Graeme Richardson
@ravoon.bsky.social
Writer/critic. All views very much my own.
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This month, we are publishing A Letter to the Dead by Lynette Roberts, edited by Charles Mundye and Patrick McGuinness!👗
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017505...
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017505...
November 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
This month, we are publishing A Letter to the Dead by Lynette Roberts, edited by Charles Mundye and Patrick McGuinness!👗
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017505...
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017505...
In the Times today offering commentary in the Love Song of RFK Jr:
November 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
In the Times today offering commentary in the Love Song of RFK Jr:
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A lot of people should be ashamed, having behaved disgracefully.
Congratulations, @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social. This shows immense character:
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
I also wrote about this, for PNR:
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
But read Sarah's if you only have time for one.
Congratulations, @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social. This shows immense character:
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
I also wrote about this, for PNR:
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
But read Sarah's if you only have time for one.
I was the other poet in the Len Pennie row: here’s my story
Sarah Doyle’s poem Laika won high praise but when she queried similarities to it with the poem Good Girl she was caught up in a storm of accusation, denial and online vitriol
www.thetimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
A lot of people should be ashamed, having behaved disgracefully.
Congratulations, @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social. This shows immense character:
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
I also wrote about this, for PNR:
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
But read Sarah's if you only have time for one.
Congratulations, @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social. This shows immense character:
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
I also wrote about this, for PNR:
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
But read Sarah's if you only have time for one.
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Remember in Working Girl where the well-connected Sigourney Weaver character presents the outsider Melanie Griffith's idea as her own? But Griffith can explain how she arrived at it, and Weaver can't. Shame on Canongate and on her famous defender if still unmoved.
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
I was the other poet in the Len Pennie row: here’s my story
Sarah Doyle’s poem Laika won high praise but when she queried similarities to it with the poem Good Girl she was caught up in a storm of accusation, denial and online vitriol
www.thetimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Remember in Working Girl where the well-connected Sigourney Weaver character presents the outsider Melanie Griffith's idea as her own? But Griffith can explain how she arrived at it, and Weaver can't. Shame on Canongate and on her famous defender if still unmoved.
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
Tom Paulin's 1986 LRB piece on Yeats' letters is a glass of champagne - both dry and sparkling. Look at these 3 sentences! "The impulse dissolved in helpless love..." What a writer he was.
November 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Tom Paulin's 1986 LRB piece on Yeats' letters is a glass of champagne - both dry and sparkling. Look at these 3 sentences! "The impulse dissolved in helpless love..." What a writer he was.
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I'll be on a ship in Canary Wharf reading some poems - not all by me, thankfully - for The Little Review launch party tomorrow from 1300hrs. Why not come along?
Ticket includes a (little) magazine.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/guest-even...
Ticket includes a (little) magazine.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/guest-even...
Guest Event: The Little Review Issue 2 Launch Party
A new pocket magazine for anyone interested in poetry.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I'll be on a ship in Canary Wharf reading some poems - not all by me, thankfully - for The Little Review launch party tomorrow from 1300hrs. Why not come along?
Ticket includes a (little) magazine.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/guest-even...
Ticket includes a (little) magazine.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/guest-even...
if equal emailing cannot be / let the more bugging one be me
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 AM
if equal emailing cannot be / let the more bugging one be me
This is the illustration accompanying Robert Pinsky's review of Seamus Heaney's Collected Poems in the New York Times... But who the fuck is it supposed to be?
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This is the illustration accompanying Robert Pinsky's review of Seamus Heaney's Collected Poems in the New York Times... But who the fuck is it supposed to be?
"They fuck not up as we that are left fuck up"
November 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
"They fuck not up as we that are left fuck up"
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Some readers of my substack might be interested in this interview I did with Greg Allum as part of the launch of his new Ink and Ribbon press:
Bound Voices #001: A Conversation with Victoria Moul
Where Pindar meets the nursery — poetry’s past and present in conversation.
theinkwell.inkandribbon.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Some readers of my substack might be interested in this interview I did with Greg Allum as part of the launch of his new Ink and Ribbon press:
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My comment, for @pnreview.bsky.social, on the Len Pennie & Sarah Doyle affair - or Canongagegate, as I like to think of it. Honourable mentions: @naush.bsky.social, @thetimes.com.
Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
PN Review Print and Online Poetry Magazine - Remarkable Coincidences - Rory Waterman - PN Review 286
One of the outstanding poetry journals of our time.
www.pnreview.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
My comment, for @pnreview.bsky.social, on the Len Pennie & Sarah Doyle affair - or Canongagegate, as I like to think of it. Honourable mentions: @naush.bsky.social, @thetimes.com.
Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
On whether or not a harsh review is pointless, I call, as my next witness, Michael Hulse:
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
On whether or not a harsh review is pointless, I call, as my next witness, Michael Hulse:
I'm amused to discover that Peter Porter, reviewing Michael Hofmann's first collection 'Nights in the Iron Hotel' for the Observer, described it as 'glum', 'leaden', 'turgid', and 'a remorseless set of patronising vignettes'.
November 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I'm amused to discover that Peter Porter, reviewing Michael Hofmann's first collection 'Nights in the Iron Hotel' for the Observer, described it as 'glum', 'leaden', 'turgid', and 'a remorseless set of patronising vignettes'.
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Nice to make the cover of the latest Literary Review for my piece on the enormous new Poems of Seamus Heaney. It's free to read here: literaryreview.co.uk/the-pen-the-...
