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Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social · 5h

'Gnarled, renewable, as if the heart
the river, now - '

I find a kind of magic in Gillian Allnutt's words... And here is a glowing cover by Romey Chaffer! All from @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social .

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 9h

Coming up soon on my New Arcana reading tour, I'll be giving a workshop and reading as part of Waterford Writers Weekend 🍂✨️

Tickets here:
www.eventbrite.ie/e/a-workshop...

@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 10h

Our next online launch event is on Tuesday 21 October at 7pm.

Menna Elfyn and Kit Wright will read live and discuss their new collections with the host, Bloodaxe editor Neil Astley, with audio recordings of Selima Hill reading. Watch live/later via YouTube.
www.bloodaxebooks.com/events?artic...

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Poets whose forthcoming books are on offer: Polly Clark, @cathygalvin.bsky.social, Penelope Shuttle, Lawrence Sail, John McCullough, Rita Ann Higgins, Lily Blacksell, John Challis, Tishani Doshi, Jennifer Lee Tsai, @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social & Frank Ormsby
www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/new_titl...

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 1d

This week only, 14-17 October: @waterstones.bsky.social are offering 25% discount on preorders of all 12 new Bloodaxe titles published in the first half of 2026. Key in the name of the poet/book, click preorder and add the code OCTOBER25. The offer is online only.
www.waterstones.com

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 1d

My next reading from Beast @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social is for Tsaá with Roma @romalynante3.bsky.social with the incredible Sarah Howe and Fiona Benson, on Zoom, it’s free but RSVP necessary to join us on 30 October 6pm - 7:15pm. Everyone welcome!

www.romalynante.com/event-detail...

Wild & Tender: Petit, Howe, and Benson | Romalyn Ante

Three extraordinary poets. One unforgettable evening. Readings, conversation, and a rare chance to hear Pascale Petit, Sarah Howe, and Fiona Benson on craft, inspiration, and the wild and tender power...

www.romalynante.com

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 2d

Vidyan Ravinthiran’s 'The last train', a 'brief, dense excursion into the heartland of Sri Lankan history' from his @forwardprizes.bsky.social shortlisted collection Avidyā, is featured as @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social's Poem of the Week in the Yorkshire Times.
yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 2d

Always a treat to get into @booksupstairs.bsky.social & lovely to sign some copies of New Arcana 🔮✨️
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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 4d

Yorkshire Times Poem of the Week: 'The las train' by Vidyan Ravinthiran @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @poems-not-opinions.bsky.social

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Poem Of The Week: <i>The Last Train</i> By Vidyan Ravinthiran

The last train to arrive in Jaffna during the war 30 years ago rusts on the tracks the unimaginable touch of time has turned it the colour, exactly of this land’s ferrous soil -of blood that is fo...

yorkshiretimes.co.uk

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 5d

Ahead of the Slung Low/ @lrb.co.uk special readings of the late Tony Harrison's long poem v. in Holbeck Cemetery on Sunday 12 October, John Newsham discusses the poem in the Morning Star.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/vers...

V. A Homecoming: 12pm, 2.30pm & 5pm.
slunglow.org/v-a-homecoming/

Verses versus

“NEXT millennium you’ll have to search quite hard/ to find my slab behind the family dead.”With these words, poet Tony Harrison, who died last week aged 88, opened his unflinching, state-of-the-nation...

morningstaronline.co.uk

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 5d

This is on Sunday!

Tickets still available: www.slunglow.org/v-a-homecomi...

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 7d

I'll be heading to Belfast for the last of my New Arcana launches, introduced by the wonderful Stephen Sexton, at No Alibis Books, on the 21st October. Free but ticketed- get yours here!

noalibis.com/event/poetry...

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Rachael Boast @rachaelboast.bsky.social · 7d

Not long to go! Global Crip Poetry Celebration: Poets from VERSUS VERSUS, published by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social | Sat 25 Oct 2025, 2pm, at the Southbank Centre. A Relaxed Performance and British Sign Language interpreted (BSL) and Speech-to-Text transcribed. More details in comments.

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 7d

Two Bloodaxe poets were Ian McMillan's guests on BBC Radio 4's The Verb of 5 Oct. Katrina Porteous was reading from and discussing her Laurel Prize-winning fourth collection #Rhizodont (30:05) and @imtiazdharker.bsky.social read her new Verb commission 'A Land' (2:22).
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - The Verb, The Verb from Contains Strong Language in Bradford

Ian McMillan presents The Verb from Contains Strong Language in Bradford.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 8d

The loveliest thing to hear some of these poems out in the wild last week, a storm raging up outside.

@jesstraynor.bsky.social's NEW ARCANA @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social, introduced beautifully by Seán Hewitt at the @gutterbookshop.bsky.social.

How lucky we are❤️

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 9d

The 𝘓𝘙𝘉 published many of Tony Harrison’s poems over the years, including, most famously, ‘v.’ To mark forty years of the poem, and in tribute to its author, live readings will take place in Holbeck on Sunday 12 Oct, in association with Slung Low. More info/tickets: www.slunglow.org/v-a-homecomi...

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 8d

'...we should treasure her work, reading it slowly and giving it the contemplation it deserves.' - DA Prince, in The High Window, on Gillian Allnutt's tenth poetry collection Lode, which has just been shortlisted for the @tseliotprize.bsky.social.
thehighwindowpress.com/2025/10/03/t...

The High Window Reviews: 3 October 2025

***** Gillian Allnutt: Lode • Peter Robinson: Return to Sendai, New & Selected Poems 1973-2024 • Steve Malmude: Red Carpet • Carlie Hoffman: One More World Like This World • Christina Thatcher:…

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 9d

Many congratulations to all the poets shortlisted for the @tseliotprize.bsky.social 2025, including Gillian Allnutt, whose tenth collection Lode is on the shortlist.

T. S. Eliot Prize @tseliotprize.bsky.social · 9d

We are thrilled to be able to reveal this year's T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist!
Our judges have chosen ten books "of great range, suggestiveness and power; from Entebbe to Manitoba... there is something here for everyone."

Find out more now: tseliot.com/prize/news/

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 9d

We're delighted that Gillian Allnutt has been shortlisted for the 2025 @tseliotprize.bsky.social for her tenth poetry collection Lode. Many congratulations to all ten shortlisted poets.
www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 9d

Very cheering to read this lovely review of Lives of the Female Poets by @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social this morning. @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · 9d

September reads featuring the brilliant Clare Pollard and Christina Thatcher over on Substack now.
open.substack.com/pub/kimmoore...

September Reads

By Kim Moore

open.substack.com

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 9d

Next stop on the New Arcana tour is @kildarereaders.bsky.social on 14 Oct with Kimberly Campanello & Catherine Gander 🍂✨️🔮
Come join us!

@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

www.tickettailor.com/events/kilda...

Book Tickets – Poetry in the past and present tense: Kimberley Campanello and Jessica Traynor – Maynooth Community Library

Poetry in the past and present tense: Kimberley Campanello and Jessica Traynor – Maynooth Community Library, Tue 14 Oct 2025 - In their latest collections, poets Jessica Traynor (New Arcana, Bloodaxe)...

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Agata Maslowska @agatamaslowska.bsky.social · 17d

From “New Arcana” by @jesstraynor.bsky.social

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 11d

Big thanks to everyone who joined me for the Dublin launch of New Arcana @gutterbookshop.bsky.social

It's such a big leap of faith putting a book out into the world & I'm so grateful for the friends who helped me celebrate ✨️

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 11d

Poet and broadcaster @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social paid tribute to poet and dramatist Tony Harrison on BBC Radio 4's Last Word (from 7:52).

Bloodaxe's tribute is on our website page below:
www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, Dame Jane Goodall, Tony Harrison, Lord Menzies Campbell, Danny Thompson

Matthew Bannister on a primatologist, a poet, a politician and a bass player.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 13d

Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets (ed. @rachaelboast.bsky.social) is a @poetrydayuk.bsky.social Book Group recommendation for #NationalPoetryDay this year.
forwardartsfoundation.org/national-poe...

This National Poetry Day panel shows the cover of Rachael Boast's anthology Versus Versus surrounded by a pink circle and set on a cream background.

The text reads 'Profoud, Urgent, and incredibly timely', and 'A celebration of diversity - from poetic forms to experiences'.

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