I really loved @IanHumphWriter's No Net Ensnares Me anthology, and Brontë Studies kindly let me whang on about it for a bit.
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Really enjoying Sean Ashton's wry, witty collection, Sampler. Hard to capture the offbeat, endearingly arch tone with a single poem, but I liked this one.
Eating chocolate in the style of I. A. Richards.
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Can't help but feel this journalist is wasted in Royal correspondence...
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Submissions are now OPEN for new poems until midnight on Sunday 19th October.
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Just this, really:
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And I share this cheerfully, as someone with all The Smiths' CDs in the glovebox.
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“Barometric pressure is the leading cause of tears.” A poem by Nancy Lee.

ALT Of Factual Interest BY NANCY LEE Parisians prescribe ice baths for uncertainty. Barometric pressure is the leading cause of tears. Each time a doctor rubs her nose, a bundle of bad news is born. Amniotic fluid rises with the stock market. The butcher uses a sharper knife for sinew than for bone. Snails without their shells die of dread before exposure. Miscarriage on Friday means you still host Sunday brunch. Fish can live on land if they'd just put their minds to it. To morcellate your uterus the surgeon will use a hand blender. A seed germinates in a songbird's mouth only if the bird stops singing.
I know it's pumpkin season, but other squash are available:
We're so excited to bring you Issue Five of The Marrow this Sunday 5 October, with a fabulous array of poems from all over the world waiting to dazzle you.
#newpoetry #poetryjournal #newissue #issuefive #themarrowpoetry #Auspoetry
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Sonnet for Perimenopause - Victoria Spires @vic_spires
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Am heading south for the winter / the @Poetry_London readings. Honk if you like, etc etc.
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This New England kind of love reminds me
of the potted chrysanthemum my husband
gave me.
- Linda Gregg, "Part of Me Wanting Everything to Live"
Strong hunch that @Audrey_Molloy's forthcoming book is going to be brilliant.
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The Reader and the Poem: ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ —
Dissecting a poem as a group
5 November 2025
Faber, The Bindery, Live, £5
Over a lunch hour, Faber’s poetry editor, Lavinia Greenlaw, will guide you through a reading of one of our best-known poems.
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‘Notes on Burials’ has received SOME praise lately, from Alice Kate Mullen in the @poetrybooksoc Autumn Bulletin, and from @chickenbex on the eche poetry website. Utterly grateful for all the kindness! 🙇🏻
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In a state of grateful overwhelm about this, to be honest. Just the biggest thanks to @Poetry_London and to @VKennefick. It means such a lot to be read by people I admire so hugely.
Lastly, it is an absolute privilege to announce that the winner of the 2025 Poetry London Prize is Rachel Curzon (@Rachel__Curzon) for her poem ‘There are enough poems about birds, and here is another one’
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***New things coming to Poetry London soon***
Many thanks to the Hawthornden Foundation and all who support the magazine.
Challenge accepted.
Manchester Art Gallery part of scheme encouraging children to be as loud as they wish. Art Fund initiative at more than 20 museums and galleries across UK. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnvm…





























