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Finally getting some down time! Well, that was after two weeks of playing catch up with a poetry admin backlog! So not much to say though my garden is blooming and I can report I got along to the XR Writers Rebel and Poets for the Planet “peoples picket” at 55 Tufton Street at the end of last month.
The sun came out after a burst of torrential rain, I’d say there was perhaps a few hundreds of people there and our love and rage in the air. Here is Zadie Smith on why we were there
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OUT NOW
Catch Me When I Fall: Poems of Mother Loss and Healing by Donna Stoneham
“A moving collection of poems and letters, this collection tells the story of grief, healing, and love between an adult daughter and her elderly mother. Four years of conversations are chronicled in this collection to contextualize the author’s grief after the loss of her mother. This transformational and transcendent collection shows the power of love and relationships to help us transform into our authentic selves.”
COMING UP
Monday 5th June 7.00pm
The Social, 5 Little Portland Street, London, W1W 7JD
The second Scarlett Sabet Curates event featuring Salena Godden, Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa, Yomi Ṣode, Oakley Flanagan, Rishi Dastidar and Scarlett herself.
Doors open 7.00pm with readings commencing at 7.30. Pamphlets and publications from the performing poets will be available to purchase on the night. The Social welcomes anyone who may have accessibility needs, however they are unfortunately unable to host wheelchairs users in the downstairs venue space.
#amreading The Thirteenth Angel by Philip Gross and Say it With Me by Vanessa Lampert
#amwriting lists, plans, spider diagrams, excel sheet of plausible poems
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