Welcome to my new show about the history of commercial fishing, or the Cod Past podcast.
Tremendous poem in today's @parisreview.bsky.social mail out: mailchi.mp/theparisrevi...
Ah well.
The only way out is through!
Proofs! Very exciting.
@victoriamoul.bsky.social
Pre-order the real thing: www.headlesspoet.com/shop/p/poems...
Back to my old tricks (putting £1 on Labour to win in G&D at 4/1)
Paul Gauguin's Armchair - 1888
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14353
"There is a difference between paying attention to an ending and a poem which is genuinely attentive to its own end—which has been, from the first line, a thing in time, moving through it. "
Some thoughts for the blog on endings in poetry, via Muloon, Allnutt & Kunial. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Introductions are the way poetry survives. They are also, I think, an endangered art.
Which is why I'm starting a poetry press.
Here's a little more about what that all means (and how you can help): jwikeley.substack.com/p/why-im-sta...
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The daffs are coming out, and so are the @badlilies.bsky.social. Delighted to have two new poems in this early spring posy.
Why I'm starting a poetry press. And how you can help 👇
Introducing, Headless Poet...
jwikeley.substack.com/p/why-im-sta...
I posted elsewhere about a lady in one of my Leeds Irish Health and Homes workshops who wrote 'I've had dementia / for as long as I can remember'. It came back to me reading @ravoon.bsky.social's tremendous debut 'Dirt Rich', full of technically brilliant, emotionally-devastating work like this:
Thanks for the reminder. I will read anything JM writes!
Well, I read that wrong.
This is one of the few positions in the book world which is both deeply unpopular, genuinely brave and completely correct.
Bad Lilies is cooking up a BEAST of an issue for next month. Subscribe to our email list and get early access to our submission windows! www.badlilies.uk/subscribe
This week in the poetry blogs with @victoriamoul.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @linarvitvideopoet.bsky.social
1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/01/poet...
Here's a thing I wrote for Carcanet about my forthcoming book: featuring toast, marmite, Tom Baker, and taphophobia
I am interested all these things too now, especially the last one. I am always saying things I don't mean!
New edition of Peter Didsbury's "new and collected poems" this April. I am very excited. Poetry's best kept secret.
www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/...
Me, last year, on how Larkin made it new.
My bit on Larkin's The Less Deceived, which is 70 this year -and every bit as good as The Whitsun Weddings. Thanks as ever to @engelsbergideas.bsky.social & thank you again to @plsoc.bsky.social for hosting the live version.
A Poetry Notebook enters the Kingdom of Winter, with cameo appearances from Christina Rossetti, Frost, Stevens, Larkin and Toby Martinez de las Rivas.
jwikeley.substack.com/p/snow-on-sn...
"These days, I stress that close reading is not magic. Its power lies in argument: always vulnerable, nothing simpler and yet nothing harder." @bostonreview.bsky.social
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
House near us has a bauble the size of a car *on top of their car* and a huge light display - with a box for donations to the leccy bill. Obviously I hate it. But I respect it.
I have a new poem, about ancient history, in the winter edition of @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social. Very pleased I am about it too. You can get a copy and read some other pieces online here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...
This was a lot of fun. Thank you @plsoc.bsky.social for the invitation. Print version to follow. And here is the beautiful piece by Rachel Cooke I mentioned at the start. Such absences: www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
I have a new poem, about ancient history, in the winter edition of @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social. Very pleased I am about it too. You can get a copy and read some other pieces online here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...
Our December / January 2026 issue is out now!
Cover image by Tom Johnson, cartoon by Dan Sperrin.
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