thanks so much to Lucas Tse for a discussion on Light Year @ninearchespress.bsky.social now on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast! 🎙️✨https://open.spotify.com/show/5kUvNATM60aj7SpfTn4vrJ

Masterclass Webinar and Workshop Season just announced: Eco-poetics and the Environment.Led by poets Ian Humphreys @lkiew.bsky.social James McDermott @wendypratt.bsky.social and @jsaphra.bsky.social
Book one, several, or the full seasons.
Full descriptions here:
www.eventbrite.com/cc/eco-poeti...

happy to be reading with @csmithpoet.bsky.social Sunday at Torriano Meeting House hosted by @lisadmkelly.bsky.social in north London! It’s 7.30pm Kensal Rise and welcomes poets from audience reading their poems. Come along and join the open mic to read together! ✨🎉💫 torriano.org/whats-on/poe...

Thanks so much to Ellora Sutton and @mslexia.bsky.social for mentioning Light Year 💕🌸

Craft talk online by Romalyn Ante for MALCS 7 March 5-6pm HK time flyer

Excited about an upcoming craft talk (via zoom) by @romalynante3.bsky.social - on storytelling and the myths of ourselves - at HKU MALCS on 7 March 5-6.30pm HK time hku.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Wednesday will be a disaster! Please join us!

Thank you so good to see you

人生如戲🎥🎦

We're excited for our TRIPLE ONLINE LAUNCH
Tuesday 21st April, 7pm
Featuring #poetry from @jennywcreative.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social and @kymdeyn.bsky.social as they celebrate these wonderful new books.
Pay what you can: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/triple-onl...

Publication day for LIGHT YEAR by @jennywcreative.bsky.social a luminous #poetry meditation on time, memory, exile, love and healing.

Graceful and intimate, poems of "sublime precision".

"Witness, these poems say, and linger, and wonder."

Congratulations 💜
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@seanwaikeung.bsky.social & I will read & discuss poetry snd selfhood with academic and poet Dr Michael Tsang this afternoon at Gathering leaves library (Belsize Park Library) join us there if you can!

Sharing 'An ode to horses' from LIGHT YEAR by @jennywcreative.bsky.social as the Year of the Horse begins #lunarnewyear2026
LIGHT YEAR is out this week, have you lined up your copy yet?
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#poemoftheday #poem #poetrycommunity #poetry #chinesenewyear #yearofthehorse

📢 Exciting times ahead
🖊️ Sign-up for our TRIPLE ONLINE LAUNCH
Tuesday 21st April, 7pm
Featuring #poetry from @jennywcreative.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social and @kymdeyn.bsky.social as they celebrate these wonderful new books.
Pay what you can: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/triple-onl...

Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers Reading, writing and learning a language or two can lower your risk of dementia by almost 40%, according to a study that suggests millions of people could prevent or delay the condition. Dementia is one of the world’s biggest health threats. The number of people living with the condition is forecast to triple to more than 150 million globally by 2050, and experts say it presents a big and rapidly growing threat to future health and social care systems in every community, country and continent. Continue reading...

Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds

Back on for a nanosecond to share this lovely review of New Arcana by @jennywcreative.bsky.social in Under the Radar. Huge thanks to @ninearchespress.bsky.social for making space for poetry reviews! ✨️
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Sylvia Plath on Living with the Darkness and Making Art from the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being “One has to shut off that nagging part of the mind and go on without it with bravo and philosophy.”

Sylvia Plath left us on this day in 1963, slain by depression, having given us so much beauty despite so much suffering. Her poignant reflection on living with the darkness and making art from the barely bearable lightness of being:

thanks a lot and for reading!

Our first two titles of 2026 are ready to pre-order now.
Beautiful new #poetry collections by returning Nine Arches poets:
Light Year by @jennywcreative.bsky.social
Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak by @betarish.bsky.social
ninearchespress.com/shop

Southern Imagining: A Literary and Cultural History of the Far Southern Hemisphere by Elleke Boehmer

A new compass for global reading: looking at the world from the far southern latitudes.

Southern Imagining by @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social is now available worldwide!

Order yours today: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#Literature #ReadUP

Delighted to share 'Tending' a #poem from LIGHT YEAR, our first book of the New Year.
Written and read by @jennywcreative.bsky.social
Line up your copy of this "luminous, intimate" #poetry collection now: ninearchespress.com/publications...

Congratulations to Karen Solie on winning the TS Eliot Prize for her most recent collection Wellwater, published by @picadorbooks.bsky.social

Karen Solie teaches for half the year at St Andrews University and lives the rest of her time in Canada. Karen is part of @northseapoets.bsky.social group.

Poetry Spa: an immersive day of reading & writing: Saturday 21 Feb 2026 Enjoy a Poetry Spa at Bantock House, Wolverhampton, an inspiring day devoted to reading & writing with Roz Goddard & L.Kiew

Looking for a last minute gift you don't have to post?
We're hosting a POETRY SPA at Bantock House #Wolverhampton
Sat 21 February 2026
With guest @lkiew.bsky.social & host Roz Goddard
Ticket includes mindful reading, workshop, #poetry discussion, book & cake!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-spa...

sorry to miss your reading this time but looking forward to the next occasion. Hope the teaching goes well!

Thank you xx

Thank you also @sandylitchfield.bsky.social for your art!

Our first book of 2026 is LIGHT YEAR by @jennywcreative.bsky.social, a meditation on the journeys of a migrant and a mother, on time, memories and healing.

Thank you Denise Saul for these beautiful words about the book.
Pre-order your copy here: ninearchespress.com/publications...

SPOTLIGHT #poetry book - The Apothecary of Flight by @janeburn.bsky.social, poems for understanding & translating the self.

‘What Jane Burn does with words, with spaces, with breath, is unlike anyone else' @taniahershman.bsky.social

Now in our seasonal sale, just £7.99 ninearchespress.com/shop

🥁Thrilled to share our 2026 #poetry list.

Full details and tantalising glimpses into these new titles are here: ninearchespress.com/about-us/news

Including books by @jennywcreative.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @kymdeyn.bsky.social @marymulholland.bsky.social & @jessmookherjee.bsky.social

Special Edition: Red Bean Poetry | Southbank Centre

Don’t miss this amazing @redbeanpoetry.bsky.social line-up ❄️❄️❄️ @metapheric.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social Nina Mingya Powles, Erica Hesketh on 3 Dec, 8pm at National Poetry Library to share their new poems and reflect on art-making and transformations! www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/spe...

Writing Kinships & Emotional Landscapes • Poetry School Kinships can shape us as people and the emotional landscapes in which we live; join as we explore those rich relationships and notions of belonging in your writing.

Running a new online poetry course on writing #kinships and #emotionallandscapes at @poetryschool.bsky.social for spring 2026 ✍️🗻🌴 on the personal, social, cultural
ties that matter a lot to us. check out their full programme and here’s more info on it! poetryschool.com/courses/writ...