A bit of Featured Book reading for anyone who needs it today. And any day! Catherine Balaq Verve Poetry Press atriumpoetry.com/2025/02/02/fea…

Our editor, Niall Campbell, is running a course on preparing a pamphlet manuscript (and how best to make that approach).

Workshop on AIR | The Institute of English Studies. Looking forward to this shortly! ies.sas.ac.uk/events/worksho…

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Look! Interview with Isabelle Baafi on the podcast, discussing her debut collection from Faber Books 'Chaotic Good'... buzzsprout.com/1414696/episod…

Our ignitionpress is open for submissions from emerging poets until 21 May! Our Guest Editor for this series is Isabelle Baafi. Isabelle is an editor & author of Chaotic Good, which is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. For more details, please visit: bit.ly/ignitionsubmis…

Kristjan Haljak & I will be performing our collaborative piece at the Estonian poetry night of the European Poetry Festival at The Poetry Society cafe Monday 30th June. Always a pleasure to be involved & in collaboration for European Poetry Festival! 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 europeanpoetryfestival.com

My bookshelf’s latest addition - I have to add that I’m a big fan of the dust jacket textures

our campaign will close tomorrow. Please support Pamenar Press if you can.

Which book did I recommend to my students today?

Join us Mon 19 May, 6:30 PM at Stewart House, London for a Pamenar x Poetics Research Centre reading Dr Briony Hellon-Hughes (I'm on Bluesky) Nothing Intensifies by @iriscolomb Knock Down House by stevecollis Puberté by @annielafleurette

Some choice places to send your writing to this week… or at least a list to save and think “I’ll do this later” and then forget 🖤 Submission details & links to their websites: chillsubs.com/lists/13_pay_n… #writingcommunity

SINGLE POEM COMPETITION DEADLINE EXTENDED: SUNDAY 22 JUNE! After being alerted to a glitch on our website, we’ve extended the deadline by 2 weeks SO you haven’t missed your chance! 🏆 First prize: £1000 📖 40 shortlisted poems published. 🔗 Enter here: livecanon.submittable.com/submit

Ahead of September's launch of 'Wastelands', my new poetry collection forthcoming from Guillemot Press, I talk about a short developmental film I made here: substack.com/history/post/1… and the film can be viewed here: youtube.com/watch?v=nEszKF…

WasteCoat: the making of a performance costume out of waste materials susiespeak.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/was…

Thrilled to see this beautiful chapbook is now out, congratulations to JP Seabright JP Seabright 💜 and the red ceilings press. It was a joy to have a preview of this haunting and luminous sequence.

UNDER A WEEK TO GO!

Some recent book post and wonderful reads! I have already tagged most of these writers and presses on other platforms so want to shout out Celandine on here for her brilliant, singular 'Singletary' from Shearsman!

SOME NEWS: Dust will open for submissions 20th August - 20th September. This will be for our fifteenth issue which will have the title and theme ‘Dear World’. We can’t wait to read your poems 💖 (Poems sent before 20.08.25 won’t be read)