Deryn Rees-Jones

Sophie Oliver’s new book What the Dresses Know examines how modernist women used clothes to think through the issues of the modern world. She'll be at @hatchards.bsky.social Piccadilly 2nd Nov. Read her @literarylistings.bsky.social interview here: literarylistingslondon.substack.com/p/10-questio...

“Today's poem speaks to how we all see the world — and our lives — with completely unique eyes. With a vision colored by our own experiences,” Maggie shares in today's encore episode. Read Blue by Jodie Hollander and our full episode transcript: bit.ly/3UgTR7U 📖: @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social

We’re spotlighting our third 2027 Pavilion Poetry collection today, Before & After the Night by Jemma Borg. With wit, intellectual energy and unflinching honesty, Jemma Borg’s latest collection does not advocate false positivity but is a call to remain alive in a beautiful world under threat.

Don Mee Choi is touring the UK in November with her new book Freely Frayed @andotherstories.bsky.social – doing events in Bristol, Glasgow, Todmorden and London. She is also appearing with Naush Sabah & Charlotte van den Broek at Aldeburgh: www.andotherstories.org/events/don-m...

Thank god this book is getting reviewed at last - it is astonishing. I was very pleased to endorse the fine English translation by Sophie Collins: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...

Now seems like a perfect time to order some of our recent collections and support the charity Bookbanks plus independent bookselling with @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social... Check out our collections on the LUP page: uk.bookshop.org/shop/liverpo...

Question to the Creatures by Martha Sprackland is now available to preorder via the LUP website: bit.ly/QttCMS

Last week, we were pleased to announce our 2027 Pavilion Poetry collections. Today we're sharing a little more about Martha Sprackland's new title, Question to the Creatures. This is a formidable second collection of doubt, darkness and attention, illuminated by torchlight, candleglow and wildfire.

As we approach the colder months, read Jodie Hollander's "Late September" in the @newyorker.com to get you into the autumnal spirit: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Tsvetaeva ‘27 by Sasha Dugdale is now available to preorder via the LUP website: bit.ly/Tsv27SD

Learn more about Alice's recent Pavilion Poetry collection on our website: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

An interesting article and featured poem from Alice Miller, author of Here & Thereafter, on @newsroom.co.nz. newsroom.co.nz/2026/10/14/a...

I’m doing a talk and reading about Tsvetaeva’s poems of 1927 on Thursday 3 December in Paris. www.eventbrite.fr/e/1927-marin...

Today, we're highlighting another of our 2027 Pavilion Poetry titles, Sasha Dugdale's Tsvetaeva ‘27. This publication features new translations of poems by Marina Tsvetaeva and Rainer Maria Rilke, along with an accompanying creative essay.

On Radio 4's Free Thinking, guests including author and critic Sophie Oliver explore how ideas developed by feminist historians have transformed our understanding of the past. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Sophie's book, 'What the dresses know', is out next month. #booksky

Join author Sophie Oliver as she discusses her brilliant new book with the writer and journalist, Sian Norris, at @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social in #Bristol. A fascinating examaination of the modernist movement through women's clothing. Tickets: www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/glo... #booksky

The wonderful @mwoodrowwriter.bsky.social wrote an insightful review of Holly Pester's collection, Cafes, published by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social, and you can read it now over on our #Substack: thewingedmoon.substack.com/p/made-of-pu... #PoetryCommunity #PoetryReview

Over the summer #HollyPester and I began an exchange of letters about cafes and hotels...which brought huge pleasure …’Cafes’ is a wonderful book. Here we talk about writing and space, Brief Encounters, and Time… #PoetryLondon poetrylondon.substack.com/p/public-int...

After Rilke’s sudden death at the end of 1926, Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva wrote two works addressed to Rilke that sit among the great European modernist poems. You can read my translations of them and a creative essay in Tsvetaeva ‘27 @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social

It’s always a joy to announce our books each year. And here’s to all that is ahead! @livunipress.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

This #NationalPoetryDay, we're thrilled to announce our 2027 collections. Martha Sprackland's Question to the Creatures Sasha Dugdale's Tsvetaeva '27 Jemma Borg's Before & After the Night The collections publish in spring and are now available to preorder on our website: bit.ly/pavilionpoetry

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A huge congratulations to our Pavilion poet Theresa Muñoz whose collection Archivum has been shortlisted for this year’s Derek Walcott Prize! Well done to all of those who have been shortlisted. Find out more: arrowsmithpress.com/walcott @munozpoems.bsky.social

A fascinating conversation between Jennifer Lee Tsai and @natlinhbolderston.bsky.social features online @poetrylondon.bsky.social. They were discussing the connections between their debut collections Melete and Divinations on Survival (@livunipress.bsky.social). poetrylondon.co.uk/communing-wi...

