Have you signed up to our Annual Book Club? It's the best way to get your hands on all TEN solo authored #poetry books that we'll publish in 2026, with a HUGE saving.
Our second book of the year is imminent.
Just £89.99 including postage - the best kind of post.
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Thank you Sarah Howe for these wonderful words about @betarish.bsky.social's #poetry collection, Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak 🌸
Inventive, dazzling wit, "turns delight towards serious ends."
"Full of heart and hope."
Line up your copy, out 19th March: ninearchespress.com/publications...
Masterclass Webinar and Workshop Season just announced: Eco-poetics and the Environment.
Led by poets Ian Humphreys @lkiew.bsky.social James McDermott @wendypratt.bsky.social and @jsaphra.bsky.social
Book one, several, or the full seasons.
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"In Light Year @jennywcreative.bsky.social shows us the power of remembering... It’s by looking at the minutiae of daily life that we can understand the largeness of the world around us, and all its vast distances. Everything matters."
Thank you Ellora Sutton & @mslexia.bsky.social for reviewing.
Limestone Quarry, Knaresborough It’s not my fault the rocks are insane, I’m just announcing stone-intent. If you were two-hundred-million years old and each century was worth less than a grain of sand if you had been mud and coral in Pangea and saw extinctions and then in the great yawn of tectonic plates became a little spit of something that one day would be England, if humans were the latest news, a misplaced handaxe your first trinket, if you watched Romans introduce gods and rabbits, if you saw Christ carried in a book, if you were a sprawl of caves, a castle, a cliff, a series of shrines, generations of homes, if you wore a vast forest as a cloak, if you buried a prophet, dug up a saint, if you kissed the last boar goodbye, if you became black with soot, if the forest was shorn to a sliver, if the river washed you to sand, if the day and night were a spinning top and your voice was the great echo of grit, if there was no moving through your history but the history was you over and over and over again, wouldn’t you be a mudslide, a haunt, a great unspoken secret?
Blog post: Inspiration behind the poem If you sit me down and ask me to guess the length of a minute, I’ll wander off midway through, come back a half-hour later and ask you what time it is. For someone this thoroughly timeblind, I have a peculiar obsession with it. Deep time, in particular, the way that it passes for a stone or fossil not measured in days, but in the long yawn of epochs. It’s a scale utterly unimaginable for any of us. In Knaresborough (a Yorkshire market town) when I was a teenager, I met a man who kept a vertical garden. A normal garden would stop where it reached the edge of a cliff-face, but his simply went on up, dug into it, occasionally supported on wooden two-by-fours. It was a fantastic endeavour in non-euclidian landscaping complete with fishpond, at least ten feet up. In front of the garden was his bookshop, poky and ancient like himself. One year during a summer squall, he told me ghost stories, how he invoked the Lord against bits of haunted furniture and how his own dead son had walked through the door one day. Another year, he claimed his garden, his cliffs and the caves under them as the birthplace of a prophetess. He said to me that he’d had an archaeology student spend a summer with him. When this had happened, I couldn’t guess. This archaeology student spent a summer digging in those caves, looking for the tunnels that supposedly ran from there up to Knaresborough Castle. Instead, he found
stone tools and Roman coins. Proof that there’s been people continuously living in and around these cliffs for almost as long as there’s been people on this island. Time flattens. I see myself returning here at fifteen, at twenty-five and all the years between, slipping between Royalists with their muskets, medieval hermits, Georgians on their way to take the waters at Harrogate, Roman legionaries, and my strange, nimble bookseller. But even that is a short gasp compared to the stones themselves. Knaresborough is surrounded by limestone cliffs, which given that limestone is formed from calcite and that calcite was once ancient sealife, I figure those cliffs to be about 99% ghosts—scientifically speaking. And look at everything those ghosts have seen! The last time I visited my bookseller, the shop was shuttered. He had been elderly the whole time I had known him, and I suppose time must have caught up to him at last. Though, I almost don’t believe it. How can I? When I see him vanishing into those ancient caves, his ghost stories, that green cliff of his own making.
A sample poem from my forthcoming @ninearchespress.bsky.social collection and a blog post. Something about time, booksellers and folklore 💚
Happy #WorldBookDayUK - it's also a year since we moved to our lovely new #Birmingham office.
Let's celebrate together, use the LOVEPOETRY code at the Nine Arches checkout for 25% off #poetry books when you spend £15+.
What's missing from your shelves?
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Buy Kym's book. I promise it's so good you're gonna want to eat it. Consume it. Let the words populate you like an infestation, or a haunting, or both and both and both.
"One year during a summer squall, he told me ghost stories, how he invoked the Lord against bits of haunted furniture and how his own dead son had walked through the door one day."
