My thanks to David Caddy @tearsinthefence.bsky.social for permission to post Nadia Vikulina‘s full review of SOVETICA (from issue 82). @cbeditions.bsky.social

Huge thanks to @exactingclam.bsky.social for publishing my essay 'Behind the Scenes with Gerald Murnane: A First Reading of Inland' www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20... @andotherstories.bsky.social

'What Stubbs appears to take away from Rimbaud’s success-through-failure [...] is that failure is the prerequisite for an understanding not only of the multiplicity of selves that we trade in over the course of our lives, but that in fact we irreducibly are this multiplicity of selves.'

In The Black Herald this week: Jean Follain and the Inner Lives of Objects – an essay by Daniel Barbiero www.blackheraldpress.com/post/jean-fo...

In The Black Herald this week: Jean Follain and the Inner Lives of Objects – an essay by Daniel Barbiero www.blackheraldpress.com/post/jean-fo...

Finally got my hands on my author copies of this. What a stunning publication! Massive thanks to @blackcatpress.bsky.social for all their patience and care. And I want to thank Jean for agreeing to enter into this writing project with me and for doing so with such enthusiasm and generosity.

Published today: a superb quartet of poems by Michael Lee Rattigan! bigother.com/2026/02/05/f...

A new review of my poetry collection BEAST (Broken Sleep Books) compulsivereader.com/2026/02/06/a...

Tremendous excitement here! The Cinema Beneath the Lake— my surrealist film-novel @orbistertiuspress.bsky.social 🗣 “An astonishing and revelatory achievement.” — Richard Shillitoe 📖 Order: www.lulu.com/shop/stephen... #surrealism #newbook #experimentalfiction

Anyone wanting a journey into the thought and poetry of Arthur Rimbaud should take a look at this great book 🖤🔆

L’autre Verlaine, portrait compressé d’un ferrailleur poétique à New-York – par Frédéric Moulin www.blackheraldpress.com/post/l-autre...

Black Herald Press’ publisher Paul Stubbs offers his services to poets in need of guidance and advice to prepare, develop, and edit their poetry manuscripts, for a reasonable fee. poetpstubbs.wixsite.com/paulstubbs/m... @paulrstubbs.bsky.social

Retour sur la lecture musicale (salle comble) au Théâtre des marronniers, à Lyon, le 19 janvier, avec Jean-Pierre Longre, écrivain, et Olivier Longre, compositeur, autour du recueil Un an de solitude, disponible ici www.blackheraldpress.com/unandesolitude theatre-des-marronniers.com/programmatio...

A review by American poet Anthony Seidman of Michael Lee Rattigan’s book “as grass becomes flesh” can be read in The Loch Raven Review thelochravenreview.net/michael-lee-... The book is available here www.blackheraldpress.com/asgrassbecom...

In 2024, we published Paul Stubbs’ book of poetical & philosophical essays about Rimbaud, “The Carbonized Earth” www.blackheraldpress.com/the-carboniz... A review by Stephen Sunderland (Acts of Renunciation: the poet-essayist as understudy) is in 3:AM Magazine www.3ammagazine.com/3am/acts-of-...

View @vikshirley.bsky.social's new collection as well as many others in the Poets House 30th Showcase Exhibition, currently open!

A review by Daniel Barbiero of The Carbonized Earth, my book on Rimbaud (in Arteidolia) www.arteidolia.com/review-of-pa...

Published today: a superb quartet of poems by Gillian Cummings! bigother.com/2026/01/30/f...

Delighted to share the news that Paul Stubbs's PREPARATIONS FOR THE AFTERLIFE: SELECTED POEMS, 1992-2025 will be published by Broken Sleep Books later this year. It features four Stubbs poems we published last year! bigother.com/2025/10/08/f... Cc: @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

This essay came out last January in @minorliteratures.bsky.social. It'll also be published in a book of my essays this year with @blackheraldpress.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/01/09/t...

I often feel needlessly oppressed when I read writers talking about how they write, let alone their actual advice. So at the end of my book of essays I think I should add: 'And this is how it was for me. It may not be so for you. Let nothing that I say here restrict you in your art.'

we will stay open for submissions throughout December ... all details here: oleada.io/publication/...

