Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal

Our new digital issue, PBLJ11.5, is now available to read on our website. This issue is guest-edited by Paul Robert, Worcestershire Poet Laureate and alumnus of @MyBCU, where the journal was founded. Read now at poetrybirmingham.com/current-issue (Photo credit: Richard Nicholls)

My poem 'The Olive Tree of Vouves' is in the latest issue of @PoetryBrum 🌳 You can read Issue 11.5, exploring the fragility and endurance of nature, here: poetrybirmingham.com/current-issue

So excited to have a poem in the new issue of @PoetryBrum! Fragility and Tenacity: Nature in the Balance is curated by the wonderful Paul Roberts and I was honoured to be a part of it. You can read 'The Olive Tree of Vouves' here: poetrybirmingham.com/bex-hainsworth…

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@CamilleRalphs_ recently noted In @PoetryBrum that it's "taken an inexcusably long time for the UK’s poetry scene to notice Karen Solie." That's true of poetry scenes across the world. KS is a Canadian national treasure & she's just won the Forward Prize! (w/ Vidyan Ravinthiran)

The Spring issue of @PoetryBrum includes an in-depth interview with editor Peter Robinson about the late Roy Fisher's The Citizen and the Making of 'City', which was published by @BloodaxeBooks in 2022. Fred D'Aguiar and @neilsonandrew remember @BZephaniah and #RoddyLumsden.

Poem for a Sunday. A very Roddy-Lumsden Roddy Lumsden poem. Pleased, or relieved, to have an essay on Roddy in the new @PoetryBrum ❤️ poetrybirmingham.com/current-issue

I interviewed Andrew Motion and Michael Hofmann for @PoetryBrum. Two jolly extracts here, but you'll have to buy the mag to learn why AM thinks 'all poetry is performance poetry', or why MH 'can see American poetry growing a little curly tail, like the last of the Buendías'.

Delighted to have a poem in the new issue of @PoetryBrum. This is a fine journal, edited by @naushsabah. Particularly gratifying to be alongside writers I admire so much, including Gerry Cambridge of @thedarkhorsemag, @CamilleRalphs_ and @neilsonandrew.

This is a fantastic interview. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.

This week's post for PBLJ is done so all new orders are shipped and will be making their way to readers. 📨 Have you got your copy yet? Share your pics and let us know what you think of the new issue!

This be the issue: poetrybirmingham.com/current-issue

Very happy to have a new poem, 'Someone You Know and Someone You Don't', in the new issue of PBLJ, which is full of treats:

Back for 2025! Following huge success last year, BCU Presents: Benjamin Zephaniah Future Writers competition is back. If you're a budding poet or love writing, this is for you! This year's theme is 'Nature Trail' and encourages pieces to be around around the environment, the spaces where they spend their time, the impact of nature on their everyday life and looking after the planet. With support from Qian Zephaniah, and sponsors and partners @nationaltrust, @BhamBotanicalGd, @PoetryBrum, @BirminghamRep, @BZephaniah, @ApplesAndSnakes, winners will enjoy a wide range of incredible prizes, and will be invited to the Awards Ceremony later this year. Get involved now! Find out more and submit your poem today 👉 bcu.ac.uk/future-writers

I have an essay on poetry, place, and life in the current issue of Poetry Birmingham, a chiaroscuro including Virgil, Mandelstam, Derrida, Layan Kayed, Samatar Elmi, Diane Seuss, Krynicki, Darwish, and others. 🙏 and ♥️ to @naushsabah. poetrybirmingham.com/store/p/issue1…

As a born & bred West Midlander (Worcesterian), I am so happy to share my two poems published in @PoetryBrum Issue 11 – Spring 2025. The Spring 2025 issue of PBLJ comprises over 200 pages of poems, essays, interviews, and reviews edited by Naush Sabah. poetrybirmingham.com/store/p/issue1…

@GreeningPoet @RoryWaterman @neilsonandrew Thank you, John! Very glad to hear you're enjoying it. 😊🙌🏽

Enjoying the latest of the best. The inimitable @PoetryBrum - poems galore + reviews of @RoryWaterman, Anthony Hecht, Rae Armantrout, essays by Gregory Leadbetter & @neilsonandrew, Camille Ralphs interviews Andrew Motion & Michael Hofmann, Peter Robinson on Roy Fisher etc etc

This compendious new issue of one of the more interesting poetry journals out there, @naushsabah’s PBLJ—which I was v pleased to typeset & in which I have a 7,000-word review-essay on Anthony Hecht, & a poem. Lots of other, & pleasingly various, work too! Recommended. 👏👏

@jobratten @naushsabah We will send that out to you Monday, Jo. Thank you for re-subscribing! ❤️

@PoetryBrum @naushsabah 😢😢gonna have to remedy this, thanks

Just popping in to let you know that PBLJ11 is finally out for your reading pleasure (and provocation). Do grab a copy and let me know what you think. 🤓