Millie Guille
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🚨 Job News 🚨
After two years in Editorial at
@BloomsburyBooks
, I am moving on!
I’m so excited to start this new chapter of my publishing career (more details on this in September), & my last day at Bloomsbury will be August 28th 📕 📚 📓
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I always read this poem by June Jordan on New Year’s Eve 🤍
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🚨 Poetry Giveaway 🚨
Like this tweet if you fancy a copy of Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic and Dancing In Odessa ✨ I’ll randomly select the winner in 24 hours and then mail these gems out! 📮
#publishing
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Extremely grateful for the poetry and publishing community in 2022 💫 This year I became Assistant Editor
@BloomsburyBooks
and have been blessed with wonderful friends and new opportunities. V excited for 2023! 🥂
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Yeah sex is cool but have you ever had the new Rooney proof casually waiting for you on your desk?
#BWWAY
🔥
Dropping September 7th...
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Beyond thrilled to announce that my poem THE BEAUTY HERE IS ALMOST UNBEARABLE placed third in the
@magmapoetry
Editor’s Prize competition! 💫 Thanks to the judges and all those involved behind the scenes!
Congratulations to all the winners and commended poets in the
@magmapoetry
2023/24 Poetry Competition. You can read the results here with more news about a celebratory event to come..
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Very pleased to say I was longlisted for the 2023
@Mslexia
Poetry Competition, judged by Fiona Benson 💜 Congrats to the winners! ✨
It's time to announce the winners of our 2023 Poetry Competition! 🎉
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✨ Publishing Announcement ✨
After three years working with the gorgeous humans
@FaberBooks
, I’m thrilled to announce that in July I’ll be joining the
@MethuenDrama
team at Bloomsbury as Assistant Editor 🤩
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Next up on the
@BloomsburyBooks
poetry list is the astounding debut from
@azemezi
CONTENT WARNING: EVERYTHING, publishing 16th Feb. With cover artwork by
@DawnOkoro
, this is one of the books of the season ❤️🔥
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‘Even sleep is a prayer, Lord’
Published last month by
@FaberBooks
, Dancing in Odessa—
@ilya_poet
’s debut collection— is a sensation 🔥
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Butcher’s Dog is one of the best print magazines on the UK poetry scene, and
@_dodo
is an incredible editor. I am genuinely baffled as to why anyone would choose cynicism over admiration when it comes to the output and workings of such a vital magazine
@ButchersDogMag
We received 3,179 submissions for issue 20. 254 titles were longlisted (less than 10%) and 24 poets have been selected to be printed in the magazine.
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ANTHONY JOSEPH WON THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE!! ANTHONY JOSEPH WON THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE!! 🤩🤩🤩 So proud to have his incredible Sonnets for Albert on the
@BloomsburyBooks
Poetry List 🔥 CHAMPAGNE FOR EVERYONE 🥂
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Over the moon to have finished my MSt in Creative Writing
@OxfordConted
with a Distinction! Roll on graduation in March 🎓🎉
#postgradlife
#poetry
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2024 sees the publication of the 10th title in the Bloomsbury Poetry series! The UK edition of
@mafiasafia
’s GIRLS THAT NEVER DIE will be published on 1st February, and the US edition has received praise from Ilya Kaminsky, Roxane Gay, and Tracy K. Smith 💫 (1/2)
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Three years on from her passing,
@BloomsburyBooks
are reissuing five of Nawal El Saadawi’s classic works 🤍 With beautiful new covers and new forwards, these editions are perfect for readers coming to her work for the first time. Out on the 27th June 💫
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Just look at this new edition of Toni Morrison’s play DESDEMONA, forthcoming in the
@MethuenDrama
Modern Classics series 💜 An intimate reimagining of the fourth act of Shakespeare’s Othello…
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The sun came out for the arrival of the new
@magmapoetry
, which features my poem to close the issue 🌞 Thanks again to the editors for choosing my poem as one of the winners of this year’s competition!
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A belated World Poetry Day post, celebrating the eleven titles in the Bloomsbury Books Poetry List! With Kayo Chingonyi at the helm, the second half of 2024 is going to be 🔥
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Matthew Hollis leaves Faber— which means that one of the most high-profile jobs in British poetry is up for grabs 🚨
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My second poem with
@BadLilies
, ‘It Wasn’t Making Love’, is out now in Issue 16! 🌸 For those brave souls dating in London, this is for you…
Thanks again to
@BadLilies
for including two of my poems in their October issue! 🌸 Sonnet for Stockings on a One-Night Stand, and It Wasn’t Making Love, lie within…
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I have a poem in Issue Seven of
@propelmagazine
💙 Out tomorrow!
