Correction re typo in earlier post re course starting next Sunday, which is seven weeks, not nine! = sun 20 oct—sat 14 dec, £280: 'taking a walk: the poetry of footfall': 7-wk creative-writing workshop series with anne-marie fyfe 🚶 see: tinyurl.com/takingawalk-...#coffeehousepoetry art: guy bourdin

So sad to hear Goran Simič died on Sunday. Friend, & much-admired poet when he came from Toronto to read for #coffeehousepoetry & Armagh's Hewitt Summer School in 2004 & 2005 (we're here with Visnja at the Giant's Causeway). He'd been back in Sarajevo since 2013 having escaped 'the siege' in 1995.

Save the date! Mon 18 Nov, Jane Hirshfield kicks off our next 'Talking Transatlantic' series of free, online #coffeehousepoetry#poetrymondaytinyurl.com/jane-hirshfield-event-mon18novcoffeehousepoetry.org/sign-up/

Update: can still take a couple more on this re-run, starting Sunday... 🌳 sun 22 sep—sat 23 nov, £280: 'root & branch: the enchantment of trees', 7-wk #coffeehousepoetrytinyurl.com/root-and-bra... (art: 'alternate reality', elena guryeva)

'Why blue? People ask me this question often. I never know how to respond. We don't get to choose what or whom we love, I want to say.' Maggie Nelson, 'Bluets' sun 8 sep—sat 2 nov, £280: 7-wk #coffeehousepoetrytinyurl.com/the-alchemy-of-blue-from-8-sep art: tran nguyen