@tapsalteerie.bsky.social are hosting an exciting launch for the publication of Weathershaker by Stewart Sanderson and Dwell Time by Taylor Strickland in Glasgow: 28th October at 7pm at The Alchemy Experiment. Here's the link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-boo...

Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets (ed. @rachaelboast.bsky.social) is a @poetrydayuk.bsky.social Book Group recommendation for #NationalPoetryDay this year. forwardartsfoundation.org/national-poe...

Coming up at @southbankcentre.bsky.social Global Crip Poetry Celebration on 25th October, 2pm. Poets Rachael Boast, Lisa Kelly, Karthika Naïr and Daniel Sluman introduce a new anthology by 100 deaf, disabled and neurodivergent poets from across the globe. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/glo...

Coming soon, a celebration of Versus Versus, published by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social, at the Southbank Centre. Visit the SBC website for in person and livestream ticket options: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/glo... www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/glo...

Many thanks to @rebeccatamas.bsky.social for this wonderful review of @rachaelboast.bsky.social's Versus Versus anthology in The Guardian's Saturday magazine poetry books of the month feature.

📣 Our submission window is now OPEN for the month of August. Get your blooms to us while the sun is shining! badlilies.uk/submit

This important anthology's available here in Canada as of today, folks. Received confirmation this morning that my copy has just shipped.

Delighted that VERSUS VERSUS: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets, published by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social & supported by the Royal Society of Literature, has made it into the Guardian. A short and sweet review from @rebeccatamas.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

23 of us poets in VERSUS VERSUS: 100 POEMS BY DEAF, DISABLED & NEURODIVERGENT POETS, edited by @rachaelboast.bsky.social, perform: vimeo.com/1102502312 Click Subtitles button for Closed Captioning. #CripLit

A huge honour to have my poem ‘Bournemouth’ included in such a wonderful, important anthology, alongside so many terrific poets and poems. Very special. Immense gratitude to @rachaelboast.bsky.social and @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

The VERSUS VERSUS international publication day has arrived! Gratitude to the team at Bloodaxe Books for all their work & diligence putting together this special compilation video. Heartfelt thanks to all the poets & translators who made these fantastic videos for us 🙏

Molly Twomey's @mollytwomey.bsky.social debut collection, Raised Among Vultures, was published in 2022 by The Gallery Press. It won the Southword Debut Collection Poetry Award & was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. She was awarded the 2023 Ireland Chair of

Thanks to @mollytwomey.bsky.social and for this lovely comment about @rachaelboast.bsky.social's new anthology Versus Versus, and to @corkworldbookfest.bsky.social for sharing it.

VERSUS VERSUS ANTHOLOGY SHOWCASE: Oct 25, 2pm BST, hosted by the Southbank Centre | with Rachael Boast, Lisa Kelly Karthika Naïr & Daniel Sluman |Tickets on sale (for in-person or livestream audiences) | BSL interpreted | Speech-To-Text transcription: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/rac...

'This anthology gives us the world' Thanks to @amandaearl.bsky.social for this wonderful in-depth review of @rachaelboast.bsky.social's new anthology Versus Versus. Distributed in North America via @consortiumbooks.bsky.social from 22 July. amandaearl.substack.com/p/versus-ver...

A substantial review of VERSUS VERSUS from Amanda Earl.

Hats off to Dr Marie Tidball. We need more disabled MPs - currently there are about 9 out of 650. Outrageous. I would agree societies are better for putting disabled people in positions of power & influence - across all areas, including literature - we'll bring you the best of humanity and humility.

A poem from Hotel Raphael (Picador, 2020), written in Winchester during a heat wave...

Nuala Watt on negative, damaging stereotypes of disability in poetry, and the wider culture of ableism in the arts and formal education.

So pleased to be included in this fabulous anthology of disabled poets from around the world. Versus Versus edited by Rachael Boast, published by Bloodaxe. What a power house of talent and imagination. A reflection of the many pathways disabled people negotiate and forge. @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Disability advocate and Versus Versus editor @rachaelboast.bsky.social will discuss her new anthology live via Zoom with @mollytwomey.bsky.social on Just to Say on Wednesday 4 June, 7pm (UK & Ireland). Email [email protected] for the Shareable Zoom link. www.bloodaxebooks.com/events?artic...

Coming up Weds 4th June: 7pm in Ireland / 1pm Central Daylight time / 11am Pacific time / 9pm Arabia Standard Time ‘Just to Say,’ is an internationally-focused discussion hour with poets globally, hosted by Molly Twomey. Sponsored by Jacar Press. Email [email protected] for Shareable Zoom link.

