We can now show off the cover for @gitaralleigh.bsky.social's new pamphlet, empirical! Which will be published by us in March of this year 🎉
January 9, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Exciting! #ukpoets
Announcing the braag 2025-6 line up in our most recent newsletter! .... app.beehiiv.com/posts/46fac6...
September 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Exciting! #ukpoets
My latest for @theguardian.com; I interviewed the winner of this year's TS Eliot prize, Peter Gizzi: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
‘There’s a majesty to grief’: TS Eliot poetry prize winner Peter Gizzi
The American writer won the prestigious prize for Fierce Elegy, a collection informed by the deaths of his family members. He explains why poetry is like friendship – and why he loves small words
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
January 7, 2025 at 8:37 AM
“Five new poetry collections, each with their own magic.”
Roger McGough reveals the shortlist for #CLiPPA2025, the year’s best new #poetry for children. Find out more about the shortlisted collections & #teachers, sign up for @theclpe.bsky.social Shadowing now!
booksforkeeps.co.uk/roger-mcgoug...
Roger McGough reveals the shortlist for #CLiPPA2025, the year’s best new #poetry for children. Find out more about the shortlisted collections & #teachers, sign up for @theclpe.bsky.social Shadowing now!
booksforkeeps.co.uk/roger-mcgoug...
April 24, 2025 at 2:17 AM
March 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
So pleased to have a new poem in this beautiful new issue of @badlilies.bsky.social alongside many poetry superstars!!!
#ukpoets
#ukpoets
OUT NOW. Issue Twenty-One: Long-limbed Darlings badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-1
Issue twenty-one — Bad Lilies
badlilies.uk
July 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
So pleased to have a new poem in this beautiful new issue of @badlilies.bsky.social alongside many poetry superstars!!!
#ukpoets
#ukpoets
Super thrilled at this lovely news!! My children’s poetry collection has been shortlisted by the wonderful @theemmapress.bsky.social
🥰 #ukpoets #poetrysky #kidlituk #ukkidlit
🥰 #ukpoets #poetrysky #kidlituk #ukkidlit
Announcing the Longlisted and Shortlisted proposals from our August 2025 submissions call out! 📣
Thank you to all the writers for trusting us with your work!🩷
Read more about our Longlisted and Shortlisted titles here: buff.ly/YaoW7n9
Thank you to all the writers for trusting us with your work!🩷
Read more about our Longlisted and Shortlisted titles here: buff.ly/YaoW7n9
January 14, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Super thrilled at this lovely news!! My children’s poetry collection has been shortlisted by the wonderful @theemmapress.bsky.social
🥰 #ukpoets #poetrysky #kidlituk #ukkidlit
🥰 #ukpoets #poetrysky #kidlituk #ukkidlit
Such a joy to be part of this amazing project bringing poetry into primary schools!!
#poetrysky #ukpoets #kidlituk #ukkidlit
#poetrysky #ukpoets #kidlituk #ukkidlit
This weekend, we welcomed six brilliant poets to the Poetry Café for two days of training ahead of their visits to schools as part of A New Direction's Primary Arts programme.
Find out more about The Poetry Society's work with children and young people at poetrysociety.org.uk/education.
Find out more about The Poetry Society's work with children and young people at poetrysociety.org.uk/education.
January 16, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Such a joy to be part of this amazing project bringing poetry into primary schools!!
#poetrysky #ukpoets #kidlituk #ukkidlit
#poetrysky #ukpoets #kidlituk #ukkidlit
Ana Sampson: Legendary Poems - And Permission to Play in Them childrenspoetrysummit.com/2025/02/27/a...
Ana Sampson: Legendary Poems – And Permission to Play in Them
A legend is a story that contains – or was believed to contain – a grain of truth. So it might be a story about a person who really existed: a queen, an outlaw, an acrobat, a saint. Or it might be …
childrenspoetrysummit.com
March 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
October 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I just got home to an email accepting a poem, after a series of rejections in the last few days 🌞
#TinyJoys
#Poetry #UKPoets #Declinometer
#TinyJoys
#Poetry #UKPoets #Declinometer
March 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I just got home to an email accepting a poem, after a series of rejections in the last few days 🌞
#TinyJoys
#Poetry #UKPoets #Declinometer
#TinyJoys
#Poetry #UKPoets #Declinometer
'a tour that skirts the flames of history in a relaxed almost self-effacing manner.' - Carol Rumens, on Vidyan Ravinthiran's @forwardprizes.bsky.social shortlisted third collection Avidyā.
'Autumn (after John Keats)' is Poem of the Week in @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
'Autumn (after John Keats)' is Poem of the Week in @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Poem of the week: Autumn by Vidyan Ravinthiran
Keats’s famous ode speaks across time and space to a 21st-century Sri Lankan, whose turbulent history catches on its mellow mood
www.theguardian.com
August 18, 2025 at 7:28 AM
So pleased to have a poem that I wrote after a long hiatus, published among the lilies!
#ukpoets #poetrysky
#ukpoets #poetrysky
'The Lammergeier’s Shadow' by @gitaralleigh.bsky.social badlilies.uk/gita-ralleigh-1
July 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
So pleased to have a poem that I wrote after a long hiatus, published among the lilies!
#ukpoets #poetrysky
#ukpoets #poetrysky
‘Effervescent, scintillating, riveting!’ Congratulations Colette Hiller, named winner of the #CLiPPA2025 at a typically boisterous ceremony attended by 800 very excited children. Congrats to all the shortlisted poets & to the young performers @theclpe.bsky.social
booksforkeeps.co.uk/effervescent...
booksforkeeps.co.uk/effervescent...
