I'm going to be on BBC Radio 4's The Verb on Sunday, 5.10 pm, talking poetry & dance, & also a little sea swimming too www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social @serenbooks.bsky.social

Next Sunday we will unveil a brand new Featured Publication, our final one for 2025. In the meantime, do check out How to Leave a Body by Holly Winter-Hughes. @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/08/03/f...

Publishing day! My pamphlet ‘How to train your Dragon’ is out now with @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social - awarded the @disabledpoets.bsky.social for 2025 by the fantastic @jamierhale.bsky.social , @pollyrowena.bsky.social and @mailbykite.bsky.social . Today’s dragon is a heavy one but my heart is full.

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to #RueCollinge whose #DisabledPoetsPrize winning pamphlet #HowToTrainYourDragon is out today! Such a wonderful and rewarding work. You can get yours at our website here: vervepoetrybookshop.com/product-page...

With the nights drawing in, it's definitely time to snuggle up with a book in the dark evenings, perhaps our Featured Publication - How to Leave a Body by Holly Winter-Hughes @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/08/03/f...

Fancy writing poems about how we explore connections to landscape and history through the self portrait poem? I’ll be running this zoom workshop for @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social on the 28th October www.eventbrite.com/e/wendy-prat...

All welcome to the launch of the Four Pamphleteers with Verve. Come along to the online readings to hear @maxwallis.bsky.social and @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social and Rue Collinge. Bring wine, bring crisps, bring everyone. @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/four-pamph...

kind of gauche to assert the cultural relevance of one's own work, but this piece from my 2022 @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social collection Farewell Tour - a sort of grubbily psychedelic travelogue through a country in the process of extravagantly losing its marbles - feels newly resonant atm

I read poems from 'dance as if', my new pamphlet out with @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social next Thursday. The reading was with Penelope Shuttle at CAST. I launch 'dance as if' next Thurs in Penzance then London. #poetry #poetryfromdance #contemporarydance #danceasif #tourdates

I really loved ‘How to Leave a Body’, the powerful and startling debut collection from Holly Winter-Hughes. These poems confront both trauma and strength head-on; they are dark, visceral, and incredibly beautiful. @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social

A delightful poem by Ellora Sutton @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social

Here's my 'short & sweet' poetry newsletter for Sept: info on 'dance as if' launch events in Cornwall & London @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social & recommending @mptmagazine.bsky.social Plus an article on how I write @serenbooks.bsky.social See mailchi.mp/10e91fb65935... #danceasif #poetry #howiwrite

Wonderful to come across this gorgeous review of @katedavispoet.bsky.social new work FLOW @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social this morning! #BookSky #PlaceWriting thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/08/31/b...

Pamphlet proofs completed on the Äland Isles. If there's loads of errors in there, please blame the Finnish archipelago! 'How to Make a Paper Grenade' will be out with @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social next month 💣💣💣🌳🌳🌳🌍🌍🌍🦋🦋🦋

We're still loving our current Featured Publication – How to Leave a Body by Holly Winter-Hughes @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/08/03/f...

open.substack.com/pub/vervepoe... << delighted to be in such fine company here thank you @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social

My pamphlet 'dance as if' will be published by @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social on 25 Sept #poetry #danceasif

'dance as if' @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social will be launched on 25 Sept at the Edge of the World Bookshop in Penzance. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... Other events to follow. #danceasif #booklaunch #poetry #poetswhodance

This month's 'short & sweet' poetry newsletter is on broken ankles, new books & rejection, feat @serenbooks.bsky.social @notjustdancing.bsky.social @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social @foundationswift.bsky.social @poetryschool.bsky.social mailchi.mp/f3591be78b32... #poetry #hotelamour #danceasif #books

'How to Make a Paper Grenade' began as a series of acts of resistance, and the poetry pamphlet will be published by @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social in Sep. Pre-orders: vervepoetrypress.com/product/glyn... @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social #poetry #ecopoetry

NEW Featured Publication - How to Leave a Body by Holly Winter-Hughes @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/08/03/f...

www.vervepoetryfestival.com/submit-poem-of-the-month-competition VERVE Poem of the Month

Thank you so much @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social for shortlisting my poem about my bookmaking for poem of the month. It can be read here. Congratulations too to Kat Dixon, Dean Atta, Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana, Laura Stanley, Mark Fiddes vervepoetry.substack.com/p/july-poems...

I have a new book coming out in November with @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social www.vervepoetrybookshop.com/product-page...

‘so we have a man… protect / him against / life his / life’ @helenmort.bsky.social’s ‘Dad vs. Dad’ is a work slim enough to finish over a lunch-break, but like shards of glass (indeed, like history) these poems and collages will stick deep in you. @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social have given us magic.

Really enjoyed attending the launch of Ilisha Thiru Purcell's @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social pamphlet What She Said at Northern Stage this weekend. A clever combination of forms from Tamil poetry and north east landscapes. Great to hear @shashtrevett.bsky.social read her work too!

