Reposted by Jeremy WikeleyThe London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Off the Page returns. No phones. No books. Four poets reading entirely from memory. Tickets here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/off-... 043
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Really calls for an Ozymandius style competition 110
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Well, someone's going to have to use that title now. 110
Reposted by Jeremy WikeleyHeadless Poet @headlesspoet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Headless 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) 👇open.substack.comHeadless Poet is open for proposalsA few introductions 041
Reposted by Jeremy WikeleyDave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 06/07/2026This 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...vianegativa.usPoetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 27A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere. 184
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Now with a short introduction: jwikeley.substack.com/p/dark-news-...jwikeley.substack.comDark news on the breezeA new pamphlet from Headless Poet 021
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Coming 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-...headlesspoet.comLilian Bowes Lyon: Snow Bees — HEADLESS POETA 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... 121
Reposted by Jeremy WikeleyMathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I think this might be one of my favourite answers to any question yet. 1255
Reposted by Jeremy WikeleyDave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Moving 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...vianegativa.usPoetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 25A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere. 294
Reposted by Jeremy WikeleySidekick Books @sidekickbooks.bsky.social · 28/06/2026OUT 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! 193
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026In 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 051
Reposted by Jeremy WikeleyIndifferenceEngine @guyware.bsky.social · 16/06/2026If I lie about my age, can I be banned from social media, too, please 171
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-...substack.comHow much depends on the exactness of the spellAlex Wong and Jeremy Wikeley on embarrassment, 'bad' puns, and the poems of Thomas Hood 030
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Skip straight to the original: www.freebloodybirds.com/issue-two/a-...freebloodybirds.com‘A rustle of leaves in Regent’s Park’: Louis MacNeice’s London, by John Clegg — Free Bloody BirdsThe London of Louis MacNeice’s poetry extends south to Trafalgar Square, north to Whitestone Pond at the top of Hampstead, west to St John’s Wood, and east to the western edge of the Heath. It is domi... 030
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Some thoughts on Louis MacNeice on the move, inspired by and shamelessly indebted to @johnclegg37.bsky.social. jwikeley.substack.com/p/goodbye-to...jwikeley.substack.comGoodbye to LondonLouis MacNeice on the move 192
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Yes - and as Donald Davie once put it "poets in general do not have good political sense". I think they have the same responsibilities to politics as the rest of us. 010
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Great 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. 072
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 02/06/2026The first two pamphlets from Headless Poet, enjoying a moment in the sun not so long ago. www.headlesspoet.com 030
Reposted by Jeremy WikeleyMathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Some weekend reading from me. First up, a terrific edition of the Writer’s Bookshelf with @jwikeley.bsky.social. mathewlyons.substack.com/p/the-writer...mathewlyons.substack.comThe writer's bookshelf: Jeremy WikeleyEight questions about writers, books, and reading… 152
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Really enjoyed this and, as a regular Writer's Bookshelf reader, was very flattered to be asked! Thank you @mathewlyons.bsky.social. 161
Reposted by Jeremy WikeleyDave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 28/04/2026This 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...vianegativa.usPoetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 17A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere. 3146
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Poetry Notebook 24/04/26 On Leontia Flynn, the poetry of stuff, and a season of sonnets. jwikeley.substack.com/p/poetry-not...jwikeley.substack.comPoetry Notebook, 24/04/26Profit, loss and a season of sonnets 030
Reposted by Jeremy WikeleyRichard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 21/04/2026how write book what words good how make good write 4272
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 21/04/2026I've certainly learnt a lot from poems. Poetry is an active pleasure - which means a bit of work for the reader is part of the deal and indeed a large part of the point. Which said, I am a lazy and impatient reader, so I try not to judge... 020
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 17/04/2026jwikeley.substack.com/p/rewarding-...jwikeley.substack.comRewarding in a rather straightforward wayVictoria Moul and Jeremy Wikeley discuss 'Poems Beautiful & Useful' 020
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Absolutely. Uncharitably, the poetry world doesn't have enough respect for other kinds of knowledge. More charitably, poetry has always had a license/need to synthesise, but knowledge is now so specialised that writing any poetry of this kind is incredibly hard. Partly explains confessional verse. 210
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 10/04/2026We were, among other names, the Voluntary Fire Department. Which felt like an affectation at the time but in retrospect was a timely warning about impending public service austerity. 120
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 18/03/2026I was very glad to do this one, and to spend some time walking London with Hill's poems. Such a loss. 0105
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Back to my old tricks (bothering publicity teams for review copies of books I can barely afford the time to read, let alone write about) 041
Reposted by Jeremy WikeleyAlex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Welcome to my new show about the history of commercial fishing, or the Cod Past podcast. 191
Reposted by Jeremy WikeleyRishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Tremendous poem in today's @parisreview.bsky.social mail out: mailchi.mp/theparisrevi...mailchi.mp“The Common Era,” Abigail Dembo 184
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Proofs! Very exciting. @victoriamoul.bsky.social Pre-order the real thing: www.headlesspoet.com/shop/p/poems... 051
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Back to my old tricks (putting £1 on Labour to win in G&D at 4/1) 130
Reposted by Jeremy WikeleyVincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Paul Gauguin's Armchair - 1888 botfrens.com/collections/46/content… 0438
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-...substack.comPoetry of DeparturesMuldoon, Allnutt, Kunial and the art of the soft landing 020
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Introductions 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...jwikeley.substack.comWhy I'm starting a poetry press (and how you can help)Introducing: Headless Poet 011
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 13/02/2026The daffs are coming out, and so are the @badlilies.bsky.social. Delighted to have two new poems in this early spring posy. 071
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Why I'm starting a poetry press. And how you can help 👇 Introducing, Headless Poet... jwikeley.substack.com/p/why-im-sta...jwikeley.substack.comWhy I'm starting a poetry press (and how you can help)Introducing: Headless Poet 020
Reposted by Jeremy WikeleyIan Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 05/02/2026I 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: 222958
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Thanks for the reminder. I will read anything JM writes! 010
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 27/01/2026This is one of the few positions in the book world which is both deeply unpopular, genuinely brave and completely correct. 150
Reposted by Jeremy WikeleyBad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Bad 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/subscribebadlilies.ukSubscribe to our issues — Bad LiliesBad Lilies is an online poetry journal, publishing the finest of contemporary poetry in English. 0113
Reposted by Jeremy WikeleyDave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 19/01/2026This 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...vianegativa.usPoetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 3A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond. 2115
