First sighting of the new @candlestickpress.bsky.social Ten Poems about Owls, at the preview eve of the brand new @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social in York.

Roll up, London…

Worth the wait...

ONLINE LAUNCH: Pay-what-you-want tickets are still available for our February launch event. Come along for great readings from Emily Barker, Laurie Eaves, Dominic Hoey, Matthew Kosinski, Olly Todd, and Megan Pattie! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...

Brittle, furious, engaging, urgent: a superb book launch of Keshed from @ortacpress.bsky.social by @stuhennigan.bsky.social tonight.

Most chuffed and honoured to have a poem in this forthcoming gem from @candlestickpress.bsky.social, with Ian Humphreys, Niall Campbell, Victoria Gatehouse, Angela Readman, Gregory Leadbetter, Daniel Webster Davis, AE Stalling, Edward Thomas, and Emily Dickinson. With a lovely cover by Niki Bowers.

Leonora Carrington, 'The Meal of Lord Candlestick' (1938)

From The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems by Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Robin Fulton. New Directions Books (2006).

Gift ideas... 🥳

The Broken Sleep Books Anthology 2025 gathers standout, risk-taking writing from every publication of the year, spanning poetry, non-fiction and fiction. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Samuel Palmer, 'The Harvest Moon (Drawing for a Pastoral Scene)' (1831-2)

Happy National Poetry Day, One and All. This. Always.

RIP Brian Patten

One of the Greats has passed. RIP Tony Harrison

Now scrubbed, so let's put it everywhere.

A Key of Return (Photo: Ashraf Amra/APA Images)

Kate Miller

William Turner of Oxford, 'Stonehenge - Twilight' (c.1840)

All set for this evening's @leedslitfest.bsky.social reading @universityofleeds.bsky.social 𝘋𝑖𝘮𝑚𝘦𝑡 @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

ONLINE LAUNCH: Broken Sleep June 2025 releases, with readings from Martin Hayes, Alice Kinsella, Jim Goar, Sue Vickerman, Kit Ingram, and Eva Aldea. Minimum payment of £1. For free tickets email: [email protected] www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...

Antony Gormley, 'Field' (1993)

G, by Zaffar Kunial

PROGRAMME ANNOUNCEMENT! This June, Leeds Lit Fest is back with 9 days of events in venues across the city. A collaboration of writers, venues, programmers & poets. A gathering of homegrown people & guests from afar. For more info on the programme & to book tickets: www.leedslitfest.co.uk/events/

Heads up folks! UK pre-orders for Keshed available now direct from Ortac Press on the link below. Also available to pre-order from Stones and Blackwells, for overseas pals: www.waterstones.com/book/keshed/... blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... Will be going on bookshop dot org etc soon too.

Really looking forward to reading at this event during Leeds Lit Fest 2025, 19th June. See you there? All welcome! #leedslitfest #leedslitfest2025 @leedslitfest.bsky.social

Tonight: 7.30 pm UK. Do share: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ft0... Please watch and most importantly DONATE to Medical Aid For Palestinians (MAP) for their brave and necessary work if you can. This is the link for a GoFundMe (all donations go directly to MAP) on the livestream page.

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