Matt Simpson Memorial Reading with Deryn Rees-Jones – OEG
Looking forward to reading at The Open Eye Gallery on October 30th, and remembering and speaking about my dear friend Matt Simpson openeye.org.uk/whatson/matt...
07.10.2025 11:19 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Three great new collections forthcoming in the Spring #pavilionpoetry
02.10.2025 21:00 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
‘Embodying irrepressible biodiversity, the poems take multiple forms, some recognisable (diary, translation, question, letter etc) and some entirely context-specific, making new patterns on the page…’ from review of @oliviamcc.bsky.social ‘Lives of Z’ @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social
21.07.2025 16:58 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A promotional graphic for The Saltire Society’s National Book Awards 2025. At the top, text reads “Poetry Longlist 2025.” Below is a photo of poet Theresa Muñoz outdoors, smiling softly, alongside the pink cover of her book Archivum.
A promotional graphic for The Saltire Society’s National Book Awards 2025 Poetry Longlist. The pink book cover of Archivum by Theresa Muñoz appears on the left. On the right, judges’ comments praise the book as 'an elegant and ambitious exploration of archival memories... warm, loving and connected.'
We’re thrilled to announce that Archivum by Theresa Muñoz has been longlisted for The Saltire Society’s National Book Awards in the Poetry category!
Congratulations to @munozpoems.bsky.social and to all the remarkable poets recognised this year.
11.09.2025 12:59 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
The Slowdown
The Slowdown podcast hosted by Maggie Smith delivers a different way to see the world - through poetry
We're thrilled to hear that Jodie Hollander’s poem Blue, from her collection Nocturne, was recently featured on The Slowdown, read by Maggie Smith. 💙
Find out more here:
bit.ly/BlueJH
23.09.2025 10:28 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Three book covers appear against a starry mountain night backdrop. Left: purple cover, Divinations on Survival by Natalie Linh Bolderston. Center: grey cover, Here & Thereafter by Alice Miller. Right: green cover, Against Falling by Linda Anderson. Each has a small domed building icon below, the Pavilion Poetry icon.
Celebrating #NationalPoetryDay and our 2026 collections – Divinations on Survival by Natalie Linh Bolderston @natlinhbolderston.bsky.social, Here & Thereafter by Alice Miller, and Against Falling by Linda Anderson. Available to pre-order from Friday the 10th October! bit.ly/Pavilion26
02.10.2025 11:00 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2
‘it's easy to imagine The Lives of Z joining the likes of Christensen's alphabet (1981) as an essential text ecopoetry for years to come‘
Wonderful review of ‘Lives of Z’ by @oliviamcc.bsky.social @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social in this issue of Poetry Review
28.09.2025 18:08 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
John Lucas (1937-2025) — poet, novelist, critic, teacher, editor of the incredible Shoestring Press…cornet player, cricket lover, socialist, enabler, and kindest and dearest of friends
25.09.2025 07:58 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Keats-Shelley Prizes 2025-26
This year’s Keats-Shelley Memorial Prizes are now open. Themes are dystopia / utopia
I’m glad to be judging the poetry prize again with Will Kemp. Closing date 2nd February and more info here
keats-shelley.org/prizes/keats...
20.09.2025 07:29 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Poets & Players
Organising free events in Manchester since 2004 (founded by Linda Chase)
A first reading for #HotelAmour on 27th September and in such great company at the Anthony Burgess Foundation. Free and no need to book! More information here poetsandplayers.co
15.09.2025 15:05 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
So much looking forward to this! @serenbooks.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social
15.09.2025 14:52 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Blown away by such a thoughtful and engaged review of #hotelamour by @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social in The Yorkshire Times — for which many thanks
13.09.2025 08:07 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are thrilled to share the news that Hasib Hourani's rock flight has made the shortlist for the Michael Murphy Poetry Prize!
Congratulations to all of the shortlisted poets and publishers.
The winner will be announced on #NationalPoetryDay.
08.09.2025 09:25 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Many congratulations to all the poets on the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize shortlist, including Kris Johnson, who has been shortlisted for her 2023 debut collection Ghost River. The winner will be announced on @poetrydayuk.bsky.social, Thursday 2 October.
08.09.2025 13:33 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
We're delighted to announce that Kris Johnson's debut collection Ghost River, published by Bloodaxe in 2023, has been shortlisted for the @englishassociation.bsky.social's Michael Murphy Poetry Prize for a distinctive first volume of poetry in English.
www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...
08.09.2025 10:32 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 2
We are delighted to announce the shortlist for our Michael Murphy Poetry Prize! englishassociation.ac.uk/michael-murp... Winner announced on #NationalPoetryDay!
@carcanet.bsky.social
@prototypepubs.bsky.social
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
@faberbooks.bsky.social
@picadorbooks.bsky.social
08.09.2025 09:21 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 3
thepoemswemade | Instagram | Linktree
Exploring the power of poetry and friendship one conversation at a time.
On today’s bank holiday edition of The Poems We Made Along The Way I spoke to Deryn Rees-Jones about Paris syndrome, writing poetry projects as fractals and Rosi Braidotti’s Posthuman Feminism.
Let me know what you think: linktr.ee/thepoemswemade
25.08.2025 09:42 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
We are delighted to announce the longlist for our Michael Murphy Poetry Prize! englishassociation.ac.uk/michael-murp...
@carcanet.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social
08.08.2025 10:28 — 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 9
Congratulations to the poets on the Michael Murphy Poetry Prize longlist!
