We are pleased to announce that the James Berry Poetry Prize 2024 in partnership with Bloodaxe Books is now open! 📚The prize offers £1000, expert mentoring and debut publication for emerging poets of colour. More info here 🏆

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Cherished charity shop 1960s dolls who guard where I write throwing their own miniature party for ⁦Karen McCarthy Woolf⁩ brilliant fierce #TopDoll after I got back from ace ⁦Royal Society of Literature⁩ exploring dolls as tiny actors of our unconscious selves & conduits to deepest play

It was an honour to make this programme with Julian May & great guests as part of a wonderful series celebrating the work of Seamus Heaney for BBC Radio 4. Listen now on BBC Sounds: Four Sides of Seamus Heaney
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

🔵 Propel Issue 6 is OUT MONDAY 31 July! 🔵

> Edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf, featuring 20 new poems by 20 poets yet to publish a first collection:

1/3

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Southbank Centre At 7pm on Sun 23 Jul, Poetry International closes with a huge celebration of the Poetry Library's 70th birthday!

Feat. readings from CAConrad, Jorie Graham, John Kinsella, Lidija Dimkovska, Belinda Zhawi zhawi, Yang Lian and olive senior.

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Southbank Centre On Fri 21 Jul, come along to the shortlist readings for the Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry, a major international award for ecopoetry, presented by judges Seán Hewitt, Karen McCarthy Woolf and Linda Gregerson.

Queen Elizabeth Hall, 6pm, £7.50

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High notes, the right note, what a weekend, what a festival, what an end. Let's make it Calabash Festival 2024 cause a can't wait for 2025.
#CalabashForWord
#Calabash2023

On 25 May, I'll be participating in this symposium on Poetry and the Environment with Yvonne Reddick, Alycia Pirmohamed, and Hugh Dunkerley at the University of Bristol. It's free, but requires booking here: eventbrite.com/e/poetry-and-t… Join us! (and pls RT)

👀 A reminder for your diary that our next submissions window — for Propel Issue Six, edited by
Karen McCarthy Woolf — will be OPEN 1–31 MAY 👀

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Really hate to be that guy on a Monday but why in 2023 are we having international poetry festivals which feature 26 white poets and 2 people of colour? Tell me I'm mistaken...

I'd enter this myself if I wasn't one of the judges!

The morning after an incredible evening in a super in-depth discussion with Bernardine Evaristo spanning her life’s work. We went in in, and came up to a still rapt 200+ audience nearly TWO hours later!! Thank you British Council & Bernie t’was really special 💚 #BritLit23

Closing out the day with a poetry reading from our former Poet in Residence Karen McCarthy Woolf

Promise Institute for Human Rights UCLA School of Law UCLA Journal of Int’l Law & Foreign Affairs

I've made a formal complaint to the BBC (see below). Their decision to suspend Gary Lineker but not Alan Sugar is a clear breach of their duty to be impartial. #BBCBias
Please consider making your own complaint here: bbc.co.uk/contact/compla…

Jeremy Clarkson called for striking workers to be shot in front of their families.

Continued to present Top Gear for 5 years.

Gary Lineker criticises government proposals on refugees.

Taken off air after 3 days.

“Braverman says she was offended by Lineker’s Nazi comparison because her husband is Jewish”
He wasn’t talking about your husband. Take some responsibility for your vile immorality. theguardian.com/politics/live/…

Fabulous line up ✨

Enter Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry 2023 - the world’s largest prize for ecopoetry. Closes 25 Mar 23!
 
Judged by Linda Gregerson, Seán Hewitt & Karen McCarthy Woolf. They're looking for poems w/ planet & climate crisis at their core. bit.ly/3F57udI
 
1st £5,000, 2nd: £2,000, 3rd £1,000 +

Thanks to you Patchwork has sold out on Amazon once again ... 🙏💙🤎 ... though the Kindle version remains available