Some more vital collections to read on my travels.
Thanks to Taz Rahman: East of the Sun West of the Moon, 2024 #MatthewHollis Matthew M C Smith RobertFredeKenter Lou Mach West. SÍDHE PRESS is really Sídhe Press
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So glad I heard Dr Carrie Etter Dr Carrie Etter perform CheltenhamPoetryFest. Now reading Grief's Alphabet, a poetic journey within grief & family ties. Such affecting work. It's enabled me to further understand my relations with my own elderly mother.
Ty Carrie, & Seren

The Q & A with Don Paterson CheltenhamPoetryFest yesterday
was a blast of humour, insight, humility & fearless common sense. I now 'get' the weird & wonderful contemporary poetry scene better than I did before.
Thanks #DonPaterson , CheltenhamPoetryFest & sponsors.

We were totally immersed in Gloucestershire-based poetry at this engaging reading CheltenhamPoetryFest yesterday. Thanks to Angela France Dr Angela France, Kathryn Southworth Kathryn Southworth, #DuncanForbes & Rowan Middleton @rowanmidd, & to Christine Whittemore for compering. 🖊️🌟🖊️🌟

Audiobook Love: A memoir about being Welsh, Caribbean and Mixed Race.

I have Mixed Race Welsh children whose grandparents were born in Jamaica. So this audiobook has been a wonderful education, a thrilling adventure. Big up! Charlotte Williams OBE Bernardine Evaristo Penguin Books UK

Sorry to miss TopTweetTuesday as I'll be away
& offline. Have a Fab time Jen Feroze 💙
Matthew M C Smith & all the great imagists
in this fine community. 🖊️✨🖊️✨

Letter to the local paper.

Wow! What inspired & determined work by Anna Saunders to coordinate & deliver the 14th @chaltpoetfest over the last 9 days! Brava!
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Gaynor Kane Matthew M C Smith Julian Day
RobertFredeKenter

What a barnstorming & evocative set of poems by Matthew Matthew M C Smith last night, & intense musical language from Matthew Hollis. Inspired programming by CheltenhamPoetryFest Anna Saunders Zoe Brooks Annie Ellis ✨💥✨💥✨

You took our breath away when you read this CheltenhamPoetryFest Matthew ! Thank you for an absolute zinger of a set - you perform with such verve and passion. We were swept away. I will post some picture soon.

Thanks very much for compering this, Josephine ✨
It was wonderful to be in the real world room with poet stars of Zoom & Twitter etc. Nigel Kent #JonathanAylett Lesley Curwen Simon Alderwick & many more. Another Fab event by CheltenhamPoetryFest
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Hi Paul Paul Brookes #WombwellRainbow #EkphrasticChallenge #NaPoMo . A prose poem response to Robert's atmospheric image;
contains 2 refs to RobertFredeKenter's Eden chapbook, which is full of reverberating vispos.
Have a great day, all. ✨
Karen Pierce Gonzalez SB's Artistrees

Such a pleasure to compere this Versatile event at the 14th Cheltenham Poetry Festival!
Thank you to Nigel Kent & Jonathan Aylett for their brilliant sets, to Ella Pheasant for her lovely poems & the wonderful open mic poets. 👏👏👏😊
Anna Saunders
CheltenhamPoetryFest The Gloucestershire Poetry Society

'The swords shall lie down
With the thorns and the briars'...

Echoes of Isaiah in this, Robert.
Peace 🕊️

Thanks so much, Karen. There have been some great
collaborations & co-inspirations on this #EkphrasticChallenge with Paul Brookes #WombwellRainbow RobertFredeKenter SB's Artistrees & all the participants. #NaPoMo 💞🖌️📷🖋️

Can't wait to meet you in person and hear you read Matthew M C Smith !

Hi Paul Paul Brookes #WombwellRainbow #EkphrasticChallenge . Here's my poem after Karen's
Karen Pierce Gonzalez joyous art work. Have a great day, all.
RobertFredeKenter SB's Artistrees

It was a joy to read at the CheltenhamPoetryFest this evening. Thank you so much to Anna Saunders and Zoe Brooks for the invite. To be able to connect with poetry audiences is an unimaginable joy, thanks also for your kind words ❤️

Publication day for my new collection!

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My dearest pal & co-editor @icefloeP Moira J. Saucer moirajsaucerPoet is having a major surgery this am. I'm sending out hugs & post-op blessings healing for this day & all that comes after: recovery. I'm sure she would love all our blessings light shimmering down into Birmingham❤️‍🔥