Our writing tutor Jennifer Wong's poetry pamphlet "time difference" is available now from @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social Study with Jennifer on her creative nature writing course in Covent Garden on Sunday 27 July: www.citylit.ac.uk/.../creative...

July's 'short & sweet' poetry newsletter, recommending Isabelle Baafi's 'Chaotic Good' @faberbooks.bsky.social & feat @serenbooks.bsky.social @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social @arvonfoundation.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social mailchi.mp/315fe9108e32... #poetry

Cover reveal for (shiny) pamphlet 'dance as if' out in Sept with @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social 'A glorious rediscovery of body' Joelle Taylor. 'Exuberant and celebratory' Tishani Doshi. 'dance as if' follows a collaboration with dancer Kyra Norman. vervepoetrypress.com/product- #dancepoetry

AND IF you can't make that, we have a zoom event with Rachael this coming Monday eve also with #IlishaPurcell #GabrielleTse & @ladyredego which we'd love you to attend. Free tickets are at tinyurl.com/mryp5zmy

This Monday evening (7.30pm) we present a free to attend zoom reading from four incredible VERVE poets - Gabrielle Tse, Ilisha Thiru Purcell, Rachael Li Ming Chong and Lady Red Ego. It will be a wonderful evening. Join us by signing up here 😍: tinyurl.com/mryp5zmy

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to @rhubarbpostcard whose superb debut pamphlet #TheRedStringsBetween is published today. We have FREE UK P&P for the next few days so get a move on for your copy! vervepoetrypress.com/product-category/coming-soon

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to @rhubarbpostcard whose superb debut pamphlet #TheRedStringsBetween is published today. We have FREE UK P&P for the next few days so get a move on for your copy! vervepoetrypress.com/product-category/coming-soon

Here's 'short & sweet' my #poetry newsletter us7.admin.mailchimp.com/campaigns/sh... feat Fiona Benson's #middenwitch plus **exclusive** book news for readers & subscribers. Also feat @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social @rtbspokenword.com

As we unveiled a brand new Featured Publication yestderday, we must also thank our outgoing Featured poet, Catherine Balaq for letting us showcase her beautiful book the last few months. @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/02/02/f...

Our stellar host next week on TopTweetTuesday - Welsh creative Clare E. Potter. Clare is the author of ‘Healing the Pack’ with @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social Clare will host your imagistic poems on the theme of ‘Reflection’, 80 words max! Get drafting 🖊️ 💎

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to @ladyredego who's brilliant and moving book #MyDearestFriend is published today! A moving portrait of a relationship with a mother, translated into Chinese by that mother before she passed. Moving, chilling, ultimately sustaining. tinyurl.com/ycyn3zb5

We can't wait 😍

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to @ladyredego who's brilliant and moving book #MyDearestFriend is published today! A moving portrait of a relationship with a mother, translated into Chinese by that mother before she passed. Moving, chilling, ultimately sustaining. tinyurl.com/ycyn3zb5

ICYMI Two brilliant new debut pamphlets released this week. Click through to hear more x

Do you want to improve your poetry? If so, you've probably read The Process of Poetry which explores early drafts & are ready for the sequel, The Making of a Poem🙏share.Dm for a signed copy @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social @northseapoets.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social @poetrydaily.bsky.social

IT'S PUBLICATION DAY! & we're launching 2 fantastic debut pamphlets from @gabrielletse_ & #IlishaPurcell. Gabrielle's #Rustlings is 'Scintillating, experimental and sensuous' @jennywcreative Ilisha's #WhatSheSaid is 'An extraordinary work' #HeidiWilliamson tinyurl.com/3uuytcv6

Great to see my @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social poetry collection included here alongside books by @poems-not-opinions.bsky.social @mayacaspari.bsky.social @sarahclareconlon.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @outspokenpress.bsky.social & more!

My great friend @kazbarwrites.bsky.social knows how to make my day! @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social

Enormous congratulations to Disabled Poets Prize 2025 Winners @thewordtinker.bsky.social (Best Unpublished Pamphlet—soon to be published by @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social) and Oli Isaac (Best Single Poem)! All of us as judges were honoured to read such rich, varied entries. Poets, you are the future

Still loving our winter Featured Publication - Deathless by Catherine Balaq @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/02/02/f...

New Book Announcement: “Rustlings” by Gabrielle Tse @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/new-book-ann...

Can’t believe I don’t have to stay quiet anymore - I’m winner of the Disabled Poets Prize 2025 for my pamphlet ‘How to Train Your Dragon’, which will be published with @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social soon! Breathless and buzzing! Congratulations to Oli Isaac for their poem and all those shortlisted.

BRAND NEW at VERVE is this pamphlet focussed event which brings four stellar pamphleteers from some of our favourite indie poetry presses together! @serenbooks.bsky.social @theemmapress.bsky.social @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social @fourteenpoems.bsky.social

Hey Bluesky Poetry Pals. My name's Josie, I'm a Poet from the UK, my first book Faulty Manufacturing (2023) is published by @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social and I have a @googleyoutube.bsky.social channel full of videos of poetry advice and book stuff. Let's be friends✌️ #poetry