Very excited that Jos Charles will be with us this week Manchester Poetry Library Manchester Writing School Do join us to launch a Year and other poems this coming Thursday!

Norway: I’m in Klassekampen today chatting all things Pity/Synd 🇳🇴

out now with Aschehoug litteratur

todays book post: Jackie Kay! Garth Greenwell! Danez Smith! Samantha Fain! Elif Shafak!

the great Jackie Kay in todays guardian!

theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Petition: Create a Palestinian Family Visa Scheme for Palestinian people affected by war petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6485…

office book post: the new Susan Barker! Out next year with Fig Tree Books Literary horror! My fave genre

2 forthcoming online workshops

I’ll be with Arvon on the evening of Tuesday 23rd April thinking about the poetry of prose :

arvon.org/writing-course…

I’ll be with Derby Poetry Festival on Thursday 26th April, talking about taking prose into poetry

derbypoetryfestival.com/events/andrew-…

Synd reviewed in Morgenbladet today 🇳🇴
published by Aschehoug litteratur , translated by Bjørn Alex Herrman

Jos Charles is a Guggenheim fellow! Come hear her read in a U.K-exclusive event at Manchester Poetry Library next Thursday evening!

gf.org/announcements/

re-reading of the brilliant work in here today

Brilliant column here from Aditya Chakrabortty

“There is no searing politics here, just a desire for basic services – a bus that runs a bit later in the evening, a future for their kids”

office book post: the new novel by Tawseef Khan coming later this year with Footnote Press

this is what I said about Jos Charles’ first book when asked to name my favourite poem of the 21st Century and now we have a NEW collection. Published in the U.K! And a chance to hear her for free! See you there!

The astonishing JOS CHARLES is in Manchester next week

Reading at Manchester Poetry Library on Thursday evening

FREE event- see you there!

mmu.ac.uk/poetry-library…

Walid Daqqa wrote literature from his cell, played music when it was forbidden, and - after decades imprisoned - smuggled out his seed to impregnate his wife. Becoming father to an escape, a miracle. He embodied creation as resistance. He’s now been martyred. 💔🇵🇸

Listening to Carys Davies’ Clear- such gorgeous writing as with her previous novel ‘West’

A really great commission here to respond to the work of John Lyons

✈️ reading was this terrifying and haunting novel I Who Have Never Known Men. Thanks so much to emily for the recommendation and for knowing my precise taste in fiction

thanks to Annette Orre & Aschehoug litteratur for a lovely time with Synd in Oslo