Our National Poetry Day offer still applies, but ends on October 6th - enjoy £5 off when you spend £20+ on #poetry books at our shop: ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Poetr... Type the discount code NPD5 at the checkout. With thanks to our poets and readers 📚

News from our friends: the @poetrybusiness.bsky.social competitions are open. The Book & Pamphlet Competition judged by Kim Moore New Poets Prize judged by Holly Hopkins Deadline: 2 Nov 2025. A chance to have your #poetry pamphlet published by Smith|Doorstop. poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions

Happy #nationalpoetryday - celebrate the best way by bagging some #poetry book bargains and supporting #indiepublishing Type NPD5 at our checkout for £5 off your book purchases when you spend £20 or more. What will you discover? ninearchespress.com/shop

And just a huge wave of love & appreciation to the amazing #poet & #editor Jane Commane of @ninearchespress.bsky.social on #NationalPoetryDay

Happy #nationalpoetryday - celebrate the best way by bagging some #poetry book bargains and supporting #indiepublishing Type NPD5 at our checkout for £5 off your book purchases when you spend £20 or more. What will you discover? ninearchespress.com/shop

Know a young writer? Let them know about this wonderful event in #Birmingham on 8th November. Hear from a wealth of industry experts providing guidance and motivation. sparkwriters.org/careers-in-w... #CareersInWriting @writingwestmids.bsky.social

Here's the latest episode of A Mouthful of Air #podcast featuring Gregory Leadbetter, sharing 'Alchemy' from The Infernal Garden. Enjoy a wonderful reading and deep discussion about the magical nature of making #poetry. Thank you Mark McGuinness. #poetrypodcast amouthfulofair.fm/alchemy-greg...

I have a poem in the Canadian journal @arcpoetry.bsky.social… ‘This volume gathers voices that echo across time and space - some whispering, some roaring, some weeping, all resonant.’ .. ‘Ocean World’ will also be in my new collection Bycatch. Out on 9th Oct! with @ninearchespress.bsky.social

Have you lined up your copy of NEON MANILA by @troycabida.bsky.social? 'A beautiful, tender elegy for intimacy.’ 'What a stylish and truly bold debut.’ ‘An entirely moving collection' ninearchespress.com/publications...

Our popular Poetry Spa Day returns. We're heading to Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery on Saturday 6th December with guest poet Laurie Bolger. Receive 'Lady' as part of your ticket. Something special to look forward to. Full details and booking here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1654166238...

In this month of beginning or returning to study, have you discovered our #poetry writing handbooks? Packed with essays, tips, examples and motivations, any title in our handbook series will help reinvigorate your writing this, or (any other) month. ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Writi...

Our blog is brimming with sample poems and discussions by our poets. So if you want a glimpse into our books and learn more about writing process and motivation from our poets you should head this way: ninearchespress.blogspot.com

Plan a Poetry Retreat Day at the Poetry Pharmacy in Shropshire, with Roz Goddard and Jane Commane guiding you through creative workshops and sharing poems. Be inspired. Book your place for Sunday 2nd November here: t.co/wFoXmZ5kVD

Sharing a wonderful poem and blog from Caroline Smith as she discusses 'In Decline'. Here dementia reveals itself, urban images are juxtaposed with 'misplaced' language, prompting questions about the notion of personhood. ninearchespress.com/publications... From Bycatch, out 9th October.

Our popular Poetry Spa Day returns. We're heading to Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery on Saturday 6th December with guest poet Laurie Bolger. Receive 'Lady' as part of your ticket. Something special to look forward to. Full details and booking here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1654166238...

Under the Radar Issue 35 is a packed magazine of new #poetry, short fiction & reviews Or a digital copy straight to your inbox? Or take out a subscription? What will you discover? ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Under...

Join Chris McCabe launching HEDONISM with London legend Iain Sinclair and leading voices in contemporary #poetry Erica Hesketh, Isobel Dixon, Karenjit Sandhu, Richard Scott, Sarah Crewe, Simon Barraclough & Ziba Karbassi. Wed 24th September 7pm ICA www.ica.art/talks/book-l...