A blog with a new poem from the collection & the story of what inspired it: a little bit of first-hand folklore.
Delighted to share a poem from Folkish plus insights from poet @kymdeyn.bsky.social. Join us on a journey to an ancient quarry in Knaresborough, discover this legendary landscape and intriguing inhabitants:
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Folkish arrives in April, ready to pre-order now
A joy to unbox copies of March's glorious Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak by @betarish.bsky.social
"These poems froth with ideas and formal daring" - thank you @poetclare.bsky.social
Let us parcel up a copy for you to savour.
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Come through
London launch of Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak by @betarish.bsky.social 🌸
A gorgeous bloom of poets accompany Rishi to celebrate, hear from @eveellis14.bsky.social Maisie Lawrence, Arji Manuelpillai and more.
Upstairs at The Devereaux, Temple, WC2R 3JJ
Monday 30th March, 7.30pm
Thank you Sarah Howe for these wonderful words about @betarish.bsky.social's upcoming #poetry collection, Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak 🌸
Inventive, dazzling wit, "turns delight towards serious ends."
"Full of heart and hope."
Line up your copy: ninearchespress.com/publications...
Have you signed up to our Annual Book Club? It's the best way to get your hands on all TEN solo authored #poetry books that we'll publish in 2026, with a HUGE saving.
Our second book of the year is imminent...
Just £89.99 including postage - the best kind of post.
ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Nine-...
Come to our great event in Wembley. Home not just to football but also to poetry! Listen to wonderful poets Jane Clarke & Jessica Mookherjee - with the chance to share a poem in the open mic @janeclarke.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
Thank you Jade Cuttle and @theobserveruk.bsky.social for selecting Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak by @betarish.bsky.social as their Poetry Book of the Month, finding it "playful and profound".
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Buy the book ninearchespress.com/publications... 🌸
Squibs asks: “Have you pre-ordered Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak yet? Or shall I bring the boys round?” ninearchespress.com/publications...
Have you signed up to our Annual Book Club? It's the best way to get your hands on all TEN solo authored #poetry books that we'll publish in 2026, with a HUGE saving.
Our first book of the year is imminent...
Just £89.99 including postage - the best kind of post.
ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Nine-...
Did you know that our flagship magazine, Under the Radar, is available as a single copy or part of a 4-copy subscription, in print or digital?
Full of new #poetry, short fiction & reviews to discover.
Don't miss out, let it land in your inbox or onto your doormat:
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We're excited for our TRIPLE ONLINE LAUNCH
Tuesday 21st April, 7pm
Featuring #poetry from @jennywcreative.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social and @kymdeyn.bsky.social as they celebrate these wonderful new books.
Pay what you can: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/triple-onl...
Thank you Nigel Kent for your wonderful review of GREY TIME, finding "emotionally intelligent poems of great skill" by @julwe1.bsky.social
"I have never read poems that explore grief’s many layered nature in the perceptive way Webb’s poems do."
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And the BAFTA goes to... huge congratulations to Dean Atta and the team behind Two Black Boys In Paradise, WINNER of the Best British Short Animation. A joy to see Dean's poem from 'There is (still) love here' brought to life like this.
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I spoke to the wonderful L Kiew in the latest poet interview for the 'Just Another Poet' YouTube poetry channel. This chat was a collaboration with @modronmagazine.bsky.social. L Kiew's debut collection 'More Than Weeds' is published by @ninearchespress.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrBF...
New #blog post from @betarish.bsky.social sharing a poem and discussion in the lead up to Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak arriving next month 🌸
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Congratulations to BAFTA winner Dean Atta! Best British Short Animation with Two Black Boys in Paradise, based on Dean's poem.
Have you signed up to our Annual Book Club? It's the best way to get your hands on all TEN solo authored #poetry books that we'll publish in 2026, with a HUGE saving.
Just £89.99 including all postage - the best kind of post📚
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And the BAFTA goes to... huge congratulations to Dean Atta and the team behind Two Black Boys In Paradise, WINNER of the Best British Short Animation. A joy to see Dean's poem from 'There is (still) love here' brought to life like this.
ninearchespress.com/publications...
Sign-up for our TRIPLE ONLINE LAUNCH
Tuesday 21st April, 7pm
Featuring #poetry from @jennywcreative.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social and @kymdeyn.bsky.social as they celebrate these wonderful new books.
Pay what you can: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/triple-onl...
Have you signed up to our Annual Book Club? It's the best way to get your hands on all TEN solo authored #poetry books that we'll publish in 2026, with a HUGE saving.
Our first book of the year is imminent...
Just £89.99 including postage - the best kind of post.
ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Nine-...
A cherry blossom lemonade as a way to get you to pre-order the book? Ok then: ninearchespress.com/publications...
