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Deryn Rees-Jones
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Poet, editor, critic

https://liverpooluniversitypress.blog/tag/pavilion-poetry/

https://www.serenbooks.com/seren-author/deryn-rees-jones/

https://thamesandhudson.com/paula-rego-the-art-of-story-9780500021378
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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · May 17
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'Far from a literary gimmick, the novel comes across as an urgent call to resist complacency and recover one’s vitality in the face of injustice. It’s a stunner.' @publisherswkly.bsky.social gives THE DISAPPEARING ACT by Maria Stepanova, tr. Sasha Dugdale: www.publishersweekly.com/9780811239400
The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova
In this captivating and capacious novel from Stepanova (In Memory of Memory), a 50-year-old novelist experiences a bizarre and l...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Joanna Kavenna being splendid and talking about #zed and #seven @livunienglish.bsky.social with Danny O’Connor this evening
November 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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A beautiful reading by @notjustdancing.bsky.social tonight for the launch of Hotel Amour. As @serenbooks.bsky.social editor @zoebrigley.bsky.social said, it's a beautiful brilliant book, full of nearly unbearable grief and nearly unbearable joy. www.serenbooks.com/book/hotel-a...
Hôtel Amour - Seren
“Extraordinary in its formal conception and emotional accuracy…” – The Telegraph “This is simply extraordinary writing, laced with wonder and devastation…” – Joanna Klink A sequel to her T. S. Eliot P...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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A captivating @serenbooks.bsky.social launch tonight of @notjustdancing.bsky.social’s innovative, multilayered & lyrical collection ‘Hôtel Amour’ (alongside fantastic readings from @oliviamcc.bsky.social & Menna Elfyn). 😍
Black and white blurred motion photographic front cover of Deryn Rees-Jones’s poetry collection ‘Hôtel Amour’.
November 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Swing by for this free reading by novelist Joanna Kavenna on Wednesday at the School of the Arts library, 19-23 Abercromby Square — you can sign up here @livunienglish.bsky.social
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November 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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We’re looking forward to the online launch of ‘Hôtel Amour’ by Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social tomorrow night, 18 November, from 7pm. It’s not too late to register for the link www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1765466972.... Deryn will be reading alongside @oliviamcc.bsky.social & Menna Elfyn.
Left to right: Photos of Olivia McCannon, Deryn Rees-Jones and Menna Elfyn.
November 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
notjustdancing.bsky.social
Join us for an online book launch on November 18th at 7pm — #mennaelfyn #oliviamccannon #derynrees-jones #HotelAmour

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November 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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To celebrate the publication of her book, Radical Realisms in Contemporary Theatre in Britain, Lecturer Dr Hannah Greenstreet @hgreenstreet1.bsky.social recommends 10 fantastic feminist plays from the last 10 years in @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social

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Ten years of feminist theatre in ten plays
Hannah Greenstreet on a decade of absolute bangers
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November 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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What a deep pleasure to listen to amazing Diane Seuss #dianeseuss this evening @poetrysociety.org.uk @livunienglish.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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A video is available of the @southbankcentre.bsky.social launch for @rachaelboast.bsky.social's anthology Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets. Rachael Boast was joined by Karthika Naïr, Daniel Sluman, and Lisa Kelly. Starts at 18:22.
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Rachael Boast: Versus Versus – Live Stream
YouTube video by Southbank Centre
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November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Hello again Paris, mon amour @serenbooks.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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We hope you can join us! Register for the Zoom link (free) via Eventbrite if you plan on coming along www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1765466972...
oliviamcc.bsky.social Olivia McCannon @oliviamcc.bsky.social · 21d
Looking forward to this @serenbooks.bsky.social online event 18 November 7pm: An evening of poetry celebrating the publication of ‘Hôtel Amour’ by Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social, with readings by Deryn and guests Menna Elfyn and Olivia McCannon. @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social
Poetry Book Launch | Hôtel Amour by Deryn Rees-Jones
Join us online for an evening of poetry celebrating publication of ‘Hôtel Amour’ by Deryn Rees-Jones.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Looking forward to this @serenbooks.bsky.social online event 18 November 7pm: An evening of poetry celebrating the publication of ‘Hôtel Amour’ by Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social, with readings by Deryn and guests Menna Elfyn and Olivia McCannon. @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social
Poetry Book Launch | Hôtel Amour by Deryn Rees-Jones
Join us online for an evening of poetry celebrating publication of ‘Hôtel Amour’ by Deryn Rees-Jones.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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A poem in answer to Charles Causley’s poem On All Souls Night – and also to celebrate the birth of my daughter on All Souls Day. From ‘Red House’ @carcanet.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Here’s a late poem by Matt Simpson. Looking forward to speaking more about him this evening at the OpenEye Gallery, Liverpool #MattSimpson #liverpoolpoets
October 30, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Saturday 25 October, 2pm at @southbankcentre.bsky.social:
Global Crip Poetry Celebration
Rachael Boast, Lisa Kelly, Karthika Naïr and Daniel Sluman introduce Versus Versus, a new anthology by 100 deaf, disabled and neurodivergent poets from across the globe.
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/glo...
October 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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So much looking forward to this year’s Allott / Poetry Society lecture by #DianeSeuss @sotauol.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social
livunienglish.bsky.social Department of English at the University of Liverpool @livunienglish.bsky.social · Oct 13
📣 Join us at this year's Kenneth Allott lecture, in conjunction with @poetrysociety.org.uk (online), hosted by Professor Sandeep Parmar 🖋️📚

