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Out last year here: poetrybirmingham.com/issue-11-spr...

Great to see my short short story SALO on 3:AM. Thanks to @danieldaviswood.bsky.social

www.3ammagazine.com/3am/salo/

My thanks to David Caddy @tearsinthefence.bsky.social for permission to post Nadia Vikulina‘s full review of SOVETICA (from issue 82).

@cbeditions.bsky.social

Huge thanks to @exactingclam.bsky.social for publishing my essay 'Behind the Scenes with Gerald Murnane: A First Reading of Inland'

www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...

@andotherstories.bsky.social

'What Stubbs appears to take away from Rimbaud’s success-through-failure [...] is that failure is the prerequisite for an understanding not only of the multiplicity of selves that we trade in over the course of our lives, but that in fact we irreducibly are this multiplicity of selves.'

Jean Follain and the Inner Lives of Objects – an essay by Daniel Barbiero Jean Follain and the Inner Lives of Objects – an essay by Daniel Barbiero

In The Black Herald this week: Jean Follain and the Inner Lives of Objects – an essay by Daniel Barbiero

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Jean Follain and the Inner Lives of Objects – an essay by Daniel Barbiero Jean Follain and the Inner Lives of Objects – an essay by Daniel Barbiero

In The Black Herald this week: Jean Follain and the Inner Lives of Objects – an essay by Daniel Barbiero

www.blackheraldpress.com/post/jean-fo...

Finally got my hands on my author copies of this. What a stunning publication! Massive thanks to @blackcatpress.bsky.social for all their patience and care. And I want to thank Jean for agreeing to enter into this writing project with me and for doing so with such enthusiasm and generosity.

Four Poems, by Michael Lee Rattigan Underland “If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.” —Walt Whitman Where stalactite meets bone (in God’s childhood) a votive syllable grows. A compound creature’s vertebral mo…

Published today: a superb quartet of poems by Michael Lee Rattigan!

bigother.com/2026/02/05/f...

A new review of my poetry collection BEAST (Broken Sleep Books)

compulsivereader.com/2026/02/06/a...

Tremendous excitement here!

The Cinema Beneath the Lake— my surrealist film-novel @orbistertiuspress.bsky.social

🗣 “An astonishing and revelatory achievement.” — Richard Shillitoe

📖 Order: www.lulu.com/shop/stephen...

#surrealism #newbook #experimentalfiction

Anyone wanting a journey into the thought and poetry of Arthur Rimbaud should take a look at this great book 🖤🔆

L’autre Verlaine, portrait compressé d’un ferrailleur poétique à New-York – par Frédéric Moulin L’autre Verlaine, portrait compressé d’un ferrailleur poétique à New-York – par Frédéric Moulin

L’autre Verlaine, portrait compressé d’un ferrailleur poétique à New-York – par Frédéric Moulin

www.blackheraldpress.com/post/l-autre...

Poetry manuscript appraisal | Paul Stubbs Poetry manuscript appraisal Paul Stubbs offers help and advice to prepare, develop, and possibly edit your poetry manuscript, with a view to making it as strong and coherent as possible, bringing it t...

Black Herald Press’ publisher Paul Stubbs offers his services to poets in need of guidance and advice to prepare, develop, and edit their poetry manuscripts, for a reasonable fee.

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Retour sur la lecture musicale (salle comble) au Théâtre des marronniers, à Lyon, le 19 janvier, avec Jean-Pierre Longre, écrivain, et Olivier Longre, compositeur, autour du recueil Un an de solitude, disponible ici
www.blackheraldpress.com/unandesolitude

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Michael Lee Rattigan’s as grass becomes flesh, Reviewed by Anthony Seidman as grass becomes flesh, Michael Lee Rattigan, Black Herald Press, 2023: Chartres-London. ISBN: 978-2-919582-35-8, 59 pages.  Gratitude must be extended to editor-poets Paul Stubbs and Blandine…

A review by American poet Anthony Seidman of Michael Lee Rattigan’s book “as grass becomes flesh” can be read in The Loch Raven Review
thelochravenreview.net/michael-lee-...

The book is available here
www.blackheraldpress.com/asgrassbecom...

« If Rimbaud’s silence was the outcome of a kind of failed bet, it was at bet whose stakes, in Stubbs’ reading, were always existential rather than literary. » Daniel Barbiero on Paul Stubbs’ The Carbonized Earth, a study on Rimbaud

www.arteidolia.com/review-of-pa...

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The Carbonized Earth | Paul STUBBS - Black Herald Press The Carbonized Earth a study on Arthur Rimbaud followed by Perfect Little Monster, a play in three acts PAUL STUBBS - 2024

In 2024, we published Paul Stubbs’ book of poetical & philosophical essays about Rimbaud, “The Carbonized Earth”
www.blackheraldpress.com/the-carboniz...

A review by Stephen Sunderland (Acts of Renunciation: the poet-essayist as understudy) is in 3:AM Magazine
www.3ammagazine.com/3am/acts-of-...

Poets House Showcase - Poets House The Poets House Showcase, a yearly exhibition of over 2,500 poetry books from more than 500 presses, celebrating new poetry publications.

View @vikshirley.bsky.social's new collection as well as many others in the Poets House 30th Showcase Exhibition, currently open!

A review by Daniel Barbiero of The Carbonized Earth, my book on Rimbaud (in Arteidolia)

www.arteidolia.com/review-of-pa...

Four Poems, by Gillian Cummings Hour of the Puppets “We’re surrounded by different realities, one on top of the other…Even the smallest pebble has a life of its own.” —Ingmar Bergman, Fanny and Alexander Touch the color on…

Published today: a superb quartet of poems by Gillian Cummings!

bigother.com/2026/01/30/f...

Four Poems, by Paul Stubbs The Religious Mood “Where does religious feeling come from? From the fact there is a world.” —Simone Weil   —Beginning on the day when, upon a furious terrain, God trialed the first of his swi…

Delighted to share the news that Paul Stubbs's PREPARATIONS FOR THE AFTERLIFE: SELECTED POEMS, 1992-2025 will be published by Broken Sleep Books later this year. It features four Stubbs poems we published last year!

bigother.com/2025/10/08/f...

Cc: @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

The Compliment — Caroline Clark 1. The compliment came in swift and stayed with you your whole life. You in your blue sweater with the cowl neck. You with your dark hair. Montreal’s Grande Bibliothèque: glass fronted, deeper and …

This essay came out last January in @minorliteratures.bsky.social. It'll also be published in a book of my essays this year with @blackheraldpress.bsky.social

minorliteratures.com/2025/01/09/t...

I often feel needlessly oppressed when I read writers talking about how they write, let alone their actual advice. So at the end of my book of essays I think I should add:

'And this is how it was for me. It may not be so for you. Let nothing that I say here restrict you in your art.'

we will stay open for submissions throughout December ...

all details here:

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Black Herald Press’ publisher Paul Stubbs offers his services to poets in need of guidance and advice to prepare, develop, and edit their poetry manuscripts, for a reasonable fee.

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@paulrstubbs.bsky.social

Very grateful to @fictionable.bsky.social for reposting this story, supporting my work. It‘s a good end to the year!

Black Herald Press’ publisher Paul Stubbs offers his services to poets in need of guidance and advice to prepare, develop, and edit their poetry manuscripts, for a reasonable fee.

poetpstubbs.wixsite.com/paulstubbs/m...

@paulrstubbs.bsky.social

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