
Lesley Sharpe
@lesleyksharpe
teaching literature & writing | co-founder @LodestonePoets | editor Heron creative journal Katherine Mansfield Society | essays, reviews, poems | @reddoorpoets
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http://www.poetry-garden.com 06-03-2015 23:04:10
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Thrilled to have come third in Cafe Writers wonderful competition, judged by John McCullough 🏳️🌈 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻Congratulations to Esther Morgan, Laura McKee & all commended poets ✨ - looking forward to their zoom event on 10th March, with readings by John and the other poets 💫



Here is my spring and summer book tour for BEAST – published on 24 April by Bloodaxe Books, the South West is truly covered! I'm now taking bookings for late summer & autumn into winter, open to offers


Pascale Petit FRSL🐅🌳🦜🌳🐆 Bloodaxe Books Red Door Poets are so proud to be hosting your launch on 17 June in London

@RedDoorPoets Bloodaxe Books and I’m so pleased to be launching Beast in London at Red Door Poets! ❤️♥️❤️



Brilliant news Fiona Larkin @fionalarkin.bsky.social - warmest congrats and to all who were successful in Nat Poetry comp / including Lesley Sharpe Chris Beckett and Chris Hardy Vasiliki Albedo Vanessa Lampert


✨Coming up on 17th June @RedDoorPoets Summer Party LIVE at the CAA in Covent Garden with Pascale Petit FRSL🐅🌳🦜🌳🐆 for London launch of BEAST Bloodaxe Books plus Richard Scott Faber Books & Katrina Naomi Seren Books plus @RedDoorPoets book free tickets here eventbrite.co.uk/e/red-door-poe…


Coming up this Sunday 🌟Join us on 25th for @redddoorpoets Neil Douglas, Gillie Robic & Chris Hardy reading with special guests Ellen McAteer 🇮🇪🏴🏳️🌈 Verve Poetry Press Red Squirrel Press Nicky Kippax & Robert Hamberger John Murray Press ✨tickets free on eventbrite. eventbrite.com/e/red-door-poe…


Many good poems and many many difficult decisions later, we have the shortlist for the inaugural Kathryn Bevis Memorial Poetry Competition 2025. Congratulations to all shortlisted, winners will be announced shortly. The Writing School Mary Mulholland Vasiliki Albedo Hélène Demetriades


Congratulations to all poets shortlisted for the 2025 Kathryn Bevis Memorial Prize, this includes Jane Bonnyman, @rainbow_poems, @catherine_redford, Lesley Sharpe, Rosie Jackson, @poetr_imi, Bean Sawyer, Jen Feroze 💙,Emma Elobeid (she/her)...

🌟Today at 6pm 🌟 @RedDoorPoets with very special guests Ellen McAteer 🇮🇪🏴🏳️🌈 Nicky Kippax Robert Hamberger reading with Gillie Robic Neil Douglas & Chris Hardy eventbrite.com/e/red-door-poe…



Keep sending in those food poems, The Alchemy Spoon is hungry! Issue 16. submission window until the end of June.