🔵 Propel Issue Seven is OUT TOMORROW! 🔵
> Edited by
@Pascalepoet
, featuring 20 new poems by 20 poets yet to publish a first collection:
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Finished copies have landed at
@BloomsburyBooks
HQ 😍
CONTENT WARNING: EVERYTHING by
@azemezi
publishes in 1 week! Obsessed with
@DawnOkoro
’s cover artwork ✨
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She’s here 😍 Thrilled to finally get my hands on a copy of The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison— the most substantial collection of critical essays on Morrison’s work since her death in 2019
@BloomsburyAcad
🤍
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An honour (read: personal demand) to adorn the
@BloomsburyBooks
door with the holiday wreath 😍
#publishing
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Happy World Poetry Day 😍 The
@BloomsburyBooks
Poetry List launched last April under Kayo Chingonyi, and in its first year has published a
@tseliotprize
winner 💫 So excited for the future of this fantastic list which currently sits at five titles, with a stellar 2023 line-up 👀
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Had a whale of a time at the
@BloomsburyBooks
Christmas Party last night at the Natural History Museum, celebrating 35 years of Bloomsbury 🥂 Here’s to continuing editorial life in 2023!
#Publishing
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Happy publication day to the incomparable
@azemezi
for the UK edition of their debut poetry collection CONTENT WARNING: EVERYTHING ❤️🔥 With gorgeous cover artwork by
@DawnOkoro
, this is the latest instalment in
@BloomsburyBooks
’ poetry list, curated by Kayo Chingonyi
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Obsessed with the new
@MethuenDrama
Modern Classics design 💅 The first batch of titles below, publishing this summer!
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A beautiful evening celebrating the publication of Rachael Allen’s GOD COMPLEX
@LRBbookshop
last night, with Lucy Mercer 💫 Out now with
@FaberBooks
!
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Two years to the day since I graduated from
@UniofOxford
with a Distinction in Creative Writing with these absolute beauties ✨🎓 Take me back!
@OxfordConted
@OxMst
@KelloggOx
#Poetry
#Publishing
#Oxford
🎈📚
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Deadline to apply to be Faber’s new Poetry Editor is July 9th 🚨 Who will throw their hat in the ring? Bookseller link for details here:
Matthew Hollis leaves Faber— which means that one of the most high-profile jobs in British poetry is up for grabs 🚨
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‘later / when he put his tongue / down my throat / I gave it back’
@AriaEipe
’s Auguries of a Minor God is THE poetic debut of the summer ☀️Publishing July 1st, pre-order a copy from your local Indie bookstore now!
📖
@FaberBooks
📖
@Indies_Alliance
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It was a privilege to hear Claudia Rankine and
@CalebFemi_
so intimately and reverentially discuss each other’s work last night at
@Foyles
Charing Cross ✨ Especially Claudia saying if she was to ever get a tattoo, it would be of Caleb’s poetry… 🔥
@PenguinUKBooks
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Had a joyous afternoon
@FaberBooks
with
@maxjohnporter
, who powered through the signing of his new book like the mustard-wearing champion he is
#TheDeathOfFrancisBacon
📚 ✨
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HAPPY ANNE CARSON DAY!! 🦊
'This is a collection of writings about different things. The pieces are not linked. That's why I've called them "wrong".'
Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years, WRONG NORMA, is out today.
'She pinpoints the collision of oracle and anachronism' TEJU COLE
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Finished copies are IN and they are 🔥 Sanah Ahsan’s stunning collection publishes in exactly 2 weeks, and it is going to be one of the debuts of the year. Pre-order a copy if you haven’t already, and prepare yourself for the next jewel in the
@BloomsburyBooks
poetry list
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Next up on the
@BloomsburyBooks
Poetry List is the UK publication of CUSTOMS, the devastating second collection by Solmaz Sharif 💙 Publishing April 27th!
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My first
@LondonBookFair
as Assistant Editor, and the
@BloomsburyBooks
stand is looking gorgeous 🙌 Especially the display case feat. the Bloomsbury Poetry list (Music For The Dead And Resurrected just out of shot) 📚
#LBF2023
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The winner of the 30th
@tseliotprize
is
@jallenpaisant
with his incredible collection SELF-PORTRAIT AS OTHELLO 🔥 Congratulations Jason &
@Carcanet
!
The winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2023 is Jason Allen-Paisant, for Self-Portrait as Othello!
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Thanks again to
@pascalepoet
for including my poem AUBURN in
@propelmagazine
💙 And thanks to
@rachelnalong
, whose Red Sky session inspired this poem a year or so ago ✨
'And the leaves will fall, or they won’t
and the bathers drown, or don’t
and the sun will spread her hips in the sky'
— from
@MillieGuille
's 'Auburn' in Propel 7 edited by
@pascalepoet
and out now >>
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🚨 London publishing people! I’m conducting research into food poverty in publishing, and would really appreciate it if you could answer the anonymous polls in the thread below. Please RT so that this can reach as many London publishing staff as possible 🙏
#publishingsalaries
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A dream to have two poems in the latest edition of
@BadLilies
🌸 Thanks to
@KathrynGray
&
@neilsonandrew
for curating such a beautiful issue! London dating escapades documented within…
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The 11th title in the Bloomsbury Poetry series is Sanah Ahsan’s collection I CANNOT BE GOOD UNTIL YOU SAY IT 🔥 Sanah won the
@OutSpokenLDN
Poetry Performance Prize, and this phenomenal debut will be published 14th March!
Just over two months until the release of I cannot be good until you say it, Sanah Ahsan's debut poetry collection!
Pre-order your copy here:
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Thanks
@magmapoetry
for a beautiful night at the 2023/24 Poetry Competition award ceremony & readings! Amazing to meet the judges
@IsabelleBaafi
,
@cherylmoskowitz
,
@LisaDMKelly
&
@RaymondAntrobus
as well as the other prize winners 🏆 💫
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A phenomenal light-show
@TowerOfLondon
this evening 🤩 Thanks
@PoetrySociety
for putting this on my radar!
#Poetry
#AboutUs2022
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In exactly six weeks,
@tseliotprize
winning poet Anthony Joseph’s latest collection PRECIOUS AND IMPOSSIBLE: Selected Poems, will be published on the
@BloomsburyBooks
poetry list!
Out 26th September ❤️🔥
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Thanks to the
@publishing_post
for having me as Issue 19’s Industry Insights gal ✨ Want to know more about Sales at Faber? Or about my many publishing rejections? Or the
@Indies_Alliance
? ⬇️ 📚 💰 ⬇️
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A gorgeous proof copy of Sanah Ahsan’s debut poetry collection I CANNOT BE GOOD UNTIL YOU SAY IT 🔥 Out with
@BloomsburyBooks
on March 14th!
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Super excited for the
@tseliotprize
readings tonight
@litsouthbank
📚 Proud to be repping
@BloomsburyBooks
, with the sensational
@adjoseph
on the shortlist with SONNETS FOR ALBERT 🔥 The poetry countdown begins…
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Regardless of who wins the
@tseliotprize
this evening, these three collections contain some of the most honest, innovative and breathtaking poetry published in the UK.
@YomiSode
,
@victoriaadukwei
, &
@adjoseph
are all worthy winners— be sure to tune into
@BBCFrontRow
shortly! 💫✨
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Happy Independent Bookshop Week 😍 Fancy some contemporary poetry? Head to your favourite indie and choose one of the collections pictured below from the
@BloomsburyBooks
poetry list!
#IndependentBookshopWeek
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Gorgeous gorgeous girls wear Fitzcarraldo tote bags 💙 📚
SO happy that
@FitzcarraldoEds
is part of the
@Indies_Alliance
!
#publishing
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Bloomsbury’s Poetry List, under the genius stewardship of Kayo Chingonyi, is now eight titles strong 🙌 The latest brilliant addition is
@amyacrepoet
’s MOTHERSONG, which is having its London launch tonight
@BurleyFisher
💙
#NationalPoetryDay
Happy
#NationalPoetryDay
!
What better day to explore Bloomsbury's award-winning poetry list, edited by Kayo Chingonyi.
