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Jane Clarke
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Lovely Christmas Day edition of
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Poetry People hosted by Rachael Hegarty. I was delighted to set the ball rolling with a reading of 'Sing' from The River,
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
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Poetry People Thursday 25 December 2025
Rachael Hegarty brings us a festive special packed with poems, chat and cheer from Vona Groarke, Theo Dorgan, Frank McGuinness, Jane Clarke, Áine Ní Ghlinn and a host of guests.
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/poetry-people/2025/1225/1550520-poetry-people-thursday-25-december-2025/
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'The Man in the Wind' from the late Anne Stevenson's 2023 Collected Poems is featured as Carol Rumens' Poem of the Week online in
@theguardian.com
of 29 December.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
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Poem of the week: The Man in the Wind by Anne Stevenson
This haunting poem depicts an elusive, dangerous figure of overwhelming destructive power
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/29/poem-of-the-week-the-man-in-the-wind-by-anne-stevenson
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Lovely Christmas Day edition of RTE Radio 1's Poetry People with host Rachael Hegarty and guests. Featuring festive poetry and music, starting with
@janeclarke.bsky.social
reading her poem 'Sing' from her debut collection The River (from 1:30).
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Poetry People Thursday 25 December 2025
Rachael Hegarty brings us a festive special packed with poems, chat and cheer from Vona Groarke, Theo Dorgan, Frank McGuinness, Jane Clarke, Áine Ní Ghlinn and a host of guests.
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/poetry-people/2025/1225/1550520-poetry-people-thursday-25-december-2025/
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Jan Carson
12 days ago
Always delighted to stumble upon another response to The Tiger Who Came to Tea. Spending the afternoon with
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stunning new poetry collection.
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Poet &
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editor Niall Campbell was
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&
@peter-kenny.bsky.social
's guest on the Christmas edition of
@planetpoetry.bsky.social
. He was reading from and discussing his 3rd collection The Island in the Sound.
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Sound | Shadow - with Niall Campbell - Planet Poetry
Never mind the baubles... Here's the magic from Niall Campbell, who shares spellbinding poems from his Bloodaxe collection The Island in the Sound, which blend unique elements from his South Uist upbr...
https://planetpoetry.buzzsprout.com/1414696/episodes/18379185-sound-shadow-with-niall-campbell
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Jess Traynor
13 days ago
For the day that's in it, my poem Midwinter from my third collection Pit Lullabies performed by Ayesha Ostler & recorded by the lovely folks at
@brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
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Ayesha Ostler reads Jessica Traynor's "Midwinter"
YouTube video by Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation
https://youtu.be/eE1DSoRfrck?si=vw4zy9XqrqjOIBUv
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Richard Chadburn
10 months ago
The big poems in A God At The Door are not at all heavy because they are garnished with the magical light touch of a dancer. They are an absorbing joy to read, and to revisit over and over. Tishani Doshi is the 2nd find (after Isabel Galleymore) I came to via
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Planet Poetry
14 days ago
HoHoHo 🧑🎄 we are BACK for our Christmas Special featuring Niall Campbell on his
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collection 'The Island in the Sound', shoutouts to Kay Syrad,
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, George Seferis plus festive shenanigans
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Sound | Shadow - with Niall Campbell - Planet Poetry
Never mind the baubles... Here's the magic from Niall Campbell, who shares spellbinding poems from his Bloodaxe collection The Island in the Sound, which blend unique elements from his South Uist upbr...
https://planetpoetry.buzzsprout.com/1414696/episodes/18379185-sound-shadow-with-niall-campbell
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16 days ago
On Saturday 20 December I’ll be 72, it was a year spent doing lots of readings for Beast, 9th collection
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Also lots of teaching & mentoring.Now working on 10th collection. I love this review by
@mabjones.bsky.social
in Buzz magazine which totally gets the spirit of Beast
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Marjorie Lotfi
28 days ago
Calling writers - my January short course is running from 5-16th Jan (£25). We’ll pack a lot into these sessions - a warm up, craft discussion (for editing practice), and three poems and prompts in 30 minutes. Join us to kick-start your writing in 2026!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/marjories-...
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Marjorie's Table January Short-Course
Ten Marjorie's Table workshops from 7:30-8am (+ recordings) from 5-16th January to kick-start your writing practice in 2026
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/marjories-table-january-short-course-tickets-1850384964239
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Asian Review of Books
17 days ago
Today in the ARB: Soni Whadhwa reviews “The Gallery of Upside Down Women”, poetry by Arundhathi Subramaniam
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“The Gallery of Upside Down Women” by Arundhathi Subramaniam
Indian English poet Arundhati Subramaniam’s latest poetry collection The Gallery of Upside Down Women brings together pieces about women from Indian myth and scripture across regions and languages,…
https://asianreviewofbooks.com/the-gallery-of-upside-down-women-by-arundhathi-subramaniam/
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December news:
shorturl.at/jj7Ip
#GeorgeSzirtes
&
#SelimaHill
presented with King's Gold Medal for Poetry;
@poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social
wins the US
#NationalBookAward
for Poetry 2025; Bloodaxe titles on
#BooksoftheYear
lists;
@jesstraynor.bsky.social
on RTE Radio 1's Arena; & much more!
