John Field | Poor Rude Lines
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I blog about poetry at Poor Rude Lines:
https://johnfield.org
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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.
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I’ve been reading Bernard O’Donoghue’s The Anchorage:
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T. S. Eliot Prize
3 months ago
The T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 is open for submissions! Publishers can find out more information and how to submit online now:
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T. S. Eliot Prize
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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...
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Matthew Stewart
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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…
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I’ve been reading Camille Ralphs’ exquisitely wrought, breathtakingly beautiful ‘After You Were, I Am’:
johnfield.org/2025/02/21/c...
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A Fragile Thing – Camille Ralphs’ After You Were, I Am
‘Easter Wings’ (Photocredit: johnfield1) After a chance remark about George Herbert, the librarian pulled a small volume from the shelf: leatherbound and plain, scruffy but serviceable.…
https://johnfield.org/2025/02/21/camille-ralphs-after-you-were-i-am/
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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.
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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).
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The Madrid Review
11 months ago
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!
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#writers
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The Madrid Review
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'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...
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Young Critic Sylvie Jane Lewis reviews Helen Farish's The Penny Dropping
YouTube video by The Poetry Society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jye38YzOtQ&list=PLrQLxRYIzQ6RtmqaQEFs8J7rBYJSg3zc9&index=3
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Katy Evans-Bush
9 months ago
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.
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Talk poetry this weekend! — Katy Evans-Bush
The annual TS Eliot Prize Shortlist Workshop starts tomorrow morning - and what a shortlist it is!
https://www.katyevansbush.com/news/talk-poetry-this-weekend
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Watch Joe Wright's review of
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's TS Eliot Prize shortlisted 'Lapwing'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bGV...
. It is worth every minute of your time.
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#TSEliots
@poetrysociety.bsky.social
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Young Critic Joe Wright reviews Hannah Copley’s ‘Lapwing’
YouTube video by T. S. Eliot Prize
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bGVwMOH3Wo
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Carcanet Press
9 months ago
‘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
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thelondonmagazine.bsky.social
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thelondonmagazine.org/review-song-...
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Review | ‘Song is a strong thing’: On the T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist by Dominic Leonard - The London Magazine
Dominic Leonard reviews three collections on the 2024 T. S. Eliot prize shortlist, by Rachel Mann, Hannah Copley and Raymond Antrobus.
https://thelondonmagazine.org/review-song-is-a-strong-thing-on-the-t-s-eliot-prize-shortlist-by-dominic-leonard/
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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
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@picadorbooks.bsky.social
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Graeme Richardson
9 months ago
Criticism that's critical is worth reading. Enjoyed this from the excellent
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thelondonmagazine.org/review-song-...
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Review | ‘Song is a strong thing’: On the T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist by Dominic Leonard - The London Magazine
Dominic Leonard reviews three collections on the 2024 T. S. Eliot prize shortlist, by Rachel Mann, Hannah Copley and Raymond Antrobus.
https://thelondonmagazine.org/review-song-is-a-strong-thing-on-the-t-s-eliot-prize-shortlist-by-dominic-leonard/
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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.
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'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
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finds Gboyega Odubanjo's Adam ‘bleakly brilliant’ in the TLS:
www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
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Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo | Book review | The TLS
Gboyega Odubanjo’s Adam is a series of impossible elegies. The poems respond to the recovery from the River Thames in 2001 of the torso of a Black boy,
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/in-brief/adam-gboyega-odubanjo-book-review-david-wheatley
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'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-...
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'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-...
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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.
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Julia Bird
9 months ago
writers! creatives! got an idea for 2025 that needs audiences, readers, partners, funding? i can help with that ...
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Mentoring with Julia Bird
Our expert mentors are uniquely placed to help you master your craft. Julia is a poetry programmer eager to help you explore various routes to publication.
https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/events/mentoring-with-julia-bird/#:~:text=Julia%20Bird%20is%20a%20highly,arts%2C%20university%20and%20healthcare%20settings
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'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-...
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'Eleanor Among the Saints',
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'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-...
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@carcanet.bsky.social
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Faber Books
9 months ago
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.
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The Poetry Society
9 months ago
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.
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'High Jump as Icarus Story',
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'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-...
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@bansheepress.bsky.social
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Katy Evans-Bush
9 months ago
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...
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'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-...
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'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-...
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@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
#poetry
#TSEliots
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The school house weather vane in Rougham, Norfolk: a birch rod.
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'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-...
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#poetry
#TSEliots
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Review of Penny Boxall's 'The Curiosities' (New Walk Editions) now up on Poor Rude Lines:
johnfield.org/2024/12/30/p...
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Penny Boxall’s The Curiosities
Wheeldon Care Centre (Photocredit: Brian Bullock Building Construction) I’ve been never one for zoos, but daily life offers the same anxieties. Visiting my mother in her gated compound, my fi…
https://johnfield.org/2024/12/30/penny-boxall-the-curiosities/
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'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
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I am enjoying Penny Boxall's latest pamphlet, 'The Curiosities', from New Walk Editions -
tinyurl.com/5n6cjkmk
@rorywaterman.bsky.social
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Review of Fiona Moore's Okapi (Blue Diode Publishing) now up on Poor Rude Lines:
johnfield.org/2024/12/17/f...
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Fiona Moore’s Okapi
Robert Macfarlane’s Landmarks is on my mind – again. On first reading, I paid it scant attention, but it’s nagged away at me. He writes about the publication of a new edition of the Oxf…
https://johnfield.org/2024/12/17/fiona-moore-okapi/
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