11.08.2025 12:38 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Great & wide-ranging review of The Strongbox, alongside Gboyega Odubanjo and Jen Campbell, by @zoebrigley.bsky.social & now online @magmapoetry.bsky.social – I’m so grateful for the review & so pleased when The Strongbox reaches a reader. @carcanet.bsky.social
magmapoetry.com/wp-content/u...
01.08.2025 07:11 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
A black and white poetry book Hotel Amour, with a red gladioli
Smiling woman in a red fifties dress with a red hair flower and a quiff standing next to a spiky plant
This month's 'short & sweet' poetry newsletter is on broken ankles, new books & rejection, feat @serenbooks.bsky.social @notjustdancing.bsky.social @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social @foundationswift.bsky.social @poetryschool.bsky.social
mailchi.mp/f3591be78b32...
#poetry #hotelamour #danceasif #books
31.07.2025 11:32 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Building Worlds
…we can live together in
I'm so grateful to Linda France for her brilliant substack article featuring The Lives of Z (in amazingly good company!) 😊🙏
lindafrance.substack.com/p/building-w...
21.07.2025 13:28 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
As we prepare to launch our 2025 festival TONIGHT with 'Penguin' at @unitytheatre.bsky.social, here's a welcome message from our Chair, Afrah Qassim 🎉
Be sure to check out our Festival Brochure and details of all our shows taking place across the city until 20th July:
www.arabartsfestival.com
11.07.2025 13:51 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of Paris looking across the city towards the Eiffel Tower in the distance.
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘(i)’ by Deryn Rees-Jones, the first in a sequence of sonnets from her new collection ‘Hôtel Amour’ www.serenbooks.com/2025/07/frid.... @notjustdancing.bsky.social
11.07.2025 10:12 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Double trouble ….#hotelamour @serenbooks.bsky.social
07.07.2025 12:53 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Coucou #hotelamour #erato
07.07.2025 12:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hybrid sci-art ex-astronomer now-author. Writes fiction, poems, essays, reviews. Latest two are 'Schrödinger’s Wife (and other possibilities)' from Goldsmiths Press/Gold SF, and 'Night Vision' from Broken Sleep Books. https://www.pippagoldschmidt.co.uk
Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doctor. Kids: The Destiny of Minou Moonshine 🐘 The Voyage of Sam Singh 🦜 @zephyrbooks.bsky.social Poetry: Siren 🧜🏽♀️ @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social A Terrible Thing 🧝🏽♀️ (Bad Betty Press)
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poet, gardener, intelligence expert
former Managing Editor at Arc poetry Magazine
former Director at VerseFest, now a volunteer
former guitar/mandolin at Call Me Katie
books with Brick, Chaudiere, Anansi, rdc, etc
Medievalist, Liverpool. She/Her. Author of books ‘Medieval Ireland’ ‘Viking Kings of Britain and Ireland’ currently commissioned for a Penguin Classics volume on the Viking Age. All DMs are blocked (Bluesky ID issue)
Poet, writer, (col)lapsed academic (he/him). Work in: @badlilies.bsky.social, @propelmagazine.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
NWCDTP-funded PhD student at Centre for Place Writing, MMU. Author of The Yak Dilemma, out now with Makina Books.
https://linktr.ee/supriyakaurdhaliwal
PhD in Philosophy (English literature), specialising in Virginia Woolf & radical aesthetics. Explore my work @ https://sites.google.com/view/drrhondamayne/current-projects
Archive TV Channel. Keeping celluloid alive! Freeview82 Freesat306 Sky328 & Virgin445. FREE catch-up via Freeview Red Button and http://tptvencore.co.uk
The Irish Manuscripts Commission, founded 1928, preserves primary manuscript sources for Irish history in print and online. Browse our collection, including free digital resources at irishmanuscripts.ie
Official account for the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Celebrating the lives & works of Keats, the Shelleys, Byron, & their circles
Poet in theory, Neurodiversity in the Workplace trainer, host of The Poems We Made Along the Way, your new best friend.
Teaching English at the University of Edinburgh. Generally reading, writing, day dreaming. Writing and thinking about Edith Wharton, Nancy Cunard, modernism, decadence, anti-colonialism, anti-fascism, cosmopolitanism, & other people and things like that.
FRHistS. Author. Public speaker. Shakespeare scholar. General Ed: Collected Plays of Robert Greene. Associate Ed: Collected Works of Thomas Kyd. Welsh.
https://darrenfj.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/darren-freebury-jones-publications/
marginal poetries: experimental, formally hybrid, intercultural, in translation and recovered work machapress.com. Supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and The National Lottery through The Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Independent, printed poetry magazine: ecopoetry and the environment; climate justice and politics; beauty and daring.
Issue nine open for submissions August 1st 31st - the theme is Trespass.
finishedcreatures.co.uk
A feminist press feat. Ursula K. Le Guin, Audre Lorde, & Leonora Carrington. Announcing: Spiral House! An imprint for art, poetry & ways of knowing 💫 silverpress.org
Join our mailing list: https://mailchi.mp/silverpress/silver-press-mailing-list
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30+ yrs English teacher,post-16-SFC & FE. #JoyFE 💛📖📚📙✍️🗣️🎧Campaigner for bringing creative & critical thinking back into ❤️of education.Deputy Chair, trustee, Fellow of @englishassociation.bsky.social
The English Association #EnglishTeaching / North West
Prof of Modern Literature & Critical Theory | Head of School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures, University of Edinburgh | Deputy Chair, English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social
