'Curled beside me in your wheaten silk – asleep in whatever log or nest of leaves the night has conjured from our quilt ...' From issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024) – poetry by @aoifelyall.bsky.social 🐭 bansheepress.org/read/dormous...

Morning! After a couple years of working away in the world of lino, I've now launched my online print shop: bramblewoodstudioart.etsy.com If you could give it a heart, a share and/ or a follow I'd really appreciate it. Happy New Year! Aoife

More reviews in our current issue 'Ownership' - magmapoetry.com/latest-issue/ @aoifelyall.bsky.social reviews @pimlottkathy.bsky.social's 'After the Rites and Sandwiches'; Camille Ralphs' 'After you were, I am'; and @dzifabenson.bsky.social's 'Monster'. magmapoetry.com/aoife-lyall-...

CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS! Editors @cloudscholar.bsky.social, Lola Oh and @williekinard.com are looking forward to receiving your submissions for Magma 94: REMIX More info & to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub... Closing date: 31st July, 2025 Image: Williams Chechet

As Artistic Director of Winchester Poetry Festival in letting you know our programme is now LIVE! 🧵 www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on

We're looking forward to publishing this in the UK & Ireland on 21 May 2026.

Me- on stage- this Friday! All info below- see you there!

Delighted to add my copy of Washing Windows V to my collection! Thanks to @booksupstairs.bsky.social 📚 Very honoured to have poems included in four of these very special anthologies 💫✨ Huge gratitude to @arlenhouse.bsky.social and @nualaoconnor.bsky.social 🙏🙏

Ah Moniack, you beauty 😍

TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT! Come join our online launch of In the Flesh- hosted by myself & Victoria Kennefick- 7pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magma-issu... @magmapoetry.bsky.social

Feels extra special to publish this poem in @magmapoetry.bsky.social so close to my grandad's first anniversary this Saturday 🤍 thanks to @aoifelyall.bsky.social & Victoria Kennefick x

My contributor's copy made it across the pond! I'm so excited to have a poem in issue 91 of @magmapoetry.bsky.social and share it with you here. There's some beautiful work in this issue and I'm thrilled to be a part of it.

What a brilliant poem by Sarah Corbett in most recent @magmapoetry.bsky.social the whole edition is a very good read. Looking forward to Sarah’s next book.

Join us on Wed 16 April 7-8:30pm, for the online launch of Magma 91 'In the Flesh'. Editors @aoifelyall.bsky.social & Victoria Kennefick host a celebration of the exciting new issue, with readings from a stellar line-up of M91 contributors. Register your place here: bit.ly/M91launch

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Can’t believe I don’t have to stay quiet anymore - I’m winner of the Disabled Poets Prize 2025 for my pamphlet ‘How to Train Your Dragon’, which will be published with @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social soon! Breathless and buzzing! Congratulations to Oli Isaac for their poem and all those shortlisted.

Meet Nate, as in caffiNate 😀

Thrilled to have a poem published in this beauty! Huge thanks to @magmapoetry.bsky.social and editors extraordinaire @aoifelyall.bsky.social and Victoria Kennefick 💗

And these by @jsaphra.bsky.social and @jesstraynor.bsky.social 🔥

Some favourites - this spread with @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social and @katewakeling.bsky.social

Spring has finally sprung and with it spring issues of @poetrylondon.bsky.social and @magmapoetry.bsky.social – I’m lucky to have a poem in each, alongside all manner of brilliance 💛

Lovely to have a poem about queer love and self-discovery accepted for the next issue of Ambient Receiver ❤️

Here’s a new poem – the first of a set of seven exploring the ‘capital vices’ (among other things) – in the terrific new issue of @magmapoetry.bsky.social Warmest thanks to editors @aoifelyall.bsky.social and Victoria Kennefick for taking it in all its grottiness 🩷

Congratulations to Wasafiri contributor Anthony V Capildeo on winning the Windham-Campbell Prize in Poetry this year! In celebration, we've made an interview between them and Palestinian writer Yousif M Qasmiyeh free access until 30 April: buff.ly/8sYBpuQ

Delighted to have a poem included in @magmapoetry.bsky.social Issue 91 ✨Thank you so much to editors Victoria Kennefick and @aoifelyall.bsky.social 🤍🤍

Fiona Larkin is the winner of the National Poetry Competition 2024 for ‘Absence has a grammar’. Fiona Larkin’s debut collection, Rope of Sand, was published by Pindrop Press in 2023. The title poem was highly commended in the Forward Prizes. Her pamphlets are Vital Capacity (...)

