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Hello February, Hello All! Our latest issue of New Welsh Review (139: Journeys) is out this month, order from Parthian Books or from your favourite bookshop... Also available through Exact Editions and EBSCO. parthianbooks.com/collections/ne…

My little poetry tour...

The rainy season is packing its bags here in Guadalajara, and so am I. I’ll miss the sweet smell of damp earth steaming in the morning sun. I’ll miss the miniature jungle our garden has become ✍️ Ben Rhys Palmer wp.me/p8Mk4U-16Ef

✨ We're hiring! ✨ 📚The Poetry Book Society is looking for a Sales & Marketing Assistant for 3 days a week in our Newcastle office. 📚If you love poetry, digital marketing & making things happen, we’d love to hear from you. Apply by 6th Oct> poetrybooks.co.uk/pages/opportun… #PublishingJobs #Poetry #Marketing #Bookshop #PoetryBookSociety #NewcastleJobs #ArtsJobs

I like the haunting musicality of this poem by Roberto Pastore from his new Parthian Poetry collection Graveyards on Other Planets.

Trying to play it cool as usual, but I've got confetti coming out of my ears! Thrilled to be launching my debut collection, Breakfast with the Scavengers, alongside Susie Wild and Roberto Pastore @WaterstonesCDF on 16 October. waterstones.com/events/poetry-…

💜Last night's Placeholder Poetry was a stunner💜 🐎 @Writetoempower 's rhythmical poems incorporated labour and repetition to paint an intricate picture of the opposing threat and comfort of her formative years in rural America @parthianbooks 1/5

Exciting to see some of my Valleys work in the new issue of the New Welsh Review! Get a copy if you can, it's a good big issue with lots to read!

The New Welsh Review Summer 2025 issue has landed. I find my words within. Great literature from @newwelshreview Grab a copy at parthianbooks.com

This is such a welcome, life-affirming & diverse edition of @BBCRadio4 @R4TheVerb. Top form delivery from @MichaelRosenYes, Len Pennie, @alexwhartonpoet, Natalie Ann Holborow. & @IMcMillan bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Tune in to @R4TheVerb this Friday for 'The Adverb at the Hay Festival 2025' with poet Natalie Ann Holborow (Little Universe, Parthian Books) alongside host @IMcMillan and other great guests @MichaelRosenYes, @Lenniesaurus & @alexwhartonpoet! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Breakfast is (nearly) served! Feast your eyes on the cover of my debut poetry collection, Breakfast with the Scavengers, coming this October from Parthian Books. Huge thanks to Liqen for this wild, wonderful artwork. I can’t wait to share these poems with you!

⚡Placeholder #Poetry #Southampton - 2wks!⚡ Every Placeholder is different - and that's what makes them so special! 🌟 Rachel Goodman +Elvire Roberts read Knee To Knee @dialectwriters 💥 Verity Spott @pilotpressldn 💫 @writetoempower @parthian_books 🎫 wirewoolevents.com

Have you ordered the Summer 2025 issue of New Welsh Review yet? My first issue as editor, beautifully redesigned by Olwen Fowler with the cover image by @JonPountney1 In shops now... or order from Parthian: parthianbooks.com/collections/re… Digital subscription: shop.exacteditions.com/gb/new-welsh-r…

To be able to process the craziness of the world is one thing: to make sense of it is quite another. And then to write about it in coruscatingly brilliant, blistering prose is altogether something else ✍️ Jon Gower wp.me/p8Mk4U-Vj1

Delighted and honoured to have won the Scott Moncrieff Prize with Stephen Romer for our translation of Gilles Ortlieb. Thanks to Arc publications, Jean Boase-Beier and to Sean O'Brien for his introduction.

Now booking...

You have until midnight tonight to submit your entries! Details below ⬇️📚📚@Culture_SwanUni @LitWales @Books_Wales

Looking forward! Come join me if you Aber-dare... 😜

Over 150 calls for submissions of #poetry, #fiction, flash, #nonfiction, #art, #photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in February 2025. Best of luck & pls share! thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog/w…