Another double-bill of #POEMS by our PRIMERS 8 shortlisted poets today at our blog. Discover poems by Natasha Kinsella and Oliver Carmichael @oliverinthenorth.bsky.social Keep coming back to the blog for more. ninearchespress.blogspot.com Primers: ninearchespress.com/primers

In the company of other poets, @carolinebirduk.bsky.social explores the silences when it feels like words have left you. Listen to When the Words Leave on BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... @oliverinthenorth.bsky.social @hannahcopley.bsky.social Music - Phil Smith Prod - Eleanor McDowall

Was a pleasure to talk to Caroline Bird about how it feels when the words leave.

‘The greatest children’s fantasies were worth your time when you were twelve, and they are equally worth it now. They remind us that the imagination is not an optional extra.’ Katherine Rundell on the importance of children’s literature: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

RISE UP! With Antony Dunn, Lisa Coates and Nathan Walker 🎉 26/02, nowhere better to be on a Wednesday in February (or any other Wednesday)

Spreading art is resistance. Just updated the poetry box at my house with this gem from @chenchenwrites.bsky.social

Absolute cracker of a night at Rise Up! with the wonderful @carolinebirduk.bsky.social @coliverpoet.bsky.social & @oliverinthenorth.bsky.social - thank you, ace poets - & (always) my brilliant co-host @chadpie.bsky.social

Oh, lovely to see wonderpoets @oliverinthenorth.bsky.social & @oh-so-boatie.bsky.social listed in the 2025 Disabled Poets 'Best Single Poem' & 'Best Unpublished Pamphlet' categories 🙌✨ Congratulations to all whose work has been selected 💖Readings & announcement of winners on 29 March Details 👇

‘I’m frightened but I’m here.’ First Illness, from Niall Campbell’s Forward shortlisted collection ‘Noctuary’ (Bloodaxe 2019) #Poetry @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/...

better, i think, when i work on a poem, to believe i have something to learn rather than something to say