for the Zoom link to watch! It’s also the week of National Poetry Day! Please join us from 7.00-8.30pm on Zoom! Free to attend and everyone welcome!

Aston Society of Poetry are excited to announce our first event this academic year on Monday 29/9/25 with special guest Charles Lauder Jr. reading from his pamphlet ‘The Year of the Rat’ Open mic spots are available! Please contact @melwardlepoet or @mmgiovanelli to take part or

A nice plug for my pamphlet "Year of the Rat" and Blueprint Poetry Press in Tim Relf's latest column in @thebookseller.com www.thebookseller.com/comment/outr...

I listened to this Planet Poetry podcast. Enjoyed the conversation and the poems. 💙🙂

Jo Colley (Blueprint Poetry Press) & I are the latest guests on the Planet Poetry Podcast discussing my pamphlet Year of the Rat with hosts @peter-kenny.bsky.social and @robinhoughton.bsky.social It's a great session. My thanks to Robin & Peter for having us on. www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

A lovely and insightful review of my pamphlet 'Year of the Rat' by Wendy Klein has gone live today on The High Window: thehighwindowpress.com/category/reviews/

With my new pamphlet 'Year of the Rat', published by Blueprint Poetry, out and making the rounds, I would like to promote it through readings, both in-person and online. If interested, please get in touch. Have poems, will travel. 😊

Perseids – D.A. Prince atriumpoetry.com/2025/03/11/p...

@markspray.bsky.social @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @cwjoneschris.bsky.social @jodacombe.bsky.social @paulkevans.bsky.social @concordmoose.bsky.social @cglauder.bsky.social @pamthompson240.bsky.social @miggyangel.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/poet...

My new pamphlet, Year of the Rat, has arrived! My thanks to Blueprint Poetry Press for publishing it. Details of the upcoming launch will be shared soon. Copies of the pamphlet can be obtained from the London Review Bookshop or by contacting Blueprint Poetry directly ([email protected]).

Ian Hislop offers his unvarnished opinion of Elon Musk. Watch the whole thing:

I had a great meeting this morning with Blueprint Poetry Press editors Jo Colley and Julie Hogg discussing the proofs for my pamphlet 'Year of the Rat'--it's looking to see the light of day later this winter. I'm very happy it's in their capable hands. 😊😊😊

' ... I have been reading my mother backwards, standing on the slope of my own life, looking down to that squiggly, tangled path. She is so far ahead ... ' iambapoet.com/wave/20-pam-thompson

Oh gosh, this is sad news 😢

MY YEAR-END READING STATISTICS #wrapped (originally for @theguardian.com)

Say hi to... @daraghfleming.bsky.social, Dion O'Reilly, @gclifford1.bsky.social, Jane Ayres, @kevingrauke.bsky.social, Laura Lewis-Waters, Marie Marchand, @pamthompson240.bsky.social, Polly Walshe, Rachel Smith, Rowan Lyster, Sharon Phillips, Simon Alderwick, T S S Fulk and @wendypratt.bsky.social.

The John Le Carré Advent Calendar - My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books. (with apologies to @realjohnlecarre.bsky.social and @harkaway.bsky.social)

I've got two poems in the latest issue of Flight of the Dragonfly, two poems I've been looking forward to seeing published. My thanks to @philvernon.bsky.social for selecting them. flightofthedragonfly.com/charles-g-la...

Part of the journal Black Iris's quick-response news-in-poetry series following last week. Just so you know what I think.

Since the US election, friends have asked how I feel about the results, which has been difficult to encapsulate. Today I suddenly remembered this poem I wrote 3 years ago in the wake of January 6th & was later published in High Window. Foremost, it shows that the world hasn't quieted down.

Guardian headline: "AI poetry rated better than poems written by humans, study shows". To more accurately reflect the study, I suggest a different wording: "People who don't read poetry can't even tell the difference between AI generated verses and those written by actual poets."

. as she climbs above me I am framed by ridge & arête in a niche at my back vertical ground (landedge) horizontally deep & opaque in front of me a stupendous drop of sea's horizontal terror-clear-calm . At - out with Shearsman Books www.shearsman.com/store/Mark-G...

Spent a very indulgent, lovely weekend with the family in Hay-on-Wye touring bookshops and catching up, coming home with a nice cache. Lowell's Collected Works was a steal getting it for a third of the price. 🥰

From my article on Criticism and Poetry: 'Self belief is crucial to all artists, whose intention is to bring forth something that is original yet communicates as widely as possible. For most of us self-belief is a wobbly beast.' link to article: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Space in its full glory.