JOB KLAXON - National Museums Scotland is looking for a Keeper of Global Arts, Cultures & Design. Amazing team & collections. If you have senior management experience and expertise in one of these areas, apply! Salary - £76,093 – 86,275 FT 35 hpw Deadline - 30/04/2026 careers.nms.ac.uk/job/856993

We'll be among the 60+ poetry publishers at Free Verse on Saturday 25 April (Knightsbridge, London): hope to see you there.

Glad to have two poems in the new issue (no.28) of NOON: journal of the short poem.

📢 CFA - 3 Postdoctoral Researchers in Early Modern History (35 months) within the project ‘Travellers’ interactions in early modern Italy’ at the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento. Deadline: 8 May 2026. jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Jobs... Please circulate widely!

In Memoriam: Pete Messent

New from Leafe Press: "State Honey" by Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social "...fast-moving to contemplative, presenting experience mediated by language that is fragmentary and shifting, disconcerting and never dull." www.leafepress.org/2026/01/stat...

This imminent volume looks so interesting! Women and Their Worlds: The Perspectives of Early Modern European Travellers Edited by Helena Sanson, Małgorzata Trzeciak-Cygan Series: New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800 link.springer.com/book/9783031...

1st March 2026.

We are thrilled to announce that applications for our 1st round of Microgrant funding are now open! These small seed grants of up to $300 USD support exploratory research or new projects in periodical studies. Applications for this first round of funds are due March 1!

Enjoyed The Women's Art Collection Exhibition, 'The Sleepers', at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. On until 22nd Feb (2026).

'LECTIO, KU Leuven Institute for the Study and Transmission of Texts, Ideas and Images in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, invites applications for its Visiting Fellowship Program 2026–2027. The program supports a research stay of 4–6 weeks in Leuven (or Turnhout). PhD required.

What's this? Another review already? Well, yes, I believe it is. ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2026/02/11/t...

Pleased to have received today my copy of Alina Khakoo's 'A Brief History of British South Asian Art' (Tate Publications, 2025), which includes Gurminder Sikand and several of her friends and co-exhibitors.

We are looking for review essays! You can see some of our selected titles at the post below. Get in contact with our review editors @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social and @olihaslam.bsky.social to request some or for further info

Here’s the recording of the online launch of Hôtel Amour — with Olivia McCannon @oliviamcc.bsky.social Menna Elfyn #mennaelfyn #parch #thelivesofz #hotelamour m.youtube.com/watch?v=LpXk...

'Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages Today and Tomorrow', forthcoming symposium at Cambridge. A two-day symposium for writer-researchers working on medieval materials to reflect on craft, research processes, and work in progress. Booking essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-m...

Our fantastic @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social collections are all included in the LUP Winter Sale, including preorders of the forthcoming 2026 poetry collections. Use discount code 27WINTER on our website to claim your discount! Sale ends 18th December. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/imprin...

Very pleased to now have a copy of Noon: an Anthology of Short Poems (vol. 2), edited by Philip Rowland, and to have a couple of poems in it, one inspired by Cliff Yates (and Gurminder Sikand) and the other inspired by @dradny.bsky.social. Both are among the several contributors.

Have you taken advantage of our special offer yet? From now until the end of December, you can claim £10 off all orders over £30 with the code Xmas25 when shopping on our website. Browse our books here www.serenbooks.com/books/

Guest post: Poet Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social reflects on time spent in Paris whilst writing her collection ‘Hôtel Amour’, offering an insight into her writing process & inspirations behind the book www.serenbooks.com/2025/12/gues.... Available now in bookshops & online.

Invigorated by last week's conference on 'Exploring Bodies and Corporeality in Travel Writing' at the University of Koblenz.

Would anyone be interested in being part of a roundtable on Working-Class Victorians in heritage/fiction/public imagination today at next year's BAVS conference? Let me know if you're keen 😁

This book (and all others by @edinburghup.bsky.social) are half price this weekend from their website: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-frederi...

Happy that two of Gurminder Sikand's paintings have entered the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum.

I'm very much enjoying and learning from @notjustdancing.bsky.social's brilliant 'Hôtel Amour’ from @serenbooks.bsky.social , launched with, and illuminated by, excellent readings and discussion yesterday.

Join us for an online book launch on November 18th at 7pm — #mennaelfyn #oliviamccannon #derynrees-jones #HotelAmour www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-boo...

We hope you can join us! Register for the Zoom link (free) via Eventbrite if you plan on coming along www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1765466972...

The deadline (15 November) is fast approaching for our annual Peterson Fellowships! Peterson Fellowships support one researcher for four, full-time months of work on a project related to #19thC periodicals. Application guidelines and more can be found on our website: rs4vp.org/awards/peter...

