Sasha Dugdale
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Poet and translator Lurcher devotee
pinned post!
Thanks
@carcanet.bsky.social
– delighted about this and very grateful to the Anglo-Hellenic league,
@jhcreerw.bsky.social
@sofkazinovieff.bsky.social
& the judges of the
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Award.
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Deryn Rees-Jones
3 days ago
Join us for an online book launch on November 18th at 7pm —
#mennaelfyn
#oliviamccannon
#derynrees-jones
#HotelAmour
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-boo...
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Жизнь—вокзал, скоро уеду, куда—не скажу. Life is a station, I depart soon – but where to, I won't say. Marina Tsvetaeva wrote this on a form sent to her by Pasternak for inclusion in a Soviet biographical dictionary.
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Larissa Sansour is a bit of an art hero. There's a recent introductory video here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mobV...
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KIA Poem for
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poets.org/poem/kia
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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture
4 days ago
Philip Guston, Box and Shadow, 1978
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135327
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David Henningham 郭大衛 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 💖💛💙
6 days ago
PITYSAD sequence of poems by
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were my way of turning my thoughts towards veterans and their families
#PTSD
#poetry
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Rose Ruane
6 days ago
If you’d like to learn more about Mary Bishop & her extraordinary work, I wrote this for The Wellcome Collection in 2023. But more than that, I would recommend looking for yourself at some of her work which is available to view online through their catalogue
wellcomecollection.org/stories/mary...
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yet who, in his own way, is not a Suffenus? Each has his blind spot. The moat & the beam. As Aesop says, the pack on our own back that we don’t see. Catullus 22 tr. Peter Whigham.
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Wasafiri Magazine
7 days ago
Congratulations to Wasafiri friends and contributors
@juanapoetry.bsky.social
, Don Mee Choi, Han Kang, and George Szirtes on gaining a place on the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Longlist 2025! 🙌
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The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Longlist 2025
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Detail from a monumental terracotta krater, used as grave marker ca. 750-735 BCE The hourglass-shaped shields and chariots are typical of earlier Bronze Age, suggesting that it may memorialize ancestral glories.
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Lit Hub
4 months ago
Margaret Busby discusses the disruptive poetry of Jayne Cortez: “Rereading her words was a reminder of how far ahead of the game she always was.”
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Margaret Busby on Jazz, Africa, and the Endurance of Jayne Cortez’s Disruptive Poetry
Lit Hub is excited to feature another entry in a new series from Poets.org: “enjambments,” a monthly interview series with new and established poets. This month, they spoke to Margaret …
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Fitzcarraldo Editions
9 days ago
🐐 GOATSONG by Phoebe Giannisi, tr. Brian Sneeden, publishes today 🐐 The many human and animal voices of GOATSONG form an incantatory lyricism and layered engagement unique in literature. Read an extract and order a copy:
tinyurl.com/ya56e62v
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Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου)
9 days ago
Meanwhile in the social media multiverse. My poem for Steven Heighton.
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Seren Books
10 days ago
We hope you can join us! Register for the Zoom link (free) via Eventbrite if you plan on coming along
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1765466972...
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Nine Arches Press
about 1 month ago
Here's a stunning
#poem
from freshly published BYCATCH by
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'So much love, care, grief, and dignity is presented in this collection.' – Hitomi Grace Utsugi
ninearchespress.com/publications...
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I can’t believe this finally exists…
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What a haul from New Directions Publishing. Details in the alt text. I’m so excited to have all these…
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Jay Troyer
14 days ago
Henri Matisse, French (1869-1964), Seated Young Woman with an Amber Necklace, 1942, oil on canvas, 55.3 x 46.4 cm, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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A poem in answer to Charles Causley’s poem On All Souls Night – and also to celebrate the birth of my daughter on All Souls Day. From ‘Red House’
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15 days ago
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Giacometti’s Homme qui pointe (1947) is on display at the Tate. Sartre thought he was 'always halfway between nothingness and being’.
