Come along to our friendly shared reading group every Monday morning 10am at Kings Heath Library. Stories, poems & chats. Everyone welcome.

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I had the honour of reading with beautiful poet and soul Zaffar Kunial at Medicine Unboxed last year. We read poem-to-poem and it felt like making song. You can watch the reading here... 🤍

Zaffar Kunial

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Just a reminder of this beautiful radio programme about Mary Oliver made by Falling Tree Radio

A perfect stormy Sunday listen… 🤍

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Liz Berry's beautiful, award-winning novel-in-verse The Home Child has arrived in store in paperback.
Real, nearly forgotten lives, with their own loves and language, are recovered and made to matter in a gently profound story of home and injustice. waterstones.com/book/the-home-…

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Pretty little paperbacks coming 4th April. You can order here or through a bookshop or library that you love 💙

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Chatto&Windus Vintage Books

I can’t wait to share our brilliant shortlist in May - five fabulous books of poems for young readers/listeners/dreamers ❤️

Library as cultural hub, as community lifeline, as achievable utopia. A closed library is as much use as a closed book. Liz Berry Friends of Kings Heath Library

Beautiful scenes at Kings Heath Library today for a jam packed Read-In, protesting against planned community library closures. Thank you
Friends of Kings Heath Library
for helping us fight for what is precious to us ❤️

On the blog, we talk to Liz Berry about her
TheWritersPrize winning collection THE HOME CHILD, the personal story behind the book, the research that shaped the poems & how the story of the Home Children continues to be relevant today

Read here: lrb.me/fc3

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If books teach us anything it's that everyone's life is precious, and all children are our children.

Thank you TheWritersPrize & Chatto&Windus & everyone who has taken The Home Child to their hearts.

I'm over the moon! ✨🌛

Catch up on last night’s special TheWritersPrize event, with seven incredible authors shortlisted for the #writersprize24 ✨

Zadie Smith, Jason Allen-Paisant, Liz Berry, Paul Murray, Naomi Klein, Laura Cumming, Mark O’Connell, chaired by Alex Clark

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The Home Child is one today. Love and thank you to everyone who’s taken Eliza’s story into their heart ❤️

Here's a little snippet from The Home Child, a haunting and deeply moving novel in verse. Liz Berry uses the Black Country dialect to convey an atmospheric narrative: a beautiful exploration of genealogy and silent ancestors inspired by the true story of the poet's great aunt

Happy publication day to my brilliant mentee Jenny, who has written a luminous, complex, moving book about postnatal psychosis and deepest love 🤍 Jenny Pagdin Nine Arches Press

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“If I wasn’t writing poems, then you’d find me helping someone to build a robot out of yoghurt pots and silver foil…” An interview for TheWritersPrize about poetry and other things I love ❤️