Headless Poet is open for pamphlet proposals! We're looking for short, lively introductions to poets and poems “buried by time”. Find out more (or just ask @jwikeley.bsky.social) 👇
Headless Poet is open for proposals
A few introductions
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This week in the poetry blogs with @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @cbeditions.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/07/poet...
Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 27
A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.
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Now with a short introduction: jwikeley.substack.com/p/dark-news-...
Dark news on the breeze
A new pamphlet from Headless Poet
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Jeremy Wikeley@jwikeley.bsky.social · 2mo agoComing really very soon from Headless Poet: @jntod.bsky.social introduces a rich, varied and moving selection from the poems of Lilian Bowes Lyon - back in print for the first time since 1948. Subscribe/pre-order and find out more: www.headlesspoet.com/shop/p/snow-...
Coming really very soon from Headless Poet: @jntod.bsky.social introduces a rich, varied and moving selection from the poems of Lilian Bowes Lyon - back in print for the first time since 1948. Subscribe/pre-order and find out more: www.headlesspoet.com/shop/p/snow-...
Lilian Bowes Lyon: Snow Bees — HEADLESS POET
A Selection of Poems edited by Jeremy Noel-Tod Headless Poet Introduction 1.3 Publishing 24 July 2026, pre-order/subscribe now — Edited by Jeremy Noel-Tod, this new selection brings the full...
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Stealing unawares upon the whale in the fancied security of the middle of solitary seas, you find him unbent from the vast corpulence of his dignity, and kitten-like, he plays on the ocean as if it were a hearth.
I think this might be one of my favourite answers to any question yet.
Moving at summer’s pace, an animal made of departure, and much more with @emmalee1.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @dharmabam.bsky.social @collinkelley.bsky.social @marianchristie.bsky.social @adamcairnspoet.bsky.social 3/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/06/poet...
Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 25
A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.
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OUT NOW: Ten Poets Do Their Bit for the Secret Service! Feat. @abrackenbury.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social @mconley.bsky.social Grace Ellis, Jac Harmon, Safa Maryam, Claire Orchard, Jess Richards @robertsheppard.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social 📚💙 #BookSky Book 🔗 in bio!
In July - for one month only - Headless Poet will open for proposals for what people are already describing as “Series 2”. Which is exciting. And another opportunity to tell (and refine) the story of what Headless Poet is all about. Watch this space? www.headlesspoet.com
If I lie about my age, can I be banned from social media, too, please
“As with the puns and ingenious rhymes, so with other things; there’s an opportunism, if you like, or just a huge openness. He goes for it.” Alex Wong and I talked about Thomas Hood's strangely compelling - and deeply embarrassing - single-use spells. Please tuck in. substack.com/home/post/p-...
How much depends on the exactness of the spell
Alex Wong and Jeremy Wikeley on embarrassment, 'bad' puns, and the poems of Thomas Hood
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Some thoughts on Louis MacNeice on the move, inspired by and shamelessly indebted to @johnclegg37.bsky.social. jwikeley.substack.com/p/goodbye-to...
Goodbye to London
Louis MacNeice on the move
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Great stuff. Lots of nice quotes but Hugo Williams contributing in both 1962 and 2026 trumps everything ("Ted Hughes?! I can’t believe I wrote that. I’ve never liked him"). Congratulations to Jamie and everyone at TLM for pulling it off.
The London Magazine@thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 3mo ago'Would poetry be more effective – that is, interest more people more deeply – if it were more directly concerned with the issues of our time?' @joriegraham.bsky.social, Don Paterson, @aestallings.bsky.social and more have their say in our 2026 Survey of Poets. thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...
The first two pamphlets from Headless Poet, enjoying a moment in the sun not so long ago. www.headlesspoet.com
Some weekend reading from me. First up, a terrific edition of the Writer’s Bookshelf with @jwikeley.bsky.social. mathewlyons.substack.com/p/the-writer...
The writer's bookshelf: Jeremy Wikeley
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
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Really enjoyed this and, as a regular Writer's Bookshelf reader, was very flattered to be asked! Thank you @mathewlyons.bsky.social.
Mathew Lyons@mathewlyons.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew on the Writer’s Bookshelf this morning: eight questions about writers, books, and reading with the great @jwikeley.bsky.social. mathewlyons.substack.com/p/the-writer...
This week in the poetry blogs with @jntod.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @mayacpopa.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/04/poet...
Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 17
A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.
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Poetry Notebook 24/04/26 On Leontia Flynn, the poetry of stuff, and a season of sonnets. jwikeley.substack.com/p/poetry-not...
Poetry Notebook, 24/04/26
Profit, loss and a season of sonnets
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I was very glad to do this one, and to spend some time walking London with Hill's poems. Such a loss.
Salt Books@saltpublishing.com · 6mo agoA wonderful review of Tobias Hill’s Collected Poems in The Telegraph …
Back to my old tricks (bothering publicity teams for review copies of books I can barely afford the time to read, let alone write about)
Welcome to my new show about the history of commercial fishing, or the Cod Past podcast.
Tremendous poem in today's @parisreview.bsky.social mail out: mailchi.mp/theparisrevi...
“The Common Era,” Abigail Dembo
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Proofs! Very exciting. @victoriamoul.bsky.social Pre-order the real thing: www.headlesspoet.com/shop/p/poems...
Back to my old tricks (putting £1 on Labour to win in G&D at 4/1)
"There is a difference between paying attention to an ending and a poem which is genuinely attentive to its own end—which has been, from the first line, a thing in time, moving through it. " Some thoughts for the blog on endings in poetry, via Muloon, Allnutt & Kunial. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Poetry of Departures
Muldoon, Allnutt, Kunial and the art of the soft landing
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Introductions are the way poetry survives. They are also, I think, an endangered art. Which is why I'm starting a poetry press. Here's a little more about what that all means (and how you can help): jwikeley.substack.com/p/why-im-sta...
Why I'm starting a poetry press (and how you can help)
Introducing: Headless Poet
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