16 days ago
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Deryn Rees-Jones
16 days ago
Here’s a late poem by Matt Simpson. Looking forward to speaking more about him this evening at the OpenEye Gallery, Liverpool
#MattSimpson
#liverpoolpoets
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This portrait of Akhmatova was painted by Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaya in 1914. Come and hear Stephen Capus and I talk about Akhmatova at Ledbury Winter Poetry Festival on Sat 22 November:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/her...
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Stephen Capus and I will be discussing Anna Akhmatova‘s poetry and life, and reading from our translations of her work on Sat 22 November at Ledbury Winter Poetry Festival. Book here:
www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/her...
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18 days ago
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British Transport Films Stills
19 days ago
ROUND TRIP TO GLASGOW (1982)
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The consultation on the automating of home office translation services should at least involve translators and those with experience of asylum cases. Find out more via the link and consider signing:
c.org/4mMwggCdTz
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Home Office: before automating translation, please listen to the experts
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19 days ago
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This ink drawing (‘Untitled’) by Ruth Asawa is of her baby son Paul.
19 days ago
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Deryn Rees-Jones
about 1 month ago
So much looking forward to this year’s Allott / Poetry Society lecture by
#DianeSeuss
@sotauol.bsky.social
@livunienglish.bsky.social
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Books Ireland
23 days ago
⭐Six collections shortlisted for PEN Heaney Prize 2025 ⭐ 📕Judged by Sasha Dugdale, Seán Hewitt & Zaffar Kunial — read what they had to say and find out more about these beautiful books 📕
@poetryireland.bsky.social
@nlireland.bsky.social
booksirelandmagazine.com/shortlist-re...
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Shortlist revealed for the PEN Heaney Prize 2025 - Books Ireland
Six collections are on the shortlist for the prestigious PEN Heaney Prize 2025.
https://booksirelandmagazine.com/shortlist-revealed-for-the-pen-heaney-prize-2025/
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New Yorkers! Please join Oksana Maksymchuk and me on Friday at noon at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University to discuss and read poetry of war. The event is also online (5pm British time)
harriman.columbia.edu/event/women-...
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Women Writing War: A Joint Reading and Conversation
Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for a discussion with Sasha Dugdale and Oksana Maksymchuk. Moderated by Mark Andryczyk.
https://harriman.columbia.edu/event/women-writing-war-a-joint-reading-and-conversation/
25 days ago
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Bloodaxe Books
29 days ago
Oct news: New books by Menna Elfyn, Selima Hill & Kit Wright; Katrina Porteous wins Laurel Prize;
@tseliotprize.bsky.social
& Saltire shortlistings for Gillian Allnutt & Niall Campbell;
@jesstraynor.bsky.social
reviews;
@forwardprizes.bsky.social
Highly Commended Poems.
mailchi.mp/b76c8f594a70...
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You can pre-order Maria Stepanova’s The Disappearing Act, due out Spring 26!
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Carcanet Press
about 1 month ago
We're delighted to announce that
@sashadugdale.bsky.social
's recent collection The Strongbox has been shortlisted for
@lhellenicprize.bsky.social
2025! Well done to Sasha, and all the other shortlisted poets and publishers! 🎉
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017408...
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Eating a roast chicken with hounds means rapidly eating an extremely modest amount of chicken then ripping the carcass to shreds with my hands and dividing the spoils between dog bowls like a Tudor lord
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Two pages from Scorched Glass
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(see my previous post) with poems by Sabeer Haka, tr. by Nasrin Parwaz & Hubert Moore. The translators indicated censored words with brackets.
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You can read ‘Scorched Glass’
@mptmagazine.bsky.social
Iranian-focused issue for free via this link. It’s been sold out for years now:
ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/42256...
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I am really looking forward to this cultural history of Russian woods and forests, The Oak and the Larch by Sophie Pinkham.
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Breakfast Not Toofbrush
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Very genuinely surprised to see this: The Strongbox is shortlisted for
@lhellenicprize.bsky.social
@carcanet.bsky.social
alongside some wonderful books.
