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Where poetry is seen and heard. Accepts new and published work from emerging/established poets. Broadcast only here. Follow on Bluesky for better.
Auditions: 20th-27th Sept 2025
Joined December 2019
Auditions are over, poets have been informed of which wave they'll appear in throughout 2026/27, and Christmas is just around the corner. Time to say hello to the poets who'll make up wave twenty-four of @iambapoet – including special guest John Glenday. https://t.co/5SUnaj1lZ1
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Congratulations to Damien B Donnelly, Elizabeth Gibson, Ewan MacKinnon, Gill Macdonald, Holly Bars, John Glenday, Karen Pierce Gonzalez, Katrina Moinet, Laura Warner, Morag Smith, Phoebe Gilmore, Pratibha Castle, Rachel O'Sullivan, Sophia Argyris and Tom Weir.
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Our host Eleanor Holmes’s feature on @iambapoet using her other writing name. https://t.co/QyADyAciZT
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**AUDITIONS CLOSE AT 23:59 BST** Not yet submitted your audition to @iambapoet? You're in luck – there's still time! Maybe you're still thinking about it. Think about this instead: two years is a long time to wait until auditions reopen again in Sep 2027. So go on. Do it!
The final day of auditions for @iambapoet has arrived. The last few hours, in fact – the auditions window closes promptly at 23:59 BST today! So, if you've been wondering, 'Should I? Now?', the answer is definitely, 'YES!!' Go to https://t.co/X9FIL4BMTu to submit. Good luck!
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The final day of auditions for @iambapoet has arrived. The last few hours, in fact – the auditions window closes promptly at 23:59 BST today! So, if you've been wondering, 'Should I? Now?', the answer is definitely, 'YES!!' Go to https://t.co/X9FIL4BMTu to submit. Good luck!
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Audition SOON for your chance to appear in @iambapoet in either 2026 or 2027. Everything you need to know to join some of poetry's most celebrated names is on the Audition page. Fewer than 40 spaces available now. If you want in, you'll need to be fast! https://t.co/X9FIL4BMTu
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'Men’s faith in what you’re not has made you what you are. Fall upwards. Do not cry out. Do not return. Refuse to bring yourself back to bone.' https://t.co/nmzRYi9ORT
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Hear poet Barnaby Harsent read poems exclusively for iamb. If you like The Poetry Archive, this poetry site is for you.
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'Like, do you want to be kept alive if there’s a good chance you won’t wake up, and if you do, you’ll not be able to wipe your own bum or feed yourself?' https://t.co/5EtABAmE8y
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'I could, I thought, I could just step right out onto the frozen surface of the sea in Vecaki, but something—urgency or doubt or love—metastasized throughout my body ... ' https://t.co/YrWxig6Z1o
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Hear poet Eric T Racher read poems exclusively for iamb. If you like The Poetry Archive, this poetry site is for you.
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'Bless the Earth and the voices that sing her anthems in your cities. They are the planet’s prophets. Bless the man you divorced. Bless the man you married after.' https://t.co/WQdUiWKWbW
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Hear poet Estelle Price read poems exclusively for iamb. If you like The Poetry Archive, this poetry site is for you.
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'Hands are as useless as the grey hookbones of mangled sparrow wings.' https://t.co/YOXAxMJIeC
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Hear poet Helen Laycock read poems exclusively for iamb. If you like The Poetry Archive, this poetry site is for you.
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'So soft our hearts— how to keep the softness the give the resilience when to be hard-hearted seems solution or result ... ' https://t.co/J2jDOvdiCp
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'The excuse is effervescent, more delicate than expected but who can deny that weight of legs in the centre of an outstretched hand?' https://t.co/Wh18cw43wa
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'the drift of mouth of cheekbones seawards, lips & lashes currentstricken spurred into confluence' https://t.co/BwfadonnDo
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Hear poet Karan Chambers read poems exclusively for iamb. If you like The Poetry Archive, this poetry site is for you.
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'I am coming back inside / you the hayrick oikos I’ve been looking for / I know there are some changes I should make ... ' https://t.co/IGGtBdESf7
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'Trapped within my own silence. Calling myself away from home. Frequency waning. But today the sky is the bluest of bluest of blues.' https://t.co/cEtMtoPz7l
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Hear poet Lysz Flo read poems exclusively for iamb. If you like The Poetry Archive, this poetry site is for you.
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'The world is wondrous, frightful sometimes: feet, disembodied, stick out under hedges, canines off-lead bounce towards us fast, humans are nervous, or calm, open-hearted.' https://t.co/mybh3wlySQ
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' ... you all head down / shy-faced round town / all flat cap / all man bag you all dressed up / all plaid / all sandals / soft lad / smelling all tea tree / Versace ... ' https://t.co/ZCTcPCv6VQ
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'This was a day of revelations: bleed with me until the tenderness of a pause smoulders from within' https://t.co/dxGn9VqdFR
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' ... the anonymous artist had patience and knowledge and an obsession with bears, catching a glint of amber fire ... ' https://t.co/2xPDazOmeU
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Hear poet Sarah Wallis read poems exclusively for iamb. If you like The Poetry Archive, this poetry site is for you.
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