Assistant Professor in English and Creative Writing University of Sussex 12 months www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRO639/a...

Congratulations to everyone shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize! ⭐ Isabelle Baafi ⭐ Dean Browne ⭐ Sasha Debvec-McKenny ⭐ Catherine-Esther Cowie ⭐ Laura Wainwright www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews...

Delighted to announce we will be at Offprint London next week. Come say hi, grab yourself a book!

Hay Festival has unveiled the final selection for The Platform, an opportunity for creatives aged 21–28 to showcase new work at the world-famous event in Wales

Our friends at @globalsouthshub.bsky.social have recently launched the Decolonising Access podcast, hosted by Bethlehem Attfield. Through powerful personal stories, the series exposes how knowledge systems continue to marginalise, and how they can be transformed.

There's a great new Senior Research Associate role being advertised in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at University of East Anglia this month, working on an AHRC-funded project on creative-critical teaching in English studies. Please share! vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/21...

So sad that Carol Rumens has died. Such a generous, encouraging mentor to me at the start of my poetry writing. Thank you Carol xx

‘The five poems of 𝘒𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘮𝘴 were like essays in their apparent substance, but they had a manner, a rhythm and a music, as well as a density of thought that shifted my idea of what poetry was and what it could be and do.’ Ian Patterson on J.H. Prynne. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...

I wrote about what it's like to read the poetry of J.H. Prynne

We are very pleased that Ange Mlinko's Foxglovewise has made the shortlist for the Griffin Prize. Congratulations to all the shortlisted poets. griffinpoetryprize.com

We can't wait to welcome you this Saturday to the Northern Publishers' Fair - we kick off at 11am at Manchester Central Library. Drop in and natter until 3.30pm! fly-on-the-wall-press.eventcube.io/events/93203...

We’re pleased to announce that The Conversation Prize, in partnership with Curtis Brown, is open for entry until 5 July 2026. theconversation.com/entries-now-...

We'll be among the 60+ poetry publishers at the Free Verse Poetry Book Fair this Saturday (25 April): hope to see you there. St Columba’s Hall, Pont Street, London, SW1X 0BD (near Knightsbridge & South Kensington tubes). 12pm-6.30pm. Free entry. Further info: poetrysociety.org.uk/event/free-v...

After 3 hugely rewarding years, I'm stepping down as Core Tutor for the @poetryschool.bsky.social MA in Writing Poetry! Bit less teaching, bit more writing... I'll miss my lovely colleagues and students but 📝📓📚📖😍❤️🥳

Join Isabel Galleymore, Caleb Parkin and Jean Sprackland at 'Poetry for the Planet', an evening of eco-poetry and solar-inspired art. Wednesday April 15th, 18:00 The Exchange #Birmingham www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/poetr... @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social is the author of This Fruiting Body and Mingle

We have some fascinating archives @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social: contemporary literature (including poetry), film, visual arts, history, rare books. We also have Visiting Fellowships for writers to use them for research. Deadline to apply is 17th April: please share! www.uea.ac.uk/research/res...

We're open for MULTIGENRE FULL-LENGTH MANUSCRIPTS!!! April 1 - June 1, send your multigenre books to our SUPER EXCITED brand new multigenre reading team, headed by our SUPER EXCITED multigenre editor, @erinvachon.bsky.social! Link for full details + to submit: splitlippress.submittable.com/submit

Today marks one hundred years since the poet Frank O’Hara was born. His manifesto, ‘Personism’, is for me one of the most brilliant things written in the twentieth century about the nature of poetry. Here is a key passage: 1/6

Such a fascinating issue of @magmapoetry.bsky.social THANK YOU editors @cloudscholar.bsky.social @williekinardiii.bsky.social and Lola Oh for including my 'Menstruating Cento' in the #Remix xxx

I love my publisher.

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Are you a poet with a developing national and/or international profile for whom a poetry fellowship would make a significant artistic and professional difference? apply for the Caster Cultural Fellow in Poetry at University of Leeds by 1 April jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

#DailyDivaRating ☀️☀️☀️ Whenever the US-Israel war with Iran ends, 47 should be indicted as a war criminal and an international arrest warrant should issue.

