Lisa Kelly

Thrilled to be on this shortlist with my donkey poem for @ForwardPrizes . Congratulations to all the poets. And huge thanks to @RialtoPoetry @IMcMillan & all the judges. The donkey has trotted on quite a journey! 🫏🌳❤️

All set up with my stand in the Imaginarium on the theme of reimagining the climate crisis @unibirmingham ...hopefully people will come and join the workshop at 2pm today and connect the threads and respond to the game I created. More fun than Pin the Tail on the Donkey!

Looking forward to reading with @csmithpoet Sunday evening at Torriano Meeting House hosted by @LisaDMKelly in north London! It’s 7.30pm Kensal Rise and welcomes poets from audience reading their poems too. Join the open mic to read together! ✨🎉💫 torriano.org/whats-on/poetr…

Two poems by @LisaDMKelly badlilies.uk/lisa-kelly-2

Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - The Tree Surgeon Tries To Put Me Off by @LisaDMKelly

Thanks to @Limping_Chicken for article encouraging more BSL & Visual Vernacular entries for @ForwardPrizes 🙌🎭❤️ Lisa Kelly: Building on foundations for deaf poets entering Forward Prizes for Poetry (BSL) is.gd/QSyuxx

OUT NOW. Issue twenty-three: 'Wildfires' badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-t…

Our February / March 2026 issue is out now! Cover image by Zyrko, cartoon by Dan Sperrin. Order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curren…

Poetry by Claudine Toutoungi, Austin Allen, @zakbos, @TimLiardet, Carl Phillips, Sim Pereira-Madder, Caitríona O’Reilly, @LisaDMKelly, Stephen Kampa, @rachel_jeffcoat and Rory Attwood. Order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curren…

Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - Downsizing by @LisaDMKelly

Poetry by Claudine Toutoungi, Austin Allen, @zakbos, @TimLiardet, Carl Phillips, Sim Pereira-Madder, Caitríona O’Reilly, @LisaDMKelly, Stephen Kampa, @rachel_jeffcoat and Rory Attwood. Pre-order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/pre-or…

I love @berlinlit and am very grateful to editor Matthew McDonald for publishing my poem in issue ten. Lots of exciting work to read incl. @gosspoems Sanah Ahsan, Rishi Dastidar & Kate Wakeling is.gd/JXqVuj

COMPETITION ALERT! Just over two weeks to go! MAGMA POETRY COMPETITION 2025/26 The Judge’s Prize – poems of 11 to 50 lines The Editors’ Prize – poems of up to 10 lines Deadline 31 January 2026 T his year's judge is Rishi Dastidar @BetaRish magmapoetry.com/competition/

Always great to see new poems by @gosspoems in Blackbox Manifold's latest issue. l1nq.com/B37vo

Join Magma editors @LisaDMKelly and Patrizia Longhitano for a poetry workshop: A Valentine to Your Environment at the Arts Depot, 31 Jan 2-4pm artsdepot.co.uk/project/playin…

Sharing news of this wonderful Online Poetry Course, run by Stav Poleg,  co-editor of the Architecture Issue. The course starts next week and is aimed for all levels: Online Poetry Course hillsroad.ac.uk/adult-educatio…

Sharing news of this fascinating new creative writing course from @SarahFPoetry exploring sound and poetry. This is a weekly course taking place at @rsteinerhouse with support from Barnaby Tobias. Starts Thu 15th Jan 7-9pm, £15 (£10 conc) rsh.anth.org.uk/event/creative…

The winners of the #ForwardPrizes 2025!

We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist! Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone." Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/

After months of living with & honouring poetry collections, single poems, performed poems including BSL poems, @ForwardPrizes anthology dropped through the letterbox. Cannot be more proud of what you'll find in these pages & the online collection of performed poems. Hope u Enjoy!

Congratulations Jane! Can't wait to read it. What a beautiful, beautiful cover ♥️🌱🐰