Join us for an online book launch on November 18th at 7pm — #mennaelfyn #oliviamccannon #derynrees-jones #HotelAmour www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-boo...

To celebrate the publication of her book, Radical Realisms in Contemporary Theatre in Britain, Lecturer Dr Hannah Greenstreet @hgreenstreet1.bsky.social recommends 10 fantastic feminist plays from the last 10 years in @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/ten-years-...

What a deep pleasure to listen to amazing Diane Seuss #dianeseuss this evening @poetrysociety.org.uk @livunienglish.bsky.social

A video is available of the @southbankcentre.bsky.social launch for @rachaelboast.bsky.social's anthology Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets. Rachael Boast was joined by Karthika Naïr, Daniel Sluman, and Lisa Kelly. Starts at 18:22. www.youtube.com/live/Ek9Bu6g...

Hello again Paris, mon amour @serenbooks.bsky.social

We hope you can join us! Register for the Zoom link (free) via Eventbrite if you plan on coming along www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1765466972...

Looking forward to this @serenbooks.bsky.social online event 18 November 7pm: An evening of poetry celebrating the publication of ‘Hôtel Amour’ by Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social, with readings by Deryn and guests Menna Elfyn and Olivia McCannon. @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social

A poem in answer to Charles Causley’s poem On All Souls Night – and also to celebrate the birth of my daughter on All Souls Day. From ‘Red House’ @carcanet.bsky.social

Here’s a late poem by Matt Simpson. Looking forward to speaking more about him this evening at the OpenEye Gallery, Liverpool #MattSimpson #liverpoolpoets

Saturday 25 October, 2pm at @southbankcentre.bsky.social: Global Crip Poetry Celebration Rachael Boast, Lisa Kelly, Karthika Naïr and Daniel Sluman introduce Versus Versus, a new anthology by 100 deaf, disabled and neurodivergent poets from across the globe. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/glo...

So much looking forward to this year’s Allott / Poetry Society lecture by #DianeSeuss @sotauol.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social

Our 2026 collections are now available to pre-order from the LUP website! Find out more here: bit.ly/PavilionPoetry26

My debut poetry collection, Divinations on Survival, can now be pre-ordered! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... See below for more info. If you'd like to book me for a reading / talk / workshop next year, drop me an email: [email protected] #PoetryNews #UKPoetry

📣 Join us at this year's Kenneth Allott lecture, in conjunction with @poetrysociety.org.uk (online), hosted by Professor Sandeep Parmar 🖋️📚 More info here: poetrysociety.org.uk/event/poetry...

Very genuinely surprised to see this: The Strongbox is shortlisted for @lhellenicprize.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social alongside some wonderful books.

And then November 7th taking Hotel Amour back to Paris ❤️ www.billetweb.fr/a-poetry-rea...

Looking forward to reading at The Open Eye Gallery on October 30th, and remembering and speaking about my dear friend Matt Simpson openeye.org.uk/whatson/matt...

Three great new collections forthcoming in the Spring #pavilionpoetry

‘Embodying irrepressible biodiversity, the poems take multiple forms, some recognisable (diary, translation, question, letter etc) and some entirely context-specific, making new patterns on the page…’ from review of @oliviamcc.bsky.social ‘Lives of Z’ @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social

We’re thrilled to announce that Archivum by Theresa Muñoz has been longlisted for The Saltire Society’s National Book Awards in the Poetry category! Congratulations to @munozpoems.bsky.social and to all the remarkable poets recognised this year.

We're thrilled to hear that Jodie Hollander’s poem Blue, from her collection Nocturne, was recently featured on The Slowdown, read by Maggie Smith. 💙 Find out more here: bit.ly/BlueJH

Celebrating #NationalPoetryDay and our 2026 collections – Divinations on Survival by Natalie Linh Bolderston @natlinhbolderston.bsky.social, Here & Thereafter by Alice Miller, and Against Falling by Linda Anderson. Available to pre-order from Friday the 10th October! bit.ly/Pavilion26

‘it's easy to imagine The Lives of Z joining the likes of Christensen's alphabet (1981) as an essential text ecopoetry for years to come‘ Wonderful review of ‘Lives of Z’ by @oliviamcc.bsky.social @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social in this issue of Poetry Review

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...