This BBC Radio 4 feature on the late Tony Harrison's controversial long poem v. was rebroadcast on 6 November in tribute. Blake Morrison discusses the poem's significance. It features a 2013 recording made in Leeds of Tony Harrison reading v. in full (from 27.40). www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Coming up! Elspeth Wilson hosts a gorgeous line up of poets from the @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social anthology, Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets, on November 22nd - featuring Polly Atkin, Nuala Watt and Pascale Petit. Link: pushtheboatout.org/events/versu...

Next Friday, @pascalepetit.bsky.social will be reading her poetry at The Resurgence Centre in Hartford, Devon alongside author Jay Griffiths. Tickets available here: www.tickettailor.com/events/there... @resurgencetrust.bsky.social

In tribute to the late Tony Harrison, BBC Radio 4 will be rebroadcasting this 2013 feature on v., his controversial long poem. Tony Harrison read the poem in full, and writer Blake Morrison discussed the poem's impact. Tune in at 11pm tonight, 6 Nov, or listen later. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

November news: shorturl.at/mzqLN Vidyan Ravinthiran wins @forwardprizes.bsky.social for Best Collection; new translations from Tomas Venclova, Pia Tafdrup & Ivan V. Lalić; online launch 20/11; Krisztina Tóth & Laura Wittner longlisted for Warwick Prize for Women in Translation; plus much more!

Poet & translator @georgeszirtes.bsky.social is a nominee for the inaugural City of Literature Award. The winner will be chosen by residents of Eastern England & announced at a ceremony @writerscentre.bsky.social on 12 Feb. Vote by 12 Dec. #eastanglianbookawards www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

Beastly sample www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...

My next in-person event is in Devon for @resurgencetrust.bsky.social with the incredible Jay Griffiths! 7pm on 14 November at Resurgence Centre in Hartland

Great episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way even if I do say so myself. Loved talking to Clare about her book and I hope you enjoy listening to it.

happy to be on this excellent podcast talking about Lives of the Female Poets @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social with @gregorykearns.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0rMp...

Looking forward to reading some poems at (a sold out) Nighthawks tonight in some great company 🎇 @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

A little Halloween poem from New Arcana for the day that's in it 🎃 @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Great interview with @jesstraynor.bsky.social on a special Halloween edition of @rteradio1.bsky.social's Poetry People. Jessica was chatting to host Rachael Hegarty about her fourth collection New Arcana and read three poems from it, incuding 'On Halloween'. (From 20:05.) www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

🌸 Spring Term Launch! 🌙 Our new programme drops Thu 6 Nov, 10.30am (GMT) — get online early, courses sell fast! Tutors incl. @jesstraynor.bsky.social, @aanaxagorou.bsky.social & Fran Locke. ✨ Highlights: AI & writing, hoax poetics, moon cycles, menopause & more. #Poetry #WritingCommunity

Congratulations to Vidyan Ravinthiran, who has jointly won (with Karen Solie) the Forward Prize for Best Collection with Avidyā (Bloodaxe). Its brilliant final poem, "as a child", describes how an early speech impediment led him to be "a scrutineer of sound" with a love of "the avid void of English"

The joint winners of the Forward Prize for Best Collection, Vidyan Ravinthiran & Karen Solie, will be talking to @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social on Front Row tonight. They'll discuss their books #Avidyā & #Wellwater. Tune in to 📻 BBC Radio 4 at 7.15pm, or listen later. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

'It seems that the interplay of Welsh may have helped produce lightning and luminosity in Elfyn’s English-language poetry.’ - Carol Rumens, Poem of the Week, @theguardian.com, on 'Storm in Brooklyn Subway' from Menna Elfyn's new collection Parch. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

We're delighted to have two titles on the 2025 Warwick Prize longlist: My Secret Life: Selected Poems by Krisztina Tóth (trs. @georgeszirtes.bsky.social) & Translation of the Route by Laura Wittner (trs. Juana Adcock). More details: bloodaxebooks.com/news?article... @poetrytranslation.bsky.social

I like this, by Clare Pollard - the best "lockdown" poem in a very overcrowded field - and now included in her new collection "Lives of the Female Poets". Note the quietly infectious internal rhymes...

'I have my own poet’s preoccupations that come back to me more or less uncontrollably, which I then have to turn into something basically legible that someone else might be interested in.' Joint winners Vidyan Ravinthiran and Karen Solie in conversation: thelondonmagazine.org/interview-fo...

'a deeply moving, relevant, necessary collection of poems that meditates on identity and belonging.' - Rommi Smith, Co-Judge @forwardprizes.bsky.social We're thrilled that Vidyan Ravinthiran's Avidyā is joint winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection. www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

Today, Sunday 26 October, 7pm, at London's @southbankcentre.bsky.social: Niall Campbell and Vidyan Ravinthiran will be reading from their shortlisted collections The Island in the Sound and Avidyā at the @forwardprizes.bsky.social Ceremony. In-person and livestream tickets available.

Today, Sat 25 Oct, 2pm, at London's @southbankcentre.bsky.social: @rachaelboast.bsky.social and poets Lisa Kelly, Karthika Naïr and Daniel Sluman will be celebrating her anthology Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent Poets. In person and livestream tickets available.

Jane Clarke, whose sublime collections of poetry have been published by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social will read at next weekend's Circling The Square, at The Source Arts Centre, Thurles, Co. Tipperary. Booking options and full festival details here: www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...

Beast is six months old today! Published 24 April. Thank you to @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social my dream publisher, and to everyone who reviewed & interviewed, stocked it and the many launch event organisers who welcomed my 9th collection. More events to come! Special thanks to all the readers!

It's publication day for our three October titles! We're publishing new poetry collections by Menna Elfyn, Selima Hill and Kit Wright. Links to their books below. www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/new_titl...

Today’s featured nominee for this year’s Forward Prize for Best Collection is Vidyan Ravinthiran – head to the blog to read an extract from AVIDYĀ: lrb.me/f81f0e @forwardprizes.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Deadline Extended: Poet in Residence 2025-2027 🖌 We have extended the deadline to apply for the role of Poet in Residence 2025-2027 to Friday 31st October at 5:00 p.m. For more details visit www.poetryireland.ie/education/ne... Supported by @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social

Poems on the Underground Poem of the Week September 13th For the Life of This Planet by Grace Nichols poemsontheunderground.org/for-the-life...

Poems on the Underground Celebrating Black History Month October 2025 Poem of the Week October 18th: Benediction by James Berry poemsontheunderground.org/benediction

This Sunday, 7pm, Niall Campbell & Vidyan Ravinthiran will join the other shortlisted poets to read at the @forwardprizes.bsky.social Ceremony at London's @southbankcentre.bsky.social. Tickets to both the in-person event and the livestream here: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/for...

'A shimmering, sublime gathering of poetic work.’ - @mabjones.bsky.social, Buzz Magazine, on Menna Elfyn's new collection Parch, out this week from Bloodaxe. www.buzzmag.co.uk/new-poetry-s...

If you missed tonight's wonderful online launch event with Menna Elfyn, Kit Wright and Selima Hill, you can still catch it on our YouTube channel: youtube.com/live/DhDrtmZ... All three books are now available on our website: www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/new_titl...

Great edition of BBC Radio 4's The Verb on Sunday. Host Ian McMillan was joined by poet Daniel Sluman to discuss @rachaelboast.bsky.social's landmark anthology Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets (from 34:53). www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A formidable trio are in conversation at the Dublin Book Festival for what promises to be a provocative, challenging, and zesty bilingual event! 📕Ní chuireann sí fiacail ann | She tells it straight📕 @dublinbookfest.bsky.social @nlireland.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/ni-chuireann...

Saturday 25 October, 2pm at @southbankcentre.bsky.social: Global Crip Poetry Celebration Rachael Boast, Lisa Kelly, Karthika Naïr and Daniel Sluman introduce Versus Versus, a new anthology by 100 deaf, disabled and neurodivergent poets from across the globe. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/glo...

Poets Rachael Boast, Lisa Kelly, Karthika Naïr and Daniel Sluman introduce Versus Versus, an anthology by 100 deaf, disabled and neurodivergent poets from across the globe. When - 25 Oct Where - London ££ - From £15 disabilityarts.online/events/globa...

More anthology news! A lovely review of VERSUS VERSUS for Write Out Loud, by Kathy Owston, retired Teacher of the Deaf and volunteer trainer of the national Down Syndrome Table Tennis squad. VERSUS VERSUS is available to purchase from bloodaxebooks.bsky.social. www.writeoutloud.net/public/bloge...

Tonight, Tuesday 21 October, 7pm: our online launch event with Menna Elfyn, Selima Hill & Kit Wright. Watch live or later via YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/DhDrtmZ...

So delighted to be here chatting about New Arcana & doing my cultural questionnaire (w reference to 28 Years Later, Murderbot & Freaky Tales) ✨️🔮 @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

"Someone is pulling a blue toy trawler along the horizon to port, so smoothly it looks realistic. Sea’s partly doily." #TodaysPoem #poetry An Explanation of Doily Gwyneth Lewis @thought-admiral.bsky.social First Rain in Paradise (2025 @BloodaxeBooks.bsky.social) www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Tomorrow night I'll be headed to Belfast for the last launch of New Arcana. Come join us for poems & chats at No Alibis 🔮✨️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/no-alibis-bo... @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

'by turns surreal, witty and touching...a book full of kaleidoscopic miniatures. [...] This book marks Hill as a poet of boundless reinvention.' – Mícheál McCann, in @irishtimes.com, on Selima Hill's new collection A Man, a Woman & a Hippopotamus, out this week. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Gillian Allnutt's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlisted 'Lode' is one belter of a book. Check out the resources on the Prize's website (including my review): tseliot.com/prize/shortl... @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @tseliotprize.bsky.social

Tomorrow, Tuesday 21 October, 7pm: online launch event with Menna Elfyn, Selima Hill & Kit Wright. Watch live/later via YouTube. youtube.com/live/DhDrtmZ...

Coming up on The Verb: poet Daniel Sluman will be talking to host Ian McMillan about @rachaelboast.bsky.social's anthology Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets. Tune in to BBC Radio 4 at 5.10pm today, 19 October, or listen later. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

If you've not booked yet, grab your tickets! One week to go until this beautiful line up of poets for our Global Crip Poetry Celebration at the Southbank Centre, London.

Tune in to BBC Radio 4's The Verb at 5.10pm today to catch Daniel Sluman, along with fellow contributors from the anthology Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets (bloodaxebooks.bsky.social) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Afternoon look what’s in my poetry post this morning the brilliant Selima Hill everyone should read Selima Hill I maybe gone awhile @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Oct news: New books by Menna Elfyn, Selima Hill & Kit Wright; Katrina Porteous wins Laurel Prize; @tseliotprize.bsky.social & Saltire shortlistings for Gillian Allnutt & Niall Campbell; @jesstraynor.bsky.social reviews; @forwardprizes.bsky.social Highly Commended Poems. mailchi.mp/b76c8f594a70...