VERVE Poetry Press
@vervepoetrypress.bsky.social
Prize-winning #Brum based poetry indie making high octane collections and vervey pamphlets. Related to @Vervepoetryfest (did you guess?) 😍 https://vervepoetrybookshop.com/vpp
I'm going to be on BBC Radio 4's The Verb on Sunday, 5.10 pm, talking poetry & dance, & also a little sea swimming too www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social @serenbooks.bsky.social
BBC Radio 4 - The Verb
Radio 4's cabaret of the word, featuring the best poetry, new writing and performance.
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Next Sunday we will unveil a brand new Featured Publication, our final one for 2025. In the meantime, do check out How to Leave a Body by Holly Winter-Hughes. @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/08/03/f...
Featured Publication – How to Leave a Body by Holly Winter-Hughes
Our featured publication for Summer is How to Leave a Body by Holly Winter-Hughes, published by Verve Poetry Press. ‘Holly Winter-Hughes’ visceral writing turns the human form inside-ou…
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Publishing day! My pamphlet ‘How to train your Dragon’ is out now with @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social - awarded the @disabledpoets.bsky.social for 2025 by the fantastic @jamierhale.bsky.social , @pollyrowena.bsky.social and @mailbykite.bsky.social . Today’s dragon is a heavy one but my heart is full.
HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to #RueCollinge whose #DisabledPoetsPrize winning pamphlet #HowToTrainYourDragon is out today! Such a wonderful and rewarding work. You can get yours at our website here: vervepoetrybookshop.com/product-page...
With the nights drawing in, it's definitely time to snuggle up with a book in the dark evenings, perhaps our Featured Publication - How to Leave a Body by Holly Winter-Hughes @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/08/03/f...
Featured Publication – How to Leave a Body by Holly Winter-Hughes
Our featured publication for Summer is How to Leave a Body by Holly Winter-Hughes, published by Verve Poetry Press. ‘Holly Winter-Hughes’ visceral writing turns the human form inside-ou…
atriumpoetry.com
Fancy writing poems about how we explore connections to landscape and history through the self portrait poem? I’ll be running this zoom workshop for @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social on the 28th October www.eventbrite.com/e/wendy-prat...
Wendy Pratt Workshop - Self Portrait as Bronze Age Burial Mound
Wendy Pratt hosts a poetry workshop over Zoom
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All welcome to the launch of the Four Pamphleteers with Verve. Come along to the online readings to hear @maxwallis.bsky.social and @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social and Rue Collinge. Bring wine, bring crisps, bring everyone. @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/four-pamph...
FOUR PAMPHLETEERS: Rue Collinge, Glyn Edwards, Max Wallis & Katrina Naomi
VERVE Poetry Press presents Rue Collinge, Glyn Edwards, Max Wallis & Katrina Naomi reading from their brand new pamphlets.
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kind of gauche to assert the cultural relevance of one's own work, but this piece from my 2022 @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social collection Farewell Tour - a sort of grubbily psychedelic travelogue through a country in the process of extravagantly losing its marbles - feels newly resonant atm
I read poems from 'dance as if', my new pamphlet out with @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social next Thursday. The reading was with Penelope Shuttle at CAST. I launch 'dance as if' next Thurs in Penzance then London. #poetry #poetryfromdance #contemporarydance #danceasif #tourdates
I really loved ‘How to Leave a Body’, the powerful and startling debut collection from Holly Winter-Hughes. These poems confront both trauma and strength head-on; they are dark, visceral, and incredibly beautiful. @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social
Here's my 'short & sweet' poetry newsletter for Sept: info on 'dance as if' launch events in Cornwall & London @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social & recommending @mptmagazine.bsky.social Plus an article on how I write @serenbooks.bsky.social See mailchi.mp/10e91fb65935... #danceasif #poetry #howiwrite
Wonderful to come across this gorgeous review of @katedavispoet.bsky.social new work FLOW @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social this morning! #BookSky #PlaceWriting thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/08/31/b...
Book Review: FLOW by Kate Davis — A Lyrical Fist of Grief, Myth, and Survival - The Broken Spine
The first thing to say about FLOW is this: it doesn’t care if you’re ready. From its opening lines — “Rain, stinging rain, skelped in from the west” — Davis
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Pamphlet proofs completed on the Äland Isles. If there's loads of errors in there, please blame the Finnish archipelago! 'How to Make a Paper Grenade' will be out with @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social next month 💣💣💣🌳🌳🌳🌍🌍🌍🦋🦋🦋
We're still loving our current Featured Publication – How to Leave a Body by Holly Winter-Hughes @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/08/03/f...
Featured Publication – How to Leave a Body by Holly Winter-Hughes
Our featured publication for Summer is How to Leave a Body by Holly Winter-Hughes, published by Verve Poetry Press. ‘Holly Winter-Hughes’ visceral writing turns the human form inside-ou…
atriumpoetry.com
My pamphlet 'dance as if' will be published by @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social on 25 Sept #poetry #danceasif
'dance as if' @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social will be launched on 25 Sept at the Edge of the World Bookshop in Penzance. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... Other events to follow. #danceasif #booklaunch #poetry #poetswhodance
Book Launch with Katrina Naomi
Join us in the bookshop for an evening celebrating local, award-winning poet, Katrina Naomi, for the launch her new pamphlet 'Dance As If'.
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This month's 'short & sweet' poetry newsletter is on broken ankles, new books & rejection, feat @serenbooks.bsky.social @notjustdancing.bsky.social @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social @foundationswift.bsky.social @poetryschool.bsky.social mailchi.mp/f3591be78b32... #poetry #hotelamour #danceasif #books
'How to Make a Paper Grenade' began as a series of acts of resistance, and the poetry pamphlet will be published by @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social in Sep. Pre-orders: vervepoetrypress.com/product/glyn... @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social #poetry #ecopoetry
NEW Featured Publication - How to Leave a Body by Holly Winter-Hughes @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/08/03/f...
I have a new book coming out in November with @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social www.vervepoetrybookshop.com/product-page...
‘so we have a man… protect / him against / life his / life’ @helenmort.bsky.social’s ‘Dad vs. Dad’ is a work slim enough to finish over a lunch-break, but like shards of glass (indeed, like history) these poems and collages will stick deep in you. @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social have given us magic.
Really enjoyed attending the launch of Ilisha Thiru Purcell's @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social pamphlet What She Said at Northern Stage this weekend. A clever combination of forms from Tamil poetry and north east landscapes. Great to hear @shashtrevett.bsky.social read her work too!
Our writing tutor Jennifer Wong's poetry pamphlet "time difference" is available now from @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social Study with Jennifer on her creative nature writing course in Covent Garden on Sunday 27 July: www.citylit.ac.uk/.../creative...
July's 'short & sweet' poetry newsletter, recommending Isabelle Baafi's 'Chaotic Good' @faberbooks.bsky.social & feat @serenbooks.bsky.social @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social @arvonfoundation.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social mailchi.mp/315fe9108e32... #poetry
Cover reveal for (shiny) pamphlet 'dance as if' out in Sept with @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social 'A glorious rediscovery of body' Joelle Taylor. 'Exuberant and celebratory' Tishani Doshi. 'dance as if' follows a collaboration with dancer Kyra Norman. vervepoetrypress.com/product- #dancepoetry
AND IF you can't make that, we have a zoom event with Rachael this coming Monday eve also with #IlishaPurcell #GabrielleTse & @ladyredego which we'd love you to attend. Free tickets are at tinyurl.com/mryp5zmy
