A truly extraordinary evening yesterday Southbank Centre. Thanks to the five brilliant finalists of the Footnote x Counterpoints Writing Prize for sharing their work, and Arji Manuelpillai (@TheLeano) for being such a fabulous chair.

Look! Arji manuelpillai and I are getting ready - to inspire and galvanise - you'll generate work that matters and be amongst poets. Get a last minute ticket to Love and Protest 22nd January Arvon at The Hurst. arvon.org/writing-course…

Here are all the poetry books I haven’t shared. I’ve read about half of them. Here’s to the small presses Stanchion Out-Spoken Press Nine Arches Press Seren Broken Sleep Books Penned in the Margins Nine Pens Press Ignota Books 🛸 Carcanet Press Penteract Press Allographic Press

Great to see AFLO. thepoet and Arji manuelpillai at the new Studio venue Brighton Dome — Extremist Inspiration with a dash of equilibrium between the shoulders.

So thankful for everyone taking the time to join us in person and online yesterday to help build the vision for London as a Creative Health City.

The team will take some time to rest this week, but will be back to share materials and outcomes soon 🙏

londonartsandhealth.org.uk/london-creativ…

Get 50% off our award-winning books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction in our BLACK FRIDAY SALE 🖤

While stocks last 👉 pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/cate…

EXCLUSIVE: Labour MP Zarah Sultana MP brands the party 'institutionally Islamophobic', says that it operates a 'hierarchy of racism', and calls for an independent review into anti-Muslim bigotry in Labour.
novaramedia.com/2023/11/19/the…

Includes: Projects Just For You essays by Roz Goddard nina 明雅 Arji manuelpillai Tamar Yoseloff Jane Burn HelenDewbery Caleb Parkin and Sophie Herxheimer (who also designed the beautiful jacket & page motifs)

Join Arji manuelpillai and AFLO. The Poet for an electrifying evening of spoken word.

Join them at Brighton Dome on Mon 11 Dec as two extraordinary voices collide, weaving tender introspection and fearless verses to ignite change.

📍Brighton Dome
📅 Mon 11 Dec
🔗 bit.ly/49cwxux

Rishi Sunak Rishi Sunak could spend a month on Grindr and he still wouldn’t be able to find a mandate.

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The answer Sajid gives is typical of this government

This was a wonderful project. So happy to have been a part of it

There is only ceasefire and negotiations.

So many great poems in here this year. At the moment I'm particularly enjoying momtaza mehri 💆🏾‍♀️ Breda Spaight Eric Yip Vanessa Lampert Arji manuelpillai

Theatre is dying on its arse & has been for 30+ years. It can’t be relevant, nimble, inclusive etc etc because funding takes so f-ing long to get that the time has already past.
It has to be reinvented. Probably not in theatres. Gatekeepers have to be prised from the gates

🥳We're so excited to launch our PBS Podcast X Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar ft. KWAME DAWES!

🥳'The busiest man in literature' joined Arji on a UK tour to launch his new book Sturge Town which members will receive in their PBS Winter #bookbox

🥳Listen here: tinyurl.com/mwh6y5b7

Come celebrate the launch of the Forward Book of Poetry 2024 with us Foyles Bookshop Charing Cross Road on 21 Nov.

Feat readings & chat with:

🌟Anthony Anaxagorou
🌟Laurie Bolger
🌟 Declan Ryan &
🌟 Jacqueline Saphra

Hosted by Arji manuelpillai Arji Manuelpillai.
For tix: foyles.co.uk/events/forward…

Guys he went into 12 shops and it was one community stealing. Which community? This guy is a racist and the ignorance is dripping off him. We as a nation are bigger than this. Integration and community projects are cut by this government… I would rather die that stand by this