Black Herald Press’ publisher Paul Stubbs offers his services to poets in need of guidance and advice to prepare, develop, and edit their poetry manuscripts, for a reasonable fee. poetpstubbs.wixsite.com/paulstubbs/m... @paulrstubbs.bsky.social

Very grateful to @fictionable.bsky.social for reposting this story, supporting my work. It‘s a good end to the year!

Black Herald Press’ publisher Paul Stubbs offers his services to poets in need of guidance and advice to prepare, develop, and edit their poetry manuscripts, for a reasonable fee. poetpstubbs.wixsite.com/paulstubbs/m... @paulrstubbs.bsky.social

On negative book reviews: "a whiff of iconoclasm, of smashing a statue in a church": sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/12/teet...

Write what you know or write what you don't? On the @fictionable.bsky.social #podcast @cclarklewes.bsky.social tells us she's certain of one thing – she's making it up Catch it at www.fictionable.world/podcasts/car... #books #reading #writing #fiction #comics #ShortStories #translation #blog

Our latest poetry publication, check it on our website

L’autre Verlaine, portrait compressé d’un ferrailleur poétique à New-York – par Frédéric Moulin www.blackheraldpress.com/post/l-autre...

Les saintes huiles de Jean Genet – Patrick Autréaux / The Holy Oils of Jean Genet (translated by Tobias Ryan) www.blackheraldpress.com/post/les-sai... @autreauxp.bsky.social @tobiasvryan.bsky.social

In Praise of Artifice – an essay by Caroline Clark www.blackheraldpress.com/post/inprais... @cclarklewes.bsky.social

These sounds born out of the silencing core of being

In Praise of Artifice – an essay by Caroline Clark www.blackheraldpress.com/post/inprais... @cclarklewes.bsky.social

Les saintes huiles de Jean Genet – Patrick Autréaux / The Holy Oils of Jean Genet (translated by Tobias Ryan) www.blackheraldpress.com/post/les-sai... @autreauxp.bsky.social @tobiasvryan.bsky.social

“The night is the night.” Paul Celan; tr. Michael Hamburger

L’autre Verlaine, portrait compressé d’un ferrailleur poétique à New-York – par Frédéric Moulin www.blackheraldpress.com/post/l-autre...

Paul is a fantastic reader of others' work. Details of his ms reading services 👇

My one-day ‘Spiritual Landscapes’ poetry course @sarumcollege.bsky.social in March is now open for bookings. www.sarum.ac.uk/short-course...

That’s ’The Carbon Arc’ well and truly launched In Manchester. Thanks as ever to Helen and her team at the mighty Impiety Hour bookshop for stocking and selling Vanguard’s books. Farewell Manchester until next time!

dans la revue The Black Herald / Le Héraut noir On ne retiendra pas tout : à propos de Bien assise, de Christine Jeanney (éditions Tarmac) – par Bernard Bourrit www.blackheraldpress.com/post/on-ne-r...

A review by American poet Anthony Seidman of Michael Lee Rattigan’s book “as grass becomes flesh” can be read in The Loch Raven Review thelochravenreview.net/michael-lee-... The book is available here www.blackheraldpress.com/asgrassbecom...

nouveaux textes à lire dans la version numérique de la revue Black Herald // new texts have been published in the digital version of the Black Herald magazine www.blackheraldpress.com/theblackherald

a form of meat that sits around, goitrous and lame in bars

Black Herald Press’ publisher Paul Stubbs offers his services to poets in need of guidance and advice to prepare, develop, and edit their poetry manuscripts, for a reasonable fee. poetpstubbs.wixsite.com/paulstubbs/m... @paulrstubbs.bsky.social

L'excellente revue Tina présente son numéro 1 en librairie avec un texte de votre serviteur dedans.

Our latest poetry publication, check it on our website

For Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day First and only poem published in Poetry Review (many moons ago). The last four words were used as the epigraph to the issue.

Many thanks to Richard Lea @fictionable.bsky.social for this enjoyable conversation!

#chartres on a sunny day