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Congratulations to Tishani Doshi for being longlisted in the #VoWBookAwards! A GOD AT THE DOOR is published by HarperCollins in India and Copper Canyon [@CopperCanyonPrs] in the US. The UK edition is published by Bloodaxe: https://t.co/NSjHZqBj07 https://t.co/ldADAV9wDu

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Shazea Quraishi will be launching her latest collection The Glimmer at a reading with Kathryn Simmonds (@KathrynSimmonds) at Fitzrovia Chapel on Tuesday 29 November: https://t.co/6IGDBSsYiw THE GLIMMER: https://t.co/Is4Pz8gHNi

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Aoife Lyall's debut collection Mother, Nature was published in 2021. Here @PoetLyall reads her new poem 'Wildflowers' for #NationalPoetryDay2022. https://t.co/pJl3nCq3P2

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We were very proud to publish Hans Magnus Enzensberger's New Selected Poems in 2015. Here's 'Optimistic Little Poem', translated by David Constantine. #Enzensberger More about Hans Magnus Enzensberger and his work on our website: https://t.co/p2d4Kxyx4O https://t.co/Ul8ctyIVnZ

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Wonderful to see Georgian poet Diana Anphimiadi on the longlist for the @WarwickPrizeWiT 2022. Her dual-language #WhyINoLongerWritePoems, translated by Natalia Bukia-Peters & Jean Sprackland, is the first UK selection of her poetry. @PoetryTranslate https://t.co/k9mzNm6VQJ https://t.co/55XyTHY90w

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'The calm, wit and grace with which she writes makes reading her poems moving but never depressing.' #CaroleSatyamurti's final collection #TheHopefulHat, a @PoetryBookSoc Recommendation, is Kate Kellaway's poetry book of the month in today's @ObsNewReview @ObserverUK. https://t.co/GdZOeykx2K

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Remembering Matthew Sweeney who died from MND & would have been 70 today #NationalPoetryDay @PoetryDayUK. ‘I want to be myself till the last minute’ he wrote from hospital in his final book Shadow of the Owl [https://t.co/AhpKFnr9Ss] The gourmet poet wouldn't be fed by tube. https://t.co/0LYCqUgzSF

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Sarah Wimbush's 'impressive' first full collection Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorgiolands is reviewed @WOLPoetry by @JohnIrvingClark. @SarahWimbush https://t.co/2tv7bU0lbt

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#SelimaHill has won The King's Gold Medal for Poetry, 2022. She is being recognised for her body of work, in particular her 2008 @BloodaxeBooks retrospective Gloria: Selected Poems. "Selima Hill is an inimitable talent." - Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate. https://t.co/qb81jt4WTb https://t.co/uBIRiUYxJv

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Irish-American poet-undertaker #ThomasLynch will be speaking to @SeanRocksARENA on tonight's edition of @RTEArena. He'll be reading poems from his newly-published retrospective #BoneRosary. Tune in to 📻 @RTERadio1 at 7pm tonight, 9 Aug, or listen later >>https://t.co/oODqZAaXzw https://t.co/u4CAcaFH4e