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Congratulations! Jeremy Clarke’s STONE HOURS has been shortlisted for the 2025 Nelson Ball Prize, awarded annually to a publication by a Canadian poet, and published in Canada, that displays “poetry of observation.” #poetry #canlit

Of all the days of the year, why not begin on St Agnes Day? Porphyro was not as eager to slip into my room as I might have hoped, but that’s hardly Keats’s fault. So I dreamed of a fox, “a fire demon hell had coughed up, / panting a laugh” courtesy of Matthew Francis’s THE GREEN MONTH (Faber, 2025).