Great to see @jesstraynor.bsky.social reading a poem from her fourth collection New Arcana. Many thanks to @booksireland.bsky.social for the feature. New Arcana is published by Bloodaxe in the UK & Ireland this week.

Jessica Traynor, from “New Arcana” @jesstraynor.bsky.social

✨WORKSHOPS NEXT WEEK✨ ✨'This is not a play: mixing up the genres' with Amanda Dalton Mon 29 Sept, 7pm ✨'Self-Portrait, with Poems' with Jonathan Edwards Tues 30 Sept, 11am Sign up here: buytickets.at/thepoetrybus... @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @serenbooks.bsky.social

‘How Trains Shrunk Time and Space’ ‘Katrina Porteous, a poet with generational connections to the area follows the track of that inaugural journey, accompanied by a rich aural soundscape by Joe Fowler.’ #TheLaurelPrize #Trains @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social #poetry 📻 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Poet and historian Katrina Porteous has contributed poetry and narration to this Illuminated feature marking the 200th anniversary of the modern railway. A @radiotimes.bsky.social Today's Choice for 21 September. Tune in to BBC Radio 4 at 7.15pm, or listen later. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Thank you, Daljit Nagra for choosing Beast as BBC Radio 4 Poetry Extra’s Book of the Month for September. Today at 7am, 12 noon & again at 6pm he reads another poem from my collection Beast, the poem is ‘Murmurations at Roughtor’, at the end of the programme www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Me being delighted with Martina Evan's gorgeous review of New Arcana in today's @irishtimes.com 🔮✨️ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Congratulations Katrina Porteous, winner of The Laurel Prize 2025 #poetry #rhizodont @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/...

We were glad to hear the Laurel Prize shortlist readings in Bradford last night. Congratulations to this year’s winner Katrina Porteous for Rhizodont @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social announced by Chair of judges Kathleen Jamie @poetryschool.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to Katrina Porteous, winner of the Laurel Prize 2025 for her fourth collection Rhizodont. 🌿 'We were impressed by the way her attention to the small and local belied the sweep and depth of her project.' - Kathleen Jamie, Chair of Judges www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

🌿 2025 Laurel Prize Finalist 🌿 Katrina Porteous: “For me, poetry is a kind of listening, transmitting what I hear. Living on the coast reminds me human life is both tiny & powerful. Small, local attachments can influence vast planetary mechanisms—this brings hope.” #LaurelPrize2025

🌿✨ Watch the Laurel Prize Ceremony 2025 live! ✨🌿 📖 Finalist readings 👩‍⚖️ Judges: Kathleen Jamie, Daljit Nagra & Caroline Lucas 🏆 Winner revealed live 📅 Fri 19 Sept 2025 🕠 5.30pm (BST) 👉 Sign up here: poetryschool.com/cou... #LaurelPrize #Ecopoetry #PoetryCommunity #ClimatePoetry

Katrina Porteous – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface 🌍 On Rhizodont: “These poems grow from years of thinking about my coastal home, science, and the voices of community projects. They weave together landscape, people, and place.” 🔗 Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau...

'Each poem feels chosen with intelligence and care: accessibility matches profundity. […] a searching anthology that is both elegy, and celebration.’ – Martyn Halsall, in @churchtimes.bsky.social, on Neil Astley & Pamela Robertson-Pearce's anthology Soul Feast. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Today's Featured Poem: "Zvuv" by Selima Hill from Women in Comfortable Shoes published by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social Read here: spare.poems.com/poem/zvuv/

September news: New books from @poetclare.bsky.social, @jesstraynor.bsky.social & @emiliejelinek.bsky.social; prize news for Matthew Caley, Kris Johnson & Niall Campbell; radio & podcasts for @pascalepetit.bsky.social & Greta Stoddart; Ruth Fainlight film premiere. mailchi.mp/263b340dbcf3...

Irish poet @jesstraynor.bsky.social will be reading from her brand new fourth collection New Arcana @outspokenldn.bsky.social at London's Southbank Centre on Thursday 18 September, 7.45pm, alongside Leo Boix, Sara Mansour and fellow Bloodaxe poet @imtiazdharker.bsky.social.

'In this compelling, piercing collection, Vidyan Ravinthiran reflects on what ignorance gives rise to and how it persists, through the Sri Lankan civil war' - Calista McRae, On The Sea Wall. Avidyā is distributed in the US via @consortiumbooks.bsky.social. www.ronslate.com/on-avidya-po...

Many thanks to the Turkish poet and translator Gonca Özman for these two translations in the third issue of D'OKU Art & Literature Magazine, August 2025. Honoured to have my poems translated into Turkish for the first time.

A great delight and privilege to be in conversation with @skyarts.bsky.social nominated writer and @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social poet Gwyneth Lewis at Shute Festival on Sat 27th Sept.

"Vidyan Ravinthiran reflects on what ignorance gives rise to and how it persists, through the Sri Lankan civil war that began in 1983 and ended 2009": Calista McRae on Avidyā @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social via ON THE SEAWALL bit.ly/3IiDEZM

The longlists for the Saltires – Scotland’s national book awards for non-fiction, fiction, poetry, & research – have been announced. www.thesaltires.org.uk

'A collection of deep currents and undercurrents, beautiful imagery and...considered curation. A masterclass in lyric control.' Niall Campbell’s third collection The Island in the Sound is longlisted for Scotland's Poetry Book of the Year. #SaltireBookAwards. www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

Looking forward to giving my first reading from New Arcana at Morecambe Poetry Festival this Saturday 🔮✨️ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social url:https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Lancaster/Morecambe-Winter-Gardens/Morecambe-Poetry-Festival-2025/40609946/

So happy to feature the excellent @pascalepetit.bsky.social as part of The Book Bag: Poetic Voices monthly feature. It is a real honour 📚💼

A lovely surprise: Beast is Daljit Nagra’s Book of the Month for September for BBC Radio 4 Extra’s Poetry Extra. Yesterday he read my poem ‘The Pelts of Animals’, at the end of the programme, and later in the month he’ll read another poem from Beast. You can listen here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Many congratulations to all the poets on the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize shortlist, including Kris Johnson, who has been shortlisted for her 2023 debut collection Ghost River. The winner will be announced on @poetrydayuk.bsky.social, Thursday 2 October.

