Here is our top five - one of these poets will be published by us, later this year ... To be honest, we'd love to publish them all - we have a tough job on our hands!
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What wonderful news. I am keeping my fingers crossed for my ambitious, curious, somewhat feral set of poems 🤞🏼
Thank you @ditheringchaps.bsky.social & congratulations to the other shortlisted poets ❤️
Here is our top five - one of these poets will be published by us, later this year ... To be honest, we'd love to publish them all - we have a tough job on our hands!
www.ditheringchaps.com
We're so proud to announce our April 2026 longlist. We would be proud to publish any one of these poets.
Now we really dither - trying to cut 20 down to just 5 ... our shortlist will be announced this time next week. Here's wishing us (and our longlisted poets) luck! #poetry
Submissions duly logged and read. Now time to make our longlist decisions...
#DitheringChaps #poetry
Submissions duly logged and read. Now time to make our longlist decisions...
#DitheringChaps #poetry
We love pi day, but World Poetry Day is our favourite!
We love pi day, but World Poetry Day is our favourite!
Submissions window - twenty days to go...
Submissions window - twenty days to go...
Where will your poems end up...?
#DitheringChaps www.ditheringchaps.com/submissions
Where will your poems end up...?
#DitheringChaps www.ditheringchaps.com/submissions
Hope to join you later this month. Back in the museum?
Look forward to hearing it!
Our end of March cut-off is looming. We'd love to read your submission!
#poetry #poetrysubmissions #DitheringChaps
Our end of March cut-off is looming. We'd love to read your submission!
#poetry #poetrysubmissions #DitheringChaps
It's always nice to be appreciated...
It's always nice to be appreciated...
Dithering Chaps is proud to devote one of our annual publication slots to the work of poets who have yet to publish a full poetry collection. We’re thrilled to announce our 2025 choices: BRIDGETTE JAMES, an emerging poet with a striking, intimate voice and LEANNE MODEN, poet, performer, storyteller.
Delighted to learn that our Lead Editor DG Herring's poem, 'The Deal With Alkestis', has been accepted by @thebrokenspine.co.uk for their The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry anthology. The proofs promise he's in very good, if edgy, company. Props to Alan Parry & team! thebrokenspine.co.uk
Hard to pull off - how about...? @anthonyetherin.bsky.social
Today's shortlisted poet is @sarahcrowe.bsky.social. Here she is reading from Ode to My Left Breast, an elegant crown of sonnets, the form of which she has deftly adapted to her theme of deconstruction/reconstruction.
Watch out for more of our videos and tell us who we should choose
Today's shortlisted poet is @sarahcrowe.bsky.social. Here she is reading from Ode to My Left Breast, an elegant crown of sonnets, the form of which she has deftly adapted to her theme of deconstruction/reconstruction.
Watch out for more of our videos and tell us who we should choose
Sharing this review of my book by @alexandrelefebvre.bsky.social again because, in addition to saying lovely things about Herald of a Restless World, it is a really excellent article about Bergson lareviewofbooks.org/article/when...
Also: really decent production values from @ditheringchaps.bsky.social. Good quality paper, and each poem/illustration properly honoured with space to breathe on the page.
Have a collection ready to publish? Send us a sample of your work! You could be on our next shortlist in April and be in print by the end of the year... (See our recent posts for clips from our current shortlist.)
www.ditheringchaps.com/submissions
#poetry #submissions
Have a collection ready to publish? Send us a sample of your work! You could be on our next shortlist in April and be in print by the end of the year... (See our recent posts for clips from our current shortlist.)
www.ditheringchaps.com/submissions
#poetry #submissions
Third up is kerry rawlinson, reading from her poem, 'bath, in translation', from her collection, 'fluid dynamics'. This collection interrogates "the various forms physical liquids take, as well as exploring other modes and expressions of fluidity."NB kerry appears twice on our shortlist! Impressive!
Third up is kerry rawlinson, reading from her poem, 'bath, in translation', from her collection, 'fluid dynamics'. This collection interrogates "the various forms physical liquids take, as well as exploring other modes and expressions of fluidity."NB kerry appears twice on our shortlist! Impressive!
