Issue ten is out now!

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Now on sale - w/ our headliner, @ianduhig.bsky.social ✨

We can’t wait to host Ian, Kirsten & Henry. Tickets on sale from Weds.

Can’t WAIT for this. 💫

It’s half term but work must continue. The eternal juggle. After a lovely zoom reading with @reddoorpoets.bsky.social last night, I opened my door to this message from my youngest. The poem was called BOOM and I loved it. 💥

Sunday! 💫

Comin’ up @ Rise Up! Got your tickets yet? www.eventbrite.com/e/rise-up-a-...

Jen Calleja: Translating Literature for Beginners On May 15, 2025 - get a ticket now!

Couple of spots left for this Thursday’s online workshop for Granta Writers’ Workshop tixoom.app/pwalecturer/...

My pleasure - it’s a beauty.

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A week today! online! come and join me as I chat owls and share pictures #TheCompanyOfOwls #BookEvent #Litfest #BookSky #Owls

www.huddlitfest.org.uk/tag/pollyatk...

We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.

A photo of Rachel Long, Ioney Smallhorne & Minal Sukumar - plus whippet, Evie!

What a brilliant Rise Up! Rachel Long, Ioney Smallhorne & Minal Sukumar were absolutely captivating. Thank you, poets! 🩵✨ Next up….Nafeesa Hamid is headlining! Join us on Weds 21st May for what will be an extraordinary night. Tix on sale now… eventbrite.com/e/rise-up-a-ce…

Triple Online Launch: Erica Hesketh, Rosie Garland and Julia Webb Celebrating new poetry books by Erica Hesketh, Rosie Garland and Julia Webb

Yay!
To launch my new collection 'This is How I Fight' I'm sharing a virtual stage with fabulous poets Erica Hesketh
& @julwe1.bsky.social 🌹
Tues 22 July, 19:00-20:00 BST
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/triple-onl...
Bookings are via Eventbrite and tickets are 'Pay What You Can'
@ninearchespress.bsky.social

Nicky Kippax & Georgia Conlon standing in front of a Harland Miller painting.

Far/Out with @gcthewriter.bsky.social 💚

Beach read - thanks to the extraordinary work of @no1emily.bsky.social 🕰️

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Mmmm ☀️

Get Creative: On writing poetry - pinning the poem to the page Ever thought about writing a poem? Why not take the leap?

Thoughts on pinning a poem to the page - part 3 of my series on writing poetry for @rte.ie 🐸🐸🐸

www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

A poem by Nicky Kippax, called Janet’s Foss.

Really chuffed that my poem, Janet’s Foss, is @poetrysociety.bsky.social ‘poem of the month’ after being chosen by @janeclarke.bsky.social as a winning entry on the theme of stone. Thank you. 🪨✨

Thank you Nairn!

Photo of poem called PIP. Deals with the experience of contacting the DWP for a PIP application.

My poem, PIP, was published in The Frogmore Papers (2023). Solidarity to everyone who is worried about the changes 💖

🌺 & 🪨

On Wednesday 26th March at 7pm, please join us online to celebrate the launch of Father's Father's Father by Dane Holt. The event will be hosted by Caroline Bird and will feature readings, discussion & audience Q&A.

Book your ticket here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6JazB...

Close-ups of tree bark increasingly zoomed.

Bark, barker, barkest.

Poets reading at StAnza Poetry Festival in St Andrews (& online) 14-16 March include @imtiazdharker.bsky.social and Gwyneth Lewis. Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck will take part in a live recording of the Lantern Scottish Poetry podcast.
www.bloodaxebooks.com/events?artic...

Great to see all the positive thoughts on the new issue! We're biased but we think it is a really special issue:

Why not subscribe and check it out for yourself:

poetrylondon.co.uk/subscriptions/

Please join us at Castlefield Gallery on Thursday 3rd April for PN Review's Spring Readings 2025, featuring recent contributors to the magazine: Stav Poleg, Ophira Gottlieb, Philip Terry and Alex Wong!

More info and tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/carcanetpress...

Keir Starmer speaks in Washington: 'there's a famous slogan in the United Kingdom'

'They fuck you up, your mum and dad'

Next up at Rise Up! Tickets on sale now. Rachel Long! Minal Sukumar! Ioney Smallhorne! ✨