Lovely Christmas Day edition of @rteradio1.bsky.social 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 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

'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...

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). www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Always delighted to stumble upon another response to The Tiger Who Came to Tea. Spending the afternoon with @jesstraynor.bsky.social stunning new poetry collection. @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Poet & @poetrylondon.bsky.social editor Niall Campbell was @robinhoughton.bsky.social & @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. planetpoetry.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

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 youtu.be/eE1DSoRfrck?...

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 @planetpoetry.bsky.social Listen up!

HoHoHo 🧑‍🎄 we are BACK for our Christmas Special featuring Niall Campbell on his @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social collection 'The Island in the Sound', shoutouts to Kay Syrad, @matriches.bsky.social, George Seferis plus festive shenanigans planetpoetry.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...

On Saturday 20 December I’ll be 72, it was a year spent doing lots of readings for Beast, 9th collection @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 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

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-...

Today in the ARB: Soni Whadhwa reviews “The Gallery of Upside Down Women”, poetry by Arundhathi Subramaniam @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/the-gallery-...

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!

Vidyan Ravinthiran was @jumokefashola.bsky.social'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. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Many thanks to Young Critic Anisha Jaya Minocha for this very thoughtful guide to Gillian Allnutt's @tseliotprize.bsky.social shortlisted tenth collection Lode. @poetrysociety.org.uk youtu.be/9nIbqJeZAnE?...

'a brilliant, luminous work that blends the mystical and the contemporary, interrogating power, gender, and transformation with precision and lyric grace.’ - @elainefeeney.bsky.social, Sunday Independent, on @jesstraynor.bsky.social's New Arcana. @independent.ie www.independent.ie/entertainmen...

'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 @poetclare.bsky.social's sixth collection Lives of the Female Poets. thelakepoetry.co.uk/reviews/dec25/

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 @elainefeeney.bsky.social ✨️ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Thanks to @tazrahman.bsky.social for choosing Gwyneth Lewis’s sixth English language poetry collection, First Rain in Paradise, for part three of @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social's books of the year 2025 feature.

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

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...

“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.

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...

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.' (@calonbooks.bsky.social)

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 📚

"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 #poetry, talks to @martinwroe.bsky.social about #saints and the #spiritual

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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...

'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...

Good to see Vidyan Ravinthiran's @forwardprizes.bsky.social winning third collection Avidyā and Gillian Allnutt's @tseliotprize.bsky.social shortlisted tenth collection Lode included in @betarish.bsky.social's poetry books of 2025 feature in @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

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. www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

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...

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...

'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...

🕰️ 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!

We're rounding off the year with some truly excellent December online workshops! Sign up here: www.tickettailor.com/events/thepo... @janeburn.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social

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.

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...

🌟 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:

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...

The Shadow of Words by Ana Blandiana @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social #poetry

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 — southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/out...

Back home from @ptbopoetry.bsky.social 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 event here: #Poetry

'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.’

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

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.

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 www.eventbrite.ie/e/poetry-is-...

"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

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 #BookSky

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...

'...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...