Peter Devonald
@pdevonald
Multi award-winning poet /screenwriter | Winner Broken Spine's Reader’s Choice Award 2025 | Winner Loft Books Poetry 2024 | Winner HoHx2, Waltham Forest & FofHCS | Second Shelley Memorial & N2tS 2024 | Nominations BoNx2, Forward Prize & Children's Bafta
Pleased to feature in the Manchester and Stockport Posts with my lovely lily. Huge thanks to @postcommunitynews.bsky.social
Delighted to have work at this excellent exhibition too - huge thanks to Dylan Miller and everyone involved in this fantastic show #poetrycommunity #stretfordpoetry #strefordthroughpoetry
Huge thanks to #BermondseyAndBeyond 2026 Literary Festival Poetry Competition where my commended poem: Grief & the Grocery Store is now published in their festival anthology. Thank you to Big Local Works, the committee, the editors and Pat Kingwell bermondsey.london/event/litera... #poetryaward
Published recently in the Candyman's Trumpet Huge thanks to the_candymans_trumpet and the great editor Jack Caradoc #candymanstrumpet #poetry #grief
So pleased to have a poem out today in this wonderful collection - @underbellypress.bsky.social Issue 7: Deception & Dirty Realism underbellypress.wixsite.com/home/issue-s.... Huge thanks to the excellent editor Lucy Huddleston and all the wonderful writers and artists #underbellypress #poetry
A huge thank you to The Poetry Society for including my latest news in the new bulletin, it really means a lot to me And congratulations to all the other excellent writers doing so wonderfully well #poetrysociety #poetry #poetrycommunity
Huge thank you to the wonderful @postcommunitynews.bsky.social for allowing space for poetry in their eight newpapers across the north west, so appreciate everything you do And thank you to all the wonderful poets and writers #postnewspapers #poetrycorner
Delighted to have a poem - The Mind Palace - in the awesome Acumen 115, June 2026 - one of the very best journals, one of my dream magazines Huge thanks to great editor, Danielle Hope #acumenpoetry And great to see the talented Julie A Dexter here too acumen-poetry.co.uk/product/acum...
Really looking forward for the release of Fae Fables - brought to us by the indomitable Draco Amethystus at #StormDragonPublishing My poems: Fairy at the Bottom of the Garden Fata Three Haiku dracoamethystus.com/fae-fables-a... #faefables
BBC news at 1pm. It would have amused him. Much loved, much missed xx
Delighted to have three poems in this important collection: 'Peaceweavers’ weaves together essays, interviews, quotations, poetry and artwork from contributors across the world. Edited by the excellent Rebecca Lowe - huge thanks www.culturematters.org.uk/cm-publicati... #peaceweaver #poetry
The wonderful Issue 2 of Outposts is available now - and I am delighted to be a part of it. Huge thanks to Clare for this awesome anthology. First published in 1944, Outposts closed in 1995… until now. It’s been revived, relaunched and raring to go! outpostspoetry.com/subscriptions/ #outposts
The latest Poetry Corner is out now - huge thanks to the editors Amanda and Mel at the Post Community News GM for achieving so much --- and the wonderful poets Poetry Corner is published in all the Posts www.postnewspapers.org/our-papers/?... #postnewspapers #poetry
Absolutely agree - it's called Spoon Theory: we only have a certain amount of spoons with chronic illness -- use them wisely
Delighted to have my poem Embrace Vibrant Summer on display! It can be found at Diddibox, located on Ashfield Road, and on display between the 1st and 30th June! Huge thanks to Dylan Miller So many great events in the wonderful Sale Festival #Salefestival #poetrytrail
Delighted to have a poem in this wonderful collection that is available now Huge thanks to Quillkeepers Press and the wonderful EIC Stephanie Lamb, EIC #theechoeswemake www.amazon.co.uk/Echoes-We-Ma...
In these strange times good to have two honourable mentions --- in Dark Poets Club Dark Humour Bitter Irony competition and with my poem Pharmākos in The Creative Writing Academy of Greece
Huge thanks to Susan Richardson for publishing this today in a special extension of our Sunday Poetry Series. Especially releveant today as my mum is poorly Highly commended The Passionfruit Review competition 2024 and shortlisted Saveas Writers' International Writing Competition - All In the Mind
A new interesting mix of short poems published in the wonderful @postcommunitynews.bsky.social with 45,000 copies around Stockport, Manchester, Salford, Trafford, Cheshire East and Bolton! Huge thanks to all the writers Have a great weekend #postnewspapers #poetrycorner #StockportPost
Delighted to be included in this wonderful new anthology: Printed Resistance 01 Anthology of poetry, prose, art and a film (150 copies). Funded by Arts Council England. All Backlash proceeds will support the UNICEF Gaza Relief fund. backlashpress.org/zines-artist... #printedresistance #poetry
Grateful and delighted to have three poems selected by Kevin Jack Cadwallender for volume 2 of this wonderful Spring / Grief-themed double issue of The Candyman's Trumpet Simply subscribe by email at jackcaradoctct@gmail.com to receive free copies of this and future volumes. Highly recommended!