Deryn Rees-Jones

If you’d like to hear Maria Stepanova and me talk about The Disappearing Act you could sign up for this online conversation: 21 March 12pm EST / 5pm GMT brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2026-0...

On 3 March Maxine Peake is reading @oliviamcc.bsky.social wonderful version of Beauty and the Beast at Hay Castle as part of a celebration of illustrator Clive Hicks-Jenkins. Tickets for ‘Redefining Beauty’ via www.haycastletrust.org/m-1-hay-cast...

Rising Green

Rising Green https://www.wikiart.org/en/lee-krasner/rising-green-1972

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🎙️ Life & Language explores how language shapes the way we see the world.

Hosted by Prof. @michamahlberg.bsky.social. Now in its 5th season with 28 episodes and brilliant guests across disciplines.

Curious about how words shape life?

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How romanticised images of London fog shaped the way we see polluted air London’s fog literally fogged photographs with the yellowish hue of the capital’s notorious ‘pea-soupers’.

Combining images of fog & smog with ideas of British identity made the reality of pollution much harder to see, says @michellehenning.bsky.social

Long, engaged reviews are always so helpful and thought-provoking. Many thanks for this #Woodbeepoet

Looking forward to being in conversation with Harriet Tarlo this evening at the Old Head Post Office. As a letter writer I can’t think of a better venue!

One of several scholarships for Palestinian students available at the University of Liverpool. This one is for the MRes in Irish Studies. Please share to relevant circles.

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Pile of blue Fitzcarraldo books: cover says Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova

Definite coup de foudre 🎪 @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

Great to see Bernadette McBride in conversation with David Tierney tonight at FACT, Liverpool to celebrate the launch of #BirdsareLiars @livunienglish.bsky.social

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Looking forward to this in Sheffield on Feb. 11th @serenbooks.bsky.social @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social

& pause to take stock, fresh vantage & slow constancy

YouTube video by serenbooks Launch of ‘Hôtel Amour’ by Deryn Rees-Jones

Here’s the recording of the online launch of Hôtel Amour — with Olivia McCannon @oliviamcc.bsky.social
Menna Elfyn #mennaelfyn #parch #thelivesofz #hotelamour
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Winter sale promotional image with blue snowy background and a tree in the right corner. Text reads 'Up to 50% off in our Winter Sale' with four book covers below - Divinations on Survival, Against Falling, and Here & Thereafter.

Our fantastic @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social collections are all included in the LUP Winter Sale, including preorders of the forthcoming 2026 poetry collections. Use discount code 27WINTER on our website to claim your discount! Sale ends 18th December.
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Birds Are Liars by Bernadette McBride | Waterstones Buy Birds Are Liars by Bernadette McBride from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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Fantastic to see former student Bernadette McBride’s really wonderful short story collection out in the world @livunienglish.bsky.social

And in response to headlines like "there is no need for masks", here is the 1 minutes from my interview where I discuss basic preventative measures (including masks!).

Also note that NHS stats like A&E and Ambulance waits are lower than same time 3 years ago, even with earlier flu wave.

Thanks @tazrahman.bsky.social for picking out ‘Significant Wow’ by @emilycotterill.bsky.social, ‘I Sing to the Greenhearts’ by Maggie Harris and ‘Hôtel Amour’ by @notjustdancing.bsky.social in your 2025 Books of the Year! All available from our website & in bookshops www.serenbooks.com/books/poetry/

Reading Elizabeth Bishop Reading Elizabeth Bishop

“Reading Elizabeth Bishop” is £13.50 in the EUP sale… edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-reading...

Letter Writing Among Poets Letter Writing Among Poets

“Letter Writing Among Poets: From William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Bishop” is just £12.50 in the EUP sale (Paul Muldoon, Hermione Lee, Anne Fadiman, Angela Leighton… and others!) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-letter-....

£10 off all order over £30 with the code Xmas25

Have you taken advantage of our special offer yet? From now until the end of December, you can claim £10 off all orders over £30 with the code Xmas25 when shopping on our website. Browse our books here www.serenbooks.com/books/

Photo of a pink-orange sunset over the trees and rooftops of Paris, Notre-Dame and its cranes just visible on the horizon.

Guest post: Poet Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social reflects on time spent in Paris whilst writing her collection ‘Hôtel Amour’, offering an insight into her writing process & inspirations behind the book www.serenbooks.com/2025/12/gues.... Available now in bookshops & online.

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The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova In this captivating and capacious novel from Stepanova (In Memory of Memory), a 50-year-old novelist experiences a bizarre and l...

'Far from a literary gimmick, the novel comes across as an urgent call to resist complacency and recover one’s vitality in the face of injustice. It’s a stunner.' @publisherswkly.bsky.social gives THE DISAPPEARING ACT by Maria Stepanova, tr. Sasha Dugdale: www.publishersweekly.com/9780811239400

Joanna Kavenna being splendid and talking about #zed and #seven @livunienglish.bsky.social with Danny O’Connor this evening

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Hôtel Amour - Seren “Extraordinary in its formal conception and emotional accuracy…” – The Telegraph “This is simply extraordinary writing, laced with wonder and devastation…” – Joanna Klink A sequel to her T. S. Eliot P...

A beautiful reading by @notjustdancing.bsky.social tonight for the launch of Hotel Amour. As @serenbooks.bsky.social editor @zoebrigley.bsky.social said, it's a beautiful brilliant book, full of nearly unbearable grief and nearly unbearable joy. www.serenbooks.com/book/hotel-a...

Black and white blurred motion photographic front cover of Deryn Rees-Jones’s poetry collection ‘Hôtel Amour’.

A captivating @serenbooks.bsky.social launch tonight of @notjustdancing.bsky.social’s innovative, multilayered & lyrical collection ‘Hôtel Amour’ (alongside fantastic readings from @oliviamcc.bsky.social & Menna Elfyn). 😍