Jeremy Wikeley

Tremendous poem in today's @parisreview.bsky.social mail out: mailchi.mp/theparisrevi...

Ah well.

The only way out is through!

Proofs! Very exciting.

@victoriamoul.bsky.social

Pre-order the real thing: www.headlesspoet.com/shop/p/poems...

Back to my old tricks (putting £1 on Labour to win in G&D at 4/1)

Paul Gauguin's Armchair - 1888
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14353

Poetry of Departures Muldoon, Allnutt, Kunial and the art of the soft landing

"There is a difference between paying attention to an ending and a poem which is genuinely attentive to its own end—which has been, from the first line, a thing in time, moving through it. "

Some thoughts for the blog on endings in poetry, via Muloon, Allnutt & Kunial. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Why I'm starting a poetry press (and how you can help) Introducing: Headless Poet

Introductions are the way poetry survives. They are also, I think, an endangered art.

Which is why I'm starting a poetry press.

Here's a little more about what that all means (and how you can help): jwikeley.substack.com/p/why-im-sta...

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The daffs are coming out, and so are the @badlilies.bsky.social. Delighted to have two new poems in this early spring posy.

Why I'm starting a poetry press (and how you can help) Introducing: Headless Poet

Why I'm starting a poetry press. And how you can help 👇

Introducing, Headless Poet...

jwikeley.substack.com/p/why-im-sta...

I posted elsewhere about a lady in one of my Leeds Irish Health and Homes workshops who wrote 'I've had dementia / for as long as I can remember'. It came back to me reading @ravoon.bsky.social's tremendous debut 'Dirt Rich', full of technically brilliant, emotionally-devastating work like this:

Thanks for the reminder. I will read anything JM writes!

Well, I read that wrong.

This is one of the few positions in the book world which is both deeply unpopular, genuinely brave and completely correct.

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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 3 A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

This week in the poetry blogs with @victoriamoul.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @linarvitvideopoet.bsky.social
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Here's a thing I wrote for Carcanet about my forthcoming book: featuring toast, marmite, Tom Baker, and taphophobia

I am interested all these things too now, especially the last one. I am always saying things I don't mean!

New edition of Peter Didsbury's "new and collected poems" this April. I am very excited. Poetry's best kept secret.

www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/...

Me, last year, on how Larkin made it new.

My bit on Larkin's The Less Deceived, which is 70 this year -and every bit as good as The Whitsun Weddings. Thanks as ever to @engelsbergideas.bsky.social & thank you again to @plsoc.bsky.social for hosting the live version.

Snow on snow, snow on snow (on snow) This one really is a notebook

A Poetry Notebook enters the Kingdom of Winter, with cameo appearances from Christina Rossetti, Frost, Stevens, Larkin and Toby Martinez de las Rivas.

jwikeley.substack.com/p/snow-on-sn...

The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.

"These days, I stress that close reading is not magic. Its power lies in argument: always vulnerable, nothing simpler and yet nothing harder." @bostonreview.bsky.social

www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

House near us has a bauble the size of a car *on top of their car* and a huge light display - with a box for donations to the leccy bill. Obviously I hate it. But I respect it.

I have a new poem, about ancient history, in the winter edition of @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social. Very pleased I am about it too. You can get a copy and read some other pieces online here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...

This was a lot of fun. Thank you @plsoc.bsky.social for the invitation. Print version to follow. And here is the beautiful piece by Rachel Cooke I mentioned at the start. Such absences: www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

I have a new poem, about ancient history, in the winter edition of @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social. Very pleased I am about it too. You can get a copy and read some other pieces online here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...

Our December / January 2026 issue is out now!

Cover image by Tom Johnson, cartoon by Dan Sperrin.

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Many words of the year are in fact more than one word