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Rosie Hadden @rosiehadden.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing list and how lucky are we that Isabelle Baafi is coming to Cornwall this month to offer a reading and a workshop at The Writers Block hosted by @Falmouthpoetrygroup

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T. S. Eliot Prize @tseliotprize.bsky.social · 2d

We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist!
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."

Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/

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Rosie Hadden @rosiehadden.bsky.social · 6d

Delighted to be welcoming Isabelle Baafi to Cornwall @falmouthpoetrygp.bsky.social She will be offering a workshop and a reading at The Writer's Block Redruth on Sunday 19th October. Chaotic Good one of my favourite books @faberbooks.bsky.social Fingers crossed @forwardprizes.bsky.social

Rosie Hadden @rosiehadden.bsky.social · 11d

Love this image.

sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 12d

The night draws near.
Sleep, the elusive figment, is above you, like cloud.

Art: Odilon Redon, 1892

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Rosie Hadden @rosiehadden.bsky.social · 13d

Found this beautiful @janeclarke.bsky.social poem in Poets Lane way Roscommon today. Look forward to meeting her in N9vember with @marjorielotfi.bsky.social retreat in Scotland.

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Rosie Hadden @rosiehadden.bsky.social · 28d

Placed my tote bag with @Zaffarkunials poem on Gaza in the window of @Cornwallpoetrylibrary. Such horrors in Gaza and elsewhere in the world. What can we do?

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Katrina Naomi @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social · Aug 14

I'll be reading at #northcornwallbookfestival on Sat 27 Sept with @pascalepetit.bsky.social & running a workshop on writing from the body on Sun 28 at 10 am. Booking open now via #endelientaarts
endelienta.org.uk/whats-on/ncb...

#poetry
#batteryrocks
#danceasif
#beast
#poetryincornwall
#festival

NCBF 2025: Poetry with Pascale Petit & Katrina Naomi - Endelienta Arts

endelienta.org.uk

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Katrina Naomi @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social · Aug 18

'dance as if' @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social will be launched on 25 Sept at the Edge of the World Bookshop in Penzance. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Other events to follow.
#danceasif #booklaunch #poetry #poetswhodance

Book Launch with Katrina Naomi

Join us in the bookshop for an evening celebrating local, award-winning poet, Katrina Naomi, for the launch her new pamphlet 'Dance As If'.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Rosie Hadden @rosiehadden.bsky.social · Aug 24

Delighted to receive my copy of The North and find my poem nestled in here amongst many poetry friends. Fabulous magazine. Thanks for publishing A Night out in Tyrone. #Poetry #poetrymagazine

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jul 2

I support Palestine Action.
I hate all forms of violence.
I wish no harm on anyone.
I just want a kinder, fairer, greener world.
Apparently this makes me a terrorist.
But I am the opposite of a terrorist.

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The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · Jul 3

No genre rules. Just style, guts, and urgency. Give me something that stinks of real life. Submit Aug 1–31.
👉 shorturl.at/eTSjI
👤 @AlanParry83.bsky.social

The Broken Spine Summer Competition 2025: Submit Bold Poetry and Fearless Prose for Publication - The Broken Spine

This August, The Broken Spine opens submissions for our 2025 Summer Competition. We’re seeking poetry and prose that refuses to flinch, writing that risks,

shorturl.at

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Marjorie Lotfi @marjorielotfi.bsky.social · Jun 18

An old poem, perfectly relevant today. 🇮🇷 💔

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Rosie Hadden @rosiehadden.bsky.social · Jun 9

Inspired listening to @ericahesketh webinar on form @ninearchespress.bsky.social #poetryform #poetrywebinar

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · Jun 8

The John Hewitt Summer School in Armagh, a Festival of Literature, Arts & Politics is on from 28th July – 2nd August 2025 and has very generous bursaries available.

Link here :

johnhewittsociety.org/bursary-appl...

Please share :)

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Katrina Naomi @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social · Jun 2

Here's 'short & sweet' my #poetry newsletter us7.admin.mailchimp.com/campaigns/sh... feat Fiona Benson's #middenwitch plus **exclusive** book news for readers & subscribers. Also feat @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social @rtbspokenword.com

Copy of Midden Witch by Fiona Benson, a dark cover with a blue flower, on wooden floor board

A smiling woman with long hair and a quiff, in a lively blue and white Hawaiian shirt, with a backdrop of sea and an island

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Rosie Hadden @rosiehadden.bsky.social · Jun 1

Back with a bundle of books from Launceston Poetry Festival. Inspired by a day of so many brilliant poets @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social @pascalepetit.bsky.social @FionaBenson @isabelleBaafi and more @ellafrears.bsky.social for her wit humour and poems. Loved both her performances.

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Rosie Hadden @rosiehadden.bsky.social · May 20

Thanks so much Wren

Rosie Hadden @rosiehadden.bsky.social · May 19

Marrowmagazine.com/hymns-of-the-body/

Hymns of the Body 1 – marrow magazine

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Rosie Hadden @rosiehadden.bsky.social · May 19

Thanks to The Marrow Magazine for publishing a recent poem. Hymns of the Body 1. Always good to see a poem fly out into the world. #poem #publication

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Guillemot Press @guillemotpress.bsky.social · Apr 25

Guillemot Press has been helping the new Launceston Poetry Festival happening at the end of May in Cornwall. The list of performers is amazing...

For more info and to buy tickets visit causleytrust.org/the-launceston-poetry-festival/

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Rosie Hadden @rosiehadden.bsky.social · May 6

Spending this afternoon with Eavan Boland drinking cups of tea and wandering the ideas of exile, home place and womanhood in Cornwall Poetry Library. How I feel being exiled from Ulster, the language of my childhood and adolesence. How a war drove me out. How so many people are displaced by war.

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Rosie Hadden @rosiehadden.bsky.social · Apr 9

Loving these early mornings with @marjorielotfi.bsky.social It's amazing what comes through your pen in the half awake morning

Marjorie Lotfi @marjorielotfi.bsky.social · Mar 30

Join me for a generative workshop every day in April - three prompts in 30 min - and kick start your writing practice (DM for a bursary place) - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/marjories-...

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · Apr 7

📢Announcing a new webinar series on Poetry Technique led by Erica Hesketh, Tamar Yoseloff and @betarish.bsky.social

Sign up for the 3 sessions for just £45
June 9th, 16th & 23rd, 7-8pm BST
🎞️Recordings sent in case you miss them live

Full details & booking: eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-tec...

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · Apr 2

✍️ #NaPoWriMo is here with the challenge to write a poem a day! Throughout April, The Poetry Society will be featuring poetry writing prompts created by poets that we've worked with recently through competitions, publications and projects.

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Rosie Hadden @rosiehadden.bsky.social · Apr 5

open.spotify.com/episode/41rj... This was on of my favourite events at Stanza. Really worth listening to

'How we feel': Live at StAnza - Nuala Watt & Charlotte Van den Broeck

Lantern Scottish Poetry · Episode

open.spotify.com

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