scars on her arm from twenty cuts. Now they look like white stems. I have only seen them twice. But I have seen them hundreds of times in my mind. Isn’t that how love works? @victoriachang.bsky.social oxfordpoetry.substack.com/p/a-poem-by-...

How long can you stand to listen to those words no one says to you ? ‘Phone' by @huaxi.bsky.social in @oxfordpoetry.bsky.social's newsletter today. 🔥❄️

Reading Penelope Shuttle in a recent Shearsman - just brilliant

Proof copies of Each Leaf, Each Curve of Stem, my second novel, have arrived! I call it my second novel, but in my heart it's my first - thirteen years in the writing, baby. Yep, feeling quite emotional! 🌱💚✒️

Erin Maglaque will be at the Bookshop on June 16th to discuss her new book PRESENCE with Hannah Dawson, which explores the hidden history of the female body through deep archival research. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/erin-magla...

My third collection of poems, Wound Archive, was published today 😍! I haven’t yet received my copies, so it doesn’t feel quite real. Please consider ordering a copy (link in bio). Endless appreciation for all who have supported this work 🙏 @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social

April 2026

An extract from Claire Sosienski Smith’s ‘Becoming a poet’, from Issue Nine of And Other Poems.

In which @erinmaglaque.bsky.social and I are unnerved by Caravaggio podcasts.apple.com/en/podcast/t...

On the latest episode of the podcast, @erinmaglaque.bsky.social joins Thomas Jones (@moonjets.bsky.social) to discuss the ways that Caravaggio represented his models’ bodies on canvas and what makes his paintings so unnerving. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

On 9th April 1917, whilst smoking a pipe in his dugout doorway, the poet and writer Edward Thomas was killed. His greatest legacy, his writings, still influence the way we perceive place and consider our place within the landscape. #ww1 #linocut #art

“I was also wondering whether this image of the light filtering through, it’s almost a space in which your poems exist?” Great comment, brilliant collection.

Dark Night by John of the Cross in this weeks LRB brilliantly translated by Martha Sprackland— there i stayed and there forgot my cheek lay on my beloved fair and all things ceased and i was lost and all my worldly doubt and care were sunk among the lilies there

Looking at this thing of beauty! Render by Billy Ramsell is a PBS recommendation and one of the most inventive and original collections I've read. Get your pre-orders in!

Watching Edward Norton, on Colbert, talking about Walt Whitman. I like Edward Norton. Lot of people would rather he yucked it up, kept it light & breezy, but it's refreshing to see someone care about poetry. He knows it isn't popular with the masses but he talks about what he cares about regardless.

A photographer friend of mine is starting a visual and literary project around dementia, memory and time - if anyone would like to join in, it's here: www.becomingunmapped.com

Clever, isn’t it? #sylviaplath

We're excited for our TRIPLE ONLINE LAUNCH Tuesday 21st April, 7pm Featuring #poetry from @jennywcreative.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social and @kymdeyn.bsky.social as they celebrate these wonderful new books. Pay what you can: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/triple-onl...

Publication day for LIGHT YEAR by @jennywcreative.bsky.social a luminous #poetry meditation on time, memory, exile, love and healing. Graceful and intimate, poems of "sublime precision". "Witness, these poems say, and linger, and wonder." Congratulations 💜 ninearchespress.com/publications...

Just picked up @jennywcreative.bsky.social’s Light Year from News from Nowhere in Liverpool this is going to be good

-22 in Kiev today. Another poem from Bonememory by @annaveprinska.bsky.social

Delighted to share a #blog post where @jennywcreative.bsky.social shares the "reflective journey" of writing Light Year and her stunning title poem: ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2026/01/in-c... "Delicate and enduring", Light Year is available to pre-order: ninearchespress.com/publications...

Join the PBS Spring Showcase featuring @jennywcreative.bsky.social and Karen McCarthy Woolf in conversation about their new #poetry books with Sinéad Morrissey. Jennifer Wong will be launching LIGHT YEAR, out that week. Tuesday 17th February, 18.30 FREE but please book: www.ncl.ac.uk/university-e...

Poets – in their boundless-absurd desire to fly – / flock their verse with birds, babbling / and babbling and calling it birdsong. Loving BONEMEMORY by @annaveprinska.bsky.social

“We were dead and could breathe” Paul Celan

Paul Celan is exquisite on the page. Good morning poets. #Poems #Poetry #PaulCelan