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Action Books @actionbooks.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Congratulations Gabriel Gudding! FRIENDS WITH EVERYONE has won the 2025 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award! Judge Roger Sedarat writes: "Gudding has effectively translated through a prism of punk, allowing himself, like his source poet, to remain an agent of fire.” poets.org/academy-amer...

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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

This week's Book of the Week is Ghayath Almadhoun's I HAVE BROUGHT YOU A SEVERED HAND, translated by Catherine Cobham and published by @actionbooks.bsky.social (US) and Divided Publishing (UK).

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Over at Zona Motel, I talked about Burn the Losses by Antonio Gamoneda -- now out from @actionbooks.bsky.social as translated by @hedeenk.bsky.social and Victor Rodriguez Núñez. zonamotel.substack.com/p/review-bur...

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REVIEW: Burn the Losses by Antonio Gamoneda

Still in the heart there are ants.

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

| Literary Feature | Sniffing Candles & Building a Bench // An Interview with Writer & Translator Hedgie Choi www.neonpajamas.com/blog/hedgie-... @uwiscpress.bsky.social / @actionbooks.bsky.social / @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social

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ArtfulTea @artfultea.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

9. Rose Petal Raspberry Herbal Tea & motherworld: a devotional for the alter-life by Destiny Hemphill from @actionbooks.bsky.social

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Action Books @actionbooks.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

action will be at AWP! booth 549 come check out new titles! offsite reading happening on friday, march 28, 6-10 pm.

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johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

New ACTION BOOKS coming this April: • Spanish poet Antonio Gamoneda's Burn the Losses • Palestinian poet Ghayath Almadhoun's searing I Have Brought You A Severed Hand • W & E, ML Martin's "refracted" translation of medieval poem Wulf and Eadwacer Let me know if you are interested in reviewing!

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Action Books @actionbooks.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

April 2025! actionbooks.org/catalog/

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katherine m. hedeen @hedeenk.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

check out this list! let me know if you’re interested in reviewing! @actionbooks.bsky.social

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Action Books @actionbooks.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Poets of the World Unite! poetry in action is back. “I am the moan, the boiling, the sneeze, I am the over-there. I am the artesian well, the kestrel’s pertinence, I am tongue. I am the intestines and the foot inside, inside of someone.” Karen Villeda, tr. NAFTA actionbooks.org/2025/02/poet...

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poetry in action #42 | From STRING THEORY by Karen Villeda, Translated by NAFTA • Action Books

poetry in action features work by poets from around the world, translated into English. NOW MORE THAN EVER: Poets of the world, unite and take over! Resist the oppressive constraints of good, publisha...

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johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

"You could smell the fear everywhere. But under the Syrian regime, you could hide the real meaning behind your words with metaphors. Metaphors would save you," Almadhoun explains." Ghayath Almadhoun (Action Books) on writing in a dictatorship: www.middleeasteye.net/discover/met...

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'In a dictatorship, metaphors can save you': The poetry of Ghayath Almadhoun

The poet says that while censorship in a dictatorship is nothing new, the same in a democracy feels like entering a new totalitarianism

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