Congratulations to Emily Hasler whose beautiful muddy book is longlisted for the Ondaatje prize 💚Pavilion Poetry English Department Emily Hasler

'Otherwise known as peewit, otherwise known / as tew-it, otherwise known as Vanellus vanellus / of the family Charadriidae, otherwise known as / plain old lappy nestling in the till' Hannah Copley's incantatory #Lapwing Pavilion Poetry is now on the poetry shelves.

Here — at the muddy edges of things Centre for New and International Writing Pavilion Poetry Emily Hasler Royal Society of Literature

We've been eagerly awaiting a second collection from Janette Ayachi for a while now, and QuickFire, Slow Burning does not disappoint.

We're delighted to share three poems from the brilliant new collection over on BfS today: booksfromscotland.com/2024/03/quickf…

Very excited to be teaching this live workshop NCLA on 10/5 - we’ll be working with postcards, wax crayons, felt tip pens & materials poets bring to open safe colour channels back to our deepest places of memory & creation & then out into new work a shamanic calling forth

📚We have an excellent workshop series at Newcastle Poetry Festival! #NPFP24 On Thurs 9 May is Fred D’Aguiar’s ‘Poetry and Aesthetics’ 🤓
Booking info found 🎫
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It’s April, which means Lapwing Pavilion Poetry flies the nest soon! 🪶. Prepare for rising levels of excitement from me as the days go by. Pre-order your copy now. I can’t wait for you to read it 💚
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Send in your poems, it’s the last few days, deadline for Causley Trust Causley Trust International Poetry Competition is 1st April! Link to send is below

In 2019 I went to the Newcastle Poetry Festival & discovered so many writers & new poetry loves so it’s amazing to be on the line-up this year. I’ll be there on Saturday, reading alongside alice hiller as part of the Pavilion Poetry 10th Anniversary Celebrations Deryn Rees-Jones 🪶💚

Chatting with @DrDanneJobin last week in my spring green cardi re working with my #medicalnotes led me to think about what it is to be defined by people positions of power when our own voices reside in our bodies & how they speak for us alicehiller.info/2024/03/27/rec… via alice hiller

GOODLORD - out this June with Rough Trade Books roughtradebooks.com/products/goodl…

I interviewed the wondeful alice hiller to discuss her poetry collection 'Bird of Winter' and the process of writing about childhood trauma. Watch us here on YouTube m.youtube.com/watch?v=BomPC4… #poetry #interview #csa #poetology

As we near the Spring Equinox… wishing you all health and happiness - Happy Nowrooz! Xx

The countdown to launch begins!! Join Janette Ayachi Janette Ayachi, Helen Calcutt Helen Calcutt, and Hannah Copley Hannah Copley in Liverpool in May to celebrate their new collections Centre for New and International Writing. Book your free ticket here bit.ly/pavilion24 #PoetryReading

Join Alice Hiller alice hiller (bird of winter) on September 17th for a Verve Poetry Festival Zoom workshop on ‘Writing the Felt Self’, which will encourage writers to develop strategies for bringing bodily selves into their creative processes. Tickets here: bit.ly/42XHGga

Key article for all of us who continue to be able to eat as the ongoing intentional Israeli blocking of food from #Gaza moves its population into genocidal #famine with the psychological as well as physical torture that entails as children begin to die 🥣 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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

The only thing I hoped, a little, as I wrote A FLAT PLACE, is that it might mean a tiny bit to one or two other WoC. It means so, so much to be on this longlist.

Big congratulations to Liz Berry!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️🥂for The Home Child TheWritersPrize #writersprize2024 Book of the Year! Also congrats to category winners Laura Cumming for nonfiction & Anne Enright for fiction, yesss!

Today a group of writers stood outside the London Book Fair to read poems and letters by Palestinians. The vigil was to commemorate the writers, academics and journalists who’ve been murdered by Israel. I read Fady Joudah poem, Maqam for a Green Silence from […]