Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 5hRegister here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-live-r...eventbrite.co.ukThe Live Review hosted by Tamsin HopkinsA live monthly online event for book lovers featuring a panel discussion of one book, a live reading by the author and audience Q&A. 000
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Derek Mahon passed away six years ago today. Here he is on autumn, what might have been, and what might yet become, from The Snow Party (1975). #poetry 0267
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I can think of very few rhymes in the English language as satisfying as ‘silence’ and ‘islands’, from part five of Ash Wednesday by T.S. Eliot, born on this day in 1888. #poetry 031
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I’ll be discussing Mindset Mindrise, a new collection from @kmngriffiths.bsky.social exploring the nature of mind in the age of AI, online at The Live Review on 11 October, 6pm BST. The poet will be reading and taking questions from the audience too. Join us! #poetry #AIeventbrite.co.ukThe Live Review hosted by Tamsin HopkinsA live monthly online event for book lovers featuring a panel discussion of one book, a live reading by the author and audience Q&A. 010
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026... and here's the Brueghel it goes with: 171
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026William Carlos Williams was born on this day in 1883. Here he is on hubris and the indifference of the world, from Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962). #poetry 1134
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Robert Lowell passed away on this day in 1977. Here he is, reflecting on the confessional poetry for which he is so famed, in his last original collection, Day by Day, published the year he died. #poetry 090
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Ángel González was born on this day in 1925. Here he is on sound and silence. This translation is by Gonzalo Melchor. #poetry 030
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Happy Birthday, Rita Dove. Here she is on the importance of getting up and at ‘em, from On the Bus with Rosa Parks (1999). #poetry 052
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Happy Birthday, Li-Young Lee. Here he is on food and family, from Rose (1986). #poetry 1131
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 18/08/2026No one can be entirely sure when Federico García Lorca was murdered by Franco’s militia, but it was sometime around the middle of August in 1936. Here’s one from Poema del Cante Jondo (Poem of the Deep Song), first published in 1921. This translation is by Cola Franzen. #poetry 2141
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Happy Birthday, Medbh McGuckian. Here’s a favourite from On Ballycastle Beach (1988). #poetry 071
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Diane di Prima was born on this day in 1934. She started writing her Revolutionary Letters in 1968, adding to them until shortly before her death in 2020. Here’s the first. #poetry 093
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Robert Hayden was born on this day in 1913. Here he is on the joys of music and solitude, from Words in the Mourning Time (1970). #poetry 041
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 28/07/2026John Ashbery was born on this day in 1927. “Everyone is along for the ride, / It seems”. #poetry 072
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Jennings. Here she is on summer and angst, from The Animals' Arrival (1969). #poetry 03513
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Thank you to editors Amanda Quaid and Jon Rachmani at Metphrastics for publishing my poem 'Complicity', after 'Self Portrait' by Unknown Artist (ca. 1800–5). #Poetry #TheMet www.metphrastics.com/summer-26/#c...metphrastics.comSummer 26 — Metphrastics 150
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Pablo Neruda was born on this day in 1904. Here he is on political and environmental corruption, from ‘America, I Do Not Invoke Your Name in Vain’, part six of Canto General. This translation is by Ben Belitt. #poetry 15817
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 05/07/2026That's lovely to see. Thanks for sharing, @ianhunt.bsky.social. I like the mechanical dragonfly/butterfly thing particularly. 010
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 05/07/2026A still from 'The Blood of a Poet' (1932) by Jean Cocteau, born on this day in 1889. #poetry #cinema 1112
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Happy Birthday, Harryette Mullen. Here’s one from ‘Sleeping with the Dictionary’ (2002). #poetry 1162
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 27/06/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S43...youtube.comLUCILLE CLIFTON reads "won’t you celebrate with me"YouTube video by Poets Speak 180
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Today is the 90th anniversary of the birth of Lucille Clifton. won’t you celebrate with me #poetry 24012
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Today is the summer solstice and the anniversary of the birth of Adam Zagajewski. Don’t allow the lucid moment to dissolve. #poetry #solstice 59923
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 14/06/2026And here it is being read by actor and theatre director Laurent Terzieff. 2/2 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3gg...youtube.comJ'ai étranglé mon frère, René CharYouTube video by Poème 1120
