Come along today if you'd like to hear poetry from a sound installation inspired by the sea, by maritime humanitarian research of @ForensicArchi @Viscult & by archival waters of @VoicesofEnglish @britishlibrary @bancroftlibrary @BeineckeLibrary. Please share!

Thanks to everyone who visited our stall @StatesofIndie bookfair on Saturday! Thx also to our wonderful poets, @amyevansbauer & Andrew Taylor @dradny, who read, & whose books, if you didn't manage to pick them up there, are available from our online store. https://t.co/9JRrxsLBqB

Thanks to those who turned out early to hear me and @amyevansbauer read for @ShearsmanBooks @StatesofIndie. Thanks to Tony @ShearsmanBooks and @DrJoanneDixon for facilitating. Here’s a photo of Amy reading her work.

Zoom link available from Prof Robert Hampson r.hampson@rhul.ac.uk All welcome! @WritersForum2 @PoetrySociety @agstudies

Tonight 6pm GMT! Cole Swenson "Critical Overflow: the unsayable in the work of Martin Corless-Smith", Contemporary Innovative Poetry Research Seminar https://t.co/pSsgrPlbA8 @IES_London @BrownUniversity @RHULEnglish @Viscult @ShearsmanBooks @PostApolloPress @pamenarpress

“Finally a lovely quiet day-It is a relief-the wind has blown so hard for days-all last week I think-and oh my love-it is very soft-light green to grey-light grey-a very few spots of red earth-it is very lovely to me-soft branches in the spring wind-and still it is a sort of…

Word of the day is 'snollygoster' (19th century): an individual guided by personal gain rather than by principles.

I feel very fortunate to be working with Janice Lee and @EntropyMag to share these extraordinary and varied responses from 33 poets on the subject of death. Please click here: https://t.co/G0yAWAgitb #Death #Poetry #Poet

Death is a Dialogue between The Spirit and the Dust.

CUT the strings before throwing out. Reaching as many people as possible: Please pass on.

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

"There can be no virtue without freedom, and no peace without justice" Frederick Douglass, 1859 https://t.co/BZcZeaPHs2 From: Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American collection; more from @YCAL_JWJ JWJ MSS 54 https://t.co/87nqghAYrP

“Kids Who Die” Langston Hughes, 1938

Finished, it’s finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished.

I can't go on, I'll go on.

"We meet no Stranger but Ourself."

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!

Here's to protesting #policecrimesentencingcourtsbill #PoliceCrackdownBill #killthebill on #HolySaturday, which marks "captivity captive" & the just set free. #harrowingofhell #middleenglishpoetry protest = poetry in motion https://t.co/Q9vPn4a8a6

Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was, but that I was, forgot to be.

The Soul should always stand ajar That if the Heaven inquire He will not be obliged to wait Or shy of troubling Her Depart, before the Host have slid The Bolt unto the Door – To search for the accomplished Guest, Her Visitor, no more –