This week at Waterstones: 25% off online pre-orders of our September and October titles! Just use code SUMMER26 on the website: www.waterstones.com/campaign/jul... @waterstones.bsky.social

We're delighted to have two titles shortlisted for @forwardprizes.bsky.social this year: Tishani Doshi's Egrets, While War for Best Collection, and @roshnigallagher.bsky.social's forthcoming debut Even the Trees for the Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection. www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

July news: mailchi.mp/8d4f35760824... Pia Tafdrup awarded the Prince Henrik Prize; Seven titles longlisted for the Forward Prizes; Tribute to Benjamin Zephaniah in The Observer; Gwyneth Lewis guest on Poetry Please; Menna Elfyn interviewed on The Glimpse podcast; plus much more!

A fascinating conversation between Jennifer Lee Tsai and @natlinhbolderston.bsky.social features online @poetrylondon.bsky.social. They were discussing the connections between their debut collections Melete and Divinations on Survival (@livunipress.bsky.social). poetrylondon.co.uk/communing-wi...

'Anything more immediate and full of life is hard to imagine.' - Hannah Stone, in the July issue of @thelakepoetry.bsky.social, on Lily Blacksell's debut poetry collection Life Immediately. www.thelakepoetry.co.uk/reviews/july...

'a collection that is just as wild as the beasts that populate it, allowing the speaker to find a space for herself within the menagerie as ‘the curator of my own heaven’.’ – Freya Jackson, in @poetrylondon.bsky.social, on @pascalepetit.bsky.social's Beast. poetrylondon.co.uk/an-inheritan...

You can still watch our wonderful June online launch event, which was livestreamed on Tuesday evening and includes readings from John Challis and Lawrence Sail, plus recordings of Frank Ormsby. Malachi O'Doherty, who made the recordings, joined us for the discussion. www.youtube.com/live/6OitDbh...

Today is publication day for our three June titles by John Challis, Frank Ormsby and Lawrence Sail! Available to order now from the Bloodaxe website and in all good bookshops. www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/new_titl...

Wonderful to see seven Bloodaxe titles on the longlists for the 2026 Forward Prizes for Best Collection and Best First Collection! Congratulations to John Challis, Tishani Doshi, Clare Pollard, Penelope Shuttle, Roshni Gallagher, Cathy Galvin, Jennifer Lee Tsai and all the longlisted poets.

Her Majesty Queen Margrethe of Denmark presented poet Pia Tadfrup with the Prince Henrik Prize 2026 in recognition of her 'having enriched Danish literature over five decades with highly original and varied poetry that maps countless aspects of human existence.' www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

‘Here is articulation and exhibition of things described that manages to enter almost the mythic in world-building.’ – Patrick Davidson Roberts, Wild Court, on John Challis's second collection The Green Parcel, out this month. A wonderful in-depth review. wildcourt.co.uk/a-sacred-int...

Less than a week to go until our free online launch event for new books by John Challis, Frank Ormsby and Lawrence Sail! Join us live (or later) on YouTube on Tuesday 23 June, 7pm BST Find more details and sign up for reminders here: www.bloodaxebooks.com/events?artic...

In their Poetry London conversation, Helen Farish and Katharine Towers discuss signing off a collection. Helen's fifth collection, Monet's Broom, is out from Bloodaxe in November. Her fourth, The Penny Dropping, was shortlisted for @tseliotprize.bsky.social 2024. poetrylondon.co.uk/signing-off-...

'Doshi reminds us that moments of beauty – of nature, human and nonhuman – persist…Her poems scream fiercely, unflinchingly of war and then, without blinking, she sings of what we might return to, what we might survive for.' – Ellora Sutton, @mslexia.bsky.social, on Tishani Doshi's Egrets, While War

June news: shorturl.at/F2oQZ New books from John Challis, Frank Ormsby & Lawrence Sail; Online launch event 23/06; Joanna Lowry wins @mslexia.bsky.social pamphlet competition; The Taste of Lightning on the @oxfordcct.bsky.social Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize shortlist; plus much more!

