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Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I really enjoyed working on these - my first foray into translating poetry rather than writing it. Such a wide variety of poets and styles here, do take a look!

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 26/04/2026

‘There were long, argumentative pieces, densely intuitive, often obscure, inviting readers to consider how the poem was supposed to address the world, if it could rise to the occasion.’ The editors on J.H. Prynne, who died on Wednesday, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...

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The Editors | J.H. Prynne 1936-2026

J.H. Prynne died on Wednesday at the age of 89, after a prolific life as a teacher and essayist, a loyal friend to his...

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Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Robert Kelly's shortest poem, for #smallpoemsunday

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Sunday poem draft. Untitled and semi-after a poem by Jan Zwicky Your body was terrifying. Not the sight of it burning bush and all that awe. Its edges, the precipice to look at and the fear of jumping.

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magistrabeck.bsky.social @magistrabeck.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Henry loves being surrounded by books. 📚🐱❤️

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Catalan poet Gemma Gorga rereads the Penelope and Ulysses story The Aged Penelope Speaks Ulysses, absent Far off, a hand is cutting back the lilac and keeping the seed for summer

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magistrabeck.bsky.social @magistrabeck.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I married a Canadian and realized I haven't read very much Canadian lit. I'm starting with this. Any other recommendations?

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magistrabeck.bsky.social @magistrabeck.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

"Despite the best efforts of people...spring was still spring, even in the city." -Tolstoy, The Resurrection, tr. Anthony Briggs Tolstoy is brilliant and still relevant.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

War. And after that? War. And now? War. War. History might as well be water, chastising this shore. -Carol Ann Duffy, The Wound in Time, written on the occasion of the centenary of the first World War. #everynightapoem

It is the wound in Time. The century’s tides,
chanting their bitter psalms, cannot heal it.
Not the war to end all wars; death’s birthing place;
the earth nursing its ticking metal eggs, hatching
new carnage. But how could you know, brave
as belief as you boarded the boats, singing?
The end of God in the poisonous, shrapnelled air.
Poetry gargling its own blood. We sense it was love
you gave your world for; the town squares silent,
awaiting their cenotaphs. What happened next?
War. And after that? War. And now? War. War.
History might as well be water, chastising this shore;
for we learn nothing from your endless sacrifice.
Your faces drowning in the pages of the sea.

Carol Ann Duffy, ‘The Wound in Time’ (2018)

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magistrabeck.bsky.social @magistrabeck.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

because normalcy is surely dead we’ve watermelons replaced our heads why not? When nothing else makes human sense: An entire world is intertwined in this glaring, pink genocide. -"Sweet Dissociation" by Willow Sommer @toughpoets.bsky.social

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Epigraph to Jean-Luc Nancy’s After Fukushima: The Equivalence of Catastrophes, translated by Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social

His heart,
in childhood, always delighted
in every leaf, every slice of sky,
contemplating his village. This future
was unaware that today
the horizon aligns itself with other
indifferences. Everything has happened:
in us, by fate,
we are prisoners of regret
for our innocence.

—Pier Paolo Pasolini, “Europa”

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

W.S. Merwin

April

When we have gone the stone will stop singing
April April
Sinks through the sand of names
Days to come
With no stars hidden in them
You that can wait being there
You that lose nothing Know nothing

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Anthony @timesflow.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Reminded of Larkin’s poem ‘Coming’ today with the longer, lighter Spring evening

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Isabellettriste @minxmarple.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

💙 In Case You Missed It 💙

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Bonjour, melancholie with poet Vasko Popa. Orphan Absence You have the figure of an abandoned abyss There's a smell of absence about you

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Daniel Green @greenlitcrit.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction is now available in a print version. Unfortunately, couldn't make it free (lowest prices allowed): Print-on-demand: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/gilbert-so... Paperback: www.lulu.com/shop/daniel-...

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Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Would anyone like to read Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga with @yelenafurman.bsky.social and me? We'll start in late April. It's hundreds of pages but looks, at first glance of the ToC, like a chapter-a-day kind of book... Details to come if anyone would like to join us! 📚

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magistrabeck.bsky.social @magistrabeck.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Recovering from surgery and turned my library into a cozy bedroom. And, of course, Henry is my nurse.

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Trying to pray with Canadian poet Leo Kennedy. And praying for Spring. Words for a Resurrection Each pale Christ stirring underground Splits the brown casket of its root, Wherefrom the rousing soil upthrusts A narrow pointed shoot

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

In @stonecirclereview.bsky.social, a poem I wrote as I was finishing the manuscript for An Absence of Sea—a poem of flesh and hours, about the porousness of the human and time experienced as sensation rather than sequence. stonecirclereview.com/vessel/

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Vessel

by Christina Tudor-Sideri I want you to feel this the way time moves through me not as a line but as a trembling interval a breath before the word a pulse after it leaves I live in this pause my lu...

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Yoon Kim @yoonkim.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

“I do not know how to rid the world of evil, or whether one is simply supposed to endure it. But you are there and are having an effect, and the poems have an effect of their own and help to protect you—that is the answer and a counterbalance in this world.” — Ingeborg Bachmann to Paul Celan, 1958

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magistrabeck.bsky.social @magistrabeck.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Phoebe with her Canadian sisters, Willow and Juno.

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Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 17/01/2026

“miracles of darkness”

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

A wonderful study on imagery by Thom Gunn Consider the snail I cannot tell what power is at work, drenched there with purpose, knowing nothing. What is a snail's fury?

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

'Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring a library' — Walter Savage Landor

A view of the statue of Isaac Newton through the iron gates of the British Library. The ironwork of the gates spells out 'British Library' in a repeated column.

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

'…Really that young man, I’ve no patience at all with him; he behaves like a very unconvincing character in a book, not like a human being at all.’ #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/c...

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Christmas Pudding by Nancy Mitford

First published in 1932, Christmas Pudding was one of Nancy Mitford’s early books, written before she hit the big time with her semi-autobiographical novels, In the Pursuit of Love (1945) and Love …

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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Very excited to announce our Fall 2026 books via our newsletter today. And now here! BLUE SUNSET by Denise Rose Hansen and WHAT REMAINS by Brais Lamela (trans by Jacob Rogers) will be out Oct 6, 2026! Read more about these two wonderful new novels at our website: dorothyproject.com/books-gallery/

The front cover for Denise Rose Hansen's Blue Sunset features a mostly blue painting of a person asleep in a bed by Kaye Donachie.

The front cover of What Remains is black and white and features a photograph of a building designed by Miguel Fisac.

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Re-upping for the holiday weekend crowd: New issue on boredom quotes Barbara Pym, Henry James, The Kills, Elisa Gabbert, Penelope Fitzgerald, Nicola Griffith, Mary McCarthy, Lars Iyer, Ilka Chase, Orson Wells, and many other folks. Napoleon among them.

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Julian Barnes's departure: his cancer, his deaf dog, Martin Amis's last email to him, and why he's stopping writing novels so that he doesn't die in the middle of one and have some other bastard finish it for him. Me on Barnes's final book:

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Julian Barnes bids farewell: ‘My cancer and I will trundle along until the day I die’

In his final book, Departure(s), the Booker-winning author explores love death, and ageing

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