John Lucas (1937-2025) — poet, novelist, critic, teacher, editor of the incredible Shoestring Press…cornet player, cricket lover, socialist, enabler, and kindest and dearest of friends

This year’s Keats-Shelley Memorial Prizes are now open. Themes are dystopia / utopia I’m glad to be judging the poetry prize again with Will Kemp. Closing date 2nd February and more info here keats-shelley.org/prizes/keats...

Reading with @notjustdancing.bsky.social & Louise Machen on Saturday 27 September with music from Li Lu & Lulu Yang. What fabulous company!! 🤩https://poetsandplayers.co/2025/09/04/sasha-dugdale-louise-machen-with-music-from-li-lu-lulu-yang-27-september-2025/

A first reading for #HotelAmour on 27th September and in such great company at the Anthony Burgess Foundation. Free and no need to book! More information here poetsandplayers.co

So much looking forward to this! @serenbooks.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social

Blown away by such a thoughtful and engaged review of #hotelamour by @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social in The Yorkshire Times — for which many thanks

We are thrilled to share the news that Hasib Hourani's rock flight has made the shortlist for the Michael Murphy Poetry Prize! Congratulations to all of the shortlisted poets and publishers. The winner will be announced on #NationalPoetryDay.

Many congratulations to all the poets on the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize shortlist, including Kris Johnson, who has been shortlisted for her 2023 debut collection Ghost River. The winner will be announced on @poetrydayuk.bsky.social, Thursday 2 October.

We're delighted to announce that Kris Johnson's debut collection Ghost River, published by Bloodaxe in 2023, has been shortlisted for the @englishassociation.bsky.social's Michael Murphy Poetry Prize for a distinctive first volume of poetry in English. www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for our Michael Murphy Poetry Prize! englishassociation.ac.uk/michael-murp... Winner announced on #NationalPoetryDay! @carcanet.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social

On today’s bank holiday edition of The Poems We Made Along The Way I spoke to Deryn Rees-Jones about Paris syndrome, writing poetry projects as fractals and Rosi Braidotti’s Posthuman Feminism. Let me know what you think: linktr.ee/thepoemswemade

We are delighted to announce the longlist for our Michael Murphy Poetry Prize! englishassociation.ac.uk/michael-murp... @carcanet.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social

Congratulations to the poets on the Michael Murphy Poetry Prize longlist!

Great & wide-ranging review of The Strongbox, alongside Gboyega Odubanjo and Jen Campbell, by @zoebrigley.bsky.social & now online @magmapoetry.bsky.social – I’m so grateful for the review & so pleased when The Strongbox reaches a reader. @carcanet.bsky.social magmapoetry.com/wp-content/u...

This month's 'short & sweet' poetry newsletter is on broken ankles, new books & rejection, feat @serenbooks.bsky.social @notjustdancing.bsky.social @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social @foundationswift.bsky.social @poetryschool.bsky.social mailchi.mp/f3591be78b32... #poetry #hotelamour #danceasif #books

I'm so grateful to Linda France for her brilliant substack article featuring The Lives of Z (in amazingly good company!) 😊🙏 lindafrance.substack.com/p/building-w...

As we prepare to launch our 2025 festival TONIGHT with 'Penguin' at @unitytheatre.bsky.social, here's a welcome message from our Chair, Afrah Qassim 🎉 Be sure to check out our Festival Brochure and details of all our shows taking place across the city until 20th July: www.arabartsfestival.com

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘(i)’ by Deryn Rees-Jones, the first in a sequence of sonnets from her new collection ‘Hôtel Amour’ www.serenbooks.com/2025/07/frid.... @notjustdancing.bsky.social

Double trouble ….#hotelamour @serenbooks.bsky.social

Coucou #hotelamour #erato

I’ve looped back to play with time in what I’m thinking of as a sequel to #Erato @serenbooks.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social

Happy Publication Day to Deryn Rees-Jones’ highly anticipated collection ‘Hôtel Amour’, a follow-up to the T.S. Eliot shortlisted ‘Erato’! Pick up your copy online and in bookshops now www.serenbooks.com/book/hotel-a.... @notjustdancing.bsky.social

A wall poster from @oliviamcc.bsky.social launch of The Lives of Z @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social a really beautiful evening for an exceptional book that offers both reviving wisdom and playful possibilities for a future tense we’ve lost hope in.

