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Bloodaxe Books, Britain's leading international poetry publisher.
Hexham, Northumberland, UK
Joined February 2010
RT @VervePoetryFest: Saturday is packed with poetry featuring; Poetry Society Young Poets Open Mic, Magma Matters: Past, Present & Future,…
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This year’s Verve Poetry Festival takes place in Birmingham and online this week, 13 - 16 Feb. Workshops & readings from @DzifaBenson, @courtneyconrad_, @hannahlowepoet & @PoetLyall More details and booking here:
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RT @RomanianAuthors: 📚🗣️ #RAErecommmends: the month’s new translations from @BloodaxeBooks, signed by Ana Blandiana, Krisztina Tóth & Charl…
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Join us tomorrow at 7pm GMT on our YouTube channel for live readings and discussion from our three February authors and their translators: Available to watch live or later via this link.
Our next online event will be our February launch reading with Ana Blandiana, Krisztina Tóth, Charlotte Van den Broeck and their translators Paul Scott Derrick, Viorica Patea, George Szirtes & David Colmer. Wed 12 Feb, 7pm GMT Sign up for reminder emails:
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RT @iccwriting: Join us for an evening of fine poetry with @kirstennorrie and @UttaranDasGupta upstairs at The Woodman pub in Birmingham on…
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RT @jane_janeclarke: Grateful to my mother who continues to inspire my writing - this poem on the @BrinkerhoffPoem website is the opening p…
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RT @PoetLyall: Good morning! I'm going to be speaking about my role as Reviews Editor for @magmapoetry THIS Saturday, 15th February @VerveP…
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'On mute', a 'poem of considered observation' from @Idharker's new collection #ShadowReader, is featured as Steve Whitaker's Poem of the Week in @TheYorksTimes.
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RT @csmithpoet: So excited to invite you to our next ‘Poetry in Wembley’ event on World Book Day! We are thrilled to have three fantastic…
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RT @VervePoetryFest: 1 WEEK TO GO! 48 POETS + 12 selected @IAmLoudPro Slam Poets 16 WORKSHOPS 14 POETRY EVENTS Lovely stuff x https…
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February news: New books from @Ana_Blandiana, #KrisztinaTóth & #CharlotteVandenBroeck; online launch Wed 12 Feb, @NiallCPoetry & #DavidConstantine on prize longlists; new reviews & radio features; remembering #MichaelLongley & #EstherJansma
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RT @pascalepoet: Writing the Animal – my zoom workshop for the fabulous @VervePoetryFest on 18 March, book here:
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RT @cathdrake: Join a blissful haiku and tenku workshop with Kings Gold Medal for Poetry winner 2024 @george_szirtes @BloodaxeBooks (tenku…
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We were very sorry to hear that poet and machinist Fred Voss, had died, aged 72, after contracting Covid. Peter Raynard pays tribute here:
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Delighted that @NiallCPoetry has been longlisted for the @HighlandBkPrize 2024 for his third poetry collection, The Island in the Sound.
ICYMI 📣Highland Book Prize 2024 Longlist Announced📣 Congratulations to all the authors and publishers! Look out for news coming soon on our Longlist Event Series, supported by the William Grant Foundation, celebrating each of the twelve titles 🎉📚
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RT @poetryireland: 📣 Call for nominations! The Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust invites nominations for the prestigious Ireland Professor of…
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RT @PoetLyall: Whether you're a Gal/Pal/or Val person, come and join me for a fantastic Soundscape Workshop @VervePoetryFest Sunday 16th Fe…
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'These wide-ranging, droll poems always seem to come back to the knotty discomforts of a changing self existing within a broken world' – @RebTamas, @guardian, on Hungarian poet Krisztina Tóth's retrospective My Secret Life, translated by @george_szirtes.
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My Secret Life: Selected Poems by Krisztina Tóth, translated from Hungarian by @george_szirtes, has won an @englishpen #PENTranslates award. My Secret Life is published this month by @BloodaxeBooks.
We’re delighted to announce that 19 titles from 17 regions and 13 languages have won #PENTranslates awards. They include, for the first time, a title from Somaliland. Discover the winners ⬇️
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