Working with my university library to build an extensive list of indie publishers - this will be used as resource for academics (particularly when building course reading lists!!) and will also be handy for sourcing new library acquisitions☺️ Tag your favourites below!
PRACTICING POETS!! I'm running a micro-lecture in a couple of weeks on 'how far can we push the sonnet?' - I'd love to know (if you work - or have worked - in this form) why you feel the sonnet is still written in 2022?
Yesterday I graduated from my PhD alongside so many of my wonderful, creative, resilient, caring, energetic, determined, attentive, curious, eloquent, diligent, witty, brilliant undergraduate students. What an honour! Thank you
@RoyalHolloway
🎓
Over the moon to announce that yesterday I passed my PhD Viva with NO CORRECTIONS! A big thank you to Prof David Herd and Dr Steve Wiley for such an exciting, generous, and thorough conversation, Prof Judith Hawley For chairing, and my incredible supervisor Prof Redell Olsen ☺️
GIDDY to announce that I'll be joining the wonderful SUNY Buffalo team developing the HOW(ever) & How2 digital archives. The influence of Kathleen Fraser on my poetic, editorial, and pedagogical practice has been immense, and I'm over-the-moon to be playing a role in ensuring 1/2
A teeeeeeeny sneak peek at a small selection of the texts I’m incorporating into the reading list for the Poetry pathway of the Creative Writing MA✨ The closing date for applications is 31st July 2024
Hello friends - I've just been offered a dream job for the upcoming year! and I don't know if I can say much about it for now! but I want you to know that I'm very excited! and happy! and can't wait to share the news properly!
In my new appointment I'll be leading the Poetry pathway of the MA in Creative Writing at
@RoyalHolloway
- if you have any questions about the course or would like to find out more, please do get in touch!
The dimensions, weight, short-edge binding, and vast white spaces of Rhizomes (
@brokensleep
) are intended to match the sketch book I originally used to document the stems and root systems found in my garden throughout the project! [...]
This year I set up Osmosis Press (and published two WONDERFUL books), had my debut collection commissioned and also a pamphlet accepted - both for 2023, Rewilding was listed in the Amazon top 10 poetry anthologies, I had work featured on World Literature Today [...] 1/3
Words from the Wild: a sneak peek!
This exhibition brings together a range of UK and international eco-poets questioning and reimagining human relationships with our earth and its fellow inhabitants🌿🐻🐰🐝
'To be a poet, in other words, is to draw on the verbal pool we all share but to choose one's words and phrases with an eye to unexpected relationships - verbal, visual, sonic—that create a new construct and context-relationships that create infrathin possibilities. And not [...]
Yesterday my surgeon asked me about my PhD and then asked if I want to be a writer. For the first time ever, I replied “I am a writer”😉 Thank you
@brokensleep
for helping exciting little moments like this happen
Tomorrow, a small edition of 3 ‘Bikini’ object poems (as seen in ‘The Mouth of a Lion’ by
@steelincisors
) will be available to order via direct message. The work will sit in a small, padded archival box. £30 plus p&p 🌊
Ok somehow Rewilding has reached number 10 on the poetry anthology bestseller list! Thank you so much for the love everybody I don’t know what is happening🌿💙
The second wave of the Surrey Poetry Festival lineup has just been announced!
@pamenarpress
will deliver a publisher talk on multilingualism and feminist publication,
@NadiraWallace
will be reading from their new
@GuillemotPress
pamphlet Sidekicks for Clouds - Booking link below!
The poetry feature in Resurgence and Ecologist is BACK and looking BEAUTIFUL. Rachel Marsh and I felt Astra Papachristodoulou’s urgent writing on the Rhodes wildfires would be the perfect way to introduce readers to the role poetry can play in a climate-altered future🌿
Tickets are now LIVE for the 2024 Surrey Poetry Festival hosted by
@SurreySLL
and
@ZeroGuildford
! Join us for readings, workshops, and an independent press book fair - the perfect way to celebrate the end of my residency! Eventbrite link in thread🦌🍃
I can’t believe that it’s been a week since we launched
@HeyAstranaut
’s exhibition at
@natpoetrylib
@southbankcentre
✨ The audience was so generous and enthusiastic - a real career highlight ☀️
This afternoon we are launching David Gaffney’s Whale at The Beacon Museum in Whitehaven🐋 This is our first fiction publication with
@OsmosisPress
and I’m incredibly excited! 🌊
Tried to follow a bunch of new people this evening! Hello!! I’d love to find out more about your writing/art practice/research. Please do reply to this tweet with a link✨✍️
After an exciting discussion during Friday’s Small Press Town Hall, we are setting up a WhatsApp group. If you run a small press, edit an independent magazine, or an involved in models of self publishing, please do consider joining ✨
Looking forward to running the second tutorial of my
@BrilliantClub
KS4 programme! It’s a privilege to introduce young people to some of my favourite poets and creative methodologies ✨
“Hughes’ lyrics are swept away by the rapture of the fire; the concrete poems become textual gestures with a kind of kinetic energy that pulses outward” (Astra Papachristodoulou, The Poetry Review) 🍃🌾🔥
Absolutely devastated by the fire on Chobham Common - it hurts my heart to think about how much wildlife is currently dying and habitat destroyed. Pictures: my living room window, Sunningdale, Sunningdale Golf Course
Royal Holloway Library (
@RHUL_Library
) has curated a display of books to accompany Words from the Wild! A fabulous range of texts including Drucker, Dungy, and Swensen
Windsor Great Park has gifted
@RoyalHolloway
50 saplings grown from its collection of ancient and veteran oak trees! The acorns were collected to safeguard the genetic legacies of these trees - the oldest is estimated to be 1,300 years old! I was invited to write a poem …
To celebrate our
@SabotageReviews
award shortlisting, I’ve decided to take Rewilding out on my walk to rediscover some of the wonderful work from our contributors 💙
I’ve been a busy bee curating this exciting exhibition alongside
@carolineyolande
, Gareth Hughes, and the wonderful Culture Team at
@royalholloway
🌿
Can’t wait for the doors to open on 17th Jan🐝
Please cross your paws for my beautiful boy - Bumble has had a poorly tummy this evening (can be very serious for rabbits) but he’s trying really hard to eat 🤍
HIVE MIND PLEASE HELP!🐝 I’m working with a group of very creative year 9s who have been experimenting with collage, erasure, & procedural poetry. Some of the pieces they have written are VERY STRONG! Any leads on where I can encourage these pupils to send work & find community?
At today’s Surrey Poetry Festival I’m going to be reading from ‘Faulty Copy’, an artist’s book which tunnels through Virginia Woolf’s ‘The Waves’ via highlighting, annotation, underlining, and marginalia found in 3
@RHUL_Library
copies of the text✨
Today I set my first years the 'homework' of doing at least 1 thing that makes them happy every day. I have asked them to report back next week. I'm hoping this will give the students motivation or 'permission' to take time for self-care. Hoping other educators will do the same☺️
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: BIG fan of Glasgow. Thank you to everybody who popped by for the launch of Milk and An Aura of Plasma Around the Sun! Happy happy☀️
I am so incredibly proud to have organised this year’s SOLD OUT Surrey Poetry Festival - a day of community, joy, creativity, and collaboration💕 Thank you to everybody who participated and attended - my
@UniOfSurrey
residency has certainly ended in style!
📷:
@LamerPascale