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More on Instagram @gosspoems Poet & mentor. Books with Carcanet Press. Poet-in-Residence for CW+, the official charity for Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals. Writing for Life Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund.
The 2026 poetry pamphlet submission windows are beginning to open up. I offer a mentoring package specifically designed to get your pamphlet into shape, and competition ready! Get in touch for more details: rebeccagoss.wordpress.com/tutoring/
We're delighted to share two special recordings by poets Jessica Mookherjee and Kayo Chingonyi of our primary and secondary calendar poems for March - 'The Door' by Miroslav Holub and 'Humming-Bird' by D. H. Lawrence 🗓️❤️
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/hummin...
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-do...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Tara Bergin excellent as always @carcanet.bsky.social @imcmillan.bsky.social
Many thanks for reading and sharing
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Here’s my article for the latest issue @thelancet.com reflecting on my residency to date at @cwpluscharity.bsky.social
’Words and wonder: using poetry as part of the patient experience’ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Her Birth's title poem included in this new anthology about parenthood www.waterstones.com/book/family-... @carcanet.bsky.social Thanks to the editors
Mentee Sarah Stewart will be launching her debut in Edinburgh next month: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev... @tapsalteerie.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social
Streaker It's late but not dark yet in Essex, so I can see my father walk the garden path to her parents house, snapper in tow, camera shoulder-slung, other hacks pissed off to see them let in after a single knock (never underestimate the civic bonding made in pubs) while I wait in the car in my Guides uniform, knowing, before the nation knows, of her sprint across the silky green of Lords. And this will be tomorrow's news, her cartwheel ahead of the policeman's grasp, Botham's easy grin, all in black and white. My father now returned, overlooking
'Streaker' by @gosspoems.bsky.social badlilies.uk/rebecca-goss-1
OUT NOW. Issue twenty-three: 'Wildfires' badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-three
84 UK babies will be born with a heart defect during this year‘s Heart Week Feb 7-14 Info and support at Tiny Tickers www.tinytickers.org/get-involved...
#HerBirth @carcanet.bsky.social
‘You need Rebecca Goss in your corner.’
New testimonials from mentees: rebeccagoss.wordpress.com/tutoring/
Mentoring slots available from March
Great to see past mentee Eliza O'Toole is an East Anglian Books Awards winner nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/writing-hub/... @writerscentre.bsky.social @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social
Chicago Review seeks pitches of critical reviews, commentary essays, notes and reflections on contemporary British experimental poetry 👇
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The thought of watching Hamnet makes me slightly want to hyperventilate and though I liked book, couldn't get past p.257, but if you want a different and compelling take on motherhood, (and adaptation of a great book), Jessie Buckley is excellent in this
youtu.be/xNq9YOfL0Zs?...
Handmade wooden side table with drawer. Black lamp and books in its surface. Seen through shop window
13yrs ago Jim & I landed in Suffolk with no house, job or workshop but a hopeful plan to make furniture & write poems. Here we are together in the window at The Merchant’s Table
themerchantstable.co.uk/collections/...
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017321... @carcanet.bsky.social
✨BLACKBOX MANIFOLD 35✨ is now live, with poems by Shara McCallum, Dorothy Lehane, Rebecca Goss, Angela Gardner, Philip Terry, and others.
Plus Adam Piette reviews Keaton Sutherland and Jennifer Scappettone
blackboxmanifold.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
Delighted to have new tiny one in here! Many thanks @berlinlit.bsky.social
Three new poems in Blackbox Manifold. My thanks to the editors.
blackboxmanifold.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/issue-35/reb...
2025 was a good year for mentees, and 2026 is shaping up to be exciting too. Get in touch if you want to know more about the mentoring packages I offer rebeccagoss.wordpress.com/tutoring/
Beautiful new work from husband's Suffolk workshop, (a glimpse inside here) available at The Merchant's Table themerchantstable.co.uk/collections/...
Poets! Here for mentoring in 2026... rebeccagoss.wordpress.com/tutoring/
We're so proud to be a partner on Poems on the Underground, which turns 40 this month! Check out the documentary about it at 4pm on BBC Radio 4.
You can also get hold of copies of the posters via our website (they're free - you just need to cover postage costs)
poetrysociety.org.uk/product-cate...
“Snow was general all over Ireland...” It’s the perfect day to curl up with some Smyrna figs & one of the great short stories - #JamesJoyce’s The Dead from #Dubliners - set at a party for the Feast of #Epiphany
Read by Jonathan Forbes for @BBCRadio3 @BBCSounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
