Benedicta Norell

My poetry debut, Terrible Mother, is back in stock @blackcatpress.bsky.social Link to purchase below #poetry #blueskypoets

Scenes from Leadenhall Market

During September and October we're showcasing Wild Boar by Jenny Hope. Perfect for those autumn vibes... @vpresslit.bsky.social @jennyhope.bsky.social @jennyhope.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2026/09/06/f...

My pop-up Wendy bookshop for my friends to take as many books as they wanted and for us all to catch up and chat 🩷

Last day to submit!

Thrilled that my 6th Extinction Column poem 'Call me Lonesome' is LIVE on Oxford Climate Society! #OxfordUniversity It has been an absolute honour working with the OCS team over the past half-year, so grateful for this collaboration! 💙 More coming soon! 🔗 oxfordclimatesociety.com/blog/call-me...

I’m delighted to be in the current wave of iamb👇, with 3 poems, text and recording: In the Time of the Ice Saints (with thanks to @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social), Metronome (with a deep bow to Beethoven), & Late Snow. My thanks to excellent editor @markantonyowen.com #poetrycommunity #poemsaloud

Congratulations Wave 27 of @iamb.uk

Thank you @iamb.uk @markantonyowen.com for including my work in iamb Wave 27

Small finds from the wood, September 🍒🪶🌿:

After the success of The Book Bag's first anthology Unwhispered Legacy, I've decided to give it another go and raise more vital funds for MSF. This time I am joined by Guest Editor Leia Butler. Full details in the link, submissions open throughout November.

Coming soon! #GettingMarried a new short #poetryvideo #mixedmedia #collage #art #StayTuned #StayCreative

A poem from Aftershock Review Issue 3 #aftershock #contemporarypoetry #blueskypoets

#PoemsAbout #FaultLines starts Friday. Write what happens under pressure. The hairline crack. The old division. The thing everybody stepped over until the ground moved. Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.

This poem is having a little trip out into the world today to honour the shift in seasons. It was originally published as part of my Silver Branch feature curated by Black Bough Poetry's @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social #Poetry #Autumn #Poems

Delighted & grateful to @markantonyowen.com to be in this @iamb.uk wave with dear friends @benedictan.bsky.social @francesca-laura.bsky.social @johnadlam.bsky.social @simonmaddrell.bsky.social @em-words.bsky.social @niamhvh-l.bsky.social @tracierenee.bsky.social & other fine poets #poetrycommunity

I can’t wait! Congratulations everyone 🙌

Sunday reading - ‘Terrible Mother’ by @benedictan.bsky.social @blackcatpress.bsky.social - beautifully produced and hard-hitting

Me and @andrewwille.bsky.social on how to construct a DIY MA in Creative Writing - tickets in link

This is going to be fabulous

CALLING LONDONERS 📣 My friend has spent FIVE YEARS developing her play—a queer horror story—and she's hardly sold any tickets. She's travelling down from Leeds and I'm devastated 🥺 The Haunting of Verity Evans, The Hope Theatre, 25th–26th August. I hope you'll join me! Please share if you can't!

Help put women poets on the map, where they belong. Our friends @FoundationSwift are the only charity focussed on building support for UK women poets. They are running a 30-day crowdfunding campaign raising vital core funds. Please share widely! www.justgiving.com/campaign/wom...

This is true, and if you have not yet considered this possibility, please do!

Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?

Certain numbers accompany us through our lives, connected to our memories of people and places, of significant events. What numbers remain with you decades later? And why? This poem is taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...

Linda Noskova holds the Venus Rosewater Dish over the balcony after winning the Wimbledon title. Beaming. 🥰🏆

THE MOMENT NAOMI OSAKA BEAT ARYNA SABALENKA TO REACH HER FIRST WIMBLEDON QUARTERFINAL. She looked like the world No. 1 today. Deserved. 🥹🥹🥹

Can’t wait for Wave Twenty-Seven of @iamb.uk

Bookish Paris

Absolutely thrilled to have 2 poems in The Aftershock Review. What a great place to be! I love this mag. Thank you @maxwallis.bsky.social. Here’s Tigers 🙂🐯

Very happy to receive my contributor copy of The Aftershock Review today! Thank you to editor @maxwallis.bsky.social for including three of my poems in the issue. And look at that line-up - I’m in great company 💜

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Thrilled to have three poems published in the third issue of The Aftershock Review @maxwallis.bsky.social which I first discovered here. This review has meant so much to me since it started because after trauma there is still poetry. #poetry #blueskypoets

The deadline for registering new titles for PLR is coming up. Don't miss out money you've already earned from library loans! www.bl.uk/services/plr 'Are you a published author, illustrator, editor, translator or audiobook narrator? You could receive up to £6,600 per year from public library loans'

All you have to do is email!

There is now a bursary spot on this workshop for someone who truly couldn't afford to attend otherwise, sponsored by the lovely @benedictan.bsky.social! Email writetous@thewritingschool.co.uk to request it.

Parisian books

Atrium will OPEN a small but welcoming submissions window for new poems from midnight tonight... Full details to follow... Just so you know...

Still open for poetry submissions for our latest anthology Mental Health Poetry. GET SENDING!

Happy Mother's Day (or not) to you from me and two other #poets @benedictan.bsky.social @dnwritespoetry.bsky.social #OneSizeDoesNotFitAllMothers #Substack karenpiercegonzalez.substack.com/p/one-size

Terrible Mother, my debut pamphlet, is now available at Zennoni in Deptford Market Yard! #poetry

Thank you for including my poem Terrible Mother in this Substack @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social #blueskypoets

A starter pack of #POETS & members of the #PoetryCommunity whom I've met at Open Mic events or who are otherwise committed to reciting #poemsaloud Check if you're in here. If I've missed you, mea culpa; shout me & I'll add you. If you're in by accident, apologies. Otherwise, please follow & repost🙏

FABULOUS NEWS! I'm going to write a monthly "Extinction Column" in Oxford Climate Society blog! 🧡 🔗 oxfordclimatesociety.com/blog (Photo Credit: An Yen | BKTT @ox.ac.uk)