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Coming super soon! #REPOST @neoancients Step into a realm where comedy meets sound and spoken word. Lost Mythos asks why we turn to goddesses, spirits and heroes of legend when the world around us falters. Blending unruly local folklore with contemp

FOREST 🌲 I'm happy to say my new pamphlet is now on sale! Forest recounts the legend of the black pine that was the first tree to arrive in the young woodland at Sladebank, where I've been working as a poet in residence. Pines are a very ancient gen

Today I fulfilled a lifelong dream and saw PUFFINS for the very first time! They are just as comical and beautiful as I'd imagined, little cartoon birds among the guillemots and razorbills. Took no photos whatsoever but here's some other ace things o

I was thinking about a few things when I wrote this final poem in Red Handed, but most of all I was thinking about the exhilarating variousness and heterogeneity of our world, all of our natures, for we are all nature, all natural, however and whoeve

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Anyone else have to leave actual home to get a real break?!

LOST MYTHOS happening Sunday at Neoancients. Join us! Loads of ridiculously amazing stuff going on x #REPOST @neoancients with @download_repost_pro - It’s been a beast to collate for you guys, but finally it’s the NeoAncients weekend sche

Fox know how to do Sunday 😴

Congratulations @skatepotts on the new collection Pretenders @bloodaxebooks Lovely reading, gorgeous venue in the walled garden at @museuminthepark 🌷🌼💐🌸🌻🌷🪻⚘️🌲thanks for having me x

Joy of joys starting rehearsals this afternoon for our poetry-comedy-music show LOST MYTHOS! 💙🧡💚

coming up! hope to see you somewhere on the road x

Cloud lake love 💙

ABERGAVENNY • Calling ye Welsh poetry compadres! I'll be reading next month with scouse legend Phil Bowen at @melvillearts and would love to see you there 💓 Tuesday 13th May 7pm 💓corr there's a lot going on at the mo eh? 🐝
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ON INTUTION / ecofeminist poetics / the personal is political and it can't be bought ✊🏼 🔗 in stories or say "hello" below and I'll DM you the link x

Looking to the week ahead, I'm super happy to be supporting @skatepotts for the local launch of her new collection Pretenders with @cath.drake & @adam.horovitz in the gorgeous walled garden @museuminthepark 🤓🌱🌷💚

Last few copies of Lake 32 🧡💙 you read through old work and think god I'd change that line break now or sort that syntax but you were who you were and where you were at and I think it's important to be kind to our old poet souls and how we learn an

No jokes here but a lovely surprise to get the proofs of my new pamphlet FOREST today - the whole thing has come together so quickly and here we are - a gorgeous evergreen cover, high white laid paper and a stunning image from Sarah Gillespie on the

I can confirm that sitting in the bloody chair and doing the bloody writing gets it bloody well done. Eventually. Time for a drink 🍸 happy Friday folks🍹

#REPOST @hazelpresspublisher with @download_repost_pro - News of an event being co-created by Sara Hudston of Hazel Press with @blackvenwriter, @jlmmorton and Emma Kernahan of @stroudmythicalentities

An afternoon among the trees in a Dorset cider o