"The poem moves through the world. The world moves through the poem." Last 2 days for our special offer: any 3 hardbacks for £32. Includes collections by Steve Ely, Angelina D'Roza, Peter Riley, Nancy Gaffield, Mark Goodwin, Matthew Clegg, Fay Musselwhite and more longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

#TheDeeperRead 8 features "Palace" by @poetryschool.bsky.social MA tutor @merylpugh.bsky.social, paired with my poem "Bushfires" from the @mindsshinebright.bsky.social anthology Light and Shadow, edited by @wattlelight.bsky.social. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper... free to subscribe.

⚠️ Important London air pollution update for Friday 6 March. ⚠️ I’ve triggered a high pollution alert due to a forecast of particulate levels mainly caused by Saharan dust. ⚠️ Protect the most vulnerable by avoiding unnecessary car trips, engine idling and burning garden waste.

So grateful for this attention, thank you Suzanna!

Dropping tomorrow, #TheDeeperRead 8 features "Palace" by @poetryschool.bsky.social MA tutor @merylpugh.bsky.social from her Laurel Prize-longlisted book Natural Phenomena from Penned in the Margins. A perfect example of how to own the sonnet form in the C21st.

For anyone who is UK-based and interested, SOAS has a PhD scholarship for ‘Queer Meaning-Making in South Asian Literature: New Comparative Perspectives’. Scholarship application deadline: 27 March 2026. www.soas.ac.uk/study/studen... @saltatchicago.bsky.social @wasafirimag.bsky.social

Most of the roses for sale in the US are raised in hideous labor and environmental conditions in Colombia and Ecuador before they're loaded onto 747s to fly here. I know because I visited one of the rose plantations/sweatshops for my book Orwell's Roses. Give your love a book or something.

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Someone has just said something so incredibly kind about Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak that I almost burst into tears. Yes, I'm fragile, but also, tell your writers when you like what they write.

Sign the petition against University of Sheffield's shameful treatment of striking staff: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...

Catherine O’Hara we love you get up

NEW ANALYSIS: UK household electricity bills have risen over the last 5 years. BUT: Despite frequent claims that net zero is to blame: 2/3 of the increase is because of high gas prices shows new @ukerc.bsky.social report. Arguably without renewable energy the UK would see even higher bills today.

TfL has long championed art and design in our capital, and poetry is no exception. Great piece on sharing the power of the written word as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Poems on the Underground ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hello, my first post! I'm the writer Richard Price, with poetry collections which include Lucky Day and Late Gifts, and the novella The Island, which will be reissued this year in April. I'm also writing a memoir of the British Library where I worked as a curator of contemporary British books.

✨BLACKBOX MANIFOLD 35✨ is now live, with poems by Shara McCallum, Dorothy Lehane, Rebecca Goss, Angela Gardner, Philip Terry, and others. Plus Adam Piette reviews Keaton Sutherland and Jennifer Scappettone blackboxmanifold.sites.sheffield.ac.uk

We are excited to open applications for a UK-based Translator in Residence working with/in Endangered Languages. Find full details, including fee and residency requirements, below. Application deadline: 15 February, 2026 buff.ly/yibsATf

In response to the freezing temperatures, SWEP has been activated to ensure those sleeping rough have shelter. If you’re worried about someone sleeping rough, notify StreetLink who can connect them with local services. One simple action can make a real difference. thestreetlink.org.uk

keep remembering my teacher Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh who not only walked for peace, but protested directly the war we were waging in his country.

Severe Weather Emergency Protocol activated in London ❄️ The temperature is due to drop below freezing tonight, and emergency accommodation is open across the capital for those sleeping rough. If you are sleeping rough or know someone who is, connect to support via StreetLink thestreetlink.org.uk

On International Migrants Day, let’s celebrate the generations of migrants who’ve helped make London what it is today - the greatest city in the world.

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A reminder for everyone getting Christmas presents… stay away from the HP merch!!! uk.news.yahoo.com/j-k-rowling-...?

This week from the archive: an excerpt from Thomas A Clark's interview with Alice Tarbuck, published in PN Review 229, May - June 2016. Read here:⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/pnreview... Subscribe to PNR: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

Some places still available on my @poetryschool.bsky.social MA Foundation Seminar: 6 month intensive, online. Come join me!

This week from the archive: 'A Letter to the Dead (A lost poem in memory of Dylan Thomas)' by Lynette Roberts, published in PN Review 220, November - December 2014. Read here:⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/pnreview... Subscribe to PNR: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe