These sounds born out of the silencing
core of being
24.11.2025 20:00 — 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
The Years from You to Me
Your hair waves once more when I weep. With the blue of your eyes
you lay the table of love; a bed between summer and autumn.
We drink what somebody brewed neither I nor you nor a third:
we lap up some empty and last thing.
We watch ourselves in the deep sea’s mirrors and faster pass food to the other:
the night is the night, it begins with the morning, beside you it lays me down.
“The night is the night.”
Paul Celan; tr. Michael Hamburger
23.11.2025 22:57 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Paul is a fantastic reader of others' work. Details of his ms reading services 👇
23.11.2025 11:15 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
That’s ’The Carbon Arc’ well and truly launched In Manchester. Thanks as ever to Helen and her team at the mighty Impiety Hour bookshop for stocking and selling Vanguard’s books. Farewell Manchester until next time!
14.11.2025 07:24 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The Black Herald | Le Héraut noir | Black Herald Press
The Black Herald – Le Héraut noir / Digital version – Version numérique / 2025
nouveaux textes à lire dans la version numérique de la revue Black Herald // new texts have been published in the digital version of the Black Herald magazine
www.blackheraldpress.com/theblackherald
23.10.2025 15:23 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
a form of meat that sits around, goitrous and lame in bars
23.10.2025 15:21 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
L'excellente revue Tina présente son numéro 1 en librairie avec un texte de votre serviteur dedans.
24.10.2025 15:35 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Our latest poetry publication, check it on our website
23.11.2025 11:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What Is the Word -
What is the word for this in French? The Russian I know - a kind of chucking out. Brutal, gets to the point though. The English applies restraint. A thing mislaid, mistake. A stately horsedrawn flourish.
Miscarriage, o, how ravishingly slow.
For Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day
First and only poem published in Poetry Review (many moons ago). The last four words were used as the epigraph to the issue.
14.10.2025 08:22 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Many thanks to Richard Lea @fictionable.bsky.social for this enjoyable conversation!
06.11.2025 17:06 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
@minorliteratures.bsky.social will open for fiction submissions December 1st
19.11.2025 21:09 — 👍 9 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 4
Book — Beast: The Lost Chronicles by Paul Stubbs
Latest book mail. @paulrstubbs.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
30.07.2025 02:25 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
ICYMI: my interview with Richard Lea of @fictionable.bsky.social. There’s a mention of my next book with @blackheraldpress.bsky.social and discussion of my previous two with @cbeditions.bsky.social. 👇🪁
07.11.2025 16:30 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The Black Herald | Le Héraut noir | Black Herald Press
The Black Herald – Le Héraut noir / Digital version – Version numérique / 2025
nouveaux textes à lire dans la version numérique de la revue Black Herald // new texts have been published in the digital version of the Black Herald magazine
www.blackheraldpress.com/theblackherald
23.10.2025 15:23 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
New essay for anyone interested in Artaud & cinepoetry!
www.blackheraldpress.com/post/artaud-...
Many thanks to @blackheraldpress.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏🔆🔆🔆
04.09.2025 09:30 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Black cover with grey-toned montage of photos and drawings, surrealist in spirit
Back cover:
1 perplex other people... I infect them also with the perplexity I feel myself: as if to echo Socrates' words, David Spittle's poems make us look for what, inside language, we did not necessarily know we were looking for. In each poem, precariously poised as Spittle is between syntactical newness and each free act of the mind, he purges us of our anticipation of what
• the creative act is. Thus, in the same manner as John Ashbery, whose poetry came to him in fits and starts and by indirec-tion', Spittle's poetry reveals itself behind the multiple (and mostly involuntary) disguises that reality for him, from one poem to the next, takes on. Hence we find a poet writing always amid the struggle of birth and re-birth, identity and non-identity, a poetry testing itself perilously at the frontiers of both verbal experiment and perception.
Poem 1 from ‘All Particles and Waves’ sequence
A three-legged dog barks
In a falling storm
A three-legged dog barks
Unheard in the vault
Undeterred and biting
In a falling storm
Of feathers
A three-legged dog barks
As all around
Is softly exploding
If you break open the dry stems of certain plants /
you will find a snoozing grub.
from All Particles and Waves
By David Spittle from @blackheraldpress.bsky.social
02.10.2025 08:55 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Le Double Rimbaud - The Double Rimbaud | Victor SEGALEN - Black Herald Press
Le Double Rimbaud - The Double Rimbaud
VICTOR SEGALEN
ouvrage bilingue - bilingual book
Black Herald Press
Il y a trois ans, paraissait cet essai de Victor Segalen sur Arthur Rimbaud, accompagné de sa toute première traduction en anglais / published 3 years ago, the first English translation of this seminal essay
Translation Paul Stubbs and Blandine Longre
www.blackheraldpress.com/ledoublerimb...
19.04.2025 10:07 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Said book relaxing on blue and white striped deckchair.
Poem:
CRYSTALLINE
In the rhythms of crystal where the proportions of instinct spiral & gyrate.
Engendered from divine intelligence, volts from her source electrify their worth.
Along fretboards where we trace her fretwork time out of mind,
playing organic variations
on the theme of her.
Crystal does not petrify.
It is a dynamo.
It is, most palpably, alive.
Welcome to my deckchair Mark Wilson’s Paolo and Francesca in a Colder Climate from @blackheraldpress.bsky.social!
03.07.2025 15:18 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Poetry, Art, Politics and Pedagogy
A journal of literature.
http://theberlinliteraryreview.com
Poetry all the time since 1972. We never close. aprweb.org
Poet; lecturer; Victorianist; singer; Scottish dancer; nature lover; wine or tea, that is the question; the sea, the sea; land of the mountain & the flood.
Compulsive writer, poet, doctor.
Commissioned to write & perform by English Touring Opera
Published in Public Sector Poetry | The Fig Tree | Page Gallery Journal
Reluctant non-smoker
Author of Hotel Almighty
artist/mutant
editor @minorliteratures.bsky.social
NEW: DIE WORKBOOK (The Blasted Tree)
Ruin | Unbecoming | Their Queer Tenderness | On High | Super, Natural
neilsurkan.com
Poetry. Well-served. #KFB10
NEW KFB 10TH 2026/27 SEASON https://www.patreon.com/posts/mains-133165415
Find us: asterismbooks.com/publisher/knife-fork-book
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Poet, birder. Used to bloviate at Isola di Rifiuti.
“We do this [write] because the world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning in it” - Sandra Cisneros
Not for profit/For prophecy
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Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
A webjournal publishing short fiction, book reviews, a weekly newsletter, & whatever else happens at http://www.necessaryfiction.com. Doing our best since 2009.
Posts by http://shimmer.bsky.social.
Author of 𝘕𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2024). Editor of @BigOtherMag.bsky.social. Find more at http://johnmadera.com.
Publishing Literature in the Expanded Field / Behind the Facade, More of the Same / Incipit 2014 / Our books are available through Asterism: https://asterismbooks.com/publisher/inside-the-castle
Alexander Booth. Poetry. Translation (Mayröcker, Kluge, Penna, Wittgenstein et al). Analog collage. Existential Analysis / Logotherapy. Epigrams unto emptiness. Tread the path with care.
wordkunst@gmail.com / IG: @wordkunst
Winner of Southeast Review’s 2023 World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest, 2025 Best Small Fictions. Lapsed scholar/ Pun Perpetrator/ Montana Expat. Words in HAD, Wigleaf, Stanchion, Five South, etc.
https://mooninabucket.com
A literary magazine obsessed with revenge. Open for submissions! https://www.villaineralit.com Mastermind: @charlesjensen.bsky.social
