This free online poetry event is at 6 UK time today

With Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social of @bayloruniversity.bsky.social after our panel discussion on the poetry of John Betjeman. We were joined by Seamus Perry and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst for an event in #Oxford, part of the Betjeman Society's symposium #Magdalen #Betjeman #poetry #BookSky

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Free online launch of John Greening’s new book about poetry, featuring Dana Gioia, Penelope Shuttle, Hilary Davies, Stuart Henson. Register here. 6pm UK time, Tuesday 23rd September #poetrycommunity #renardpress www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-green... #BookSky #poetry

The glitter of water and the wake… Heading for University in Aberdeen. It’s an autumn morning. I am seventeen… —Iain Crichton Smith, “Aberdeen University 1945–49 (1)” in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, ed. @greeningpoet.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social 2021 #poem #poetry www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017094...

Good to find The Threepenny Review in the post today. Poems by Robert Pinsky, Okwudili Nebeolisa, Jane Zwart and others, including one by me - about translating Rilke and recalling an incident from when I lived in Mannheim #BookSky @baylorpress.bsky.social

This online launch coming up in September - should be fun #poetry

Such a pleasure to launch Hilary Davies’ enchanting new collection Compass Light at the wonderful @owlbookshop.bsky.social last night. Huge thanks to the angels at the Owl - not only for hosting but also for this lovely pic of Hilary! renardpress.com/books/compas...

Charles I returned for a third visit to Little Gidding today, more a windswept king than a broken one. It's 400 years since Nicholas Ferrar established his community there. #poetry #BookSky

It says much for the power of Gillian Allnutt's Lode that my compass, carried in the same pocket, had reversed its polarity by the end of the day @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social #poetry

Hilary Davies, Dana Gioia, Stuart Henson and Penelope Shuttle will join me for this online launch of my book of essays, poems, pictures and ruminations on poetry (from Renard Press). Register here for this free event on 23 September www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-green... @renardpress.com #BookSky

Fascinating. Elgar hasn't really made his presence felt in film and drama, though there was Ken Russell & I think David Pownall did a play about him. There's a novel too, I seem to recall: Gerontius, perhaps the basis for this?

Found in a charity shop. Almost half a century old but full of fascinating things, some of them now quite familiar- eg Tomlinson's opera parody,Julian Orde's Conjurors, Davie & Wright on Sisson + Sisson himself - alas no more 'a powerful presence in...English poetry' @pnreview.bsky.social #poetry

Always a delight to see the Horse peering at me from a jiffy bag. This issue is very special - not least a long piece by Edna Longley on Michael's poetry and a heartening reminder of Kathleen Raine's importance by Kirsten MacQuarrie #poetry @gerrycambridge.bsky.social

Charlie Louth's 20 minute introduction to the New Poems of #Rilke is well worth watching & his book on the poet invaluable. My rhymed, metrical translations of Neue Gedichte (some 200 poems) will be published in November by Baylor UniversityPress @baylorpress.bsky.social youtu.be/Tu6Xe0B9QPo?...

Younger daughter's piece in The i Paper about writing children’s books @theipaper.com

Well this is a bit different from a poem in a magazine, and should smell rather better - much though I love the scent of freshly opened pages #poetry www.urbanganges.com/product-page...

Stuart Henson launches this collection of haiku in Huntingdon library this Wednesday. Refreshments and live music. Free.

This collection of mini essays, musings, recollections, anecdotes and new poems is something I've been working on for a few years. @renardpress have made a beautiful job of it (as they did the anthology Contraflow)

We've finished spotlighting our new issue! Read the whole thing here... badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-1

New arrival from Renard - poems, pictures, musings, memories, from years spent trying to emulate those who sing both high and low. Whether you already love it or are a little mystified by it, here's a book on poetry that I hope you'll find enjoyable and informative. renardpress.com/books/a-high...

Four poems by @greeningpoet.bsky.social www.badlilies.uk/john-greenin...

OUT NOW. Issue Twenty-One: Long-limbed Darlings badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-1

A delightful collection of miniatures from Stuart Henson illustrated by Bill Sanderson. I'm not surprised it was shortlisted for a Michael Marks Award. Beautifully produced by Shoestring. #poetry #haiku #nature www.waterstones.com/book/a-handf...

Two celebrations today. Firstly, this new bookling from John F Deane & the artist Tony Martin is out now! Red Gate is beautiful and you can read a few pages or pick up a copy on our website. guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry. Secondly, this is our 100th title. Guillemot Press is a hundred books old today.

Like London buses, another one comes along right behind... I do hope this Selected reminds people how good U.A.Fanthorpe is londongrip.co.uk/2025/06/lond... (see also thefridaypoem.substack.com) @baylorpress.bsky.social @aestallings.bsky.social

Thanks to Annie Fisher for her very attentive review of my new Baylor UP selection of UA.Fanthorpe's poems on The Friday Poem: substack.com/@thefridaypoem @baylorpress.bsky.social @maureenmuse.bsky.social #poetry #poems

New from Baylor UP: selected poems by Fanthrope (ed. @greeningpoet.bsky.social) and by Thwaite (ed. by me). Discount code in @thetls.bsky.social ad.

