DJs Jimmy Two Shoes and Dr Aditi will provide some sweet tunes at our next MUSHAIRA — a night of poetry, music, and food 🎶
June 14 2025 7:30pm @cafeotodalston.bsky.social
We’ll be joined by poets✨
@sarahali.bsky.social
@sabadilla15.bsky.social
@susanpoet.bsky.social
@rushikawick.bsky.social
Rushika Wick (@rushikawick.bsky.social) will be joining us at our next MUSHAIRA — a night of poetry, music, and food.
June 25 2025, 7:30pm @cafeotodalston.bsky.social
Tickets at the link in bio!
DJs Jimmy Two Shoes & Dr Aditi will provide tunes, while Chef Yogi sells delicious Sri Lankan food ✨
Sale at @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social - my pamphlet Vital Capacity now £5.25, and so much else to explore. Have just picked up recent work by @danielghinds.bsky.social & @rushikawick.bsky.social & Rhian Elizabeth 📚
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A special summer edition of MUSHAIRA — a night of poetry, music, and food.
We’ll be joined by poets
@sarahali.bsky.social
@sabadilla15.bsky.social
@susanpoet.bsky.social
@rushikawick.bsky.social
DJs Jimmy Two Shoes & Dr Aditi will provide tunes, while Chef Yogi sells delicious Sri Lankan food ✨
Jhalak Prize 2025 Poetry Shortlist Gboyega Odubanjo’s, Adam Azad Ashim Sharma, Boiled Owls Mimi Khalvati, Collected pOems Amaan Hydar, Self-Portrait with Family Rushika Wick, Horse Karen McCarthy Woolf, Top Doll
💫 We’re delighted that Boiled Owls by @azad-ashim.bsky.social is shortlisted for the 2025 Jhalak Prize for Poetry 💫
❤️🔥 to see Gboyega Odubanjo’s Adam there, & alongside titles by @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social @rushikawick.bsky.social
🙏 to the judging panel & congrats to all the shortlisted poets
Book cover for Opening Line, edited by Aaron Kent. The background features a wavy, abstract pattern in orange and beige. The title 'OPENING LINE' is in large, bold black serif letters at the top. Below, in smaller serif font, it reads 'Edited by Aaron Kent.' A thin black horizontal line separates the title from the subtitle, which states, 'An affordable anthology of contemporary poetry' in an italic serif font. At the bottom, the publisher's name, 'Broken Sleep Books,' is displayed in black serif text, followed by another thin black horizontal line. The price, '£3.99,' is in black serif font at the bottom.
PREORDER (28.02.2025): Opening Line is a £3.99 poetry anthology built on the principle that access to the arts should not be a privilege. This anthology dismantles economic barriers that too often limit audiences from engaging with contemporary poetry.
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Excited for this curated by the super-talented and equally just lovely human being @hannahcopley.bsky.social
I’ve come up with a new quarterly event series called @writeback.bsky.social at the British Library.
The format is each writer presents for 20 min on a subject of their choice, then in the second half the writers interview each other. It’ll be hosted by @helenmort.bsky.social.
Join us! Dark times, let’s be together and be lit by creation and community
How lovely! Thank you @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social
Horse is being shared tomorrow night 7 pm at Morocco Bound Books - there’s a film, music and guest readers - free, you are invited!
Congratulations to the winners of the #JamesBerryPoetryPrize 2024:
Clementine Ewokolo Burnley
Nadine El-Enany
Roshni Gallagher
All three will have their first full-length collections published by Bloodaxe in 2026. Find out more about the poets and the prize: bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...
TRY TO FIND ME, the latest collection by Tessa Foley is available to order from LIVE CANON.
Read endorsements from Fran Lock & Glyn Maxwell if you need to be convinced!
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