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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thanks to reviewers Dave Coates and @shashtrevett.bsky.social for these wonderful reviews of Nadine El-Enany and @roshnigallagher.bsky.social's just-published debut collections in the Poetry Book Society's Autumn Bulletin.

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Shash Trevett @shashtrevett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s a wonderful collection! Many congratulations to @roshnigallagher.bsky.social and to you all at Bloodaxe 👏👏

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 15/09/2026

Why the artist must take sides @saulwilliams.bsky.social

“Some artists believe they have no place discussing politics, or, at least, politics beyond their scope.

Yet a live-streamed genocide should bring everything into question. A question that becomes: What role can you play? What is within your power to help bring it to an end?”
Saul Williams, Songs My Mother Taught Me: Why The Artist Must Take Sides

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Shash Trevett @shashtrevett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

poems.com/features/wha... Thank you @poetrydaily.bsky.social for publishing my essay on my poem ‘New words, new clothes’. You have given me the chance to publicly say thank you to Jack Mapanje who was instrumental in me finding my way back to my mother tongue. 🙏🏽 @poetrybusiness.bsky.social

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Shash Trevett on "New words, new clothes"

In my poem ‘New words, new clothes’ I revisit the time when I abandoned the Tamil language, choosing first silence and then English as replacements. This is a poem about the transformative capacity of...

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The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

✨WORKSHOPS NEXT WEEK✨ 🌙 Poetry’s Quiet Hours: Writing the Nocturne with Vicky Morris Mon 26 January, 6.30pm 👁 The ‘I’ and the ‘Eye’: Writing Landscapes of the Self with Shash Trevett Tue 27 January, 11am Sign up: buytickets.at/thepoetrybus... @vickymwriter.bsky.social @shashtrevett.bsky.social

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Great reviews in the Poetry Book Society Autumn Bulletin of @poetclare.bsky.social's sixth collection Lives of the Female Poets and @jesstraynor.bsky.social's fourth collection #NewArcana, both out this month from Bloodaxe. Many thanks to reviewers @shashtrevett.bsky.social and Nasim Rebecca Asl.

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The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

In honour of her recent Walcott Prize shortlisting, we've re-published Shash Trevett reading her amazing poem 'These Were Their Names' on the Poetry Bites podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/5j2J... Next week hear a poem from Alan Payne, who is also on the shortlist! @shashtrevett.bsky.social

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Shash Trevett @shashtrevett.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

So thrilled to be on this long list. Thank you @englishassociation.bsky.social and judges and congratulations to all the wonderful poets on this list 🙏🏽💖🙏🏽

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The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

More lovely Shash Trevett news! Shash's debut collection The Naming of Names is on the longlist for the 2025 Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize! poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/the-... @shashtrevett.bsky.social

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The Naming of Names - The Poetry Business

The poetry in Shash Trevett's deeply moving collection The Naming of Names bears witness to the Tamil experience during the Sri Lankan civil war.

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Shash Trevett @shashtrevett.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Thanks for the shout out Matthew 🙏🏽

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The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

As a storyteller and translator, Trevett demonstrates a remarkable ability to choose her words with precision, ensuring that each one serves the larger purpose of the poem – Thembe Mvula, Poetry London poetrylondon.co.uk/they-were-he... @poetrylondon.bsky.social @shashtrevett.bsky.social

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Shash Trevett @shashtrevett.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Thank you re Ann Lowe! I had to leave before the event finished so missed the mixer as well.

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Shash Trevett @shashtrevett.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Only one place remaining. Workshop - this morning - 11am. I have a lovely set of exercises. Come join us to have some fun with words!

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Shash Trevett @shashtrevett.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Thanks Daniel. I wish I’d seen you to say hello. Isn’t Ilisha’s work wonderful?!

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Daniel Hinds @danielghinds.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Really enjoyed attending the launch of Ilisha Thiru Purcell's @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social pamphlet What She Said at Northern Stage this weekend. A clever combination of forms from Tamil poetry and north east landscapes. Great to hear @shashtrevett.bsky.social read her work too!