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The very best of luck to all of the poets shortlisted for the 2022
@ForwardPrizes
tonight! Especially
@adjoseph
for his sublime “Sonnets for Albert” out with
@BloomsburyBooks
🔥
#Poetry
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🎼 On the fifth day of Christmas, my bookstore sold to me: Louise Glück’s poetryyyy 🎼
Thanks
@gowerst_books
&
@Carcanet
for this gorgeous edition ✨ 💫
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Thanks
@fullhouselit
for giving my bee poem a home in this gorgeous issue 🐝
✨ Brand new issue out now!✨
Our first tarot issue 🎉 The issue features 22 fantastic pieces. The front and back cover, and the tarot art inside is created by the wonderful
@champtoncreates
.
Access the issue here:
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HUGE congratulations to all of the incredible poets and poetry publishers who have been shortlisted for the 2023
@ForwardPrizes
🤩 So great to see the inclusion of the performance category, to celebrate spoken word poets ✨
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Excited to attend the Sunday Times
@YoungWriterYear
Award Ceremony tonight, and to be in the presence of these four inspiring writers 🖤 So great to have poetry included too, with Momtaza Mehri’s Bad Diaspora Poems on the shortlist!
Ahead of the Sunday Times
@YoungWriterYear
Award ceremony, the four shortlisted authors discuss the one book that they prize above all others and which has had a formative effect on their own writing:
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From this … to this! Can’t wait to see everyone at the
@FaberBooks
stand this week for
@LondonBookFair
🙌 And YES those are the red hot Akwaeke & Kingsolver proofs 👀
#publishing
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mary gives my mother a fig smelling of the desert she will one day end up in
From ‘What If My Mother Met Mary’, one of the many stunning poems in
@azemezi
’s CONTENT WARNING: EVERYTHING, publishing in 3 days!
@BloomsburyBooks
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Absolutely ecstatic to have two poems longlisted for the 2017
#NationalPoetryCompetition
, out of over 13,000 entries!
@PoetrySociety
Congratulations to all the worthy winners and longlisted poets
#poetry
#amwriting
You can read all the 2017
#NationalPoetryCompetition
winning and commended poems (and find out who made it onto the longlist!) here:
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Photos from last night’s launch of the Winter 2023 edition of The Poetry Review
@PoetrySociety
✨ Beautiful readings by
@itsamule
,
@JessMurrain
, Rachel Allen, and
@aracelisxgirmay
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It’s been a year since
@adjoseph
was awarded the 2022
@tseliotprize
for his collection SONNETS FOR ALBERT, one of the inaugural titles on the
@BloomsburyBooks
Poetry list 🧡
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A stunning evening at the
@tseliotprize
readings last night, hearing some of the best contemporary poetry from the UK and Ireland. Hats off to
@IMcMillan
for being an impeccable host, and to all the shortlisted poets ✨ 🤍
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The
@aesopskincare
Queer Library 2024 opens today! 🌈 From 27th June - 30th June, head to the flagship Soho store to pick up a free book! Copies of I CANNOT BE GOOD UNTIL YOU SAY IT & CONTENT WARNING: EVERYTHING from the
@BloomsburyBooks
Poetry list will be available ✨
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Nothing like the brutal / beautiful poetry of Selima Hill to spice up an evening
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One of my favourite collections on this year’s
@tseliotprize
shortlist,
@jallenpaisant
’s SELF-PORTRAIT AS OTHELLO. Looking forward to the readings this Sunday
@southbankcentre
✨
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There are a handful of tickets left for the
@tseliotprize
shortlist readings aka the Poetry Oscars at the Southbank Centre on Jan 15th! Hosted by
@IMcMillan
, this will be a truly special evening ✨ 🥂
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It’s publication day for the 9th title in
@BloomsburyBooks
’ poetry list, the UK edition of OWED by
@SirJoshBennett
✨
“A rhapsodic, rigorous poetry collection, which pays homage to everyday Black experience in the U.S.” ~ The New Yorker
Happy publication day to the wonderful poetry collection
#Owed
by
@SirJoshBennett
! Check out his answers to the Bloomsbury Poetry Proust Questionnaire here:
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Two weeks to go until the UK publication of
@azemezi
’s debut poetry collection CONTENT WARNING: EVERYTHING 🔥 Dipping into the proof and wow oh wow — mark your diaries! Coming Feb 16th from
@BloomsburyBooks
✨
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Beyond delighted that my little ekphrastic poem has been shortlisted by Fiona Benson for the
@oxford_brookes
International Poetry Comp 🤩 Congrats to the winners and fellow shortlistees ✨👇 ✨
We're delighted to announce the winners & shortlistees of this year's
@oxford_brookes
International Poetry Competition, judged by Fiona Benson! Congratulations to those below & thank you to all who entered. Join us on 19 November at our online event: (1/8)
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If anyone else says poetry is dead after looking at this list I swear to G—
Congratulations to the 2023 Poetry shortlist!