More info here:
poetrysociety.org.uk/event/poetry...
Poetry Society Annual Lecture – Diane Seuss – The Poetry Society
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October 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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pavilionpoetry.bsky.social
Our 2026 collections are now available to pre-order from the LUP website!

Find out more here:
bit.ly/PavilionPoetry26
October 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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My debut poetry collection, Divinations on Survival, can now be pre-ordered! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

See below for more info. If you'd like to book me for a reading / talk / workshop next year, drop me an email: [email protected]

#PoetryNews #UKPoetry
The cover of Divinations on Survival by Natalie Linh Bolderston against a starry mountain background. Natalie Linh Bolderston's debut collection traces her matrilineal heritage across continents and centuries, interweaving her voice with those of her mother and grandmother. The poems move between 1930s China, 1970s Vietnam and an ancient landscape populated by mother's, daughters and deities from Vietnamese and Chinese myth. Divinations on Survival asks what it means to share a lineage in the shadow of war, and traces the complex legacies of survival that emerge as a result of conflict. Always returning to the question of how intimate, familial ties are warped and undone by political turmoil, violence and displacement, the collection distils and expands on stories passed down from grandmother to mother, to daughter, and casts women not as victims, but as powerful protectors, healers and survivors. Formally innovative and supple, these poems disrupt and unsettle meaning, confronting the colonising force of language to work towards a radical new poetics. Divinations on Survival comes out in spring 2026 and can be pre-ordered now. If you would like to book me for a reading, talk or workshop, please feel free to drop me an email: NatalieLinhBolderston@gmail.com Natalie Linh Bolderston is a Vietnamese-Chinese-British poet. In 2020, she received an Eric Gregory Award and co-won the Rebecca Swift Women Poets' Prize. Her poem 'Middle Name with Diacritics' came third in the 2019 National Poetry Competition and was shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. In 2024, she was Creative Future’s writer-in-residence for Stoke-on-Trent, her hometown. Her pamphlet, The Protection of Ghosts, was published by V. Press in 2019.
October 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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📣 Join us at this year's Kenneth Allott lecture, in conjunction with @poetrysociety.org.uk (online), hosted by Professor Sandeep Parmar 🖋️📚

More info here:
poetrysociety.org.uk/event/poetry...
Poetry Society Annual Lecture – Diane Seuss – The Poetry Society
poetrysociety.org.uk
October 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Very genuinely surprised to see this: The Strongbox is shortlisted for @lhellenicprize.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social alongside some wonderful books.
lhellenicprize.bsky.social The London Hellenic Prize @lhellenicprize.bsky.social · Oct 10
We have a shortlist for this year's LHP! Five exceptional works, each a must-read in its own right. If you're interested in all things Hellenic- the language, literature, or the history- these should hit your 'to read' list asap (unless they're already on it!). Here they are:
October 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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And then November 7th taking Hotel Amour back to Paris ❤️ www.billetweb.fr/a-poetry-rea...
Tickets : A poetry reading by Deryn Rees-Jones
Tickets : A poetry reading by Deryn Rees-Jones - Billetweb
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October 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Deryn Rees-Jones at Open Eye Gallery | Literature | Creative Tourist
For the seventh Matt Simpson Memorial Reading, hosted by LiPS, Deryn Rees-Jones will be reading from her new collection, Hôtel Amour.
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October 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Looking forward to reading at The Open Eye Gallery on October 30th, and remembering and speaking about my dear friend Matt Simpson openeye.org.uk/whatson/matt...
Matt Simpson Memorial Reading with Deryn Rees-Jones – OEG
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October 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM