The British Book Awards Small press of the year Regional & Country Winner Wales Broken Sleep Books
We've won Small Press of the Year for Wales! It's great to be recognised for our work degentrifying the arts, platforming low socio-economic writers, & without grants or institutional support!
To celebrate, everything is 10% off on our website with code 'WINNERS2026'
www.brokensleepbooks.com/books
‘As one Iranian Telegram channel put it: “Once again the US attacked while Iran was pursuing diplomacy. Once again diplomacy does not work with the terrorist state of the US.”’
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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This is excellent, details are spot on 👌
At the opening of her recent London show, Romanian artist Teodora Axente wore a dress she had stitched herself for the occasion: a sheer chiffon number, with three sleeves. The extra limb wasn’t mere whimsy, but a reference to Saint John of Damascus, who, accused of treachery, had his right hand cut
I am very glad to have been the occasion of this new series for C21 Literature. Huge thanks to Alex Houen, Leonid Bilmes, Laura A. Zander, and Adam Kelly for their engagements with Free Indirect, and to Denise Wong and Oli Haslam for the invitation to respond.
Three copies of Steve Ely's 'Eely' against an orange background.
Visionary, urgent… truly extraordinary blendings of environmental & social history. - Mark Wormald
A spirited, astonishing, bewildering collection. - Adam Piette
One of 2024's wildest volumes of poetry. - Christian Bok
'Eely'
Steve Ely
£2 off until 4 February
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C21 journal has published a ‘round table review’ of Timothy Bewes’s book FREE INDIRECT. It includes a short essay by me; other contributors include Leonid Bilmes, Laura Zander & Adam Kelly. Bewes does a response at the end 👇
c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
@c21literature.bsky.social
Chicago Review seeks pitches of critical reviews, commentary essays, notes and reflections on contemporary British experimental poetry 👇
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London’s Gallery Rosenfeld has announced the launch of the Ian Rosenfeld Fund—a £7,500 annual award supporting an early- to mid-career artist. Details👇
www.prazzlearts.com/opportunitie...
✨BLACKBOX MANIFOLD 35✨ is now live, with poems by Shara McCallum, Dorothy Lehane, Rebecca Goss, Angela Gardner, Philip Terry, and others.
Plus Adam Piette reviews Keaton Sutherland and Jennifer Scappettone
blackboxmanifold.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
‘From 2028, universities must pay a new flat tax or “levy” of £925 for every international student they recruit. Coming on top of tighter visa restrictions, which make recruitment harder, some universities will find it increasingly tough to balance their books’
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Hard to roll this powdery snow into a ball, so my daughter made a snow blob named Jimathon ❄️
✨TONIGHT✨👇
Amazon announces Ask This Book AI bot. Authors and publishers were not asked to be included and cannot opt-out.
Going to this on Sunday. Still reading Alex and Geoff's poem-novel *See You Through* published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social & finding it pretty astonishing. Hope it finds some of the readers who have responded to e.g. writing by @waidner.bsky.social -- anyway, come if you can, London
“The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted its own video edit of the seizure, soundtracked with an excerpt from LL Cool J’s song Mama Said Knock You Out”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Geoff and I will be reading from SEE YOU THROUGH, the poem-novel we co-wrote
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Looking fwd to doing a poetry reading with Geoff Gilbert and Maria Sledmere for the ✨Xing the Line✨ series, next Sun 14th Dec, 6pm at Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes, 32-36 Kingsland Rd, London, E2 8DA 👇
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✨Submissions are now open for The Propel Cambridge Poetry Prize 2026✨
Entry is free and poets anywhere in the world who have not yet published a full-length collection can submit. The winning poem will receive a prize of £750 and publication in Propel Magazine.
english.cam.ac.uk/news/archives/…
‘The new UN report, covering a two-year period since the beginning of the Gaza war on 7 October 2023, draws attention to the “high proportion of children who are currently detained without charge or on remand”’
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
One week to publication of ELLE: a verse novel. Online launch and publication details here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-n...
TONIGHT! 👇
Looking fwd to this poetry reading by ✨ROD MENGHAM and JOHN WILKINSON ✨ in Pembroke College, Cambridge, 7pm this Thurs 20th. *Free and open to all*. Full details here 👇
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Cambridge folk, I am giving a talk on Tuesday 18th Nov, 5 pm, at the English Faculty 9 West Road called "Destructive Characters: Graham Greene to the KLF". There will be Walter Benjamin plus film clips! Come along if you are so inclined; I understand there will be wine.
Stoat Poetry, a new magazine edited by Ingrid Leonard.
www.stoatmagazine.co.uk/about
The national Jane Martin Poetry Prize 2026 will be open on 3rd Nov for entries (two poems max) from UK residents aged 18 to 30. No fee for entry. First prize is £1000, second prize is £500. More details here👇
www.girton.cam.ac.uk/jane-martin-...
Looking forward to launching SEE YOU THROUGH in Cambridge with Geoff Gilbert at 7pm, Thurs 23rd October. We’ll be reading with Iain Britton, who’ll be launching his pamphlet UNCERTAIN DENSITIES. The event is free and open to all. Further details here👇
poetics.english.cam.ac.uk/2025/10/16/i...
Very much looking forward to launching SEE YOU THROUGH at this Broken Sleep Books online launch event tomorrow 8pm UK time:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...