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The London Hellenic Prize
about 1 month ago
We have a shortlist for this year's LHP! Five exceptional works, each a must-read in its own right. If you're interested in all things Hellenic- the language, literature, or the history- these should hit your 'to read' list asap (unless they're already on it!). Here they are:
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Edith Hall
about 1 month ago
This coming Sunday, three historic performances of the late, great Tony Harrison's masterpiece "v." in the Leeds graveyard where it's set. I'm speaking before the final reading. Please come.
slunglow.org/v-a-homecomi...
@lrb.co.uk
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Here’s the link if you want to register as an organ donor in the UK. 🩷https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/register-your-decision/
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Enjoyed this episode of A Brush With
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interviewing artist and writer Renée Green
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
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A brush with… Renée Green
Podcast Episode · A brush with... · 26/02/2025 · 59m
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-brush-with/id1525997434?i=1000696045032
about 1 month ago
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Discussion & reading with Oksana Maksymchuk
@carcanet.bsky.social
on 24 October at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University at 12pm. Please come if you are around in NYC. We’ll be talking about writing in war.
www.clubfreetime.com/new-york-cit...
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Contemporary Poets Read from their New Collections (In Person AND Online!)
https://www.clubfreetime.com/new-york-city-nyc/free-reading/2025-10-24/event/706153
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I'll be reading from 'Bad Roads' Natalya Vorozhbit's astonishing play about women in war. Oksana Maksymchuk will be reading from her
@carcanet.bsky.social
collection, other speakers incl. scholars & translators Ainsley Morse, Sophie Pinkham & Sabrina Jaszi
as.cornell.edu/news/writers...
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Writers, translators consider ‘Ukraine in Translation’ Oct. 18
The symposium responds to a new urgency to Ukrainian culture of the past, present and future both inside and outside the country.
https://as.cornell.edu/news/writers-translators-consider-ukraine-translation-oct-18#:~:text=Writers%2C%20translators%20consider%20'Ukraine%20in%20Translation'%20Oct.%2018
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Some rather exquisite gold-tooled book covers from the Library of Benjamin Guinness 3rd Earl of Iveagh
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in Dublin
about 1 month ago
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Deryn Rees-Jones
about 1 month ago
www.creativetourist.com/event/deryn-...
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Deryn Rees-Jones at Open Eye Gallery | Literature | Creative Tourist
For the seventh Matt Simpson Memorial Reading, hosted by LiPS, Deryn Rees-Jones will be reading from her new collection, Hôtel Amour.
https://www.creativetourist.com/event/deryn-rees-jones/
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Deryn Rees-Jones
about 1 month ago
And then November 7th taking Hotel Amour back to Paris ❤️
www.billetweb.fr/a-poetry-rea...
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Tickets : A poetry reading by Deryn Rees-Jones
Tickets : A poetry reading by Deryn Rees-Jones - Billetweb
https://www.billetweb.fr/a-poetry-reading-by-deryn-rees-jones&multi=43062&margin=no_margin&color=635BFF&parent=crivains-devant-la-justice-juger-la-litterature&margin=no_margin&color=635BFF
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Rachel Mann
6 months ago
It was a joy to take part in this podcast. Do give it a listen. So many fine episodes. Listen and rate. Thanks for having me on
@gregorykearns.bsky.social
#poetry
@tseliotprize.bsky.social
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T. S. Eliot Prize
about 2 months ago
We are deeply saddened to share the news that Chris Holifield, Director of the Poetry Book Society 2003–16 and Director of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2016–22, died on 3 September 2025. Read our tribute to Chris in full:
tseliot.com/prize/a-tire...
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This is so good to read as this Iranian
@mptmagazine.bsky.social
issue was one of my very favourite and Farrokhzad is one of the most exciting poets we published. I think she may appear in
@poetclare.bsky.social
new
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
collection?
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about 2 months ago
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