Readings for 2026 have been selected! We meet on the final Saturday of each month. No Thielite Antichrist theorists, "Brodernists", Deleuzians, Hegelians, psychoanalysts, cloutfarmers, cloutshamers, yet-to-be-activated Discord-radicalised sleeper agents and—above all—NO ANIME

Sundress assistant chapbook editor Livia Meneghin has founded a new journal, Two Cardinals Literary! Poets based in the US can submit 1-4 pieces using their Google Form. Find more information on their Wordpress site. twocardinalsliterary.wordpress.com/submit/

Tired of waiting to see if your work was accepted? Submit your poems and get a response in ONE WEEK! Use the link in our bio to submit. #callforpoetry

“With my burned hand, I write of the nature of fire,” says Flaubert, whom Ingeborg Bachmann echoes in Malina. Tonight, with my own hand clumsily burned, I write not of fire, but of departure, of silence, of the void’s quiet invitation to dissolve unseen into being.

One of my favourite Tony Harrison poems.

Issue 23 submissions window opens Oct. 1st to 31st, 2025. We are open to entries across all genres: poetry, fiction, essays, one-acts, cultural profiles, art, & photography. Guest editor (essays): Motshola Pholo Click on the link in bio for full guidelines.

Some things are worth waiting for. Here’s Andrew Neilson’s exemplary pamphlet. Tender, technically wonderful, and thought-provoking. Soul, body, mind: my checklist for top-tier poems. Congratulations, dearest heart.

RIP. He won the debate, but Derrida was the better man.

Our 3 September titles will be launched online at our joint event tomorrow, 30 Sep, 7pm. Emilie Jelinek, Clare Pollard & Jessica Traynor will be reading from their books and discussing them with Bloodaxe editor Neil Astley. Watch live/later via YouTube. youtube.com/live/He4JaXNJz…

Reading tomorrow at Typewronger for the Wet Grain Poetry issue six launch. Come along, bring your friends.

Another very sad loss: Brian Patten, a poet whose work was always, for me, filled with a kind of yearning light. #RIPBrianPatten

I’ve written something on Tony Harrison and class. And scansion. But remember the first rule of Foot Club. link below

My Bookforum Magazine sort of longread on the novelist, critic, biographer and story writer Muriel Spark, her friendship with Waugh and Greene, her ideas about fiction and ideas about her (especially those of Frank Kermode) bookforum.com/print/3202/the…

"Assuage my sorrow, my country. Ask less of me. How your residents are rendered feeble for the joys of the few. Famished days; and nights, the same, for the satisfaction of a few stomachs." -Savita Singh (tr. Medha Singh)

Fifteen works of fiction Philip Roth considered most significant to his life:

I hope some people might find this helpful!

I can't stop thinking about Adrienne Rich's poem about AI, written in 1961.

thrilled to have contributed to this volume, which includes great introductory & practical materials in addition to essays and teaches like a charm

Some The New Statesman thoughts on the master, Thomas Pynchon, via the slightly frustrating Shadow Ticket with thoughts on his surprising humanism, and influence on Rushdie, Gibson, Franzen, One Battle After Another (decent) and other Paul Thomas Anderson work newstatesman.com/culture/books/…

So proud and excited to have a brand new poem in this new issue of Poetry London. 👇