SUBMISSIONS CALL. Our next titles in the 10 Poets series are '... Do Their Bit for the Secret Service' and '... Lose Themselves in the Land of the Fae'. We're looking for original, weird and imaginative poems to fill these books! sidekickbooks.com/booklab/subm...

This is really an excuse to repeat a pet factoid from the BBC: 'The Lindisfarne Gospels weighs 8.7kg or as much as an adult badger'. I have my criticisms of the BBC, I'm right behind the drive to ditch Imperial and metric in favour of adult badgers as units of weight measurement.

Poem of the Week: from Piers Plowman by William Langland poemsontheunderground.org/from-piers-p...

January 2026 Celebrating 40 Years of Poems on the Underground 1986-2026 This month our website features poems from the first year of Poems on the Underground poemsontheunderground.org/this-months-... Poem of the Week January 1st Up in the Morning Early by Robert Burns

2016 by Sarah Hesketh was named in the Guardian as a Poetry Book of the Year. Booksellers ordering in from Gardners are told “Publisher out of Stock”. The book's in stock both at the distributor and here, within arm’s reach – order from the CB editions website and I’ll post within 24 hours.

Y’all, I am so excited to bring you my new translation of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain soon. After years of work (beginning in 2019!), I have finally completed the translation, written my preface, and even finished translating the French dialogues for the appendix. 1/2

The ecstatic swoon As Stendhal knew, the reason for art is to make you feel. Do not try to grasp the artwork: allow it to grasp you instead by Robert D Zaretsky aeon.co/essays/what-... #books #art #literature

My favourite movie line. Thank you Rob Reiner.

Up now on @literaryhub.bsky.social; an in-depth interview with small press publishers on what they do and how they do it, how they differ from commercial publishing in content & form, on funding, their impact on literary communities, & some excellent book recommends🎄 lithub.com/life-giving-...

i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed” basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again. i feel that with my dad.

Giving a lecture on the drafts of The Waste Land tomorrow and all the strange and haunting lines that Eliot and Pound decided to cut

We're thrilled to announce the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a US poet aged 40 or older for their first or second poetry collection. In addition to publication by Graywolf, the awardee will receive $10,000 from the Poetry Foundation. www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/poetr...

📚 A Letter to the Dead by Lynette Roberts, hosted by Francesca Brooks - Tuesday 25 November, 7pm. This new edition contains sixty-five unpublished poems by Roberts, and a new epilogue highlighting her importance to our understanding of twentieth-century poetry. www.carcanet.co.uk/events/a-let...

New poetry magazine just dropped from a former student of mine - open to submissions & free if you’re interested www.stoatmagazine.co.uk

'Pacific Swift' by @stoneandthestar.bsky.social badlilies.uk/clarissa-aykroyd-1

father has passed away— even so the morning star on the frosty pine Sugita Hisajo (1890-1946) from Lips Licked Clean Translated by Alice Wanderer #haiku #poetry winter #kigo frost #micropoetry

I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.

I'm delighted that my poem 'Pacific Swift' appears in this new issue of @BadLilies. It's one of a number of glimmers of hope in what has been a dark time for me creatively & otherwise. This poem is a memory of spending a week on a schooner off Vancouver Island when I was 14.

OUT NOW. Issue Twenty-Two: 'Ghost Ship'. badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-two

Simon, you crazy diamond: Armitage poem marks 50 years of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here

“Oh, only when my face is streaming toward you does it cease being on exhibit, becomes one with yours and darkly goes on and on into your impregnable heart…” —To Lou Andreas-Salomé, Rilke; tr. Franz Wright

Some of Neil Finn’s songwriting tips apply to writing poems too

It's almost here! Join us for #smallpublishersfair25: 66 UK and international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks. Friday 24 & Saturday 25 October (11am-7pm) FREE, all welcome Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (Holborn tube) Further details: smallpublishersfair.co.uk

Was chatting to someone about that old familiar piece of workshop feedback 'do you need the first/last line' and tonight I came across this from 'The Fragment' (Electric Light) #poetry #quoteoftheday #amwriting

Got a not-entirely-serious essay in @nytimes.com today, about the plague of weird foreign names in spy novels. Amazing illustration www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/o...

Good afternoon and Happy National Poetry Day! This is the very first post from Poets for the Planet here on Bluesky. We are very glad to be here. To start us off here's Wendell Berry's classic, The Peace of Wild Things #nationalpoetryday #poetrysky www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ewB...

For #nationalpoetryday ‘Autumn Uprising’ - on the subject of #play - this year’s theme, published in @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 🐻 🧍‍♀️ 🐝 🤠 🍂 Christmas-Winter 4 #toystory #wreckitralph #wreckitralph2 #writing #childhood #autumn

On National Poetry Day the theme is 'Play' so I'd like to recommend Hit Points by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social , an anthology of poems about video games. My poem about Ultima IV is one of them. share.google/rOTLs3R7qnQ6...

Saw a post about someone being concerned that a friend was using ChatGPT for personal advice & wondering how to talk to them about it. I have a feeling plenty of people I know are using ChatGPT in many irresponsible ways (for factual info, as a counselor) & almost don't even want to know.

Reminder we will be launching Bloodaxe’s September books on Tuesday- really looking forward to it

Poets, UK or otherwise: do you think the trend of the past decade for poetry books to almost *have* to be heavily thematic/conceptual/telling a story is declining a bit, or is it as strong as ever?

This gash is deep, I warm it with my last blood. Feel my side It is far truer Than poems. - Poem of the End, Marina Tsvetaeva, Tr. Nina Kossman

Where Have All the Great Poets Gone? My North Sea Poets substack... open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

"Do maintain a robust social media presence; aim to post between 1 and 1,000 times a year." Lara Vergnaud tells it like it is wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

I ask myself whether it was the temper of their souls or the sympathy of their imagination that made them so wonderful, so worthy of my undying regard. -Joseph Conrad, 'The Shadow-Line'

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @garybarwin.bsky.social @aempoet.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @kathrynanna.bsky.social @edmundprestwich.bsky.social @mariapopova.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/07/poet...

Most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life. - #Rilke

‘Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.’ – Seamus Heaney writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

flock and roll

The word "dystopian" is overused these days, but...it is.

Langston Hughes

Paul Celan,Timestead; tr. Pierre Joris

High fashion has met high art at the Louvre for the first time – and the results are so eye-popping, @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social‬ hardly knows where to look

Rest in peace Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

When I think about #glory, I think about God – about the miracle of daybreak. On which basis, this poem probably qualifies for this week's #poemsabout with @alanparry83.bsky.social from @brokenspinearts.bsky.social.

"To our great disappointment, that list recommended books that do not exist"

We’re sorry to hear that Alice Notley has just died, in Paris, aged 79.

Paul Durcan, one of Ireland's most renowned contemporary poets, has died at the age of 80

From Paul's translation.