Imbolc. The glimmering of light; a glimpse in the dark of something to sustain us through Winter, for all that it’s far from over. The kindling in the heart that keeps us from despair – or wanhope, as the word once was, the waned emptiness of hope. LINK: feralangels.com/imbolc-2026

This is an absolute bargain, and just in time for both the ‘festive’ season and the launch of Clarion 5 Get them at: feralangels.com/clarion

Don't miss the free online launch of the first Clarion Voices chapbook - MY TWICE-EXILED THRONE, by Khalil Sima’an, tomorrow (Sunday) night. I’m delighted that we have Khalil as our first Clarion Voices poet! clarionpoetry.com/events

We’ve just listed all 4 back-issues of Clarion as a bundle. This means you can get all 4 copies at a base price of £40. Factor in the sliding scale and you could be looking at £20 for the bundle, if you need to choose the lowest tier. That's over 120 poems... LINK: feralangels.com/clarion

FERAL ANGELS PRESS AND CLARION POETRY LAST ORDER DATES! For *likely* delivery before Christmas, assuming your parcel doesn’t fall foul of mad customs laws and guidelines: UK · get your order in by close of business 17th December Beyond the UK · end of day Sunday 7th December feralangels.com

29th November marks the start of #ReadPalestine week. So, I'm delighted to announce the online launch of the first Clarion Voices chapbook - MY TWICE-EXILED THRONE, by Khalil Sima’an, on December 14th. Tickets are free and can be booked via the link in the comments or our bio.

#BuyNothingDay The Feral Angels Press shop checkout is disabled all day. Watch for news of the Clarion 5 launch over the weekend, as well as the launch of the first Clarion Voices launch! #BuyNothingDay #BlackFriday #AntiGlobalCapitalism #ReclaimTheShops #ReclaimTheMarketplace #ReclaimTheMagic

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR CLARION #6 Even as we're reading the submissions for Clarion #5, time demands that we open the submissions for Clarion #6. For this issue, we are experimenting with another loose theme, namely RAGE. See clarionpoetry.com/submissions for all the info and to submit work.

This November, me and Rozi Hilton at the Poetry Pharmacy. We want to put a fire under your poetry and ask: What will you have to say when you stop curating it so tightly? Link to book tickets and find out more: tomhirons.com/events/wield...

CLARION #5 SUBMISSIONS CLOSE MIDNIGHT TOMORROW Get your skates on, poets. See the Clarion website for guidelines, and to submit your work.

In just over two hours, we'll be launching Clarion #4 online - we'd love to see you there. With readings from: Free, online - why would you not attend the feast? clarionpoetry.com/events/onlin...

This is the piece of mine that'll be appearing in Clarion #4 in a few weeks' time. You may have seen a previous version of this, but I've worked it a bit for the magazine, and for the collection that'll be coming out in June - MOLOK - with the help of my editor for this issue, MariJean Wegert.

CLARION 5 submissions are open! For this issue, we are experimenting with a loose theme, namely HOME. Homecoming, home-losing, soul-home, body-home; roots and rootlessness. The deep ancient home and the precarious home of modernity. Consider it a springboard, not a tag. We’d love to hear from you!

THE CLARION #4 ONLINE LAUNCH IS ON 8TH MAY And it's free We'd love to see you there! Link in our b/i/o Please spread the word. Poetry lives. And here's some pictures of a few of the poets involved, to give faces to names...

Submissions are open for Clarion 4 Please spread the word - we're particularly interested in work by Palestinian and Lebanese writers for this issue, and medicine against despair. See clarionpoetry.com/submissions for all the info...

This is for anyone trying to make art, to tell the truth, to do anything worth doing in 2025. It's all imperfect, it'll never be perfect; love it anyway and keep doing it. From AT THE ORPHANS’ DOOR (2023) WE FIRE OUR ARROWS IN THE DARK

Poetry for a world on fire. We've swerved the whole trajectory of going onto Twitter/X and then coming here and just came straight here instead. If you love #poetry that's got lifeforce, you might well love what's in the pages of Clarion. Find out more at clarionpoetry.com