John Field | Poor Rude Lines

If you're up for a copy, just drop me a DM and I'll sort one out for you (U.K., Ireland, mainland Europe, Canada and Oceania)...

Here's a link to my review of Charles Lang's excellent debut collection, 'The Oasis': johnfield.org/2025/12/23/l...
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I was saddened to learn of the recent death of Richard Meier, winner of the inaugural Picador Poetry Prize in 2010. He was the author of three collections - his most recent ‘After the Miracle’ came out this year:

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A fine man and a fine poet.

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Review of Richard Scott's That Broke into Shining Crystals up on Poor Rude Lines: johnfield.org/2025/12/17/r...
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Today marks 100 years since the first publication of T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Hollow Men’

Follow this link to access the T.S. Eliot Prize resources for Vona Groarke’s Infinity Pool. (Videoed readings to follow): tseliot.com/prize/work/i...
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Richard Meier’s After the Miracle Broad Street was in summer mode: conga lines of language students sporting identical backpacks following the sign of the brolly raised aloft, selfies at the gates of Trinity College and my wife and…

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Some words on Richard Meier's latest collection, 'After the Miracle' (link to my review in the comments) @nellnelson.bsky.social

Today, Sat 25 Oct, 2pm, at London's @southbankcentre.bsky.social: @rachaelboast.bsky.social and poets Lisa Kelly, Karthika Naïr and Daniel Sluman will be celebrating her anthology Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent Poets. In person and livestream tickets available.

Today, Sunday 26 October, 7pm, at London's @southbankcentre.bsky.social: Niall Campbell and Vidyan Ravinthiran will be reading from their shortlisted collections The Island in the Sound and Avidyā at the @forwardprizes.bsky.social Ceremony. In-person and livestream tickets available.

'a deeply moving, relevant, necessary collection of poems that meditates on identity and belonging.' - Rommi Smith, Co-Judge @forwardprizes.bsky.social

We're thrilled that Vidyan Ravinthiran's Avidyā is joint winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection.
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If you've been pondering doing a #PhD on #Preraphaelite literature and/or #Gothic (as Jane Morris clearly is here), do get in touch - at Birmingham City University we have funded studentships for UK applicants in English&Media; more info here www.bcu.ac.uk/research/doc... #phdfunding #doctoralstudy

Gillian Allnutt's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlisted 'Lode' is one belter of a book. Check out the resources on the Prize's website (including my review): tseliot.com/prize/shortl... @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @tseliotprize.bsky.social

The image is a colour cover photo of Rachael Boast's anthology Versus Versus. The book's cover features a square-shaped artwork by Polish artist, Julian Stanczak, entitled 'Concurrent Colors'. The painting creates an optical illusion of vertical moving curved lines in red and blue, giving the impression of moving waves or sand dunes. At the edges of the painting the lines thin out so that they resemble a comb effect. The painting has a darker blue framing band around it, filling the extent of the cover. The title of the anthology 'VERSUS VERSUS' is in a large red font at the top of the cover, and the subtitle, '100 POEMS BY DEAF, DISABLED & NEURODIVERGENT POETS', is in a large blue font underneath the square painting. The editor's name, Rachael Boast, is in a smaller red font beneath the subtitle.

Coming up on The Verb: poet Daniel Sluman will be talking to host Ian McMillan about @rachaelboast.bsky.social's anthology Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets.

Tune in to BBC Radio 4 at 5.10pm today, 19 October, or listen later.
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We're delighted that Gillian Allnutt has been shortlisted for the 2025 @tseliotprize.bsky.social for her tenth poetry collection Lode. Many congratulations to all ten shortlisted poets.
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I’ve been reading Bernard O’Donoghue’s The Anchorage: johnfield.org/2025/07/03/b... #poetry @faberbooks.bsky.social

2025 T. S. Eliot Prize Open for submissions until 31 July 2025

The T. S. Eliot Prize 2025 is open for submissions! Publishers can find out more information and how to submit online now: tseliot.com/prize/open-f...

Patience Agbabi

Niall Campbell

Michael Hofmann

The T. S. Eliot Foundation is delighted to announce the judges for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025. Michael Hofmann will chair and will be joined on the panel by fellow poets Patience Agbabi and Niall Campbell.

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If you've enjoyed this poem from my second full collection, Whatever You Do, Just Don't, please do consider getting hold of the book itself. Just drop me a DM and I’ll sort out a signed copy for you! No problem to ship to the U.S., U.K., Canada or mainland Europe…

A Fragile Thing – Camille Ralphs’ After You Were, I Am ‘Easter Wings’ (Photocredit: johnfield1) After a chance remark about George Herbert, the librarian pulled a small volume from the shelf: leatherbound and plain, scruffy but serviceable.…

I’ve been reading Camille Ralphs’ exquisitely wrought, breathtakingly beautiful ‘After You Were, I Am’: johnfield.org/2025/02/21/c... @faberbooks.bsky.social #poetry #poems

Rooting through the shelves for poetry to punctuate a concert, I started rereading Bunyan’s ‘Divine Emblems’ (1724), and remembering my beloved great aunt, Monica.
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Norwich Cathedral A place of worship, a historic treasure, an iconic landmark

I was looking at some of Norwich Cathedral Library’s Early Modern items for research: cathedral.org.uk/learn/library/ If you have a reason to look, no harm in asking them.

Absurdly excited and moved to hold a copy of George Herbert's 'The Temple', printed in 1633. (The book beneath it is a 1611 Bible).

The Madrid Review

Hi everybody. We're a Madrid, Spain, based literary magazine. We publish in print and online. Right now Issue 2 is free to read and download from www.themadridreview.com
Writers, poets, readers, artists: follow us and we'll follow you. Nice to be here! #litmag #literature #writers #poets #poetry

YouTube video by The Poetry Society Young Critic Sylvie Jane Lewis reviews Helen Farish's The Penny Dropping

'Speaking to the ghost of love through the language of immediacy': @poetrysociety.bsky.social's Young Critic, Sylvie Jane Lewis, explores Helen Farish's The Penny Dropping: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jye...
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Talk poetry this weekend! — Katy Evans-Bush The annual TS Eliot Prize Shortlist Workshop starts tomorrow morning - and what a shortlist it is!

Last call for this weekend's workshop - having been prepping the handouts and finalising the poem choices, I can say I think it is going to be EPIC. Join us if you can, even just for one morning. This is POETRY.

YouTube video by T. S. Eliot Prize Young Critic Joe Wright reviews Hannah Copley’s ‘Lapwing’

Watch Joe Wright's review of @hannahcopley.bsky.social's TS Eliot Prize shortlisted 'Lapwing' www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bGV.... It is worth every minute of your time.
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Review | ‘Song is a strong thing’: On the T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist by Dominic Leonard - The London Magazine Dominic Leonard reviews three collections on the 2024 T. S. Eliot prize shortlist, by Rachel Mann, Hannah Copley and Raymond Antrobus.

‘To Mann the poem, like the body, is a site of transformative potential where language behaves in lateral and magical ways.’

dominicleonard.bsky.social on Eleanor Among the Saints by revrachelmann.bsky.social, for thelondonmagazine.bsky.social: thelondonmagazine.org/review-song-...

Do check out Priyanka Moorjani's enriching reading of Raymond Antrobus's TS Eliot Prize shortlisted 'Signs, Music' www.youtube.com/watch?v=f984... Her website is here: poetpri.com
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