Looking forward to hearing the local poets and reading my own work in #Letchworth on Tuesday at 7-9. My new @renardpress.com book of essays, verse & photos, A High Calling, is not quite out in time but I'll present extracts from it alongside poems from other recent books from Renard and Baylor UP

A delightful afternoon in Ferrar House in Little Gidding talking about the various anthologies and selections I've edited. "Where prayer has been valid " - but poetry too @renardpress.com @baylorpress.bsky.social

A book of essays and poems from @renardpress.com out shortly

Coming up in Little Gidding on Tuesday 13th

I see the old woman behind the flowering broom. I have followed her from poem to poem … —Iain Crichton Smith, “Old Woman” published in Deer on the High Hills: Selected Poems, ed. @greeningpoet.bsky.social, @carcanet.bsky.social 2021 www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017094...

Thank you to Will Stone for making this forgotten treasure available in English. It's fascinating and just the thing for a sunny April day when the power is off for hours (no, not Spain but Cambridgeshire!)

A free event on Friday pm at St James's, Sussex Gardens) commemorating Anthony Thwaite. Many distinguished poets contributing: hosted by @kg520.bsky.social who's edited a new selection of his poetry for Baylor UP www.southbankcentre.co.uk/venues/natio... www.baylorpress.com/978148132183...

A bony horse with a bird on it droops its head. With a cart of skulls like potatoes Death drives onward… —Iain Crichton Smith, “Bruegel” published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, ed. @greeningpoet.bsky.social (@carcanet.bsky.social 2021) A poem for #WorldArtDay artsandculture.google.com/entity/piete...

Stopped off at Naseby. I've written poems about this key battle of the Civil War - and once wrote a play about it (staged in Kimbolton Castle courtyard). It feels neglected. Don't Cromwell & Charles interest people any more (no RIII, no Tudors)? Or just too spread out? A visitor centre is overdue.

'And miles to go...' the Panorama walk in #Barmouth with our almost two-year-old granddaughter

'Permissions and Omissions'. I'll be talking to the Friends of Little Gidding on 14 May at 2.30 about my experience of editing poetry anthologies. - 'if you came this way', you'd be very welcome. #poetry

My review of five new poetry collections is published in Wild Court today. wildcourt.co.uk/from-the-shi... @greeningpoet.bsky.social @ravoon.bsky.social @camself.bsky.social @stephenh-c.bsky.social

Ozymandias was the first serious poem to hit home. It still enthralls me and others including @jay.bsky.team I see - though it's an eccentric sonnet. When we lived in Egypt I wrote this response to Shelley. It's included in my 2023 Selected, The Interpretation of Owls, edited by @kg520.bsky.social

A really beautiful little edition of Charlotte Mew's posthumous poetry collection (in full) from @renardpress.bsky.social with a superb introduction by her biographer Julia Copus who edited the Faber selection. It's a delight all round - or all square, I should say. Very portable, very covetable.

Saturday at 5 in Bristol, a free event at Heron Books - come and hear poems by U.A.Fanthorpe, who wrote her very first verses while working in the city. Copies of my new Selected Fanthorpe on sale - one of our most entertaining poets. I'll read my own poetry too. #books #booksky #poetry

This Saturday at 5 in Bristol - poems by U.A.Fanthorpe and me - free reading www.heronbooks.co.uk/event/poetry...

A new poem by Stuart Henson inksweatandtears.co.uk/poetry/

It's Geoffrey Grigson's birthday. The Selected Poems I edited is still available and if you're near London we're celebrating his work at West Greenwich Library this Tuesday evening (4th March) from 7.30 @poetrysociety.bsky.social #books greenex.co.uk/home/p/geoff...

Tuesday 4th a celebration of Geoffrey Grigson the poet, though he was many things : fearless reviewer, author of wonderful countryside books - not to mention that essential volume, An Englishman's Flora. West Greenwich Library at 7.30 there'll be plenty to enjoy. More details: in-words.co.uk/events/

Well Ange Mlinko is a discovery - & I should have read her poetry before. But thanks to Kathryn Maris and @thetls.bsky.social for reviewing it (+ her tempting prose book on #Florida poets) and three cheers to @faberbooks.bsky.social - presumably Lavinia Greenlaw - for publishing this fine collection

Upcoming event remembering the work of Geoffrey Grigson - poet, critic, anthologist West Greenwich Library 7.30pm, on Tuesday March 4th John Greening Blake Morrison Graham High Joe Banks . Here's my review of GG's recent Selected Poems open.substack.com/pub/mcrucefi...