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I’m so pleased to confirm that my debut poetry collection (and first book!) GIRL, SWOONING will be published 5 March 2026 by Corsair Poetry, a Hachette imprint. It’s available to pre-order now.
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Poetry prompt from Imogen Wade. "Choose a famous fictional character and write a poem from their perspective. What do they really want? What misconceptions would they like to clear up? What are their off-screen secrets? If they had a stage to themselves to give a monologue, and you were the only one in the audience, what would they say?"
💭 To help inspire your entries for this year's National Poetry Competition, The Poetry Society will be releasing a series of prompts throughout the competition.
Today's prompt comes from Imogen Wade, who won the 2023 National Poetry Competition and was longlisted in 2024. Thank you, Imogen!
‘Argos’ from The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology 2024, which arrived last week 🌼
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Oh cool I’ll have to check it out!
A bit of Ada Limón to keep you company 🩷
Congratulations to Fran McMahon, our 18+ winner of the inaugural Harlow Open Poetry Competition, as well as our eight other poets ✍🏻
How amazing to have supported community arts in my hometown!
Thank you to the other judges Carmella de Keyser, Ruth Stickley and Kasey Brazier 👏🏻
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I found a signed copy of ‘Dwell’ by Simon Armitage, illustrated by Beth Munro, in The Edge of the World Bookshop in Penzance. What a tender and important book 🍃 🌳
Messages From Heaven Boscawen Park, Truro I live next to a pond and have spent three years carefully studying its inhabitants— geese, mallards, pintails, swans. I’ve seen them fight; howl cacophony like an opera; fall in love; fall in hate; become entangled in murderous conspiracies; kill each other’s babies; call out the names of those who’ve wronged them. But I’ve never seen them bother with the stars. It’s human beings who pray—which is unfashionable but everyone does it anyway. We all worship something and only the moon knows quite what. I think, unlike me, birds sense the quiet apathy of the world. Or maybe all that exists for them is pond, river, sky. Or maybe they wrestle with the all-knowing rain.
Leaving Cornwall Did you hear that I’m leaving the turquoise sea, the cairns, the white lighthouse, a round castle, a lounge level with the trees; the gorse that my friend says smells like coconut if you crush it, but I never crushed it; graves, yes, even the graves and dolmens under the moon? Did you hear that I’m leaving the silver stars and buzzards poised in question; temples of rainforest; clear water; purple flowers sprouting from cliffs; hills of clay; mine chimneys like exclamation marks over the fields? The high tide sings like ellipses and I’m a comma trapped inside a raindrop. Oh, I say, like a refrain in an old poem—oh, I say, I’ll miss you like the honeybees miss sun.
I’m so happy to be part of Seashells Magazine, honouring creative women with a connection to Cornwall, edited by Claire Wilde. I’m honoured to be featured alongside other female artists spanning two hundred years 💛
We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems.
As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting.
But what can authors do? Read here:
societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...
‘Message’, first published by The London Magazine 🦗 🌙
Aww thank you for sharing 🫶🏻
we’re going to have to talk sensibly and honestly about the ramifications of this very soon. for literature, for publishing, for the assessment of talent, for the creative writing degree. Anyway - first time I’ve read any AI fiction or poetry and thought: Oh.
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lovely 💛
Isn't it wonderful that our National Poetry Competition Winner Imogen Wade has joined Bluesky?! This horizon will now glow even brighter with her words in it! 🙂 Let's welcome her! 🩷💫🩵
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