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‘Once I was on earth and I liked it.’ Mary Ruefle

Okay, last time I'm trying this and if there are any unclaimed spots remaining by Thursday midday then I'll come up with a new plan! TeethBack89989 GuiltySpark93450 TurnipFiend71520 BananaMasala12345 Shandyship67842

Bargain poetry collections!

The Sufjan songs for Christmas are coming from inside the house

Ok, if you’re one of the below you have 24 hours to get in touch. The first claimant takes it (assuming I can verify your identity) ManateeHat00023 KeenEye02024 BlueCarrot80808 SharkJade81888 UnaccountableLasagne01138

AND WE’RE ALL DONE! Thanks everyone for joining me on this wild ride. Please learn from my mistakes

This is next Tuesday. If you fancy writing a load of poems before Christmas, join me… Arvon

here is my new poem in The Paris Review, about a toilet

Poets in the North, get your applications in!

Has anyone else been teaching metre and discovered that the lyrics to the original English Pokémon theme tune are written in common metre, so anything in that metre can be sung to the same tune?

Polite request for poems to wallow to, if you know any sad enough, please. Like, *really* sad. Advanced level Wallowing.

I started my own press!! Piżama (Polish for 'pajamas') is dedicated to showcasing the strange & the surreal. The weirder, the better. Our first book is DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY, the debut poetry collection by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi. neonpajamas.com/pizamapress

PREORDER (28.02.2025): Opening Line is a £3.99 poetry anthology built on the principle that access to the arts should not be a privilege. This anthology dismantles economic barriers that too often limit audiences from engaging with contemporary poetry. brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/o…

One of my favourite poets Matthew Zapruder is reading poems and talking about process with me online on Wednesday night - This is the first proper event of my residency, it’s pay what you can, and it would be amazing to see some familiar faces there 🙏 arvon.org/writing-course…

it’s gone. That sense of the ground I walk on — hear how my first land changed. With genocide.