Our latest issue, Wasafiri 124: Presencia y Resistencia - British Latinx Writing & Art is now available to read for our digital subscribers and those with access to Taylor & Francis 💻 If you’re unable to access Wasafiri digitally, preorder the print issue: buff.ly/OWMJ4pb

Un’antologia curata da Alessandro Brusa e Sonia Caporossi che esplora linguaggi, corpi e spazi della poesia queer italiana contemporanea. Un percorso critico e poetico che indaga estetiche, sociologia della letteratura e nuove forme di soggettività.

Did a little translating! @betarish.bsky.social now speaks Italian on the Atelier Poesia website atelierpoesia.it/rishi-dastid... Big thanks to @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social and Offord Road Books for their generous concession. #poetry #translation #traduzione

Drum roll please for a cover reveal! HOMOGRAPHY is the third #poetry collection from @nathanevansarts and edited by Joelle Taylor. This #bold publication will be out to celebrate #LGBTQIA+HistoryMonth2026. Please do reserve your copy here: bit.ly/3WrHDXe

🔹 Issue 4 🔹 of Atelier International, the multilingual poetry magazine I co-edited with Francesca Benocci, is out now! ✨ Featuring new international poetry, translations, interviews & essays. 📖 Free to download: atelierpoesia.it/atelier-inte... 💙 #poetry #translation #multilingualism

📚 Week 1 of teaching officially done! ✅ ⏳ How is it another new academic year already? 😵‍💫 #translation #xl8 #academia

Our translation grants – #PENTranslates, including PEN Translates x SALT, and #PENPresents: Brazil – are NOW OPEN for submissions! Find out more, apply & share ⤵️ www.englishpen.org/translation/...

Attended yesterday’s International Translation Day event by @englishpen.bsky.social, @alcs.co.uk & @poetrytranslation.bsky.social The most poignant visual: this empty chair on stage, symbolising all the writers who have been imprisoned, detained, or killed for their expression or belief #ITD25

This International Translation Day, we're thrilled to announce two events with Anton Hur in London! Anton will deliver a workshop and lecture on translation, Korean literature, literary prize culture, and more. Click here for full details and registration: buff.ly/uQNOJRb

On tonight’s menu… Happy International Translation Day #ITD

'This was a day of revelations: bleed with me until the tenderness of a pause smoulders from within' iambapoet.com/wave/23-pier...

I have new poems OUT on iamb! 🥳 After a long hiatus, you can read me again 🫣 - if you’re that way inclined - and once again wonder “what is WRONG with this guy?!” Special thanks to @markantonyowen.com for the love and support. Go read and listen to the poems NOW! #poetry #iamb #poetrylovers

Autumn again. Trees put on their prettiest frocks, then get more naked day by day. Everything now is poetry – and it comes in waves. Leave the chilly air outside. Light a fire, make hot chocolate. Let senses and soul dive beneath @iambapoet.com's newest wave. www.iambapoet.com/wave/23

Un viaggio nel mito di Pier Vittorio Tondelli: Codice Tondelli di Giulio Milani intreccia memorie, testimonianze e analisi su vita, opere e desiderio.

✨COVER REVEAL✨ My 1st co-edited multilingual poetry magazine, coming soon… www.instagram.com/atelier.intl...

BREAKING NEWS Anthropic agree to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems. This is the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The settlement is still subject to the judge's approval. 🧵 authorsguild.org/news/what-au...

Submissions are now open for the Eric Gregory Awards, for a collection by poets under the age of 30. The Eric Gregory Awards were founded in 1960 by the late Dr Eric Gregory for the encouragement of young poets. 🧵

Tell me you’re in Italy in August without telling me etc. 🌞

International Translation Day returns on 30 September. Get in! #ITD2025

New UK magazine alert! TRANSLATOR looks incredible: "reportage translated from the best long-form media outlets around the world" Pre-order Issue 1, released this Thurs! translatormag.co/products/iss...

💫 THE POETRY IN TRANSLATION PRIZE IS NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS 💫 More information here: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/prizes/the-p...

We are now open for general submissions. Submit translations of poems from any language into English. Deadline: 15 August 2025. modernpoetryintranslation.submittable.com/submit/10070...

