Send us your poems! We are also seeking essays, reviews, feature articles, interviews/conversations, hybrid pieces, etc. We particularly welcome proposals & submissions from writers who are under-represented in publishing or from minoritised communities. Please do get in touch!💚

Essays, reviews, something fresh, spicy, fun, interesting for PBLJ's prose section? Send things my way! Email me at naush AT poetrybimingham DOT com. Do it now. 🤓Especially, if you have something in the drawer or burning at your brain. Maybe PBLJ is the home for it?

Note on US capitalism: leaving aside the politics why they do it, when the US gives aid/interest free loans etc to other countries which those countries use to buy US arms, that's the US state pump-priming US industry. Not so capitalist then.

According to Gaza Civil Defense, the Israeli massacre of displaced Palestinians this morning was carried out using three missiles, including at least one US-made Mk-84 bomb weighing 2,000 pounds. Yesterday, the United States announced it will send an additional $3.5 billion to

Naush Sabah, poet & editor of Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, visited beautiful Erdington Library, a Grade 2 listed Carnegie library endangered by Bham City Council cuts. It's time, Naush writes, "to take our bookish selves out onto the street to shout”! Keep shouting: Birmingham LOVES libraries 💘

The killing of Jumana and her two newborn twin babies in Gaza yesterday was especially painful for us at HEAL Palestine because we were involved in supporting her to have a safe delivery over the past several months. There needs to be an immediate ceasefire to stop the daily

“The entire unjust world does not care about this. That’s all I can say.” Heartbreaking testimony in the wake of the killing of newborn twins and their mother in Gaza -- leaving behind a father whose world is shattered. Correspondent Jeremy Diamond reports.

“These are their clothes. They didn’t wear them,” bereaved father said!

Today on Digital Features we publish a new essay by Alex🌌 on Pre-Raphaelite Birmingham poet Bessie Parkes's 'Summer Sketches'. Have a read here on our website: poetrybirmingham.com/digital-featur…

Statement by Palestinian Presidency on Israel’s ongoing and escalating genocide and aggression throughout entirety of Palestine:

With support from Benjamin’s wife Qian Zephaniah & Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, there are 6 categories from primary & secondary school children to adults & BCU staff, students & graduates. Judges include Casey Bailey, @MSoulFires, Gregory Leadbetter, @NaushSabah, Madeleine Kludje, Catherine

I'm gonna lie in the grass at Central Park and look at the sky getting dark, because I can.

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Okay, more on brand. ✨

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More things; seen joylessly. Bitterly disappointed 1-hr hot stone body massage didn't fix me even though it was great. Time to throw the whole body away 😭😩