17 days ago
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Vidyan Ravinthiran was
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's guest on BBC Radio London last Friday. They were discussing his third poetry collection Avidyā, joint winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection.
@forwardprizes.bsky.social
Poetry Corner starts at 1:11:50.
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BBC Radio London - Jumoké Fashola, 12/12/2025
London's news, sport and travel with your views on the big issues.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mxgk
17 days ago
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Many thanks to Young Critic Anisha Jaya Minocha for this very thoughtful guide to Gillian Allnutt's
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shortlisted tenth collection Lode.
@poetrysociety.org.uk
youtu.be/9nIbqJeZAnE?...
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Young Critic Anisha Jaya Minocha reviews Gillian Allnutt's Lode
YouTube video by The Poetry Society
https://youtu.be/9nIbqJeZAnE?si=5Z8qckGZodeMUY_l
18 days ago
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'a brilliant, luminous work that blends the mystical and the contemporary, interrogating power, gender, and transformation with precision and lyric grace.’ -
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, Sunday Independent, on
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's New Arcana.
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Miriam O’Callaghan’s best books of the year, and Sophie White’s, Dr Marie Cassidy’s, and Joseph O’Connor’s too
Miriam O’Callaghan
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/book-reviews/miriam-ocallaghans-best-books-of-the-year-and-sophie-whites-dr-marie-cassidys-and-joseph-oconnors-too/a842003779.html
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'Sassy, clever, sharp – this collection is a delight to read, and to read aloud.' - Hannah Stone, in the December issue of
@thelakepoetry.bsky.social
, on
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's sixth collection Lives of the Female Poets.
thelakepoetry.co.uk/reviews/dec25/
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Jess Traynor
20 days ago
So lovely to have New Arcana listed as a book of the year in the Irish Independent in fantastic company. Big thanks to the brilliant
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✨️
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Thanks to
@tazrahman.bsky.social
for choosing Gwyneth Lewis’s sixth English language poetry collection, First Rain in Paradise, for part three of
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's books of the year 2025 feature.
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Cath Drake
22 days ago
Power up your professional poetic development! Our new year events include brilliant poet Hannah Lowe
@hannahlowe.bsky.social
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
sharing her passion for the glosa, a Spanish form that invites deep listening, echo and transformation. Create your own glosa!
www.cathdrake.com
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Cath Drake's The Verandah
Cath Drake's The Verandah – Cath Drake's The Verandah Welcome! Join quality poetry masterclasses, writing and mindfulness workshops with the best teachers...
https://www.cathdrake.com
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Lovely to hear
@jesstraynor.bsky.social
on RTE Arena last night. She and Thomas McCarthy were reading some of their favourite winter poems and discussing them with host
@rickoshea.bsky.social
. Jessica also read a poem from her fourth collection New Arcana (from 22:20).
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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Winter Poetry
Poets Jessica Traynor and Thomas McCarthy talk winter poetry to remind us of the season's quiet beauty.
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22567676/
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Sasha Dugdale
23 days ago
“I’m coming back. I’m coming home. Sometimes that happens. You think, oh, it’s happening again. You feel an interior quickening. . .” Marie Howe – a guide for this morning and every morning.
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An interview with American poet Marie Howe featured in the
@churchtimes.bsky.social
. She was talking to
@martinwroe.bsky.social
about her poetry, including her
@pulitzerprizes.bsky.social
winning retrospective What the Earth Seemed to Say: New & Selected Poems.
www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
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‘I learn by going where I have to go’ — an interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Marie Howe
Marie Howe, winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for poetry, talks to Martin Wroe about saints and the spiritual
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/5-december/features/features/i-learn-by-going-where-i-have-to-go-an-interview-with-pulitzer-prize-winning-poet-marie-howe
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Great to see Gwyneth Lewis’s recent Bloodaxe poetry collection First Rain in Paradise chosen by Angela Graham for Part 2 of
@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social
's Books of the Year feature. 'A must-read, especially for anyone who enjoyed her memoir, Nightshade Mother.' (
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Calon
24 days ago
Wonderful to hear Gwyneth Lewis on Radio 4' A Good Read! Follow the link below to discover the author of 'Nightshade Mother's favourite books 📚
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Gwyneth Lewis and Annabel Abbs
Poet Gwyneth Lewis and author Annabel Abbs join Harriett to talk favourite books.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n7mc
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"I’m obsessed with the metaphysical, the spiritual dimensions of life as they present themselves in this world" Marie Howe, winner of this year’s
@pulitzerprizes.bsky.social
for
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talks to
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about
#saints
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‘I learn by going where I have to go’ — an interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Marie Howe
MARIE HOWE is writing poetry again. Short, four-line pieces, she tells me over a video call from Los Angeles, where she’s just out of teaching a class. The winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for poetry, for her New and Selected Poems, dives deep...