“Extraordinary in its formal conception and emotional accuracy…” – The Telegraph. Pre-order ‘Hôtel Amour’ on our website here www.serenbooks.com/book/hotel-a...

Out now in the UK & Europe, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DEATH by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi. ‘Questions of the agency and effects of death, in both individual and mass tragedies, are central to this extraordinary collective elegy’ Publishers Weekly www.andotherstories.org/autobiograph...

There’s a really lovely and thoughtful review here of my new book — for which many thanks www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-t.... @serenbooks.bsky.social

☀️ Coming up on Saturday 28 June is The Poetry Society's Summer Lecture, as part of the Ledbury Poetry Festival and in partnership with the University of Liverpool! Vidyan Ravinthiran will discuss the topic of 'Pleasure' at Burgage Hall from 4:00pm - 5:00pm.

Congratulations to Sasha Dugale (sashadugdale.bsky.social), who has been named the winner of the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2025 with her collection The Strongbox! Well done Sasha!! 🎉 Read the news here: www.carcanet.co.uk/sasha-dugdal...

Gorgeous post today - the new @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social collections of @oliviamcc.bsky.social @munozpoems.bsky.social and Sarah Corbett. So excited to read them

Taking huge delight again today in this wonderful exhibition catalogue by Jonathan Ellis @jonathanellis.bsky.social and Susan Rosenbaum of Elizabeth Bishop’s postcards #elizabethbishop

We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Notley (1945-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive. buff.ly/qiSx3j8

I wrote a blog about Pasternak and how translation provided both sonic energy and useful constraint in the composition of The Strongbox carcanet.substack.com/p/the-strong...

NEWS! I've been hard at work with a fantastic group of fellow writers making a new online magazine about thrutopias. BENDING THE ARC launches 22nd April! Our aim is to write thriving, desirable futures into being. Pls subscribe & share! bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com

Coming soon: We’re excited to reveal the stunning cover for ‘Hôtel Amour’, Deryn Rees-Jones’, highly anticipated follow up to her T.S. Eliot shortlisted collection ‘Erato’. Publishing on 7 July 2025. Pre-order at www.serenbooks.com/book/hotel-a... @notjustdancing.bsky.social

A great reading this evening and a big thank you to poets and our audience @livunienglish.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social

The book and I travelling to Liverpool for the @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social launch tonight with @munozpoems.bsky.social and Sarah Corbett! @notjustdancing.bsky.social

Join us at 4pm BST on 28 June for Pleasure: University of Liverpool Kenneth Allott Lecture / Poetry Society Summer Lecture with Ledbury Poetry Critics co-founder Vidyan Ravinthiran at the Ledbury Poetry Festival! In 1802, William Wordsworth was already worried – like us – about

Due to high demand we have added 10 more tickets to our Pavilion Poetry launch event! Grab your ticket now via the link below:

We are looking forward to seeing you all soon!

In our latest LUP Blog post, poet Olivia McCannon offers a glimpse into her forthcoming collection The Lives of Z, playful and provocative poems asking, how ecological is English? Find out more: bit.ly/LivesofZblog

In our latest LUP Blog post, poet Sarah Corbett offers a glimpse into her forthcoming collection The Ishtar Gate, where the poetry of witness and memorial meets the search for connection. Find out more: bit.ly/TIshtarGate

📚Excited to be launching my new collection Archivum @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social on Wed 14 May @fruitmarket.bsky.social 6.30-8pm. Most of the poems feature Edinburgh so happy to read from them here! 🏰Tickets are available via my website link. Thanks to everyone who has signed up already! 🌸💕😊

Just two weeks to go until our Pavilion Poetry launch event! Tickets are FREE - grab yours now below!

‘The Easter bunny was a hare long before he was a rabbit; the hare was sacred to Eostre, the Saxon goddess of spring – no rabidly cute bundle of fluff.’ Katherine Rundell considers the hare: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Only a few tickets left for our Liverpool Pavilion launch May 1st — and you can also pre-order our three new titles at the link below www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/liv...

We have been featuring conversations with friends of @livunipress.bsky.social about the press and the wider industry for our #LUP125 celebrations. In our new post, LUP's Alison Welsby discusses Pavilion Poetry and poetry publishing with Deryn Rees-Jones. liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2024/10/14/i...

Congratulations to Sasha Dugdale, who has been shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2025 with her collection The Strongbox! Well done to Sasha, and all the other shortlisted writers and publishers! 🎉 www.carcanet.co.uk/sasha-dugdal...