Today we toast the art of words, rhythms, and rhymes that connect us all. Let's celebrate language in all its beauty on #WorldPoetryDay ! 📝🌎✨
Chris McCabe
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Next weds March 13th, 7pm & free; our Versopolis Camarade collaborative poetry event! Back in the magic London poetry institution, The The Poetry Society Cafe. Zuzana Husarova David Spittle Harry Man Helen Ivory Dr Agnieszka Studzińska Tomica Bajsić 🇺🇦 Chris McCabe Mischa Foster Poole. europeanpoetryfestival.com/versopolis24

There's one week left to submit your Best Imagined Sound to this year's Sound of the Year Awards Sound of the Year Awards!

For inspiration, here are some recent additions to our audio collections: Asha Sheshadri, Tom Betteridge & Aja Monet

Deadline 29/02
Details: soundoftheyearawards.com

Just returned e-book Hard Drive by Paul Stephenson to National Poetry Library if anyone wants to borrow it. A wonderful collection of poems which searches through the aftermath of a beloved partner’s untimely death. Essence of what it is to be human. Paul Stephenson National Poetry Library

Thanks to Will Rene for including my new poems of ghostliness and rivers in his brilliant show #plasticlanguage for @nts_radio . The poems are from my manuscript 'Hedonism'.
The image for the show is my visual poem 'voiceover/overlay'.

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Vol. 8 of Plastic Language is now up to listen back on NTS Radio

Chris McCabe Chris McCabe joined me on the shore of the Thames in Wapping to record some river poems.

Also feat. tracks & poems by Kathy Acker, Benjamin Zephaniah, Marvin Pontiac & more...

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Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤️ The perfect gift to celebrate - No, Love Is Not Dead, edited by Chris McCabe, published by Chambers Word Lovers.

#noloveisnotdead #poetry #lovepoems #ValentinesDay

For everyone concerned about climate change and our vulnerable world The Windows Project Chris McCabe Eleanor Rees Barbara Murray 🌹 Dr Bernadette McBride Ali Harwood Maria Iza B Writing on the Wall

Publishers! Booksellers! Agents! Anyone in the book industry want to write me a comment piece for The Bookseller on this? (c.800 words, £150). molly.flatt[at]thebookseller.com

Only 2 weeks left to submit your Best Imagined Sound to this year's Sound of the Year Awards Sound of the Year Awards!

The deadline is 29 February, and it's free to submit!

Details below...

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Happy US publication day to No, Love Is Not Dead edited by Chris McCabe!

From Akkadian to Yoruba, this unique anthology engages the reader in reflective tales of love across a wide range of themes with English translation and commentary.

Get your copy: linktr.ee/chamberswords

#concentrepoetry #visualpoetry #kinetic

Have an idea for a poetry event?

We're now inviting proposals for our 2024-25 Special Edition programme, seeking proposals for events in the NPL from a broad range of organisers, poets and poetry enthusiasts!

Apply by 5pm Tue 6 Feb 2024 - more info here: nationalpoetrylibrary.org.uk/news-stories/s…

I’m looking forward to exhibiting at the Watermen’s Hall in February alongside Liz and other Thames mudlarks!

Spoken Word London is coming to National Poetry Library at the Southbank Centre

We're excited to kick off our 2024 programme with an evening celebrating the 'Anti-Hate Anthology' published by Spoken Word London @spokenwdlondon, featuring an amazing line up of poets speaking out against hate in all its forms

Wed 7 Feb, 8pm, £7

southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/liter…

Celebrating indigenous scripts and communities, World Endangered Writing Day is happening on 23rd Jan!
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Whet your linguistic whistle in advance with a peak at Poems from the Edge of Extinction hachette.co.uk/titles/chris-m…

In case you missed it, listen back to lemn sissay OBE FRSL and Lily Blacksell on BBC Front Row, talking to Samira Ahmed about the National Poetry Library's 70th birthday & our 70-Poet Challenge!

You can listen to their conversation from the 28.50 mark here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…