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Poet and resistance fighter René Char was born on this day in 1907. Here’s an enthralling little piece of poem from Placards pour un chemin des écoliers (1937): part two of ‘Quatre Âges’. Alongside it is my translation. #poetry 1/2 🧵 1291
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Yes, I was interested to read he was influenced by Whitman in his early days. I didn't know that but it certainly makes sense. 010
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 13/06/2026"Unsensationalised", perhaps I should have said. 120
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 13/06/2026James Schuyler maybe. The second half of 'The Bluet' might exemplify it. The understated queerness of DH is there too. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49716/...poetryfoundation.orgThe BluetUnexpected as a tear when someone reads a poem you wrote for him: "It's this line here." That bluet breaks me up, tiny spring flower late, late in dour… 110
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Gwendolyn Brooks forever. Born on this day in 1917. #poetry 36813
Reposted by Marc ChamberlainBeatGhoul @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Rest in Power ☆ Marjane Satrapi November 22, 1969—June 4, 2026 18315
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 03/06/2026A little cry from Allen Ginsberg on the anniversary of his birth. #poetry #ginsberg #america 0233
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Happy Birthday, Uncle Walter. Born on this day in 1819. “A glimpse through an interstice caught” ❤️ #poetry #queer 0191
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Melvin Dixon was born on this day in 1950. His poetry was infused with panache, fierce intelligence and an always understated sophistication. Here’s “The 80’s Miracle Diet”. Stunning, shattering, and I love the nod to (dig at?) Ginsberg at the end of the second stanza. #poetry #HIV #AIDS #the80s 280
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 22/05/2026I'll be reading at the launch 🚀 of Angel Exhaust 24 tonight. 7pm BST. There will be some fantastic poets there. Come along! #poetry 040
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 21/05/2026It’s 21 May and the Sun is entering the third sign of the Western zodiac. Here’s “Gemini” by Palestinian American poet Fady Joudah. #poetry 093
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Adrienne Rich was born on this day in 1929. Here’s "In Those Years", written in 1991, where she reflects on the aberration that was so-called "confessional" poetry. #poetry 0194
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Charles Simic was born on this day in 1938, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Here’s “Prodigy,” about playing chess as a child in a house where “Planes and tanks / shook its windowpanes.” #poetry www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42953/...poetryfoundation.orgProdigyA retired professor of astronomy taught me how to play. In chess, too, the professor told me, the masters play blindfolded, the great ones on several… 190
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Reupping this. We're at audience capacity for the Zoom now, but some people may not show. If you'd like to be added to the waitlist, please send an email to Sue Burge (address on the poster). You might get lucky! Complicated Air | Sunday 10 May | 7-9pm UK time #poetry 020
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 28/04/2026A beautiful thing, this. The first publication of 'An Attempt at Alphabet' by John Wieners, in both book form and as a facsimile of the original 12 sheet scroll in Wieners' hand. Written in San Francisco on 22-23 October 1957. Published now by Constitutional Information of Sheffield, UK. #poetry 091
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Paul Celan passed away on this day in 1970. Here's the wonderful 'Sprachgitter' and its translation as 'Language Mesh' by Michael Hamburger. #poetry 1133
Reposted by Marc ChamberlainEleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 16/04/2026are you a GAY PERSON IN MY PHONE who writes about TECH, VIDEO GAMES, MEMES, MISSING VINE, or (most importantly) HATING AI? you have until this sunday to submit to the MOTHERBOARD anthology by @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social. we would love to read your work!! fifthwheelpress.com/anthsubsfifthwheelpress.comanthology submissions — fifth wheel press 184
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Happy birthday, Jericho Brown. This poem still devastates. #poetry #blacklivesmatter www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/158648...poetryfoundation.orgThe TraditionWe thought Fingers in dirt meant it was our dirt, learning Names in heat, in elements classical Philosophers said could change us. Summer seemed to bloom… 040
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Angel Exhaust 24 now available to buy from www.angelexhaust.net. There's some fantastic work in here and I'm honoured to be included. Grab yourself a copy now, or ask your library to order it for you! #poetry 010
Reposted by Marc ChamberlainFiona Larkin @fionalarkin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Looking forward very much to reading with this amazing group of poets - save the date! Zoom link from Sue Burge (email on poster) @michpenn.bsky.social @marcchamberlain.bsky.social @tamsinhopkins.bsky.social 092
