Wonderful interview with Seán Hewitt here on Planet Poetry Podcast - thank you as ever Peter Kenny and Robin Houghton for the work you do. 🙏🏻

Remembering Seamus Heaney on what would have been his 85th birthday.

“Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.”

A great little read. Less is (Frog)more.

Thanks Cathy Hayward for interviewing me for The Creative Writing Programme - with a shout out to Clare Best & w thanks to Portobello Literary & Footnote Press #MovingMountains & the process of #writing - thanks also to New Writing South who ran CWP at the time!

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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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Floods at Lewes, Eric Ravilious, 1935. The original artwork appears to be in a private collection but has been on display at Towner Eastbourne I believe. #Sussex #EastSussex #SouthDowns

Bathing Machines, Eric Ravilious, 1938. This is one of a series depicting Aldeburgh beach in #Suffolk . The original artwork is in the collection of Towner Eastbourne. (The Hen is a vending machine!)

Tories order further massive real-terms cuts to performing & creative arts courses in England + hard cut of funding for widening access programmes to higher ed.
Economic madness (creative industries bring in £115bn in value pa), cultural idiocy & an assault on social mobility.

Tariffs are taxes on imports and raise revenue. These non-tariff charges are to cover the costs of inspections that would not be necessary without Brexit. They may not even cover those costs. And the costs of delays are extra . 'Deadweight losses'.

Tomorrow – Friday 5th April! Anyone near #Aldeburgh , do come along. Free event, all so welcome. Poetry and art. ☀️🥂

Very happy to have this excellent *new* review of my 2019 Waterloo Press UK collection ‘Each Other’ DURA - wonderful bonus! Thank you Beth McDonough. 🙏🏻 Naomi Foyle (she/they) John O'Donoghue Simon Jenner

Coastal Defences, Eric Ravilious, 1940. It depicts the old moat at Newhaven Fort in East #Sussex in the early years of #WW2 . The original artwork is in the collection of Imperial War Museums.

So pleased about the new Kathryn Bevis prize, she is a total poetry legend 🦋 not to mention bloody Clare Shaw is judging! come on guys, enter, we’re open!

We are thrilled to have .Matthew Stewart and Taz Rahman visit Cheltenham this CheltenhamPoetryFest on April 25th - and these two prestigious and must-read poets share the stage with 2 locally based widely published writers -
Chris Hemingway #ArdithBrown
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Tonight I'm off to present a very fine line-up of Cambridge writers and ARU students reading poems and stories based on objects from the Antarctic. Join us online, incognito if you like: bit.ly/futurekaraoke6

This IS exciting - especially for booksellers and baristas who want a new job. And for poetry/wellbeing/coffee lovers etc

All over the world millions of people are celebrating Easter.

I can't help wondering that if Jesus arrives in the UK on a small donkey, he would be sent to Rwanda. But he would have been welcomed if he arrived on a private plane/yacht and an offshore bank account.

Happy Easter.

Public has no right to swim in sea, claims water company that dumped sewage at bathing spot.

NO. Water companies have no right to dump sewage; profiteer; hike customer bills; spread disease and destruction.

Eliminate the profit motive. Nationalise water
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Mount Caburn, Eric Ravilious, 1935. It depicts an area of the South Downs (now South Downs National Park) in East #Sussex near to Glynde. The original artwork is in the collection of Towner Eastbourne.

Douglas is so right. When it comes to literature, comparing the Irish attitude to the Scottish is heartbreaking.