Josephine Balmer

Bette consulting Liddell & Scott's Greek dictionary for take your dog to work day

@sapphicapuella Indeed. Many happy returns Naso!

A very happy birthday to the Big O, Publius Ovidius Naso. Really happy to be reading some of his Metamorphoses today with our finalists.

New Year poem for The Observer observer.co.uk/culture/books/…

Very thrilled by this lovely review of my Selected Poems from @ShearsmanBooks in today’s The Observer @ObsNewReview by the incredibly thoughtful @JadeCuttle. observer.co.uk/culture/books/…

Very happy to have a poem in the latest issue of the lovely @theinterpreter6 theinterpretershouse.org/balmer-84

@sapphicapuella @ProfArleneHH @ShearsmanBooks Ooh just seen this. Brilliant news!

Excited to be in the latest magazine ⁦@ShearsmanBooks⁩, with some very loose queer #Polari versions of #Catullus. My first published poems. Hope readers enjoy these trifles. #ClassicalReception

Looking forward to reading from 'Things We Left Behind: Selected Poems' at the next @ShearsmanBooks event with Jennifer Morag Henderson & special guest Yang Lian. 7.30 pm. Tuesday 14th October, Swedenborg Hall, Bloomsbury Way, London WC1 shearsman.com/shearsman-read…

@liamguilar Thanks Liam!

Buy it...you will not be disappointed ...

Publication day! A blog on my Selected Poems which is out today. @ShearsmanBooks @p_nikolaou thepathsofsurvival.co.uk/2025/09/05/thi…

My Selected Poems have arrived! Available from @ShearsmanBooks now! shearsman.com/store/Josephin…

Just published in this week’s New Statesman

@sapphicapuella @ae_stallings Er no. I do often wonder if I really wrote it though.

@ae_stallings Forgetting a review is one thing; I can't imagine forgetting something more creative, but do poets read their own poems and not recognise them as theirs?

Just read a review of a classics book published nearly 20 years ago. Genuinely had no idea until I got to the end of it that I was in fact the author of said review.

@sapphicapuella @RebeccaMenmuir Oooh looks fascinating!

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in Ovid's exile and its huge influence on modern depictions of exile. Congratulations, @RebeccaMenmuir - I can't wait to read it!

@Emma_Cole1 Congratulations Emma! Having heard you talk about the project I know it’s very well deserved!

Arion highlights Josephine Balmer and Elena Theodorakopoulos whose “Archaeology of the Heart” appears in our fall issue and lends one of its featured images to our cover. Subscribe here to be among its first readers: bu.edu/arion/subscribe

@ae_stallings That has happened to me with payments from French universities. The bank was completely bemused…

OMG in order for me to get paid for a thing, I have to supply a document with the bank's letterhead on it??? Why????!

@Leire_Olabarria @arionjournal @EtonMyersColl Thank you for letting me get up close and personal with your wonderful collection Leire!

I mean, just look at this cover!!! The new issue of @arionjournal features a collection of very touching poems by @jobalmer One of them was inspired by this wonderful amulet from @EtonMyersColl

A gorgeous cover image for the new @arionjournal! This beautiful amulet is held in the @EtonMyersColl. Inside the issue are poems responding to our collection by @jobalmer with an essay by Elena Theodorakopoulos.

@liamguilar Yes, Yeats here too. It’s a while since I’ve reread Jones or Graves so overdue a visit. Neruda too.

@jobalmer Yeats more than anyone. Then Bunting, Jones, Graves and R.S Thomas. But I've spent the last year or so working my way through John Matthias' poetry and he will be on the rereading list. Kipling since before primary school.

#poets which poet/s do you reread most often? And why if you have the inclination to explain. Thank you.

@liamguilar The whole of ‘Men In the Off Hours’! Talking of North American women poets, also often re-read Adrienne Rich’s ‘The Dream of a Common Language’. Back in Blighty, just re-read Larkin’s Collected. What about you?

@jobalmer Favourite Ann Carson poems?