Charles Lauder Jr
@cglauder.bsky.social
Poet, freelance editor, ex-pat, "The Aesthetics of Breath" (V.Press, 2019), "Year of the Rat" (Blueprint Poetry Press, 2025), www.charleslauderjr.com
A slice of after school life in today's poem from Charles G. Lauder, Jr. @cglauder.bsky.social
Charles G. Lauder, Jr – “the school cleaner & the teacher”
Charles G. Lauder, Jr, is an American poet who's lived in the UK for over twenty-five years. He's the author of one collection, The Aesthetics of Breath (V. Press, 2019), and three pamphlets, the latest of which is Year of the Rat (Blueprint Poetry, 2025). His website can be found at charleslauderjr.com
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A nice plug for my pamphlet "Year of the Rat" and Blueprint Poetry Press in Tim Relf's latest column in @thebookseller.com www.thebookseller.com/comment/outr...
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I listened to this Planet Poetry podcast. Enjoyed the conversation and the poems. 💙🙂
Charles Lauder Jr@cglauder.bsky.social · last yr.Jo Colley (Blueprint Poetry Press) & I are the latest guests on the Planet Poetry Podcast discussing my pamphlet Year of the Rat with hosts @peter-kenny.bsky.social and @robinhoughton.bsky.social It's a great session. My thanks to Robin & Peter for having us on. www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...
Jo Colley (Blueprint Poetry Press) & I are the latest guests on the Planet Poetry Podcast discussing my pamphlet Year of the Rat with hosts @peter-kenny.bsky.social and @robinhoughton.bsky.social It's a great session. My thanks to Robin & Peter for having us on. www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...
The Way | The Blueprint - with Jo Colley and Charles G Lauder, Jr - Planet Poetry
It's a tag team episode! With Robin and Peter meeting poet Charles G Lauder, Jr and publisher poet Jo Colley of Blueprint Poetry Press - who have published his 2025 pamphlet Year of the Rat,&nbs...
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A lovely and insightful review of my pamphlet 'Year of the Rat' by Wendy Klein has gone live today on The High Window: thehighwindowpress.com/category/reviews/
With my new pamphlet 'Year of the Rat', published by Blueprint Poetry, out and making the rounds, I would like to promote it through readings, both in-person and online. If interested, please get in touch. Have poems, will travel. 😊
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Mark Goodwin@poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 2y ago. AT @ ALTÆR SPACE afternoon 12:4:25 among landscape prints & paintings i will speak out poems from 'At' . Altær Space exhibits artworks by Mark Spray & Sally Adkins Stockbrook House 8 King St, Duffield Derbyshire DE56 4EU 'At' is out with Shearsman Books www.shearsman.com/store/Mark-G...
My new pamphlet, Year of the Rat, has arrived! My thanks to Blueprint Poetry Press for publishing it. Details of the upcoming launch will be shared soon. Copies of the pamphlet can be obtained from the London Review Bookshop or by contacting Blueprint Poetry directly (blueprintpoetry@gmail.com).
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I had a great meeting this morning with Blueprint Poetry Press editors Jo Colley and Julie Hogg discussing the proofs for my pamphlet 'Year of the Rat'--it's looking to see the light of day later this winter. I'm very happy it's in their capable hands. 😊😊😊
' ... I have been reading my mother backwards, standing on the slope of my own life, looking down to that squiggly, tangled path. She is so far ahead ... ' iambapoet.com/wave/20-pam-thompson
Pam Thompson | wave 20 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard
Hear poet Pam Thompson read poems exclusively for iamb. If you like The Poetry Archive, this poetry site is for you.
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Say hi to... @daraghfleming.bsky.social, Dion O'Reilly, @gclifford1.bsky.social, Jane Ayres, @kevingrauke.bsky.social, Laura Lewis-Waters, Marie Marchand, @pamthompson240.bsky.social, Polly Walshe, Rachel Smith, Rowan Lyster, Sharon Phillips, Simon Alderwick, T S S Fulk and @wendypratt.bsky.social.
The John Le Carré Advent Calendar - My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books. (with apologies to @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social and @harkaway.bsky.social)
I've got two poems in the latest issue of Flight of the Dragonfly, two poems I've been looking forward to seeing published. My thanks to @philvernon.bsky.social for selecting them. flightofthedragonfly.com/charles-g-la...
Part of the journal Black Iris's quick-response news-in-poetry series following last week. Just so you know what I think.
Since the US election, friends have asked how I feel about the results, which has been difficult to encapsulate. Today I suddenly remembered this poem I wrote 3 years ago in the wake of January 6th & was later published in High Window. Foremost, it shows that the world hasn't quieted down.
Guardian headline: "AI poetry rated better than poems written by humans, study shows". To more accurately reflect the study, I suggest a different wording: "People who don't read poetry can't even tell the difference between AI generated verses and those written by actual poets."
. as she climbs above me I am framed by ridge & arête in a niche at my back vertical ground (landedge) horizontally deep & opaque in front of me a stupendous drop of sea's horizontal terror-clear-calm . At - out with Shearsman Books www.shearsman.com/store/Mark-G...
Spent a very indulgent, lovely weekend with the family in Hay-on-Wye touring bookshops and catching up, coming home with a nice cache. Lowell's Collected Works was a steal getting it for a third of the price. 🥰
From my article on Criticism and Poetry: 'Self belief is crucial to all artists, whose intention is to bring forth something that is original yet communicates as widely as possible. For most of us self-belief is a wobbly beast.' link to article: substack.com/home/post/p-...
