TRY TO FIND ME the third collection by Tessa Foley Is available to buy from @livecanon.bsky.social #poetry #poetrybook www.livecanon.co.uk/store/produc...

Our Spring Term is now live & we’ve got a whole host of brilliant tutors & poetry courses lined up, so be sure to book promptly to avoid disappointment. Our handy Quick Course Guide is linked in bio, where you’ll find everything you’ll need to know… poetryschool.com/new-courses/... 🪻🌜

Starts tonight. Let’s go! See you at Diane Seuss, Luke Kennard and Mona Arshi at 8.30pm? (Also live-streamed if you’d like to watch with wine and takeout) #winchesterpoetry www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on

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I submitted my PhD thesis on Monday 6th October 2025 after nine years (part-time). I’ve kept going through pregnancy, raising my son, the covid pandemic, and ill health. In the photo, I’m about to return my library books. Joy has re-entered my life!

Stopping in to Mrs Lofthouse’s Emporium to sign some copies of The Ghost Lake. Such a thrill.

Just a reminder that the Cafe Writers International poetry competition is open. Our wonderful (sole) judge this year is Jessica Mookherjee. Top prize is £1000 www.cafewriters.co.uk/home/poetry-...

Very sad to hear Tony Harrison has died. What a wonderful poet he was: the School of Eloquence, V, ‘A Kumquat for John Keats’… I met him once too when I was in my twenties, and he was very kind about my terza rima.

Just realised it’s #negroniweek so sharing again. #livesofthefemalepoets is now out! Cheers!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bite-the-d... Hope to see some of you at the Winchester Poetry Festival on Saturday 11th October 2025.

Just received my teaching texts for the Creative Writing module Write after Reading that I’ll be teaching at the University of Exeter this term. Hoping that reading across genres will inspire my own short stories / novella. And poems about unexpected subjects.

Congratulations to all the writers shortlisted for the 2025 @cwfcreatives.bsky.social Short Story Prize! We're especially stoked that Dushi Rasiah – whose short story 'Ripening' was shortlisted for the 2023 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize – is featured in this impressive list!

Dis Poetry: A tribute to Benjamin Zephaniah will be held in Bristol at @lyrafest.com on 27 April, 6.30pm (in person & online). Dis Poetry: Selected Poems & Lyrics, bringing together Benjamin Zephaniah's poetry for adults, is published by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social tomorrow, Tuesday 15 April.

Absolutely love the narrator in this book, I want to go to for coffee with them, criticise politicians with them, discuss the smell of Mooncup as ‘a meat vermouth’ - I devoured this book, and I’ve found my favourite protagonist in any book. @poetclare.bsky.social @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social

Feature in the London Evening Standard on yesterday's inaugural #BenjaminZephaniahDay festival at Brunel University. Benjamin Zephaniah's poetry for adults has been brought together in Dis Poetry: Selected Poems & Lyrics, out from Bloodaxe on Tuesday 15 April. www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/cele...

It's publication day of my new novel - The Best of Everything! Here I am telling you a little bit about it!

Watch this space! Our first call for poetry chapbook submissions from UK authors is coming soon!

“I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.” ― Samuel Beckett

We’re really looking forward to this event on Thursday (10th April) celebrating publication of ‘Cling Film’ and ‘Beyond/Tu Hwnt’ @lucentdreaming.bsky.social. Remember to RSVP for free here if you’re hoping to join us forms.gle/y5yTk5YpC7D1...

🎉 We’re thrilled to announce that PERFECTION by Vincenzo Latronico, tr. Sophie Hughes, has been shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize. 🎉 Read more about the full shortlist here: thebookerprizes.com/the-internat... @thebookerprizes.bsky.social #internationalbookerprize2025

Join us in two weeks for our next online event! We'll be launching titles by Pascale Petit and Vidyan Ravinthiran, and by the late and much missed Benjamin Zephaniah. Tues 22 April, 7pm BST Watch live or later on YouTube shorturl.at/k3Q2e @pascalepetit.bsky.social @poems-not-opinions.bsky.social

✍️ #NaPoWriMo is here with the challenge to write a poem a day! Throughout April, The Poetry Society will be featuring poetry writing prompts created by poets that we've worked with recently through competitions, publications and projects. (...)

April is #NaPoWriMo and we're offering 20% off all our #poetry writing handbooks to help your writing month take shape. Use the code WRITING at the checkout and get yourself ready to write with the help of all these packed guides. ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Writi...

