I'm thrilled to share my new essay in @aeon.co Who are The Fire Tamers? For the past year, I travelled through salt marshes, visited remote farmhouses & oncology clinics to uncover the secret world of French healers working in parallel with conventional medicine. aeon.co/essays/who-a...

Exciting book news! @blackheraldpress.bsky.social make such beautiful books, I'm so delighted mine will be one of them. Please consider pre-ordering, it's a great help especially for small presses. 🙏

Introducing Sylvia Plath on Writing. A unique gathering of excerpts from Plath’s journals, letters, poems and prose that offers razor-sharp, amusing and inspiring insights into a writing life. Out November 2026. Pre-order now: faber.co.uk/product/9780571400836-sylvia-plath-on-writing

"AI company Anthropic spent millions of dollars physically scanning print books to build Claude ... and threw away the originals solely for the purpose of training AI." They don't want people to read the actual books, they want them to read their AI summaries... arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...

“Life is an endless recruiting of witnesses. It seems we need to be observed in our postures of extravagance or shame, we need attention paid to us. Our own memory is altogether too cherishing…Other accounts are required, other perspectives.“ Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries #literarytranslation

An essay by Daniel Barbiero, “Shestov, Gascoyne, and a Spiritual Crisis of Reason”, exploring David Gascoyne’s "After Ten Years’ Silence - Lev Shestov" (www.blackheraldpress.com/levshestov-l...) appeared in issue 104 of Offcourse literary journal and can be read here offcourse.org/issue104/bar...

All across France, folk healers called 'fire-tamers' operate an 'alternative, unofficial and ancient grassroots system of care'. Testing the limits of her natural scepticism, the writer Susanna Crossman set out to learn more about their world of belief, trust and healing

ALSO! Monthly Dispatch #36 —ft. @laurenelkin.bsky.social , Nicole Davis, Hélène Sanguinetti (tr. Ann Cefola), @drnollid.bsky.social @israelbonilla.bsky.social M. John Harrison @liamsprod.bsky.social Stephen Orr, Ladislav Klíma & more ... — goes out Tuesday ... sign up here: minorlits.substack.com

Caroline Clark’s forthcoming collection of essays is at the printer’s and can now be preordered ! www.blackheraldpress.com/what-lies-ahead @cclarklewes.bsky.social

Caroline Clark’s @cclarklewes.bsky.social very short piece of prose, “Salo,” appeared on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. www.3ammagazine.com/3am/salo/

I wrote about the piece on Ágota Kristóf in the new issue of the LRB: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/04/agot...

Au jardin

“Life is an endless recruiting of witnesses. It seems we need to be observed in our postures of extravagance or shame, we need attention paid to us. Our own memory is altogether too cherishing…Other accounts are required, other perspectives.“ Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries #literarytranslation

Ne pas manquer l'exposition "Aux frontières du réel" à la Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, pour découvrir un riche échantillon de ses collections ésotériques, du XVIe siècle à nos jours. Si vous passez par la gare de Lyon-Part-Dieu, c'est juste en face ! Jusqu'au 11 juillet 2026. 1/3

“The larger loneliness in our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always dampening down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals." Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries (translation in progress) #literarytranslation

Caroline Clark’s forthcoming collection of essays can now be preordered www.blackheraldpress.com/what-lies-ahead @cclarklewes.bsky.social

“The larger loneliness in our lives evolves from our unwillingness to spend ourselves, stir ourselves. We are always dampening down our inner weather, permitting ourselves the comforts of postponement, of rehearsals." Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries (translation in progress) #literarytranslation

« Not using it, she continues, “kind of feels like showing up to a function and saying you don’t drink”. »

Not dead, but dreaming. Of? Books, mainly. For example, the first and only novel published by legendary nouvelle vague director Éric Rohmer, in its first English translation by @memoiressecrets.bsky.social, and here deemed "a poignant tale of summer languor at its last gasp."

Forthcoming “What Lies Ahead" by @cclarklewes.bsky.social “These essays have a sublime intelligence and a vivid perceptiveness that give the reader the space to reflect and reconsider the way we live – as readers, writers and human beings. A delight and an inspiration.” @vickymackenzie.bsky.social

www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page... “Stubbs is one of very few living living poets whose work I go back to “ -Alice Oswald

Work in progress #literarytranslation #traductionlitteraire

Finally got my hands on my author copies of this. What a stunning publication! Massive thanks to @blackcatpress.bsky.social for all their patience and care. And I want to thank Jean for agreeing to enter into this writing project with me and for doing so with such enthusiasm and generosity.

Nouvelle publication dans la revue The Black Herald : Petit florilège oulipien, par Jean-Pierre Longre www.blackheraldpress.com/post/florile...

