This year's exhibition at Small Publishers Fair (24 & 25 October) draws on several decades of work by artist and writer Erica Van Horn, who has been a participant at the Fair since the beginning. Details of the exhibition can be found here: smallpublishersfair.co.uk/exhibition-2...

This year's @smallpublishers.bsky.social cards, designed (as always) by @uniformbooks.bsky.social, and featuring the work of Erica Van Horn (the subject of this year's exhibition). Fri 24 / Sat 25 October, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL. 11am-7pm, admission free, all welcome.

‘No amount of knowledge about medieval literary culture can make the Pearl Manuscript tell us what it means. Everyone has to speculate at some point.’ @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the manuscript that contains the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Terrie Reddish and I recorded a talk for 'BIND25 - preserving the past and crafting the future', Association of Book Crafts New Zealand conference. We discuss aspects of bookmaking in all its forms and ways to get involved in the communities of its practices, at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XWo...

Saturday 04/10/2026 10:30-12:00 Wirral Poetry Festival hosts Afonydd poets Sian Northey, Siôn Aled Owen, & Robbie Burton at Bebington Library, Civic Way Bebington Wirral CH63 7PN free, no booking required

We are preparing a new UK/RoI #queerpoetry anthology. Up//Roar: Poems of Queer Resistance. call out is live until 1st Nov. arachnepress.submittable.com/submit/33689... pls share with any #queerpoets you know @hazardpressuk.bsky.social is editing with me @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social is doing cover

Good morning. Together with @littletollerbooks.bsky.social we publish a very important book The destruction of our peat lands is of international concern. 40 nature writers incl. Rob Macfarlane - Amy Liptrot - Horatio Clare & music legend Patti Smith. You can order here: www.littletoller.co.uk

Make books. Make journals. Make chapbooks and zines and pretty letters. Make papercraft. Make beautiful things with words. Let no one take that from you. Make words.

Small Publishers Fair returns to London's Conway Hall next month, with 66 UK & international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks. More details soon. Fri 24 & Sat 25 October (11am-7pm) FREE, all welcome Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL smallpublishersfair.co.uk

We'll be at @smallpublishers.bsky.social at London's Conway Hall on Fri 24/ Sat 25 October with tablemates @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social and many excellent presses and artists including @uniformbooks.bsky.social @essencepress.bsky.social @hazardpressuk.bsky.social and more. Hope to see you there.

New pots available now! www.roseschmits.com

The latest Book Arts Newsletter No 168, September - October 2025 is now ready for download at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsletters/ 70 pages of Artists' Books news: exhibitions, workshops, new works, opportunities… Cover artist: Coracle. Next deadline: 14th Oct 2025 for the November Newsletter.

A revealing book full of clever, funny poems that often use Polari, the secret language used when homosexuality was a crime. There’s an enthusiastic delight in the poets use of these linguistically intriguing words. Jeremy Dixon is not just commemorating Polari but reclaiming and celebrating it.

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

Poem of the day: Mist by the marvellous Alice Oswald who was arrested yesterday in the Palestine protests. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Taking a moment to appreciate everything that has happened to me in poetry! Back in Summer 2019 none of these books existed! So grateful to my publishers @arachnepress.bsky.social & @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social; & to everyone who has supported me and my writing!

Here I am holding a copy of BOLD IN THE LIFE on BOLD STREET very happy in the knowledge that the pamphlet itself contains a poem entitled BOLD IN THE LIFE ON BOLD STREET! Poetry is such a special kind of magic!

‘Singular poems of language and love and the outsider life in a doomed Spanish landscape’ (Jeremy Dixon) @hazardpressuk.bsky.social James McConachie’s ‘Consolamentum’ @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu...

Presenting the first dates of the BOLD IN THE LIFE: Trolling Me Screeves Tour 2025 – Part Oney! I’ve more readings lined up in the second half of the year but if you’re a poetry event both online and in person looking some poetic Polari fun, please get in touch (especially if you’re in Wales!).

My poetry pamphlet IN RETAIL (@arachnepress.bsky.social) has been used to train Meta’s Al without mine or my publisher’s permission or with due regard to copyright. I’m not alone, there are 1000s of writers who’s work has been stolen. Solidarity with @societyofauthors.bsky.social! #DoTheWriteThing

Hey everyone. Lovely indie publisher @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social are appealing to everyone to BUY A BOOK to support them. The way it works is that they get some money to keep them publishing, and you get a book! Massive win-win! www.brokensleepbooks.com/books

Happy World Poetry Day! To celebrate the occasion, we are making The Poetry Review modern archive freely available for the next 24 hours for everyone to enjoy the best in international poetry. Click here to take advantage of this offer! bit.ly/4irqvug 📚

I found this classic Mel & Kim vinyl in a chazza and it’s rather synchrontainious as one of the poems in my new pamphlet BOLD IN THE LIFE is dedicated to Kim, so I thought I’d share it. (And if you like it, you can preorder the book here: www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...). Bona walloping!