On the last day of Pride Month, please enjoy me, my book and my fellow authors in the Cambridge Elements series writing about language, gender and sexuality 🌈👅🍆

✨UK AIDS Memorial Quilt✨ A somber visit to the impressive Memorial Quilt. Each panel, a quiet testament to lives lost. Never forgotten. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 #AIDSMemorialQuilt #RememberTheirNames #HIVAwareness #LGBTHistory

Catching up on all the reading and writing I've missed lately, and THIS is such a must read by @sawadhussain.bsky.social in @wasafirimag.bsky.social:

Check out our full Oxford Translation Day Programme for June 14! You can find more details or and the registration links for all the events at: shorturl.at/zbyby

Happy Pride “munth”

More poetry translation gorgeousness from me to you: Lisa Kelly, ‘Ø’, translated into Italian for Atelier Poesia. Huge thanks to @lisadmkelly.bsky.social and @carcanet.bsky.social for making this happen 💚🤍❤️ atelierpoesia.it/lisa-kelly-a... #xl8 #translation #contemporarypoetry #italian

Sooo… Atelier International, the multilingual poetry journal I’m co-editing, is now LIVE on Instagram, if you’re that way inclined! Like, dislike, follow, unfollow: 🔹 www.instagram.com/atelier.intl... 🔹

Who will I see in Mancs tomorrow 25 April for the Translation and Language Education in the Age of AI conference? 🙋🏽‍♂️ Looking forward to sharing with you our latest insights on ethics and AI from a student perspective with my mighty colleague @pjfreeth.bsky.social 🤖 ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/trans...

There’s still time to send us your work for the newly revamped Atelier International—the multilingual poetry magazine born from Italy’s prestigious poetry outlet, Atelier. I’m proud to be taking the helm as its next editor! atelierpoesia.it/linee-guida-... #poetry #contemporarypoetry

APTIS25 Online Conference at the UCL Centre for Translation Studies (3–4 November 2025) “Better together: how can industry and academia collaborate to empower future language professionals?” Call for Contributions is now open until 16 June. blogs.ucl.ac.uk/aptis25ucl @centras-ucl.bsky.social

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS! Psychology & Sexuality is putting together a special issue on Sexual Subcultures. You can read the call below. Deadline for abstracts is 2nd June. think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

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After a brief hiatus, I’m BACK with some poetry translations I worked on: Keith Jarrett’s “the granular” is now available in Italian on Atelier 💚🤍❤️ #poetry #translation atelierpoesia.it/keith-jarret...

🚨NEW 🚨 On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful. Join us in writing a complaint to Ofcom to force them to take action 👇 t.co/3b5UH9zuOR

Hello! We’re here to post about queer poems and our little poetry books - hopefully without the toxicity of other places. 🥰

Riot Act @21Soho is a celebration of queer activism, offering a stirring mix of laughter, inspiration, and poignancy. Presented by the Mulwade Foundation. 🎟 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mulwade-pr... The show delves into six decades of LGBTQ+ history. www.qxmagazine.com/event/riot-a...

Polari Salon Sweatbox Sauna The most unusual literary event I’ve ever been to — a gay sauna bar area — but Bette Midler would be proud (and Barry Manilow a little sheepish) as Jo Blake can testify under oath. But a wonderful array of work was shared — from sexy to unsettling, secret & sleazy

My Polari debut at Sweatbox Soho✨🌈🧖🏼‍♂️ Grateful to @paulburston.bsky.social for the opportunity to perform in the great company of Neil Bartlett, @kostyatsolakis.bsky.social and Alexis Gregory. What a treat!

Have you got your ticket yet? 🧖🏼‍♂️

Research call-out! This trans-led PhD project explores the role food has in the lives of trans people in London. The project explores how trans people navigate the complexity of their food lives. To register interest or for more information contact Cole (they/he) at: [email protected]

✨NEW 3-day intensive #translation course, 'Translators as gender-responsive agents', coming to London Met Uni in Jan '25. 🎫 tinyurl.com/ekddv5dv #xl8 #tn9 #gender #sexuality #londonmet

starter pack of academic imposters and it's just you

Explored this new gem of a café today, really cool place for queer creatives, very central and ideal when you don’t want to shout to be heard #BoysBoysBoys boysboysboys.org/pages/boys-b...

Reaching out and connecting: #PoetsOnBluesky #AcademicSky #TranslatorsOnBluesky #HouseMusic

The house rules

It all feels like early Threads days on here atm. How long until someone screws it up for us all?

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Hey butterfly people 🦋, here’s me according to chatGPT: 🔹’best described as “Diana Ross at summits”—a theme which appears in his poem about love, loss and possibly tortoises’ 🔹’brings an almost elusive blend of modern existential confusion and vague sadness’ 🔹’makes the serious, seriously amusing’