Jacqueline Saphra

Poems were posted online every fortnight; poets included Anne-Marie Balzer, Jemma Borg, @janeburn.bsky.social, Tishani Doshi, Steve Ely, @sophieherx.bsky.social, Glyn Maxwell, @helenmort.bsky.social, Emma Must, @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social, Jacob Polley, & @jsaphra.bsky.social

#EcoSonnetChain (2/3)

Hurrah and thanks!

Thank you

Poem for a Shabbat. By @jsaphra.bsky.social.

Many thanks to the poets who took part in the #EcoSonnetChain:

#LindaFrance, #EmmaMust, @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social, #AnnSophieBalzer, @janeburn.bsky.social, #TishaniDoshi, #JemmaBorg, @jsaphra.bsky.social, #JacobPolley, @sophieherx.bsky.social, @helenmort.bsky.social, #SteveEly, & #GlynMaxwell.

Tomorrow Tuesday becomes elastic like a shadow stretched under the sun Wednesday buries itself in laundry and fiscal responsibilities Thursday mutters about hospitals and feeds you seeds and sorrow Concerning the remains of days rabbits and hats come to mind the jiggery-pokery trickery of the temporal magician

'Tomorrow' by @jsaphra.bsky.social badlilies.uk/jacqueline-saphra-1

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Please join us for a evening of poetry and community in this beautiful setting - tonight!

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 #Runciman Award.

Thank you!

. @jsaphra.bsky.social’s sonnet eschews sentiment while remaining fully responsive to the turn of the seasons:

…All these questions to the heart as if
it has some agency. It’s just a metaphor
for faith among the ruins, a way to live
while knowing what we take, then take some more…

#EcoSonnetChain

An honour and pleasure to be a part of this project …

We're thrilled that American poet #MarieHowe has won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry 2025 for her New & Selected Poems.

This retrospective was published in 2024 by W.W. Norton in the US and by Bloodaxe Books in the UK & Ireland (as What the Earth Seemed to Say).
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And speaking as a mentor , my experience working with Charlotte was truly a gift to me.

Thanks!

Postcards from Malthusia DAY THIRTY-ONE: Jacqueline Saphra #17 8th April “They tell us coronavirus is a great leveller. It’s not. It’s much much harder if you’re poor.”;  (Emily Maitlis, BBC Newsnight)   A mist has settled on the Thames, the air is cl…

In the meantime, here’s @jsaphra.bsky.social’s very fine sonnet:

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#NewBootsAndPantisocracies #PostcardsFromMalthusia

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Summer Term: 3-TERM COURSES – Our weekly workshop groups: you’ll find thoughtful critique & a welcoming poetry community. W/ tutors: @aanaxagorou.bsky.social, @jsaphra.bsky.social, Wayne Holloway-Smith, @astridalben.bsky.social, Rachel Long, Mark Waldron, Shazea Quraishi,  Richard Price

Join me and these two beauties, @kostyatsolakis.bsky.social and Amaan Hyder for a @ninearchespress.bsky.social extravaganza at the gorgeous Chener Books on 18th March!

I guess I have always seen you as a whistleblower @nytimes.com but your whistle is not blowing.

@nytimes.com I'm a big fan and you do great work - and yet I'm shocked at your generally moderate and reasoned tone about the coup taking place. This is not business as usual and these are terrifying times. Please change your tune and raise the alarm.

We might yearn for paradise, temporal or spiritual. But to our descendents our habitable planet will look like an almost unimaginable paradise. No tech fantasy, no space station or controlled environment will ever compare.
Fight for what we have. This is our heaven, and there can be no other.

Issue 3 out now. www.blackirispoetry.com/issue-3

Edward Hirsch

I gave a well-earned first prize to Olivia Tuck's exquisite sonnet in the Waltham Forest Poetry Competition.

It's that time of year again! Join hundreds of festive sightseers on 5th December 5.45pm as a new seasonal poem by Valerie Bloom is unveiled as part of the official lighting-up of the Trafalgar Square tree. poetrysociety.org.uk/event/the-tr...

4 December's advent poem from the marvellous @jsaphra.bsky.social
I love the way the rage rises.

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Hello Penny! X

Awards Night! Waltham Forest Poetry Competition Get ready for a night of celebrating Waltham Forest's best poets at our Awards Night Poetry Competition!

Tue 10 Dec, 7.30 - come along and find out who the Waltham Forest Poetry Comp winners are! *FREE* event, Walthamstow Trades Hall - you can just turn up or book at wfawards2024.eventbrite.co.uk - and open mic too! Readings too from our judge @jsaphra.bsky.social and guest poet Max Terry Fishel.