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Jeremy Wikeley

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The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Off the Page returns. No phones. No books. Four poets reading entirely from memory. Tickets here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/off-...
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Headless Poet @headlesspoet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Headless Poet is open for pamphlet proposals! We're looking for short, lively introductions to poets and poems “buried by time”. Find out more (or just ask @jwikeley.bsky.social) 👇
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Headless Poet is open for proposals
A few introductions
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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This week in the poetry blogs with @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @cbeditions.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/07/poet...
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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 27
A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Now with a short introduction: jwikeley.substack.com/p/dark-news-...
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Dark news on the breeze
A new pamphlet from Headless Poet
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Coming really very soon from Headless Poet: @jntod.bsky.social introduces a rich, varied and moving selection from the poems of Lilian Bowes Lyon - back in print for the first time since 1948. Subscribe/pre-order and find out more: www.headlesspoet.com/shop/p/snow-...
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Lilian Bowes Lyon: Snow Bees — HEADLESS POET
A Selection of Poems edited by Jeremy Noel-Tod Headless Poet Introduction 1.3 Publishing 24 July 2026, pre-order/subscribe now — Edited by Jeremy Noel-Tod, this new selection brings the full...
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Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I think this might be one of my favourite answers to any question yet.
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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Moving at summer’s pace, an animal made of departure, and much more with @emmalee1.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @dharmabam.bsky.social @collinkelley.bsky.social @marianchristie.bsky.social @adamcairnspoet.bsky.social 3/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/06/poet...
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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 25
A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.
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Sidekick Books @sidekickbooks.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
OUT NOW: Ten Poets Do Their Bit for the Secret Service! Feat. @abrackenbury.bsky.social @johnclegg37.bsky.social @mconley.bsky.social Grace Ellis, Jac Harmon, Safa Maryam, Claire Orchard, Jess Richards @robertsheppard.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social 📚💙 #BookSky Book 🔗 in bio!
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
In July - for one month only - Headless Poet will open for proposals for what people are already describing as “Series 2”. Which is exciting. And another opportunity to tell (and refine) the story of what Headless Poet is all about. Watch this space? www.headlesspoet.com
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IndifferenceEngine @guyware.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
If I lie about my age, can I be banned from social media, too, please
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
“As with the puns and ingenious rhymes, so with other things; there’s an opportunism, if you like, or just a huge openness. He goes for it.” Alex Wong and I talked about Thomas Hood's strangely compelling - and deeply embarrassing - single-use spells. Please tuck in. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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How much depends on the exactness of the spell
Alex Wong and Jeremy Wikeley on embarrassment, 'bad' puns, and the poems of Thomas Hood
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Some thoughts on Louis MacNeice on the move, inspired by and shamelessly indebted to @johnclegg37.bsky.social. jwikeley.substack.com/p/goodbye-to...
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Goodbye to London
Louis MacNeice on the move
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Great stuff. Lots of nice quotes but Hugo Williams contributing in both 1962 and 2026 trumps everything ("Ted Hughes?! I can’t believe I wrote that. I’ve never liked him"). Congratulations to Jamie and everyone at TLM for pulling it off.
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The first two pamphlets from Headless Poet, enjoying a moment in the sun not so long ago. www.headlesspoet.com
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Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Some weekend reading from me. First up, a terrific edition of the Writer’s Bookshelf with @jwikeley.bsky.social. mathewlyons.substack.com/p/the-writer...
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The writer's bookshelf: Jeremy Wikeley
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Really enjoyed this and, as a regular Writer's Bookshelf reader, was very flattered to be asked! Thank you @mathewlyons.bsky.social.
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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
This week in the poetry blogs with @jntod.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @mayacpopa.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/04/poet...
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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 17
A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Poetry Notebook 24/04/26 On Leontia Flynn, the poetry of stuff, and a season of sonnets. jwikeley.substack.com/p/poetry-not...
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Poetry Notebook, 24/04/26
Profit, loss and a season of sonnets
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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
how write book what words good how make good write
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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Rewarding in a rather straightforward way
Victoria Moul and Jeremy Wikeley discuss 'Poems Beautiful & Useful'
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I was very glad to do this one, and to spend some time walking London with Hill's poems. Such a loss.