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/5-december/features/features/i-learn-by-going-where-i-have-to-go-an-interview-with-pulitzer-prize-winning-poet-marie-howe?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1764940158
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Clare Shaw
25 days ago
- bursaries and pay-what-you-can options available for those on low incomes
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25 days ago
JANUARY WRITING HOURS 2026 - any/every day in January for poetic inspiration and writing exercises in a friendly online space - £75 for 31 workshops - facilitated by two acclaimed poets and teachers - laugh, learn, relax — and write loads of new poems!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/january-wr...
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January Writing Hours 2026
Eventbrite - Kim Moore presents January Writing Hours 2026 - Thursday, 1 January 2026 | Saturday, 31 January 2026 - Find event and ticket information.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/january-writing-hours-2026-tickets-1883086706029?fbclid=IwY2xjawOlOgVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe1eWH1Q7CTif40x-yd4ULjPA3n8DJtgf-V5vgnGCjLdnmMVLSqGZ07vnTwKc_aem_7mp1LkGww6785mXyb3JtPg
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'I can’t think of two more artful commentaries on today’s world’ Vidyan Ravinthiran's Avidyā and Karen Solie's Wellwater, joint
@forwardprizes.bsky.social
winners, were chosen by Forward Judge Sarah Hall as her books of 2025 in
@newstatesman1913.bsky.social
.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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Books of the year 2025
New Statesman writers and guests – including Jonathan Franzen, Jacqueline Rose, Marina Warner and Slavoj Žižek – choose their favourite reading this year
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2025/12/books-of-the-year-2025
25 days ago
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Good to see Vidyan Ravinthiran's
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winning third collection Avidyā and Gillian Allnutt's
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shortlisted tenth collection Lode included in
@betarish.bsky.social
's poetry books of 2025 feature in
@theguardian.com
.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
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The best poetry books of 2025
From Seamus Heaney’s collected poems and Simon Armitage’s animal spirits, to prizewinners Karen Solie and Vidyan Ravinthiran
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/05/the-best-poetry-books-of-2025
28 days ago
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Many congratulations to poet and playwright Stewart Conn, one of the leading Scottish figures honoured in The Saltire Society's Fletcher of Saltoun Awards 2025. The Awards for Arts and Humanities went to Stewart Conn and violinist Nicola Benedetti.
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Sasha Dugdale
29 days ago
For Russian-speakers: NLO has published a focus on Maria Stepanova's Священная зима ('Holy Winter' is published in English
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
) including my piece on translating Maria's Russian text:
www.nlobooks.ru/magazines/no...
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196 НЛО (6/2025)
https://www.nlobooks.ru/magazines/novoe_literaturnoe_obozrenie/196_nlo_6_2025/
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Great in-depth interview with Gillian Allnutt on the latest episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way podcast. She was in conversation with host
@gregorykearns.bsky.social
about her poetry, in particular her
@tseliotprize.bsky.social
shortlisted collection
#Lode
.
open.spotify.com/episode/6UFM...
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Episode 36: Gillian Allnutt - "An exercise in truthfulness"
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6UFMWreF1ScBVcUSfEgLNR?si=bs5Iiw9XRfiGV-nnU1TWZA
about 1 month ago
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'a strikingly beautiful nod to the lasting echoes of a friendship' Thanks to
@laurenmurphyjourno.bsky.social
for including
@jesstraynor.bsky.social
's fourth poetry collection New Arcana in this RTÉ Culture Irish books of the year feature.
#RTÉCulture
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
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The best Irish books of 2025
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/1203/1539126-ten-of-the-best-irish-books-of-2025-so-far/
about 1 month ago
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The Poetry Society
about 1 month ago
🕰️ With the year coming to an end, we asked a selection of Poetry Review contributors to give us their favourite poetry books and pamphlets of 2025. Next is Ali Lewis's pick: Versus Versus, edited by Rachael Boast (Bloodaxe Books). Thank you, Ali!
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The Poetry Business
about 1 month ago
We're rounding off the year with some truly excellent December online workshops! Sign up here:
www.tickettailor.com/events/thepo...