A wonderful blog post from @troycabida.bsky.social sharing a poem & insight, from upcoming Neon Manila. Discover 'Black Turtleneck Sonnet', a poem of 'beauty, agency & sex', playing with multiple meanings of an iconic garment. Photos by Pedro Younis. ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/08/in-c...

Have you lined up your copy of NEON MANILA by @troycabida.bsky.social? 'A beautiful, tender elegy for intimacy.’ 'What a stylish and truly bold debut.’ ‘An entirely moving collection' ninearchespress.com/publications...

Delighted to be 'back by popular demand', our Mastercalss Webinar series of getting your #poetry published starts again on Monday 17 November. Sign up for the course of three weekly sessions led by Jane Commane, for just £45. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-mas...

Come to the Birmingham Literature Festival for a Journey Through the Infernal Garden with poet Gregory Leadbetter Sunday 12 October 8pm www.ticketsource.co.uk/bhamlitfest/... @writingwestmids.bsky.social

We're offering FREE UK postage across the shop including on pre-orders. So come in to browse new & upcoming titles, a brilliant backlist, our evergreen creative writing handbooks, curated book bundles & more. Let us help you fill your shelves with #poetry ninearchespress.com/shop

Delighted to be 'back by popular demand', our Mastercalss Webinar series of getting your #poetry published starts again on Monday 17 November. Sign up for the course of three weekly sessions led by Jane Commane, for just £45. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-mas...

Our popular Poetry Spa Day returns. We're heading to Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery on Saturday 6th December with guest poet Laurie Bolger. Receive 'Lady' as part of your ticket. Something special to look forward to. Full details and booking here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1654166238...

In this month of beginning or returning to study, have you discovered our #poetry writing handbooks? Packed with essays, tips, examples and motivations, any title in our handbook series will help reinvigorate your writing this, or (any other) month. ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Writi...

Our blog is brimming with sample poems and discussions by our poets. So if you want a glimpse into our books and learn more about writing process and motivation from our poets you should head this way: ninearchespress.blogspot.com

Our early October book is the powerful BYCATCH by @csmithpoet.bsky.social A moving poetic exploration of care, family and the fragile boundaries of self. Pre-order your copy today: ninearchespress.com/publications...

⏱️ Time is ticking... The deadline for PRIMERS entries is midnight TONIGHT Tuesday 9th September BST Read the full criteria and how to enter here: ninearchespress.com/primers UK poets looking for mentoring and publishing, don't miss out!

⏱️ Time is ticking... The deadline for PRIMERS entries is midnight TONIGHT Tuesday 9th September BST Read the full criteria and how to enter here: ninearchespress.com/primers UK poets looking for mentoring and publishing, don't miss out!

Thank you so much to our poets Nina Mingya Powles, Gregory Leadbetter and Chris McCabe for their readings tonight. A beautiful set of enchanting, inventive, lyrical and haunting poems that reward the senses. All ticket-holders will receive a recording of the broadcast to savour.

Excellent new book from Chris, launched yesterday in Liverpool.

⏱️Please sign up before 6pm today Tonight's ONLINE LAUNCH features #poetry from Nina Mingya Powles, Gregory Leadbetter & Chris McCabe. 🎥If you can't join live we'll send ticket-holders a recording afterwards. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/triple-onl...

⏱️ Time is ticking... The deadline for PRIMERS entries is midnight Tuesday 9th September BST Read the full criteria and how to enter here: ninearchespress.com/primers UK poets looking for mentoring and publishing, don't miss out!

Whether spoken aloud or read silently to the self, Chris McCabe’s new collection from @ninearchespress.bsky.social is a richly sonic experience from cover to cover. The whole thing is a journey made up of stepping stones that ring as you touch them.