We're delighted that Joanna Lowry has won the Mslexia Women's Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2025 for her debut pamphlet The Man Whose Brain Turned to Glass. The winning pamphlet will be co-published by Bloodaxe Books & @mslexia.bsky.social in September. www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

Francis R. Jones's translation from Serbian of the late Ivan V. Lalić's The Taste of Lightning: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, Nov 2025) is on the shortlist for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2026. More details: www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article... @oxfordcct.bsky.social

Join us this evening for our May online launch event with Tishani Doshi, Patricia Smith and Jennifer Lee Tsai. All three poets will be reading from their new books and discussing them with Bloodaxe editor Neil Astley. Watch live at 7pm BST (or later) on YouTube: youtube.com/live/4x0gzWr...

A conversation between poets Tishani Doshi and Michael Symmons Roberts is featured online @poetrylondon.bsky.social. They discussed their poetry and the shared themes in their new collections, Egrets, While War (out this month from Bloodaxe) and Dog Star (Penguin). poetrylondon.co.uk/birdsong-in-...

Lily Blacksell's debut Life Immediately and Polly Clark's retrospective Afterlife: New & Selected Poems were both featured in Graeme Richardson's round-up of new poetry in The Sunday Times of 10 May. Also online by subscription @thetimes.com. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Congratulations to @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social, Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Poetry for The Intentions of Thunder, out this month from Bloodaxe in the UK & Ireland. 'A bold re-imagining of the “new and selected” form' - @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social Judges www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

'Debut poets are so often described as “daring” that the word has lost its shine. However, in the first full-length collection by Jennifer Lee Tsai...its true meaning glimmers through.' - Jade Cuttle, @observeruk.bsky.social, on #Melete, out this month from Bloodaxe. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

‘Smith’s passionate voice is incandescent with all that’s grotesque and cruel in American Black experience' - @fionasampson.bsky.social, @theguardian.com, on @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social's retrospective The Intentions of Thunder, out this month from Bloodaxe. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Congratulations to @pascalepetit.bsky.social on winning the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize for 'Night Canoe on Lake Sandoval', a poem evoking 'both mood and landscape with rare and refined sensibility'. In a historic first, she was also runner-up for the same award. www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

We are immensely saddened by news of the death of the poet J.H. Prynne, aged 89. Prynne was Britain's leading late Modernist poet. Bloodaxe has been proud to publish his poetry since 1999. Our tribute is below. www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

Today is publication day for our new Expanded Edition of Scenes from a Long Sleep: New & Collected Poems by Peter Didsbury, published to celebrate his 80th birthday! shorturl.at/WwLgi Includes the collection A Fire Shared (2020) as well as new, previously uncollected poems.

'The collection swings delightfully from the surreal [...] to the more straightforward albeit beautiful lyric poems and then back again’ – Mícheál McCann, @irishtimes.com, on @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social's just-published fifth collection Crowd Voltage. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

April news: shorturl.at/wZfJt #PeterDidsbury: Scenes from a Long Sleep out 10/04; @jesstraynor.bsky.social's New Arcana on #PigottPoetryPrize shortlist; #RitaAnnHiggins on @rteradio1.bsky.social's Brendan O'Connor Show; @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social review in @irishtimes.com & podcast feature & more

We're delighted to announce that @jessicatraynor.bsky.social's fourth collection New Arcana is on the shortlist for the Pigott Poetry Prize 2026. 'Jessica Traynor’s New Arcana continues a body of work that has steadily expanded in ambition and reach.' www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

Lily Blacksell will be reading at Books Upstairs in Dublin on 14 June. (More details coming soon.) ‘The collection won me over with its unique imagination that takes the everyday and gives it a fresh inside-out... A rare talent brimming with charm and mischief!’ – Daljit Nagra