@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Tuesday 30th June 8:00 PM Readers: John Kinsella, Mark Fiddes, Linda Kemp, Ezra Chiu, Arthur Lawson, and Jack Bennett. Tickets: www.brokensleepbooks.com/events

Buying poetry books, reading them, having them lying around ready to dive back into even for a quick moment, having them calling us from our shelves and our bedside table - that's a gift. Poets and poetry publishers are doing God's work

How complete + final the feeling as I lift its curve in the net is a hybrid lyric-essay that moves between elegy, translation, & ecological witness, finding its gravitational centre in a sketch by Barrie Cooke of two figures hauling a pike from a boat. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

We are open for full length poetry collection submissions until 31st May. A very small percentage of people who submit to Broken Sleep Books actually buy a book from us. If every submitter bought just 1 title, it would make a huge difference. Guidelines: www.brokensleepbooks.com/submissions

Next up at Futch Journal: 'As You Are When the Autobus Calls' by Sophie Howe. www.futchpress.info/post/when-th... "I wish an introduction to Diana Souhami’s work was not needed, meaning that in an ideal world, it was required reading."

New from Leafe Press: "The Moral Theology Of The Devil / Clothed With The Sun" by Linda Kemp". 38 pages. £9.00 "Seeded from Thomas Merton’s contemplations, this open-ended text invites the reader into participation in the creation of meaning." www.leafepress.org/2025/08/the-...

The reading that most stuck with me this year

A quick turn on the Bluesky carousel for this short book of poems, 'Annunciation Sonnets' by Linda Kemp, during @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social's sale: www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Next up at Futch Journal: 'As You Are When the Autobus Calls' by Sophie Howe. www.futchpress.info/post/when-th... "I wish an introduction to Diana Souhami’s work was not needed, meaning that in an ideal world, it was required reading."

‘Milton saw theology as a collective endeavour. Every believer has the right and obligation to work out the truths of Christian religion for themselves, but they should refine and test these beliefs in dialogue with fellow believers.’ Tobias Gregory on the poet’s faith www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Derby pals!!! I will be at the gorgeous Dormouse in Belper (or actually the nearby & delicious Reunion Deli) for a BAD LANGUAGE reading & chat on Thursday night! 26 Feb, 7pm. Join us! www.dormousebooks.com

New on Futch Journal: 'In Other Words: An entanglement of o & E' www.futchpress.info/post/in-othe... The O-obsessed olivier met with Noa Micaela Fields ahead of the launch of her debut poetry book 'E'. Searching for the trans souls of their chosen vowels, they role-played in conversation as o and E.

Review of the Futch Press collection 'Breath Notes' now available on Stride Magazine: stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2026/02/atte... and deets to buy the poetry here: www.futchpress.info/press

Poets! I invite you to entertain my series of questions in my piece published by UK-based journal, Futch. l i n k 👇👇👇 #poetry #poems #poetics #poem #lacan #psychoanalysis #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Next on Futch Journal: 'Questions Towards the Unconscious as Poetic Referent' by Sean G. Meggeson @seangmeggeson.bsky.social www.futchpress.info/post/questio...

Crikey! a deceptively slim volume but plenty to get stuck into... #LeafePress #LindaKemp www.leafepress.org

'...what for so long has seemed the arduous royal road into the domain of poetry ("what does it mean?") seems less and less an unavoidably necessary precondition for successful reading.' -J.H. Prynne

it's a Christmas miracle - new poems from the one & only J.H. Prynne, in full "Doric Plumage". Order your copy here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/doric-...

ERRATUM FICTIONS opens for subs this January www.erratumpress.com/about

kids these days would simply not believe that, once upon a time, you could see John Carey, Tom Paulin, and Germaine Greer seriously discussing books on BBC television. RIP 🖤🤘🏻

Rolling out the sound condenses over ice, sea smoke trails the boat, twists of light letter the air, a language holding low around the edges of the world, empty and endless for the mind to lodge at zero. Kelvin Corcoran

A seasonal reminder that you can order our titles from our website; orders are despatched within 24 hours. Recent hardbacks include Steve Ely's 'Eely' and Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour' (you'll also receive a free 'Inventory' pamphlet). Order here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Liverpool walking poetics.

New on Futch Journal: 'To the Post Office, God is a Hook in the Sky' by Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social www.futchpress.info/post/to-the-... 📮📯"After reading the original Thomas De Quincey 1803 diary in June, I was taken by the drafts and notes De Quincey made for his letters."

they're auctioning Blake's Tyger next week seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star www.christies.com/en/stories/t...

