charlotte shevchenko knight

i’ll also be reading a newly commissioned poem for Manchester Literature Festival in what is their 20th anniversary (!) alongside my fellow Multilingual City Poet manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/manch...

Charlotte Shevchenko Knight Workshop - What’s so funny? – Translating the absurd into poetry. Charlotte Shevchenko Knight hosts a poetry workshop over Zoom

then in October i’m lightening the mood with this online workshop on humour in poetry for Verve Poetry Festival, for the more chuckle-prone poet www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/charlotte-...

Poetics of the Haunted with Charlotte Shevchenko Knight | Romalyn Ante Who are your daily ghosts? What thoughts go unsaid, shivering in the background, absent presences? Do they belong in poetry?

in September i’m running an online workshop for Tsaa with Roma that asks if ghosts belong in poetry, in case any of you haunted types are keen to join www.romalynante.com/event-detail...

i have a few fun things coming up this autumn - including workshops! - so prepare yourselves for a thread 🧵

a dear pal sent me this old article by Žižek on poetry and the torture house of language. it is extremely compelling so i’m having to share here for those who haven’t already come across it www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

reading a collection of Helene Cixous’s essays and she essentially pulls this move every time (which i love)

devastated to report that i finally started watching Girls because everyone in my life says i’m ‘such a Hannah’ and i wanted to find out what that means….and now i know…..

sooo interesting to watch this interview of Agnès Varda and Susan Sontag and see how Jack Kroll interrupts Sontag when she is talking about being interrupted, only to mansplain Citizen Kane. 1969. has anything changed at all lmao youtu.be/XTO61r_UjU4?...

recently came across interview footage of Bob Geldof in the 80s and it has completely rocked my world. i had no idea that man was so handsome and eloquent….almost enough so to forgive those atrocious christmas songs…..

working on a poem for a friend, which means i get to return to some of my ‘essential’ reading — sharing here as a lil treat for everyone else. in order, Sophie Robinson, Frank O’Hara, Anne Carson 🪨

forgot Larry David’s name and referred to him as ‘Curb’

When you dug inside of yourself, what did you find? I spiralled so far inward; I ended up on the outside. Confronted by all the things my body knows but wouldn’t let my mind in on till now. I start to cave. I know a tenderness is required of me if I want to stop being as sick, if I want to feel my emotions in real-time. When I drink, I think about how a lighter click could burst me into flames. How unbearable it must be to know everything. I refuse to see it; I can’t bear to look.

cold saline   pushed through  a butterfly       in the nook   of my arm   hand or wrist  sharp scratch   to the vein   it tastes metallic   or it smells metallic    & I’m thinking   that I can taste it as it travels through me  I feel it all over  as it seeps under my skin like bitter rain

a startling, original and thrilling new voice.
— @rebeccatamas.bsky.social

This is a brilliant debut.
— Caleb Klaces

An intimate & astonishing debut which asks us to pay close attention to what it really means to be alive.
— @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social

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thrilled to share that i’m now a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award for Food for the Dead! it’s an incredible list of authors and i feel honoured to be joining that legacy. huge thank you to the judges, @societyofauthors.bsky.social, my friends, family and love for making it an evening to remember

📖 @johamya.bsky.social for The Hypocrite
📖 Ashani Lewis for Winter Animals (Dialogue Books)
📖 @jaseokundaye.bsky.social for Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain (@faber.bsky.social)
📖 @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social for Food for the Dead (Jonathan Cape, Vintage)

Next up are the Somerset Maugham Awards, awarded for published works of fiction, non-fiction or poetry by writers under 30, to enable them to enrich their work by gaining experience of foreign countries

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Maya Caspari, Becca Drake, and Janine Bradbury all delivering phenomenal performances tonight at Bluebird Bakery in York. very lucky to call these poets our own 💙

just took my driving theory test (and passed!) but i met a girly at the test centre clearly hungover as all hell and she hit me with the

yes to Cain, no to De Marcken! but It Lasts Forever is on my list - should i start there?

as summer approaches i am once again calling out to the void for novel recommendations! i’m a particularly big fan of Olga Ravn, Tove Ditlevsen, Olga Tokarczuk, and Ottessa Moshfegh… pls help me find more deliciously good books

i thought of you when it happened!!!!

Bruce Springsteen tonight in Liverpool welcoming onstage a ‘local lad’ Paul McCartney — yes i cried ❤️‍🩹

went for dinner and there was this face from a mural reflected in my friend’s cutlery but i didn’t realise that was what was happening at first and got scared that it was josie packard

ultimate compliment: someone told me my outfit was ‘very French’

thank you so much!!

thank you darling ❤️

and so it begins….🕵️👗

thank you lovely ❤️🫶

thank you!! :-)

Food for the Dead has been shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize 2025 — i’m very grateful to be included on the shortlist, and in such stellar company too, thank you to the judges ❤️

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stills from a test shoot this weekend / making visual work as part of my new book-in-progress / these seem to work as a fun triptych / what does an embodied poetics look like? 💋