Good morning lovelies,
Just a quick post to say thank you again to everyone at #WOMAD and #GreenGathering both were such outstanding and memorable weekends, I really loved it! Thank you.

My next big festival gig is
#Shambala - Hope to see some of you there! Sending BIGlove!

tickets: https://www.shambalafestival.org/2023/events/salena-godden

#festivals #books #poetry #summer #live #performance #MrsDeathMissesDeath #PessimismisforLightweights

ONE WEEK until the next Scarlett Sabet Curates event at @thesocial on Monday 5th June, with an unmissable line up of poets performing ✨

• @ScarlettSabet
• @salenagodden
• @SafiyaKamaria
• @YomiSode
• Oakley Flanagan
• @BetaRish

🎟️ Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/scarlett-sabet-curates-2-poetry-at-the-social-tickets-633160850147

#poetry #liveshow #spokenword #london #thesocial #gigs #salenagodden #poem #PessimismIsForLightweights #MrsDeathMissesDeath

I am down south right now, doing some poetry gigs and sharing my books in Exeter and Totnes. Beautiful train journey by the coast, I am loving the Devon blue skies. On stage today at 4pm for the Sea Change Weekender with Rough Trade Books! See you all there! Xx

#booktour #PessimismIsForLightweights #MrsDeathMissesDeath #salenagodden #BookTok #books #poetry #train

It's a bit grey and rainy here, but I am looking forward to summer times and good times, I have some amazing gigs and festivals coming up, just updated my linktree, https://linktr.ee/salenagodden

See you there lovelies! 💚💫

#PessimismisforLightweights #MrsDeathMissesDeath #festivals #gigs #books #poetry #poetsofmastodon
@greengathering #WOMAD

So,
this is how
it starts in books
they burn
or ban books
in books
that imagine
a world
that burns
or bans books
it starts there
with books that dare
to say this is how it is
or this is how it was
or this is how it could be
and if you
read books
you will know
from books
that this is
how it ends
so, this is how
it starts

#sunday #poetry #poetsofmastodon #PessimismIsForLightweights #SalenaGodden #books

Hello my mastodon friends. How are you all? I haven’t posted anything on here for a while, so I’ll share a poem ‘courage is a muscle’ as read on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour with Anita Rani. https://youtu.be/nGr08Xob6co

You’ll find our conversation on books and poetry and the spirit of optimism on BBC Sounds - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001kh0d

#PessimismIsForLightweights spring tour dates on my ‘Waiting For Godden’ blog:
http://www.salenagodden.co.uk

#poetry #poetsofmastodon #SalenaGodden

Coming up on Weekend Woman’s Hour

📚Sex education in schools

Footballer ⚽ #leahcwilliamson topping the Woman’s Hour Powerlist 2023

And performance poet 🎤@salenagodden on having an optimistic, idealistic attitude!

🎧 Listen now on #bbcsounds ⬇️

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qlvb

#bbc #bbcwomanshour #PessimismIsForLightweights
#MrsDeathMissesDeath #SalenaGodden #AnitaRani #radio4 #onair

I’m so looking forward to being a guest on #BBCWomansHour tomorrow, Friday March 31st, tune in, join us from 10am #BBCRadio4 - I’ll be chatting books and poetry with brilliant Anita Rani, catch us LIVE tomorrow morning or anytime via #BBCSounds #BBCiPlayer thank you!

#PessimismIsForLightweights #MrsDeathMissesDeath #bookchat #bbcradio #bookstodon #SalenaGodden

Repost: New podcast episode today!!! Series 3 ep 4 With the amazing #salenagodden #ApplePodcasts #beforethelighthoesout all previous episodes available on your usual places!!!

Thank you Kath!! Xx

Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/salena-godden/id1623131364?i=1000605304499

#podcast #bookchat #bookstodon #PessimismIsForLightweights #MrsDeathMissesDeath #salenagodden #kathwilliams

Happy International Women's Day! Hoping to see some of you tonight at 7pm: International Women's Day with Rough Trade Books & friends, Foyles, Charing Cross Road.

Here's a page from the hardback edition of 'Pessimism is for Lightweights - 30 pieces of courage & resistance'

Shared with solidarity & BIGlove!

#IWD #womensday #InternationalWomensDay #books #poetry #PessimismIsForLightweights

Hello! Tomorrow! Wednesday March 8th is International Women’s Day! We are joining Rough Trade Books and friends at Foyles on Charing Cross Road, Soho, London.

Exciting RTB line up: Sunnah Kahn, Sharan Hunjan, Ella Frears, Emma Warren, Anna Wood, Salena Godden.

This will be my first gig of 2023 and also my first reading from the new hardback edition of ‘Pessimism is for Lightweights’
See you there!

#IWD2023 #IWD #Books #Poetry #PessimismIsForLightweights

Hello Yellow! Happy New Year! Happy Full Moon!

As the Wolf Moon rises, I'm delighted to kick off 2023 with the release of a hardcover edition of my 'Pessimism is for Lightweights' poems with Rough Trade Books. Here's 30 pieces of courage and resistance. Here's some sunshine yellow to beat the winter blues. Wishing you all the best this new year, health and happiness, peace and love, love, love, sgxx

Pre-order it via RTB: https://roughtradebooks.com/collections/books/products/pessimism-is-for-lightweights-hardback-salena-godden

#PessimismIsForLightweights #Poetry #Books

“And now is where we are
She nudges me awake
Welcome to Hope
She sings to me
Welcome to Hope
Get up! Get up! Get up!
Hope is here and love knows
We have so much to do.”

#poetry #poets #poetsofmastadon #welcome #hope #SalenaGodden #twittermigration #poetsofig #PessimismIsForLightweights