The Acropolis Journal has been collecting accolades since it started and I am very partial to the present issue. It is simply gorgeous. Such a pleasure to have blind-read with the amazing Dr Chris Laoutaris & JP Seabright 💜 for this issue. Brilliant selection of poems!

So grateful to have my poem [For The Untitled Ones] appear in the beautiful Acropolis Journal's Issue Nine 'Wounds', paired with gorgeous art by the talented Giuseppina Brandi ❤️

Thank you to EIC Louise Mather & guest readers Dr Chris Laoutaris, JP Seabright 💜 & Taz Rahman: East of the Sun West of the Moon, 2024

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I loved being a guest reader for this fantastic volume of Acropolis Journal with JP Seabright 💜 and Taz Rahman: East of the Sun West of the Moon, 2024!! So much talent packed inside this issue. Thanks for inviting us Louise Mather!! And congrats to all the selected poets and artists. We ADORED ALL the entries!!!! 😀

This is a fantastic issue featuring brilliant writers and their work - delighted to have been a guest reader alongside Taz Rahman: East of the Sun West of the Moon, 2024 and Dr Chris Laoutaris
Thank you Louise Mather for inviting us.🖤

Check out Jo Durrant's exciting new Friday radio show programme on 89.7FM Perth!! Loving the fact that today's is Shakespeare themed!!! Shakespeare Beyond Borders Alliance Shakespeare Institute British Shakespeare Association

I have a new regular slot on my Auntie Marg’s radio show on 89.7FM Perth on Fridays! In Jo’s Jukebox I choose & talk about a few songs. It’s Shakespeare themed today!

Friday On My Mind Show (3-6pm Perth / 8-11am UK). My slot is 4.20pm / 9.20am in the UK. 897fm.com.au

Full cover reveal!!

Thanks so much to those who funded the research for this book, The Leverhulme Trust Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Houghton Library Roehampton English & Creative Writing

Our book group meetings for May are sold out in Malvern and Monmouth - but there are a few tickets left for Ross on Wye, Cheltenham and Leominster
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A Hog Blogs: COVER REVEAL – “Light is a prayer” – Helen Openshaw

Ah, now this is a gorgeous collection from the brilliant Helen Openshaw, that will be available to Pre-order soon

A stunning cover? You should read the words...breathtaking

The poet in the Lakes

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Congratulations to our Honorary Fellow, Baroness Floella Benjamin who will be awarded with a BAFTA Fellowship in May.

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That's right, I have the EXCLUSIVE with Dr Estelle Paranque on her publication day. You will want to join us!

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(Bonus: Tickets include £5 off purchase of Thorns, Lust and Glory on the night!)

📣 We are delighted to announce that the Spring 2024 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 77.1) has been published and is now available to view online: bit.ly/3P7ceFh #RenTwitter #earlymodern #twitterstorians Cambridge University Press - History Ellis Light #AcademicTwitter

PREORDER (30.06.2024):

Emily Barker's debut poetry pamphlet Where the Black Swans Swim is a thing of wild and restless joy. It is full of wonder, curiosity, music and the ache of memory and displacement.

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Glad to have helped organise this collaborative event between Shakespeare Institute and our partners 早稲田大学 Waseda University in Tokyo. Tune in on 18 May to hear Sir Stanley Wells in conversation with Paul_Edmondson. Registration through link below. 🇬🇧🇯🇵

'You have my father’s house,—But, what? we are friends.'~ Antony and Cleopatra (II.7) | After William Shakespeare's granddaughter died without any living children, her will stipulated that ownership of the home should go to their family friends, the Harts. buff.ly/48rm39p

What's the deal with an Indian boy in A Midsummer Night's Dream? What is his parentage? How do Britain-India stories shape the play? I will be talking about this on Saturday York International Shakespeare Festival It's free but register at: yorkshakes.co.uk/programme-2024…

‘You won’t look at early modern drama in the same way again’.

It means the world to me that the brilliant Will Tosh Shakespeare’s Globe has offered such kind words for SHAKESPEARE’S BORROWED FEATHERS.

It’s heartening to receive support for my work. 🙏

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I was very grateful to get an early bird chance to explore Darren’s SHAKESPEARE’S BORROWED FEATHERS - required reading for anyone interested in Shakespeare’s influences and literary community.

What a thrill to talk about ‘Shakespeare’s Arabic Sonnets’ in Oxford’s Painted Room, where Shakespeare may have stayed (and, er, collaborated with the landlady to produce William Davenant). Quite something to be lecturing under this 16thC inscription. Thanks, Oxford Preservation Trust!