What a superb winner for the National Poetry Competition - congratulations @fionalarkin.bsky.social 🎉

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APRIL! Rachel Long, Minal Sukumar and Ioney Smallhorne. Ridiculously exciting.

Antony Dunn, Nathan Walker and me - reading at Rise Up! last night. Such a beautiful evening - huge thanks to all poets and guests!

Such beautiful textile art from Rob Burton up in the Bluebird Bakery at the moment 😍

Photo of Sylvia Plath’s gravestone

Feeling nostalgic for Lumb Bank on Sylvia Plath’s anniversary @arvonfoundation.bsky.social I was there in 2023 for a life changing residential and met friends for life
@deborahfinding.bsky.social @estelleprice.bsky.social @imogenforster.bsky.social @carolinebirduk.bsky.social @chadpie.bsky.social

RISE UP! With Antony Dunn, Lisa Coates and Nathan Walker 🎉 26/02, nowhere better to be on a Wednesday in February (or any other Wednesday)

Absolute cracker of a night at Rise Up! with the wonderful @carolinebirduk.bsky.social @coliverpoet.bsky.social & @oliverinthenorth.bsky.social - thank you, ace poets - & (always) my brilliant co-host @chadpie.bsky.social

Thanks Kexin!

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That’s so kind, thank you! I’m glad you love it 🦂🦂🦂

Course! Really loved it. Super moving, plus we went down an internet rabbit hole about Anglo Saxon sacrificial burials…!

@wendypratt.bsky.social’s Blackbird Singing at Dusk - both the whole book and the title poem - just excellent! I keep excitedly reading bits out to Eloise while she tries to do her homework 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

Cannot believe the last thing I watched on my crap old telly before it went to the electronic afterlife was a reality show about selling houses worth more than every single property in York added together, instead of something more high brow.

Your covers are always so beautiful!

Everyone’s a critic eh.

Britain has seen an alarming rise in poetry sales --The Economist, 15 Jan 2024

2024 Headline of the Year nominee (January)

I refused to stop until the end of each episode 😅

Managed to time service station breaks with the end of each episode, very pleasing 😅

Stevie Ronnie and Ella Frears in conversation with @gregorykearns.bsky.social are excellent company on the A1 this morning

Oh wow, that’s beautiful, and so very much needs to be a sestina! All that tumbling, desperate love

Thank you @annierutherford.bsky.social for the introduction to Ella Risbridger’s ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Cheese,’ which made me well up on the school run this morning. ‘The women I know get together and talk about their mothers./
Oh God, my mother, let me tell you about my mother…’

I set the kids a selfie challenge. The instruction for this one was ‘write a Christmas message’ 🤣

Oh fab!!

Ahh no Janet, that’s such a shame! Hope you’ll be doing something lovely though

👀 it’s going to be a very Happy New Year! Caroline Bird, Oliver Carmichael and Minal Sukumar - what more could you want? 🎉

Moon tell me the truth 🌕❤️ poems from this beautiful book are decorating the walls at York Uni’s Festive Bazaar for Palestine tonight www.handsupproject.org/shop/moon-te...

Really looking forward to reading alongside some awesome poets @poetrysociety.bsky.social’s Stanza Bonanza on 12/12! I will be on the ginger wine and biscuits. 🎄

Morning pages, coffee and a sky like this ❤️