Olivia Mulligan Poetry

Tis the season for poetry evenings tralalalalalalalala ✨
Two weeks today (19th Dec) I'll be at the lovely Pickering Book Tree ⭐ Looking forward to it! 🎄

A huge thank you to White Rose Books & Coffee Bar for hosting such a cosy evening 🧀🍷🙃 Also a big thank you to the lovely audience 💛 feeling very grateful 🙏

THIS FRIDAY! 😁🧀🍷

Festive Events at the BookCafe!

Don't forget to get tickets for Cheese, Wine and a little Rhyme, with Olivia Mulligan, on Fri 1st Dec, at 7pm.

Enjoy some poetry performance from Olivia Mulligan and indulge in a little cheese and wine to kick off some Festive Fun! Some poems will be Christmassy and some won’t! Either way, Olivia’s way with words is sure to entertain us!

You will be able to purchase a signed copy of Olivia's book during the event ( hint hint, they make a lovely gift)

Doors open 6.30pm, starts 7pm-8.30pm
Tickets £7 each.

Cheese, wine & a little bit of rhyme! 🍷🧀
Really looking forward to this event at the lovely White Rose Bookshop! 😍 Friday 1 December 7pm (doors open at 6.30pm). Tickets £7 which includes cheese and glass of wine 🎄🙃

Festive Events at the BookCafe!

Don't forget to get tickets for Cheese, Wine and a little Rhyme, with Olivia Mulligan, on Fri 1st Dec, at 7pm.

Enjoy some poetry performance from Olivia Mulligan and indulge in a little cheese and wine to kick off some Festive Fun! Some poems will be Christmassy and some won’t! Either way, Olivia’s way with words is sure to entertain us!

You will be able to purchase a signed copy of Olivia's book during the event ( hint hint, they make a lovely gift)

Doors open 6.30pm, starts 7pm-8.30pm
Tickets £7 each.

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End of an era! Today marks the last Poet's Corner on BBC Radio York. In February 2021 BBC Radio York asked me to be their 'Poet Laureate.' 33 months later I have shared over 100 poems on the radio. It has been so much fun and a huge honour.

This all came about in the first place because of BBC Upload.(highly recommend!) In summer 2020 I entered BBC Upload with a spoken word piece 'the lockdown conversation.' It was first played on BBC Radio York and then to my surprise it was chosen to be played nationally on BBC iplayer.

Coming full circle I shared it again today on the last show as a little trip down memory lane 🥺
Thank you BBC Radio York and huge huge HUGE thank you to Harry Whittaker and producer Richard for being such incredible support for the last 3 years 🌟🙏

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An incredible experience (many emotions!) performing my poetry at The International Dublin Writers' Festival.
I think it was my favourite gig yet! Such a lovely, lively audience 💚

Shout out to Mammy Mulligan for joining me this weekend and for being such a hero 🌟

EXCITING NEWS! 🎉🎉🎉 The audio book is ready for your ears! 😁 I so hope you enjoy listening as much as I loved writing and reading the poems.
If you do enjoy my little poems, it would mean the absolute world if you're able to leave a review on Amazon🙏Thank you! ❤️

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🎈happy 1st birthday The Wonky Tree Bookshop !🎈
Gorgeous afternoon yesterday visiting Leyburn to perform some poetry and celebrate books 💜🥂 thank you so much Alan & Claire for inviting me 💐

Looking forward to reading at The Wonky Tree Book shop next Saturday 🌟 celebrating their first birthday! 🎉 The Wonky Tree Bookshop

🌟SAVE THE DATE!!! 🌟
We're delighted that Olivia Mulligan Poetry will be with us in the shop next Saturday 2nd September at 3pm.
Come and meet Olivia and enjoy her poetry performance. Olivia will be available afterwards to chat and sign her books. Looking forward to seeing you! 🙂

☕Cream tea alert!☕ I am very excited to be visiting The Stripey Badger Bookshop, Coffee Shop & Kitchen on Tuesday 8th at their next Meet The Author event 🥰
Expect poems, chit chat and of course, tea & scones 💖

🌈deer shed festival 2023🌈

Deer Shed Festival
Crash Records

Teaching yoga and sharing my poetry at The Deer Shed Festival yesterday morning was such a beautiful experience. Thank YOU Deer Shed Festival 🙏

