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Sasha Dugdale
@sashadugdale.bsky.social
Poet and translator
Lurcher devotee
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Thanks @carcanet.bsky.social – delighted about this and very grateful to the Anglo-Hellenic league, @jhcreerw.bsky.social @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social & the judges of the #Runciman Award.
Congratulations to Sasha Dugale (sashadugdale.bsky.social), who has been named the winner of the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2025 with her collection The Strongbox!

Well done Sasha!! 🎉
Read the news here: www.carcanet.co.uk/sasha-dugdal...
November 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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PITYSAD sequence of poems by @sashadugdale.bsky.social were my way of turning my thoughts towards veterans and their families

#PTSD #poetry
November 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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If you’d like to learn more about Mary Bishop & her extraordinary work, I wrote this for The Wellcome Collection in 2023.
But more than that, I would recommend looking for yourself at some of her work which is available to view online through their catalogue
wellcomecollection.org/stories/mary...
November 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
yet who,
in his own way,
is not a Suffenus?
Each has his blind spot.
The moat & the beam.
As Aesop says,
the pack on our own back
that we don’t see.

Catullus 22 tr. Peter Whigham.
November 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Congratulations to Wasafiri friends and contributors @juanapoetry.bsky.social, Don Mee Choi, Han Kang, and George Szirtes on gaining a place on the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Longlist 2025! 🙌
Longlist 2025
The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Longlist 2025
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November 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Detail from a monumental terracotta krater, used as grave marker
ca. 750-735 BCE

The hourglass-shaped shields and chariots are typical of earlier Bronze Age, suggesting that it may memorialize ancestral glories.
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Margaret Busby discusses the disruptive poetry of Jayne Cortez: “Rereading her words was a reminder of how far ahead of the game she always was.”
Margaret Busby on Jazz, Africa, and the Endurance of Jayne Cortez’s Disruptive Poetry
Lit Hub is excited to feature another entry in a new series from Poets.org: “enjambments,” a monthly interview series with new and established poets. This month, they spoke to Margaret …
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July 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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🐐 GOATSONG by Phoebe Giannisi, tr. Brian Sneeden, publishes today 🐐

The many human and animal voices of GOATSONG form an incantatory lyricism and layered engagement unique in literature.

Read an extract and order a copy: tinyurl.com/ya56e62v
November 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Meanwhile in the social media multiverse. My poem for Steven Heighton.
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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We hope you can join us! Register for the Zoom link (free) via Eventbrite if you plan on coming along www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1765466972...
Looking forward to this @serenbooks.bsky.social online event 18 November 7pm: An evening of poetry celebrating the publication of ‘Hôtel Amour’ by Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social, with readings by Deryn and guests Menna Elfyn and Olivia McCannon. @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social
Poetry Book Launch | Hôtel Amour by Deryn Rees-Jones
Join us online for an evening of poetry celebrating publication of ‘Hôtel Amour’ by Deryn Rees-Jones.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Here's a stunning #poem from freshly published BYCATCH by
@csmithpoet.bsky.social

'So much love, care, grief, and dignity is presented in this collection.' – Hitomi Grace Utsugi

ninearchespress.com/publications...
October 14, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I can’t believe this finally exists…
November 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
What a haul from New Directions Publishing. Details in the alt text. I’m so excited to have all these…
November 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Henri Matisse, French (1869-1964), Seated Young Woman with an Amber Necklace, 1942, oil on canvas, 55.3 x 46.4 cm, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
November 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A poem in answer to Charles Causley’s poem On All Souls Night – and also to celebrate the birth of my daughter on All Souls Day. From ‘Red House’ @carcanet.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Giacometti’s Homme qui pointe (1947) is on display at the Tate. Sartre thought he was 'always halfway between nothingness and being’.
October 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Here’s a late poem by Matt Simpson. Looking forward to speaking more about him this evening at the OpenEye Gallery, Liverpool #MattSimpson #liverpoolpoets
October 30, 2025 at 8:22 AM
This portrait of Akhmatova was painted by Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaya in 1914. Come and hear Stephen Capus and I talk about Akhmatova at Ledbury Winter Poetry Festival on Sat 22 November: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/her...
October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Stephen Capus and I will be discussing Anna Akhmatova‘s poetry and life, and reading from our translations of her work on Sat 22 November at Ledbury Winter Poetry Festival. Book here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/her...
www.ticketsource.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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ROUND TRIP TO GLASGOW (1982)
October 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The consultation on the automating of home office translation services should at least involve translators and those with experience of asylum cases. Find out more via the link and consider signing: c.org/4mMwggCdTz
Sign the Petition
Home Office: before automating translation, please listen to the experts
c.org
October 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
This ink drawing (‘Untitled’) by Ruth Asawa is of her baby son Paul.
October 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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So much looking forward to this year’s Allott / Poetry Society lecture by #DianeSeuss @sotauol.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social
📣 Join us at this year's Kenneth Allott lecture, in conjunction with @poetrysociety.org.uk (online), hosted by Professor Sandeep Parmar 🖋️📚

More info here:
poetrysociety.org.uk/event/poetry...
Poetry Society Annual Lecture – Diane Seuss – The Poetry Society
poetrysociety.org.uk
October 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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⭐Six collections shortlisted for PEN Heaney Prize 2025 ⭐

📕Judged by Sasha Dugdale, Seán Hewitt & Zaffar Kunial — read what they had to say and find out more about these beautiful books 📕
@poetryireland.bsky.social @nlireland.bsky.social
booksirelandmagazine.com/shortlist-re...
Shortlist revealed for the PEN Heaney Prize 2025 - Books Ireland
Six collections are on the shortlist for the prestigious PEN Heaney Prize 2025.
booksirelandmagazine.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM