I am so grateful to Don Mee Choi, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Sasha Dugdale, & Deryn Rees-Jones for spending time with Landscape with Question & giving these incredible endorsements. ❤️ Landscape with Question is published next month by @carcanet.bsky.social www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017561...

Congratulations to both Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social & Laura Wainwright who have been shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2026 in the Poetry Category! You can lend them your support by voting in the Nation.Cymru People's Choice Award now nation.cymru/culture/vote...! #WBOTY2026

Poets get ready... our next submission window for full poetry collections will be reopening on Friday 1 May for 2 weeks! We’ll share more details of exactly what we’re looking for on our submissions page when the window opens so keep an eye out here www.serenbooks.com/submissions/

Tickets are still available for our evening of discussion and readings from Blake Morrison and Sinéad Morrissey. These award-winning writers will be discussing the different ways poetry and memoir approach truth-telling. Grab your tickets before they're gone at the link in our bio.

I could no more believe the sap insensible than I believe the dead are broken branches, and all their self-songs censored or extinguished. Carol Rumens (1944-2026) (‘Nant y Garth’ from ‘Bezdelki’, 2018, The Emma Press - winner of the Michael Marks Award)

A week ago we launched three new Pavilion titles. More here on the Liverpool University Press Blog liverpooluniversitypress.blog/tag/pavilion... @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social #NatalieLinhBolderston #AliceMiller #LindaAnderson

Hugely honoured to have my debut collection coming out next spring, alongside two other fabulous-looking books! If you might want to book me for a reading or workshop next year, do drop me an email or message. #NationalPoetryDay #PoetryUK #VietnamesePoet

Our collections our now available to purchase on the LUP website! Find out more here: bit.ly/PavilionPoet...

Natalie Linh Bolderston reading from her ‘Divinations on Survival’ @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social

Linda Anderson up next, reading from ‘Against Falling’ @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social

Alice Miller reading from her new book @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social Here & Thereafter @livunienglish.bsky.social

Pavilion launch tonight and there are three tickets left! Join us! www.ticketsource.com/school-of-th... @livunienglish.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social

Martha Sprackland (@marrrtha.bsky.social) will be at the Bookshop next month to discuss her new translation of the works of John of the Cross, the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic, with James Butler (@piercepenniless.bsky.social). Tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/martha-spr...

I’m reading in Oxford with @oliviamcc.bsky.social on 13 May. Please come along – it’s a free poetry event but you need to sign up: www.ticketsource.com/queens-trans...

Keats Shelley Poetry Prize announced. Congrats to winner @pascalepetit.bsky.social and thanks to judge @notjustdancing.bsky.social Here’s my runner up poem ‘Some Seasonal Adjustments’ keats-shelley.org/prize_entrie...

Packed house @waterstoneslpl.bsky.social to celebrate publication of Saul Leslie’s novel ‘A Working Title I Want to Change’ #penguinbooks @livunienglish.bsky.social #firstnovels

Congratulations to @pascalepetit.bsky.social winner of this year’s Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Night Canoe on Lake Sandoval’ keats-shelley.org/prizes/keats... #keats #poetry #shelley #KSMA

In our latest LUP Blog post, poet Linda Anderson offers a glimpse into her forthcoming collection Against Falling, which is an exploration of time and of ageing. Find out more here: bit.ly/42d6uAY

Lots on and a few amends! 🙂

In which I talk with the delightful @gregorykearns.bsky.social about stealing books, a railway childhood, translation and the soul’s mobility…. @carcanet.bsky.social

In our latest LUP Blog post, poet Natalie Linh Bolderston offers a glimpse into her forthcoming collection Divinations on Survival, which explores matrilineal heritage, myth and the legacies of war. Find out more here: bit.ly/DOS2026

Just one month to go until the Pavilion Poetry launch! 🌟📖 Join us for an unforgettable evening with readings from the brilliant Natalie Linh Bolderston, Alice Miller, and Linda Anderson. Tickets are FREE - grab yours here: bit.ly/PavilionLaunch2026 #PavilionPoetry #UniversityofLiverpool #Poetry

Kurt Schwitters Untitled ('Collage mit Straßenbahnbillet') 1927

100 year anniversary of the publication of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s ‘Lolly Willowes’ and a conference to celebrate www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lolly-will...

