Here's a link to my review of Charles Lang's excellent debut collection, 'The Oasis': johnfield.org/2025/12/23/l... @skeinpress.bsky.social #poetry

I was saddened to learn of the recent death of Richard Meier, winner of the inaugural Picador Poetry Prize in 2010. He was the author of three collections - his most recent ‘After the Miracle’ came out this year: happenstancepress.com/index.php/co... A fine man and a fine poet. #Poetry

Review of Richard Scott's That Broke into Shining Crystals up on Poor Rude Lines: johnfield.org/2025/12/17/r... @faberbooks.bsky.social

Today marks 100 years since the first publication of T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Hollow Men’

Follow this link to access the T.S. Eliot Prize resources for Vona Groarke’s Infinity Pool. (Videoed readings to follow): tseliot.com/prize/work/i... @thegallerypress.bsky.social @tseliotprize.bsky.social #poetry #tseliotprize

Some words on Richard Meier's latest collection, 'After the Miracle' (link to my review in the comments) @nellnelson.bsky.social

Today, Sat 25 Oct, 2pm, at London's @southbankcentre.bsky.social: @rachaelboast.bsky.social and poets Lisa Kelly, Karthika Naïr and Daniel Sluman will be celebrating her anthology Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent Poets. In person and livestream tickets available.

Today, Sunday 26 October, 7pm, at London's @southbankcentre.bsky.social: Niall Campbell and Vidyan Ravinthiran will be reading from their shortlisted collections The Island in the Sound and Avidyā at the @forwardprizes.bsky.social Ceremony. In-person and livestream tickets available.

'a deeply moving, relevant, necessary collection of poems that meditates on identity and belonging.' - Rommi Smith, Co-Judge @forwardprizes.bsky.social We're thrilled that Vidyan Ravinthiran's Avidyā is joint winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection. www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

If you've been pondering doing a #PhD on #Preraphaelite literature and/or #Gothic (as Jane Morris clearly is here), do get in touch - at Birmingham City University we have funded studentships for UK applicants in English&Media; more info here www.bcu.ac.uk/research/doc... #phdfunding #doctoralstudy

Gillian Allnutt's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlisted 'Lode' is one belter of a book. Check out the resources on the Prize's website (including my review): tseliot.com/prize/shortl... @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @tseliotprize.bsky.social

Coming up on The Verb: poet Daniel Sluman will be talking to host Ian McMillan about @rachaelboast.bsky.social's anthology Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets. Tune in to BBC Radio 4 at 5.10pm today, 19 October, or listen later. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

We're delighted that Gillian Allnutt has been shortlisted for the 2025 @tseliotprize.bsky.social for her tenth poetry collection Lode. Many congratulations to all ten shortlisted poets. www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

I’ve been reading Bernard O’Donoghue’s The Anchorage: johnfield.org/2025/07/03/b... #poetry @faberbooks.bsky.social

The T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 is open for submissions! Publishers can find out more information and how to submit online now: tseliot.com/prize/open-f...

The T. S. Eliot Foundation is delighted to announce the judges for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025. Michael Hofmann will chair and will be joined on the panel by fellow poets Patience Agbabi and Niall Campbell. Read more now: tseliot.com/prize/catego...

If you've enjoyed this poem from my second full collection, Whatever You Do, Just Don't, please do consider getting hold of the book itself. Just drop me a DM and I’ll sort out a signed copy for you! No problem to ship to the U.S., U.K., Canada or mainland Europe…

I’ve been reading Camille Ralphs’ exquisitely wrought, breathtakingly beautiful ‘After You Were, I Am’: johnfield.org/2025/02/21/c... @faberbooks.bsky.social #poetry #poems

Rooting through the shelves for poetry to punctuate a concert, I started rereading Bunyan’s ‘Divine Emblems’ (1724), and remembering my beloved great aunt, Monica. #poetry

Absurdly excited and moved to hold a copy of George Herbert's 'The Temple', printed in 1633. (The book beneath it is a 1611 Bible).

Hi everybody. We're a Madrid, Spain, based literary magazine. We publish in print and online. Right now Issue 2 is free to read and download from www.themadridreview.com Writers, poets, readers, artists: follow us and we'll follow you. Nice to be here! #litmag #literature #writers #poets #poetry

'Speaking to the ghost of love through the language of immediacy': @poetrysociety.bsky.social's Young Critic, Sylvie Jane Lewis, explores Helen Farish's The Penny Dropping: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jye... #TSEliots #poetry @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Last call for this weekend's workshop - having been prepping the handouts and finalising the poem choices, I can say I think it is going to be EPIC. Join us if you can, even just for one morning. This is POETRY.

Watch Joe Wright's review of @hannahcopley.bsky.social's TS Eliot Prize shortlisted 'Lapwing' www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bGV.... It is worth every minute of your time. #poetry #TSEliots @poetrysociety.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social

‘To Mann the poem, like the body, is a site of transformative potential where language behaves in lateral and magical ways.’ dominicleonard.bsky.social on Eleanor Among the Saints by revrachelmann.bsky.social, for thelondonmagazine.bsky.social: thelondonmagazine.org/review-song-...

