Outlandish @BloodaxeBooks. Managing Editor @ButchersDogMag. Collections Selector @PoetryBookSoc.
Newcastle-Gateshead
Joined March 2009
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I've spent the last three years researching my PhD on Thomas Bewick's 'A History of British Birds' so every day is #NationalBirdDay for me. Here's one of my favourite locals, the magpie. Collective nouns: a gulp, a tittering or a mischief.
Roy @rmcfarlane63 and I have been enthusiastically selecting collections together for the @PoetryBookSoc over the past two years, so we'll be raising a glass to all the fantastic books we've read, selected and reviewed.
And, of course, to us - it's been a blast!
Rare reading from my first collection, Outlandish (@BloodaxeBooks), tomorrow at Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts alongside @rmcfarlane63, plus a conversation with Tara Bergin. Preti Taneja and Alice Kate Mullen from @PoetryBookSoc will introduce the evening.
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Jo Clement (@_dodo) is standing in for Romalyn Ante at the @PoetryBookSoc showcase event in Newcastle @NCLA_tweets tomorrow, 21 Nov, 7pm. She'll be reading from her debut collection #Outlandish and will be in conversation with Tara Bergin & @rmcfarlane63.
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📚 Join the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts (NCLA) for their free autumn showcase featuring our graduates Jo Clement and Roy McFarlane.
📅 21 November 2024
🕖19 – 20.00 pm
📍 Culture Lab, Newcastle University
Book 👇
#NCLA #NewcastleUniversity @_dodo @rmcfarlane63
Some mics about to be dropped in Rotherham!
Love Music Hate Racism @lmhrnational in Rotherham on Friday with the ever awesome Roy McFarlane, with whom I've been selecting collections for the @PoetryBookSoc these past two years.
@rmcfarlane63
Monday morning is all about these lines from Victoria Chang's The Trees Witness Everything:
There is a bird and a stone
in your body. Your job is not
to kill the bird with the stone.
● – at Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
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“Singing give peace a chance”
- Jackie Kay reads her blazing, beautiful poems of community, love, family and a life in protest from her PBS Recommendation MAY DAY >
@JackieKayPoet @durhambookfest
Can't believe my first ever event chairing was An Evening with THE @JackieKayPoet! Still pinching myself.
Thanks for such a wonderful night with two gorgeous and enormously talented poets, @durhambookfest. You put together a lush powerhouse! My heart feels ten times fuller. – at Durham, England
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My Durham Book Festival kicked off with a lyrical, moving, life-affirming event with @JackieKayPoet last night. And thank you to @_dodo for brilliant hosting. #DBF24
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You were just sizzling ! Can’t believe that was your first Chair! Loved the whole night - see you again soon, I hope. 👏🏿👏🏿🥰
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A brilliant night! Thanks for having me and thanks to @_dodo for such sublime hosting ! Loved it ! 👏🏿👏🏿
@JackieKayPoet speaking so beautifully to @_dodo about family this evening and many of the poems in May Day feature her memories of her parents. What a beautiful intro from @RomalynAnte as well! #DBF24
Look at that screen - "Let's hold hands and take a wee bow".
Right on. Still pinching myself. I feel so lucky to have chaired my first ever event with the unstoppable talent and utter gorgeousness that is @JackieKayPoet.
All the wows!
“As if you’re saying what was my life
What did it really mean”
- Jackie Kay brings her brilliant reading to a close with ‘Lights Out’. Thanks so much to @durhambookfest, Jo Clement, Romalyn Ante and Jackie Kay for such a heartwarming and moving evening @_dodo 🥰👏
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@JackieKayPoet speaking so beautifully to @_dodo about family this evening and many of the poems in May Day feature her memories of her parents. What a beautiful intro from @RomalynAnte as well! #DBF24
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Here @GalaDurham for the second evening of this years @durhambookfest and @JackieKayPoet will be joined by @_dodo and @RomalynAnte
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Our PBS Selector Jo Clement @_dodo takes to the stage to open our PBS Showcase @durhambookfest with the wonderful Jackie Kay and Romalyn Ante.
As if that's not enough, last night I got to host the loveliest lasses in poetry @RomalynAnte and @JackieKayPoet.
MAJOR SWOON, SWOON, SWOON!
We had a ball @durhambookfest. Go buy May Day and AGIMAT immediately - two more @PoetryBookSoc picks! – at Durham, England
Mind, it has been a week.
Joy to see some of my favourite poetry peeps @LisaDMKelly, @EmilyBrenchi, @danielsluman and little sweetheart babby Theo who is a heartbreaker extraordinare and makes my teeth super itchy.
*Theo not pictured, that's @ShareClaw, duh!
Over the moon to see @marjorielotfi's seriously accomplished debut 'The Wrong Person to Ask' scoop Best First Collection @ForwardPrizes. @rmcfarlane63 and I chose it as the @PoetryBookSoc Winter 2023 Special Commendation. Read a poem here:
theguardian.com/books/2023/d…
We're absolutely thrilled that @marjorielotfi has won the @ForwardPrizes Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection for her debut The Wrong Person to Ask. Many congratulations Marjorie!
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I love these women ❤
The category winners for the @ForwardPrizes have been revealed - congratulations to @VChangPoet, @MarjorieLotfi, Cindy Juyoung Ok and @LeylaJosephine1
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Still processing sitting in the wings watching @CCfunkandsoul read his mint engine of a poem '2024' entirely by rote, without a word out of place.
"this place was our home"
Absolutely class.
