Bloodaxe Books

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Bloodaxe Books, Britain's leading international poetry publisher.

Hexham, Northumberland, UK bloodaxebooks.com Joined February 2010

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Bloodaxe Books @BloodaxeBooks Nov 3

Huge congratulations to poet Grace Nichols, winner of the @RSLiterature's 2026 RSL Pioneer Prize.

'Grace Nichols is one of our most important contemporary poets. [...] She embodies the spirit of the RSL Pioneer Prize and we are proud to honour her.'
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'The poetry is witty and always surprising.' - Daljit Nagra, on Crowd Voltage, his @BBCRadio4Extra Poetry Extra Book of the Month for November.

Daljit read 'Giraffe' from @JohnMcCullough_'s fifth collection on 1 Nov. He introduced Crowd Voltage at 28:48.
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Bloodaxe Books @BloodaxeBooks Oct 23

Great interview with poet Jane Clarke on @RTERadio1's @RTECountryWide last Saturday, 17 October. She was discussing climate breakdown and biodiversity loss with presenter Philip Boucher-Hayes, and read two poems from her just-published collection Coracle.
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www.rte.ie Jane Clarke Poet Jane Clarke's work is a firm favourite among farmers. Her new collection asks awkward questions of all of us about what we are allowing to happen to the natural world.

Bloodaxe Books @BloodaxeBooks Oct 9

October news: shorturl.at/tMeWj

#AnneCarson awarded #NobelPrize; new books from #JaneClarke, #CarolynForche & #ChaseTwichell; Online launch 20/10; #TishaniDoshi shortlisted for #PENHeaneyPrize; #YangLian receives #LericiPea Lifetime Achievement Award; & much more!

Bloodaxe Books @BloodaxeBooks Oct 9

Great podcast featuring two poems by Tishani Doshi. The first is the final poem from her fifth collection Egrets, While War. The second is the title poem from her third collection Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods.

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In the latest edition of our Nothing But The Poem podcast, resident host Samuel Tongue takes an exploratory dive into 2 extraordinary poems by Indian poet Tishani Doshi

* Some Words to the Close and Holy Darkness

* Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods

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