Professor of Poetry @BCUEnglish | New book of poetry: THE INFERNAL GARDEN (2025) @ninearchespress
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2 Dec 2025
THE INFERNAL GARDEN - available now via @NineArchesPress and your favourite bookshops.
With deep thanks to Declan Ryan for his exhilarating review in @IrishTimes (extract attached) and to Jeremy Wikeley for his equally exhilarating review in @Telegraph back in August.
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On 23 February 1821, John Keats died in Rome at 25.
He once wrote: “If I should die… I have left no immortal work behind me…”
He was wrong. He wrote poetry that has proved immortal — work that still resonates today.
To mark the day share a line of his that has stayed with you.
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Mornin' @MatthewMCSmith and all on @TopTweetTuesday today. Great to be back after a bit of a break. My homage is to that maestro of imagism... T.S. Eliot. An extract from my centenary response to The Wasteland set in 2020s Birmingham. Msg me if you're interested in the book 😎
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Jan 28
Our next ICCW event is with Patrick McGuinness and Gregory Leadbetter - In Conversation about their new books, out now with CB Editions and @NineArchesPress respectively, on Wednesday 4 February - FREE, just book here, where you’ll find all the details: eventbrite.co.uk/e/bcu-at-th…
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SALE now on - save up to 50% across a wide range of #poetry including prize nominated collections and creative writing handbooks. Book Club membership at a reduced price too.
With limited FREE UK postage.
What will you discover? ninearchespress.com/shop
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28 Dec 2025
"Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."
― Carl Sagan
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27 Dec 2025
Our 2025 titles are all part of our bumper book sale.
Save up to 50% on a wide range of #poetry direct from us: ninearchespress.com/shop
Support #indiepublishing
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23 Dec 2025
Our SALE has started 🎉
Up to half price #poetry book bargains to be bagged now!
ninearchespress.com/shop
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18 Dec 2025
A shelf of books and a shelf of good wine: this is all that is needed to orchestrate the good life. But your books and your wine must be choice.
— Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell & Claude-Marie Vincendon
photograph: Jean-Claude Sauer
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16 Dec 2025
Join an @arvonfoundation online #poetry writing day course led by Jane Commane.
Discovering Poetic Form - A whistlestop tour from the traditional to the contemporary.
Friday February 20th, 2026, from 10am
arvon.org/writing-courses/co…
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8 Dec 2025
Our 2025 titles are now available together as a perfect #poetry book bundle, celebrating our brilliant year of publishing.
Just £84.99📚
Including books by
@troycabida @csmithpoet
@GregMLeadbetter @Julwe1 @jamesliammcd & @LaurieBolger
ninearchespress.com/shop
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29 Nov 2025
‘The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.’
Tom Stoppard 1937 - 2025
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28 Nov 2025
'Today is Blake's birthday. Think of it, the birthday of codger Blake. Darling Liza, let us celebrate the old b***'s birthday, shall we? — as if we were French or Italian, as if it meant something.'
— Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet
William Blake, b. 28 November 1757
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29 Nov 2025
The oldest mention in print of ‘cricket’ - published in 1611, the year of The Tempest and the King James Bible.
One of the incredible treasures of the MCG Library…
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27 Nov 2025
🥁Our 2025 titles are now available together as a perfect #poetry book bundle, celebrating our brilliant year of publishing.
Just £84.99📚
Including books by @troycabida @csmithpoet @GregMLeadbetter @Julwe1 @jamesliammcd & @LaurieBolger
ninearchespress.com/shop
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21 Nov 2025
"We know she’s going to die soon, / so we’ve started clearing out her house."
'Monbazillac', a new poem by @IrigarayJulie, is now up on Wild Court: wildcourt.co.uk/monbazillac-…
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21 Nov 2025
"I saw its stain of light arrive / through the glass of a sky clear with hush."
'Comet C/2023 A3', a poem from @GregMLeadbetter's new collection, The Infernal Garden, is now up on Wild Court: wildcourt.co.uk/comet-c-2023…
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