Taz Rahman - "East of the Sun, West of the Moon"
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Poet @SerenBooks: Jerwood Prize shortlisted 2024, Laurel longlist 2024, Aesthetica shortlist 2022 | JustAnotherPoet https://t.co/qquPAIcdUW | @ModronMagazine
Cardiff, Wales
Joined January 2015
Honoured to have had been shortlisted for the Jerwood Poetry Prize 2024 alongside these incredible names, congratulations to the winners including my friend @clare_potter ♥️ 😍
@adjoseph @owensheers We would also like to congratulate our incredible shortlist this year, including Bebe Ashley, Kat François @katfrancois, Bethany Handley @Bethany1Handley, Dane Holt, Aaron Kent @GodzillaKent, Iona Lee, Jeda Pearl @JedaPearl, Momtaza Mehri, Alycia Pirmohamed @a_pirmohamed, Taz
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Delighted to be reading at the Senedd on 2nd October 2025 alongside @Peterfinch, @clare_potter, Fiona Sampson & more as part of the Saudha International Literature Festival. Free tickets from
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The festival preaches the art and beauty of imagination, languages from different cultural heritages through talks, reading, performances.
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It was lovely to have read from my @SerenBooks collection 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' at Th Small City Bookshop in Bristol last night with Rhian Elizabeth and Joshua Jones as a celebration of Welsh poetry talent:
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The latest 'Just Another Poet' interview features the wonderful @ruthpadel, which is a co-presentation with the climate concern themed @ModronMagazine: https://t.co/z0XgDp5DNR, Ruth spoke about her 2024 collection 'Girl', environmental preservation and much more!
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Almost two years from the birth of Hollywood or Home, my second collection—the work I’m proudest of. Because of the sense of risk, of coming from a *true* place, for whatever that can mean. Now, it’s to the new poems, with a somewhat heavy heart. Onwards. No Surrender Dorothy. 🌸
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I’m writing my 10th collection. The title poem’s a long one in haiku form & I started it months ago but had neither time nor headspace to continue. Spent a whole yr teaching & promoting 2 new books. Excited to say I’ve now written 7 key poems in. Paris & solitude does that for me
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The autumn 2025 poet interview series at Just Another Poet kicks off with Emily Vanderplaug who debut collection 'Strange Animals' was published by Parthian Books in 2022:
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Am really looking forward to taking part in a poetry reading and discussion in Market Harborough @Waterstones on the evening of Thursday October 2, with @dislaney @MariaTaylor_ and @crystalclearjt. Please come along if you're nearby.
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Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Poetry Evening at Waterstones Market Harborough today.
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Last year marked 20 years since beloved poet, teacher, and friend to so many, Michael Donaghy, left us. His widow, Maddy Paxman, created a site for his students of yore to share their memories of Mikey’s unique, transformative, lasting power. Here’s mine.
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I met Michael Donaghy in the early autumn of 1998. I had been in London for a year by that point. I had come to the capital with impossibly large hope – and far too much arrogance. The reality was …
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The latest 'Seren Esgynnol/Rising Star' feature in the Just Another Poet Youtube poetry channel is @KMoinetwrites, who was shortlisted for the 2025 Wales Book of the Year, is forthcoming with @SerenBooks, @AtomicBohemian & Hedgehog Poetry
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Delighted to be reading on 4 September at Chener Books alongside two phenomenal poetry talents, @sarahcorbett70 and @TamarYoseloff, to celebrate and honour Sarah’s latest collection from @PavilionPoetry. Do come along!
The London launch of my sixth collection of poems The Ishtar Gate @PavilionPoetry will be at Chener Books, Dulwich on 4th September with Kathryn Gray @KathrynGray and Tamar Yoseloff @TamarYoseloff book your tickets on Eventbrite. Looking forward to seeing you there.
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I have a new poem up on the great Literary Matters ( https://t.co/DDrLWb7Aj4) which is a sort of extension of this Substack on no longer singing to my son:
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What routine nights. The house in steady dark, we pile the dishes, lay tomorrow’s shirts. Wine is uncorked and left to sit. We talk in hushed tones, as though shy in a public place, a waiting room,...
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest: The late Kenyan novelist and activist believed erasing language was the most lasting weapon of oppression
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The long read: The late Kenyan novelist and activist believed erasing language was the most lasting weapon of oppression. Here, Aminatta Forna recalls the man and introduces his essay on decolonisa...
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The @BadLilies florist is open for submissions! Send us your blooms. 🌸
📣 Our submission window is now OPEN for the month of August. Get your blooms to us while the sun is shining!
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A huge honour to have my poem ‘Bournemouth’ included in such a wonderful, important anthology, alongside so many terrific poets and poems. Very special. Immense gratitude to Rachael Boast and @BloodaxeBooks.
Now on our Vimeo: a new compilation video for our Versus Versus anthology, featuring 23 of the contributing poets reading their work: https://t.co/E3vUXpB0sY Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets, edited by Rachael Boast - https://t.co/8YSVv5iyfc
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The Beehive is ready. If you're a litmag / anthology editor with a submission call you'd like writers to know about, feel free to email us before we send out our upcoming newsletter this weekend!
We're building THE BEEHIVE, a free and quick database, easily accessible to creatives looking for places to submit their work. If you are an editor/publisher, send us your submission calls; we’ll host/share them on our website, socials and newsletter. https://t.co/GxdSAmRxPC
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Tomorrow, 23rd July, 6.30 pm, @SerenBooks poets Wendy Allen and I are reading at 'Book Space Cardiff'. Startling new poems as well as those published in our books! Tickets:
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📣 COVER REVEAL 🤩 @SaraswatiNagpal’s ‘Drench Me in Silver’ - coming soon!! #books #poetry #coverreveal #coverart #poetic #books
Luminous art by Swapna Maini (@swapnamaini on IG) for poetry of the heart. Can’t thank you enough for this tender, romantic cover… How lucky am I? How talented is she! Coming soon with @blackboughpoems #DrenchMeInSilver
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The latest 'Seren Esgynnol/Rising Star' feature in the Just Another Poet Youtube poetry channel is Natasha Gauthier, who recently won the Poetry Wales Award & the New Welsh Writing Award:
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Like poetry? Like film? Agnostic about one—both? Give my second collection Hollywood or Home a try. Laughter and sadness—and a plentiful popping of ego balloons along the way. I waited almost twenty years to publish—some of that time planned, most not. https://t.co/OWAlD8rVDK
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Welcome to Kathryn Gray’s Hollywood or Home, a poetry collection with as much ruthless glamour as any Old Hollywood movie. These worldly-wise poems explore celebrity culture in a mode that is both...
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