Phil Vernon
@philvernon.bsky.social
Poetry, humanitarian issues, peacebuilding. Latest poetry collection Guerrilla Country (Flight of the Dragonfly Press, 2024): http://bit.ly/485JisV Have finally quit the awful 'X' - why did I wait so long? - and landed here.
It’s always nice to see my collection in bookshops, but it’s particularly lovely to know that it’s stocked in my local bookshop! Thank you to @waterstones.bsky.social in Worcester for inviting me to sign some copies today 💙
How Rwanda-backed M23 rebels finance their war in DR Congo : www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)
How Rwanda-backed M23 rebels finance their war in DR Congo
Revenue from taxes, trade, and mining is used to pay fighters, maintain a parallel administration, and consolidate territory.
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A Godless Truce - The Scribe's Tale A poem from my last collection philvernon.net/2026/09/03/a...
A godless truce – the scribe’s tale
This poem, from my last collection Guerrilla Country, takes the Magna Carta negotiations at Runnymede beside the Thames in 1215 as its starting point. Written in the sceptical – if not downri…
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The Bayeux Tapestry is in the news today. Here’s a poem - “Tapestry” - from my book Guerrilla Country
The Bayeux Tapestry is in the news today. Here’s a poem - “Tapestry” - from my book Guerrilla Country
A Godless Truce - The Scribe's Tale A poem from my last collection philvernon.net/2026/09/03/a...
A godless truce – the scribe’s tale
This poem, from my last collection Guerrilla Country, takes the Magna Carta negotiations at Runnymede beside the Thames in 1215 as its starting point. Written in the sceptical – if not downri…
philvernon.net
A few months back, hundreds of people were approached by ‘recruiters’ at Salt offering new editorial positions. Now hundreds of our authors are being affected by offers of US editions, translations, film & TV deals and more… www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/house-... #BookSky #SaltPublishing
A very flattering email
by Chris Hamilton-Emery Someone wrote to me a few days ago to say that my poems have an abrasive musicality, and that they were struck by the tension between spectacle and reality in my work. They sai...
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For poets (and their unpublished ace poems) who might be at a loose end on a Sunday night...!
Matthew Stewart@roguestrands.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'm the Guest Poetry Editor for the October issue of The Madrid Review. Subs are now open and I look forward to reading your poems...! themadridreview.substack.com/p/submission...
A battle for supremacy has laid Sudan and its capital to waste economist.com/interactive/... from The Economist
A battle for supremacy has laid Sudan and its capital to waste
The country's future depends on events beyond its borders, as well as within them
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‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Wonderful poem by Rosie Jackson in Amethyst Review amethystmagazine.org/2026/07/26/d...
Devotion – a poem by Rosie Jackson
Devotion ‘Devotion is full of arrows.’ Joanna KlinkI’m wounded. But you know that. You send the shafts, designed to hit where it counts. You give with one hand, excise with the other. I dream of le…
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Maggie O'Farrell might now be best known as an acclaimed novelist. However, back in the 1990s, she started off as a poet. And she was terrific...
‘It has become something of a cliché to refer to Sudan as a forgotten war. But it is better thought of as a neglected war. One forgets things by mistake; to neglect is a deliberate decision.’ Analysing Africa newsletter: Another looming atrocity in Sudan economist.com/middle-east-...
Analysing Africa newsletter: Another looming atrocity in Sudan
John McDermott, our chief Africa correspondent, argues that the conflict is not “forgotten” but “neglected”
economist.com
Phil Vernon takes us back to poetry's pastoral roots with a reflection around the Firle Beacon in 'Something (almost) Understood'. @philvernon.bsky.social Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/phil-vernon-2/ #Firlebeacon #Poetry #Inksweatandtears #InkSweatAndTears
I started a series of poems a while ago, drawing on links with films I’d watched in the past. This one refers to ‘Blue Sky‘, a 1994 Tony Richardson film for which Jessica Lange won an Oscar. It was published in Bindweed’s ‘Midsummer Madness’ anthology in 2023. philvernon.net/2026/07/01/b...
‘Blue Sky’, a poem
I started a series of poems a while ago, which drew on apparent links between my own experiences and films I’d watched in the past – often the distant past. The idea seemed promising bu…
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I started a series of poems a while ago, drawing on links with films I’d watched in the past. This one refers to ‘Blue Sky‘, a 1994 Tony Richardson film for which Jessica Lange won an Oscar. It was published in Bindweed’s ‘Midsummer Madness’ anthology in 2023. philvernon.net/2026/07/01/b...
‘Blue Sky’, a poem
I started a series of poems a while ago, which drew on apparent links between my own experiences and films I’d watched in the past – often the distant past. The idea seemed promising bu…
philvernon.net
📣 News alert! We are opening submissions up for the month of July. More info soon at badlilies.uk/submit
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Guidelines to submit to Bad Lilies
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Rare among journalists, @patrickmaguire.bsky.social very clear here about the strengths and potential flexibility of Ed Miliband as Chancellor. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Andy Burnham’s big bang needs a fighter in No 11
If the new prime minister wants to overturn Treasury orthodoxy his chancellor will need drive and grip — and that leaves two candidates
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My collection of essays on mathematical poetry, From Fibs to Fractals, can now be freely downloaded in pdf form from my website. Enjoy! marianchristiepoetry.net/from-fibs-to...
From Fibs to Fractals: exploring mathematical forms in poetry
A few years ago I was contacted out of the blue by Michelle Moloney King, the founder of Beir Bua Press. She had read some of my blog posts on mathematical forms in poetry, and offered to publish t…
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