Day 8 #SealeyChallenge The Sealey Challenge friend & fellow PBS selector all round powerhouse for poetry Jo Clement’s Outlandish, a fierce, fiery, lyrical love letter to Gypsy, Roma & Traveller life. Dr Jo Clement The Poetry Society Butcher's Dog Publishing “council estates to trill elegiac Romanes”🔥

It’s not long to go now until 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus comes to Nottingham to deliver a Masterclass at Waterstones Notts! September 8th 2:30-4:30 £10-£15 You can also get tickets to watch Ray as well as a ridiculous line up that evening at Peggy's Skylight Jazz Club eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-maste…

Great poem by Claudia Court Culture Matters Rioter culturematters.org.uk/index.php/arts…

Thanks to Ink Sweat & Tears for publishing my take on #Caravaggio and his last picture shown recently at National Gallery - lots of #Catholic guilt in here! Fly on the Wall Press

Had a great time sharing ideas about poetry, process and prize culture with Vasiliki Albedo for Forward Prizes interviews. Thanks to The London Magazine for making this happen. 🫏🐈📚💕

Marking the anniversary of Gboyega's passing. Thinking of his spirit, his love, his talent, his family and friends. Sending love to all ♥️

Bad Lilies is proud to support this event next month in honour of the 20th anniversary of Michael Donaghy's passing. Featuring both our co-florists! Book your tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/for-the-pres…

I've got a long read on book defacement as art in the work of Joe Devlin and michael hampton, in the new Art Monthly

It's back!!

Fabulous read! ❤️

When you set yourself a constraint and realise the last line breaks free and you've already sent the poem off into the wild (west of submissions). Maybe it needed to break into unconstrained territory ! 🦊😜

Over at Atrium Poetry we're now open for a short submissions window. If you've poems waiting to be sent out into the world, HollyannePoet and I would love to consider your work (we're looking to schedule poems for early 2025):

Was surprised to start a poem with an acronym and very happy to have it included in the latest issue of the always excellent And Other Poems

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Gorgeous, fizzing poem by HLR HLR highly commended in the 2024 Free Verse Prize ❤️‍🔥

Bloodaxe online events are always good - do think of joining us at the end of the month.

A date for your diary - Wednesday 6th November will be the launch of the Grassroots issue of Magma Poetry M90 & Patrizia & I are looking forward to hosting at the Covent Garden Community Centre - 7 Dials Club. More details to follow but save the date!

“All disasters are natural/ including this one,/ because humans are natural.” 🙏 to Carol Rumens & Guardian Books for selecting this poem from Fady Joudah’s […] as Guardian Poem of the Week theguardian.com/books/article/…

Does anyone know Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán? I think he might be travelling but his poem in the Grassroots issue of Magma Poetry needs checking for the proof. Gratitude to anyone who can help 🙏❤️

Subs closing soon - and note you can submit in English and Cymraeg (the Welsh language). Also all poems in English in issue 5 will be translated into Cymraeg.