Sam Rhydderch

@KathrynGray HNY Kathryn! Am also pushing through. X

It’s been a mixed year, 2024. Some lovely highs, some real disappointments. Empty-nesting. Ongoing battle with doubt as extreme sport. Pushed through. Proud of myself. Working on fresh poems in 2025. Starting new job. Determined to be indefatigable. HNY, with love to you all. ❤️

@gosspoems @VOLEbooks Ah, Judith is wonderful - I also mentored her some years ago when she came to stay at my writers’ retreat!

'Who knew that the past could be so exciting?' - Jonathan Edwards on Judith Wozniak's collection, out now with @VOLEbooks dempseyandwindle.com/judithwozniak.…

It has been a BUMPER year for mentees. Here's a look at the 10 individual collections published in 2024, and some of the great things said about them! 🧵✨🖊️

Congratulations to all, and so great to see past mentee @rachelebower here, with her gorgeous insect poems…

@K_Stansfield @inkfishmagazine What a lovely cover and title, Katherine!

Delighted to have a story in this beautiful anthology from the good folk @inkfishmagazine

If you’ve a film/poetry lover in your life and you’re looking for a stocking filler, Hollywood or Home might be the answer! Poems ranging from Top Gun to The Godfather to Dorothy Parker to Meryl Streep. Among the Sunday Times Books of 2023, it contains tears and laughter.

@VervePoetryPres @clare_potter @RSLiterature Bravo Clare - Llongyfarchiadau mawr!

See you there tomorrow @writetoempower @ness_owen @parthianbooks !

I counted 11 blackbirds under my apple trees this morning - they all looked as jaunty as those on the cover of @wondykitten’s new book!

I'm not migrating to another platform - I get such good #writerlysupport here and that outweighs any negative feelings about other things and people. I'd love to get up to 4,000 followers and will follow you back if you are a #writer/#creativeperson.

⚠️ Storyville Books in Pontypridd has been completely flooded, and half their stock has been destroyed at a critical time of year. You can help get their doors back open by buying a book (or 3!) Check out their Christmas recommendations on our homepage at Bookshop.org

Our @BBCRadio4 production of Samantha Harvey’s @TheBookerPrizes winning novel #Orbital is being repeated 1.45pm Mon-Fri & available as a box set @BBCSounds Read by Anneika Rose, abridged by Sara Davies & produced by @MaryWL1 & @MairBosworth #fiction #books bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

@BloodaxeBooks @niapolly @PoetryBookSoc ‘the redder thread’ - loved the Paviland poem, and ‘a charcoal stick to think with’ and the discussion about performance & ritual.

Our new poetry collections from #HelenIvory, @DzifaBenson & @niapolly are out now! Find out all three of our October titles and order copies on our website here: bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/new_titles…

We are delighted to be welcoming #GaryRaymond on Thursday 21st to our @Culture_SwanUni event series in conversation with @beccaleigh99 📚📚 What a combo! 😍 Free tix & more info ⬇️ @CovertoCoverUK @Books_Wales @UniWalesPress @LitWales @WritingUni

Anyone with a clutch of strong poems in waiting... 😶‍🌫️send in to the Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition - a springboard for many leading poets out there today - deadline 30 Nov 2024 shorturl.at/8eWrV @poetrybusiness @kimmoorepoet

@RosaryMum Your mum is in my prayers this evening, Jan.

Would you mind praying for my wee mum. She’s just been taken into hospital with something wrong in the right hand side of her body. Thank you 🙏🌹

@padrigmcg Waw - llongyfarchiadau mawr, Patrick!

It's a huge honour to be on this shortlist with such terrific poets. I'm very grateful.

@niapolly Exciting to see your new collection will be out next week, Nia. Looking forwards to the online launch on Monday evening!

The online Launch of Monster, Votive Mess & Constructing a Witch - is on Monday the 21st.. bloodaxebooks.com/events?article…

See you there @growriter! Heading to the open mic this evening in #Aberaeron

@RosaryMum Thank you Jan

“I plead with you — never, ever give up on hope; never doubt, never tire and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.” St. Pope John Paul II

I'm excited to return to LANCASTER next Saturday, 19th October, to read at the @Litfest Autumn Weekend. Pendle awaits. Get a ticket here, if you're around (or if you want to watch it online, live or afterwards): dukeslancaster.org/whats-on/theat…