🦌 DEER SHED SIGNINGS 🦌

We’re excited to bring you this to our stall at Deer Shed Festival, come down to see us for meet & greets / signings with:

👉 Olivia Mulligan Poetry
👉 Mr John Robertson
👉 Gordon Raphael
👉 Ashleigh Nugent

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the cancer moon shine
the 8th is mine
must be a sign
to have cake for breakfast
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the stars align
to twenty nine!
don't like wine
i'll have a glass of J2O
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happy birthday to me
to her / to she
writing poerty
like always
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I had a lovely birthday hiking up and around Ingleborough with my best friend.

Happy Sunday everyone 🌞🌧️🌈

🌲Just another poem about the forest:

footsteps are the heartbeat
the switchback veins
her pine needle hair
catches the rain
her birdsong is the breath
her sunlight blinks to see
I stare at this forest
as she stares back at me

🦌DEER SHED 2023!🦌 Sooooo excited to part of this year's line up 😁 Collaborating with the wonderful Santosha Rose we are offering a Poetry & Yoga class in the wellbeing tent 🙌 I am also teaching a yoga class on the Saturday morning 🌞🙏 🧘‍♀️Happy days 🥰

Training done
Hair in bun
Start line gun
Race begun
Pain is fun?
‘G’WARN SON!’
‘G’WARN HUN!’
Feel the sun (or rain)
And I’m done
Didn’t win. Feel I’ve won

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Running is so much more than fitness. Running is meditation, problem solving, creativity, making friends, comfy socks.

Running is inhaling forest air, learning how to breathe, getting lost on the trails and getting lost in your own thoughts.

Running is rhythm, focus, tuning out the noise.

Running is learning how to be comfortable with the uncomfortable.
Running is achieving more than you ever thought you could.
Running is putting one foot in front of the other, again and again and again.

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Exciting news: I have completed & passed my Running Coaching course with England Athletics and I am now an official coach! WOO!

Yesterday team Yolk Farm Kitchen & Minskip Farm Shop completed the Yorkshire 3 Peaks challenge to raise money for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance 💪💛 24 miles in distance and 5200ft of climbing...

Here is a small extract from the poem "It's just a little walk." Inspired by Leigh who kept our spirits high on the 24 mile challenge.

"It's just a little walk he said
A joyful little stroll
He bought an apple and kitcat
And shoes without a sole

It's just a little walk he said
To the Greatest Showman tune
It's only three Yorkshire hills
So it'll be over soon"

12 hours later, it was over - we did it 💪💛🥚 we are aiming to raise £10,000 this year. If anyone is able to donate to help support this life saving charity it would be so appreciated 🙏
https://justgiving.com/fundraising/yolkshirethreepeaks

Today is World IBD Day so I thought I would do a lil awareness post. For myself, it also marks 1 year of being medication free 😁 I can't believe it. I had been on immunosuppressants for 13 years and now...nothing! (left photo 2020 - mentally and physically broken. Right photo - now, 12kg heavier and loving life) I was diagnosed with crohn's disease aged 14 and it has been quite the journey. I will have this illness for the rest of my life, but right now, it doesn't define me. I am feeling happier, healthier and stronger than ever. I have never written a poem about the illness before, but I thought, maybe now is the time?

I have written thousands of words
I have written thousands of rhymes
poem after poem
passing the time

poems for heartbreak
written at night
poems for poems’ sake
for love and for light

poems for seasons
for the winter blue
but I had no words
to write about you

I wasn’t ready to write about the pain
the shame
the fear
the stolen time
and how you made my teenage bones
crumble
tumble into a bleak
space where I felt

nothing

until now

the days are sweeter
my bones are stronger
my stomach is softer
my smile is wider
my laugh is louder
my poem has
something to say –
to anyone in the
darkest space,
I know,
you’ll be ok



Huge thank you to James❤️, my dear friends, my loving family, my dietician and therapist who changed my life and of course, thank you to poetry.
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✨Poetry evening coming up!✨ Really looking forward to this one 😁 sharing the stage with the wonderful poets - Henry Raby & Hannah Davies SAY OWT You can book tickets on the RURAL ARTS website 💫 (link shared in comments below) Hope to see you there! 🍻

Yoga & Poetry lovers!
Next Saturday afternoon (20th) I am running a Yoga & Poetry workshop with the wonderful Santosha Rose at RURAL ARTS ✨
There will be a yoga class with Sam, followed by a poetry workshop with myself 🥰
You can book using this link. We hope to see you there! 🙏📝

May Artist of the Month workshop: Yoga and Poetry - Rural Arts Take part in our unique workshop combining poetry and yoga. Learn mindfulness techniques through physical activity and creative writing.

