Take Flight with Randolph Matthews coming to Ledbury to raise the roof off the Great Barn, Hellens Manor with #poetry jazz and gospel Friday 5th July ⁦@LedburyPoetry⁩ ⁦⁦@NineArchesPress⁩ ⁦@PoetrySociety⁩ ⁦@VervePoetryFest⁩ ⁦@writingwestmids⁩ 🙏🏿🙏🏿

Just three weeks left to send in your love poems! Link in bio for more details, including how to submit.

Over 150 calls for literary competitions & submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, & more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in Sept 2025. Please share & best of luck! https://t.co/p3TTGMbmWv

“The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.” —Joy Harjo, Perhaps the World Ends Here

Let’s find some beautiful homes for your lost birds 🪺 💌 Submit now at: https://t.co/lbp1I6ZIbj #writingcommunity

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A #FlashbackFriday: Sept 1986, the release of the Academy Award Winning #RoundMidnight soundtrack (ft. yours truly w/such greats as #HerbieHancock #WayneShorter #DexterGordon #FreddieHubbard & #TonyWilliams). Listen: https://t.co/mYNUi5o19O #moviesoundtracks #roncarterbassist

Very happy to be nominated for the Best of the Net anthology by the brilliant @madridlitmag. Good luck to the other writers!

Take Flight is making a visit to Winchester @WinPoetryFest poetry, jazz, blues and gospel all rolled into one show. 🙏🏿🙏🏿

Breathtaking translations of Rilke’s dinggedichte by Geoffrey Lehmann. The way his attention to rhyme and meter alters the available light in the poems and reshapes their pacing! 🥹

Using the term 'amuk' as her starting point, Khairani Barokka roots out the violences in colonial mistranslation, weaving in disability justice and personal experience in this extract from Wasafiri 123. https://t.co/pwX6SM7jhY

What a special joy to talk with the one and only Sonny Rollins celebrating his 95th birthday! Brother Tavis and I shall remember this conversation forever! #TruthJusticeLove @sonnyrollins @tavissmiley @kbla1580 https://t.co/4ewtqJfM6Q

1/3 Our fiction contest is open! Submit a story of up to 10,000 words online at https://t.co/GJpSlXirKO by 11:59 p.m. on November 30, 2025. 1st prize: $1,000 + publication; 2nd & 3rd: $500 + publication. As always there is NO FEE to submit.

WORKSHOP SUN 9 NOV 9.30-11.00 - Word, World, Body with Oluwaseun Olayiwola @itsamule Boundaries between the word, world, the body, and sensation can blur in poetry. What happens when we enact a poetics that not only accepts this dissolution but stylizes it? @fitzcarraldoeditions

Happy birthday to Horace Silver, born on this day in 1928 — one of the true architects of hard bop. A master pianist, composer, and bandleader, Silver fused blues, gospel, Latin rhythms, and funk into jazz, creating a sound that was earthy, soulful, and instantly recognizable.

“Always listen for what you can leave out.” — Miles Davis

Last of 31 days reading for @sealeychallenge & participation @openpoetrybooks drive w/@sameerproject to raise money for Gazan people. A (2012) long poem by political/lyrical/visionary Paris-based seminal Syrian poet, Adonis (now 95). If you haven't read his work - do. Blessings🔥

'In establishing a tradition of women and women’s (written) work, Pollard elevates women’s work and lives (embodied, messy, meaty, boozy) to being worthy of poetry.' – Ellora Sutton, @Mslexia, on Clare Pollard's new collection Lives of the Female Poets, out this month.

We want your story! The 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize has begun 📚 Citizens of Commonwealth countries aged over 18 can enter. Stories should be between 2,000–5,000 words and must be unpublished fiction. Entry is free, and you can write on any theme. Five regional winners

Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man My album of the day. A potent blend of jazz, soul and political edge, glancing ahead to hip-hop. Fearlessly honest, musically sophisticated; a deeply personal exploration of black life in America. 1971. 🎧 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Day 28 #SealeyChallenge In honour of last night’s @YomiSode BBC Proms inspired take on Gil Scott-Heron ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’ I had to play the whole album this morning. @SealeyChallenge @Nic_Sealey @PoetryBookSoc @PoetrySociety #poetry