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...

Very much enjoyed the Ken Kiff exhibition at the Hales Gallery, London (on until 24th May 2025). Kiff was one of Gurminder Sikand's favourite artists.

Coming soon: We’re excited to reveal the stunning cover for ‘Hôtel Amour’, Deryn Rees-Jones’, highly anticipated follow up to her T.S. Eliot shortlisted collection ‘Erato’. Publishing on 7 July 2025. Pre-order at www.serenbooks.com/book/hotel-a... @notjustdancing.bsky.social

So pleased that Gurminder Sikand's painting, 'Planting' (AKA 'Among Trees C'), 1994, has entered the collection of @hepworthwakefield.bsky.social

CFP - Children on the Move: Histories, Experiences and Representations of Child Travellers (26-27 March 2026, University of Angers) - Organised by Anne-Florence Quaireau and Tom Williams - Keynote speaker: Gabor Gelléri (@gaborgelleri.bsky.social) Please help us circulate this CFP far and wide! :-)

Very pleased to have two poems in issue 27 of Noon: Journal of the Short Poem, and to follow two by @dradny.bsky.social, whose launch of his collection 'European Hymns' inspired the first of mine.

Had a very enjoyable evening giving a talk on Gurminder Sikand's artwork. Great questions and observations.

Delighted to receive today my copy of Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing: Decentring Epistemologies, eds Samia Ounoughi, Emmanuelle Peraldo, @afquaireau.bsky.social (Routledge, 2025). Very grateful for the keynote invitation that allowed me to be part of it.

New travel-writing prize for women writers! Deadline is end of the month... www.ilseschwepckeprize.co.uk

I learned from and very much enjoyed the conference on W. Somerset Maugham at Le Mans Université and am grateful for the keynote invitation that allowed me to attend.

Pleased to have received my copy of 'Moving Identities Constructing the Self and the Other in Travel Writing, eds Winfried Eckel and Sandra Vlasta (Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg) (UWH), for which I'm happy to have supplied the preface.

Glad now to have seen the Tate's touring show 'Women in Revolt!' in all three of its venues, most recently (and until 1st June 2025) at the Whitworth in Manchester, and Gurminder Sikand represented in each. A real pleasure also to have been in the company of the other artists and of curators.

THE LITHIC GATHERING: SHIFTING TEMPORALITIES & MYTHOLOGIES OF RITUAL STONE STRUCTURES - CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: Friday 28th March Response by: Saturday 5th April Symposium: Friday 16th May @manmetuni.bsky.social @dcahf-met.bsky.social #academicsky #folklore #stone #myth

Moving Identities: Constructing the Self and the Other in Travel Writing, ed. Winfried Eckel and Sandra Vlasta. Essays on travel writing in English, French, German, Polish, and Spanish from the 18th to 21st century. New from Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg.

Our next research seminar is on 11 March (4.30pm)! Please join us to welcome Alison O’Byrne who will present a paper titled ‘Strangers to the City: Travel and Tourism in Eighteenth-Century London’. 📍KG/07 More info: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

My review of Charles Forsdick, Zoë Kinsley and Kathryn Walchester eds., Microtravel: Confinement, Deceleration, Microspection (Anthem Press,2024) for Viatica is now online. journals.openedition.org/viatica/5098

I'm co-organising a conference on the modernist long poem, partly for the centenary of Richard Aldington's A Fool i' the Forest. Please consider submitting! nclsn.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/c... @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social @mmodernity.bsky.social @fwwsoc.bsky.social

We've just published a new paperback edition of Anne Holt's 'Taking a Walk: A History of Recreational Walking in Britain'. We're offering 20% off paperback copies from now through 7th Feb using code 'walkerpb2025' on our site: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #walking #britain

My latest for @theguardian.com; I interviewed the winner of this year's TS Eliot prize, Peter Gizzi: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

In 1846 Frederick Douglass addressed over 70 meetings in Scotland. From 15 January we will begin once more posting about each one on their anniversary, with links to the full texts of newspaper reports of them.

📢📢📢 Hakluyt Society ECR Essay Prize 2025 📢📢📢 Essays (6k-8k) are invited by ECRs on the history of travel, exploration, cultural encounter or their effects, or that critically engage with the work of the Society. 1st prize £1250 & 2nd prize £250. * Enter by 1/3/25 * www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...

When they left they raised the stretcher over the piano in the narrow hallway The work of mourning captured in thirty-one miniatures. Tim Youngs, Managed Woodland. 3/5 www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/product-page...

My thanks to Billy for a thoughtful and kind review of ‘European Hymns’ Billy’s a poet and critic I’ve long admired.