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EXCITED to announce the autumn leg of our Zoom Poetry Workshop Series 2025. You can read all about these super workshops in our latest newsletter here tinyurl.com/45v2r498 Incl brilliant brand new workshops from The Emma Press Isabelle Baafi Hannah Copley tim tim cheng 🐸 (she/they) and many more😍




OUR collection for May in our online bookshop VERVE Poetry Bookshop is #SarahHesketh 's brilliant new Charles Boyle collection #2016. Click through to our website to hear more about why we have chosen this title. vervepoetrybookshop.com


VERVE Poetry Bookshop Charles Boyle Poetry School The Poetry Society Apples and Snakes Manchester Writing School Sarah's book is one of five titles we have chosen to shout about this month, with others coming from Alex Dimitrov (Jonathan Cape) Karen Solie (Picador Books Lady Red Ego and the late great Professor Benjamin Zephaniah (Bloodaxe Books) Check out our site vervepoetrybookshop.com


VERVE Poetry Bookshop Charles Boyle Poetry School The Poetry Society Apples and Snakes Manchester Writing School Alex Dimitrov Jonathan Cape Karen Solie Picador Books Lady Red Ego Professor Benjamin Zephaniah Bloodaxe Books SOME other books that we can't wait for this month come from the brilliant Laurie Bolger Isabelle Baafi #JenHadfield @EmilyYoon and of course the wonderful Pascale Petit FRSL🐅🌳🦜🌳🐆 vervepoetrybookshop.com


VERVE Poetry Bookshop Charles Boyle Poetry School The Poetry Society Apples and Snakes Manchester Writing School Alex Dimitrov Jonathan Cape Karen Solie Picador Books Lady Red Ego Professor Benjamin Zephaniah Bloodaxe Books Laurie Bolger Isabelle Baafi @EmilyYoon Pascale Petit FRSL🐅🌳🦜🌳🐆 Looking further afield we have DISCOUNTED pre-orders up for glorious forthcoming collections from @luckyflowerhowe #SelimaHill Clare Pollard Mona Arshi and the awesome Luke Kennard plus many more! See what we've been up to vervepoetrybookshop.com



TOMORROW'S (Tuesday 8th's) zoom workshop with the incredible Theresa Lola has a couple of spaces left for late-comers. It's the reprisal of the brilliant After Poems that she delivered at #VERVE25! We'd love to see you there! tinyurl.com/24dp8r48


NEW TODAY from Verve Poetry Press Lady Red Ego ♥️

Unsure if X retains any space for literature or ecology now. With hate comes fear comes silence. Twitter was a place where ecopoetry on collaboration for & with the more than human could be a catalyst for change. Pamphlet pre orders now at Verve Poetry Press Verve Poetry Festival


I also just discovered that I have a poem on the Verve Poetry Festival substack today. It's a poem about home that came out of an excellent workshop with Marjorie Lofti (scroll down for poem) vervepoetry.substack.com/p/and-what-is-…