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Back to my old tricks (bothering publicity teams for review copies of books I can barely afford the time to read, let alone write about)
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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Welcome to my new show about the history of commercial fishing, or the Cod Past podcast.
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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Tremendous poem in today's @parisreview.bsky.social mail out: mailchi.mp/theparisrevi...
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“The Common Era,” Abigail Dembo
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Proofs! Very exciting. @victoriamoul.bsky.social Pre-order the real thing: www.headlesspoet.com/shop/p/poems...
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Back to my old tricks (putting £1 on Labour to win in G&D at 4/1)
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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Paul Gauguin's Armchair - 1888 botfrens.com/collections/46/content…
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
"There is a difference between paying attention to an ending and a poem which is genuinely attentive to its own end—which has been, from the first line, a thing in time, moving through it. " Some thoughts for the blog on endings in poetry, via Muloon, Allnutt & Kunial. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Poetry of Departures
Muldoon, Allnutt, Kunial and the art of the soft landing
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Introductions are the way poetry survives. They are also, I think, an endangered art. Which is why I'm starting a poetry press. Here's a little more about what that all means (and how you can help): jwikeley.substack.com/p/why-im-sta...
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Why I'm starting a poetry press (and how you can help)
Introducing: Headless Poet
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The daffs are coming out, and so are the @badlilies.bsky.social. Delighted to have two new poems in this early spring posy.
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Why I'm starting a poetry press. And how you can help 👇 Introducing, Headless Poet... jwikeley.substack.com/p/why-im-sta...
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Why I'm starting a poetry press (and how you can help)
Introducing: Headless Poet
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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I posted elsewhere about a lady in one of my Leeds Irish Health and Homes workshops who wrote 'I've had dementia / for as long as I can remember'. It came back to me reading @ravoon.bsky.social's tremendous debut 'Dirt Rich', full of technically brilliant, emotionally-devastating work like this:
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Well, I read that wrong.
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This is one of the few positions in the book world which is both deeply unpopular, genuinely brave and completely correct.
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Bad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Bad Lilies is cooking up a BEAST of an issue for next month. Subscribe to our email list and get early access to our submission windows! www.badlilies.uk/subscribe
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Subscribe to our issues — Bad Lilies
Bad Lilies is an online poetry journal, publishing the finest of contemporary poetry in English.
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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
This week in the poetry blogs with @victoriamoul.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @linarvitvideopoet.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/01/poet...
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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 3
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Here's a thing I wrote for Carcanet about my forthcoming book: featuring toast, marmite, Tom Baker, and taphophobia
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
New edition of Peter Didsbury's "new and collected poems" this April. I am very excited. Poetry's best kept secret. www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/...
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Scenes from a Long Sleep | Bloodaxe Books
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Me, last year, on how Larkin made it new.
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
My bit on Larkin's The Less Deceived, which is 70 this year -and every bit as good as The Whitsun Weddings. Thanks as ever to @engelsbergideas.bsky.social & thank you again to @plsoc.bsky.social for hosting the live version.
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
A Poetry Notebook enters the Kingdom of Winter, with cameo appearances from Christina Rossetti, Frost, Stevens, Larkin and Toby Martinez de las Rivas. jwikeley.substack.com/p/snow-on-sn...
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Snow on snow, snow on snow (on snow)
This one really is a notebook
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
"These days, I stress that close reading is not magic. Its power lies in argument: always vulnerable, nothing simpler and yet nothing harder." @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I have a new poem, about ancient history, in the winter edition of @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social. Very pleased I am about it too. You can get a copy and read some other pieces online here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
This was a lot of fun. Thank you @plsoc.bsky.social for the invitation. Print version to follow. And here is the beautiful piece by Rachel Cooke I mentioned at the start. Such absences: www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I have a new poem, about ancient history, in the winter edition of @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social. Very pleased I am about it too. You can get a copy and read some other pieces online here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...
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The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Our December / January 2026 issue is out now! Cover image by Tom Johnson, cartoon by Dan Sperrin. Order your copy here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...
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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Many words of the year are in fact more than one word
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