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Outlandish Shortlisted for the John Pollard International Poetry Prize 2023

Delighted to share this Press Release from Trinity College, Dublin. from the 22nd February 2023: The shortlist for the John Pollard...

StAnza Poetry Festival Reading: Claire Askew and Jo Clement

Join multi-award-winning writers Claire Askew and Jo Clement as they share a selection of their poems. The work of these two poets...

StAnza: Wild Poetry Breakfast

Join StAnza for our first poetry breakfast of the year with Meryl Pugh, Jo Clement, Tim Cresswell and Mina Gorji. Pick up a hot beverage,...

The Poetry Society: Recommended Christmas Reading

'Outlandish (Bloodaxe) from Jo Clement was an evocative, beautiful, and challenging narrative of British Gypsy ethnicity. Similarly,...

New Review: 'Our Earth Inmost' in The Poetry Review

In 'Our Earth Inmost' I review three Northern poets in the latest issue of Poetry Review: Vol 112, No 4, Winter 2022. Cover artwork:...

'Paisley' is Poem of the Week

Today 'Paisley' is Poem of the Week in The Scotsman. The broadsheet newspaper was first established as a radical political paper in 1817....

Travel News: Poems On the Underground

'Paisley' on the London Underground

With thanks to Transport for London and The Poetry Society, my border poem 'Paisley' from Outlandish will be zipping around tube lines...

Ake Dikhea? 'Listen' - a new short story about genocide survival

An artist of international significance, Dani Karavan created the Memorial for the Sinti and Roma of Europe murdered under National...

Poetry Book Society: Book Selector

Delighted to announce that I am joining the poet Roy McFarlane as a new Poetry Book Society book selector in 2023. The team includes...