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Our poetry challenge for TopTweetTuesday on Twitter next Tuesday, 24th June. Serious! 🖊️ 💎

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“ Write it. Write. In ordinary ink on ordinary paper: they were given no food, they all died of hunger. "All. How many? It's a big meadow….” Szymborska wrote this after WW2. What changed? Starving people is a war crime. Starving people is a war crime. t.co/9Elc3lTWud

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Killing people in food lines is a war crime.

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Do you know what is really good? THE AFTERSHOCK REVIEW! @maxwallis.bsky.social and @annapercypoet.bsky.social have played a blinder in curating and producing this mag, every page an enduring poetical treasure. (this is an old pic, I'm not in the boozer on a Friday morning, sadly)

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Get your tickets! Sam Furlong and Eilish Martin are reading at @bloomsdayfestival.bsky.social @jamesjoycecentre.bsky.social June 14th at 2pm! www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/event/poetry...

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‘the choir of a pearl, a pulse - a chance, too rare’ Our Silver Branch writer of the month - @vikkicwrites.bsky.social - a stunning feature www.blackboughpoetry.com/about-1-1

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We proudly present Manchester poet Louise Machen's debut collection, 'I Am Not Light'. Get your copy NOW! "crafted, sensuous imagery, daring the reader to 'Wade in, take the risk'" (John McCullough) @louloumach.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/copy-of-regi...

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Poems for #Ekphrastic Challenge #12 from @elizabeth_cusack9 Emate Thompson, Lynn White, Stephen Kingsnorth, @awhardy10 #Poetry #writingcommunity #art

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I chair the acquisitions meeting of @reaktionbooks.bsky.social, an independent publisher. We're open to unsolicited book proposals: history, art, music, film, food, animal studies and any great indefinable non-fiction book ideas you might have. Check out the list and get in touch.

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June news: shorturl.at/L6hrw #KerryHardie wins @writersweek.bsky.social #PigottPoetryPrize; @emiliejelinek.bsky.social wins @mslexia.bsky.social Pamphlet Competition; @bernardineevaristo.bsky.social receives @womensprize.bsky.social Outstanding Contribution Award; plus interviews, videos & more!

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UPDATE: Submissions for PIR 146 are now closed. Thank you to everyone who has submitted work. More information about PIR 147 to come.

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On this episode of The London Magazine Podcast, we speak to short story writer and novelist Gurnaik Johal. In the episode, we discuss maximalist fiction, ecological anxiety and his debut novel, Saraswati (@serpents-tail.bsky.social). Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/4Wd3...

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'I fancy if there is a jury of critics sitting over what I write, then Yeats is the judge.' On what would have been Yeats' 160th birthday, we revisit this 1971 interview with Ted Hughes on Yeats, Shakespeare, mysticism and violence: thelondonmagazine.org/archive-ted-...

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@davidcollard.bsky.social our host, leader, hip priest, and the dada daddy of them all, at this evening's event at the @jamesjoycecentre.bsky.social

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Reading through Maggie Harris's book 'I Sing to the Greenhearts'. I love this little ekphrastic poem, inspired by a Pre-Raphaelite painting. I also love the fact that the book cover blends in with my local park. @serenbooks.bsky.social

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Louise Machen reads her poem inspired by Sappho from ‘I Am Not Light’. See link in bio to get the book! @louloumach.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/copy-of-regi... #books #book #poetry #poetic

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Coming next week! Dabin Jeong’s “Swallow” is a necessary study of grief & elegiac writing. You must own this chapbook. 🔗Keep your eye on: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/sw... #comingsoon #newpoetry #poetry #indiepublishing #indiepublisher

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This month and every month we celebrate Pride! 🌈🏳️‍🌈 Celebrate with us and support our authors! 🔗Get this poetry collection: www.smallharborpublishing.com/chapbooks/fr... #pridemonth #poetrycommunity #poetry #lgbtqbooks

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In A Girl's Story, Annie Ernaux focuses her clinical, detached writing on the summer of 1958, and a trauma at age 18 that shaped her whole life. Fearless, bold, and sadly timeless. More here:

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I am trying to build a list of poetry presses in the uk who might have a focus on older writers (over 60) and who are open to submissions! This is for a brilliant, fresh-voiced mentee I’m working with. Any suggestions very welcome! #poetry