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I'm thrilled to be the poetry tutor for @arvonfoundation.bsky.social Advanced Writing Programme 2025-27, along with fiction tutor Rachel Seiffert & non-fiction tutor Will Atkins, applications are open!

Thank you so much the editors @aoifelyall.bsky.social and Victoria Kennefick for selecting my work and including it in this beautiful issue.

I'm limited edition people! Get to it!

It’s only 3 weeks until the festival kicks off! Have you got your tickets yet? www.eventbrite.com/cc/helensbur...

To celebrate @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social every copy of The Day Before ordered from aoifelyall.com will be posted with a FREE mystery poetry collection. Have at it @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social @magmapoetry.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

OUR ZOOM WORKSHOPS for spring are selling fast! @ruthpadel 's is full. Don't miss out on some of the most inspiring workshops around, many fresh from #VERVE2025! Go here to read more: tinyurl.com/yaryzy4w

What can I say @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social ? Divine experience!

One of my weekly things is choosing Poem of The Week for The Scotsman. Been doing it for the last 2+ years. A labour of love which motivates me to read loads of new poetry collections that come in to the Scottish Poetry Library. This week was a poem by Christopher Crawford. Love his new collection.

Come along to this awesome workshop on Soundscape with yours truly, www.vervepoetryfestival.com/2025-events/... @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social

Hey @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social can I get a meet & greet at Birmingham New Street? My train gets in at 19:07

On my way and spreading the love @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Final shout out for my Soundscape workshop @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social this Sunday- and a glimpse at the books we'll be working from 😀 www.vervepoetryfestival.com/2025-events/...

In-person workshops at the festival will be repeated online creating a spring workshop series accessible for anyone, everywhere - there’s really no limit, unless you live on the moon!

This Saturday I'll be with @magmapoetry.bsky.social at @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social talking about my role as Reviews Editor. Any questions? www.vervepoetryfestival.com/2025-events/...

Pamphlet Hour kicks off Fri night at #VERVE25 7PM with Laurie Bolger, Troy Cabida, Betty Doyle & Ellora Sutton, hosted by Sabeen Chaudhry. Friday Night Headliners follows at 8:30 Dzifa Benson, Anthony Joseph & Richard Scott, hosted by Helen Bowell. www.vervepoetryfestival.com/post/friday-line-up

Whether you're a Gal, Pal, or Valentine, ome join me for an amazing afternoon of soundscaping @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social Sunday 16th Feb- all details and ticket info below: www.vervepoetryfestival.com/2025-events/... @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @magmapoetry.bsky.social

A little light for you this morning. Come join me @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social Saturday 15th February for Magma Matters @magmapoetry.bsky.social and for my Soundscape workshop Sunday 16th February @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social //vimeo.com/groups/304960/videos/838234572

Painting licence secured for my @theemmapress.bsky.social pamphlet, Masters!

A little update from @hollyannepoet.bsky.social and me over at @atriumpoetry.bsky.social:

We're so pleased to launching @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social at WaterstonesMCR with #NeilCampbell 6 Feb, discussing fab short story collections, #YourSonsAndYourDaughtersAreBeyond & #SayingDirtyThingsInRegionalAccents, exploring the everyday & the supernatural www.waterstones.com/events/in-co...

LAST CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS! www.vervepoetryfestival.com/volunteer

Beast is only three months away! Published @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 24 April, can be preordered from many bookshops now