🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

to appear on Poetry Foundation is a journey, including many thanks to the UK editors from harana poetry, bath magg and The Poetry Society and many more places that saw the potential in me and who were willing to publish my poems about the everyday x 🥺✨

Gboyega Odubanjo: Poet missing after Shambala Festival, police say bbc.in/44qoUgs

Gboyega Odubanjo: police appeal for help over missing poet theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/a…

Jay Bernard has chosen Jemilea Wisdom-Baako’s ‘Grey Coats + Nokia Phones’ as the winner of the inaugural PL Pamphlet Prize! Jemilea’s pamphlet will be published by PL Editions in March & launched at our Spring Readings at Southbank Centre National Poetry Library. Congratulations Jemilea!!!

Celebrate our forthcoming #poetry titles at an ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH. Wednesday 1st November, 7.30pm (GMT). Featuring Olga Dermott- Bond @KostyaTsolakis and guest poet @RomalynAnte 🎫Register and pay what you can from £1 - thank you. buff.ly/45YdnWS

We really enjoyed last night's launch of new #ignitionpress pamphlets by @fahadalamoudi, Clementine & Laboni Islam! Wonderful readings and a generous & attentive audience - thank you to all who came! For more on the pamphlets: brookes.ac.uk/research/units…

We are so excited to launch the Tempest Prize, a brand new addition to the #NorthernWritersAwards – designed & funded by Andrew McMillan to shine a light on queer stories from the North 🥳 1 unpublished LGBTQ+ writer in the North of England will win £1000 & mentoring from Andrew!

lovely to be able to partner with New Writing North on this new addition to their Northern Writers Awards- hoping to find new , unpublished LGBTQ+ writers in the North! More details below 👇🏻

This Thursday 26th is publication day for GREEKLING. Join @KostyaTsolakis Gay's The Word for a launch night, the first of some wonderful events, in-person and online, to mark the book's arrival. 🎫 buff.ly/3SehvP2

We are over the moon to share this wonderful news, and so looking forward to these joyful, radical, vital books of poetry we're going to be publishing in 2024. Congratulations to all the authors... /1

March 2024 brings @mailbykite's third book - amuk - which sheds light on the devastating and ongoing effects of a single word's mistranslation, and emphasises what exists in opposition to such hostile histories and presents: hope, resistance, and joy. /3

October 2024 sees publication of The Tattoo Collector - the debut poems by tim tim cheng 🐸 (she/they). Ranging between Hong Kong, Scotland, and London, this powerful collection explores the intertwined relationship between the body, ecology and class. /9

And also in October 2024, @CalebParkin publishes a second collection of poems. Mingle exposes the copious toxicities in landscapes and bodies, through poems bubbling with the intoxications of hyper-wealth and climate nationalism. /10

November 2024 brings Self-Portrait With Family by Amaan Hyder. Weaving familial & queer traditions and archives, stretching across generational perspectives, an autobiographical collection about coming out to family and coming out into a gay community defined by whiteness. /11

🖤Pity Parties 🩷 here’s the full list of where Pity will be heading for launches in February - details in the thread and handy links here : linktr.ee/pityandrewmcmi… Hope to see you there!

Congratulations to @KostyaTsolakis who has been shortlisted for the The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award with his astounding debut poetry collection. What a joy to select and review Greekling (Nine Arches Press) for the PoetryBookSoc last Winter. #ZakKostopolous Queer Britain #QueerGreece #ekphrasis

On Nov 27, Polari Literary Salon will be at Sweatbox Soho for a site specific event with Neil Bartlett, Alexis Gregory, Piero Toto & @KostyaTsolakis Tickets are limited to 25 and this is a men only venue. The performance will take place in the bar area. outsavvy.com/event/23569/po…

The next spotlight for the #PolariPrize is on ‘Greekling’ by @KostyaTsolakis, published by Nine Arches Press ‘Greekling’ is perceptive, lyrical, and deeply evocative of time and place. @paulburston1 @fmcmassociates @easyjetholidays