Philip Cook

This Wednesday's #GoToThePoets with @kimmoorepoet features @uncletilly! Book your ticket and come along for a fantastic voyage... Tickets: wordsworth.org.uk/blog/events/an…

I'm talking with @NiallCPoetry this Thursday & reading from this book (Niall will also read from his new book); pix here from Irvine harbourside (there's Arran!) The book also has 50-odd colour plates—written about in an afterword. 240pp. Tix here: bit.ly/3Mhjei8

I'm not great at advertising my own stuff, but tho she's got a lot going on of her own atm (🙃😅), the formidable Jenny Lindsay kindly offered to host this launch reading at Edinburgh's Saltire Society. More information in this five-post (tweet?) thread. Embro folk, come along!

Looking forward to running a workshop on Tuesday for @poetrybusiness Still a few places remaining @Carcanet

If you're near #TheWirral on October 6th at 5.30, come to the @PoetryWirral and say hello. Poetry from the wonderful @AnnaSaund1 and @PatEdwa70504378 and me.😊 #poetrycommunity #poetry @parthianbooks

Calling all #poets! Our poetry submissions are now open for new collections of 55pp or more & pamphlets up to 25pp (max). Submit your work for consideration by 5pm Monday 30th September. Visit our submissions page for details serenbooks.com/submissions/. @ZoeBrigley @RhianEdwards5

I've signed up for the 20 week @cwp_uk poetry course led by @JohnMcCullough_ 10 week course I did in Autumn 2022 was brilliant. John provides tutorials & an ample supply of modern poetry which we harvest for ideas & techniques, along with individual writing & group feedback.

@C_Redford_ @impossiblearch thank you for sharing @C_Redford_ this is so moving and poignant

I’m very pleased to have a poem in the new issue of @impossiblearch today. ‘Pencil Sketch of Myself as a Ruin’ is another of my widowhood poems. This one explores the sense of being left both broken and isolated, while life seems to go on as normal for others.

Please join @robairey7 of @barnsgraham, @alyson_hallett and me when we are in conversation to launch the book 'Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: The Glaciers', published by @lhartbooks, @britishartfair on 28 September 2024. Info: bit.ly/3AYggMY #wilhelminabarnsgraham #glaciers

send us your poems

If you want to know more about the process of ✍️ a poem, grab this from your local library! It's in lots of libraries, from Edinburgh to the @natpoetrylib ❤️ 🙏 ❤️ If it's not in your local library, just ask and they'll often buy it in! It's on uni reading lists too! #students

NEW! 40 POETS/40 YEARS #1 Kathleen Jamie reads 'The Dash' #SPLat40

We're back! ✌️😎 New poems in issue 12 by @harrietjaepoet @CarolineMaldon3 @captainiberia Katerina Kozi, Orestes Fiotakis @HlneDemetriades Krystalli Kyparissi (Glyniadakis), Carlos Lumbre, Robin Park & Sidrah Zubair + two @pierototo translations into 🇮🇹! haranapoetry.com

I'll be on BBC Radio 4's Open Country this Thurs 29 Aug at 3 pm, talking about how I wrote Battery Rocks

Such a beautiful poem ❤️

🎙️LANTERN SCOTTISH POETRY All 12 podcast episodes are now on the SPL website gathered together in a single handy page. Hosted superbly by @KathleenJamie and @Historic_Ally featuring chat and poems with a galaxy of poetry stars. You'll love em all. 🦻 scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/podcast/lanter…

There are some wonderful events taking part at @PoetryWirral this oct - and many take place in the lovely setting of #Portsunlight Festival director @AnnaSaund1 reads with @PatEdwa70504378 and @ness_owen on Sunday 06 October 2024 • 5.30 pm wirralpoetryfestival.org.uk/changing-hats/

And that's the end of our first Saturday in our super new bookshop! An encyclopedia's worth of thanks to everyone who has come in to visit and support us! We're back again Sunday, 11-5, #Edinburgh ! #Edimbourg #Bruntsfield #Books #livres #BookTwitter

I’ve had a busy few days getting my poetry pamphlet ready for submission (please keep everything crossed for me!), so today I had a proper day off and had a mooch around the Commandery museum in Worcester. These wonderful medieval wall paintings were part of (1/2)

A very happy 91st to Dame Janet Baker! Icon of integrity. "Don't confuse your God-given talent with your self. Talent is something you're entrusted with: respect it. And don't believe your own publicity!" "You are the guide; whether the audience follows is solely down to you."