Congratulations to this year's Best of the Net nominees! #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #writingcommunity

"It’s not enough, anymore, to say of course / I would’ve liked to know / how it ended." A poem by 𝗔𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗶𝗿𝗲 in the Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/birthday-poem-by-aaron-magloire.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

Winchester Poetry Festival is approaching. online events are so important for accessibility, but they’re also costly to run & we haven’t sold many online tickets yet. Just wanted to shout that our headline events are live-streamed and BSL interpreted! 1/3 www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on

"She’s not just limp / but thin from hunger, from / scavenging among the ruins, / not a flutter in her delicate / cage of ribs, neither the oath / nor allegiance of oxygen." Four poems by 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗚𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝘀 in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/four-by-gary-geddes.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

Reading with @notjustdancing.bsky.social & Louise Machen on Saturday 27 September with music from Li Lu & Lulu Yang. What fabulous company!! 🤩https://poetsandplayers.co/2025/09/04/sasha-dugdale-louise-machen-with-music-from-li-lu-lulu-yang-27-september-2025/

We're delighted to announce that Kris Johnson's debut collection Ghost River, published by Bloodaxe in 2023, has been shortlisted for the @englishassociation.bsky.social's Michael Murphy Poetry Prize for a distinctive first volume of poetry in English. www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

🚨Launch details for New Arcana!🚨 I'll be in Galway, Dublin, Belfast & online. Please do come along if you can, & spread the word. 🔮✨️🐍🃏 @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @gutterbookshop.bsky.social

POETRY IRELAND 146 LAUNCH Join Poetry Ireland, editor Stephen Sexton, and contributing poets for the launch of #PIR146 in Belfast! 📅 Tuesday, September 23rd at 5:30pm 📍 Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's 📩 Book (free) via Eventbrite here: www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/lau...

Great reviews in the Poetry Book Society Autumn Bulletin of @poetclare.bsky.social's sixth collection Lives of the Female Poets and @jesstraynor.bsky.social's fourth collection #NewArcana, both out this month from Bloodaxe. Many thanks to reviewers @shashtrevett.bsky.social and Nasim Rebecca Asl.

"When did news become advice / Bury invitations, plant ancestral / Relics in plain blight / You don't need to tell anyone" A few poems by 𝗟𝗮𝘆𝗻𝗶𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲 in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/selected-poems-by-laynie-browne.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

Read "Sweetest Perfection: Depeche Mode's Hyperreal Pop" by 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝗺𝗼, only in Amsterdam Review. www.amsterdamreview.org/sweetest-perfection.html #DepecheMode #music #popculture #philosophy #essays

Join us on Tues 30 Sept, 7pm for our next online launch reading with Clare Pollard, Jessica Traynor & Mslexia Pamphlet Competition winner Emilie Jelinek! www.bloodaxebooks.com/events?artic... @poetclare.bsky.social @jesstraynor.bsky.social @emiliejelinek.bsky.social @mslexia.bsky.social

"How easily it happens. You would walk home / along the canal with your arms folded / across yourself" A poem by 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮 𝗕𝘆𝗿𝗻𝗲 𝗞𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗲 in the Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/concrete.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

"I remembered my kin who long ago / sailed this way, all plunder and panic" A poem by 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗼𝗻 @esloudon.bsky.social in the Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/nausea.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

Nazaret Ranea writes of her journey from being one of the Scottish Poetry Library's Young Makars to having her first poetry collection published by Drunk Muse Press. www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2025/07/my-j...

For the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social day 9 Matthew Hollis’s ‘Earth House’ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social ‘I am giving my life to you’ #poetry #writing #readers #poetic #books

Posting this in the spirit of early-bird-catches-the-worm: October is still a way off but please put this in your diaries as Oksana is a star ⭐ and it will be enlightening to read and talk with her harriman.columbia.edu/event/women-...

🌿 2025 Laurel Prize Finalist 🌿 We are delighted to announce that #KatrinaPorteous has been named one of the five finalists for The Laurel Prize 2025 for her fourth poetry collection #Rhizodont. #LaurelPrize2025 @poetryschool.bsky.social www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

As a child I lived among the raised bogs of the midlands, now I live among the blanket bogs of the mountains and these bogs feature in each of my collections @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social.

📚 It's August, which means the #SealeyChallenge is now underway! To help you on your journey to read a book every day this month, The Poetry Society has gotten in touch with poets we've recently worked with for some recommendations. (...)

Every Wednesday morning from 7:30-8am, a group of writers gather round my virtual table to explore the work of one poet, noting craft, and then write to 3 prompts (w/ recording available for those who prefer to write at another time). Join us via my Substack - shorturl.at/Ox9P4

"The doctor / indicated approximately the head, a ridiculous / beginning, a pinprick, there was no person there / to be seen" Four poems by 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗷𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗷𝗻 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝗲𝗺𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮 (transl. 𝗥𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝘂𝗰𝗸) in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/four-by-marjolijn-van-heemstra.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

I’m pleased that Maria Stepanova’s novel has been awarded a #PENTranslates grant @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

Amsterdam Review talks to poet 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗹 𝗟𝗲𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸 about inspiration, switching between genres, writing in a second language, and the themes and qualities that define her poetry. bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity #interview

"Next spring / I will be another woman; / I will look a little less / like my father." A poem by 𝗛𝗮𝘇𝗲𝗹 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹 in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

Posting this exemplary poem by an exemplary poet, Kona Macphee, is something I love to do every few years or so. The smallness of it—but the immensity. Utterly beautiful poem-making.

