timrelf
@timrelf
Penguin-published novelist. Poet-in-residence at Leicester Botanic Garden. Golden retriever wrangler.
My piece in @GuardianBooks about the poetry magazine scene. It’s crucial we support these journals and all the others doing such great work... @ButchersDogMag @_dodo @PN_Review @Carcanet @PoetryBrum @naushsabah @propelmagazine @Anthony1983 @FrogmorePress theguardian.com/books/2023/jun…
Like poetry? Like film? Agnostic about one—both? Give my second collection Hollywood or Home a try. Laughter and sadness—and a plentiful popping of ego balloons along the way. I waited almost twenty years to publish—some of that time planned, most not. serenbooks.com/book/hollywood…
A huge honour to have my poem ‘Bournemouth’ included in such a wonderful, important anthology, alongside so many terrific poets and poems. Very special. Immense gratitude to Rachael Boast and @BloodaxeBooks.
Now on our Vimeo: a new compilation video for our Versus Versus anthology, featuring 23 of the contributing poets reading their work: vimeo.com/1102502312 Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets, edited by Rachael Boast - bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/ve…
Chuffed to bits to have a poem in the new issue of one of my favourite journals @Poetry_London. Thank you @NiallCPoetry for giving my work such a fantastic home.
CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS! Editors @WillieKinardIII, Lola Oh and @cloudscholar can't wait to receive your submissions for Magma 94: REMIX More info & to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-submi… Closing date: 31st July, 2025 Image: Joao Aldeia
We're grateful for two excellent new reviews of Richie McCaffery's new pamphlet Skail. Matthew Stewart: 'a significant landmark.' roguestrands.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-un… Julie Garner: 'compassion and humour.' everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2025/07/review… To buy this excellent pamphlet: newwalkmagazine.bigcartel.com
My link for the first launch (online) of ‘the elimination game’ (Broken Sleep) 30 July -book here eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sleep… And if you’re in London on 8 August come to the in incredible L live launch eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-dazzling-p…
Many congratulations to all the poets on the shortlist for this year's Forward Prize for Best Collection, especially to @NiallCPoetry and Vidyan Ravinthiran, shortlisted for their third poetry collections The Island in the Sound and Avidyā. @ForwardPrizes #ForwardPrizes
The Forward Prize for Best Collection – We’re proud to reveal the #ForwardPrizes 2025 shortlist for Best Collection! Five powerful books from some of the most compelling voices in poetry today. 👏 Congrats to the poets & publishers! 🔗 Full list: buff.ly/SS35YlZ
Fantastic poem Julia - and congratulations on the new collection. I'm looking forward to reading it.
Here's a poem from my new collection!
My July musings on poetry publishing for @thebookseller @Nat_Mem_Arb @CityBridgeFndn @MccafferyRichie @NewWalkEditions @NorthSeaPoets @BloodaxeBooks @NiallCPoetry @KathleenJamie @donpatersonpoet @ShoestringPress @NineArchesPress @lisabrockwell thebookseller.com/comment/reside…
It was a joy to talk to @amyacrepoet of the wonderful @badbettypress for this piece in the new issue of Poetry News @PoetrySociety @JakeWildHall
Hear hear! I did a North Sea Poets workshop with Niall recently and it was phenomenal.
I can't submit to Poetry London. But if I could, & I didn't know Niall's work, & I hadn't seen a recent copy of that magazine, this wd convince me that the current editor is at least a superb writer, & that I would like him to publish me. His workshops must be rather good too.
Movers, shakers and mowers in the poetry world (part 2) @SerenBooks @DerynRJ @PavilionPoetry @LivUniPress @sheffhallamuni @SheffHallamEng @LaurenceKingPub @HachetteUK thebookseller.com/comment/anthol…
Movers, shakers and mowers in the poetry world (part 1) @ImcMillan @NorthGravy @SarahWimbush @ValleyPress @frankiegardner_ @AnaBooks @RyutoMiyake @orionbooks @OneworldNews @isobeldixon @BlakeFriedmann @NineArchesPress thebookseller.com/comment/anthol…
Delighted to have a poem in the new issue of @PoetryBrum. This is a fine journal, edited by @naushsabah. Particularly gratifying to be alongside writers I admire so much, including Gerry Cambridge of @thedarkhorsemag, @CamilleRalphs_ and @neilsonandrew.
This is a fantastic interview. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
I interviewed Andrew Motion and Michael Hofmann for @PoetryBrum. Two jolly extracts here, but you'll have to buy the mag to learn why AM thinks 'all poetry is performance poetry', or why MH 'can see American poetry growing a little curly tail, like the last of the Buendías'.
'Death is what gets poets out of bed in the morning' - my new column about the poetry publishing sector in @bookseller @LisaDMKelly @TATFS @ignitionpress @prototypepubs @NiallMunro @tseliotprize @ForwardPrizes @Carcanet @GinaRozner @abosimian thebookseller.com/comment/mags-p…
Quick re-up of my latest for The Guardian, some cracking new poetry collections and anthologies: theguardian.com/books/2025/may…
Our editor, Niall Campbell, is running a course on preparing a pamphlet manuscript (and how best to make that approach).
My first solo course with NSP is coming up. The webinar covers how to organise your work when approaching a publisher and the best and worst ways to contact an editor. More details below:
It was such a joy to talk to the wonderful poet and publisher @dislaney about @poetrycandle for the spring issue of Poetry News. @PoetrySociety
