One of my favourite poets discussing another of my favourite poets.

No sales in 10 days, which makes this a particularly good day to buy a book from us

NEW Mini-Documentary: A Glimpse at the Legendary Dr. Mahmoud El-Kati As the Trump administration is attempting to erase Black history and silence educators, this documentary brings to life the importance of understanding the past, preserving Black history, and creating human rights for all. 🧵

Bore da - good morning

Our Vice President @lizzie4.bsky.social is one of over 20 pro-Palestine activists in Scotland arrested under the Terrorism Act since the proscription of Palestine Action. Scottish PEN stands in solidarity with Lizzie, her comrades, & condemns the proscription. www.theferret.scot/palestine-pr...

V pleased to have a review of the new Collected Mary Ellen Solt in the current PN Review @carcanet.bsky.social. www.pnreview.co.uk/current-issue

Hubris

When does a poem become more than art? Frontline workers writing pandemic haiku. Layli Long Soldier rewriting congressional resolutions. YOUR HISTORICAL LOVELINESS asks what happens when poetry stops being about witness and becomes action itself. press.umich.edu/Books/Y/Your...

What a time to be alive

Anybody have a more recent rendering of the Duino Elegies than the two copies I have? Looking for the end of the Ninth Elegy, only... apparently a fragment was added. Help! Twitter used to be great for this, would appreciate it. English or German fine, 80s+. #Rilke #DuinoElegies

: for it makes a great difference whether things happen because of one another, or only after one another That’s spinning my bobbin first thing in the morning. ~ Aristotle’s Poetics, translated by Stephen Halliwell. (Book got wet whilst helping a friend carry her injured dog up to the house.)

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Contemplating the 'ritual killing of swords' on the banks of the Leri this morning I had my own reveries on the bending of some offerings to lakes and rivers by people who lived here earlier: Refraction: the sword is bent in order that it may be straight in the under-water realm I like that idea.

Fisher

Sábado 22 novembro em São Paulo www.sympla.com.br/evento/firef...

Carved Roman steps, Machynlleth

The effortlessly cool Alexander Booth sent me the gift 💝 f a hand cut collage. As precise and elegant as his poetry and translations. 🤍✨ thank you. @wordkunst.bsky.social

24hrs in London last Saturday.

I encourage people to listen. Sonic protection. Acoustic healing.

Friends, Tuesday is Election Day in NYC, and it's time to VOTE FOR @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! Here's a thread of why I'm voting for him, along with photos I've taken over the past few months. FIRST, the dude cares. He loves this city and he loves us. And care > punishment, baby.

Absolutely delighted to announce that my translation of Alok Dhanwa's cult Hindi poetry collection The World is Made Up Every Day is now available worldwide. Preorder now on Amazon or directly on University of Chicago Press. Published by Seagull Books. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Welcome November guest editor - C.C. O’HANLON!!! @ccohanlon.bsky.social JOURNEYS Physical, Psychological, and Imaginary, embracing words and images, in all forms, as well as complexity, resisting the superficial, algorithmic narratives of social media. Sendx burninghousepress.com/2025/11/01/n...

Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

Palewell Press book festival in Kensington library ‘Literature in protests, with purpose’

I too detest big translation companies. One of them pitched my own project to me and many have lied about using first language speakers. Interpreting is no better. Legal interpreting used to pay properly 15 years ago until the police in Wales inhoused all the work and offered 15 quid an hour.

Egypt's Grand Museum opens, displaying Tutankhamun tomb in full for first time. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/agnes-martin/untitled-1959

Have begun translating a story on the train (a story within a novel) about a minstrel’s search for a mythical bird that I’ve wanted to translate for ten years. It takes up 39 pages of the book. I’m aiming to edit it down and learn it for a story telling festival next year.

Mining for the moon. Off on the train to overpriced London where is buried the head of mythical Welsh giant. Bendigeidfran. Of Bran, ‘a leader is a bridge’ fame.

Skeletal illustrations supposedly replicating a lost 15th-century manuscript by the wine and women–loving Zen monk Ikkyū. The lively images testify to their maker’s sardonic sense of humor: skeletons dancing, drumming, drinking sake, having sex...

City Lights, a San Francisco Institution founded by the late great Beat Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, has banners posted for this time in history

Obituary: Yvonne Brewster — Pioneer of black British theatre who co-founded Talawa Theatre Company and was also a prolific director and actor, with wide-ranging credits from Radio Jamaica to the National Theatre.

Begins at 27.00 ✊🏽

#digitalcollage #soundsystem #1920s #womenselektas

Mounting a resolute defence against the far right on immigration is necessary but not sufficient. We need aggressively pro-immigration voices - like this - in UK politics. Actively welcoming migrants is morally right and better for everyone. Make that case and put the bigots on the defensive.

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Once we past 2000 letters, I am going to raffle TWO library mystery packs to celebrate. What is in those? Well it's a mystery, hahahahaha. actionnetwork.org/letters/city... [I will have fun putting them together]

Register online to attend this, in 7 hours. Also tonight in UK online : Broken Sleep poetry publishers' readings and launches: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle... The US one will follow the Broken Sleep event, so both are do-able in Europe. Looking foward!

Happy times translating Turkish literature at the Cunda workshop on the island. 2015. Eleven poetry translators around a huge table in an old Ottoman school debating with such racket and intensity that the prose translators upstairs silently hated us. Vive la poesie!

Outside the Human Rights Foundation, Istanbul, 2023

'Come, let us know one-another let's make the whole thing easier. Let's love, and be loved this world is left to no-one.' Yunus Emre, Anatolia, 14th C Yunus Emre once wrote a poem 'dissing' Rumi 😆 something along the lines of 'you can't say that about the apple'.. I'll have to look it up.