Paul Ings

Thanks Carmella

Such a joy to have a couple of poems selected for this beauty. Thank you editor Carole Baldock for your kind patience.

Chasms launch readings. In alphabetical order... John Kenny, Julie Stevens, Paul Connolly, Paul Ings, Peter Devonald, Peter Thabit Jones, Sam Szanto Launching 02/02/2026

Live readings for Chasms.

Chasms, a chapbook by Carmella de Keyser, released by Alien Buddha Press.

A huge thank you to these fantastic people & poets @johnkenny13.bsky.social @jumpingjulespoetry.bsky.social @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social @ings4words.bsky.social @pdevonald.bsky.social @peterthabitjones.bsky.social @samszanto.bsky.social for launching Chasms @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social with me!🙏🏼❤️

"As a study of footballers at the lower end of the professional game, these twelve poems are unique, and must be among the very best ever to be written about the beautiful game..."

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Wow, thank you Carmella. And merry Christmas to you.

Rogue Strands on Richard Meier's After the Miracle...

"In these poems, apparently simple words portray a maelstrom of life events. They provide a lesson in how to meet intense experience head-on, and turn it into art..."

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Congratulations!

Don't miss this amazing FREE poetry event in London in October with @roguestrands.bsky.social @hannahcopley.bsky.social @jonathandavidson.bsky.social @fionalarkin.bsky.social @matriches.bsky.social at The Devereux Pub in Temple.
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Who said there's no poetry to be found at a car boot sale?! I have a new poem in this week's issue of The Spectator...

Arresting the poets are we? Not a good look.

The emotional significance of objects sends ripples through our lives, which is why this is often my final poem when I give a reading.

It's taken from my second full collection, Whatever You Don't, Just Don't. If you fancy a signed copy, drop me a DM and I'll sort one out for you...

Anyone got a book to promote? I have space on my blog for a couple of interviews - check out samszanto.com/blog and get in touch if interested #writingcommunity

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It was a summer evening after a day of Andalusian sun just like today, all set in the counterpoint of the cool Atlantic Ocean, menories that were captured forever...

Ooh, well i wouldn't like to exclude either. Even the everyday is arguably extraordinary, especially in the right hands.

Yes, but the good news is you can enjoy it multiple times. Happy birthday

Paul Ings

Poem by Paul Ings

Julie Stevens

Poem by Julie Stevens

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Please may I highlight Paul Ings for his uniquely observational collection-ONE WEEK ONE SPAN OF HUMAN LIFE
@ings4words.bsky.social & Julie Stevens for her candid &powerful collection FOREST GIRL @jumpingjulespoetry.bsky.social Two fantastic poets! 👆💥🙌

Thank you so much for this Carmella

Dear by Sam Szanto Dear What’s it like there?I imagine youplaying tennis with Auntie Helen,learning Hungarian from your grandma,going to the café with Sarah: colafor you and whisky for her (a double,she doesn’t have...

I'm so honoured to have my poem 'Dear' included in this beautiful edition of Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social 💗
www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/dear-by...

This poem might have a seemingly satisfying, neat and circular ending, but it then opens out beyond its modest limits to invite the reader to consider their own stories.

Paul Ings pamphlet

'One Week, One Span, of Human Life'. By Paul Ings.
I had to get this - such an intriguing title and I'm looking forward to reading it soon.🩶
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#mustread

I hope you enjoy it, and thank you

Matthew Stewart (Part 2) - The Poetry Bath Surrey-born, Sussex & Spain-dwelling Matthew Stewart reads more poems from Whatever you do, just don't and talks to me about the delicate process of writing about grief. He also tells me about his...

Here's the second part of my visit to the Poetry Bath podcast, just out today...!

www.buzzsprout.com/2257615/epis...

The back and front jacket of 'The Blue Hour' by Angelina D'Roza, white text against vertical bands of bluish colour, set against a background of green silken folds.

And like this, this reservoir walled with stone and thistle
reflecting ourselves back to ourselves, or how shame
sits at the centre of things, like the first cuckoo in spring.

'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza

Out now from Longbarrow Press
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Too Loud a Solitude Haňtá has been compacting trash for thirty-five years. …

A fable-like book written by a Czech during Soviet times. The main character is someone whose job is to pulp and destroy books, but who also rescues books and lines his apartment with them. Comic, surreal, scatalogical. Relevant for our age of book bans. 💙📚💙📚🖋️📚🖋️💙
#booksky

Love this one

A great joy to be a part of this. Thank YOU

Poetry comes alive when it's shared. That's why I'm so excited by my upcoming events in the next few days in Faversham, Chichester and Cowden Pound, by letting my poems change in so many different ways as they cease to belong to me and find their readers...