"I must have slept after a while because I dreamed the male fox was standing in the garden, agitated, uncertain what to do. He turned and turned about looking around for his mate, but she didn’t come." #flashfiction by 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗞𝗶𝗿𝗸 in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview

🎤 ANNOUNCING: Forward Prizes Ceremony 2025 @southbankcentre.bsky.social 📅 Sun 26 Oct | 🕢 7:30pm | 📍 Southbank Centre 20 poets. 4 prizes. 1 unforgettable night of poetry! Tickets 🎟️: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/for... #ForwardPrizes #PoetryLive

'Many poems also recall genre painting in their precise ordin­ariness.' Phoebe Walker: A painful past relationship charted through poetry

Hi London friends, I will be reading at the @poetrylondon.bsky.social summer launch this Thursday - come along and say hi! I'll be reading at few poems from New Arcana so you'll get a little sneak preview 🔮☀️ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

"Day after day, a pollinator arrives / and white flowers open, / every day the juice of fruit touches my tongue" Two poems by 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗲𝘆 𝗪𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

"What do the possibilities of human nature hold if they fail to take into account those of the non-human world?" Read 𝗨𝘀 𝘃. 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Beloved, visionary Fanny Howe, a beacon of ferocity, honesty & integrity—a fighter in all senses of the term—has moved on. Read her. The powerful voice does not depart. It only grows louder…. 1940-2025 www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

"It’s easy to get lost in technicalities, / to science the natural cycles of life" A poem by 𝗟𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗮 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗶𝘀 in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

'Beast is an intense, lyrical work which asks difficult questions' 'A Mother Sings' from @pascalepetit.bsky.social's ninth collection #Beast was featured as Poem of the Week in @scotsman.com magazine of 5 July. With thanks to @byleaveswelive.bsky.social.

"Being human, / the people came / to accept transformation / for its own sake— / of themselves, first— / but transformation / is its own advocate" A poem by 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿 in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

"The choice lies in the act of measuring—it is the product of some frank, / dispassionate inspection, a lucent audit of your standing" Two poems by 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝗺𝗼 @danielnemo.bsky.social in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

‘In dialogue here not just with his Sri Lankan heritage, but with Keats, Marvell, Seamus Heaney and Walter de la Mare, [Vidyan] Ravinthiran deserves more recognition as one of our most musical and memorable poets.' - Graeme Richardson, @thetimes.com, on Avidyā. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Berlin friends! Reading in Berlin with Maria Stepanova from my translation of her Holy Winter @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social on 11 July at 6pm www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/events/po...

"Emily as 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙧𝙮𝙖𝙙 by Pablo Picasso," a poem by 𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗖. 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲 @darrencdemaree.bsky.social in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

Feeling grateful (also floored) to turn to a page in Poetry Magazine & find this poem I wrote, with all admiration, after Mary Oliver's "When Death Comes." Thank you, Adrian, Lindsay, Holly, et al.

"The capital of capital / is a city impossible to besiege. It moves, / after all, all the barons and pirates / setting up shop over and over" Two poems by 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗭𝘄𝗮𝗿𝘁 @janezwart.bsky.social in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

"That Spring Artemis sent all the big poets and little poets / hysterical down the mountain to the workshop of the sea / in search of the first songs still forming in the sealanes of trade" Two poems by 𝗞𝗲𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗻 in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

My new chapbook, REMAINDER, has a cover and a preorder page!! I'm immensely proud of this collection, and I hope you'll take a peek! Many thanks to @bullcitypress.com for ushering these poems into the world! 🙏

"So much goes wrong: / no body, no reflection, no head / to drop forward, a mortal sun." Two poems by 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗳𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲 𝗞𝗶𝗿𝗯𝘆 @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

June reader Kristina Andersson Bicher interviewed in @amsterdamreview.bsky.social www.amsterdamreview.org/writing-is-l...

"If it’s smaller than your hand, by law / you can take it home / to contemplate it" A poem by 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗵 𝗖𝗮𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻 @sarahbc.bsky.social in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

'Petit’s beasts dance through her language. […] Although there may not be answers, there is powerful knowing here.’ – Ellora Sutton, @mslexia.bsky.social, on @pascalepetit.bsky.social's ninth poetry collection Beast.

"𝑂𝑛𝑒 ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑑, / 𝑡𝑤𝑜 ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑑, 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 / ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ: I don’t know why / I want to establish this kind of / precision. " A poem by 𝗞𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗧𝗲𝗿𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗿 in the Spring 2025 issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

Congratulations to our 2024 Poetry Pamphlet Competition winner, Emilie Jelinek! 🎉 Her prizewinning pamphlet, The Sky Around My Father, will be published by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social on 25 September. mslexia.co.uk/competitions... #AmWriting #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity