Erica McAlpine

Hugely grateful to @TheAtlantic for publishing this: “Bats and Swallows”: A poem by @Erica_McAlpine theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Heading to @WigtownBookFest to read from Small Pointed Things!

So pleased to find this little review of Small Pointed Things in The Times. thetimes.com/culture/books/…

A nice little review of Small Pointed Things in The Telegraph

Absolutely delighted to discover this! Poem of the week: Digging the Well by Erica McAlpine theguardian.com/books/2025/mar…

Book news! My new poetry collection Small Pointed Things is being published by @Carcanet next month — folks in the UK can now pre-order! (U.S. friends — it’s not quite ready for pre-order there yet, but hopefully soon) amazon.co.uk/Small-Pointed-…

I’m really thrilled to have four new poems in the latest issue of Liberties - with many thanks to the editors ⁦⁦@readliberties⁩ Here is one:

@jobratten This was so great - I loved your poems!

This evening, in Oxford. If you’re around among the dreaming spires we’d love to see you there!

Here’s my poem, which closes the new issue of @BadLilies — thanks so much to the editors for including it!

So glad to have a poem in the latest @BadLilies, out today— grateful to the editors and delighted to be among the contributors!

Doing this tomorrow in NYC with some wonderful poets

Who would win between Matthew Arnold’s original 'Dover Beach' versus Anthony Hecht’s parody? Can a parody ever outshine the original? Join us on 21 March for an engaging free lecture where Dr Erica McAlpine critically analyses both texts. Book now: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lecture…

A new poem in the winter issue of The Poetry Review @PoetrySociety 🏛️🐍💜

My new poem/stand against bureaucracy, with thanks to the editors

In case it’s behind a paywall

My new poem/stand against bureaucracy in this week’s New Statesman newstatesman.com/culture/poetry…

The NS Poem: “Hoops” by @Erica_McAlpine. newstatesman.com/culture/poetry…

@CamilleRalphs_ Looks great!

👀 7/3/24

@JohnTal54272561 @spectator Just great.

Grateful to have this little poem in the @spectator, surrounded by a (perhaps more interesting, slightly less rhythmic) article by Jonathan Sumption

@evankindley “you shied away from making choices concerning artistic merit” - YES.

In 1993 I wrote a letter to Entertainment Weekly and they published it. It’s all been downhill from there

@ENOgden Woohoo!

Some news!