This is such a perceptive and thought-provoking close reading!

The "Bookish Beck" blog likes "Dirt Rich" - you might like it too...

"Grief wrongs us so". Poem for a Sunday, by Douglas Dunn.

Theo Dorgan here saying something really valuable and true...

From Graeme Richardson's recently published book Dirt Rich.

Good news!

Dumped on Valentine's? Read all about heartbreak in my sexy new book www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page...

Beautiful painstaking poems!

A love poem for Valentine's Day from my new book, "Dirt Rich"

This is a lovely thing - from @rorywaterman.bsky.social in the latest terrific @badlilies.bsky.social

Some key topics covered in @fortrenn.bsky.social's 1949 Gaelic phrasebook ✅️ dirty forrin sandwiches ✅️ the unhelpfulness of moccasins ✅️ gruel/butter etiquette ✅️ gurnet v. dogfish

Yeats on Synge, 1909. Astonishingly powerful.

Seems legit

My new book, exploring folk tales in Lincolnshire, is now available for pre-order! Publication: April 2026. fiveleaves.co.uk/product/devi...

I wrote about Patience Strong, almost certainly the best-selling English poet of the twentieth century, who wrote six poems a week for the Daily Mirror (all on a Monday morning) as well as a hit song, greeting cards and calendars, and whose print runs were in the 100,000s

I've been reading & rereading @ravoon.bsky.social's debut Dirt Rich the last couple of weeks. It's the best new collection I've read in a very long time. It reclaims the techniques of Auden and MacNeice for the 21st century, while mining layers of memory – personal. familial, social – …

OCEAN'S FOUR: merely a hop, skip and a lengthy jump away from Leith's Ocean Terminal. Not a heist but a quest, or maybe even a bris (ouch, at my age). Yes, it is the Edinburgh launch for my debut collection, Little Griefs, out next month! www.eventbrite.com/e/little-gri...

Our co-florist @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social has written a guest post for @northseapoets.bsky.social on Auden and 'Imaginary Friends' northseapoets.substack.com/p/audens-ima...

I posted elsewhere about a lady in one of my Leeds Irish Health and Homes workshops who wrote 'I've had dementia / for as long as I can remember'. It came back to me reading @ravoon.bsky.social's tremendous debut 'Dirt Rich', full of technically brilliant, emotionally-devastating work like this:

I should point out that not all the poems in my book are this rude

A last call for this! Do sign up.

Join us for an evening of conversation and music with Neil Hegarty and Iarla Ó Lionáird to celebrate the publication of Nicholas Allen’s Late Heaney. 📅 Saturday 28th February ⏰ 7.30pm 🎟️£15 Secure your tickets here > tinyurl.com/4k4e7avx @neilhegarty.bsky.social @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social

Thanks @poetrysociety.org.uk for the new issue of Poetry Review. Featuring a fabulous new poem by @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social

This - gulp - is in the paper on Sunday - I'm very grateful to the editors - www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Thanks to @andotherpoems.bsky.social for publishing this late last year - sharing in time for tomorrow’s hopefully less intense moon!

I love this B.H. Fairchild poem so much.

I'm thrilled with this review by Harry Speirs - really perceptive and insightful - www.indiependent.co.uk/poetry-revie...

Peter McDonald's review of Geoffrey Hill's Collected Poems in a 1987 issue of North Magazine.

This - gulp - is in the paper on Sunday - I'm very grateful to the editors - www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Outraged by the first sentence here and the author's ignorance of @steveeely.bsky.social www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/176...

I almost appreciate how Trump has exposed how vacant every single high profile conservative belief was: free speech, states’ rights, letting the market decide, NATO, the right to bear arms, democracy, all of it. It’s been an empty, malicious political project for decades and decades now

Each of the survivors was given a ten-shilling note and a packet of cigarettes

Do join JN-T and me for this Zoom launch. Dress-code: naked from the waist down 👍

Rachel Curzon is consistently good, I think -

Lord help me, I have entered the sonnet discourse—but for a good cause. My latest for @thetls.bsky.social is a review of Paul Muldoon’s wide-ranging SCANTY PLOT OF GROUND: www.the-tls.com/literature/p...

Good piece by Mathew, but I think it's likely JC was right about Barker -

On the universally acclaimed Karen Solie www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Congratulations to Karen Solie on winning the TS Eliot Prize for her most recent collection Wellwater, published by @picadorbooks.bsky.social Karen Solie teaches for half the year at St Andrews University and lives the rest of her time in Canada. Karen is part of @northseapoets.bsky.social group.

...winner of the TS Eliot prize - and I can now complete this old tweet from @nemoloris.bsky.social

Robert Potts, former editor of Poetry Review and a critic who inspired me when I was starting out, has started a Substack about John Berryman’s 77 Dream Songs, after learning them all by heart. I just bought an old copy on eBay to keep to hand as I read along every week substack.com/home/post/p-...

A selection of poems from new books I'm reading, beginning with a beauty by @ravoon.bsky.social someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-39-t...

I have a book out in a couple of months. It's only taken me 50 years to get there. So of course I have been mired in total lethargy as I regard its emergence on the event horizon. Then I fixed a toilet lid yesterday and now I am all POETRY ACTION. #DIYDONTDIE

Lovely interview. Found myself nodding along. I hadn’t understood how ambitious @lukekennard.bsky.social work is. Definitely digging into it this year. open.substack.com/pub/thelittl...

I found this piece fascinating - especially in the links it makes. If you have the spare change, do subscribe to the LRB - www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Here's a thing I wrote for Carcanet about my forthcoming book: featuring toast, marmite, Tom Baker, and taphophobia

Please be there for the online launch! And I welcome being attacked in the Q and A - www.carcanet.co.uk/events/dirt-...

Looking forward to this chat with my very old mucker @ravoon.bsky.social. Come along! We may even reminisce about the *Nineties* -- and, specifically, the time we cornered Paul Muldoon having a quiet pint in a pub...

It's grand here in the snow