Very happy my slightly unhinged sonnet sequence after Bernadette Mayer written in a one-hour constraint is in the latest issue of Blackbox Manifold w. poets including Lucy Hamilton & Miranda Lynn Barnes. Thanks to editors Alex Houen & Adam Piette. 🙏🙌 shorturl.at/x7Gad

⚡️BLACKBOX MANIFOLD 33 is now live!⚡️ Poems by James Byrne, Sheila Black, Kelvin Corcoran, David Herd, John Goodby, Lisa Kelly, Joseph Minden, Dr Eleanor Perry & others. Ralph Pite reviews Philip Terry, & Adam Piette reviews Rom Raworth & others blackboxmanifold.sites.sheffield.ac.uk

🌈QUEER WRITERS! We're re-opening for submissions between 1st-15th February 2025. Poetry, prose, non-fiction, reviews, hybrid work all welcome. So get scribbling! Please check our submission guidelines before sending. fruitjournal.co.uk 🌈 #LGBTQ #WritingCommunity

...groping for a quick change of gear as if for something left behind...

'The Worry People', a poem by Rachel Long, from our sold out June / July 2024 issue. For more like this, you can find all our available past issues here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/single…

Poetry by Jo Bratten, Paul Stephenson, Ange Mlinko, Nathaniel King, Beverley Bie Brahic, Andreea Iulia Scridon, Karan, Alice Miller, Richard Aronowitz and Audrey Molloy. Pre-order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/single…

So excited to be part of this!!

Poetry by Jo Bratten, Paul Stephenson, Ange Mlinko, Nathaniel King, Beverley Bie Brahic, Andreea Iulia Scridon, Karan, Alice Miller, Richard Aronowitz and Audrey Molloy. Order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curren…

We're so thrilled to reveal the judging panel for the 2025 #ForwardPrizes! 📣 Celebrated author Sarah Hall will be this year’s Chair of Judges, joined by poets Lisa Kelly, Hannah Lavery, Sean O’Brien and Rommi Smith. Read more about each judge here: buff.ly/4aNnH7y

We’re delighted to announce that Poetry in Aldeburgh will be back from Thursday 6 to Sunday 9 November 2025 and this year the festival will be bringing you even more poetry – more readings, more workshops and more talks, walks and close readings too. Watch this space…

👇🏽if you can, go to this.

Paul Stephenson's 'Old Master' reimagines Goya as an octopus in A Coruña's fish tank—a surreal dive into art and delirium. Read here! inksweatandtears.co.uk/paul-stephenso… #InkSweatandTears #Submissions #Poetry

I’ve been overdoing it of late - Paul Stephenson Paul Stephenson atriumpoetry.com/2025/03/25/ive…

Featuring: Sara Ahmad on the 7/7 bombings, twenty years on; Kasra Lang on Joseph Conrad and Hisham Matar; helena constance 🕊 on Mary Toft and ‘micro-histories’; David McAllister on modes of reading; and Paul Stephenson on Paris and Georges Perec. Pre-order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/single…

Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - I’ve been overdoing it of late by Paul Stephenson

Delighted to have my poem ‘There are pleasures so ordinary that we barely notice them’ after Carl Philips Carcanet Press in Black Nore Review Many thanks to Ben for taking the poem! blacknorereview.wordpress.com

all the fun of free verse fair Tristram Fane Saunders me Rishi Dastidar 🔱🌊 & Paul Stephenson 🎉🎊🎈 #freeversefair The Poetry Society

Lovely to finally all meet in person at the Free Verse The Poetry Society fair on Saturday! Magma 92 editors - Danne Jobin Paul Stephenson & Kathy Pimlott.

Let them eat tennis balls - Paul Stephenson Paul Stephenson atriumpoetry.com/2025/04/29/let…

Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - Let them eat tennis balls by Paul Stephenson Paul Stephenson