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Clashing ideas - When my lovely husky unexpectedly passed away in 2022, I happened to be reading Augustine's Confessions. My mind couldn't disassociate the two - dog & god - and the result was this poem: girton.cam.ac.uk/news/2023-winn…

Reserve your place at our Triple Book Launch 📚 🎥 If you can't make it live, you'll get a recording link to watch afterwards, so you really can enjoy from anywhere 🌍 Tuesday 22nd July 7pm BST ⬇️

For all its gorgeously cerebral mysticism, Ricky Ray's 'The Soul We Share' sacrifices nothing of its down-to-earth approach to tackling the climate crisis in ways that are whole-souled and masterfully conceived. One not to miss. #currentlyreading Fly on the Wall Press

I'm delighted to be giving a short reading on T. S. Eliot and poetic trauma at The Value of Literature Conference next Friday. You can catch me at Lancaster Castle from 11:15am-12:15pm as part of the 'Transformed by Words' Panel. Tickets are free to book: tinyurl.com/5xweb233

Our Northern Publishers' Fair is back this Autumn! 📅 Saturday 27th September, 11am-3:30pm Manchester Libraries ✨ 16 publishers (and new agents table!) across all genres ✨ Author book signings Perfect for readers, writers & literature lovers. fly-on-the-wall-press.eventcube.io/events/87204/n…

Don Paterson, “Nostalgia” lest I forget the stars are also under us

SEAMUS HEANEY New Selected Poems 1988-2013 ⁦Faber Books⁩ As we get used to lyric as more than one thing after another, returning to Heaney has an almost liturgical effect of impersonal authority. His way with narrative is exemplary, even mythical, ontologically resonant.

Are you a UK poet looking for a publishing and mentoring opportunity? Enter PRIMERS 8. What's our selecting editor Laurie Bolger looking for? Read her blog for encouragement, tips & motivation: ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/06/primer… Full PRIMERS submission criteria ninearchespress.com/primers

My link for the first launch (online) of ‘the elimination game’ (Broken Sleep) 30 July -book here eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sleep… And if you’re in London on 8 August come to the in incredible L live launch eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-dazzling-p…

📢TONIGHT - PLEASE SIGN UP BY 6PM Celebrate these 3 glorious books, all out now. Triple Online Launch with Erica Hesketh, Rosie Garland & Julia Webb Tues 22 July 7pm BST Pay What You Can from £1 🎥 Recording link sent in case you can't join us live eventbrite.co.uk/e/133372440860…