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Benjamin Zephaniah: Birmingham’s Rebel Poet 📷 Proud Brummie. 📷 Voice of the oppressed. 📷 Legacy of resistance + rhythm. Dive into his journey in Birmingham—where his fire was forged. 📷 Watch: youtu.be/PmGV-_zxwhs?si…

Review of the new anthology collection by Sunderlands, poet William Martin | Andy Potts northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/poetry… northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/poetry…

Lenni Sanders (@LenniSanders) on a collection of poems synthesizing scientific research the-tls.co.uk/regular-featur…

Last week's brilliant online launch event for our Versus Versus anthology is now available on our YouTube with fully corrected captions for anyone who missed the livestream: youtube.com/live/07usVjBxJ…

Tonight, 7pm at St Chad's College Durham: Gillian Allnutt reading from her new collection Lode, and the editors of William Martin’s Marratide: Selected Poems present the book along with recordings of Bill Martin reading and singing his poems. bloodaxebooks.com/events?article…

We're excited to let you know that registration is OPEN for the @outspoken_acad Summer 2025 Academy Plus 9 week online poetry course, with tutors @malikabooker, @jtaylortrash & Pascale Petit FRSL🐅🌳🦜🌳🐆 Dates: 16 Jun–11 Aug Workshops: Mondays 7–9pm UK Info & register outspokenldn.com/academy-plus

.Marjorie Lotfi reads 'Prayer' by John Burnside, the next of our series of poetry films in collaboration with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation. The film is directed by Savannah Acquah bit.ly/3Z2fI24

'It is easy to be swept along by Rhizodont’s long, thoughtful sequences, which both explore the past and hint at the future.' – Lenni Sanders, The TLS, on #KatrinaPorteous's fourth collection #Rhizodont, which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2024. the-tls.co.uk/regular-featur…

'Martin’s vision may be firmly rooted in home soil, but it ranges widely through time and space.' - Andy Potts, North East Bylines, on the late William Martin's just-published Marratide: Selected Poems (edited by Peter Armstrong & Dr Jake Morris-Campbell). northeastbylines.co.uk/culture/poetry…

We're thrilled to announce that #KerryHardie's ninth poetry collection We Go On has won the Pigott Poetry Prize 2025. Many congratulations to Kerry and to the shortlisted poets David McLoghlin and Mary O’Malley. #pigottpoetryprize bloodaxebooks.com/news?articleid…

Many congratulations from Arts Council of Northern Ireland to #KerryHardie & Bloodaxe Books on this top accolade for what is a milestone collection, packed with wisdom, in her already distinguished career.

So pleased to be included in this fabulous anthology of disabled poets from around the world. Versus Versus edited by Rachael Boast, published by Bloodaxe. What a power house of talent and imagination. A reflection of the many pathways disabled people negotiate and forge.

Rachael Boast, disability advocate and editor of Versus Versus, will discuss her new anthology live with Molly Twomey and an international audience on Just to Say on Wed 4 June, 7pm (UK & Ireland). Email [email protected] for the Shareable Zoom link. bloodaxebooks.com/events?article…

Step into the wild with Pascale Petit’s Beast—a powerful exploration of trauma, myth & endangered nature. Catch her live in Ware on Fri 13 June. 🎟 Book: southernmaltings.co.uk/events/ware-po… #PoetryReading #WareEvents #SouthernMaltings

10 exceptional African writers are featured in Versus Versus, a new poetry anthology by deaf, disabled & neurodivergent poets from around the world! Out now in the UK/EU via Bloodaxe Books, coming July 22 to the US! All the details here 👇🏾 brittlepaper.com/2025/06/10-afr…

Many congratulations to Emilie Jelinek, winner of the Mslexia ✨ Women's Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2024 for her second pamphlet, The Sky Around My Father. The winning pamphlet will be co-published by Bloodaxe Books & Mslexia on 25 September. bloodaxebooks.com/news?articleid…

This is tomorrow 5 June! Thrilled to announce that I’ll be reading from Beast at the Purcell Room, South Bank centre for the outstanding Out-Spoken family, with an incredible line-up, please come friends. Book via this link, seats selling fast!: southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/out-s…

Huge congratulations to Bernardine Evaristo, who is to receive the Women's Prize Outstanding Contribution Award for her body of work and her dedication to uplifting under-represented voices. Bernardine Evaristo's debut novel-in-verse #Lara was republished by Bloodaxe Books in 2009.