I hope you’re ready because…

✨Heartfelt CONGRATULATIONS to Fady Joudah on the award of the Jackson Poetry Prize✨

Judges Natalie Diaz Gregory Pardlo Diane Seuss:

‘Joudah’s lyric gift generates a transcendence into unity, “From womb / to breath, and one / with oneness // I be: / from the river / to the sea.”

What I mean of course is that voices on the radio and in politics and public life in general speak a language that marches all too well with the executioners and therefore I, we, must seek a new language that does not collaborate with the executioners.

—Tomas Tranströmer

The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.

—James Baldwin

SO excited to announce our 2024 shortlists for
1. Jhalak Prize
and
2. Jhalak C&YA Prize

Congratulations to all our shortlistees!
#jhalakprize 24 #jhalakprize

👑👑 The news is out!! The TWIN CROWNS trilogy is complete but we are expanding the world with two new standalone novels! Details on The Bookseller 🎉🎉

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Jack Sheppard (1702-1724), AKA Honest Jack, was a notorious English thief. He is famous in folklore for escaping from prison on numerous occasions. Using this fact, I thought I would come up with a limerick poem to commemorate his escapades. joshuaseigalpoet.blogspot.com/.../04/honest-…

APHRODITE: what are you doing
ARES: (over a map table) shh im doing a war
APHRODITE: doesn't look like much of a war
ARES: its a trade war over olives. if you want I can explain the rules-
APHRODITE: im going to make them kiss
ARES: dont you dare
APHRODITE: these ones are gay now

Next month, join the one-of-a-kind Salena Godden at Foyles for the launch of her stunning new collection, With Love, Grief and Fury Canongate. An unmissable night of readings and conversation hosted by Nikita Gill. Tickets 👇

🕖Wed 8 May, 7pm
🎫bit.ly/3Txq1rl

“Hello everybody! The Word of The Day is ‘Solidarity.’ S-O-L-I-D-A-R-I-T-Y. Solidarity!”

Nikita Gill

The Thing Is

to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you’ve held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.

—Ellen Bass

Very proud to have joined TLC up to this important initiative. We are currently engaged in an enquiry into what literary culture is, and welcome the opportunity to deepen our understanding and inform our work, as well as contribute to a collective case. We are stronger together

Heart weeps.
Head tries to help heart.

—Lydia Davis, 'Head, Heart'