Some very exciting new themed workshops now open for booking!
Including:
Parties with Laurie Bolger 🥳
Legends with 🦋Romalyn Ante FRSL🗡 🐉
Short stories with #ChristopherWakling 📚
Mindfulness with River Wolton 💭

See them all here: buytickets.at/thepoetrybusin…

I wrote a poem about kissing my son on his eyelids at night. In this week’s The TLS 🧡

Exciting Offer for May

New subscribers this month can send one poem (max 30 lines) direct to our new editor for feedback.

Subscribe at poetrylondon.co.uk - then email niall [@] poetrylondon.co.uk with your poem, cover letter, and name (to crosscheck against system).

Thank you @PoetryExchange, I really enjoyed the conversation

My peace sonnet is #6 in the sonnet chain, thanks to Bill Herbert for asking me, to editors Jacqueline Saphra & Otwituarist we chase the thing with feathers that is hope, link below takes you to the first 5 peace sonnets, until we have a crown on NEU! Boots fur immer New Boots & Pantisocracies

'Sometimes the truth is not a beacon/ but a small flame// or only the light of a phone/ falling on the face of a witness'.
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I've got news! GREEKLING has made the (dreamy) shortlist for the 2024 The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award, given annually by the The Anglo-Hellenic League to a book about Greece/Hellenism 🏆📚🦉 Teenage me, on the verge of moving to England in 1999, would never believe this... I'm thrilled & truly honoured 🙏

Thank you 🦋Romalyn Ante FRSL🗡 for your lovely workshop. I needed that after a long day. I think I have a poem from it too. So thank you.

✨WORKSHOP TOMORROW✨

✨'Eco-poetry of natural and personal places' with Romalyn Ante (🦋Romalyn Ante FRSL🗡)
Mon 22 April, 7pm
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Congratulations to Kostya Tsolakis who has been shortlisted for the The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award with his astounding debut poetry collection. What a joy to select and review Greekling (@NineArchesPress) for the PoetryBookSoc last Winter.
#ZakKostopolous Queer Britain #QueerGreece #ekphrasis

I’m running this generative workshop with The Poetry Business ✏️ please come and write with me!
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Happy #Songkran , family & friends 🥰

The Home Child is out in paperback today. Godspeed to these little lovely dandelion seeds off to find their readers… ❤️

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I’m running this online generative poetry workshop tomorrow night! Come and write with us 🥰✏️🧿 #TsaaWithRoma #PoeticsOfAmulets

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Thanks Michael Simms for posting ‘Hummer’ on Vox Populi today! The poem was 1st published POETRY magazine & will be included in my next collection Beast Bloodaxe Books next April. It appears as I’m proofing my novel ‘My Hummingbird Father’ SALT · Independent trade publisher, est. 1999
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Last chance to enter! Deadline is midnight tonight, 1st April. First Prize is £1500!

The RSL Jerwood Poetry Awards submissions close today (31 March) – last call for those asked to nominate!

Pictured are previous winners Dzifa Afi Benson Jamie Hale 🦋Romalyn Ante FRSL🗡

We are grateful to Jerwood Foundation and Creative Scotland for generously funding these Awards.

Been reading Isobel Dixon on my coach journey today. Whistling of Birds is a beautiful collection go grab a copy from Nine Arches Press

It's publication day for BABY SCHEMA @carcanetpress. and we're launching at Voce Books this eve. If you're curious about the cover, it's by artist Peter Jones who paints portraits of dearly loved stuffed toys. Buy your copy here: carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexe…