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VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social · 18h

A Heads-up. After our wonderful pop-up event at @BhamLitFest at the weekend we return to our home #HiveJewelryQuater on Tuesday 21st Oct from 6.30pm (7.30 start). Open mic only, for poets brand new or old hands. Let us know you're coming! tinyurl.com/5y3dm94r

VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social · 18h

A Heads-up. After our wonderful pop-up event at @BhamLitFest at the weekend we return to our home #HiveJewelryQuater on Tuesday 21st Oct from 6.30pm (7.30 start). Open mic only, for poets brand new or old hands. Let us know you're coming! tinyurl.com/5y3dm94r

VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social · 1d

Shortlisted in May.

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VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social · 1d

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VERVE Poetry Festival | Substack

Birmingham-based poetry org running VERVE Poetry Festival + year-round projects that champion new voices + community. VERVE is a home for poetry that is live, lived, + alive. Click to read VERVE Poetr...

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VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social · 1d

£3.50 a month keeps the kettle warm, the poems coming, and the doors open to a thriving poetry community.

Choose Monthly, Annual, or Founding Member and become part of our network x

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VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social · 1d

Keeping poetry alive between festivals. Join our community for a monthly writing hour, insider reflections, and early-bird access to workshops and tickets.

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VERVE Poem of the Month

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VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social · 2d

We’re building sustainable opportunities for poets — welcoming everyone from dabblers of the written word to published professionals (though we’re yet to meet a poet who declares themselves as one).

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VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social · 2d

Shortlisted back in June for Poem of the Month, our rolling submission window that gifts £100 to the winning poem and publishes shortlisted works on Substack.

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Kate Howlett

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VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social · 3d

This gorgeous poem shortlisted in July by Dean Atta noticed grapefruit segments as invitations for personal and relational change x

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VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social · 7d

OUR ONLINE BOOKSHOP NEWSLETTER has just dropped announcing our special October offer - across all titles for October only we are offering a 20% discount for a £30 spend. Offer lasts until midnight on 31st Oct. Click through to read more: tinyurl.com/mrx5s77a 😍

VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social · 6d

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VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social · 6d

Nesting Grounds
Milla van der Have

Shortlisted September.

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VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social · 7d

Offer applies to ALL books incl this year's top paperbacks from #PascalePetit @BloodaxeBooks #SarahHowe @ChattoBooks #FionaBenson @JonathanCape #RichardScott @FaberBooks and preorders from #TishaniDoshi #KarenMcCarthyWoolf @DaljitNagra4 and #AdaLimon and more! ❤️ vervepoetrybookshop.com

Pictures of book selections. Visit our website to read more.

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VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social · 8d

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VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social · 7d

OUR ONLINE BOOKSHOP NEWSLETTER has just dropped announcing our special October offer - across all titles for October only we are offering a 20% discount for a £30 spend. Offer lasts until midnight on 31st Oct. Click through to read more: tinyurl.com/mrx5s77a 😍

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VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social · 9d

Shortlisted in May

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MAY Poems of the Month

Congratulations to Sam Tongue for the winning poem Bone Garden, and well done to the shortlisted poems featured in this post. May was feral, funny, and full of feeling.

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VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social · 9d

The Phoenix Community Garden
@pimlottkathy.bsky.social

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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 9d

With the nights drawing in, it's definitely time to snuggle up with a book in the dark evenings, perhaps our Featured Publication - How to Leave a Body by Holly Winter-Hughes

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