Thrilled by this from Christina Hesselholdt, author of VIVIAN tr. @MrPaulRGarrett Fitzcarraldo Editions: "The novel brilliantly oscillates between childhood and adulthood in its description of a friendship between two women whose shared passion is photography." Salt Books

A great opportunity with a great mag...!

Such a wonderful surprise to discover that my poem 'Hymn' has been nominated by The Broken Spine - Find Us Elsewhere for a The Pushcart Prize This beautiful generosity. Congratulations and the very best of wishes to my fellow nominees; finest poets 💗

Entries for the 2025 Fenland Poet Laureate Awards are now open! 🚀 The competition, run by award-winning poet Elisabeth Sennitt Clough and Fenland District Council, is recognised as one of the most prestigious literary accolades in Cambridgeshire. 👉 fenland.gov.uk/FenlandPoetLau…

‘Page 77’ from Portrait in Mustard Wendy Allen

We’re looking forward to this on Monday! Everyone is welcome to join us online. 💻📖🥰🥳

Just brilliant! Jenny, you have just nudged me that this is waiting, on my bedside table to read!

Delighted to be part of the latest issue of And Other Poems: andotherpoems.com/2024/12/11/ghe…

Looking forward to reading at this event on January 16th with Di Slaney and Sharon Holm. Sincere thanks in advance to We’re not here anymore – formerly @YorkLibrariesUK and Carole Bromley . tickettailor.com/events/explore…

o dear o dear it seems i have accidently been commended in the #SSTPoetryPrize my entry was a translation of the amazing luna congratulations to winner, Ellen Corbett plus thank you to the Stephen Spender Trust trust & judges Jennifer Wong & Taher Adel 😇🪽🌟

This is a stunning magazine - so pleased to have a poem featured in this issue which is 😍. I absolutely love the front cover 🪱🪱🪱. Long may Spelt live - albeit in a different format. @MagazineSpelt @wondykitten

Lovely Things Japanese adorning my mantelpiece.

❛ The guy selling Christmas trees / in the SuperValu car park / knew everything there was to know / about Christmas trees. Revisiting Aidan O'Donoghue's festive poem, originally from Issue 35. 🌲 #MothArchives

Greatly looking forward to running another Japan-inspired poetry workshop for The Poetry Business on February 3rd: tickettailor.com/events/thepoet…

Our new issue ‘Joy’ goes live two weeks today, we can’t wait to share it with you! ✨

This time tomorrow I’ll be reading from my new pamphlet January conversations, with dogs and we’ll also be hearing some wonderful doggy poems by a community of dog-loving poets, including Miriam Darlington who was kind enough to write these nice words about my book.

Excited about running this Modern Japanese Women’s Tanka writing workshop, on January 30th 10-11a.m. 10% off with code EARLYBIRDWARIBIKI until noon Jan10th. eventbrite.co.uk/e/modern-japan…