Cover reveal — Launching June 28th at Goldsmiths in London (eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-londo…). With many thanks to editor André Naffis-Sahely & all at Poetry London 🙏

Four successive Premier League home wins for the first time ever. A first ever home Premier League hat-trick by a Palace player. A club record tally of top flight league goals in a season. #CPFC gutted to see the season end.

Poem-a-Day 6
'Grandmother' by Richie McCaffery
theinterpretershouse.org/mccaffery-81

Only a couple of weekends until we get stuck into the first Real Magic Books weekender - and we’re absolutely chuffed to bits to have Sharan Hunjan and Camille Ralphs and Declan Ryan coming down for our Saturday night poetry shindig. Get involved…

wegottickets.com/event/618606

Can’t wait to be back in London in June for this launch of Poetry London Editions, which will include a pamphlet of my poems, ‘Flying on Easter’ — with many thanks to André Naffis-Sahely & Poetry London

TONIGHT! Do please come along (which in fact entails sitting at home, having given my publisher £2, which you can redeem by buying the book if you want to).

One of the greatest moments in English football history has just been erased because we thought it was a good idea to delegate big decisions to someone sitting at a keyboard miles from the stadium rather than allow the officials on the pitch to make the call.

Looking forward to reading this important, timely new book from Nick Hewitt ⚓️🇺🇦🇹🇼. Thanks to Blackwell's for the prompt turnaround.

‘Hawthorn’ by Patrick Davidson Roberts badlilies.uk/patrick-davids… #issueeighteen

Mental coincidence as I've always had a fondness for him when looking in Wisden, given the name. (My grandfather was also a John Selby.) Sadly, no sign of being related.

I write on Emma Hardy and necromantic verse in the latest Poetry London, in a review of Mark Ford's 'Woman Much Missed: Thomas Hardy, Emma Hardy, and Poetry'. Thanks to André Naffis-Sahely for the opportunity.

On the road to Real Magic Books in Wendover for the launch of Will Burns's Natural Burial Ground from Corsair Books. I'm reading as the warm-up act, and will keep it brief to avoid being bottled off by the Burns fans.

Close-up of new lion decal on HMS Medway completing maintenance period in #Gibraltar

(Lion from the City of Rochester coat of arms that features on the ship's badge)

Via William Jardim

We are excited to gather again upstairs on Thursday 7 March to launch the new book from Will Burns

‘Will Burns is a soulful English poet of the kind we don’t make enough of’ Max Porter

If you are interested in the Roman site at Richborough, you should take a look at this rb.gy/iokgoj

Another standout verse from Robert Selby's Kentish Rebellion

Just a little reminder about our exciting online poetry lounge on monday - we have 3 outstanding poets - Robert Selby Luke Palmer Lucy Heuschen all sharing work on the theme of history.

ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampoet…

Myself, Luke Palmer and Lucy Heuschen reading on Monday for CheltenhamPoetryFest. Still some space left in the digital auditorium/event tent/dive bar.

Still time to get your tickets for the poetry lounge with Robert Selby Lucy Heuschen and me on Jan 15th - open mic available too.
cheltenhampoetryfestival.co.uk/#events

This is a few days early, but here’s ‘Twelfth Night’ by Louis MacNeice, written not long after the end of WW2.