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mlferg.bsky.social
Poet. Playwright. Performer. Swell (Penguin 2025) https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/459719/swell-by-ferguson-maria/9781802064353
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Announcing the lineup for our next Loud Poets Showcase! We're so excited to be featuring poets @mlferg.bsky.social, Lorna Callery-Sithole, Biff Smith, and Ciara Maguire at the @scotstorycentre.bsky.social in March! Tickets: scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:58...

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Good to see Ian McMillan earlier, talking about Barnsley Book Festival. One highlight is @mlferg.bsky.social, in town on 8 March. A quote from Ian, freshly written down today! "For my money Maria Ferguson is one of the best up and coming poets in the country, and Swell is a swell book!" #booksky

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Here it is - the first in a three-part series in which I'm in conversation with @mlferg.bsky.social for The Day Job 🗣 In Part 1, we discuss the creative process behind Maria's brand-new collection 'Swell'. #PoetsOnBluesky

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A bonus post to The Day Job, gushing about @mlferg.bsky.social's brand-new collection. Just because. This post is free for everybody to read 😘 #PoetsOnBluesky

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Did you catch @mlferg.bsky.social on BBC Woman’s Hour reading from her new poetry collection, Swell? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (around 46mins in) Maria will be joining us at #DeptfordLitFest, Find out more and book your free ticket - www.spreadtheword.org.uk/events/movin...

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If you're local to Leeds, you can see @mlferg.bsky.social as part of Leeds Storytelling Festival on Tue 25 Feb! This PAYF event is designed for parents with babies (pre-walkers), but you can attend without any offspring if you just want to enjoy the poetry 👌 www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/lee...

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“When I think about it, tucking the label / back into my husband’s shirt / is not that different from eating him.” Read two poems by @mlferg.bsky.social from the collection Swell.

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Swell is published by Penguin next week but it's available to pre-order now. Looking forward to sharing these poems and chatting about the process. All tickets available through my Instagram 🧡

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Hear me out. Breaking Bad but Walt & Jesse are poets. Instead of cooking meth, they're writing commissions for banks. No one can know.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Hear me out. Eastenders but everyone's poets. Open mic in the Queen Vic hosted by Ian (McMillan). There's always a Submittable email before the doof doofs. At Christmas, you have to work out who's shagging. Carol Ann Duffy stars. Her catchphrase is Get Outta My Pub(lishing House).

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Hear me out. The Traitors but everyone's a poet. The missions are all tasks from The Artist's Way. Every day someone gets a rejection. John Cooper Clarke is Claudia. The winner gets published in a print only magazine and invited to read on Guernsey. Travel will not be covered.

submitted 46 days ago • 3 comments