Reviewing @louisepoetical.bsky.social 's The How in the World over at @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 📚

Thank you Julie! x

Thank you Rhona 💚💚💚

SHOCKING FACT: If you earned £18,000 a day from when Jesus was born to the present day, you STILL would not make as much as Shell did in profits last year

YOU CAN NOW PRE-ORDER MY BOOK 💚🪱 also, look at my babygirl worm on the cover 😭

Thrilled to share the stunning cover for FOLKISH by @kymdeyn.bsky.social and make it available to pre-order now. Artwork by Letty Wilson. 'Bold, inventive, sardonic. Ripe with scavenger gods, local saints and legends.' Playful, spirited and absolutely furious. ninearchespress.com/publications...

Mædwe is officially out in the world! With thanks to Andrew and Sophie @salopress.bsky.social, to my lovely endorsers Sophia Argyris and Tom Branfoot, and also to the journals who first published some of the poems (see acknowledgements photo!) www.salopress.com/store/mdwe-c...

NEW BRAAG MICROS - up at thebraag.co/shop 👼 The Annual Convention of Most Gentle and Virtuous Saints by Heather Chapman. 🦜 Toucan by Jessica Boatright.

Me being utterly astonished at the beauty of the work in Zain Rishi’s pamphlet Noon published by The Emma Press. It’s well worth reading.

We're here for ur weird! Subs open the whole month of Feb, read the subs guidelines on the website or I'll USE YOUR BONES TO MAKE MY BREAD ❤️

Poetry post is the best kind of post 😍 We'll be popping to the post office tomorrow. Get your orders in: salopress.com/store

Kicking off the new year with THREE new poetry chapbooks 🤩 All the details at salopress.com

So excited to have a poem in here and share pages with fantastic poets! Available to pre-order from @silver-press.bsky.social 🌱 #poetsonbluesky

Thank you National Poetry Library for choosing Under the Radar as your Magazine of the Month - to mark this lovely accolade we're offering new (or returning) readers 10% off a digital or print subscription: type UTR10% at the checkout: ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Under... Don't miss out!

I can now also show you the cover for 'polblar tmolkop' by @andrewblair.co.uk 👾💚 Described by professional recluse and part-time mystic Fahad Al-Amoudi as 'Possibly the most important book of our lifetime...'

A new poem up on Carmen et Error, with thanks @chadpie.bsky.social & Kym. Poems by Zoë Green & Jess Richardson also magnificent. You can read it here: carmenerror.com?page_id=622

A belated issue 14.0 is up on Carmen et Error, but no less magnificient for that! We have: 🫖 Zoe Green 🫀 @victoriaspires.bsky.social 🪱 Jess Richardson Selected by the eminent @chadpie.bsky.social, our guest editor for this unsettling issue. 💕

Our three newest titles are now available for pre-order at salopress.com 🤩 As a tiny tiny independent publisher running this thing on limited funds, from our dining room, we are grateful for every single order. Thank you all for the support so far.

On Feb 1 2026, @iamb.uk celebrates six years online. Join @louisepoetical.bsky.social and creator/curator @markantonyowen.com on Jan 31 – plus a hand-picked selection of poets from the 380 who've featured in the journal so far – for a free, fun evening of poetry readings. 🥳🎂 bit.ly/iamb_is_six

Very excited for these gorgeous-looking @salopress.bsky.social chapbooks by the fabulous @corinnaboard.bsky.social @poppycockburn.bsky.social & Anna Brook 😍😍😍👇

We can now show off the cover for @gitaralleigh.bsky.social's new pamphlet, empirical! Which will be published by us in March of this year 🎉

Say hello to my new pamphlet ‘Mædwe’ I’m so grateful to @salopress.bsky.social for publishing it, and to Tom Branfoot and @sophiaargyris.bsky.social for their lovely endorsements! 💚💚💚

Beautiful poem by @suefinch.bsky.social on @atriumpoetry.bsky.social 🌖

Happy publication day! Finished Creatures issue nine - trespass. Thank you to the sixty contributors, and all who sent work in. 💙🕊️ x

Sharing this little-read (by me) poem from my @salopress.bsky.social pamphlet Soi-même, in honour of last night's #SuperWolfMoon.