Looking forward to a nightingale-inflected reading at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome next week with @sashadugdale.bsky.social You can book here ksh.roma.it/events/poetr... or why not listen anyway to Sasha’s essay On Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale #keats #poetry www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Angst by Hélène Cixous @foylesforbooks.bsky.social, 17 March Sophie Lewis, Juliet Jacques & Emily Labarge discuss écriture féminine and its influence. They explore Lewis’s translation of ANGST & the demand for freedom at the heart of Cixous's novel. www.foyles.co.uk/events/angst...

17B Kingsland Road Shoreditch 5-12 March 🌸🌸🌸

If you’d like to hear Maria Stepanova and me talk about The Disappearing Act you could sign up for this online conversation: 21 March 12pm EST / 5pm GMT brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2026-0...

On 3 March Maxine Peake is reading @oliviamcc.bsky.social wonderful version of Beauty and the Beast at Hay Castle as part of a celebration of illustrator Clive Hicks-Jenkins. Tickets for ‘Redefining Beauty’ via www.haycastletrust.org/m-1-hay-cast...

Rising Green https://www.wikiart.org/en/lee-krasner/rising-green-1972

Always a good time for EB

🎙️ Life & Language explores how language shapes the way we see the world. Hosted by Prof. @michamahlberg.bsky.social. Now in its 5th season with 28 episodes and brilliant guests across disciplines. Curious about how words shape life? 🎧 Join the conversation.

Combining images of fog & smog with ideas of British identity made the reality of pollution much harder to see, says @michellehenning.bsky.social

Long, engaged reviews are always so helpful and thought-provoking. Many thanks for this #Woodbeepoet

Looking forward to being in conversation with Harriet Tarlo this evening at the Old Head Post Office. As a letter writer I can’t think of a better venue!

One of several scholarships for Palestinian students available at the University of Liverpool. This one is for the MRes in Irish Studies. Please share to relevant circles. www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Definite coup de foudre 🎪 @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

Great to see Bernadette McBride in conversation with David Tierney tonight at FACT, Liverpool to celebrate the launch of #BirdsareLiars @livunienglish.bsky.social

Looking forward to this in Sheffield on Feb. 11th @serenbooks.bsky.social @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social

& pause to take stock, fresh vantage & slow constancy

Here’s the recording of the online launch of Hôtel Amour — with Olivia McCannon @oliviamcc.bsky.social Menna Elfyn #mennaelfyn #parch #thelivesofz #hotelamour m.youtube.com/watch?v=LpXk...

Our fantastic @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social collections are all included in the LUP Winter Sale, including preorders of the forthcoming 2026 poetry collections. Use discount code 27WINTER on our website to claim your discount! Sale ends 18th December. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/imprin...

Fantastic to see former student Bernadette McBride’s really wonderful short story collection out in the world @livunienglish.bsky.social

And in response to headlines like "there is no need for masks", here is the 1 minutes from my interview where I discuss basic preventative measures (including masks!). Also note that NHS stats like A&E and Ambulance waits are lower than same time 3 years ago, even with earlier flu wave.

Thanks @tazrahman.bsky.social for picking out ‘Significant Wow’ by @emilycotterill.bsky.social, ‘I Sing to the Greenhearts’ by Maggie Harris and ‘Hôtel Amour’ by @notjustdancing.bsky.social in your 2025 Books of the Year! All available from our website & in bookshops www.serenbooks.com/books/poetry/

“Reading Elizabeth Bishop” is £13.50 in the EUP sale… edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-reading...

“Letter Writing Among Poets: From William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Bishop” is just £12.50 in the EUP sale (Paul Muldoon, Hermione Lee, Anne Fadiman, Angela Leighton… and others!) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-letter-....

Have you taken advantage of our special offer yet? From now until the end of December, you can claim £10 off all orders over £30 with the code Xmas25 when shopping on our website. Browse our books here www.serenbooks.com/books/

Guest post: Poet Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social reflects on time spent in Paris whilst writing her collection ‘Hôtel Amour’, offering an insight into her writing process & inspirations behind the book www.serenbooks.com/2025/12/gues.... Available now in bookshops & online.