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-...

BIG DAY. Official release date for LIVES OF THE SAINTS. Huge thanks to @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social and @godzillakent.bsky.social for making it happen!

Upcoming reading at East Bristol Books! 4 July! Linda Kemp, John Phillips, and me! Get tickets! www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...

Shout out to East Bristol Books who are hosting a bunch of poetry events over the next few weeks: eastbristolbooks.co.uk/pages/book-e...

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...

FLASH SALE! For a limited time, you can stock up on our latest titles — all at 25% off. But hurry — this offer won’t last long! Sale ends at midnight tomorrow. Thank you for supporting independent publishing. 👉 Shop now and save 25%: brokensleepbooks.com

I wrote about why small coins fascinate poets, and not only as their most common form of earnings someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/cartwheel-...

Crisis Crystal 8 - Sunday 18th May, 9pm UK time Poetry readings from: Linda Kemp Rob Stanton Keston Sutherland FREE, ONLINE sign up here: robynskyr.me/crisis/ 1/3

Moved to see a piece of my beloved whale book up on @futch-journal.bsky.social this mayday 🐳 🥹 💙 www.futchpress.info/post/from-a-...

Next on Futch Journal, an extract from Ellen Dillon's (@drnollid.bsky.social) 'A Whale Called Milieu: Thinking with the Milieu' 🐳 "We are linked together, threaded on a line that has made itself for and by the telling of this story." 🐳 www.futchpress.info/post/from-a-...

VORTEXT is a mail subscription magazine for poetry, poetics, and other short forms of writing. It’s founded in the spirit of practices of self-publishing, circulation, and distribution of new writing, tracing the footsteps and tracks of subscription magazine traditions: vortextmagazine.com

New on Futch Journal!! PART 2 of alexa dexa and danilo machado in conversation about alexa's bathtub opera 'soak'. 'soak' explores alexa dexa's practice of reimagining opera as live online participatory performance rituals that center transformative community: www.futchpress.info/post/space-t...

New on Futch Journal!! alexa dexa and danilo machado in conversation about alexa's bathtub opera 'soak'. 'soak' explores alexa dexa's practice of reimagining opera as live online participatory performance rituals that center transformative community care: www.futchpress.info/post/space-t...

this one's now available as a .pdf here ansgarallen.com/the-sick-list/ [get it while you can]

New on Futch Journal!! alexa dexa and danilo machado in conversation about alexa's bathtub opera 'soak'. 'soak' explores alexa dexa's practice of reimagining opera as live online participatory performance rituals that center transformative community care: www.futchpress.info/post/space-t...

The Northern Lights IN/FORM: an evening of 8 minute poetry experiments, Leeds, 28 March 18.00 FREE www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-l...

Reminder! Rae Armantrout reads for the Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre on Friday, 14 March. Rae will be reading new work and material from her recent book Go Figure. 6pm Room 1, Stewart House (access via Senate House library), London WC1E 7HU. Free entry. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rae-armant...

VORTEXT is a mail subscription magazine for poetry, poetics, and other short forms of writing. It’s founded in the spirit of practices of self-publishing, circulation, and distribution of new writing, tracing the footsteps and tracks of subscription magazine traditions: vortextmagazine.com

Our open call submissions window runs from 3 March to 10 March inclusive. Entry guidelines and specifications here: intergraphia.cargo.site/News

now published in CounterText

Face Press has recent pamphlets by J.H. Prynne, plus others imminent by Prynne, Drew Milne, Jennifer Soong and Salomé Honório face-press.org

Great, detailed, impassioned review of the new Raworth by Luke Roberts: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

"The polarity of total availability created by ubuweb, monoskop, aaaaarg, and the commercial aggression and self-interest of Amazon, can be turned on and off at a click, the inherent moral politics as plain as day." p.152 'Above': uniformbooks.co.uk/manifoldonline.php ubu.com

Some Materials Press books that were out of print, including Anne Boyer’s MONEY CITY SICK AS F*CK, are now back in print 👇 material-s.blogspot.com/?m=1

Very pleased to be reading @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social on 29th January alongside Linda Kemp will be launching her @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social collection ‘Annunciation Sonnets’ I’ll be reading mainly from my new Shearsman Books collection ‘European Hymns.’ It’d be great to see you there!

🧵intergraphia Open Call Submission window: 3 March, 9 am GMT to 10 March, midnight GMT. Submissions cannot be accepted before or after these times. We will try to make our decision by 21 April. We're sorry that we will not be able to offer individual feedback to unsuccessful submissions...

Two poetry book launches @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social in Nottingham on 29th January at 7pm. Linda Kemp's @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social 'Annunciation Sonnets' and Andrew Taylor's (@dradny.bsky.social) 'European Hymns'. It will be a good one! Tickets: fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/poetr... 📚

Eleven years ago today, we published gorse no. 1. 🪅

⚡️BLACKBOX MANIFOLD 33 is now live!⚡️ Poems by James Byrne, Sheila Black, Kelvin Corcoran, David Herd, John Goodby, Lisa Kelly, Joseph Minden, Nell Perry & others Ralph Pite reviews Philip Terry, & Adam Piette reviews Rom Raworth & others blackboxmanifold.sites.sheffield.ac.uk

Having the opportunity & support to be able to communicate effectively is political. And there’s a reason why artists & writers are routinely mocked & generally undervalued & why monolingual English speakers are told from a young age that learning languages is hard & pointless.

The New Cambridge Chapbook Review. New and interesting review publication has emerged. Further deets here: tnccr.co.uk Good to see the good stuff in these less than good times. Get on it.

I have a piece up for The Bookseller today, in which I consider how major publishers can create space for the small presses that keep the literary scene afloat. www.thebookseller.com/comment/what...

Great article by @godzillakent.bsky.social over at The Bookseller. Small presses are the grassroots. They are the birthplace of great writing and great writers and capture something the big presses will never be able to. The big presses need to make space. www.thebookseller.com/comment/what...

Two poetry book launches @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social in Nottingham on 29th January at 7pm. Linda Kemp's @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social 'Annunciation Sonnets' and Andrew Taylor's (@dradny.bsky.social) 'European Hymns'. It will be a good one! Tickets: fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/poetr... 📚

I'm very pleased to be reading alongside @carrieetter.bsky.social in the the first of the Adventures In Poetry series. It's at @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social, Nottingham. See some of you there, I hope. fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/poetr...

In this, the journal I co-founded, you'll find more on Sean Bonney and more on other formally innovative poets. A great resource (that even I don't look at enough!).