Jeremy Noel-Tod - The Pen & the Spade
Jeremy Noel-Tod: The Pen & the Spade - The Poems of Seamus Heaney by Rosie Lavan, Bernard O’Donoghue and Matthew Hollis (edd.)
literaryreview.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Nice to make the cover of the latest Literary Review for my piece on the enormous new Poems of Seamus Heaney. It's free to read here: literaryreview.co.uk/the-pen-the-...
Among the 5000 German war dead in Cannock Chase Cemetery... History surprising and complex.
November 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Among the 5000 German war dead in Cannock Chase Cemetery... History surprising and complex.
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Attend the New Walk Editions online reading with Mark Ford and Sean O'Brien, 7pm on 20 November. It'll be excellent, I assure you.
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: New Walk Editions launch: Sean O'Brien and Mark Ford. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join us for the launch of exceptional, surprising pamphlets by two of the finest and most highly acclaimed poets writing today.
MARK FORD, The Morlocks: A Fantasia
SEAN O'BRIEN, A la Carte
The even...
us06web.zoom.us
November 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Attend the New Walk Editions online reading with Mark Ford and Sean O'Brien, 7pm on 20 November. It'll be excellent, I assure you.
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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I love all the @badlilies.bsky.social babies (so to speak!) equally but this sequence by @ravoon.bsky.social is worthy of some attention ahead of his collection coming out next year badlilies.uk/graeme-richardson-1
Graeme Richardson — Bad Lilies
Three poems by Graeme Richardson
badlilies.uk
November 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I love all the @badlilies.bsky.social babies (so to speak!) equally but this sequence by @ravoon.bsky.social is worthy of some attention ahead of his collection coming out next year badlilies.uk/graeme-richardson-1
A taste of my forthcoming book, thanks to @badlilies.bsky.social - www.badlilies.uk/graeme-richa...
Graeme Richardson — Bad Lilies
Three poems by Graeme Richardson
www.badlilies.uk
October 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
A taste of my forthcoming book, thanks to @badlilies.bsky.social - www.badlilies.uk/graeme-richa...
I like this, by Clare Pollard - the best "lockdown" poem in a very overcrowded field - and now included in her new collection "Lives of the Female Poets". Note the quietly infectious internal rhymes...
October 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I like this, by Clare Pollard - the best "lockdown" poem in a very overcrowded field - and now included in her new collection "Lives of the Female Poets". Note the quietly infectious internal rhymes...
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I'm thrilled to say that my collection "Dirt Rich" will be published by Carcanet in January. I've been working at it for almost 30 years: love poems, elegies, lamentations, jokes... The aim is "all killer no filler". Please buy it if you can. Here's Andrew Latimer's brilliant cover:
October 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I'm thrilled to say that my collection "Dirt Rich" will be published by Carcanet in January. I've been working at it for almost 30 years: love poems, elegies, lamentations, jokes... The aim is "all killer no filler". Please buy it if you can. Here's Andrew Latimer's brilliant cover:
JN-T's substack this week laugh-out-loud funny at points! Highly recommended
I used to have an office between two colleagues called Karen. I only realised when I moved out that I could have been saying 'Karen to right of me / Karen to left of me' the whole time. Just one of the many afterlives of 'The Charge of the Light Brigade': someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/someone-ha...
Someone had Blundered
How Tennyson's "Light Brigade" stanza made history
someflowerssoon.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
JN-T's substack this week laugh-out-loud funny at points! Highly recommended
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Sometimes good things do come to those who wait.
I have read a version in ts, and think this will come to be seen as one of the significant debuts of the decade. @carcanet.bsky.social throws another 180.
And yes, the cover looks excellent.
I have read a version in ts, and think this will come to be seen as one of the significant debuts of the decade. @carcanet.bsky.social throws another 180.
And yes, the cover looks excellent.
I'm thrilled to say that my collection "Dirt Rich" will be published by Carcanet in January. I've been working at it for almost 30 years: love poems, elegies, lamentations, jokes... The aim is "all killer no filler". Please buy it if you can. Here's Andrew Latimer's brilliant cover:
October 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Sometimes good things do come to those who wait.
I have read a version in ts, and think this will come to be seen as one of the significant debuts of the decade. @carcanet.bsky.social throws another 180.
And yes, the cover looks excellent.
I have read a version in ts, and think this will come to be seen as one of the significant debuts of the decade. @carcanet.bsky.social throws another 180.
And yes, the cover looks excellent.
This is really fascinating - on rewilding and Wolves in Europe rewilding.org/episode-158-...
Episode 158: Europe’s Big Three - Wolves, Bears, Lynx. Part 1: The Wolf's Uneasy Return to Germany
Happy Wolf Awareness Week! Julius Purcell discovered his interest in audio while training as a journalist in the Middle East. He later worked as a depu
rewilding.org
October 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
This is really fascinating - on rewilding and Wolves in Europe rewilding.org/episode-158-...
I'm thrilled to say that my collection "Dirt Rich" will be published by Carcanet in January. I've been working at it for almost 30 years: love poems, elegies, lamentations, jokes... The aim is "all killer no filler". Please buy it if you can. Here's Andrew Latimer's brilliant cover:
October 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I'm thrilled to say that my collection "Dirt Rich" will be published by Carcanet in January. I've been working at it for almost 30 years: love poems, elegies, lamentations, jokes... The aim is "all killer no filler". Please buy it if you can. Here's Andrew Latimer's brilliant cover:
I had the privilege of spending some time with Seamus Heaney over the last week... www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Seamus Heaney kept up a staggeringly high strike rate of good poems
The Poems of Seamus Heaney, collected together in one volume for the first time, is a record of nearly 60 years of excellence
www.thetimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I had the privilege of spending some time with Seamus Heaney over the last week... www.thetimes.com/culture/book...