Do check out Priyanka Moorjani's enriching reading of Raymond Antrobus's TS Eliot Prize shortlisted 'Signs, Music' www.youtube.com/watch?v=f984... Her website is here: poetpri.com #poetry #TSEliots @picadorbooks.bsky.social

Criticism that's critical is worth reading. Enjoyed this from the excellent @dominicleonard.bsky.social - thelondonmagazine.org/review-song-...

I’m a teacher, writer and critic. My blog, Poor Rude Lines, reviews contemporary poetry: johnfield.org I've reviewed the T.S. Eliot Prize short list on behalf of the T.S. Eliot Prize for 10 years. I've also written for the Forward Foundation and the Aldeburgh International Poetry Festival.

'Top Doll', @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social's T.S. Eliot Prize short-listed novel-in-verse – a bravura, polyphonic exploration of obsession, mortality and an unflinching look at the history of slavery in America. My review: tseliot.com/prize/the-t-... #poetry #TSEliots

@nemoloris.bsky.social finds Gboyega Odubanjo's Adam ‘bleakly brilliant’ in the TLS: www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat... #poetry #tseliots

'Rhizodont', Katrina Porteous' T.S. Eliot Prize short-listed fourth collection – a thrilling meeting of language and ideas, a blurring of the boundary between humanity and machine, between planet and technology. My review: tseliot.com/prize/the-t-.... @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social #poetry #TSEliots

'Scattered Snows, to the North', Carl Phillips' T.S. Eliot Prize short-listed 17th collection – reflective but resisting the temptation to judge, or to exact retribution. My review: tseliot.com/prize/the-t-.... @carcanet.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social #poetry #TSEliots

People, we need to talk about the poet @roguestrands – in particular, his collection, 'The Knives of Villalejo' (titular poem here featured). Matthew's writing is a beauty of brevity and brilliance. Imagery is as sharp as the knives of the title and each poem quietly captivates.

writers! creatives! got an idea for 2025 that needs audiences, readers, partners, funding? i can help with that ... nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/mento....

'Adam', Gboyega Odubanjo's T.S. Eliot Prize short-listed and posthumously published collection – a monumental work which acknowledges the darkness but celebrates life's dignity and sanctity. My review: tseliot.com/prize/the-t-.... @faberbooks.bsky.social #poetry #TSEliots

'Eleanor Among the Saints', @revrachelmann.bsky.social's T.S. Eliot Prize short-listed second collection doesn't shy away from struggle, but it offers consolation too. My review for the T.S. Eliot Prize: tseliot.com/prize/the-t-.... @carcanet.bsky.social #poetry #TSEliots

T. S. Eliot died on this day in 1965. This photograph showing his empty desk was taken at the Faber office on Russell Square the day after Eliot's death.

A poem for the cold snap - Scarlett Timlett-Sheehan's 'recipe for ending winter' was a winning poem in the #FoyleYoungPoets of the Year Award 2022. Read the full poem at poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/recipe-for-ending-winter/ Illustration by Jane Burkowski.

'High Jump as Icarus Story', @gphibbett.bsky.social's T.S. Eliot Prize short-listed debut collection: dazzling and sobering, it pulses with life. My review for the T.S. Eliot Prize: tseliot.com/prize/the-t-.... @bansheepress.bsky.social #poetry #TSEliots

Nine days till my annual workshop on the whole TS Eliot Prize shortlist: 2 mornings, one huge poetry energy shot! We meet on Zoom; no need to have read any of the books, I take care of that bit. You just bring your own coffee & croissants. katyevansbush.com www.tickettailor.com/events/katye...

'Fierce Elegy', Peter Gizzi's T.S. Eliot Prize short-listed 10th collection: a world of arresting beauty and a palpable sense of consolation. My review for the T.S. Eliot Prize: tseliot.com/prize/the-t-.... @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @weslpress.bsky.social #poetry #TSEliots

'The Penny Dropping', Helen Farish's T.S. Eliot Prize short-listed fourth collection: an elegiac, stoical look at memory's distorting lens. My review for the T.S. Eliot Prize: tseliot.com/prize/the-t-.... @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social #poetry #TSEliots

The school house weather vane in Rougham, Norfolk: a birch rod.

'Lapwing', Hannah Copley's T.S. Eliot Prize short-listed second collection, is a sombre skein of poems, an exploration of abandonment and adversity. My review for the T.S. Eliot Prize is here: tseliot.com/prize/the-t-.... #poetry #TSEliots

Review of Penny Boxall's 'The Curiosities' (New Walk Editions) now up on Poor Rude Lines: johnfield.org/2024/12/30/p... @rorywaterman.bsky.social

'Signs, Music', Raymond Antrobus' latest poetry collection, is an exquisite balance of anxiety and optimism. My review for the T.S. Eliot Prize is here: tseliot.com/prize/the-t-... #poetry #TSEliots

I am enjoying Penny Boxall's latest pamphlet, 'The Curiosities', from New Walk Editions - tinyurl.com/5n6cjkmk @rorywaterman.bsky.social

Review of Fiona Moore's Okapi (Blue Diode Publishing) now up on Poor Rude Lines: johnfield.org/2024/12/17/f...