New video poem for ACE-funded Positivity in Practice @positivityarts - Teardrops Are a Beautiful Thing - why crying is one of the best things we can do...email positivityinpractice@outlook.com

The wife of the prisoner doctor Hossam Abu Safia appeals to the world to intervene to save his life: His only fault is that he saved the lives of the wounded. - We demand urgent action before we lose it inside the prison.

Loved writing this poem for the women at @PeelInstitute tea & cake World Mental Health Day. This is why poets poet (ps anyone can join the vibes next tues at White Feather Poetry, 7.30, Artillery Arms, Bunhill Row EC1, just turn up & share your poem...)

Our friend from Gaza thanks Trump for the ceasefire “in the right way”

Loved writing this poem for the women at @PeelInstitute tea & cake World Mental Health Day. This is why poets poet (ps anyone can join the vibes next tues at White Feather Poetry, 7.30, Artillery Arms, Bunhill Row EC1, just turn up & share your poem...)

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All poetry welcome at WHITE FEATHER POETRY open mic. Here' s a villanelle celebrating the connection between parents and their offspring. Tues 21st October 7.30pm FREE/Donations, no booking, The Artillery Arms, Bunhill Row, Old Street EC1.

This is creativity

I came back today. I thought I had known despair before, but what I saw today is beyond despair. It is not grief, nor horror, nor pain. It is something colder, a stillness where even God seems to have withdrawn His hand. The sky was impossibly blue. The kind of blue that mocks

All poetry welcome at WHITE FEATHER POETRY open mic. Here' s a villanelle celebrating the connection between parents and their offspring. Tues 21st October 7.30pm FREE/Donations, no booking, The Artillery Arms, Bunhill Row, Old Street EC1.

For World Mental Health Day, A Prayer For Healing

For World Mental Health Day, A Prayer For Healing

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Submissions are now open for the Branford Boase Award 2026. Set up in the memory of author Henrietta Branford and her editor Wendy Boase, it is awarded to author and editor. Publishers are invited to make their submissions by Friday 28 November 2025 https://t.co/7PPHBjZgh0

🇬🇧While being arrested, a protester recited a poem by 9-year-old Fatema Saidam, who was k!lled by 1$rael. “Eyes are for looking & seeing sun, Tongues are for greeting & saying fun, Legs are for walking slowly & also run, Hands are for shaking with friends Not for shooting gun”

@GlobalSumud 1. In standing up for justice beyond climate, Greta Thunberg shows the world that true courage knows no boundaries.

⚠️ Testimony from aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla: “They dragged Greta by her hair, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag — all in front of us. They wanted to make an example,” recounts Turkish activist Ersin Çelik. The world must not stay silent. Demand answers.

Dear friends, my new poetry manuscript has been accepted by @peepaltreepress. Any poetry outlets interested in interviews, readings, submissions or commissions, let me know!

#WhiteFeatherPoetry Just Poetry for Just People open mic 21st Oct, Artillery Arms, Bunhill Row EC1 8ND, 7.30 FREE No booking, feature poet Isabel White, everybody welcome

We deplore racist attacks at home for the same reason we deplore genocide abroad: we believe in the equal value of human life. My response to calls for the cancellation of peaceful protests for Palestine.