👀 - glad to add to my tbr pile new work from @fiddes.bsky.social & @jakeareynolds.bsky.social - and my own pamphlet Vital Capacity also still available from the excellent @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social !

Broken Sleep Books@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 5d ago

FLASH SALE: 20% off until Sunday night. If there's a book you've been circling, or you fancy taking a punt on something new, now's a good time. Every order goes straight back into publishing writers the bigger presses overlook. That's the whole point of us. www.brokensleepbooks.com/books

Excellent readings this week at Red Door Poets - Hannah Lowe and Nasim Luczaj guesting - and Sudeep Sen there and in Kingston at the calm and lovely Quaker Centre. Thank you @marymulholland.bsky.social and all the organisers! And to Sudeep for most of these pics.

Huge thanks to @forwardprizes.bsky.social for long-listing my poem, and to @poetrysociety.org.uk for nominating it, along with great poems from @nickykippax.bsky.social and Matt Barnard! 🙏🏻

Thrilled to have a poem in fine company in this brilliant issue!

issue eleven is out now! berlinlit.com

Lovely poem here

Association for Scottish Literature@asls.org.uk · 3mo ago

I never felt so much Since I have felt at all The tingling smell and touch Of dogrose and sweet briar, Nettles against the wall, All sours and sweets that grow Together or apart… —“A Birthday”, by poet, novelist & translator Edwin Muir (1887–1959), born #OTD, 15 May #poem #poetry 1/10

Design legend Margaret Calvert is 90 today. Look at that cake! If you've ever admired a road, rail or metro sign in Britain it's likely she had something to do with it. One of Britain's design heroes - happy birthday to her. Photo by: @oshgallerylondon (IG) Cake by: mybaker.co

On the west coast of Ireland, you have to get your heat where you can.

En route!

Brand new edition of @robinhoughton.bsky.social ‘s excellent guide to getting your poetry published, glad to have made a small contribution to it along with a host of insightful editors and poets. More details and ordering here apoetsguide.co.uk

Poets get ready... our next submission window for full poetry collections will be reopening on Friday 1 May for 2 weeks! We’ll share more details of exactly what we’re looking for on our submissions page when the window opens so keep an eye out here www.serenbooks.com/submissions/

The Finnish word for an auction, huutokauppa, means “shout market” (or “shouting shop”) * read on for more of my favourite Finnish words (a thread in honour of today being Day of the Finnish Language)…

Currently at 468 submissions. Closing at 500. Hurry! berlinlit.com/submissions/

Looking forward very much to reading with this amazing group of poets - save the date! Zoom link from Sue Burge (email on poster) @michpenn.bsky.social @marcchamberlain.bsky.social @tamsinhopkins.bsky.social

such a beautiful, tiny painting on glass, backed with silver paper from a cigarette packet Dora Carrington ‘The Barque Harmony in the Ice off the Labrador Coast’, 1929

Very many thanks to @poetrylondon.bsky.social & Niall Campbell for featuring my poem today 🙏🏻❄️

Looking forward very much to this tonight!

perversemag@perversemag.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Please come to an awesome PERVERSE poetry reading with Annie Katchinska, Crispin Best, Edward Doegar, Joe Carrick-Varty, L. Kiew, Michelle Penn, Natalie Shaw and Phoebe Gilmore on Weds 18th March | Basement @The Betsey Trotwood (EC1R 3BL) | from 7pm | free

Really pleased to hear this. I benefited from Declan’s guidance while doing my MA at Royal Holloway, and the poets he’ll edit are lucky!

The Bookseller@thebookseller.com · 6mo ago

Jonathan Cape has appointed Declan Ryan as its new poetry editor, to take up the role in summer 2026 following the retirement of Robin Robertson 👇 #BookSky

We are so excited to be on Bluesky! This year’s festival is from the 5th-8th November. Will we see you there? With huge thanks to Vici MacDonald and Andrew Lindesay for creating our beautiful logo 🌊 💛 #newlogo #poetry #writing #poetryfestival #suffolk

OUT NOW. Issue twenty-three: 'Wildfires' badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-three

Issue twenty-three — Bad Lilies

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Wonderful to read new work from @kathrynmaris.bsky.social here

Kathryn Maris@kathrynmaris.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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Wonderful launch last night at the Swedenborg Hall for @michpenn.bsky.social ‘s superb new collection Retablo for a Door from @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social - poems that are questioning, powerful, beautiful - with an enthusiastic crowd!

It's time to choose the last IS&T Pick of the Month for 2025. Will December's be Toby Cotton, @michelleadiaz.bsky.social, @greeningpoet.bsky.social, Paula R. Hilton, Usha Kishore or @fionalarkin.bsky.social. More at inksweatandtears.co.uk/december-202... #InkSweatandTears #PickoftheMonth

Excited to be starting the new year with a reading at @reading-poets-cafe.bsky.social on Friday 9th January - do join us! link in comments

Delighted to have a deep winter poem feature on @inksweatandtears.co.uk wonderful 12 Days of Christmas series in lovely company 🎄❄️✨

Ink Sweat & Tears@inksweatandtears.co.uk · 7mo ago

On the Seventh Day of Christmas we bring you @pennyblackburn.bsky.social , @fionalarkin.bsky.social, @ruthhiggins.bsky.social. Read their work here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/on-the-seven... #InkSweatAndTears #FeaturedPoem #ChristmasPoem #12DaysOf

Wow! @sophieherx.bsky.social & @matthewepaul.bsky.social reading their wonderful work & being interviewed by Katie Griffiths tomorrow night - looking forward to this one very much www.riverhousebarn.co.uk/events/136679

Live Poetry At Riverhouse

Introduced by Riverhouse Poets Tutor Katie Griffiths.Live Poetry at Riverhouse is a monthly series bringing the spoken word to the warm, intimate setting of the Barn stage. This se...

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Looking forward very much to reading @marcchamberlain.bsky.social ‘s essay

Marc Chamberlain@marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Utter Vulnerability: Essays on the Poetry of John Wieners (eds. Michael Kindellan and Alex/Rose Cocker) now available from PULM, full of wonderful essays from the great and the good of Wieners scholarship, plus one from me on transcendence of the confessional mode. www.pulm.fr/index.php/EN...

Am sitting on the rug, deep in the new issue of The Aftershock Review. I’m honoured to have three poems in exceptional company in an edition which explores ‘the anatomy of aftermath,’ all thanks to @maxwallis.bsky.social Anna Percy and Suzi Feay.

Late to post, but Poetry in Aldeburgh was a brilliant festival, bringing poetry, art and music together to consider the book, its survival under oppression, and its future. Bravo to everyone involved! Keats and the Sea - fab opener @juliamarybird.bsky.social & Mike Sims - included origami for all!

Enjoying @deanbrowne.bsky.social ‘s After Party very much

Rogue Strands are making a Live Poetry Mix Tape...!

Matthew Stewart@roguestrands.bsky.social · 10mo ago

When Mat and I are working out what poets to invite to read with us at Rogue Strands events, it feels like we're generating our own Live Poetry Mix Tapes... roguestrands.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-li...