Join us for an online book launch on November 18th at 7pm — #mennaelfyn #oliviamccannon #derynrees-jones #HotelAmour www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-boo...

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.

Larissa Sansour is a bit of an art hero. There's a recent introductory video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mobV...

KIA Poem for #ArmisticeDay poets.org/poem/kia

Philip Guston, Box and Shadow, 1978 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135327

PITYSAD sequence of poems by @sashadugdale.bsky.social were my way of turning my thoughts towards veterans and their families #PTSD #poetry

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...

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.

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! 🙌

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.

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.”

🐐 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

Meanwhile in the social media multiverse. My poem for Steven Heighton.

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...

Here's a stunning #poem from freshly published BYCATCH by @csmithpoet.bsky.social 'So much love, care, grief, and dignity is presented in this collection.' – Hitomi Grace Utsugi ninearchespress.com/publications...

I can’t believe this finally exists…

What a haul from New Directions Publishing. Details in the alt text. I’m so excited to have all these…

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

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’ @carcanet.bsky.social

Giacometti’s Homme qui pointe (1947) is on display at the Tate. Sartre thought he was 'always halfway between nothingness and being’.

Here’s a late poem by Matt Simpson. Looking forward to speaking more about him this evening at the OpenEye Gallery, Liverpool #MattSimpson #liverpoolpoets

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...

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...

ROUND TRIP TO GLASGOW (1982)

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

This ink drawing (‘Untitled’) by Ruth Asawa is of her baby son Paul.

So much looking forward to this year’s Allott / Poetry Society lecture by #DianeSeuss @sotauol.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social

⭐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...

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-... @carcanet.bsky.social

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...

You can pre-order Maria Stepanova’s The Disappearing Act, due out Spring 26!

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...

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

Two pages from Scorched Glass @mptmagazine.bsky.social (see my previous post) with poems by Sabeer Haka, tr. by Nasrin Parwaz & Hubert Moore. The translators indicated censored words with brackets.

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...

I am really looking forward to this cultural history of Russian woods and forests, The Oak and the Larch by Sophie Pinkham.

Breakfast Not Toofbrush

Very genuinely surprised to see this: The Strongbox is shortlisted for @lhellenicprize.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social alongside some wonderful books.

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:

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 @richardburgon.bsky.social

Here’s the link if you want to register as an organ donor in the UK. 🩷https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/register-your-decision/

Enjoyed this episode of A Brush With @benlukeart.bsky.social interviewing artist and writer Renée Green podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

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...

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...

Some rather exquisite gold-tooled book covers from the Library of Benjamin Guinness 3rd Earl of Iveagh @marshslibrary.bsky.social in Dublin

And then November 7th taking Hotel Amour back to Paris ❤️ www.billetweb.fr/a-poetry-rea...

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

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...

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?