'The sort of matrix that we’re in right now is our metaphor for time, and in a lot of places in my poetry I think I’m calling attention to the absurdity of it, or the pathos of it.' Read an interview with John Ashbery, originally published in 1992: oxfordpoetry.substack.com/p/interview-...

Today’s reprint: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/drive-...

And now this stride into our solitude, A swallow-fall and rise of one plain line, A giant step for ever to include All our dear landscape in a new design. Bridge For The Living (1975)

Coming soon: Wales As Is – a new collection of work by photographer David Hurn – offers a meditation on the national character of Britain’s smallest country with accompanying essay by Richard King. Pre-order via our website www.serenbooks.com/book/wales-a...

“I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.” ― William Trevor

Congratulations to Anthony V. Capildeo, who has been named the winner in the poetry category of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature with their collection Polkadot Wounds! Well done to Anthony, and the other category winners! 🎉 www.carcanet.co.uk/anthony-v-ca...

📢Announcing a new webinar series on Poetry Technique led by Erica Hesketh, Tamar Yoseloff and @betarish.bsky.social Sign up for the 3 sessions for just £45 June 9th, 16th & 23rd, 7-8pm BST 🎞️Recordings sent in case you miss them live Full details & booking: eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-tec...

Some reading in preparation for our next podcast episode - the recording will take place in situ on the foreshore by the Humber Bridge next weekend. Please send kind thoughts for good weather and light winds.

Thank you Poetry Review @poetrysociety.bsky.social and Erica Hesketh for reviewing The Tattoo Collector by @timtimtmi.bsky.social in the latest Issue, for finding these poems "exhilarating reading". poetrysociety.org.uk/publications... ninearchespress.com/publications...

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward. Seamus Heaney

‘What power does a child have? You could refuse your food or try to run away or ­ escape into your imagination. You could take out your unhappiness on the smaller ones or on yourself. The institution was home, but it wasn’t.’ Mary Hannity on Victorian social care: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Pat Ingoldsby's last poem. (The poem and its story are shared on his FB page by Vivienne).

Birding by Rose Ruane (@regretteruane.bsky.social) arrived today. I’m writing about it now having read it in a single sitting. It’s a marvel. From the opening poetic evocation of a faded out-of-season seaside town to the poignant, uncertain ending, every page contains writing of the highest quality.

Saturday: ✨ Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: Laurie Bolger (9:30) ✨ The Sonnet: Inside & Outside Form: Anthony Joseph (10) ✨ Ancestry, Intertextuality & Ghosts: Richard Scott (12) ✨ After Poems: Theresa Lola (12:30) ✨ Finding Mary: Irish Ancestry – Helen Calcutt (2:30) ✨ The Swerve: Ruth Padel (3)

✨WORKSHOPS NEXT WEEK ✨ ✨Extending the Metaphor in Poems with Vicky Morris Mon 10 Mar 2025 6:30 PM ✨Writing Music with Laurie Bolger Tue 11 Mar 2025 11:00 AM ✨Writing poems with Helen Mort Wed 12 Mar 2025 11:00 AM Sign up here: buff.ly/VRhKeeN

Delivering my interactive talk on Edward Thomas’s ‘clear eye’: Nature and Writing at the University of Exeter conference, Penryn, on 21st March 2025. Thanks to Peter McAllister and Carrie Etter.

After exchanging a few #poetry thoughts with @suzanneconwaypoet.bsky.social I ended up going down a rabbit hole that ended up with the vision of Rupert Brooke swimming in the nude. Thats next Sunday's Sixty Odd Poems article written then

On Sat 22nd March 2025, I’ll be giving an interactive talk on Edward Thomas’s ‘clear eye’: Nature & Writing, inspired by his poem ‘Digging’. Join me at the University of Exeter (Penryn) conference, The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Reimagining Ecologies. More here: sites.exeter.ac.uk/reimagininge...

We are open to submissions for a new anthology of writing inspired by the films of Laurel and Hardy. The anthology is entitled Pardon Me, My Ear is Full of Milk and will be edited by Aaron Kent (The Working Classic) and Simon Barraclough (Divine Hours). www.brokensleepbooks.com/anthology-su...

I love this quiet little poem so much:

With @helendewbery.bsky.social, I've created my first (eco)poetry film, and its first screening will be in Bristol's English Department taster talk series 1-2 p.m. Wednesday in Arts Complex H.01. @uobrisceh.bsky.social @noreenmasud.bsky.social

‘The image of the artist at work runs through Picasso’s oeuvre, and the artist is always himself. Even when it is someone else – Raphael, say, with his baker’s daughter – it is also him.’ Francis Gooding on Picasso’s prints, now on display at the British Museum: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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