If you like the work of the87press please consider buying a book direct from us today. We've had several funding rejections recently that have been dispiriting to say the least. We're continuing on. I'm no longer taking salary from the press to keep things afloat for time being!

I'll be in the united kingdom from late september to early november, the better to finish writing two books full of deviance, badmindery, wildfire, and frogs. I'm available for very limited bookings in these weeks; please contact Renaissance One Writers & Events with expressions of interest.

Flogging me crap when it can’t even give me the latest on my crap team

Calling all poets! 🖊️ We are running a competition! Whether your style is raw, lyrical, or experimental, we want to read your work. Don't miss the opportunity—find out more and enter today here: brokensleepbooks.com/broken-sleep-b… #PoetryComp #CallForSubmissions #PoetryCommunity #AmWriting

Just received an email with the subject line "The last negroni of summer" and if that's not a poem, I don't know what is.

ICYMI: Attend a generative, collaborative, and vulnerable writing workshop with our inaugural translator-in-residence Sawad Hussain, which will provide participants with the tools to write their own translation memoir. Tuesday, 8 Oct 7-9pm BST, via Zoom wasafiri.org/news-and-event…

the what3words address for the Falkirk Wheel is tremendous

Delighted to be coming to Dublin next month – my first time! Hope to see you there.

Treacle day You send the black flare up Maybe you get unstuck Maybe you get saved

Join us at British Library for Mapping the Future: Celebrating The Complete Works Poets! Enjoy poetry readings from Mona Arshi, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Yomi Ṣode 🇳🇬, Dr Nick Makoha, and Will Harris, with appearances by Bernardine Evaristo and Dr Nathalie Teitler 🎤 Sign up at bit.ly/RSLWorks

Like the look of this The Booker Prizes shortlist: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

Occasional timeline bliss, hippo edn:

I'm in the early stages of organising some sort of network for people who are actively translating poetry, and publishing (or hoping to publish) their translations. If you might be interested, be in touch. And do please retweet!

I have no idea what this image has to do with rhyming. But I like it.

Book 📕 people 📢 Does anyone have an English translation of ‘House of Day, House of Night’? Only finding expensive versions on eBay etc

"She saw off master strategist Dominic Cummings (Carl von Clownewitz)" << reader, I chortled. Marina Hyde on Charlotte Owen and all that: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Idea from craft. Brand from product. Fame from both.

Loved the Mozart: Rise of a Genius programme on BBC Two. Felt like I actually got his music for the first time.