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I've been gradually making my way through the immense, thought provoking poems in this new poetry mag - The Aftershock Review. Here are two poems I found particularly resonant - 'Fox / Plague Year Season 3' by @pollyrowena.bsky.social and 'Miracle' by @maxwallis.bsky.social

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Joyce’s ‘Universal City’: An Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation / Bloomsday Poetry Film Showcase Friday 13th June at 7pm Belvedere Townhouse FREE EVENT but booking is recommended, book here: www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/event/blooms... @bloomsdayfilmfest.bsky.social @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social

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📣Announcing The Eavan Boland Award 2025 The Award invites applications from early-career poets based in the UK and mid-career poets based in Ireland for cross-residency opportunities with Trinity College Dublin & University of Manchester ℹ️ Full Award Details: www.poetryireland.ie/news/eavan-b...

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Murmurations: experiments & improvisations in trios, duos & solos with ritnoise, Eimear Reidy & Natalia Beylis. Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company, Derry Sunday June 29, 7pm Tickets available here: tinyurl.com/2devrkm2 Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland

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Ride History by Sophia Carroll maudlinhouse.net/ride-history/

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A robin made a nest in one of my plant pots right outside my studio. The baby birds are hatching today.

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PREORDER (30.06.2025): Martin Hayes’ A Few More Sunrises Yet Before It Ends gathers together decades of sharp, unsparing poetry that documents the underpaid, overworked lives of Britain’s contemporary working class. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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9 weeks, 3 tutors, a TON of poetry! Join Pascale Petit, Joelle Taylor and Malika Booker for the Out-Spoken Academy Plus online poetry course this summer. 16 June–11 August Workshops: Mondays 7–9pm UK Full info & Register now: outspokenldn.com/academy-plus

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Writing this summer? Registration is OPEN for the @outspoken_acad Academy Plus 9 week online poetry course with tutors 🔥 Malika Booker 🔥 Joelle Taylor 🔥 Pascale Petit 🔥 16 June–11 August Workshops each Monday 7–9pm UK Info & Register: outspokenldn.com/academy

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My next Cornwall reading of Beast is at Lost Gardens of Heligan’s Homecoming Festival on 21 June with Simon Armitage. I will read poems on the theme of home and will include my ‘Beast of Bodmin’. Please come it’s the perfect setting! Book here: www.heliganhomecoming.co.uk/sat-21st

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PREORDER (31.07.2025): Even God Gets Distracted Sometimes is a playful yet incisive collection that interweaves poetry and visual art to explore contemporary life through surreal fables, sharp satire, and speculative reimaginings. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

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Proofs of Beast arrived today from @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Publishing date 31 July. It involves the Faust myth, a rabbit, a model village and an opera. The titles are the demon speaking to Eve, whose soul he must capture.

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We're all very excited. BEAST by @luluallison.bsky.social Is off to the printers! Magic. @theguardian.com @waterstones.bsky.social @financialtimes.com @thetimes.com

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The Bodleian Libraries need you! This is your chance to submit your #Zine to form part of our Wellbeing Collection. Whether you're a student, staff member, or part of the wider community: you can help us expand and diversify our collection. For more information: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

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A Concealed Pocket of The Book Bag has been found. Its contents emptying onto your tablet/phone or laptop when you click the link. These will be articles every now and then to do with poetry, inspiration, writing and other things. Up first a 14 line piece about Sonnet Restaurant in Alnwick.

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🎉 SARAI KIRSHNER AWARDED THE 2025 FITZCARRALDO EDITIONS/MAHLER & LEWITT STUDIOS ESSAY PRIZE 🎉 We’re thrilled to announce that Sarai Kirshner has won the 2025 Fitzcarraldo Editions/Mahler & LeWitt Studios Essay Prize with her proposal for ON REFUSAL: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/2025/06/sara...

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!!! @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

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I’d like to plinth for #lifttothesky @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social Paul Brookes who really does have that thing we all crave, a truly original voice. Part poet, part social historian but full time magnificent supporter of those who haven’t reached his own giddy heights! Too modest to enjoy this!🏆

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@matt-guntrip-music.bsky.social deserves my second #lifttothesky today. He is unfailing modest but clever with words and exceedingly nifty at music, sometimes combing the two! Also so generous a supporter and reposter of other poets!

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I thought the reviews of my Come Here to This Gate (@carcanet.bsky.social 2024) had stopped coming. I'm very grateful for this perceptive piece by @jwikeley.bsky.social, in the new Poetry Birmingham/PBLJ. It is an honour to receive this kind of attention.

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