Survivors' Poetry 🎤📚🌈

We send out a weekly bulletin to the NSUN membership, a network of people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress or trauma.

Containing updates from NSUN, blogs, free events and paid involvement and recruitment opportunities, scroll for an example of its contents 🧵

Unmissable! Tuesday 10th at The Harrison. Three old friends of Survivors' Poetry in the house: MC Jason Why; guest poet Wendy Young; psychedelic folk whimsy from guest musician John Arthur. Doors open 7.00pm. Say hi, sign up for floor spots. Show starts 7.30pm. £5 cash on the door to cover overheads

Counting down to a very exciting evening in prospect at the SP Zoom Party. Open mic! International line-up and audiences! Live music! Good company! No entry fees! 🥰🥰🥰

Join us on Tuesday, it will be great!

SP is Live at The Harrison Tuesday 10th February. MC is the brilliant Steve Tasane, and our featured guests are poet Richard Downes and singer songwriter Kath Tait.
Doors/sign up for floor spots 7.00pm. Performance starts 7.30.
£5 cash to help cover costs on the door please.
See you next Tuesday 😊

Our monthly Zoom Party 👇👇👇🥳🥰

Tomorrow evening! Our first Survivors' Poetry Zoom Party of the year. Do come along and join us, read a couple of poems 'from the floor' if you like - no fee!!! 🥰

Survivors' Poetry are building our website and one work in progress is a gallery of writers and artists connected to the collective - the first four responders are up there now - check it out! survivorspoetry.co.uk/poets-and-po...

Poets of Bluesky, come and join us in the Zoom Room on Tuesday 27th January from 7.00. Always a fabulous evening with @survivors-poetry.bsky.social 🙏🏼

Zoom Party on Tuesday 27th January, with MC Pat Flowers, and two brilliant headliners Lilac Underworld and Lee Campbell. If you don't have the Zoom link drop us a line to survivorspoetryevents@gmail.com
Doors open 7.00 to say hi, sign in for open mic, show starts 7.30
See you in the Zoom Room! ☺️

Thank you! 🙏🙏

A great evening of words and music at Survivors' Poetry in King's Cross this evening with among many others @ajmurraymints.bsky.social @chrisleeds.bsky.social George Harris and featured musician Emma Scarr 🥰

Survivors' Poetry, live at The Harrison this evening 🥰

Tonight's the night! Ease away those mid-January biorhythmic blues with poetry and music and a friendly crowd in the basement room of the Harrison. Five quid on the door and a legendary and lovely London local pub upstairs also offering its hospitality.... Open mic for anyone who wants to read..🥰

We are greatly looking forward to hosting @jeffcottrill.bsky.social as one of two featured poets in our open mic evening of words and music at The Harrison in King's Cross on Tuesday 9 June...

Here is a link to a recording of an interview Carl Chamberlain did with Alastair Murray @ajmurraymints.bsky.social on his Monday Club Show on Riverside Radio, with reflections on the origins of Survivors' Poetry, the healing power of sharing survival stories, and where we are at today
bit.ly/4qc1vez

What is needed to fix homelessness in 2026? Efforts to tackle homelessness in 2026 will see the Vagrancy Act finally scrapped. But politicians must make it more than a symbolic gesture.

🗞 "We need a stepchange in how we deal with homelessness."

Our codirector Jess Turtle wrote the New Years opinion piece for The Big Issue saying what is needed from politicians in 2026:

www.bigissue.com/opinion/home...

Looking forward to this! 🙏🏼☺️

Advance invitation for our first Survivors' Zoom Party of 2026 with Lee Campbell www.instagram.com/leejjcampbel... and Lilac Underworld instagram.com/lilacunderwo... and an international gathering of open mic artists...the original and best! 🥰 Drop us a line to get onto the mailing list 🙏🤜🤛🙏

Happy New Year to all our friends & followers! Coming up, our first gig of 2026 at The Harrison. Featured poet is "rude, smutty and comical" Heather Mary Sullivan, guest musician Walthamstow's finest Emma Scarr. MC Carl Chamberlain. Poets & musicians from the floor warmly welcome! Love & solidarity🎆

First announcement for our first event of 2026...

...every home should have one...🥰

These are our two anthologies of survivor poetry:

From dark to light (1992) ISBN 1 874595 00 3
Under the asylum tree (1995) ISBN 1 874595 01 1

We'd love to hear from anyone who has copies of these, to find out what the books mean to you and which poems are your favourites...

survivorspoetry.co.uk

A reminder about the online launch of the Winter 2025 @asylummagazine.bsky.social Issue

Join us for the online launch on Friday, 19 December at 6pm UK time

You can register here:
bit.ly/Asylumlaunch...

All welcome ❤️

Thank you so much, that is so very helpful!! 🙏🙏

Thank you for this super-prompt response! 🙏🙏

@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Hello Paul would you be able to add us to your very wonderful poetry starter packs, help us spread the word? We have just followed every account in your three poetry packs! 🥰

Please could you add us to your writers/poets starter pack? And perhaps there are opportunities here to network survivor voices via our monthly legendary survivor open mic sessions (Zoom and live in London both!) 🥰

I am very pleased & proud to say that I am now officially a Trustee of @survivors-poetry.bsky.social, which exists to promote poetry by survivors - to support survivor poets - to challenge social & cultural definitions of poets and poetry - to make connections between creativity and mental health ❤️