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One of Ireland’s oldest literary journals Stony Thursday just launched its 46th edition. Delighted to be included with some wonderful poet friends by guest editor Dr Victoria Kennefick (She/Her)🍉 Order here: limerick.ie/council/newsro…

Baudelaire, Redon and the squeamishness of AI. Many thanks to writers' organisation 26 for publishing it in the terrific Momento Mori series. open.substack.com/pub/26mementom…

Cute!

“Move fast. Make beautiful things.”

Easter reflections - from the Semana Santa procession in Tarragona.

Today is publication day for Beast! 24 April. I’m reading at the Cambridge Literary Festival as the first in person reading, 4pm today! Bloodaxe Books

Ledbury Poetry Festival programme out now. If you're around July 2nd, come to the Ledbury prizewinner readings and say hello. ledburypoetry.org.uk

At least they got Tiepolo back to art direct the big day. ⁦Richard Morris⁩

Wonderful to win third (again) in the Bedford Poetry Prize. Congrats to winner Panika Dillon and runner-up Mark Yakich. Many thanks to judge Jessica Mookherjee. bedfordwritingcompetition.co.uk/results-2024/

When AI gave up on me, Baudelaire and Redon… open.substack.com/pub/26mementom…

Adam Zagajewski tr by Lillian Valee

Fascinating talk today on the evolving dynamics of global (dis)order by ⁦Dr Samir Puri⁩ - insights from his book ‘Westlessness’ expertly moderated ⁦Fiker Institute⁩

Many thanks to these wonderful publishers who recently gave me space next to some great poets from the UK and Ireland to India, Uzbekistan and Japan. Please support them. #TheLittleReview Limerick : Culture : Arts The Alchemy Spoon ThePoeticHeartUAE

RIP Paul Durcan. This was the first poem I read by him, and it absolutely broke me.

Small and beautifully brought into the world by Tristram Fane Saunders - much obliged to be the MF behind Elizabeth Bishop's roadster and John Betjeman's speed freakout. Order the highly collectible first issue now.

RIP Alasdair Macintyre. Studying Aristotle and the Rationalists as an undergrad, this book had the most lasting impact. More relevant than ever. John Tasioulas

Many thanks to The London Magazine editors for including my poem 'The Wild Pacific of its Heart' in the summer edition.

ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Without End: New and Selected Poems 2002 ⁦Farrar,Straus&Giroux⁩ The “I” of this lyric is dependent for its meaning on soft spots and virtues unevenly distributed in humankind yet somehow universal, such is the triple “one thing only” of the climactic jesture. Brilliant

For anyone stuck in traffic today… from the great Tony Hoagland (Turn Up the Ocean)