Great news from the Poetry Archive: Poetry of South Asia, launching at @KSLFLondon, Brunel Gallery, SOAS, London. 11am Saturday 31 May. Book on Eventbrite.co.uk/e/Khushwant-singh-literary-festival-london-2025-7th-edition-tickets-1316085640579

Today!

Welcome to Guernsey. Reading tomorrow evening @Guernsey Literary Festival @Guille-Allès Public Library Guernsey

At last, time for reading and reading again

Goodbye and thank you, StAnza and St Andrews! With Caroline Bird

Poets reading at StAnza Poetry Festival in St Andrews (& online) 14-16 March include @imtiazdharker.bsky.social and Gwyneth Lewis. Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck will take part in a live recording of the Lantern Scottish Poetry podcast. www.bloodaxebooks.com/events?artic...

Online! We're at StAnza 16 March, live and online. Here's the online link: byretheatre.com/shows/stanza... Full programme Stanza 2025 here stanzapoetry.org/festival/sta...

Online! We're at StAnza 16 March, live and online. Here's the online link: byretheatre.com/shows/stanza... Full programme Stanza 2025 here stanzapoetry.org/festival/sta...

Live! We're live and online at StAnza St Andrews, 16 March. Here's the link for the live event: byretheatre.com/shows/stanza... Full programme Stanza 2025 here stanzapoetry.org/festival/sta...

Looking forward to tuning in at 12:00 today #PrivatePassions @imtiazdharker.bsky.social + Michael Berkeley #illustration #poetry (currently available on BBC Sounds) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 🎨🖌️📻

Only five days now until I interview the wonderful poet Imtiaz Dharker @imtiazdharker.bsky.social in Wootton Village Hall, just north of Oxford. 6.30pm, 8th of March. Get your tickets while there are still some left! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening...

This event with renowned poet Imtiaz Dharker is going to sell out fast. Get your tickets now — especially as there’s a deadline of 25 Feb (catering requires it; a curry dinner is included!) www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening... @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @imtiazdharker.bsky.social

See you there!

Today's @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social line-up includes a Poetry Unbound Special with @imtiazdharker.bsky.social and Poetry Unbound podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama in conversation. 4:30pm in person and online. Booking info below.

Today! 4.30 pm at @verve.poetry.festival at the Hippodrome Birmingham. On my way!

Yorkshire Times Poem of the Week: 'On mute' by @imtiazdharker.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social www.yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

'On mute', a 'poem of considered observation' from @imtiazdharker.bsky.social's new collection Shadow Reader, is featured as @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social's Poem of the Week in the Yorkshire Times. www.yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

This is going to be a brilliant poetry evening! I’m interviewing the wonderful @imtiazdharker.bsky.social on March 8th in Wootton by Woodstock. Get your tickets (which include dinner) here: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening... 6.30 talk 7.30 dinner 8.30 open-mic

Early one for your diaries. Delighted to be spending the evening of World Book Day in the company of @imtiazdharker.bsky.social and @jennywcreative.bsky.social at Wembley Library on 6 March, 6.30pm. More deets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-in-...

Thank you @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social

Poetry Live! Manchester Bridgewater Hall

Our winter poetry update is here! Discover poems by great contemporary poets like @skygoneout.bsky.social, @janeclarke.bsky.social, @imtiazdharker.bsky.social, Seán Hewitt, @donikakelly.bsky.social, Craig Santos Perez, Padraig Regan & more, plus voices from the past. www.brinkerhoffpoetr...

Poetry Live! Across the country with a caravan of poets

15 February, Live and online, at the Birmingham Hippodrome, Verve Poetry & Spoken Word Festival

Poet and artist @imtiazdharker.bsky.social will be joining Poetry Unbound host Pádraig Ó Tuama for this special event @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social in Birmingham on Sat 15 Feb, 4:30pm. In-person and livestream tickets available.

Lovely to hear @imtiazdharker.bsky.social reading and speaking about her poem 'The Host' from her new collection Shadow Reader on Poet Laureate Simon Armitage's BBC Radio 4 series My Poetry and Other Animals. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

We're delighted to announce that poet George Szirtes has been named as winner of The King's Gold Medal for Poetry for 2024 on the basis of his 'deeply personal pieces of work, informed by his dual perspective, looking both east and west.' www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

I love teaching ‘A Century Later’ by @imtiazdharker.bsky.social as an unseen poem. So beautifully written with so much to engage students - give this glorious poem a read! poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/a-cent...

Penelope's poem is introduced by @petroc.bsky.social at 39:50.

'...funny, defiant, clever and tender writing.' - Hannah Stone, The Lake, on @imtiazdharker.bsky.social's 'beguiling' new collection #ShadowReader. Niall Campbell's third collection The Island in the Sound was also very well reviewed in The Lake's December issue. thelakepoetry.co.uk/reviews/dec24/

Tomorrow! 'Shadow Reader' poems and drawings in Edinburgh, The Dovecot 1.30 pm Sunday 24 November Push the Boat Out Festival Edinburgh International Festival

Congratulations to the winners of the #JamesBerryPoetryPrize 2024: Clementine Ewokolo Burnley Nadine El-Enany Roshni Gallagher All three will have their first full-length collections published by Bloodaxe in 2026. Find out more about the poets and the prize: bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

Arrived in the Blue

See you in Edinburgh at Push the Boat Out

First post on this platform 👋. Glad to reconnect with old friends, and also learn from new contacts. Will post about intersecting themes: human evolution, genetics (esp. aDNA), neuroscience & cognition. Currently focusing on brain organoids and early developmental changes that may have had an impact