Not the best dog at polling station photo ever but at least she got there…:

My review of Eli Payne Mandel’s The Grid from Carcanet Press is now online at LongPoemMag: longpoemmagazine.org.uk/reviews/langua…

I have stayed in that Premier Inn many times & it does have an eerie purple glow…: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Had a wonderful time talking about & reading from Shearsman ‘The Paths of Survival’ for Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory in Austin UT Austin. Thank you so much for having me!

Cornish language revives on back of psych-pop and Covid theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

I was 48 & already in heart failure by the time I was diagnosed with a congenital heart valve condition. If you’re feeling breathless do get checked out…: theguardian.com/society/articl…

It’s been a dreadful 14 years but thank god for the music. The Guardian picks a song for each Tory year: theguardian.com/music/article/…

Out now! Shearsman 141 & 142! Featuring poetry by Josephine Balmer, Daragh Breen, @imlcc, Dr Amy Evans Bauer, Mischa Foster-Poole, carrieetter.bsky.social, Huw Gwynn Jones, @jjhlinklater, Sujatha Menon, John Muckle, Tom Phillips, Ian Seed, Rimas Uzgiris & many more! shearsman.com/shearsman-maga…

Really thrilled to have 3 poems in the latest issue of Shearsman magazine. Many thanks to guest editor Kelvin Corcoran, Tony Frazer & ⁦Shearsman⁩

A collie kneeler from Widecombe-in-the-Moor church

Title poem from Josephine Balmer's Ghost Passage (2022).🖤 From inscribed ancient artefacts & recently excavated writing tablets of Roman London, to tombstones in a remote Kent churchyard, the collection deciphers the hidden texts that weave through our past... shearsman.com/store/Josephin…

Lovely launch of Things We Leave Behind:Reflections of West Cornwall with Alistair Common on Tuesday. Exhibition runs until 14/11, The Forum, Uni of Exeter. More info here: artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/events/4oLtxyG…

Beautiful cover for the forthcoming edition of Arion with the Nut amulet from The Eton Myers Collection UoB CAHA UoB. Thrilled to have the poem in the journal that’s inspired by it:

A gorgeous cover image for the new Arion! This beautiful amulet is held in the The Eton Myers Collection UoB. Inside the issue are poems responding to our collection by Josephine Balmer with an essay by Elena Theodorakopoulos.

Arion highlights Josephine Balmer and Elena Theodorakopoulos whose “Archaeology of the Heart” appears in our fall issue and lends one of its featured images to our cover. Subscribe here to be among its first readers: bu.edu/arion/subscribe

Just published in this week’s New Statesman