⏱️Please sign up before 6pm today Tonight's ONLINE LAUNCH features #poetry from Nina Mingya Powles, Gregory Leadbetter & Chris McCabe. 🎥If you can't join live we'll send ticket-holders a recording afterwards. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/triple-onl...

See you in Rye next week i hope - reading some poems from my first book now republished, reissued by @ninearchespress.bsky.social

We're offering FREE UK postage across the shop including on pre-orders. So come in for a browse for new titles, brilliant backlist, our evergreen creative writing handbooks, curated book bundles and more. Let us help you fill more shelf space with #poetry ninearchespress.com/shop

Are you joining us online this Monday (8th) at 7pm? If you can't join live we'll send ticket-holders a recording afterwards. Pay What You Can to attend. Hear from Nina Mingya Powles, Gregory Leadbetter & Chris McCabe, authors of these new #poetry books. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/triple-onl...

⏱️ Time is ticking... The deadline for PRIMERS entries is midnight Tuesday 9th September BST Read the full criteria and how to enter here: ninearchespress.com/primers UK poets looking for mentoring and publishing, don't miss out!

Join @csmithpoet.bsky.social to celebrate the publication of BYCATCH at Wembley Library, alongside poet Erica Hesketh. Their books are beautifully moving explorations into the beginning and end of life, parenting & ageing, sadness & joy. Thursday 16th October 6.30pm eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-in-...

Publication day for HEDONISM; haunting, humorous, political & personal new #poetry from Chris McCabe. Exploring the intersection of grief, place, memory & imagination. Travelling through a post-Brexit landscape, combining the comic with the elegiac. ninearchespress.com/publications...

Tk you Wasafiri for pubishing my piece ‘On (Mis)Translation and the Vein of Resistance’ It’s adapted from the performance lecture I gave at Princeton University early this year, abt the ideas behind my book amuk @ninearchespress.bsky.social. W gratitude to @shreedaisy.bsky.social for the invite.

Enjoyed reading and reviewing this book. Recommend buying the book. I also hear there is a launch event in Liverpool on Sunday. Sounds like a great way to spend an afternoon.

Thank you Poetry Book Society and Gregory Kearns for this sharp review of HEDONISM by Chris McCabe in your latest bulletin: poetrybooks.co.uk Out this week, line up your copy of this haunting new #poetry collection: ninearchespress.com/publications...

Join Erica Hesketh as her 'In the Lily Room' book tour continues. See ericahesketh.co.uk/events for details and tickets. Readings and workshops include online, in libraries, bookshops and festivals in London, Bristol and Winchester, as listed below📚

Come to the Liverpool launch of HEDONISM by Chris McCabe. Joined by Jane Commane. Poem readings and conversation, exploring the creative process of editing and sharing insights into how a #poetry book is made. Open Eye Gallery Sunday 7th September, 2-4pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-rea...

Rye Arts Festival presents 'Poetry Extraordinaire' Sunday 14th September, 2.30pm At the Literary Club Featuring @jessmookherjee.bsky.social Robert Hamberger, Patricia McCarthy & Siân Thomas. Sounds like a perfect afternoon! box-office.ryeartsfestival.org.uk/sales/events...

✨ WORKSHOPS NEXT WEEK✨ ✨ Shaping a Collection with Erica Hesketh Tues 9 Sept, 11am ✨ 'After Blackberrying' with Rachel Long Wed 10 Sept, 11am Sign up here: buytickets.at/thepoetrybus... @ninearchespress.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social

Come to the Liverpool launch of HEDONISM by Chris McCabe. Joined by Jane Commane. Poem readings and conversation, exploring the creative process of editing and sharing insights into how a #poetry book is made. Open Eye Gallery Sunday 7th September, 2-4pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-rea...

Sharing a wonderful poem and blog from @csmithpoet.bsky.social as she discusses 'In Decline'. Here dementia reveals itself, urban images are juxtaposed with 'misplaced' language, prompting questions about the notion of personhood. ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/08/in-c... Taken from Bycatch.