Two poetry pamphlets. What She Said by Ilisha Thiru Purcell and From a Borrowed Land by Shash Trevett

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Shash Trevett @shashtrevett.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Thank you! I can’t wait 😊

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Shash Trevett @shashtrevett.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Had a wonderful morning recording my poems for @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social with the lovely #PaulBaily at Re:Sound Studios resounduk.co.uk Paul was amazing and so good at what he does. I am thrilled to have my poems recorded: thank you Paul and The Poetry Archive 🙏🏽🙏🏽 @poetrybusiness.bsky.social

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Re:Sound - music production - Re:Sound UK

Re:Sound music production company. The founder, Paul Baily, graduated in Music at both Newcastle and Durham - 15 years as Abbey Road sound engineer

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Shash Trevett @shashtrevett.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

So looking forward to leading this workshop next week. The @poetrybusiness.bsky.social runs so many fantastic workshops at affordable prices. Please check them out 🌺

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Shash Trevett @shashtrevett.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Remembering today the immense loss of civilian life at the end of the 26 year civil war in Sri Lanka. By the shores of Nanthikadal Lagoon our dreams came to rot. My poem of Remembrance from ‘The Naming of Names’ (2024 #poetrybusiness) #May18 #TamilLives. There can be no end to the grief.

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Shash Trevett @shashtrevett.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

So looking forward to reading alongside the wonderful #YusifMQasmiyeh at Ledbury in June!

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Shash Trevett @shashtrevett.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I’m so looking forward to attending (where pos) and reading alongside #YusifQasmiyeh & #AnthonyVahniCapildeo at this conference on Displacement, organised by the Univs of Hyderabad, Dartmouth & UCL. It’s Hybrid - with amazing panelists. Please join in if you can.

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Shash Trevett @shashtrevett.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Thank you for this. It was such an exciting and thought provoking collection to read. I’m looking forward to the launch! 👏

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Here's a precise and perceptive review of upcoming Life expectancy begins to fall by @tomsastry.bsky.social Thank you @shashtrevett.bsky.social and PBS Find out more: buff.ly/Hy4ZiMM Line up your copy of Tom's book: buff.ly/7yYecNI

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Shash Trevett @shashtrevett.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

For International Mother Language Day, it’s lovely to see this again from the @mptmagazine.bsky.social archive. Thank you! @poetrybusiness.bsky.social

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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I am proud to join over 350 rabbis and cantors, plus a long list (and growing) of Jewish creatives to sign on to an ad in the @nytimes.com crying out against the president’s (ימ"ש) call for the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza. #SayNoToEthnicCleansing #GazaIsNotForSale 1/

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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

#BREAKING All five artistic teams shortlisted for the 61st Venice Biennale have released a joint statement in support of winning duo Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino who were dumped by Creative Australia following media and political pressure. The group calls for them to be reinstated.

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Christopher Smith @christophersmith.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Ghosts do not come to gulp blood in the battlefields of our era, nor demons to consume flesh. The ghosts and demons that consume us from afar have faces like yours and mine. S. Sivasegaram, one of many poets I discovered in @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social extraordinary collection Out of Sri Lanka

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Shash Trevett @shashtrevett.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Thank you for this! Sivasegaram is a fantastic poet, both in Tamil and in English, and ‘Faces of War’ is one of my favourites in our anthology. Here is a link to the complete poem (p58). Plus a chance to read more of his work. I’m so happy you are enjoying the book 🙏🏽 noolaham.net/project/30/2...

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Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

One of the world’s greatest book stores - I learned so much from Ahmed & Mahmoud & many of my books (which I couldn’t find in the US) are from their shop. Please amplify- telling Palestinian stories, esp from Palestinian perspectives, is one of the greatest threats to the Zionist entity.

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Saqi Books @saqibooks.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

We are alarmed and shocked by the arrest and detainment of our author and colleague Mahmoud Muna, along with his nephew Ahmad Muna, owners and booksellers of Jerusalem’s Educational Bookshop. Please share our statement below widely.

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The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

We are now accepting submissions for The North 71 until the end of February! You can send us up to 6 poems for consideration via the form on our website. More details: poetrybusiness.co.uk/about-the-po...

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