Yes, really lovely 🙂x

Keats Shelley Poetry Prize announced. Congrats to winner @pascalepetit.bsky.social and thanks to judge @notjustdancing.bsky.social Here’s my runner up poem ‘Some Seasonal Adjustments’
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Packed house @waterstoneslpl.bsky.social to celebrate publication of Saul Leslie’s novel ‘A Working Title I Want to Change’ #penguinbooks @livunienglish.bsky.social #firstnovels

Congratulations to @pascalepetit.bsky.social winner of this year’s Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Night Canoe on Lake Sandoval’ keats-shelley.org/prizes/keats...
#keats #poetry #shelley #KSMA

Green promotional poster for Against Falling by Linda Anderson. Serif typography on dark green background with light green border. Author portrait on left. Keywords read Perception, Time, Liminality. Quotation about creativity and poetic voices below. Liverpool University Press logo and classical building icon at bottom corners, symmetrically aligned overall composition.

In our latest LUP Blog post, poet Linda Anderson offers a glimpse into her forthcoming collection Against Falling, which is an exploration of time and of ageing.

Find out more here:
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Lots on and a few amends! 🙂

Events are free but do book via the website

@livunienglish.bsky.social

In which I talk with the delightful @gregorykearns.bsky.social about stealing books, a railway childhood, translation and the soul’s mobility…. @carcanet.bsky.social

Purple promotional graphic from Liverpool University Press featuring a portrait of Natalie Linh Bolderston. She faces the camera with long dark hair, wearing a black and red top against a softly blurred background. Text reads “Natalie Linh Bolderston, on Divinations on Survival” with a quoted reflection on memory and inheritance.

In our latest LUP Blog post, poet Natalie Linh Bolderston offers a glimpse into her forthcoming collection Divinations on Survival, which explores matrilineal heritage, myth and the legacies of war.

Find out more here:
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Promotional poster for Pavilion Poetry 2026 launch event. Pale blue and navy design with starry background. Text announces free entry, 30 April 2026, 5–7pm, School of Arts Library, Liverpool. Three book covers shown: Divinations on Survival, Here & Thereafter, and Against Falling.

Just one month to go until the Pavilion Poetry launch! 🌟📖

Join us for an unforgettable evening with readings from the brilliant Natalie Linh Bolderston, Alice Miller, and Linda Anderson.

Tickets are FREE - grab yours here:
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#PavilionPoetry #UniversityofLiverpool #Poetry

Dedicated to Marta Hegemann and Anton Räderscheidt, Köln Dada artists immortalised in August Sander's Weimar photos

Kurt Schwitters
Untitled ('Collage mit Straßenbahnbillet')
1927

100 year anniversary of the publication of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s ‘Lolly Willowes’ and a conference to celebrate www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lolly-will...

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, An Ode to John Keats, Sasha Dugdale on Ode to a Nightingale John Keats's stunningly fertile year - 1819 - celebrated by five contemporary poets

Looking forward to a nightingale-inflected reading at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome next week with @sashadugdale.bsky.social
You can book here ksh.roma.it/events/poetr... or why not listen anyway to Sasha’s essay On Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale #keats #poetry

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Angst by Hélène Cixous @foylesforbooks.bsky.social, 17 March

Sophie Lewis, Juliet Jacques & Emily Labarge discuss écriture féminine and its influence. They explore Lewis’s translation of ANGST & the demand for freedom at the heart of Cixous's novel.
www.foyles.co.uk/events/angst...

17B Kingsland Road Shoreditch 5-12 March 🌸🌸🌸

If you’d like to hear Maria Stepanova and me talk about The Disappearing Act you could sign up for this online conversation: 21 March 12pm EST / 5pm GMT brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2026-0...

On 3 March Maxine Peake is reading @oliviamcc.bsky.social wonderful version of Beauty and the Beast at Hay Castle as part of a celebration of illustrator Clive Hicks-Jenkins. Tickets for ‘Redefining Beauty’ via www.haycastletrust.org/m-1-hay-cast...

Rising Green

Rising Green www.wikiart.org/en/lee-krasner/rising-gr...

Always a good time for EB

🎙️ Life & Language explores how language shapes the way we see the world.

Hosted by Prof. @michamahlberg.bsky.social. Now in its 5th season with 28 episodes and brilliant guests across disciplines.

Curious about how words shape life?

🎧 Join the conversation.

How romanticised images of London fog shaped the way we see polluted air London’s fog literally fogged photographs with the yellowish hue of the capital’s notorious ‘pea-soupers’.

Combining images of fog & smog with ideas of British identity made the reality of pollution much harder to see, says @michellehenning.bsky.social

Long, engaged reviews are always so helpful and thought-provoking. Many thanks for this #Woodbeepoet

Looking forward to being in conversation with Harriet Tarlo this evening at the Old Head Post Office. As a letter writer I can’t think of a better venue!

One of several scholarships for Palestinian students available at the University of Liverpool. This one is for the MRes in Irish Studies. Please share to relevant circles.

www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Pile of blue Fitzcarraldo books: cover says Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova

Definite coup de foudre 🎪 @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

Great to see Bernadette McBride in conversation with David Tierney tonight at FACT, Liverpool to celebrate the launch of #BirdsareLiars @livunienglish.bsky.social

Sorry!

Looking forward to this in Sheffield on Feb. 11th @serenbooks.bsky.social @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social

& pause to take stock, fresh vantage & slow constancy