So looking forward to this event, hosted by a poet I admire, whose debut collection "Food for the Dead" is a beautiful, poignant reflection on collective memory and family history 🌻

Wars, too, come to an end. Whatever has not been destroyed will try to grow back, reach for the light, blossom, bear fruit. ☀️🍒🌿

This is Alex, callsign Mike, combat medic with HOSPITALLERS PARAMEDICS . She was killed today by a ru FPV drone which targeted her evacuation vehicle as she was performing a last mission in the Kharkiv region before coming home tomorrow. Alexandra Mulkevych 27.03.1989 - 14.08.2024 💔

Friends, we're finalizing my UK book tour (🫶 Carcanet Press). I'll be reading in Manchester, York, London, Brighton, Oxford, Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh, Liverpool, & Glasgow. If you're affiliated with a uni/bookstore/centre & might like to host, DM me. I'm open to a few more invites.

Missed my book launch? 📚🚀💫 Here's a recording from Carcanet Press. Some key moments: Sasha Dugdale's intro: 0:08-3:05 Poetry Reading: 5:37-19:04 Conversation w/ Sasha and the audience: 19:16-56:30 youtube.com/watch?v=Jd4yYw…

You, too, can be hip as Dan with this one little trick (clicking on the link) penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760795/c…

‘We all read like hell!’ How Ireland became the world’s literary powerhouse theguardian.com/books/article/…

But translation wreaks havoc on official exchange rates and economic ideals. Translation is not an economical act; it’s an act of “transgressive circulation.” Johannes Göransson

Sasha Dugdale’s THE STRONGBOX Carcanet Press sings&singes, a singular language of glassmaking, as the sands of history, epic, myth, tales, & “the thud of your own heart” are spun into new eyes of unaffected seeing, in the “dirty fire” of a lyre tilting forward into the foreign

Tom Collins' op-ed for The Irish News highlights the plight of civilians & our hopes for the future through the lens of Still City, the poetic diary I started keeping in the months before Russia's full-scale invasion and continued writing in its wake. irishnews.com/opinion/allies…

so what if we won't even try pulling off marianne faithfull's leather catsuit. we can still commit to her screen partner's andro-laconic crochet-polo look.

John Ashbery

Join us on Wednesday 04 September for a reading with authors Elle Nash, Lindsay Lerman and Saskia Vogel. Moderated by Ryan Ruby. 8pm

Calling all #poets! Our poetry submissions are now open for new collections of 55pp or more & pamphlets up to 25pp (max). Submit your work for consideration by 5pm Monday 30th September. Visit our submissions page for details serenbooks.com/submissions/. Zoë Brigley Rhian Edwards

The brother of my two childhood girlfriends 💔 He is the sole survivor of his immediate family, having just lost his wife and three young daughters.

Another air raid. Usually, I ignore them, but in light of the recent waves of brutality, I head for the bathroom, carrying in one hand, a laptop, in another, a plate with an omelette I just made. At least this time, if I get struck, I'm wearing pants.