"a lifetime lush & desolate mortification swaying in the close of being told finally it’s fine" An extract from a new long poem by Linda Kemp: littermagazine.org/2025/06/linda-…

"I fell asleep later to the slightest rain luminous like a film set calculating implacable math" Three new poems by Maria Sledmere: littermagazine.org/2025/07/maria-…

"Listen to that birdsong! The God invented that! The bloody God invented the dawn chorus, period pains, sleepless nights, and period pains." A poem by C.J. Driscoll: littermagazine.org/2025/07/cj-dri…

"I could swear that I heard someone call, far away, beyond the fence among the darkening trees..." Two new prose poems by Simon Collings: littermagazine.org/2025/07/simon-…

Proud of this 2017 pamphlet written with charlie baylis published by Indigo Dreams.

"the word haunted comes to mind as in relation to memory and re-creation of the past" Steve Spence reviews "Concrete" by John Philips: littermagazine.org/2025/07/review…

"And Kernan does not ignore the paradox that has struck most readers of Schuyler, that is, how someone with such evident behavioural issues wrote the poems that he did." Martin Stannard reviews the new biography of James Schuyler, pub. Farrar,Straus&Giroux: littermagazine.org/2025/07/review…

"the word haunted comes to mind as in relation to memory and re-creation of the past" Steve Spence reviews "Concrete" by John Philips: littermagazine.org/2025/07/review…

"I like shallow, you said – shallow is good – to exist for a thing that binds us – a poet’s portrait, a hairdo, a crime novel..." Two poems by Nick Power Nick Power: littermagazine.org/2025/07/nick-p…

"A nurse is asking me: how can I help you? can I give you haloperidol and two tablets of lorazepam? no, thanks, my cricket wants Russian Vodka." A poem by Lucia Daramus Lucia Daramus: littermagazine.org/2025/07/lucia-…

My exhibition - Poet Peasant - has now finished at Bouda Gallery. Four weeks, four events, so many lovely people came by, thanks to them and Czech Centre London David Spittle Lavinia Singer Vanessa Onwuemezi et al. Loads of videos and photos here if you fancy a peek stevenjfowler.com/poetpeasant/

The language wants everything It wants everyone It won’t stop until everything there is and everything there isn’t is entangled within it- John Philips

"The mayfly dance is communal if gender-skewed; the daylily bloom is beautiful then ugly." Three prose-poems by Mike Ferguson Mike Ferguson: littermagazine.org/2025/08/mike-f…

The Everyday Marvellous coming up in September, with Stephen Sunderland Lydia Unsworth Tom Jenks Sarah-Clare Conlon, and Stuart Carlton

a new poem ‘black mass’ up today up on Eulogy Press - thank you to the editor Macy eulogy.press/#black-mass-ba… Rest in peace May Baylis 🏴🐦‍⬛🖤

‘Shuffle, pick a card, read etc’ Who could resist these uniquely and perfectly packaged haiku, as discovered and translated into ‘roughly northern dialect’ by the great Steven Waling? Available from the wonderful Tom Jenks

"notice a mangled garden fork in the cylinder wrapped around the expensive machinery ...expect to be sacked" New poetry from Mélisande Fitzsimons: littermagazine.org/2025/08/melisa…

"A tourist is a precondition of a certain kind of queue. A tourist is a latent hostage. A tourist is a set of mitochondrial clocks reconfigured." New poem from Rob Kiely: littermagazine.org/2025/08/rob-ki…

"Postumus, Postumus, how they slip away, so fast, the years..." And ode by the Roman poet, Horace, translated by Aidan Everett: littermagazine.org/2025/08/horace…

TextArt prompted by watching ‘Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night’ (1988) a couple of nights ago. ‘Ooby Dooby’ is, of course, a hoot; ‘Pretty Woman’ gets a great jam session.