We're delighted to announce that Kris Johnson's debut collection Ghost River, published by Bloodaxe in 2023, has been shortlisted for the @englishassociation.bsky.social's Michael Murphy Poetry Prize for a distinctive first volume of poetry in English. www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

A poem about a Negroni from my forthcoming collection #LivesoftheFemalePoets ♥️♥️♥️ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Great reviews in the Poetry Book Society Autumn Bulletin of @poetclare.bsky.social's sixth collection Lives of the Female Poets and @jesstraynor.bsky.social's fourth collection #NewArcana, both out this month from Bloodaxe. Many thanks to reviewers @shashtrevett.bsky.social and Nasim Rebecca Asl.

She has been spotted in the wild 🔮✨️

Day 2 of #30booksin30days. Here's my 30 word review of @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social Inside the Wave by Helen Dunmore: You'd think this a first collection, not a final. Life brims from every page, and what seems like calm lyricism breaks with great power like endless waves of living laughter.

As the final spotlight on poems for the summer, here are some beautiful lines from My Friends by @arundhathi.subramaniam@bloodaxebooks - and for more incredible poems, why not discover the Forward Prizes shortlist buff.ly/i67GTxe

'In establishing a tradition of women and women’s (written) work, Pollard elevates women’s work and lives (embodied, messy, meaty, boozy) to being worthy of poetry.' – Ellora Sutton, @mslexia.bsky.social, on @poetclare.bsky.social's new collection Lives of the Female Poets, out this month.

It says much for the power of Gillian Allnutt's Lode that my compass, carried in the same pocket, had reversed its polarity by the end of the day @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social #poetry

🚨Launch details for New Arcana!🚨 I'll be in Galway, Dublin, Belfast & online. Please do come along if you can, & spread the word. 🔮✨️🐍🃏 @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @gutterbookshop.bsky.social

Unboxed these beauties yesterday. Out in one month! Preorder! #livesofthefemalepoets @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Thanks to @shashtrevett.bsky.social for this wonderful review of New Arcana in the PBS Autumn Bulletin.

Roscommon PRIDE - a wonderful celebration last weekend. Honoured to be the Grand Marshall & to deliver a speech about why PRIDE matters. Also wonderful to read my Pride poems from @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social in my home town. May Ireland continue to protect and promote equality & inclusion.

✨WORKSHOPS NEXT WEEK✨ ✨Tues 2 Sept, 11am Queer Poetry with Clare Shaw ( @clareshawpoet.bsky.social) buytickets.at/thepoetrybus... ✨Wed 3 Sept, 11am Writing Birds with Laurie Bolger ( @lauriebolger.bsky.social) buytickets.at/thepoetrybus... @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social

Bogs inspire poets, not just Seamus Heaney, but also @janeclarke.bsky.social our guest at the "Bogland - Between the sights of the sun" event, July 26th @nlireland.bsky.social. We've cut a little video of her public presentation and her reading of her work - including 'Recipe for a Bog' - enjoy!.

A little unboxing video of my new collection New Arcana from @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social with a big shout out to @lisasterle.bsky.social for her amazing cover art. 🔮🃏✨️ Launch info coming soon!

Coming soon, a celebration of Versus Versus, published by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social, at the Southbank Centre. Visit the SBC website for in person and livestream ticket options: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/glo... www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/glo...

Frank Skinner discussed two poems from Greta Stoddart's fourth collection, Fool, in his Poetry Podcast of 20 August. Fascinating close readings of the title poem 'Fool' and 'Three tulips in a milk bottle'. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...

Join us on Tues 30 Sept, 7pm for our next online launch reading with Clare Pollard, Jessica Traynor & Mslexia Pamphlet Competition winner Emilie Jelinek! www.bloodaxebooks.com/events?artic... @poetclare.bsky.social @jesstraynor.bsky.social @emiliejelinek.bsky.social @mslexia.bsky.social

Aged 18-25, based in the UK or Ireland, & interested in contemporary poetry? You've got one week left to apply for the 2025 Young Critics Scheme, run in partnership with the T.S. Eliot Prize! You'll attend workshops with leading critics and create a video review. Apply: bit.ly/YoungCriticsScheme

Final two published poems from New Arcana before the book comes out next month! With big thanks to @poetrywales.bsky.social for featuring them. 🃏🐍😈 @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Ada Limón, from Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets (2025). @rachaelboast.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

August news: shorturl.at/8SafG #MattHoward wins @asleuki.bsky.social Prize; #KatrinaPorteous is #LaurelPrize Finalist; #KrisJohnson & @marjorielotfi.bsky.social on #MichaelMurphyPrize Longlist; @theguardian.com review for #VersusVersus; #GillianAllnutt made @rsliterature.bsky.social Fellow; & more!

Huge congratulations to Matt Howard, winner of the poetry category of the @asleuki.bsky.social Book Prize 2025 for his second collection #Broadlands. Well done to all the shortlisted authors, including Yvonne Reddick, shortlisted for her debut #BurningSeason. www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...