Poetry for All

Our line-up is stellar, with headliners Dominic Berry and Peter Kalu, and local support artists Muireall, Cath Nichols, Tanya Parker, and Emily.

Join us! 3/3

If you'd like to join us in person, please go to: ncem.co.uk/events/poetr.... The NCEM is fully wheelchair accessible and incredibly friendly (as well as being beautiful both visually and acoustically). Hosted by @rosebonecrone.bsky.social/ @angryrose.bsky.social and @fayroberts.bsky.social. 2/3

It's nearly here! #PoetryForALL2025 is tomorrow (Friday 28th November) in the gorgeous National Centre for Early Music in York and livestreamed online. If you'd like to join us online, the link is here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-for.... As ever, our event is fully BSL interpreted. 1/3

It is, indeed, the final day of our #crowdfunder (www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/poetry-for...) to be able to pay our #disabled artists, venue, #BSL interpreters, and videographer, though you can continue to send us money via that and Kofi (ko-fi.com/poetryforalluk) afterwards. Please pledge and/ or share!

Day 18 and our campaign is still at 33% of the target. Will you help us go further? We have 18 days left to raise the funds for our #accessible #poetry event #PfAFundraiser24 which took place on 29-Nov-24.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/poetry-for...

We can't help but agree!

Thanks for tuning in, Beth. ❤️

I wrote something a little longer about @poetryforalluk.bsky.social because I'm incredibly passionate about it, and we NEED to see this work. #PfAfundraiser24 #PleaseShare

www.tumblr.com/fayrobertsuk...

Day 12 and our campaign is still at 27% of the target. Will you help us go further? We have 24 days left to raise the funds for our #accessible #poetry event, which takes place tonight! #PfAFundraiser24

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/poetry-for...

THIS IS TODAY!!!!!

Highlight of my year. Join us please: 7.30pm GMT. 2.30pm US EST. 8.30pm much of Europe & Africa. Asia: sorry dudes, dawn

Fab line up
Astonishing poems
Such an amazing community
@poetryforalluk.bsky.social
Part of #YorkDisabilityWeek #BSL #AccessibleArt@fayroberts.bsky.social

🚨 Calling all poets! We're looking for #PoemsAbout #CrossingTheLine this week!

🗓️ Friday, 29th Nov
📍 @AlanParry83.bsky.social
🔥 He will be reading your work and giving tailored feedback.

Don’t miss this chance to push boundaries and get your voice heard. #PoetryCommunity #SkyPoetry #writers

Updated my LinkTree to include a couple of recent anthologies with new poems from yours truly, and a ticket link and Crowdfunder for my next feature @poetryforalluk.bsky.social Friday 29th November, York and LiveStreamed. #PoetsLife #PoetsOfBlueSky

linktr.ee/rickdove

It's @poetryforalluk.bsky.social (York & livestreamed) Friday. Yet again we're deemed unworthy of arts council funding. If you'd like to demonstrate that there IS demand for accessible poetry by disabled poets, you can attend, contribute to our fundraiser, or buy our merch: linktr.ee/poetryforalluk

If only 2600 people pay £1 each for the livestream, we'll totally break even (with a decent in-person audience too)

:)

Livestream link soon available via Eventbrite!!

@poetryforalluk.bsky.social

Hello, at @poetryforalluk.bsky.social we must ask if you can spare a few quid.
Crowdfund: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/poetry-for...
Rewards for donations! You’ll receive a livestream link for almost any amount!
Thank you! 😊

#AccessibleArts #AccessibleVenue #AccessiblePoetry #BSL

Please consider supporting #accessibility. £3000 event, ACE declined last minute. Thank you!

@poetryforalluk.bsky.social @rickdove.bsky.social
#BSL #DeafPoetry #AccessibleVenue #PoetryCommunity #ArtForAll

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/poetry-for...

Susie Wilson, Ellen McAteer, Jennifer Wong VERVE Poetry Press presents Susie Wilson, Ellen McAteer & Jennifer Wong reading from their brand new collections and pamphlets.

Really looking forward to reading with Ellen McAteer & Jennifer Wong in a fortnight at this launch for the Disabled Poets Prize 2024 winning pamphlet Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed. Join us? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/susie-wils... #poetrybluesky #poetry

Submissions Interstellar Flight Press is currently open for the following submission calls:  ​Infinite Branches: Queer, Speculative Disability Poetry in Conversation - Open 10/15/24-12/1/24 Nonfiction Essays...

We are OPEN to poetry submissions from poets who are queer and disabled. We want to further the conversation, so this call is a round-robin. Reprints accepted.

Stairs and Whispers | Nine Arches Press

thanks for this. no funds these days, but have shared your post with my feed. another antho i love is Stairs and Whispers:
D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back
Edited by Sandra Alland, Khairani Barokka & Daniel Sluman published by Nine Arches Press in the UK ninearchespress.com/publications...

Eeeep, thank you so much to everyone who’s submitted to the Disabled Poets Prize. Run by CRIPtic Arts x Spread the Word, and begun by the brilliant Jamie Hale.

Just got the submissions for my category, lking fwd to Jamie and I being severely pressed abt judging from a plethora of great art.

Literary Prizes Celebrating Disabled People A Prize open to authors with a chronic illness or disability who've written novels with at least one chronically ill or disabled character

🏆 Read more about the ADCI Literary prize and the Disabled Poets Prize which encourages positive representations of disability in literature and poetry.
www.thepublishingpost.com/post/literar...

You know that you can discuss overwork/"Zoom fatigue" without crapping all over hybrid engagement and participation for disabled/chronically ill people (students, teachers, researchers), right?
Many administrators & journalists appear not to know this, at least.
Not linking the WaPo piece, either

Fuck all of this. Incredibly, it gets worse the longer you read…

Very exciting!

Poetry for All A fully accessible, inclusive arts event featuring disabled performers.

EXCITING NEWS!

We've raised enough to (just about!) be able to afford a videographer so that you'll be able to watch and listen to the event live from the comfort of your own... wherever you like. Online Event Admission tickets are pay-as-you-feel - just go to poetryforall23.eventbrite.co.uk

To say we're relieved is putting it mildly!

Crowdfunder now moves us automatically onto more our rather more optimistic "stretch goals", which will, if met, comprise funding for both videography (allowing livestreaming), and a cushion towards future events.

So thank you! SO MUCH!

WOW.

We've reached our baseline target already! A couple of particularly generous donations over the last 24 hours pushed our pledges up onto the plateau and we're now looking at exciting vistas ahead of us, free of worry about affording to put on this event.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/poetry-for...

Day 10 and our campaign is now, thanks to community generosity, at 94% of the target. Will you help us go further (we don't get any unless we hit 100%)? We have 12 days left to raise the funds for our accessible poetry event

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/poetry-for...

⭐

Day 8 and our campaign is now at 69%* of the target. Will you help us go further (we don't get any unless we hit 100%)? We have 14 days left to raise the funds for our accessible poetry event

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/poetry-for...

(*you know what to do...)

#HugsForAll