Our next guest for Just to Say at 7pm on June 4th is Rachel Boast, writer, disability advocate and editor of the anthology Versus Versus, featuring work by 100 deaf, disabled and neurodivergent poets published by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 🫶 😍 Email [email protected] for the free Zoom link x 🌻

Last week's brilliant online launch event for our Versus Versus anthology is now available on our YouTube with fully corrected captions for anyone who missed the livestream: www.youtube.com/live/07usVjB... @rachaelboast.bsky.social

Miraculously, another antho I love and am in is launching today. Celebrate @rachaelboast.bsky.social’s dedicated work on this, inc ensuring an int’l reach and work in translation. I’ll be present at the launch via video reading (and lurking w crip pride).

This is going to be a belter of an event! I had to check through all the video content last night and am lost for words.... Please join us THIS EVENING, Thursday 22 May, for a 7pm (BST) start - link here: www.youtube.com/live/07usVjB...

Molly Twomey's guest on Just to Say on 4 June St 7pm is @rachaelboast.bsky.social, editor of the new Versus Versus anthology.

It’s here, and it’s a beauty! VERSUS VERSUS: 100 POEMS BY DEAF, DISABLED & NEURODIVERGENT POETS, ed. @rachaelboast.bsky.social. Our online launch is this week, Thu 7PM UK time, link in post above.

Join us next week for the online launch of VERSUS VERSUS: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets. Thursday 22 May, 7pm BST live on our YouTube channel, and available to watch afterwards. www.bloodaxebooks.com/events?artic...

Poet and anthology editor Rachael Boast will be joined by poets Karthika Naïr, Chisom Okafor and Daniel Sluman, who will be reading their work from the anthology and in discussion with Rachael and Bloodaxe editor Neil Astley. www.bloodaxebooks.com/events?artic... @rachaelboast.bsky.social

We are disappointed that the @mayoroflondon.bsky.social 'Towards a new London Plan' consultation has no easy read or BSL version. This excludes many Deaf and Disabled Londoners from engaging with policies that shape our city’s future.

Richard Downes reviews Versus Versus, an anthology of 100 poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent poets edited by writer, editor and disability advocate @rachaelboast.bsky.social disabilityarts.online/magazine/rev...

A tough read. What the article doesn't mention is the US president's comments about his Nephew's disabled son William (link in comments) & attitude to disabled people in general. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I'm excited to share details for the launch of VERSUS VERSUS: 100 poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets, hosted by Bloodaxe Books on their Youtube channel. DATE: May 22 at 7pm (BST). Link and details in comments.

Heartfelt thanks to Bloodaxe Books for their care & attention in bringing this to publication; to the contributors, translators and publishers, & to the RSL for their support. Publication: May 22 (UK & Europe), July 22 Internationally. Contributor copies are being sent out. Links in comments.

Unamended, this legislation could see disabled people in receipt of social security (or, "benefits" as they call it) have their driving licenses taken away due to errors committed by the DWP. How will we get to GP / hospital appointments or collect medicines from pharmacies? Obscene.

▪️ @cripticarts.bsky.social are looking for someone to join them as Head of Operations, Finance and Development. This is an exciting new role at the organisation. Closing - 18 May Location - Remote ££ - £40.8K-£42K FTE disabilityarts.online/opportunity-...

Versus Versus (edited by @rachaelboast.bsky.social) is out next month from Bloodaxe Books.

Our latest issue closes with 'The Shortest Route to Madrid' by Rachael Boast www.badlilies.uk/rachael-boas...

From 22 year old Palestinian poet and journalist, Plestia Alaqad, who has emerged as a vital voice in the midst of chaos in Gaza. "It feels like Gaza is always the exception to the world, where tragedies are normalized, and justice is endlessly delayed." www.panmacmillan.com/authors/ples...

For WSG affectionados..... a post by Lesley Harrison, who also contributed to the centenary poetry anthology, The Caught Habits of Language (Donut Press, 2018).

Delighted for all the contributors to VERSUS VERSUS that the anthology has received a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Summer 2025. Many thanks to Bloodaxe Books and to the Royal Society of Literature for all their support. www.poetrybooks.co.uk/collections/...

Launching William Soutar’s Collected Published Poetry 3 April @uofglasgow.bsky.social – free, ticketed. The editors will discuss this new groundbreaking edition & celebrate the publication of William Soutar’s Collected Works by @tippermuirbooks.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launching-...?

To save any of my disabled allies having to send an email to the DWP to source an accessible version of their new foray into joined up thinking, "Pathways to Work", here it is:

This should be one of the biggest stories in the world right now. Millions of people are either directly or indirectly dependent on the Kafue river for their survival. This is crazy.

Poets working in BSL! Did you know you can enter the @forwardprizes.bsky.social for Best Single Poem - performed? Judge Lisa Kelly has written about why she'd love to see your work in BSL limpingchicken.com/2025/03/05/l... Deadline = 16 March Info at forwardartsfoundation.org/forward-priz...

I'm late again but for book day, this: for me, Kathleen Jamie is, and always will be, one of Scotland's greatest Makars. www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...

We appreciate this story by Vanessa Miller at the Gazette.