Poets get ready... Poetry Submissions are reopening on Friday 1 May. Keep an eye on our submissions page for details.
Poets get ready... our next submission window for full poetry collections will be reopening on Friday 1 May for 2 weeks! We’ll share more details of exactly what we’re looking for on our submissions page when the window opens so keep an eye out here www.serenbooks.com/submissions/
The Finnish word for an auction, huutokauppa, means “shout market” (or “shouting shop”)
* read on for more of my favourite Finnish words (a thread in honour of today being Day of the Finnish Language)…
Currently at 468 submissions. Closing at 500. Hurry! berlinlit.com/submissions/
Looking forward very much to reading with this amazing group of poets - save the date! Zoom link from Sue Burge (email on poster) @michpenn.bsky.social @marcchamberlain.bsky.social @tamsinhopkins.bsky.social
such a beautiful, tiny painting on glass, backed with silver paper from a cigarette packet
Dora Carrington ‘The Barque Harmony in the Ice off the Labrador Coast’, 1929
Very many thanks to @poetrylondon.bsky.social & Niall Campbell for featuring my poem today 🙏🏻❄️
Looking forward very much to this tonight!
Congratulations, Marc!
Really pleased to hear this. I benefited from Declan’s guidance while doing my MA at Royal Holloway, and the poets he’ll edit are lucky!
Hello @helenivory.bsky.social ! I know what you mean about the quietness, but incrementally am hoping it’ll improve …
We are so excited to be on Bluesky!
This year’s festival is from the 5th-8th November. Will we see you there?
With huge thanks to Vici MacDonald and Andrew Lindesay for creating our beautiful logo 🌊 💛
#newlogo #poetry #writing #poetryfestival #suffolk
Wonderful to read new work from @kathrynmaris.bsky.social here
Wonderful launch last night at the Swedenborg Hall for @michpenn.bsky.social ‘s superb new collection Retablo for a Door from @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social - poems that are questioning, powerful, beautiful - with an enthusiastic crowd!
Image (to the right) of red berries on a bare branch against a blue sky and snow on the ground. With a VOTE stamp bottom right. Text: IS&T December Pick of the Month * Toby Cotton *Michelle Diaz *John Greening *Paula R. Hilton *Usha Kishore *Fiona Larkin
It's time to choose the last IS&T Pick of the Month for 2025. Will December's be Toby Cotton, @michelleadiaz.bsky.social, @greeningpoet.bsky.social, Paula R. Hilton, Usha Kishore or @fionalarkin.bsky.social. More at inksweatandtears.co.uk/december-202...
#InkSweatandTears #PickoftheMonth
Excited to be starting the new year with a reading at @reading-poets-cafe.bsky.social on Friday 9th January - do join us! link in comments
Delighted to have a deep winter poem feature on @inksweatandtears.co.uk wonderful 12 Days of Christmas series in lovely company 🎄❄️✨
Wow! @sophieherx.bsky.social & @matthewepaul.bsky.social reading their wonderful work & being interviewed by Katie Griffiths tomorrow night - looking forward to this one very much
www.riverhousebarn.co.uk/events/136679
Looking forward very much to reading @marcchamberlain.bsky.social ‘s essay
Am sitting on the rug, deep in the new issue of The Aftershock Review. I’m honoured to have three poems in exceptional company in an edition which explores ‘the anatomy of aftermath,’ all thanks to @maxwallis.bsky.social Anna Percy and Suzi Feay.
🙏🏻 Tamar Yoseloff, @jsaphra.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social Fiona Moore Paul Stephenson Susannah Hart & the whole team 🙏🏻
Late to post, but Poetry in Aldeburgh was a brilliant festival, bringing poetry, art and music together to consider the book, its survival under oppression, and its future. Bravo to everyone involved!
Keats and the Sea - fab opener @juliamarybird.bsky.social & Mike Sims - included origami for all!
Enjoying @deanbrowne.bsky.social ‘s After Party very much
Rogue Strands are making a Live Poetry Mix Tape...!
A stellar line-up that would grace any of the top poetry festivals in the country. Except this time it's all free. We'd be delighted if you could join us in London on 22nd Oct...!
Or just list some examples of form in the intro to the comp, but specify that entrants name the form they’ve used when they submit their poems?
I wonder if there’s a link to a freely available resource - thinking of Glyn Maxwell, maybe, who’s keen on it. But there again perhaps you shouldn’t have to teach the entrants what it is…
Three weeks today, at Riverhouse Barn in Walton on Thames, delighted to be reading with the wonderful Jill Abrams hosted by excellent poet, singer and tutor Katie Griffiths, plus open mic - do join us! link in comments.