In celebration of International Artists' Day today, we're launching a new bundle curated by our Art Editor, Leon Wainwright. These four issues gather some of the strongest art writing from our archive, all for the discounted price of £38. 🎨 buff.ly/0J6TIAi

If you're a writer or publisher with a book on travel or place coming out in 2026, please let me know via deskboundtraveller.com so I can include it in a roundup (like this one: deskboundtraveller.com/words-from-the-road-for-2025/). Reposts greatly appreciated.

Le nouveau groupe de recherche NAVIRE (Narration et analyse des voyages, itinéraires et récits d’écrivains), invite à réfléchir aux définitions du récit de voyage à l’époque moderne. Inscrivez-vous pour assister à distance depuis l'univ. du Val d'Aoste (12-13/12/2025). www.crlv.org/actualites/c...

Delighted to have been at the opening of the @museumarnhem.bsky.social iteration of the @hepworthwakefield.bsky.social touring show, 'Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes'. Thanks to all 3 tour venues for including Gurminder Sikand's works www.museumarnhem.nl/en/tentoonst...

Nu te zien: 'Het fantastische landschap'. Ervaar een nieuw perspectief op 100 jaar surrealistische kunst. Ontdek hoe surrealistische kunstenaars, toen en nu, het landschap gebruiken om te reageren op de maatschappij. 'Het fantastische landschap' is te zien t/m 22 februari 2026: bit.ly/439IxMv

📖 Forthcoming this month, a new book from our colleague, Dr Gareth Roddy (@grod.bsky.social), "Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880-1940." Pre-order your copy now from @uolpress.bsky.social! uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...

Deadline to submit proposals is a month away! Don't miss the boat!

Very grateful to the TG Gallery, Nottingham, for having hosted 'Gurminder Sikand: Paintings and Drawings, 1994-2017'. Delighted to have seen Gurminder's art there again, four years after 'The Weaver of Songs', her exhibition of drawings from 2018-21, which closed just weeks before her passing.

Curious Travellers are delighted to be partnering with the long-running Liverpool Travel Seminar to host an Early Career Symposium dedicated to ‘Journeys of Curiosity’ Bluecoat, Liverpool, 25/09. Free (including lunch), registration by September 19th curioustravellers.ac.uk/journeys-of-...

(cont.) ... Davide Vago, Odile Gannier, Pierre Schoentjes, Jean-Baptiste Bernard, Nina Rocipon et Haila Koo. www.fabula.org/actualites/1... Aussi, comptes rendus des livres de Catherine Pinguet, Jean-Jacques Bavoux, Christina Kullberg, Eva Johanna Holmberg et Philippe Antoine - Gilles Louÿs (dirs).

Vient de paraître: numéro hors-série 8 de la revue Viatica, intitulé "La littérature de voyage au prisme de l'écopoétique". Dirigé par Yvan Daniel et Alain Romestaing, articles par Sylvie Requemora, Anne-Gaëlle Weber, Daniel López, Virginie Teller, Pascale Auraix-Jonchière, Philippe Antoine (cont.)

On the extraordinary Balkan quartet by Kapka Kassabova: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Funded by a Leverhulme Research Project Grant, Rosemary Sweet and @richardjansell.bsky.social's new book explores a region that is conventionally overlooked in studies of British travel to Europe. Read now: uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun...

Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages to Open at @gettymuseum.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2025/08/goin... #medievalmanuscripts #travel #getty

We are delighted to announce the longlist for our Michael Murphy Poetry Prize! englishassociation.ac.uk/michael-murp... @carcanet.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social

​An overnight walk from Kirk Sandall to Goole, via the River Don Navigation, the New Junction Canal, the Aire and Calder Navigation and the Dutch River, 6.30pm Friday 25 July to 5.30am Saturday 26 July. An improvised, illustrated thread of uncertain length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

Book your place for the FREE symposium, Challenging Maps & Exploration, @rgsibg.bsky.social 30 Oct! Sponsored by The Sunderland Collection, the event is hybrid & features experts talking about #maps and 'exploration (historic & contemporary), Indigeneity, empire, & more. #skystorians 🗃️

I very much enjoyed the preview at the Box, Plymouth, UK, last night of the @hepworthwakefield.bsky.social touring exhibition 'Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes'. It's on at the Box until 7th Sept. 2025 and I'm delighted that 3 paintings by Gurminder Sikand remain part of it.

My review of Andrew Taylor's There’s Everything to Play For: The Poetry of Peter Finch now live. Thanks to @serenbooks.bsky.social for sending it my way. ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/05/16/t...