Cane, Corn & Gully -
@SafiyaKamaria
(
@Outspoken_Press
)
England's Green -
@ZaffarKunial
(
@FaberBooks
)
Quiet -
@victoriaadukwei
(
@FaberBooks
)
Manorism -
@YomiSode
(
@penguinrandom
)
Ephemeron - Fiona Benson (
@JonathanCape
)
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A great evening at Kellogg College, Oxford listening to the wonderful
@HelenMort
lecture on poetry and the value of getting it wrong. Also grateful for her invaluable feedback as supervisor of my poetry portfolio on the Oxford MSt.
@OxfordConted
#poetry
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Had the pleasure of listening to
@AHicksonLovence
yesterday afternoon talk about his forthcoming novel ‘Your Show’, out 7th April ✨ Pre-order a copy now from your local indie bookshop!
@FaberBooks
@Indies_Alliance
⚽️
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Happy Publication Day to Solmaz Sharif, and the UK edition of CUSTOMS ✨ The latest achingly gorgeous instalment in the
@BloomsburyBooks
poetry list 💜💛
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The way this book fucking slapped me, my God — go out right now, go and get it right now
@CalebFemi_
🔥 🔥 🔥
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PSA that
@victoriaadukwei
’s absolute powerhouse of a poetry debut, QUIET, is publishing NEXT MONTH ⏰ Get those pre-orders in with your local indies!
@FaberBooks
#poetry
@no1_emily
@victoriaadukwei
Quiet,
@victoriaadukwei
's debut collection, circles around ideas of black interiority, intimacy & selfhood, playing at the tensions between the impulse to guard one’s ‘inner life’ & the knowledge that, as Audre Lorde writes, ‘your silence will not protect you’. Coming June '22.
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Amazing to see
@adjoseph
as a judge for the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize! Anthony won the award with his collection SONNETS FOR ALBERT in 2022, published by
@BloomsburyBooks
on the Poetry List, curated by Kayo Chingonyi 🧡
We are delighted to announce the judges for the 2024 T. S. Eliot Prize for poetry! Mimi Khalvati will chair, and will be joined on the panel by Anthony Joseph and Hannah Sullivan.
Learn more about our judges and the Prize online now:
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Thank you to
@BadLilies
for publishing two of my poems this year! And to everyone who’s had a kind word to say about my poetry 🌸 ✨
It’s almost the end of 2023 and so time to thank all of our fabulous poets from this year. *cue standing ovation*. Here’s the gilded roll call…
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Next up at the
@coronettheatre
Poetry Club in April are three poetry legends:
🍷
@jallenpaisant
🍷
@Malikabooker
🍷
@ZaffarKunial
Grab a ticket and relax in London’s vibiest theatre bar before the show! In association with
@renaissanceone
🫶 🔥
POETRY CLUB: JASON ALLEN-PAISANT, MALIKA BOOKER & ZAFFAR KUNIAL
A spell-binding evening of poetry readings in our auditorium featuring
@jallenpaisant
,
@Malikabooker
&
@ZaffarKunial
In association with
@renaissanceone
26 April
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The first
@GuardianBooks
poetry review roundup of 2024 is here! Curated by
@itsamule
, whose own poetry collection Strange Beach is forthcoming with Granta ✨ 5 gorgeous collections detailed within…
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Spent the dreamiest of hours on Sunday perusing the poetry section at
@WaterstonesPicc
📚 ✨ Feast ye eyes on these Faber beauties
@FaberBooks
#poetry
#Faber
#publishing
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“Tender and true, complex and profound, Quiet is a beautiful balancing act of a book - a debut that brings Adukwei Bulley fully-formed, starting something!”
@jackiekaay
’s wonderful words on
@victoriaadukwei
’s collection QUIET, winner of the
@RathbonesFolio
Poetry Prize 🥂💫🔥
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As
#KlaraAndTheSun
reaches Number 1 on the Sunday Times Bestseller list, I want to give a shout-out to Faber’s INSANELY talented and innovative Sales team who had a huge hand in making this possible ✨ 🥂 📣
@FaberBooks
@Indies_Alliance
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