It's been a busy few weeks but my mind is still in India.

This poem, titled 'sunrise'

the sunrise is yawning
over watercolour mountains
poetry in the sky
the sunrise is the morning
a tangerine heart beat
rising up high
the world is unfolding
time passing by
I think of the universe
without asking why

for a moment I thought of nothing
knowing this is everything

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Fancy a night out at the library this Friday evening? 😎🍷
Come along and bring your fave poem 🙌
Boroughbridge Community Library and Resource Centre

Yesterday I walked 15 miles in prep for the Yorkshire 3 Peaks challenge next month with my work friends at Minskip Farm Shop Yolk Farm Kitchen ☺️ inspired by the beautiful scenery on yesterday's walk, I couldn't resist writing a poem too!

The Yorkshire 3 peaks is 24 miles with 5200ft of ascent which we aim to complete in under 12 hours. We are raising money for the amazing, life saving charity Yorkshire Air Ambulance 💛 any donations would be hugely appreciated 💛🙏 our just giving page is here:
https://justgiving.com/fundraising/yolkshirethreepeaks
Thank you! 💛🙏

we are shadows in the city
trapped like a frog in a well
unable to tell the difference between having and being
observing and seeing
we are shadows in the city

We are sunlight in the mountains
We are the breath in the sky
We are the blood of the rainstorm
We are Mother Ganga's cry
We are the sweet mango nectar
We are the green, the blue, the white
In the mountains we are alive
In the mountains we are light

✨Freeeeeeee event on Tuesday evening✨ at the wonderful Pickering Book Tree 💜 honoured to be performing alongside some incredibly talented poets: Andy Croft and Paul Mills. Hope to see you there ☺️

March 2023. 200hrs Yoga Teacher Training 🧡🙏 The most incredible experience ✨🐵 (poetry coming soon!)

Today I am flying out to India 😬🧡✈️I will be coming off social media for the month to fully embrace the experience ✨This trip was actually booked for 2020, but not only did the pandemic stop this, I was also too poorly and too weak to travel. I am counting my lucky stars that I am healthy again and can finally go 🙏☀️ wishing you all health and happiness 🧡
Until April, Namaste ✨

It was a real treat to visit the Miss Havisham's Book Shop in Bedale this afternoon and deliver some copies of 10:37 💚 The grand opening is this Saturday (March 4th). Please pop along if you can! The shop itself is beautiful! I can't give too much away, so it stays a surprise for people on their first visit 😍 But what I can say is there is a very special 'Poet's Corner' with space for you to be inspired and write your own creations ✨ What a wonderful addition to Bedale 🥰

This Thursday I'll be at Boroughbridge Community Library and Resource Centre 11am - 12.30 to support their pop up poetry event ☺️ I will also be signing copies of 10:37💚 Hope to see you there!

The first Saturday of every month I share some poerty on BBC Radio York at 1.15pm ☺️ This Saturday at 12noon I will also be visiting The Blue House Bookshop in York for a meet & greet / book signing. If you're in York, please do pop in and say hello! 💚

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On Saturday I'll be visiting the wonderful Pickering Book Tree bookshop for a bit of book signing - celebrating the launch of 10:37🎈 please do pop along and say hello 🥰 it's a gorgeous new bookshop and owners Andrew, Stephanie & Cathy are so friendly and welcoming 💛

A lovely outing to Ripon this morning. Firstly, by pure coincidence my receipt for my chai latte was at exactly 10:37!?! I couldn't believe it. (beautiful chai by the way - thank you Olivers Pantry!) Then I popped into the wonderful which is always a treat. I am pleased to say they now stock copies of 10:37 💛 thank you! Visit Ripon