Welcome three of the 2023 Forward Prize for Poetry recipients, including Momtaza Mehri, Malika Booker, and Bohdan Piasecki. Enjoy readings of some of the finest works in UK poetry today, followed by a Q&A with the writers.
Buy your tickets here: lyrafest.com/#e105197

I am doing this today. Two events across continents - I will be joining the symposium online from Nigeria in conversation with Michael Symmons Roberts and Camille Ralphs today. Our conversation will be pure fire!!!

What great news 📸 Watch this video on Facebook artnews.com/art-news/news/…

So happy that this was overturned.

We’re veery pleased to report the Home Office has overturned its decision and Soukaina Habiballah will be able to travel to St Andrews for StAnza Poetry festival.

Live me some Nikki Giovanni. What an amazing line up

Whoa fab launch of brilliant new book by Karen McCarthy Woolf Thursday 29 Feb in London ... and check out that line- up with
Roger Robinson Malika Booker etc!

BREAKING: GUYANA REPRESENTATIVE EDWARD CRAVEN MADE THE FOLLOWING ARGUMENT TO THE ICJ ABOUT ISRAELI CRIMES

“Although situated far from the Middle East, Guyana has a close interest in the legality of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory”.

“Israel’s activities in the…

Sulaiman Ahmed As someone deeply invested in the Palestine cause, its heartening to see voices like Edward Craven bringing attention to the injustice in the Israeli occupation. Every voice matters in the fight for justice. #FreePalestine

The Poetry Society is proud to present the next workshop in our 2024 programme, in which expert poets lead generative workshops on a topic which inspires and intrigues them. February's online workshop is Poetry and the Body with the brilliant 🦋Romalyn Ante FRSL🗡 poetrysociety.org.uk/event/online-w…

This promises to be an amazing night. Get your tickets.

Visit Ghost Poetry 2 in Brixton!📝 81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance project commemorates and continues Brixton’s legacy of exuberant defiance.

In collaboration with Apples and Snakes, we celebrate TY's legacy & Malika Booker's poignant verses!

📍Railton Road, SE24 0JT

Really looking forward to reading with these champion Forward winners - come down if you are in London and have a free minute and/ or spread the word.

For the 4th day in a row, telecommunication networks are still down in large parts a ross the Gaza Strip, especially in the middle & southern areas

Three days ago, Israeli forces targeted and killed 2 telecommunication workers as they were trying to fix damages to infrastructure

“Arab governments, you are cowards.”

Egyptian journalists gathered at the headquarters of the Journalists Syndicate in Cairo on Monday to call for the opening of the Rafah border crossing and for all aid entering Gaza to be unconditional and unhindered

Amazing poem by Malika Booker at Academy of American Poets today: poets.org/poem/jesus-wil…

“The poem uses repetition in both rhetorical and contemplative attempts to inflect a musical intensity representative of Jesus’s mentality during these forty days.”

—Malika Booker
@malikabooker
#AboutThisPoem

poets.org/poem/jesus-wil…

Listen to Malika Booker read “Jesus in the Wilderness”
@malikabooker
#PoemADay

megaphone.link/POETS6957471606