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It’s Sunday, so sit back and enjoy our latest album. Curated just for you—and featuring twelve brilliant voices. Bad Lilies: Issue Twenty: badlilies.uk/issue-twenty

For #WorldPoetryDay an hommage/pisstake of Larkin first published in Bad Lilies now in my latest book 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb'.

Finishing off the week with a brand new online workshop! 🧑‍💻 Gods of the Word - Poetry’s Best-Kept Secret with Lisa Brockwell 🗓️ Saturday 21st June 10:30am-12:30pm 🎟️ £35 / £25 concession #NorthSeaPoets #Poetry #PoetryCommunity

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Provide, Provide by Frost. Enters your DNA almost immediately.

Peter Finch talks The Literary Business at Rhiwbina Library last night. Watch for the book from Parthian this October

'The Bittersweet' by Vasiliki Albedo badlilies.uk/vasiliki-albedo

'Garden Chair' by Gregory Leadbetter badlilies.uk/gregory-leadbe…

Two poems by Caroline Smith badlilies.uk/caroline-smith

just a couple of tickets left now for this northseapoets class on the 15th May with the great Kathleen Jamie, exploring how ‘poets can pay radical attention to non-humans’ - get in quick if you want to book a place … northseapoets.com/events/speakin…

One of the biggest problems the lit world faces in building pro-social behaviour, future-proofing the very existence of questing and enquiring arts is the misapprehension so many have that others are leading a better life. Prizes, residencies etc. None of it helps—and won’t last.

Edited by poet Rachael Boast, Versus Versus builds on the work of decades of disability justice advocacy to offer a poetry of assertiveness and immense vitality. The anthology is a PBS Recommendation and will be launched online tonight at 7pm on YouTube: bloodaxebooks.com/events?article…

Happy Heavenly Birthday to beloved teacher and friend, Michael Donaghy. Here’s one of my favourites of his that I like to post on his birthday. Miss you, Mikey.

You can pick up my second collection, Hollywood or Home, where Tinseltown meets confessional told slant, for half price until Wednesday. Included in the Sunday Times Poetry Books of the Year 2023 – 'a subtle and surprising delight'. Visit: serenbooks.com/book/hollywood…

NYC on Monday! Little tribute to the late, great John Cazale here, from Hollywood or Home—Massachusetts boy who cut his teeth in New York theatre and then… The rest is history. Brief, but staggeringly beautiful, history.