We're pleased to announce that our next Black Herald Press publication will be Caroline Clark's "What Lies Ahead", a collection of literary essays that can now be pre-ordered: www.blackheraldpress.com/what-lies-ah... @cclarklewes.bsky.social

poetpstubbs.wixsite.com/paulstubbs/m... « I offer help and advice to prepare, develop, and possibly edit your poetry manuscript, with a view to making it as strong and coherent as possible, bringing it to such a level that it can be submitted to poetry publishers. »

“one has the sense that Clark is feeling her way into and through years of accumulated reading, contemplation and experience to loosen a stream of thoughtful reflection... Oh, how fortunate to be on the receiving end” Joseph Schreiber www.blackheraldpress.com/what-lies-ahead @roughghosts.bsky.social

Save the date! Our next Shrewsbury Poetry night will offer our splendid open mic, a slot for our friend Ross Donlon, plus guest poets @richardnskinner.bsky.social and me, doing a little Shrewsbury launch for our book 'Crossing Paths'. Please come along and join us!

'In effect, through a form of projection of his or her own, the artist ensouls the object in the act of creation.'

Delighted to announce my new book from @blackheraldpress.bsky.social Thank you @blandinelongre.bsky.social and @paulrstubbs.bsky.social!

Parution poche (Folio) en ce mois de mars, à la suite du grand format paru en mars 2025 dans la collection Du monde entier (Gallimard), traduit par mes soins #traductionlittéraire #literarytranslation #chimamandangoziadichie #linventairedesrêves #dreamcount

In The Black Herald this week: Jean Follain and the Inner Lives of Objects – an essay by Daniel Barbiero www.blackheraldpress.com/post/jean-fo...

A review by Daniel Barbiero of The Carbonized Earth, my book on Rimbaud (in Arteidolia) www.arteidolia.com/review-of-pa...

This essay came out last January in @minorliteratures.bsky.social. It'll also be published in a book of my essays this year with @blackheraldpress.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/01/09/t...

I often feel needlessly oppressed when I read writers talking about how they write, let alone their actual advice. So at the end of my book of essays I think I should add: 'And this is how it was for me. It may not be so for you. Let nothing that I say here restrict you in your art.'

Paul is a fantastic reader of others' work. Details of his ms reading services 👇

nouveaux textes à lire dans la version numérique de la revue Black Herald // new texts have been published in the digital version of the Black Herald magazine www.blackheraldpress.com/theblackherald

dans la revue The Black Herald / Le Héraut noir On ne retiendra pas tout : à propos de Bien assise, de Christine Jeanney (éditions Tarmac) – par Bernard Bourrit www.blackheraldpress.com/post/on-ne-r...

#chartres on a sunny day

Many thanks to Richard Lea @fictionable.bsky.social for this enjoyable conversation!

Black Herald Press’ publisher Paul Stubbs offers his services to poets in need of guidance and advice to prepare, develop, and edit their poetry manuscripts, for a reasonable fee. poetpstubbs.wixsite.com/paulstubbs/m... @paulrstubbs.bsky.social

If you break open the dry stems of certain plants / you will find a snoozing grub. from All Particles and Waves By David Spittle from @blackheraldpress.bsky.social

For Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day First and only poem published in Poetry Review (many moons ago). The last four words were used as the epigraph to the issue.

Slow River, a film-poem. I recorded this in 2018 at the end of a cancer year during the radiotherapy finale. Filmed and edited by Harriet Holman Penney. Watch in landscape: mollybloom25.weebly.com/caroline-cla...

Nouvel essai en ligne sur le site du Black Herald / Le Héraut noir, à propos de "Space" de Gabriel Gauthier (éditions Corti), par Emma Vallejo. New essay (in French) on The Black Herald website today www.blackheraldpress.com/post/l-espac... @blackheraldpress.bsky.social

Nouvel essai en ligne sur le site du Black Herald / Le Héraut noir, à propos de "Space" de Gabriel Gauthier (éditions Corti), par Emma Vallejo. New essay (in French) on The Black Herald website today www.blackheraldpress.com/post/l-espac... @blackheraldpress.bsky.social

Many thanks to @blackheraldpress.bsky.social @blandinelongre.bsky.social and @paulrstubbs.bsky.social for publishing my essay on Olga Sedakova and Veronica Forrest-Thomson as they relaunch The Black Herald magazine online. www.blackheraldpress.com/post/inprais...

*** May release *** Mark Wilson’s forthcoming poetry collection can be pre-ordered here www.blackheraldpress.com/paolo-france...

« Mystics, lovers of the dead in reprieve and writers: there truly is a convergence of those who exalt and undermine established orders, invaginating themselves in, rather than shattering, them, through the escape promised by their shared fascination with the ineluctable ... »