Less than a week until our May online launch!
All three poets will be joining us on Tuesday to read and discuss their work with Bloodaxe editor Neil Astley.

This free event will be live at 7pm BST Tues 21 May and available afterwards on YouTube:
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'Last month I gave birth to our daughter. She’s an adorable tornado, one we’ve been summoning for years: weathering cycles of IVF, living in the in-between spaces, falling in and out of orbit.'

I wrote about reading and early motherhood for TOAST: toa.st/blogs/magazine…

'But the roses are savages/ that will eat you alive/ given the chance' 'Shadow Reader' ⁦Bloodaxe Books⁩ ⁦Imtiaz Dharker⁩

LAST night's zoom workshop with Rachel Long was SO GOOD! Thks to everyone who came to the party!🎂What a brilliant start we've had to our series - looming workshops with limited spaces from #AnthonyCapildeo Yvonne Reddick & Jo Bell - The Poetic Licence & bundle offers too tinyurl.com/3bp9cnrd

As part of Zeitgeist 24, 3 award-winning Irish poets will read at Curious Fox.
Join Jessica Traynor, Seán Hewitt & Stephen Sexton for an evening of poetry on desire, identity, place, memory, love and loss. 08.06, 8pm Free entry.
Supported by Ireland Embassy Berlin and Culture_Ireland

Editor of Poetry London, André Naffis-Sahely will be reading at the Cork Arts Theatre at 7pm this Fri the 17th, and entry costs just €5! Read Poetry Foundation's review of his second collection 'High Desert' (2022) at the link below!
poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/…

I have immersed myself in Kerry Hardie's collection, 'We Go On'. It has been an honour to witness this meditative work. Its crafty gaze fixes on what it is to be human despite lifes turbulence. I'm so lucky to be moderating Kerry's event tomorrow! Bloodaxe Books Munster Literature Centre

A privilege to give the closing reflection at the Climate Justice Conference in DCU Centre for Climate and Society. I read three poems, a new one and two from A Change in the Air Bloodaxe Books youtu.be/HzIFlUGtKNI?si… via YouTube

Our May newsletter: shorturl.at/grAJ0
New books from Imtiaz Dharker, Katie Donovan & Amanda Dalton (online launch 21/05); Abigail Parry shortlisted for #WalesBookOfTheYear ; Kim Addonizio London workshops & readings; poets at Ledbury Poetry plus podcast, radio & magazine features

Poet & translator Viviana Fiorentino translated Given from A Change in the Air for the literary festival Bologna in Lettere. Bloodaxe Books youtu.be/u6AtctKvTvU?si… via YouTube

Interview with Neil Astley out this Thursday…

Out-Spoken Live is back and May’s line-up is looking special 👀

🎙️Rachael Allen
🎙️Imtiaz Dharker
🎙️Salena Godden
🎙️Nik Sheva
🎙️Kara Marni

🎟️ Tickets: shorturl.at/izE27
📅 Thursday 16 May
🕝 7.45pm
📍Southbank Centre
🧏 BSL interpreted
✨ Supported by Arts Council England

Massive congratulations to our absolutely wonderful regular Katie Donovan on her new poetry collection #MaySwim !
Plenty of signed copies in #Dalkey & you can order online too:
gutterbookshop.com/product/may-sw…

Thrilled to be facilitating the wonderful poet Katie Donovan at Cork International Poetry Festival on Wednesday the 15th at 10pm. I've enjoyed submerging myself in 'May Swim', her igniting and latest collection. See you all there, friends! 🤍

Next up is poet Kerry Hardie who will be reading at the Cork Arts Theatre at 10pm on Wed the 15th for €5! Read a review of her ninth collection, 'We Go On' by The High Window Press at the link below.
thehighwindowpress.com/2024/04/11/the…

Poet Katie Donovan will be reading at the Cork Arts Theatre at 10pm on Wed the 15th for €5! Read an interview of hers at the link attached where she speaks about home, creating, and writing her 2016 collection 'Off Duty.'
thegloss.ie/writers-block-…

Congratulations to the three poets shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year 2024 English-language poetry category, including Abigail Parry for her second Bloodaxe Books collection I Think We're Alone Now. #WBOTY24

You’ve seen the shortlist — now have your say on who wins Nation.Cymru People’s Choice Award!

Voting closes on 14 June! 👀👇
nation.cymru/culture/vote-f…