Chris Emery

The Foreshore, Samantha York Eilean Eòin is a tiny scrap of land which is stranded amidst miles of fierce ocean, where the scant population barely cling to a centuries’ old way of life. It

The best book about Scottish history you will read this year. Congratulations to Samantha York on the publication of The Foreshore. 🥳🎉🥂

Happy publication day to Samantha York – The Foreshore is available from all good bookshops today. 🎉🥳🥂😻🚀

You can pre-order my new collection, WONDER, with a massive 25% discount from Waterstones today – head to bit.ly/3GWJNdA

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Loved this when I saw it at a Carrington exhibition a few months ago.

Top top poetry content in the inaugural issue of Free Bloody Birds, edited by Alan Jenkins and Declan Ryan. Including new poems by @sheribenning.bsky.social, Ange Mlinko and Karen Solie, Mark Ford on Auden's Hardy and @bdralyuk.bsky.social on Peter Reading.
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A UK government food strategy for England, considering the wider UK food system

Policy paper published today on the UK government's food strategy for England:
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A new poem by Alan Jenkins, one of the finest poets we have, that is both timely and moving:

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This is on the website of Free Bloody birds, the new little (print) magazine he edits with Declan Ryan. The first issue is packed with excellent writing.

The Friday Poem on 11th July 2025 Matthew Paul reviews 'Everything is Present' by Anna Woodford (Salt, 2025)

'this is really lovely and loving poetry, simultaneously demonstrating the joy of inter-generational relationships, time playing its tricks, and, above all, the beauty and tenderness of unconditional familial love.'

Matthew Paul reviews ‘Everything is Present’ in The Friday Poem.

Big congratulations to Zoë Apostolides on the publication of day of hew debut, The Homecoming! 🥳🎉🥂

Thank you!

A Sense of Wonder Wonder , Chris Emery (Salt Publishing, 69pp, £10.99) This collection, Emery’s fifth, provides a heterogenous selection of poems about en...

An early review by M. C. Caseley (sincere thanks) of my new collection WONDER is now live on Stride Magazine: stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-se...

Thank you, Chuck.

A poem from Wonder by Chris Emery

Twa Tieve’s Nackets from my forthcoming collection, Wonder.

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WONDER
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Thanks so much, Gerard.

A poem from Wonder by Chris Emery

Twa Tieve’s Nackets from my forthcoming collection, Wonder.

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My pleasure and thank you.

Sincere thanks.

Thanks so much!

Bagging Up by Chris Emery

Here’s Bagging Up from my forthcoming collection, Wonder.

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Bagging Up by Chris Emery

Here’s Bagging Up from my forthcoming collection, Wonder.

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Salt signs Dubai-set crypto novel by Tibor Fischer Salt has signed a crypto novel by Tibor Fischer, set in Dubai.

Big news from Salty Towers: Tibor Fischer joins the Salt list.

Yes. Since like the 1960s.

I'm completely over the moon with @rorywaterman.bsky.social’s deeply kind comments on my new collection, Wonder.

Doing It All Wrong Why dropping out still matters

Doing it all wrong…

A wee jaunt to Cambridge. Stayed at Jesus, which was very pleasant!

Music surprisingly good!

He’s excellent in this. Funny, tragic and moving.

Perhaps it has familiar tropes, but this little ensemble piece is charming, moving and very, very British. Also, Carey Mulligan 😻.

Noted for its ‘grand irony and playful humour, with episodes of tenderness and charm’, Hill’s poetry journeyed from London to Japan and back again, over four remarkable collections.

The new prize has been established by The Poetry Society with the support of Hill’s family. Hill was a close (...)