Hello and Welcome and Sorry.

A bonus newsletter for some bonus new(s) friends!

Hello friends (old and new!),

I will keep this brief. My website has an option to sign up to my newsletter. I naively thought that was this newsletter. It turns out there has been a list of lovely people waiting for a separate fictional newsletter that doesn’t exist for up to ten years that I have JUST FOUND and added to this one. If you are new, welcome. If you are old, you’re still welcome (maybe let the new people know in the comments how lovely it is here?). If you signed up ten years ago and forgot about it and no longer want to receive lovely poetry updates, then absolutely fair enough. Normal service will resume next month, but the current highlights if you are interested are:

1. I have a new book coming out in two weeks! If you pre-order it in the UK it helps my attempts to charmingly crowbar my way into the Sunday Times bestseller list, and I can even do signed and dedicated copies here.

2. I am going on a tour with said book all over the UK and Ireland. You can book tickets here and see the frankly fantastic poster below. For any overseas folk I am doing an Instagram Live with the wonderful Jessica Urlichs at 8pm GMT on March 2nd that will be free and lovely.

3. As well as my own books and some delicious poetry prints, I am now stocking a few of my other favourite poets’ books on my website and these can be shipped anywhere (despite Squarespace’s insistence on making it look like they can’t), just put your address in at the checkout and it will update - you can have a peruse here.

Thank you for reading/hanging out/not immediately putting this in your spam. Speak soon and stay brilliant x