Human, mother, poet, spoken word artist, UN consultant, weaver. I run the poetry stage at WOMAD, Hot Poets, Haiku Futures, Haiflu and Banana Poems
Joined December 2010
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The vibe is jelly shot vomit,
most of my friends have left.
Swastika seagulls gulp down
middle-finger kebabs,
dished out by a man
in a MAGA hat
barely hiding his lizard brain.
Get out of your beanbag chair,
find your coat among the pimp furs.
Let’s go somewhere we can talk.
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🌍 We’re proud to support @Hot_Poets Ignite, a new climate and poetry campaign uniting 20 scientists and poets - including Michael Rosen - to inspire #ClimateAction.
#ACEsupported thanks to National Lottery players @TNLUK
🔗 buff.ly/cMcDosy
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8 Nov 2024
I have no idea what is happening here but it is the best thing I’ve seen today!
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13 Aug 2024
We asked our #ConsciousWritingMonth speakers their top tips for living a more conscious creative life. Author @LivTorc , will lead our session on ‘Poetry for the Planet’.
Find out more here: literaryconsultancy.co.uk/ev…
#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #ConsciousClimate
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8 Aug 2024
These. THESE are ordinary people with legitimate concerns.
Bristol, Liverpool, Walthamstow, Oxford, Newcastle, anti racists came out up & down the country - legends every single one of you❤️ #r4today
ALT Huge crowds of anti racist protesters in Walthamstow
ALT Huge crowds of anti racist protesters in Bristol
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3 Aug 2024
Feeling saddened by the violence in the UK at the moment, but remembering the words of the American actor/comedian Patton Oswalt after the Boston bombing. Hugs to all my friends and countrypeople, especially those being targeted. #UKriots #HopeNotHate
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28 Jul 2024
Not really been or experienced poetry before but absolutely blown away by @mcdizraeli and @lemnsissay whilst at #Womad2024 this weekend, wow isnt a big enough word 😬
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25 Jul 2024
Enjoyed Hot Poets with @ElvisMcGonagall reading in the science tent when poetry met physics @womad #poetry
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28 Jul 2024
Received this note at #WOMAD from a teacher: I remember those workshops at #thomastallis school and also #kidbrooke in Greenwich.
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An extraordinary weekend at Hip Yak Poetry Shack @WOMADfestival
Sometimes the sun does shine, the people do come and the shows work and everywhere you go, in a festival of 40,000 people, they stop to tell you that they love the poetry stage and how much it matters to them. 🙏
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11 Jul 2024
BREAKING: Following talks with water bosses, the Secretary of State @SteveReedMP sets out his first steps for cleaning up our rivers, lakes and seas.
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7 Jul 2024
It’s taken 800 years to get that photo.
@rachelreeves will make a superb Chancellor.
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8 Jul 2024
Lovely unscripted moment this morning in the Welsh Parliament as a brilliant young choir from Ysgol Treganna in Cardiff - singing Safwn yn y Bwlch in rehearsal - bump into the Prime Minister (watch their reaction at the end 🎶)
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8 Jul 2024
“We are facing a crisis point...but the work of change has begun”.
Our Secretary of State for the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs @SteveReedMP lays out his plan for change.
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This is truth
5 Jul 2024
Steve Reed, "If we control our own energy in this country: wind, wave, solar and nuclear, we don't have to import fossil fuels.. Then the actions of foreign dictators like Putin don't affect us, it keeps us safer, it cuts energy bills as well, because clean energy is cheaper than fossil fuel energy"
"It's cheaper to have our own clean energy than to drill it in the north sea" #BBCQT
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5 Jul 2024
Things I didn't know about James Timpson
And they’re all good 👍🏼
5 Jul 2024
Timpson’s are well-known for employing ex-offenders to help them back into work. They pay their tax. They value their staff. And then there’s this.
CEO James Timpson (who’s also Chair of the Prison Reform Trust) is the new Prisons Minister. Great appointment
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6 Jul 2024
First 24 hours on the job as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. It was a pleasure to meet the brilliant civil servants.
My message- together, we will deliver the bold energy and climate plan our country needs.
ALT Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, arriving at the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero.
ALT Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, arriving at the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero.
ALT Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, greeting staff at the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero.
ALT Ed Miliband, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, greeting staff at the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero.
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