Helen Calcutt

Here she is, in all her bold beauty. Delighted to join the incredible sisterhood @PavilionPoetry. ‘Feeling all the kills’ lands April 2024. I hope she brings as much fire and joy to your worlds as she has to mine ♥️

I'm very grateful to Steve Whitaker for this close reading of my elegy for Seamus Heaney (left) in today's Yorkshire Times.

O Christmas tree, o cosmic tree 🎄 Located about 2,500 light-years from Earth, NGC 2264 is a cluster of young stars between one and five million years old. The stars appear as blue and white lights surrounded by swirls of gas—the “pine needles” of the tree—with green representing light in the visible spectrum. Learn more:go.nasa.gov/3MN1xdX

Don’t Cry It’s Christmas 🎵

‘Three girls in school sprout antlers. Not metaphor. Bone.’ As always, I’m loving the work by the Foyle Young Poets this year. Look at this stunning poem by 15 year old Ellanya Sivasubramaniam… @PoetrySociety

Just a few tickets left for this ..and so excited to see The Ishtar Gate, my 6th collection of poetry, out in the world @PavilionPoetry @PoetrySociety #poetrycommunity

Hello community :) We are fundraising to get our dancers back into the studio & further our creative research at Beyond Words Dance Any small amount you can spare will go a long way. Please share & share away, read more and pledge here: gofundme.com/f/beyond-words…

Performing in the truly beautiful St Andrews today as part of @StAnzaPoetry with two voices I'm very excited to hear - Christopher Whyte and Karen Solie. @ByreTheatre 3pm. Join us for words that walk the dark and the light :)

‘He saw them as I did // pausing to admire the incredible lilacs.’ — Helen Calcutt (@HelenCalcutt) #mypoetrybookshelf

@JDVance Oh and France is in Europe. That really, really big looking country that's actually a continent.

This is absurdly dishonest. I don’t even mention the UK or France in the clip, both of whom have fought bravely alongside the US over the last 20 years, and beyond.

@JDVance and perhaps I need to point out what a mighty blow that is to world politics.

@JDVance ...Just to help you out. You seem to know absolutely nothing at all about who any of us are.

@JDVance You didn't need to mention us buddy, we're some 'random country'. By the way, we’re that island next to Ireland (don’t get confused) in the Atlantic. Ukraine are to the East and Northwest of Russia (that big transcontinental country in northern Eurasia)...

The latest episode of our podcast is live! It features an interview with @HelenCalcutt & @HCopley about their latest books - Feeling All the Kills and Lapwing - with questions from our current Poetry Centre Interns, Ruby & Marie: brookes.ac.uk/research/units…

@VervePoetryFest has been magical. What an honour to read alongside mountainous poets @ruthpadel @Carrie_Etter @duanalla - in such a nurturing & inspiring space. Just a d r e a m 🌕🌕🌕

@RMFrancis Thanks bab x

Sensational

Thank you @wildcourtpoetry for taking a new work - my first after 'Feeling All'.

Friends in Boston, if you have a free evening and would like to hear some poems: I will be reading some new poems and translations of my own as well as honoring the memory of Jean Valentine and reading work from her New & Selected Poems: libcal.library.harvard.edu/event/13157377

‘Chimera’ by Maria Dylan Himmelman @mariahimmelman berlinlit.com/chimera/

Poetry London is open again for poetry submissions. We are looking forward to reading your work.