Ailsa Holland

01625 Gallery

In November 2023 I was one of 32 Macclesfield artists who exhibited a snapshot of their work in the 01625 Gallery, the two dis

Poem Brut, Hoxton

On Sunday 2 July 2023 I was part of a Poem Brut event at the fabulous Hundred Years Gallery in London, performing with five ot

How Do You Do In Devon

Moormaid Press’s first new publication was SJ Fowler’s How Do You Do In Devon, a pamphlet of living breathing words about

Poetry for Barnaby Festival 2023

In May 2023 I ran some poetry workshops at the Silk Museum in Macclesfield with the aim of producing poems to be displayed in

The Bodleian and the Bottle Ovens

My first full collection, The Bodleian and the Bottle Ovens, was published by Kingston University Press in May 2023. It poses

Moormaid Press

In early 2023 I decided to reawaken Moormaid Press after a few years’ sleep — as ‘a small publisher of poetry pamphlets,

American Women’s Club of Hamburg

On 22 March 2023 I had the great honour of giving a talk about On This Day She for the American Women’s Club of Hamburg.

On This Day She US edition

In October 2022 a US edition of On This Day She was published, by academic publishers Rowman and Littlefield. We were thrilled

Rosies Plaques

In June 2022 some of the spectacular women from Rosies Plaques came to visit Macclesfield, all the way from Norwich, with thei

European Poetry Festival 2022

On 27 June 2022 I took part in the Latvian Poetry event of the European Poetry Festival. The evening was a series of collabora

On This Day She in The Guardian

In May 2022 novelist Kate Mosse nominated On This Day She as a book to ‘unite us in troubled times’ in a Guardian feature,

Niezwykłe

In March 2022 a Polish translation of On This Day She was published: Niezwykłe 366 kobiet, które zmieniły bieg historii, wh