Laura Strickland

Thanks Roger! 💖

Brilliant Anne-Marie, we have to try xxx

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Honoured to judge the National Poetry Competition again. As an ex-winner, I know how life-changing it is to find your work validated by experts; as a former judge, I know it's a real privilege to read work people put the best of themselves into making. Take a punt and good luck.

Photo of two people with headphones on

Reading poems at a microphone

Photo of St James’ Hospital’s chapel

Poem called The Story I Tell Myself

It’s Learning Disability Week 2025 and yesterday I read some poems at St James’ Hospital, Leeds. Met lovely nurses who make me hopeful for care offered to people with additional needs. Here’s one of the poems, published in Butcher’s Dog last year xxx

You too!!

I had something come back this week and when I read it back I could see loads of amendments so it will have a redraft and be sent back out into the world again 🙃💖

Oh I love this!

Love this book!

Photo of Wendy’s computer showing a PowerPoint set up for her talk The Ghost Lake with lots of interesting slides of landscape and archeology.

This is the first time I’ve used a power point to talk about my nature-landscape memoir, The Ghost Lake. I’m praying to the gods of technology that all goes well with it.

Come along to Filey lit fest today, the evron centre 1.30 to see me fly or fail! It’s just £5.00 and you can pay on the door.

An autumnal collection of nature finds including shells, pebbles, feathers, seedheads and lichen

A large mounted print of floral finds from my garden in May

Floral finds from my garden during a very mild spell in February 2019

Garden and common hedgerow floral finds in Norfolk in September 2021

My Etsy shop's now open for small & large limited ed'n fine art signed mounted prints & frameable greetings cards of my botanical collections.

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Thank you! I’m becoming obsessed with early drafts! 💖

Sorry to hear this💖I meant to reach out and say how wonderful I thought your poem (and the way you read it) was at Go to the Poets xxx

Early handwritten draft of poem showing lines crossed out

Poem of two stanzas printed in Atrium journal

Poem published in @atriumpoetry.bsky.social today. Here’s an early draft next to the final published poem. Thanks so much @atriumpoetry.bsky.social @hollyannepoet.bsky.social @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social what you do for poets is appreciated xxx

Oh I remember that feeling David! Enjoy your dissertation X

Thanks Anna for all the work you do for writers who are carers. Your posts today are so postive and supportive, particularly to those of us who didn’t make the list this time. It’s much appreciated 💖💖💖

He looks like he has a flower pinned to his head. Absolutely gorgeous!! 💖

If you can help, please do. #curae is not publicly funded - it’s me and a very small volunteer team. We’re up to £820 on the bursary fund for our three eventual winners. Unpaid care is intersectional with financial hardship & many challenges. Let’s do this.

Oh yes! Do it Laura! 🙃😆💖

They’re so gorgeous!! 😆💖

Ooh is that the new cherry magnum?! X

‘Don’t self reject’ is great advice. It’s a reminder to me to stop these thoughts in their tracks! I often talk myself in and out of things instead of taking action so I will take this advice on 💖

Oh thanks so much Corinna! It’s a strange one for sure 😆💖

Thanks so much Abbi! 💖

Photo of my notebook at Arvon just after @carolinebirduk.bsky.social gave us the prompt. I’m pleased to see the neighbour collecting budgie feathers survived through to the final poem! @atriumpoetry.bsky.social @hollyannepoet.bsky.social @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social @arvonfoundation.bsky.social

In 2023 at Arvon, @carolinebirduk.bsky.social read James Tate’s ‘I left my couch in Tatamagouche’. The prompt was to write about attempting to do something ridiculous. My poem in Atrium today is the result. Thank you Caroline! Thank you @hollyannepoet.bsky.social @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social

Thank you so much @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social and @hollyannepoet.bsky.social for publishing my poem today. It means the absolute world to me 💖💖💖

That feeling when you finally make progress with a poem that has been bothering you for months! 😇💖

It’s because of you that I try and remember to do Alt Text. Thank you 💖😊💖