Hello friends! Roger Mcgough will be back on air with a new series of Poetry Please in early June. Which poems and poets would YOU most like to hear on the programme? We always love to hear your requests and recommendations. 🙏

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We are delighted to be collaborating with Bristol Poetry Festival ! Come and experience Nikita Gill Stephen Lightbown and 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus reading their work live!

This event will bring stories and poems to make you feel, think, laugh and smile.

Link to webpage: lyrafest.com/#e105195

We run a Pay It Forward scheme for Winchester Poetry Prize where poets on low incomes can enter
a poem for free.

😔The pot for this is currently empty.

If you would like to help a fellow poet enter the comp, you can donate £6 at the bottom of this page: winchesterpoetryfestival.org/prize

I am thrilled to read again with two lovely poets I admire. Wonderful to return to Cambridge! Tamar Yoseloff Anne Berkeley The Poetry Society Poetry School Wolfson College, Oxford Balliol College

Feargal Sharkey Stewart Wood Good news is coming

So excited was I to receive the proofs of my new novel #AWomanofOpinion that I failed to notice the dog was trying to eat them! For more info visit seanlusk.com Izzie Transworld Books

Join us for our next Webinar on How to Get Comissioned. Our brilliant panel features: Jo Bell - The Poetic Licence, Lisa Mead & Dr Theresa Muñoz

Wednesday 3 April, 7pm, online

Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-mic-pra…

#poetry #commissions #womenpoets

Bad Betty Live Nottingham returns 7th April, at new venue Peggy's Skylight Jazz Club 💫 And it's a scorcher 🔥

Poetry: Vanessa Kisuule Arji manuelpillai Sophie Sparham Bep Summerscales
Music: JayaHadADream 🇯🇲🇮🇪 Gecko
Hosts: Bridie Squires Jake Wild-Acre Hall

TICKETS: peggysskylight.co.uk/events/bad-bet…

So Sean.Lusk, it turns out we have been wasting everyone's time and this is all there is to it.

Happy #WorldPoetryDay ✨✨✨

Here’s a taster, Celebrating with Ciarán Hodgers - we’ll be joining gorgeous Gerry Potter-Poet & Paul Burston 📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿⚡️🏳️‍🌈 for Polari Literary Salon Writing on the Wall in Liverpool on May 15th! 💜

OUR zoom workshops [almost weekly from May - Nov 2024, Tues 7-9pm] are filling up nicely, with discount deals on 3, 6 and 12 wkshp bundles. The 1st 6 wkhps feature Clare Pollard Rachel Long Helen Mort #AnthonyCapideo Yvonne Reddick & Jo Bell - The Poetic Licence. For details: tinyurl.com/3wdtz66v

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Oh my god. The book itself is *splendid* but look, look at this beautiful object.

Please save the dates: 4th June launch on Zoom, 6th June London launch. Thank you to Nine Arches Press for their faith in this book!!!

Thinking of the time my manager asked me to meet him the other side of London but I had to get rail replacement and I messaged him this by accident. It was supposed to say 'rammed'.

I shall keep trying.

Papa: Can we send some £ for some women to have a better life?

Me: for international women's day?

Papa: Yes. I know it was yesterday

Pause

Papa: But it's never too late to try

Spread the word please, I'm running FREE workshops soon in Newcastle and Manchester on the theme of 'water'. Book here - eventbrite.co.uk/cc/water-and-w…

This slogan is an absolute nightmare. Can you imagine what happens in court if someone wearing this t-shirt gets assaulted? I'm not seeing anyone who thinks this is a good idea. Yes, get a discussion going - but on terms that encourage awareness of consent, not mockery.