Some shots from tonight’s poetry ICCWriting in Birmingham, with Rory Waterman Naush Sabah paulgrime and Jonathan Davidson:

Thanks, Gregory Leadbetter and Naush Sabah and the wonderful audience I had at BCU, the first to hear me read poems from my new collection. I’m grateful to so many of you for buying books and for being so positive, and I hope you all enjoy the collection.

Just setting up for this evening’s poetry in Birmingham with Rory Waterman and Naush Sabah…

Heath Bookshop are running a Literature & Music festival in a few weekends. I'll be reading with Ayan Aden & guests Hirsi & Eden. Book a ticket and come along! ✨💖

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ICCWriting is delighted to present an evening of superb poetry from Rory Waterman & Naush Sabah, hosted by Gregory Leadbetter

🎟️ Free of charge, with wine, refreshments and nibbles

📆 11th April, 6pm - 8:30pm

Book here to secure your free place: buff.ly/43Uhljp

Poetry night with Rory Waterman and Naush Sabah on Thursday 11 April in Birmingham - FREE, just book using the Eventbrite link:
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My Pyrrocat is doing a lot better and is now two weeks into the six he has to spend in here.

Heath Bookshop are running a Literature & Music festival in a few weekends. I'll be reading with Ayan Aden & guests Hirsi & Eden. Book a ticket and come along! ✨💖

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Join us in Birmingham on 11 April for a celebratory launch of Rory Waterman’s new book, where he’s reading with Naush Sabah - FREE, with wine & nibbles - but please book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-night…

#PeaceSonnetChain 4 by Naush Sabah brings our opening quatrain of sonnets to a powerful peak.

The next poem will appear in 2 weeks. All four (featuring chain editors Jacqueline Saphra & Otwituarist alongside Anja Konig) can be read on the NEU! Boots fur immer site:

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The #PeaceSonnetChain completes a first ‘stanza’ with its fourth sonnet. This, by Naush Sabah, both laments irrevocable loss and sustains a paradoxical hope:

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Pyro is home! 🥹❤️
Got him a fabric kennel and he'll be confined to this for six weeks to rest and heal up. He's doing okay and seems a lot more comfortable now.

So Art Guide magazine commissioned a piece from Sophia Cai about whether art can be 'apolitical' and when she turned it in, tried to remove these two paragraphs naming institutions which have publicly taken 'apolitical' stances...because they want the piece to be 'timeless'.

My poor little jaan Pyro has a fractured pelvis; too early to say how things will go for him, we have to take the next days & weeks as they come. For now he's still in hospital. He has my whole heart & it breaks every time I think of what he's been through. 😭

I'm in pieces today. My baby has gotten injured somehow while out. He's in hospital now but I won't know how he is until scans later this afternoon. I love him so much and just want him to be okay and home. 😞

Looking forward to reading with Rory at the School of Art on the 11th of April. Come along if you're in Brum. 🤓

Ramadan Mubarak to all our Muslim friends.

We send our love and solidarity to the people of Palestine.

Nobody should have to break their fast on animal feed, or do Tarawih prayers in the rubble of their mosque.

An urdu poster in support of the miners during 1984-85 strike.

'Support the Miners'

(Designed by Mukhtar Dar, Sheffield Asian Youth Movement)

Happy Internationally Women’s Day to these fearless women