Having this in my hand has cheered me considerably. TY again @ninearchespress.bsky.social ❤️

A reminder that Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak will be published by @ninearchespress.bsky.social on 19 March 2026, and is available for pre-ordering now. ninearchespress.com/publications...

Issue nine - trespass - just published. Brand new work from sixty excellent poets. 💙🕊️ Please check the website for order details x

Last copies! After a flurry of unexpected but joyous sales over the past few days, we're thrilled that these six chapbooks are close to selling out 😍 We have one copy of each. Thank you, as ever, for supporting us and our writers. (Also, did you know, our writers are paid a huge 50% royalty? ✊️)

One of my favourite poems from the past year: ‘On finding a cow’s jawbone in my city garden’ by @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social Published in issue 16 of The Alchemy Spoon.

Lovely to be part of one of my favourite magazines! 💚

Happy Christmas to those who celebrate! 🥰🥳🎁

Received my contributor copy of the brilliant Under The Radar @ninearchespress.bsky.social edited by Roy McFarlane. There’s so much great stuff in here. Thanks Roy, Jane and Matt for including two of my poems! 💚🪶 If you’d like to have a read, there’s a link in my bio to purchase a copy.

That’s all from PERVERSE this year. Thank you so much to everyone for reading, and to everyone who sent in their work to be read. You can enjoy the issue archive here: perverse.substack.com

Under the Radar - the FLIGHT Issue - has landed! Full of new #poetry, short fiction and reviews to discover. Our thanks to all contributors and future readers. Available as a single copy (print or digital) or part of a 4-copy sub: ninearchespress.com/magazine

I can't promise to be too mysterious, but I'd love to see some of you tomorrow at the @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social open mic. Still tickets available to read if you fancy it ☺️ #poetrycommunity #poetsofbluesky

Howdy. Please excuse the silence. R103 is on its way, currently at the printers. So it should be with you just after Christmas. It is we think worth the wait.

The second poem in PERVERSE 9J is 'Herpetologists' by L Kiew @lkiew.bsky.social. Read all five poems in this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9j

Pathways Through Poetry is launching today with The Big Give! ✨ We’re raising £5k to fund 5 fully sponsored places for emerging poets from underrepresented backgrounds — and every pound will be doubled. 💫 👉 Donate today and double your impact: donate.biggive.org/c...

The second poem in PERVERSE 9F is 'POSTCARD' by Poppy Cockburn. Read all five poems in this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9f

Love this @em-words.bsky.social ❤️

PERVERSE 9F is out today! This week features five yellow poems by Em Gray, Poppy Cockburn, Noah Birksted-Breen, Crispin Best and Flora Leask Arizpe. Read all five poems from this section here: open.substack.com/pub/perverse...

Tonight at 7.15 on Radio 3. Writer’s block, dry spell, fallow period, worrisome silence, that terrifying, lonely time when you *cannot* write a poem. I speak to Liz Berry, Oliver Carmichael, Hannah Copley, Marie Howe, Vanessa Kisuule and Jack Underwood! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

What a joy to have spent 90 inspirational minutes in the company of Diane Seuss at tonight’s Poetry Society Annual Lecture in collab with Liverpool University. Published in the Winter issue of Poetry Review.

More tickets have been added to our annual lecture! Given this year by Diane Seuss on 10 November @ 7:00pm GMT via Zoom, the lecture will address an education in poetry from outside the borders of academia, specifically that of a poet from the rural working class.

The first poem in PERVERSE 9D is 'Merlin' by Sarah Westcott (@sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social). Read all five poems in this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9d

Delighted to be in such wonderful poetic company in the new issue of @badlilies.bsky.social . The poem might make the new book, might not. Ooooh the decisions! www.badlilies.uk/issue-twenty...

And our Highly Commended poets:

Congratulations to all! 🎉 Very happy to be Highly Commended!

It’s that time again. More info on the website. Entry is open.