Fiona Larkin

Issue twenty-three — Bad Lilies

OUT NOW. Issue twenty-three: 'Wildfires' badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-three

Wonderful to read new work from @kathrynmaris.bsky.social here

Wonderful launch last night at the Swedenborg Hall for @michpenn.bsky.social ‘s superb new collection Retablo for a Door from @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social - poems that are questioning, powerful, beautiful - with an enthusiastic crowd!

Image (to the right) of red berries on a bare branch against a blue sky and snow on the ground. With a VOTE stamp bottom right. Text: IS&T December Pick of the Month * Toby Cotton *Michelle Diaz *John Greening *Paula R. Hilton *Usha Kishore *Fiona Larkin

It's time to choose the last IS&T Pick of the Month for 2025. Will December's be Toby Cotton, @michelleadiaz.bsky.social, @greeningpoet.bsky.social, Paula R. Hilton, Usha Kishore or @fionalarkin.bsky.social. More at inksweatandtears.co.uk/december-202...

#InkSweatandTears #PickoftheMonth

Poets' Café LIVE Organised and hosted by Vic Pickup & Katherine Meehan, Reading’s Poets’ Café LIVE brings the very best guests from around the UK alongside an open mic section for local poets to read their work in a w...

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Excited to be starting the new year with a reading at @reading-poets-cafe.bsky.social on Friday 9th January - do join us! link in comments

Delighted to have a deep winter poem feature on @inksweatandtears.co.uk wonderful 12 Days of Christmas series in lovely company 🎄❄️✨

Live Poetry At Riverhouse Introduced by Riverhouse Poets Tutor Katie Griffiths.Live Poetry at Riverhouse is a monthly series bringing the spoken word to the warm, intimate setting of the Barn stage. This se...

Wow! @sophieherx.bsky.social & @matthewepaul.bsky.social reading their wonderful work & being interviewed by Katie Griffiths tomorrow night - looking forward to this one very much

www.riverhousebarn.co.uk/events/136679

Looking forward very much to reading @marcchamberlain.bsky.social ‘s essay

Am sitting on the rug, deep in the new issue of The Aftershock Review. I’m honoured to have three poems in exceptional company in an edition which explores ‘the anatomy of aftermath,’ all thanks to @maxwallis.bsky.social Anna Percy and Suzi Feay.

🙏🏻 Tamar Yoseloff, @jsaphra.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social Fiona Moore Paul Stephenson Susannah Hart & the whole team 🙏🏻

Late to post, but Poetry in Aldeburgh was a brilliant festival, bringing poetry, art and music together to consider the book, its survival under oppression, and its future. Bravo to everyone involved!
Keats and the Sea - fab opener @juliamarybird.bsky.social & Mike Sims - included origami for all!

Enjoying @deanbrowne.bsky.social ‘s After Party very much

Rogue Strands are making a Live Poetry Mix Tape...!

A stellar line-up that would grace any of the top poetry festivals in the country. Except this time it's all free. We'd be delighted if you could join us in London on 22nd Oct...!

Or just list some examples of form in the intro to the comp, but specify that entrants name the form they’ve used when they submit their poems?

I wonder if there’s a link to a freely available resource - thinking of Glyn Maxwell, maybe, who’s keen on it. But there again perhaps you shouldn’t have to teach the entrants what it is…

Poetry - Live at Riverhouse Introduced by Riverhouse Poets Tutor Katie Griffiths.Poetry - Live at Riverhouse is the first in a new series bringing the spoken word to the warm, intimate set

www.riverhousebarn.co.uk/events/129719

Three weeks today, at Riverhouse Barn in Walton on Thames, delighted to be reading with the wonderful Jill Abrams hosted by excellent poet, singer and tutor Katie Griffiths, plus open mic - do join us! link in comments.

Imagine! such flexibility …

Same with LRB’s take on exhibitions, review tends to creep in just under the wire when it’s about to close …

⏱️ Time is ticking...
The deadline for PRIMERS entries is midnight Tuesday 9th September BST

Read the full criteria and how to enter here: ninearchespress.com/primers

UK poets looking for mentoring and publishing, don't miss out!

14 Anthology 14 Magazine is an annual poetry magazine devoted to poems of fourteen lines only and is published by Vanguard Editions. Join us for the launch of this year’s edition.

Save the date for another fantastic launch of 14 magazine at the fabulous Turner Contemporary, Margate! The 14 readers tbc soon.

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Thank you Julian!

Wow! stunned to have some new work feature among a brilliant cohort in issue 2 of The Aftershock Review, 🙏🏻 @maxwallis.bsky.social

Excited to be part of this amazing night - do join us!

A new generation of Irish artists is teaching us that we are global citizens Poems, plays, films, visual and performing arts have all been travelling a lot recently, expanding the horizons of Irish culture

A new generation of Irish artists is teaching us that we are global citizens

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Today is the perfect Bank Holiday Sunday to lose yourself in poetry and Geraldine Clarkson writes the stuff damn well.

It’s still August, so how about a signed copy of Rope of Sand for the last days of summer - and of #TheSealeyChallenge? £10 including UK p&p, DM me for details!

Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Lecturer in Creative Writing (poetry) Part-Time, Permanent (0.5 FTE)Applications are invited for the post of Lecturer in Creative Writing in the English Department, to start September 2025. Creative writing is expanding at RHUL. Joining t...

OPPORTUNITY!! @royalholloway.bsky.social is recruiting a poet to join our Creative Writing team - the role is part-time (0.5), permanent, and encompasses teaching and research! More than happy to chat about department culture and all things RHUL poetry🧡 jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...