Today on Anthropocene new poetry by @JlmMorton 🌧️🌞🌧️ anthropocenepoetry.org/post/stone-cal…

I've long said we're at risk of losing essentially everything due to global heating - all of modern life, much of life on Earth, billions of human lives, our super habitable planet. More and more climate scientists are coming to see this. Please start listening

If I am reborn a hundred times the superpower I hope to acquire is the ability to tell a middle class English person that the very loud announcement we both just heard means they are not entitled to my seat because seat reservations have been cancelled.

📅 From our Events calendar: The Live Poetry Book Club, a summer book club exploring and celebrating live readings from black + mixed heritage writers. 📅 15th June 📍 St Agnes MMI 🕚 11am-12.30pm

Nerdy opinion polling question: when the Green Party is shown at 5% in poll, does that mean that 5% of the UK sample are planning to vote for the Green Party of England and Wales or that 5% are planning to vote for either GPEW or the Scottish Green Party?

Wasafiri stands in solidarity with the novelist, journalist, and activist Arundhati Roy, who – along with professor Sheikh Showkat Hussain – is being prosecuted and targeted by the Indian government for her comments on Kashmir, made fourteen years ago.

It's a shame this free 'active travel support' has nothing to support walking Bristol City Council @travelwestEng Walking is active travel! bristol.gov.uk/residents/stre… Ed Plowden @edplowden.bsky.social Cllr David Wilcox Cllr Don Alexander Rob Bryher @bristol_pip Graham Morris @TimTipper Kaz Self Westbury&HenleazeLibDems 🔶

OUTLIER. Last year we wondered if our journey was over after disappointing funding news and a theatre landscape that felt too precarious for our genre-defying show. But WE'RE BACK, and as a Theatre Royal Plymouth production! It's the next chapter, baby. Lezgooo! theatreroyal.com/whats-on/outli…

Today on Anthropocene new poetry by Tom Sastry 🍄🗺️🎨 anthropocenepoetry.org/post/2-poems-b…

I'm pretty sure this is too good to be true but how about we just go along with it? eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-live-poe…

📅 Some new things from our events calendar: The Live Poetry Book Club returns, this time with a Tom Sastry live set. Also Moroccan musician Mohamed Errebbaa! 📍 St Agnes MMI 📅 Saturday 13th July 🕙 11am literatureworks.org.uk/event/the-live…

I agree - although I would talk about changing rather than getting better. I envy my new writer self the ease with which he began new work. It was brilliant for open mics, always having something new to share. I am better than he was at working a poem until it's publishable.

We'd added a new curated BOOK BUNDLE to our range of offers, Space & Speculative is a #poetry trio care of @HarryManTweets @suzannahevans & Tom Sastry Perfect for expanding your #poetry reading horizons. £19.99 with limited FREE UK postage. buff.ly/46rDrv5

The Autumn issue of The Poetry Review is out now. Read new poetry from Forrest Gander, Hera Lindsay Bird and Forward Prize-nominee @evediariden_ among many others. Buy your copy today bit.ly/ThePoetryReview Wayne Holloway-Smith

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