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This week in the poetry blogs with @jntod.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @mayacpopa.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/04/poet...

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A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.

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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 17

Some thoughts on Louis MacNeice on the move, inspired by and shamelessly indebted to @johnclegg37.bsky.social. jwikeley.substack.com/p/goodbye-to...

Skip straight to the original: www.freebloodybirds.com/issue-two/a-...

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The London of Louis MacNeice’s poetry extends south to Trafalgar Square, north to Whitestone Pond at the top of Hampstead, west to St John’s Wood, and east to the western edge of the Heath. It is domi...

‘A rustle of leaves in Regent’s Park’: Louis MacNeice’s London, by John Clegg — Free Bloody Birds

The first two pamphlets from Headless Poet, enjoying a moment in the sun not so long ago. www.headlesspoet.com

“As with the puns and ingenious rhymes, so with other things; there’s an opportunism, if you like, or just a huge openness. He goes for it.” Alex Wong and I talked about Thomas Hood's strangely compelling - and deeply embarrassing - single-use spells. Please tuck in. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Louis MacNeice on the move

Goodbye to London

jwikeley.substack.com

Really enjoyed this and, as a regular Writer's Bookshelf reader, was very flattered to be asked! Thank you @mathewlyons.bsky.social.

If I lie about my age, can I be banned from social media, too, please

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Dave Bonta

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Alex Wong and Jeremy Wikeley on embarrassment, 'bad' puns, and the poems of Thomas Hood

How much depends on the exactness of the spell

Jeremy Wikeley

Yes - and as Donald Davie once put it "poets in general do not have good political sense". I think they have the same responsibilities to politics as the rest of us.

13d

Great stuff. Lots of nice quotes but Hugo Williams contributing in both 1962 and 2026 trumps everything ("Ted Hughes?! I can’t believe I wrote that. I’ve never liked him"). Congratulations to Jamie and everyone at TLM for pulling it off.

Some weekend reading from me. First up, a terrific edition of the Writer’s Bookshelf with @jwikeley.bsky.social. mathewlyons.substack.com/p/the-writer...