ and (a top favourite of mine) ‘Wardrobe – Number 65’ (For Fleur).

Hope your reading at City Lit’s Mental Wealth Festival goes well - will be brilliant.