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.

In honour of her recent Walcott Prize shortlisting, we've re-published Shash Trevett reading her amazing poem 'These Were Their Names' on the Poetry Bites podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/5j2J... Next week hear a poem from Alan Payne, who is also on the shortlist! @shashtrevett.bsky.social

So thrilled to be on this long list. Thank you @englishassociation.bsky.social and judges and congratulations to all the wonderful poets on this list 🙏🏽💖🙏🏽

More lovely Shash Trevett news! Shash's debut collection The Naming of Names is on the longlist for the 2025 Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize! poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/the-... @shashtrevett.bsky.social

Excavation of a mass grave at Chemmani in Sri Lanka. Phase 2, Day 17 A total of 80 skeletons have now been unearthed, including those of children, school bags buried alongside their bodies. x.com/kumanan93/st...

As a storyteller and translator, Trevett demonstrates a remarkable ability to choose her words with precision, ensuring that each one serves the larger purpose of the poem – Thembe Mvula, Poetry London poetrylondon.co.uk/they-were-he... @poetrylondon.bsky.social @shashtrevett.bsky.social

As an excavation of a mass grave in the North of Sri Lanka continues, here is an update from a journalist at the scene. #warcrimes #TamilLives x.com/kumanan93/st...

Only one place remaining. Workshop - this morning - 11am. I have a lovely set of exercises. Come join us to have some fun with words!

Really enjoyed attending the launch of Ilisha Thiru Purcell's @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social pamphlet What She Said at Northern Stage this weekend. A clever combination of forms from Tamil poetry and north east landscapes. Great to hear @shashtrevett.bsky.social read her work too!

Had a wonderful morning recording my poems for @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social with the lovely #PaulBaily at Re:Sound Studios resounduk.co.uk Paul was amazing and so good at what he does. I am thrilled to have my poems recorded: thank you Paul and The Poetry Archive 🙏🏽🙏🏽 @poetrybusiness.bsky.social

So looking forward to leading this workshop next week. The @poetrybusiness.bsky.social runs so many fantastic workshops at affordable prices. Please check them out 🌺

Remembering today the immense loss of civilian life at the end of the 26 year civil war in Sri Lanka. By the shores of Nanthikadal Lagoon our dreams came to rot. My poem of Remembrance from ‘The Naming of Names’ (2024 #poetrybusiness) #May18 #TamilLives. There can be no end to the grief.

So looking forward to reading alongside the wonderful #YusifMQasmiyeh at Ledbury in June!

I’m so looking forward to attending (where pos) and reading alongside #YusifQasmiyeh & #AnthonyVahniCapildeo at this conference on Displacement, organised by the Univs of Hyderabad, Dartmouth & UCL. It’s Hybrid - with amazing panelists. Please join in if you can.

Here's a precise and perceptive review of upcoming Life expectancy begins to fall by @tomsastry.bsky.social Thank you @shashtrevett.bsky.social and PBS Find out more: buff.ly/Hy4ZiMM Line up your copy of Tom's book: buff.ly/7yYecNI

For International Mother Language Day, it’s lovely to see this again from the @mptmagazine.bsky.social archive. Thank you! @poetrybusiness.bsky.social

I am proud to join over 350 rabbis and cantors, plus a long list (and growing) of Jewish creatives to sign on to an ad in the @nytimes.com crying out against the president’s (ימ"ש) call for the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza. #SayNoToEthnicCleansing #GazaIsNotForSale 1/

#BREAKING All five artistic teams shortlisted for the 61st Venice Biennale have released a joint statement in support of winning duo Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino who were dumped by Creative Australia following media and political pressure. The group calls for them to be reinstated.

Ghosts do not come to gulp blood in the battlefields of our era, nor demons to consume flesh. The ghosts and demons that consume us from afar have faces like yours and mine. S. Sivasegaram, one of many poets I discovered in @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social extraordinary collection Out of Sri Lanka

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One of the world’s greatest book stores - I learned so much from Ahmed & Mahmoud & many of my books (which I couldn’t find in the US) are from their shop. Please amplify- telling Palestinian stories, esp from Palestinian perspectives, is one of the greatest threats to the Zionist entity.

We are alarmed and shocked by the arrest and detainment of our author and colleague Mahmoud Muna, along with his nephew Ahmad Muna, owners and booksellers of Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop. Please share our statement below widely.

youtu.be/kxTyV_cBz7o Absolutely glorious.

We are now accepting submissions for The North 71 until the end of February! You can send us up to 6 poems for consideration via the form on our website. More details: poetrybusiness.co.uk/about-the-po...