PREORDER (30.04.25 @hazardpressuk.bsky.social): Jeremy Dixon’s Bold in the Life is an electrifying affirmation of Polari, the coded language once palavered through queer spaces, now reanimated in poetry that is unapologetic, irreverent, & deeply celebratory www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

COVER REVEAL! So delighted to announce that my bona new Polari-inspired poetry pamphlet BOLD IN THE LIFE is now available for pre-order from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social (released 30 April 2025)! www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO IMPRESS ME AND SAVE YOURSELF FROM ELIMINATION! (OOOPPSS SORRY WRONG JUDGING!) SUBMISSIONS CLOSE TONIGHT 11.59pm GMT! poetrywales.co.uk/award/?fbcli...

Feb 2025 marks 6 years since IN RETAIL was published by @arachnepress.bsky.social. IN RETAIL inspired A VOICE COMING FROM THEN which inspired JOY//US which inspired the forthcoming BOLD IN THE LIFE (@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social). I am so, so grateful to Cherry & to everyone who has bought the book!

We're hiring a Journals Publishing Assistant - find out more about this role and how to apply: liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2025/02/05/j... #jobsinpublishing

Quick reminder: If you’re in the Dumfries area tomorrow (Thurs), do join us for a fun THE BOY I LOVE event at Waterstones from 6pm. Be fab to see you there! X

Two weeks left to enter your poems to the @poetrywales.bsky.social Award 2025. Worldwide submissions are open until 17 February 2025. poetrywales.co.uk/award/?fbcli...

Black Thorn is insanely cheap for the whole of February. If you fancy reading a slow-burn psychological thriller with an autistic main character, fill your boots 🧡 rb.gy/yt7mlh

Northern folkies - see you in Boro for some poems? Freespill x Butcher's Dog x Borderlands present THRESHOLDS, 5.30-8 pm Tuesday, 18th February in The Crypt. I'm told it isn't as creepy as it sounds... Tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/borde...

In 2006 I attended my 1st course at Ty Newydd tutored by Gillian Clarke & Micheal Longley. He was so gentle & focussed & in a feedback session said, ‘This poem is rather bleak, does it need to be?’. He quietly showed me how you could rewrite, change things & make another poem. Thank you Michael! 🙏❤️

Award-winning poet Michael Longley dies aged 85 www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

So excited to be judging @poetrywales.bsky.social’s Poetry Wales Award 2025. Please submit your unpublished poems by 17 February 2025. Details here: poetrywales.co.uk/award

Through the darkness of future past The magician longs to see One chants out between two worlds Fire walk with me Farewell David Lynch

Today’s TOTALLY STRANGE: A Queer Icons Poetry Workshop at Bridge Cottage in Port Sunlight was fabulous! Poems were inspired by photos of Pete Burns in the exhibition Total Stranger & also by our own queer icons. I decorated the space with my 1980s sketch/scrapbooks & we dropped by Pete’s old home.

Submissions for And Other Poems are now OPEN! Send us your weirdest and wonderfullest poems. Guidelines on our website: andotherpoems.com/submissions/ (Thanks to Nastia Petruk on Unsplash for the image)

Work with poet @annasaund.bsky.social at this workshop on line breaks. Suitable for experienced poets. This class will take you a little deeper into the subject and craft of lineation. Read more and book www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...

2024 was all about poetry and 2025 will be all about poetry too! May the New Year bring you transformative creativity! Here’s a Concrete poem recalling NYE’s past that began life in a playing with form Queer The Page workshop!

Happy birthday Dad! Here’s a poem he never got to read although I did show him a proof of A VOICE COMING FROM THEN when he was in hospital. I thought ‘Tobias and the Angel, 1989-90’ was about Richard Davies (which it is), but reading it now I also realise that the towering, smiling angel is dad. ❤️

"When a writer leans on cliché, they’re letting the surface of the world stand in for what’s underneath it. And that’s where poetry really lives – in the depths, in the awkward angles, in the images that surprise us into paying attention." 🌿 Latest blog post: natalieholborow.com/2024/12/17/a...

It's BACK! The Poetry Wales Award (formerly Wales Poetry Award) is back with a shiny new name and logo, just in time for the new year. Open 17 Dec 24 - 17 Feb 25 with judge Jeremy Dixon, we are once again looking for your best unpublished poems! poetrywales.co.uk/award

So excited to be judging @poetrywales.bsky.social’s Poetry Wales Award 2025. Please submit your unpublished poems by 17 February 2025. Details here: poetrywales.co.uk/award

A reminder you can still listen to (& donate to) our fundraising episode, A Podcast for Palestine 🇵🇸 Our GoFundMe page is: gofund.me/553c2548 At the end of this week all funds will be donated to childrennotnumbers.org Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Spotify link open.spotify.com/episode/54M0...

Polari Postcard 3: Can you guess what SEAFOOD means? Another collage postcard to celebrate sending the final manuscript of BOLD IN THE LIFE, my new Polari-inspired poetry pamphlet, to my publisher @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social!

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 & Angelina D'Roza's The Blue Hour (you'll also receive a free copy of our mini-anthology Winter Songs). Order here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Polari Postcard 2: Do you know what TRADE means? I’m going to do a little series of these collage postcards in the run up to the publication of BOLD IN THE LIFE, my new Polari-inspired poetry pamphlet due out with @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social next year! Used some very old letraset for the word!

DIOLCH to @cjwagstaff.bsky.social for writing such an insightful & generous review of @arachnepress.bsky.social’s JOY//US: Poems of Queer Joy in the latest issue of Poetry Wales. Reviews are hard to come by so this really means a lot to me. Lovely mentions & close readings of so many poems! ❤️🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️