One door closes and another door opens. Must get those cupboards fixed.
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Singletary (@shearsmanbooks.bsky.social) The Vitalist Sees the Signs (@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social) Palomines (Blue Diode Press, 2026)
Some of my favourite snaps from this weekend's #Cambridge #Poetry Festival.
We're pinching ourselves at Bad Lilies Towers as our 25th issue will be out later this month! More soon... badlilies.uk
Richard Sherman #25 Football Player Waving
ALT: Richard Sherman #25 Football Player Waving
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This essay in appreciation of Keith Bailey, an important collaborator in Ian Hamilton Finlay's work, by Patrick Eyres is on the Little Sparta website. It contains an account of IHF''s commission for my friend Ronnie Duncan, one 'unique in Ian’s oeuvre', www.littlesparta.org.uk/keith-bailey...
Keith Bailey, 1929-2017: An Appreciation by Patrick Eyres - Little Sparta
An essay by Dr Patrick Eyres. This drawing, by Chris Broughton (fig. 1), salutes the way that the craftsmanship of Keith Bailey articulates the poetry of Ian Hamilton Finlay. It
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Apropos of someone reminding me, here's me in conversation with the mighty Sarah Howe earlier this year, for @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social, on cherry blossom and related matters: thelondonmagazine.org/interview-ri...
Rishi Dastidar in Conversation with Sarah Howe - The London Magazine
Rishi Dastidar in conversation with Sarah Howe about workplace language, satire, Bruce Forsyth and his new collection, Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak.
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flightpath of the wren threading the gaps between leaves straight through the hawthorn
‘Poetry has nothing to do with who we are.’ (Iain Crichton Smith)
Episode 2 of this charmering series by #IvorCutler happens to contain several of the poems we selected from ‘A Wet Handle’ for his Selected Poems - forthcoming from #HoorgiHouse! So if you want to sample the merchandise before you buy, as it were, here’s your chance: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Ivor Cutler - A Wet Handle - Episode 2 - BBC Sounds
Music, prosaic idiosyncrasy and whimsy from the unique Ivor Cutler.
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Saturday night review: a review by the critic Chris Edgoose of my three most recent pamphlets -- Singletary (@shearsmanbooks.bsky.social), The Vitalist Sees the Signs (brokensleepbooks.bsky.social), and, impressively, the just-released Palomines (Blue Diode Press) 😲🙏 woodbeepoet.com/2026/10/10/v...
Voice Beyond Sense: on Geraldine Clarkson
In Denise Riley’s recent short collection of essays, A Chorus of Ears (Picador), she reflects on the way the persona of the poet frequently gets in the way of the reader and the poem. Her con…
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René Magritte. La Clef des songes (The Interpretation of Dreams). Brussels, 1935
FLAME is included in my new pamphlet #Palomines, alongside poems published previously by The London Magazine, Anthropocene, Ice Floe Press, & The Dark Horse; & available now from Blue Diode Press: bluediode.co.uk/product-page... 🎪🐇🐯🎪🙏 @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social @icefloepress.bsky.social
gbclarkson.bsky.social@gbclarkson.bsky.social · 5d agoSmall piece up at The Los Angeles Review 🎪🎪🎪 losangelesreview.org/flame-by-geraldine-clarkson/ @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social #BlueDiodePress
Vividly colourful autumn leaves, berries and wildlife, including a red admiral butterfly and a red squirrel, photographed during my visit to St Andrews Botanic Garden last week. Have a great #Friday everyone!
'Beirut' is one of two poems by Yanita Georgieva from our latest issue. Order the October / November issue for more poetry by Jane Hirshfield, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, William Cliff and others: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...
Maria Stepanova on language and displacement: www.pushkinhouse.org/pages/in-bet...
To mark the reopening of our Bookshop, redesigned by architect and artist Alexander Brodsky, we have launched a new quarterly series of seminal texts in translation. These works have been chosen for their nuance and depth of reflection, illuminating and exposing the fractures of our contemporary world.
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"Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It's usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world." Anne Carson, from "Art of Poetry No. 88," Paris Review.
I learnt this by heart as a teenager. I still feel so grateful to her for her vision and her courage. A prayer. And, as they say, an eye-opener.
Small piece up at The Los Angeles Review 🎪🎪🎪 losangelesreview.org/flame-by-geraldine-clarkson/ @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social #BlueDiodePress
FLAME by Geraldine Clarkson - The Los Angeles Review
Geraldine Clarkson is a writer of Irish heritage, who lives in the English Midlands. Her poetry and prose have been published widely in literary journals internationally. Recent chapbooks are Singleta...
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Mother Courage is the subject of today’s Roleplay 4pm @BBCRadio4 looking at some of the great dramatic roles. Fiona Shaw, Maggie Steed, Michelle Terry, Liz Carr & Ursula Yovich on what it’s like to play #Brecht’s complex protagonist. Producer Eliza Lomas. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
In the Venn diagram of these beautiful Blue Diode pamphlets & The London Magazine, Flora Leask Arizpe is in both sets, having a fine poem ‘Nowhere Organs’, after HG Wells, in @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social also... Looking forward to both pamphlets--Edinburgh is by Eimear Bush-- & TLM ... #PoetryPost
& the gateway is an eye that reflects & gathers leaves, copper beeches tarnishing heavy & shabby - jackdaws are revisiting roosts & bewildered pheasants worldbuild by cloking from cover: a single robin enacts a map the dunnock trespasses
the turning of the leaves is a calling to catalogue the spice shelf on Sunday mornings flinging these and sifting those into new jars 5.X.26
Recording the golden plover at Coire na Feadaige, with Chris Watson, for fauna jukebox, commissioned by Hauser & Wirthf or the Fife Arms. An LP will be released later this year by Art into Life, in Japan. Photo by Mhairi Law, 2017. gathering.bandcamp.com/track/golden...
golden plover at Coire na Feadaige (NO 112 776), by Alec Finlay and Chris Watson
from the album Cairngorms Fauna Jukebox
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Luke Roberts, the best writer on poetics in the UK just now.
New Left Review@newleftreview.bsky.social · last wk.Luke Roberts on Musa McKim Guston: 'A poem is a special sort of timepiece: it can be a way of stopping time or keeping time, even measuring it, as in the little moment of suspense in the final linebreak.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