June 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Next Generation Poets is BACK!
Founded in 1994 to champion the 20 best debut UK and Irish poets of the decade. We're delighted to be a youth programme partner.
Submissions are now open, closing on 14 August at 5pm.
To enter, visit: www.poetrybooks.co.uk/pages/next-g...
#NextGenerationPoets
Founded in 1994 to champion the 20 best debut UK and Irish poets of the decade. We're delighted to be a youth programme partner.
Submissions are now open, closing on 14 August at 5pm.
To enter, visit: www.poetrybooks.co.uk/pages/next-g...
#NextGenerationPoets
July 29, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Very excited to be part of the @thebraag.bsky.social family and to be edited by the amazing @kymdeyn.bsky.social !! #poetrysky #ukpoets
Gita's work is so astonishly gorgeous you all have to go and pre-order her new book!!
Sharing this absolutely extraordinary and unfortunately very relevant ghazal by @gitaralleigh.bsky.social which features in her upcoming pamphlet, Empirical, published by us here at The Braag.
March 10, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Very excited to be part of the @thebraag.bsky.social family and to be edited by the amazing @kymdeyn.bsky.social !! #poetrysky #ukpoets
There are still a few tickets left for our workshop #conversingwiththeghazal
on Tuesday 29th September 6-8 at the Club for Acts & Actors! Participants are invited to join the book launch for #Empirical afterwards.
Booking link here: www.tickettailor.com/events/sindh...
#UKPoets #PoetrySky
on Tuesday 29th September 6-8 at the Club for Acts & Actors! Participants are invited to join the book launch for #Empirical afterwards.
Booking link here: www.tickettailor.com/events/sindh...
#UKPoets #PoetrySky
September 20, 2026 at 7:36 AM
There are still a few tickets left for our workshop #conversingwiththeghazal
on Tuesday 29th September 6-8 at the Club for Acts & Actors! Participants are invited to join the book launch for #Empirical afterwards.
Booking link here: www.tickettailor.com/events/sindh...
#UKPoets #PoetrySky
on Tuesday 29th September 6-8 at the Club for Acts & Actors! Participants are invited to join the book launch for #Empirical afterwards.
Booking link here: www.tickettailor.com/events/sindh...
#UKPoets #PoetrySky
It's National Poetry Day! We'll be celebrating all day - stay tuned to our socials so you don't miss a thing 👀🎉
Wherever you are, The Poetry Society wishes you a very happy National Poetry Day in the company of poetry.
Wherever you are, The Poetry Society wishes you a very happy National Poetry Day in the company of poetry.
October 2, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Come and join us for this free New Year’s online reading & open mic! Link to register in the thread below. #healthhumanities #poetryasmedicine #ukpoets #academicsky
#medicsky
#medicsky
FEATURED POET: GITA RALLEIGH
‘Doctors can be poets too’ 14/1/25
Gita is a poet, writer & doctor born to Indian immigrant parents in London.
She teaches creative writing to science undergraduates at Imperial College & has an MA in Creative Writing and an MSc in Medical Humanities.
‘Doctors can be poets too’ 14/1/25
Gita is a poet, writer & doctor born to Indian immigrant parents in London.
She teaches creative writing to science undergraduates at Imperial College & has an MA in Creative Writing and an MSc in Medical Humanities.
December 18, 2024 at 8:47 AM
Come and join us for this free New Year’s online reading & open mic! Link to register in the thread below. #healthhumanities #poetryasmedicine #ukpoets #academicsky
#medicsky
#medicsky
In a mixed environment for small press publishing, these finalists stepped up and made themselves big, says Philip Jones✨
See the thread for our wonderful Small Press of the Year Finalists👇 #BritishBookAwards #Nibbies #BookSky
See the thread for our wonderful Small Press of the Year Finalists👇 #BritishBookAwards #Nibbies #BookSky
February 19, 2025 at 11:19 AM
2 poetry #improvisation workshops around #NationalPoetryDay on 10 and 24 Oct at @omnibustheatre.bsky.social (Clapham Common), 7.15–8.45pm
More info & tickets from www.tickettailor.com/events/zeroq...
@nationalpoetryday #play #NPD2025 #PlayWithPoetry #poetryimprov
More info & tickets from www.tickettailor.com/events/zeroq...
@nationalpoetryday #play #NPD2025 #PlayWithPoetry #poetryimprov
September 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Great round up of new poetry by @betarish.bsky.social #ukpoets
My latest for @theguardian.com; very fortunate to look at new books by Sarah Howe, Joelle Taylor, Nikita Gill, Phoebe Giannisi, and the return of Tom Paulin: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
The best recent poetry – review roundup
Namanlagh by Tom Paulin; Foretokens by Sarah Howe; Maryville by Joelle Taylor; Hekate by Nikita Gill; Goatsong by Phoebe Giannisi
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Great round up of new poetry by @betarish.bsky.social #ukpoets
I’ve always loved dandelions - such happy flowers! Had a mini-ode in the last issue of children’s poetry mag Tyger Tyger:
#ukkidlit #kidlituk #ukpoets #poetrysky
tygertyger.net/dandelion-by...
#ukkidlit #kidlituk #ukpoets #poetrysky
tygertyger.net/dandelion-by...
April 15, 2026 at 8:13 AM
I’ve always loved dandelions - such happy flowers! Had a mini-ode in the last issue of children’s poetry mag Tyger Tyger:
#ukkidlit #kidlituk #ukpoets #poetrysky
tygertyger.net/dandelion-by...
#ukkidlit #kidlituk #ukpoets #poetrysky
tygertyger.net/dandelion-by...