A beautiful poem for a summer afternoon. Wilder by Jemma Borg is available on our website: bit.ly/PPWilder

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Thinking about war and pastoral in July – a while ago I wrote a response to ‘As the Team’s Head-Brass’ by Edward Thomas. It is based on an encounter I had as I walked the Ridgeway one summer: www.bathmagg.com/sashadugdale/

In this high-concept hybrid work, Deryn Rees-Jones summons a vivid fever dream of Paris, a city simultaneously real and mythologised, where place is sodden with memory and time seems to exist all at once

Congratulations to Judith Palmer, Director of The Poetry Society, for her award of The RSL Benson Medal. Richly deserved !

I am hosting the launch of @leeannequinn.bsky.social new @carcanet.bsky.social collection on 7 July. Please sign up as this is a really superb book of poems and you will kick yourself later for missing its name day! www.carcanet.co.uk/events/lands...

Here is @leeannequinn.bsky.social writing about her new @carcanet.bsky.social collection Landscape with Question and how it draws together personal memory into meditations on image, time and space carcanet.substack.com/p/landscape-...

Always great to see the fantastic work the #EnglishAssociation does @englishassociation.bsky.social and today to celebrate the winner of the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. Huge congratulations to Susannah Dickey, this year’s winner, for ‘Isdal’

Really pleased that my first full collection is being published by @serenbooks.bsky.social and will be out next month. More details and preorders on the Seren website: www.serenbooks.com/book/menager... #MenagerieStreet #Thrutopia #Thrutopoetry

I've introduced some new mentoring packages, as of Spring 2026. Get in touch for more info: rebeccagoss.wordpress.com/tutoring/

Thank you @jonathansellis.bsky.social and all the organisers and participants for a great conference on postcards, poetry and aesthetics.. with a great deal of #ElizabethBishop too!

On Monday I’m talking about Rilke with Karen Leeder, a brilliant & generous translator and thinker. We’ll be talking about correspondences between poets and how generative they can be (I’m working on Tsvetaeva’s poems addressed to Rilke): www.hausfuerpoesie.org/en/program/i...

This news has shocked me to the core. I have been carrying around a proof of Marsman’s recent ‘On Another Planet They Can Save Me’ like a talisman since I read it. ‘Life is suffering, and more importantly, suffering is Life!’

Deeply sad to hear news that Lieke Marsman died yesterday: we had the privilege of publishing @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social ‘The Following Scan will Last Five Minutes’, trans. Sophie Collins. Lieke was a force of intellect and brilliance. I’m thinking of those close to her today #LiekeMarsman

I am so grateful to Don Mee Choi, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Sasha Dugdale, & Deryn Rees-Jones for spending time with Landscape with Question & giving these incredible endorsements. ❤️ Landscape with Question is published next month by @carcanet.bsky.social www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017561...

Congratulations to both Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social & Laura Wainwright who have been shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2026 in the Poetry Category! You can lend them your support by voting in the Nation.Cymru People's Choice Award now nation.cymru/culture/vote...! #WBOTY2026

Poets get ready... our next submission window for full poetry collections will be reopening on Friday 1 May for 2 weeks! We’ll share more details of exactly what we’re looking for on our submissions page when the window opens so keep an eye out here www.serenbooks.com/submissions/

Tickets are still available for our evening of discussion and readings from Blake Morrison and Sinéad Morrissey. These award-winning writers will be discussing the different ways poetry and memoir approach truth-telling. Grab your tickets before they're gone at the link in our bio.

I could no more believe the sap insensible than I believe the dead are broken branches, and all their self-songs censored or extinguished. Carol Rumens (1944-2026) (‘Nant y Garth’ from ‘Bezdelki’, 2018, The Emma Press - winner of the Michael Marks Award)