Here is @leeannequinn.bsky.social writing about her new @carcanet.bsky.social collection Landscape with Question and how it draws together personal memory into meditations on image, time and space carcanet.substack.com/p/landscape-...

I am hosting the launch of @leeannequinn.bsky.social new @carcanet.bsky.social collection on 7 July. Please sign up as this is a really superb book of poems and you will kick yourself later for missing its name day! www.carcanet.co.uk/events/lands...

Teresa Cherfas reviews 'The Disappearing Act' by Maria Stepanova - #RightsinRussia www.rightsinrussia.org/cherfas-25/

This just arrived! It’s such a wonderful survey of Homer ‘haunted’ literature – and I’m very pleased that Deformations (my Carcanet Odyssey-inspired collection) is featured alongside work by Alice Oswald & A E Stallings as examples of contemporary hauntings.

Thank you @abrackenbury.bsky.social very appreciated!

Intrigued to see a new J O Morgan book in all its stages of production. And now at last: a name!

We've made this essay free to read online. Read it in full on our website: modernpoetryintranslation.com/at-the-gate-...

History has not yet reached the outer confines of the body, as it awaits the transhuman at the Gate of Exile Szilárd Borbély’s poem gives this @mptmagazine.bsky.social issue its name. The poem, accompanied by an essay by translator @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, is so worth your attention.

Saodat Izmailova’s films are stunning. Frustratingly (for me) the review here is of work in Arles and Washington DC but if you are close to either I recommend her work very much.

Wolstonbury Hill on the shortest night

write a letter to a child write a letter to a warlord From ‘night vision’ by Mette Moestrup tr. by Hazel Evans. In the excellent new issue of @mptmagazine.bsky.social ’At The Gate of Exiles’.

Poesiefestival Day 2 - Writing Myth Panel Along with the incredible poets Linnea Axelsson (SWE), Ulrike Draesner (GER), and Sasha Dugdale (UK), we explored both classical and indigenous mythology in new, contemporary contexts. Moderated by Ana Rocio Jouli (ARG). Photos by Natalia Reich 📷

So proud of Andrew’s letter in the Barnsley Chronicle!

progress with one of the new book’s front cover plates as to what words might eventually go in the gaps… anyone want to guess? answers on a postcard

Translated from Russian by Sasha Dugdale www.equator.org/articles/the...

Berlin issues

This news has shocked me to the core. I have been carrying around a proof of Marsman’s recent ‘On Another Planet They Can Save Me’ like a talisman since I read it. ‘Life is suffering, and more importantly, suffering is Life!’

Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.

Ahead of a major show at Tate Modern this summer, I wrote about Ana Mendieta's 'Imagen de Yagul' for the Royal Academy of Arts mag. It’s the most striking of her Silueta series, and laden with contrasts: the vitality of nature juxtaposed with the inevitability of death; otherworldly and corporeal.

On Monday I’m talking about Rilke with Karen Leeder, a brilliant & generous translator and thinker. We’ll be talking about correspondences between poets and how generative they can be (I’m working on Tsvetaeva’s poems addressed to Rilke): www.hausfuerpoesie.org/en/program/i...

pro-bookbinding tip: following the careful application of beeswax it is vital to keep any newly waxed thread both near at hand and tangle-free

Today’s chaise-longue-dog

rocks, contours, oysters? who can say; a couple of test cuts/prints for a new cover design; the close lines in each pattern create a motion illusion if viewed at the right distance

Congrats to Maria Stepanova’s The Disappearing Act, tr. from Russian by Sasha Dugdale! Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer has selected it as the winner of the 2026 “The Award,” a prize she gives to her fave book in any given year, written by a living artist whom she does not know personally. We love this!

And here’s another book that I have read in awe and with pleasure. Leeanne Quinn’s Landscape with Questions @carcanet.bsky.social

Very delighted to see Deryn Rees-Jones‘s extraordinary Hotel Amour on this shortlist for Book of the Year. Many congratulations to all the poets shortlisted.

Congratulations to all shortlisted in the poetry category of the Wales Book of the Year Award: ⭐Deryn Rees-Jones ⭐ Laura Wainwright ⭐Jeremy Over ⭐Carwyn Eckley ⭐Jo Heyde ⭐Mererid Hopwood Llongyfarchiadau! www.literaturewales.org/our-projects...

I could no more believe the sap insensible than I believe the dead are broken branches, and all their self-songs censored or extinguished. Carol Rumens (1944-2026) (‘Nant y Garth’ from ‘Bezdelki’, 2018, The Emma Press - winner of the Michael Marks Award)

Tickets are still available for our evening of discussion and readings from Blake Morrison and Sinéad Morrissey. These award-winning writers will be discussing the different ways poetry and memoir approach truth-telling. Grab your tickets before they're gone at the link in our bio.

Pavilion launch tonight and there are three tickets left! Join us! www.ticketsource.com/school-of-th... @livunienglish.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social

I’m reading in Oxford with @oliviamcc.bsky.social on 13 May. Please come along – it’s a free poetry event but you need to sign up: www.ticketsource.com/queens-trans...

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

I’m doing a reading and discussion in June in Berlin with my brilliant friend Olga Radetzkaja: www.hausfuerpoesie.org/de/programm/...

Lots on and a few amends! 🙂

Tonight! With Phoebe Giannisi, Brian Sneeden, Kostya Tsolakis & Calliope Michail. It's officially a launch party, though this issue sold out a long time ago. However, we have kept a few copies for this eve – so if you'd like to buy one, this is your chance! helleniccentre.org/event/modern...

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Don't miss this chance to hear 3 brilliant writers discuss how they write about Ukraine in wartime! Join Yuliya Musakovska, Myroslav Laiuk & Luke Harding next Tuesday at UCL, details: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit.... @uclssees.bsky.social @ukrinstitute.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social

In which I talk with the delightful @gregorykearns.bsky.social about stealing books, a railway childhood, translation and the soul’s mobility…. @carcanet.bsky.social

A new episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way is live! In my conversation with @sashadugdale.bsky.social we covered her @carcanet.bsky.social collection The Strongbox, working in translation, and how important research is to Sasha. Listen wherever good podcasts can be heard.

Who would have thought my shriveled heart Could have recovered greenness? It was gone Quite underground; as flowers depart To see their mother-root, when they have blown

This is such an exciting prospect. I really enjoyed reading Djabbarova and am very happy anglophone readers will get to know her work in Lisa’s translations.

Submissions for the 2026 Barbellion Prize are open! The Barbellion Prize celebrates & promotes writing that represents the experience of chronic illness & disability. Subs open 2nd April-1st September, 2026. Judges: Penny Pepper, Dr David Bolt & Letty McHugh. Full details: barbellionprize.org

Couldn't help myself. Chichester Cathedral, September 2021. The painting was so far away sadly, hence the poor quality.

Looking forward to a nightingale-inflected reading at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome next week with @sashadugdale.bsky.social You can book here ksh.roma.it/events/poetr... or why not listen anyway to Sasha’s essay On Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale #keats #poetry www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

RIP English writer Virginia Woolf, died this day 1941. “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” “The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”

Thank you @notjustdancing.bsky.social I so appreciate this as I mostly forget it exists!

Posting this to make everyone jealous really but I will be reading with @notjustdancing.bsky.social on Thursday 2 April at the wonderful Keats-Shelley House in Rome. ksh.roma.it/events/poetr...

The most anguished worrit lurcher

Painting created 1974, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey, by an individual who was compelled to live there, currently identified to us only as Francesca.