Wonderful to listen to Jane Clarke & Abigail Parry read from their T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted Bloodaxe Books collections at the Newcastle Poetry Festival this evening. Looking forward to more events tomorrow too!

Exhilarating to hear Harry Man, Jane Burn, Linda France, Imtiaz Dharker & Carol Ann Duffy read at the NCLA Newcastle Poetry Festival yesterday at Northern Stage. Have emerged with quite a haul from the PoetryBookSoc bookstall!

Looking forward to a day of Sciences at Newcastle talks at the SNESFest 24 Symposium today, with talks from Rob Calvert Omnia Elshorbagy Dan Sankey Sally Shortall Jordan Cuff 🕸️🧬🕷️ Lynn Frewer Mark Booth Sarah Griffin Juliane Fiates @jengoujon Charlotte Jennings & our keynote Rick Mumford.

I've enjoyed reading a trio of Broken Sleep Books books this week from Luke Palmer SJ Fowler and ≠matthew←kinlin●●◯♜.

Two recent arrivals from Broken Sleep Books. Looking forward to reading these MacGillivray Aaron Kent Stuart McPherson!

This Sunday Osmosis are bringing you Daniel Hinds’ ‘A Prose Poem Book Review of Terrance Haynes’s American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin’!

✨Announcing the #SoAwards 2024 winners! ‘Spanning genres, showing outstanding depths’ Read the winners announcement here: www2.societyofauthors.org/2024/06/20/spa…

My experimental review of Terrance Hayes's poetry collection, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, is available to read as Featured Writing on the Osmosis Press website. Thanks very much to editors Dr Briony Hellon-Hughes Saskia McCracken Cat Chong! osmosispress.com/2024/06/02/dan…

Delighted to have some poems featured in Creation Theatre's display to accompany their production of As You Like it outside Wycliffe Hall - pictured here with the wonderful actors under the greenwood tree!

Did you know we run a poetry book subscription? We're hoping to encourage more people to sign up, as the subscription ensures you save money on books every month, while giving us a regular, reliable customer base. Please do consider taking one out here: brokensleepbooks.com/subscription

COMPETITION: We're running a competition for full-length poetry collections, judged by penelope shuttle & Andre Bagoo, open to entrants worldwide. Enter, and find out more, here: brokensleepbooks.com/broken-sleep-b…

Pleased to have two poems accepted by the always wonderful Acid Bath Publishing 🧪 for their Night Terrors anthology. Thanks very much to the anthology's editor James Rance!

Hard to believe iamb ~ poetry seen and heard is just a wave away from fulfilling its first five years online (after the upcoming wave nineteen, I mean). Amazing what a snap decision – based on an idle tweet – can turn into if you back it up with love and conviction.

Tickets available now for September's Broken Sleep launch, with readings from Alan Sondheim, Diana Cant, Lucy Holme, Andre Bagoo, and Penelope Shuttle (reading for Morag Smith). eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sleep…

Trust hopes to turn William Blake’s cottage into a museum theguardian.com/culture/2024/s…

Calling all poets! 🖊️ We are running a competition! Whether your style is raw, lyrical, or experimental, we want to read your work. Don't miss the opportunity—find out more and enter today here: brokensleepbooks.com/broken-sleep-b… #PoetryComp #CallForSubmissions #PoetryCommunity #AmWriting

Really enjoyed reading Degna Stone's impressive collection, Proof of Life on Earth, from Nine Arches Press.

I've been highly commended in this year's Forward Prizes. Needless to say I am very pleased. The poem - Homunculus with Object Permanence - is taken from my debut collection, out now with Broken Sleep Books. brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/l…

A stellar evening of poetry tonight from Sean O'Brien (surely, one of our best living poets), Harry Man, and pippa little at the Prohibition Cabaret Bar in a very soggy Newcastle. Readings from pamphlets and collections by Dare-Gale Press and Nine Arches Press.