🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Looking forward to this new collection. 💫

A love poem by Jack Underwood 🥚

Don't forget - the Free Verse: Book & Magazine Fair is coming up on 26 April! There is no fee to attend, but we'd love to get a sense for how many people are coming. You help us, we help you: those who pre-register via our website could win a £50 spending spree at Free Verse!

Or not sleeping, in my case.

Next up at Rise Up! Tickets on sale now. Rachel Long! Minal Sukumar! ioney smallhorne! ✨

Spring slots available ☀️🖋️

Really chuffed that my poem, Janet’s Foss, is The Poetry Society ‘poem of the month’ after being chosen by Jane Clarke as a winning entry on the theme of stone. Thank you! 🪨✨

We are nearly half way to our goal in under three weeks - We are going to be able to take so many poetry books to UK state secondary schools! But we want to take more so please have a look at our fundraiser and give what you can. 🙏 fundrazr.com/22Wg69?ref=sh_… #poetrycommunity

Join us in two weeks for our next online launch event! We'll be launching titles by Pascale Petit and Vidyan Ravinthiran, and by the late and much missed Benjamin Zephaniah. Tues 22 April, 7pm BST - Watch live or later on YouTube. bloodaxebooks.com/events?article…

❛ Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious; because it cannot be entirely accounted for, it cannot be exhausted. A wish for poet and Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück, born #OTD in 1943.

In this stunning Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation /writersmosaic film directed by Savannah Acquah, Marjorie Lotfi is filmed reciting the final poem from her Forward Prizes-winning debut collection The Wrong Person to Ask. writersmosaic.org.uk/insight/the-he…

96% of teachers said that a poet visit positively affected their pupils' learning. Head to bit.ly/PoetsInSchools to find out more and book a poet to visit your school or organisation for National Poetry Day (Thursday 2 October 2025).

This fundraiser has raised 84% of its target… woohoooo! Can you spread the word and help get it over the line?!?! Poetry Books for Secondary School Libraries by Live Canon fundrazr.com/campaigns/22Wg…

What a Rise Up! Rachel Long ioney smallhorne & Minal Sukumar were absolutely captivating. Thank you, poets! 🩵✨ Next up…. Nafeesa Hamid is headlining! Join us on Weds 21st May for what will be an extraordinary night. Tix on sale now… eventbrite.com/e/rise-up-a-ce…

We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a class problem.

Poem published in Atrium Poetry today. Here’s an early draft and then the final version. Looks like I went long before I could settle on the images. Thanks to HollyannePoet Claire Walker for accepting my little poem 💖Manchester Writing School

Next week! Fancy it? If so, you’ll be needing a ticket and you can find them here: eventbrite.com/e/rise-up-a-ce…

I’ll be closing this account now. But you can find me (not too far away) on Instagram… instagram.com/nickykippaxwri…