PREORDER: Gareth Farmer’s What’s That: Instead of Ego II: Acrostic Aftermaths & Other Poems is a structurally intricate and linguistically dense exploration of autism, neurodivergence, and the burdens of normativity. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Stuart McPherson’s The Aureate Trophies of Profit & Loss is a furious, darkly surreal excavation of life under late capitalism, rendered in a language that seethes, mocks, and mourns. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

We didn’t get Books Council Wales funding, it would've meant 5 years of stability. It’s a blow, and it means a rockier road ahead, but our commitment to ambitious, inclusive, working-class publishing stays firm. If you want to help: buy a book, spread the word, or donate: ko-fi.com/brokensleepb...

New pamphlet!: www.futchpress.info/press Responding to a call for poems attending to religion – faith – spirituality, this anthology features the poetry of Jack Belloli, Sarah Cave, Rey Conquer, Jamie Lee, Lucy Lovell, @dradny.bsky.social Andrew Taylor and Nadira Wallace. Edited by Linda Kemp.

New on Futch Journal: 'To the Post Office, God is a Hook in the Sky' by Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social www.futchpress.info/post/to-the-... 📮📯"After reading the original Thomas De Quincey 1803 diary in June, I was taken by the drafts and notes De Quincey made for his letters."

wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do! www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...

On the night of October 22-23 1957, the poet John Wieners composed a long poem on a single 10ft continuous scroll of teletype paper. Now Face Press have released it in a gorgeous new publication containing not just a transcription but a full scale facsimile!

Now up on Futch Journal: 'Sponge Tests' by E.K. Myerson @ekmyerson.bsky.social "This is the Holy Sponge". 🧽💫👼 www.futchpress.info/post/sponge-... [Image ID: Angel bearing a sponge, by Antonio Giorgetti, Ponte Sant'Angelo à Rome. Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY 2.5]

New pamphlet!: www.futchpress.info/press Responding to a call for poems attending to religion – faith – spirituality, this anthology features the poetry of Jack Belloli, Sarah Cave, Rey Conquer, Jamie Lee, Lucy Lovell, @dradny.bsky.social Andrew Taylor and Nadira Wallace. Edited by Linda Kemp.

Now up on Futch Journal: 'Sponge Tests' by E.K. Myerson @ekmyerson.bsky.social "This is the Holy Sponge". 🧽💫👼 www.futchpress.info/post/sponge-... [Image ID: Angel bearing a sponge, by Antonio Giorgetti, Ponte Sant'Angelo à Rome. Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY 2.5]

The incredible Bernardine Evaristo has used her @womensprize.bsky.social Outstanding Contribution Award to create a new @rsliterature.bsky.social Prize. For the next decade, we will be celebrating pioneering women writers, starting with Maureen Duffy www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

"a lifetime lush & desolate mortification swaying in the close of being told finally it’s fine" An extract from a new long poem by Linda Kemp: www.littermagazine.org/2025/06/lind...

Good to see more of these wonderful Psalm poems from Alan Baker @leafepress.bsky.social and looking forward to a collection. These two in the current Tears in the Fence

"The fact that things break is always a part of their function. I hope I have not caused pain. I wish I could feel it instead of you." Two poems in the form of psalms from Rob Kiely: www.littermagazine.org/2025/09/rob-...

After making a dumb joke on here about the creative side of academic writing as "unfunded hobbit research", I then wrote a serious post about it

Next on Futch Journal we have 'Highly adaptable poetic processes, free to all those who desire them' by Sarah Dawson. Read it here: www.futchpress.info/post/highly-... 📝💫 #creativecritical #criticalcreative #FrankAuerbach #futchjournal #poetics #sarahdawson

Next on Futch Journal we have 'Highly adaptable poetic processes, free to all those who desire them' by Sarah Dawson. Read it here: www.futchpress.info/post/highly-... 📝💫 #creativecritical #criticalcreative #FrankAuerbach #futchjournal #poetics #sarahdawson

Just published: Linda Kemp's review of Robert Sheppard's The Necessity of Poetics (2024) 'Poetry [...] is shown to be an embodied form of knowledge and meaning-making, one which lives and breathes, indeed has "pulse"' @robertsheppard.bsky.social poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...

A year ago my book of essays and other prose, on the subject of poetics, and examples of poetics, was published by Shearsman: an account with contents some links (to the book and to excerpts) : robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-...

Futch Journal: The journal of experimental poetics. Think essays, errata, hyphens, notes, sound poetry, worms, & other unpaid-for breakages. www.futchpress.info

So hoist the mainsail and stutter the chronicle of days and swell those organs with radical pride and declare we’re going back to the home no longer there. From 'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls', Peter Riley longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

New on our website: What Is Creative Criticism? A Field Report on a Colloquium at Oxford, hosted by Joe Moshenska and Iris Pearson and with a keynote by Mary Capello.

There's a little scrap of him here in the lovely @futch-journal.bsky.social www.futchpress.info/post/from-a-...