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@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
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Gregory
about 1 month ago
This weeks episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way is with the wonderful Gillian Allnutt whose book Lode has been shortlisted for this years T.S. Eliot Prize. Check it out wherever good podcasts can be found.
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Gillian Allnutt's
@tseliotprize.bsky.social
shortlisted tenth collection Lode was chosen by Graeme Richardson as his Poetry Book of the Year in The Sunday Times. Vidyan Ravinthiran's
@forwardprizes.bsky.social
winning third collection Avidyā was also recommended.
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
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The best books of 2025 — chosen by our critics
Our team of critics have picked out their favourite titles of this year, including novels, histories, memoirs, biographies and more
https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/best-books-2025-new-christmas-fiction-q6fclgvvr
about 1 month ago
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The Poetry School
about 1 month ago
🌟 Gillian Allnutt – T. S. Eliot Writer’s Notes 🌟 Our Writers’ Notes series is back! Gillian Allnutt shares how practising different poetic forms helped create her collection 'Lode'. 📚 Read the full piece:
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Gillian Allnutt – T. S. Eliot Writer’s Notes • Poetry School
Gillian Allnutt talks about how she wrote her recent T.S. Eliot Prize shortlisted poetry collection 'Lode'.
https://poetryschool.com/t-s-eliot-writers-notes/gillian-allnutt-t-s-eliot-writers-notes/
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Huge congratulations to Bloodaxe poets Selima Hill and
@georgeszirtes.bsky.social
, who were presented with The King's Gold Medal for Poetry for the years 2022 and 2024 respectively a joint audience with King Charles III at Buckingham Palace.
www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
The Shadow of Words by Ana Blandiana
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Out-Spoken
about 1 month ago
This thursday! Join us for a gorgeous night of poetry and live music hosted by the one and only Joelle Taylor. Featuring: ~ Dzifa Benson ~ Luke Kennard ~ Haia Mohammed ~ Jared Nandra ~ Shantéh 📅 27 November, 7.45pm @southbankcentre 🎟️ Tickets —
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about 1 month ago
Back home from
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and want to thank the festival not only for the poetry itself but the company of poets and pals in general. So many lovely people in 24 hrs (followed by a 12 hour recovery sleep). You can watch the Versus Versus
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
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'Sunshine' by Selima Hill was Poem of the Week in The Scotsman Magazine, chosen by
@byleaveswelive.bsky.social
. 'witty, acerbic, sad, tender, philosophical, beautifully observed ... another groundbreaking work by an important poet at the top of her game, always pushing the envelope of possibility.’
about 1 month ago
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We are delighted that Patricia Smith's The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems has won the prestigious US National Book Award for Poetry 2025! First published in the US in Sept by Scribner/Simon&Schuster. Bloodaxe will publish the book in the UK & Ireland in May 2026:
shorturl.at/B7dai
about 1 month ago
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If you missed last night's wonderful online launch event, you can still catch it on our YouTube channel:
youtube.com/live/OTRTqP2...
We were joined by Pia Tafdrup, Tomas Venclova & his translator Ellen Hinsey, plus Ivan V. Lalić's translator Francis R. Jones & Professor Svetlana Šeatović.
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Jane Clarke
about 1 month ago
Do join us if you are in Dingle tomorrow evening, Saturday 22nd. Just one of a wonderful programme of events for the
@dinglelit.bsky.social
@brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
@poetryireland.bsky.social
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Poetry Is Language Caught Alive: An evening of poetry and film
Join four of Ireland's leading poets for an intimate multimedia evening event in partnership with The Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation.
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/poetry-is-language-caught-alive-an-evening-of-poetry-and-film-tickets-1707494023589
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"When you go, space closes over like water behind you" Wonderful reading last night of poems by Ivan V. Lalić, read by his translator Francis R. Jones. Thanks
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
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about 1 month ago
Almost here! I'll be there on friday evening and saturday day time, reading in the Versus Versus
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
anthology event at 12.30 on saturday.
#Poetry
#BookTalk
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It's publication day for our November titles! 📚 This month we have new translations of Tomas Venclova, Pia Tafdrup and Ivan V. Lalić. Available now from our website and your local bookshop.
www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/new_titl...
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'...layered with myth, philosophy, and political wisdom, shimmering with rich context and thoughtful diction' - Jason Gordy Walker, Asymptote, on Lithuanian poet Tomas Venclova's new retrospective The Grove of Eumenides (trs Hinsey, Senechal & Uzgiris).
www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/11...
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What’s New in Translation: November 2025 - Asymptote Blog
New work from India, Serbia, France, Colombia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Iran, Spain, Lithuania, Palestine, and the Vietnamese diaspora!
https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/11/10/whats-new-in-translation-november-2025/
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