it’s not easy thinking up a book cover. But when you come across the right one you’ll know.

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

Looking forward to running this workshop on found poetry and metaphors for Tsaa on 27 oct! Please check out the upcoming sessions by Charlotte Shevchenko Knight and Romalyn herself on haunting and joy 👍✍️ @romalynante3.bsky.social www.romalynante.com/event-list

Looking forward to running this workshop on found poetry and metaphors for Tsaa on 27 oct! Please check out the upcoming sessions by Charlotte Sharvenko Knight and Romalyn herself on haunting and joy 👍✍️ @romalynante3.bsky.social www.romalynante.com/event-list

Do you want to be part of something special? We're recruiting for a new Chair and two new Trustees to support our national work advocating for and championing UK-based women poets. Find out more here: www.rebeccaswiftfoundation.org/about/work-w... #Governance #womenpoets

‘Shapero leaves a huge dent in oblivion to show us that it’s real.’ —Jack Underwood STAY DEAD by Natalie Shapero OUT NOW In her fourth collection, Shapero examines performance, power, comedy and despair through the lenses of method acting and abstract expressionism. outspokenldn.com/shop/staydead

📣 Orders are now open for our latest issue, Wasafiri 123! Find interviews with Andre Bagoo, Cato Pedder, and Christina Sharpe, three translated Tamil poets, a poem by Devika Rege, and more fiction, reviews, articles, and poems. www.wasafiri.org/issues/wasaf...

I'll be reading from my @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social book, The Point Is You Are Alive, alongside @marymulholland.bsky.social Wendy Allen and @alicehiller.bsky.social, at The Poetry Cafe, Tuesday 28th October, 7pm-9pm! Free tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/outrageous...

Join @csmithpoet.bsky.social to celebrate the publication of BYCATCH at Wembley Library, alongside poet Erica Hesketh. Their books are beautifully moving explorations into the beginning and end of life, parenting & ageing, sadness & joy. Thursday 16th October 6.30pm eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-in-...

was away from this side of social media for a while but so glad to learn from @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social her process of translating and editing

The first hour of the day 💕

Fellow @serenbooks.bsky.social poet @wendycaitlin.bsky.social and I are reading tomorrow (23rd July, 6.30 pm) at @bookspacecardiff.bsky.social, the best independent bookshop in the city. Tickets: www.bookspacecardiff.co.uk/products/wen...

helping with a writing contest makes me think back on beginnings, the way good writing matters and grows on you. 🌱🌱

I’ve been sending out some copies of ‘Snap!’ It’s so lovely to have the book out in the world and the reactions so far have been really lovely. If you want a copy, it’s available here in parperback or hardback: shorturl.at/V3bGH

‘No matter how hard they try, Hai, Grazina, and his friends find America falling short of what it promises, simply and especially because they are immigrants or children of the immigrants.’ theadroitjournal.org/2025/07/03/a...

I’ve read a very different review on Vuong’s The Emperor of Gladness recently but I hope to share my own reflections on the novel with you. Thanks a lot to The Adroit Journal for including it theadroitjournal.org/2025/07/03/a...

A 90-minute masterclass for our Raising Voices Project www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social

Wasafiri has three panels in the English Shared Futures conference taking place in York, 3-5 July, incl. our Associate Editors @mayacaspari.bsky.social @jennywcreative.bsky.social Magazines will be on sale on Sat, 5 July in the Publishers Hall. Full programme: buff.ly/MGibRzm See you there!

Agami Heron, rear view. At Agami Island #CostaRica #birds #nature

Wonderful to discover the thoughtfulness and sensitivity in Jennifer’s translation practice @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social

Join Wasafiri for a poetry reading and panel discussion on dislocation and diaspora with Theophilus Kwek & Suji Kwock Kim. The event will be chaired by Wasafiri Associate Editor & poet @jennywcreative.bsky.social Thursday, 12 June, 7pm BLOC, Queen Mary University London Tickets:

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

Jean Arp

Really glad to see selected interviews from LGBT contributors in #StateofPlay #ESEA anthology (co-edited with Eddie Tay) included here as @engfac.bsky.social #LGBTHM research and resources! 👍 @Outspoken_Press

TOMORROW (21 Feb) - please join us for the next Professor of Poetry lecture by A.E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social. This is a public lecture and all are welcome! No booking required. When? 5.30pm on 21 Feb Where? Examination Schools, Oxford #Cavafy #poetrylovers #Oxfordevents #PoetrySky

ANNOUNCING A MAJOR NEW @EmpirePodUK SERIES: IRELAND & EMPIRE Episode One- COLONISING IRELAND: Henry VIII, Elizabeth I & The Tudor Conquest of Ireland

‼️Submissions Closing Soon‼️ The Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and Fiction is accepting submissions for just one more month! Winners receive $3000 and publication by @univnebpress.bsky.social. For guidelines and entry: prairieschooner.unl.edu/book-prize-g...

