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Bloodaxe Books, Britain's leading international poetry publisher.
Hexham, Northumberland, UK
Joined February 2010
Great interview with Vidyan Ravinthiran on @BBCRadioLondon yesterday, 12 December. He was speaking to @jumokefashola about his @ForwardPrizes-winning third collection Avidyā, and read a poem from the book. Poetry Corner begins at 1.11.52. https://t.co/DOZLpuxNPT
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'a brilliant, luminous work that blends the mystical and the contemporary, interrogating power, gender, and transformation with precision and lyric grace.’ - Elaine Feeney, Sunday @Independent_ie books of the year feature, on @JessicaTraynor6's New Arcana. https://t.co/vY5yfSqkqh
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'Sassy, clever, sharp – this collection is a delight to read, and to read aloud.' - Hannah Stone, on Clare Pollard's sixth poetry collection Lives of the Female Poets, in the December issue of The Lake. https://t.co/N0RjuiiwwG
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Power up your professional poetic development! Our new year events incl brilliant poet Hannah Lowe @hannahlowepoet @BloodaxeBooks sharing her passion the glosa, a Spanish form that invites deep listening, echo, and transformation. Create your own glosa.
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Lovely to hear @JessicaTraynor6 on @RTEArena last night. She and Thomas McCarthy were reading some of their favourite winter poems and discussing them with host Rick O'Shea. Jessica also read a poem from her fourth collection New Arcana (from 22:20). https://t.co/zjFc6iMwzH
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Poets Jessica Traynor and Thomas McCarthy talk winter poetry to remind us of the season's quiet beauty.
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Coming up this afternoon on Poetry Corner: Vidyan Ravinthiran will be speaking to @jumokefashola about his third collection Avidyā, joint winner of the @ForwardPrizes for Best Collection. Tune in to📻@BBCRadioLondon at 3.10pm, or listen later. https://t.co/CUzdOJGyLe
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'Goats on Leitrim Hill' https://t.co/DO6Ura0Gfl via @YouTube
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Lovely to hear Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis talking about her chosen book on @BBCRadio4's A Good Read with fellow guest @annabelabbs and host Harriett Gilbert. Gwyneth's latest collection, First Rain in Paradise, was published by Bloodaxe in March this year. https://t.co/SU2t3jgglW
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Poet Gwyneth Lewis and author Annabel Abbs join Harriett to talk favourite books.
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'A must-read, especially for anyone who enjoyed her memoir, Nightshade Mother.' - Angela Graham, The Lonely Crowd, on Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis's sixth poetry collection in English, First Rain in Paradise. https://t.co/6D69mBKLov
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Contributors to The Lonely Crowd choose the books they have most enjoyed this year. Part Three follows on Friday. Karys Frank Sarah Hall’s Helm, a gale of a novel in which the Helm wind is personif…
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An interview with American poet @HoweMariehowe features in this week's @ChurchTimes. She was talking to @MartinWroe about her poetry, including her @PulitzerPrizes in Poetry-winning retrospective What the Earth Seemed to Say: New & Selected Poems. https://t.co/XLMpnl7LGK
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Marie Howe, winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for poetry, talks to Martin Wroe about saints and the spiritual
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'I can’t think of two more artful commentaries on today’s world’ Forward Prize Best Collection joint winners, Vidyan Ravinthiran's Avidyā and Karen Solie's Wellwater, were chosen by @ForwardPrizes Judge Sarah Hall as her books of the year @NewStatesman. https://t.co/yqSy1UvTa2
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New Statesman writers and guests – including Jonathan Franzen, Jacqueline Rose, Marina Warner and Slavoj Žižek – choose their favourite reading this year
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"I’m obsessed with the metaphysical, the spiritual dimensions of life as they present themselves in this world" Marie Howe, winner of this year’s @PulitzerPrizes for #poetry, talks to @MartinWroe about #saints and the #spiritual
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Marie Howe, winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for poetry, talks to Martin Wroe about saints and the spiritual
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Good to see Vidyan Ravinthiran's @ForwardPrizes-winning third collection Avidyā and Gillian Allnutt's @tseliotprize-shortlisted tenth collection Lode included in @betarish's poetry books of the year feature in @GuardianBooks. https://t.co/mR9GaXeRvI
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Many congratulations to poet Stewart Conn, one of the leading Scottish figures honoured in @Saltire_Society's Fletcher of Saltoun Awards last night in Edinburgh. The Awards for Arts and Humanities went to Stewart Conn and violinist Nicola Benedetti. https://t.co/g01FpVlzRh
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#TranslationThursday news update! Video now available from the Lalić (translated Jones), Tafdrup (translated McDuff), Venclova (translated Hinsey) event on YouTube. @BloodaxeBooks
If you missed last night's wonderful online launch event, you can now watch on our YouTube channel: https://t.co/BMZoiNKgL5 We were joined by Pia Tafdrup; Tomas Venclova & his translator Ellen Hinsey; & Ivan V. Lalić's translator Francis R. Jones & Professor Svetlana Šeatović.
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Great in-depth interview with Gillian Allnutt on the latest episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way podcast. She was in conversation with host @GregoryKearns about her poetry, in particular her @tseliotprize-shortlisted tenth collection #Lode. https://t.co/FEnFPN0ubu
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'a strikingly beautiful nod to the lasting echoes of a friendship' Great to see @JessicaTraynor6's fourth poetry collection New Arcana chosen by @laurenmurphy_ for her Irish Books of the Year feature in @RTE_Culture. https://t.co/85AfZ4eRuh
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Gillian Allnutt's @tseliotprize-shortlisted tenth collection Lode was chosen by Graeme Richardson as his Poetry Book of the Year in The Sunday Times. Vidyan Ravinthiran's @ForwardPrizes for Best Collection-winning Avidyā was also recommended. @thetimes
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Our team of critics have picked out their favourite titles of this year, including novels, histories, memoirs, biographies and more
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Gillian Allnutt has contributed a lovely piece to the @poetryschool's Writers' Notes series. Her tenth poetry collection Lode is on the shortlist for the @tseliotprize 2025. https://t.co/I3uaawAfsv
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Gillian Allnutt talks about how she wrote her recent T.S. Eliot Prize shortlisted poetry collection 'Lode'.
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Huge congratulations to Bloodaxe poets Selima Hill and George Szirtes, who were presented with The King's Gold Medal for Poetry for the years 2022 and 2024 respectively at a joint audience with King Charles III at Buckingham Palace on 26 November. https://t.co/f4i4AyRylE
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