Jeremy Wikeley
@jwikeley.bsky.social
Word wrangler; Publishing and editing HEADLESS POET: https://www.headlesspoet.com/; writing A POETRY NOTEBOOK: https://jwikeley.substack.com/
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...
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...
Why I'm starting a poetry press (and how you can help)
Introducing: Headless Poet
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February 19, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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...
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...
The daffs are coming out, and so are the @badlilies.bsky.social. Delighted to have two new poems in this early spring posy.
OUT NOW. Issue twenty-three: 'Wildfires' badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-three
Issue twenty-three — Bad Lilies
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February 13, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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...
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Introducing, Headless Poet...
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Why I'm starting a poetry press (and how you can help)
Introducing: Headless Poet
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February 6, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Why I'm starting a poetry press. And how you can help 👇
Introducing, Headless Poet...
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Introducing, Headless Poet...
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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:
February 5, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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:
Well, I read that wrong.
What to do this weekend, from Timothée Chalamet in conversation to the First Lady worth seeing.
Katherine Cowles picks five cultural highlights, whether you have five minutes, an hour or an evening to spare.
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Katherine Cowles picks five cultural highlights, whether you have five minutes, an hour or an evening to spare.
https://bit.ly/4c1pVTB
What to do this weekend, from Timothée Chalamet in conver...
Our critic picks five cultural highlights, whether you have five minutes, an hour or an evening to spare
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January 30, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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.
When I tell people I don‘t believe in strong copyright laws they look at me so confused and are taken aback. But it’s consonant with so many of these folks’ other values. How quickly the AI issue has altered ppl‘s opinions!
January 27, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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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Bad Lilies is cooking up a BEAST of an issue for next month. Subscribe to our email list and get early access to our submission windows! www.badlilies.uk/subscribe
Subscribe to our issues — Bad Lilies
Bad Lilies is an online poetry journal, publishing the finest of contemporary poetry in English.
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January 23, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Bad Lilies is cooking up a BEAST of an issue for next month. Subscribe to our email list and get early access to our submission windows! www.badlilies.uk/subscribe
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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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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 3
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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January 19, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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Here's a thing I wrote for Carcanet about my forthcoming book: featuring toast, marmite, Tom Baker, and taphophobia
From Graeme Richardson's article on his new collection Dirt Rich, which is published this month!🏦
Read in full here:
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Read in full here:
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January 13, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Here's a thing I wrote for Carcanet about my forthcoming book: featuring toast, marmite, Tom Baker, and taphophobia
New edition of Peter Didsbury's "new and collected poems" this April. I am very excited. Poetry's best kept secret.
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Scenes from a Long Sleep | Bloodaxe Books
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January 6, 2026 at 7:17 AM
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/...
www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/...
Me, last year, on how Larkin made it new.
January 3, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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.
The poet's breakthrough collection, The Less Deceived, anticipated the sexual freedoms of the 1960s while pre-emptively rejecting its promises.
Philip Larkin’s arrival, undeceived | @jwikeley.bsky.social
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Philip Larkin’s arrival, undeceived | @jwikeley.bsky.social
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Philip Larkin's arrival, undeceived
The poet's breakthrough collection, The Less Deceived, anticipated the sexual freedoms of the 1960s while pre-emptively rejecting its promises.
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December 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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.
A Poetry Notebook enters the Kingdom of Winter, with cameo appearances from Christina Rossetti, Frost, Stevens, Larkin and Toby Martinez de las Rivas.
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Snow on snow, snow on snow (on snow)
This one really is a notebook
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December 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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...
jwikeley.substack.com/p/snow-on-sn...
"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
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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
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December 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
"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...
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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...
December 3, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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...
We had a fantastic afternoon at the Brynmor Jones Library at the University of Hull for our annual event to mark Larkin's death on 2 December 1985. Thank you to @jwikeley.bsky.social for an absorbing talk about The Less Deceived followed by some lovely readings.
December 8, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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...
December 3, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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...
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Our December / January 2026 issue is out now!
Cover image by Tom Johnson, cartoon by Dan Sperrin.
Order your copy here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...
Cover image by Tom Johnson, cartoon by Dan Sperrin.
Order your copy here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...
December 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Our December / January 2026 issue is out now!
Cover image by Tom Johnson, cartoon by Dan Sperrin.
Order your copy here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...
Cover image by Tom Johnson, cartoon by Dan Sperrin.
Order your copy here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...
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Many words of the year are in fact more than one word
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Many words of the year are in fact more than one word
I'll be on a ship in Canary Wharf reading some poems - not all by me, thankfully - for The Little Review launch party tomorrow from 1300hrs. Why not come along?
Ticket includes a (little) magazine.
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Ticket includes a (little) magazine.
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Guest Event: The Little Review Issue 2 Launch Party
A new pocket magazine for anyone interested in poetry.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I'll be on a ship in Canary Wharf reading some poems - not all by me, thankfully - for The Little Review launch party tomorrow from 1300hrs. Why not come along?
Ticket includes a (little) magazine.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/guest-even...
Ticket includes a (little) magazine.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/guest-even...
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This week in the poetry blogs w/ @suefinch.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social @linarvitvideopoet.bsky.social @mcrucefix.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @shotscarecrow.bsky.social 1/4
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 45
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
And very much looking forward to it too!
A fascnating piece by Jeremy Wikely, who will be joining the PLS in Hull on 6th Dec to mark the anniversary of Larkin's death (hopefully that's not 'solemn-sinister'!)
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Solemn-sinister wreath-rubbish
Philip Larkin and the politics of forgetting
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November 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
And very much looking forward to it too!
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A friend and I wrote to Larkin from 1960s New Zealand, quite baffled by the poem. He wrote back, explaining the various references very straightforwardly, and entirely without condescension. Pretty impressive.
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 AM
A friend and I wrote to Larkin from 1960s New Zealand, quite baffled by the poem. He wrote back, explaining the various references very straightforwardly, and entirely without condescension. Pretty impressive.
“It’s both funny and serious. The speaker’s a shit. That’s always serious.” Philip Larkin joins the culture wars. jwikeley.substack.com/p/solemn-sin...
Solemn-sinister wreath-rubbish
Philip Larkin and the politics of forgetting
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November 7, 2025 at 6:56 AM
“It’s both funny and serious. The speaker’s a shit. That’s always serious.” Philip Larkin joins the culture wars. jwikeley.substack.com/p/solemn-sin...