Watched A Complete Unknown too. The film is fascinating: thought there could be more to his character and the narrative, but it makes you curious about the making of those songs, and the value of art and art-makers

The Free Verse Prize, judged by Ali Lewis in support of Free Verse: The Poetry Book & Magazine Fair, is taking submissions until midnight on 7 March! We invite poets to submit original pieces on any topic with the chance for the winning poem to feature at one of the key events of the (...)

Tomorrow night we have @pascalepetit.bsky.social and @simonmaddrell.bsky.social with us! How cool is that?! Details in the link: mailchi.mp/e0187a65a6b8...

Excited about this from Melissa Fu!

sometimes in a song you wonder what/where the focus is, like sham’s 勿念, is it the window-view of rain, the familiar drink 鴛鴦, the car journey, sentences on the page, the sea, or is it the memory 點一杯鴛鴦 像從前快樂 genius.com/Yoyo-sham-le...

Also researching for writer residency opportunities ⛰️ and welcome suggestions (please message me)

Taking up more freelance/part-time work from end of Feb so if you need any editing / translation / writing projects or like to pick up some poetry please text me 🙏

One of my poems from Letters Home, ‘To the little girl in a village home I never met’ has been included in Trinity college London exam (expressive reading) texts. While very happy about it, I’m thinking, when can I tell mom I wrote this poem about her 🏡

Thank you so much to everyone who came to our online Expanding the Hyphen event last night! It was such a joy to be able to share space with writers from different mixed ESEA backgrounds: Suyin Du Bois Natalie Linh Bolderston Will Harris Thank you! 🙏

Get your tix now for our free online event on Feb 6th: Expanding the Hyphen: Poetry from mixed race ESEA perspectives Ft. Will Harris / Natalie Linh Bolderston / Suyin Du Bois Hosted by Sean Wai Keung We hope to see you there! www.eventbrite.com/e/expanding-... 🔴✍️🎤

Two anthologies devoted to the past century of remarkable New Yorker fiction and poetry were published today. Get your copy!

We are excited to soon publish the first poems in our new En Route section, curated by our Poetry Editor, Eric Yip. Submissions for this section are accepted on a rolling basis. www.asiancha.com/wp/en-route/

Oxford Writers Wheel ✨ Since May 2024, Oxford Writers Wheel has been running creative writing workshops for young people across Oxfordshire and beyond! 📝✨ fusion-arts.org/projects/oxf...

Throwback to a Night of Experimental Sound & Visuals at 95 Gloucester Green Remembering that sweltering summer night when Fusion Arts was packed to the brim. On what was probably the hottest day of the year, we sat together in a darkened space, completely immersed in sound and visuals.

Early one for your diaries. Delighted to be spending the evening of World Book Day in the company of @imtiazdharker.bsky.social and @jennywcreative.bsky.social at Wembley Library on 6 March, 6.30pm. More deets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-in-...

It is true there is not enough beauty in the world. It is also true that I am not competent to restore it. Neither is there candor, and here I may be of some use. I am at work, though I am silent. —Louise Glück, from "October"

Ahhhh it's coming around so fast - exactly one month from today, my new book Introduction To Cloud Care will be released by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social I'm incredibly grateful for everyone who already pre-ordered!❤️https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/laura-theis-introduction-to-cloud-care

He’s an excellent host as the joint founder of Birmingham Literature Festival, & will be in conversation with Pádraig Ó Tauma, Helen Calcutt, Ruth Padel & Carrie Etter It’s online & inperson Tickets - www.vervepoetryfestival.com/2025-events/sunday-headline-event

The dystopian sci fi epic The Employees by Łukasz Twarkowski (from @thebookerprizes.bsky.social International-shortlisted novel by Olga Ravn) at @southbankcentre.bsky.social was stunning: what happens when humanoids deviate, the importance of feeling alive, of memory.

last night we had our little launch, people were so kind & supportive & really showed up for us 💕 feeling so grateful for our poetry community and to be in the room alongside such talented writers.

FREE Mentorship opportunity for young writers aged 13-19! Jan & Feb 2025, Online These sessions are open to all, especially to young writers from the global majority & working-class backgrounds. If you're interested, please email a sample poem & your details: [email protected]

Alongside contemporary music, violinist Mayah Kadish is immersed in early music. On 21st January she will be treating us to her own diminutions (variations) of music by Monteverdi, Cor mio non mori? Tix: wegottickets.com/event/643727 Funders: ACE, @prsfoundation.bsky.social @ppluk.bsky.social

Stumbled on ‘Envelopes of Air’, this beautiful piece of conversation between Limón / Diaz long time ago www.newyorker.com/magazine/poe...