Who are the poets you think of as citational or allusive, the kind that might allude to, quote or paraphrase e.g. cartoons, philosophy, music?

Saw that the strong white cider we used to drink in the park as teenagers is being bottled in recycled plastic now.

I was fortunate to spend some time with Liam's excellent poetry earlier this year. Highly recommend taking him up on his offer in the below post!

I’m clearing the house out so have some copies of my debut poetry collection, Human Townsperson, going cheap. A BARGAIN EVERYTHING MUST GO SALE PRICE £5+P&P if you’d like one.

Alice Notley - The Descent of Alette CAConrad - The Book of Frank GennaRose Nethercott - The Lumberjack's Dove

Today we’re talking BOOK-LENGTH POEMS. What are the essential ones? Which are underrated? Broad interpretations always welcome

MY PRESS IS OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS. WE PAY YOU. WE'RE WEIRD. thebraag.co/the-press/

I see a blurb from @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social and I can’t help myself. I liked this a lot

Applying for arts funding to cover the cost of buying a Nintendo Switch 2 and time to play my Nintendo Switch 2

Good chance to get Human Townsperson at a bargain price today. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Do not accidentally express yourself. Remember. Stay private. Can you do this? Analysis of the smile is particularly important. Do not. They try to ensure the smile threshold is triggered. Do not. ‘When the World Ended’, a poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Adam Jones (@sanktmaxtci.bsky.social) reads “AI” politically: “Data centres function as an increasingly central part of the nervous system of an imperial, techno-capitalist order. Democratic politics holds the right to question their present and future existence.” newintermag.com/ai-as-class-...

Times are very tough and we're fundraising! Buy a book today and enjoy 20% off all our titles in The Big Salt Sale! Simply use discount code TheBigSaltSale in our checkout or click the link below! www.saltpublishing.com/discount/The... Happy reading!

We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Notley (1945-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive. buff.ly/qiSx3j8

NEW: 14,000 babies could die in just 48 hours as Israel blocks the flow of aid into Gaza, the UN has warned Read more on this devastating warning: www.thenational.scot/news/2517688...

A novelist who recommends poetry is good people

‘Some deer walked around in vicious circles and couldn’t get out’ (‘Retribution’) - Vik Shirley SOME DEER, @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social

Congratulations to Liam Bates, a PGR with the Centre for Place Writing - @liambatespoet.bsky.social who's poem 'Magic' has been shortlisted for this year's Poetry Wales Award! [image courtesy of @poetrywales.bsky.social]

This fundraiser by my publisher, Knives Forks and Spoons, to support publication of my next collection (with terrific artwork by Jen Orpin on the cover) is now at 50%. Much gratitude to everyone who has supported so far: www.gofundme.com/f/publish-st...

We are over the moon to share the 13 shortlist poets for the Poetry Wales Award 2024-25, sponsored by Literature Wales and judged by Jeremy Dixon. You can read the full collection on our website: poetrywales.co.uk/poetry-wales... Stay tuned for information about our online Awarding Ceremony.

Friends, a little announcement: we’re now accepting submissions year-round for a new essays feature. We want this to be a space for new and original thinking about poetry and poetics, but also about how poetry fits in or around our lives. We can’t wait to hear from you!

This Saturday at Fab Cafe Manchester - 2-4pm - book launch for Sally Barrett's On The Advice Of Donna Or A Dream, with readings from PGR Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social with Ruby Conner, Joey Frances and Sally Barrett.

James Tate's 'How the Pope is Chosen' poppyromanov.livejournal.com/494043.html

My new big TERFism explainer is now online and unpaywalled at Lux magazine, and the physical version in the print issue (#11-12) looks incredible. I do recommend buying it or subscribing. Thanks to Sarah Leonard & all the Lux comrades for wonderful editing. lux-magazine.com/article/terf...

working as a bookseller, there's a lot of customer queries you become very familiar with. perhaps the most common is "in the Sublime song 'smoke two joints', how many joints would the narrator smoke, across the course of a typical day?" the answer - strangely enough - is no joints at all

showing my kids Angels in the Outfield and pausing every few minutes to explain why what’s happening is unrealistic

Strong epigraph combo

Thought I’d started to read a book of my own free will only to discover a @lukekennard.bsky.social endorsement on the back. Troubling!

Some books to (re)read for the old PhD. Recommendations always welcome

It's #WorldPoetryDay! To celebrate, we've made our entire online archive completely free to access for 24 hours. No paywall, no registration required! delta.exacteditions.com/room/modernp...

look it hasn’t worked the last 15 times but maybe *this* time a round of cuts to essential public services will lead to economic growth and prosperity

SEEKING RECOMMENDATIONS for writers whose work intersects the surreal or absurd or weird or funny and the ecological or environmental. Shares welcome!

CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS! Editors Isabelle Baafi, Sohini Basak and Tim Tim Cheng are excited to invite submissions for Magma 93: The Liberation Issue. What does ‘liberation’ mean to you? More info and to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...

In France, French Windows are called Les Doors Anglaise

You think, “Yeah, I’ve landed on a concept,” and then it falls apart. At best, what you’ve got is a metaphor, nothing to write home about.

🔔Call for Submissions🔔 Poetry Ireland Review Issue 145, edited by Victoria Kennefick. We welcome unsolicited submissions of poems, proposals for articles and interviews, from Ireland and abroad, in Irish or English. Learn More: www.poetryireland.ie/writers/subm... Deadline: 28 February 2025

don’t forget to like, comment and subscribe open.substack.com/pub/liambate...

"Jay can I leave you in charge of the backdrop for our new Paddington bench display?" "Yep" "Great Just paint something vaguely Paddington-y. You know, something that adds a bit of additional story to the bench." "Yep" "Amazing. I'm off on holiday so can't wait to see what you've done when I return"

Another glorious episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way dropped today. Gather yourselves around the wireless and listen to my conversation with the legendary @helenmort.bsky.social.

I made a gingerbread panopticon

So excited to be judging @poetrywales.bsky.social’s Poetry Wales Award 2025. Please submit your unpublished poems by 17 February 2025. Details here: poetrywales.co.uk/award

Has anyone else been teaching metre and discovered that the lyrics to the original English Pokémon theme tune are written in common metre, so anything in that metre can be sung to the same tune?

DYCP = Develop Your Crying in Public

“Buy books of poetry and give them to people.” (Words intoned by Jericho Brown at an event on Friday, running in my head since then. So now I’m putting them in your head too.) They don’t even have to like poems, because then you are also giving them “having poetry in your life” which is HUGE.

Imagine feeding your kids with nothing but stupid, beautiful poetry.

in my tender and mild era

Season Two of The Poems We Made Along The Way is launching on Monday! Put the schedule in your diaries. 9th Dec: Charlotte Shevchenko Knight 16th Dec: Stevie Ronnie 23rd Dec: Ella Frears 30th Dec: Helen Mort 6th Jan: Roger Robinson #PoetryPodcast #Poetry