poetry – Kirsten Irving, poet & editor

The Master’s Tools: the poetry and perversion of control

Self-interview about Hot Cockalorum and its folklore, kink and animal familiars.

Header reads "National Poetry Competition, Kirsten Irving, Then and Now"

Poetry Society Then & Now video series

Video reading of ‘Namazu at the Physicist’s Funeral’ and ‘Benjamins’.

Hot Cockalorum poetry book, with plum-coloured leather cover with embossed white cartoon cat skull

New poetry collection and audiobook: Hot Cockalorum!

Folklore! Masters! So many animals! My second full-length collection is out now from Guillemot Press!

Cover of Gramarye issue 18. Snow White is sat on a leafy ledge in a red and white dress, with roses in her long, dark hair. She is reaching down into a basket of apples held by an old peasant woman in a brown dress with red shawl.

Two folklore poems in Gramarye Journal

If you like folklore and fairytales, critical thinking and art, investigate the journal Gramarye.

A young man with a beard and a young woman with short red hair read poetry in a Waterstones bookshop

Two Robots in York

Watch JT Welsch and K being robots at York Waterstones, as part of the NxNE poetry reading series organised by Harry Man.

Never Never Never Come Back by Kirsten Irving and School of Forgery by Jon Stone

Never Never Never Come Back is, um, back! In paperback!

Salt Publishing are releasing paperback versions of my first collection, Never Never Never Come Back, and Jon Stone’s exceptional debut School of Forgery!

Alchemy: Why poetry publishers need to get it together

I wrote an article for BookMachine on the value of collaboration over competition in poetry publishing.

A blue book cover reading "Poetic Interviews - edited and conducted by Aaron Kent"

Poetic Interviews: Line breaks of questioning

Aaron Kent, Editor of Broken Sleep Books, conducts unusual interviews: the questions and answers take the form of poetry.

Clipping of Poetry News article headed "Voice Recognition", with inset photo of Kirsten Irving recording in the booth.

Poetry News gets vocal

I’m in Poetry News, published by the Poetry Society, talking about the links between voiceover and poetry.

Tweet from Gertrude's Gifts reads: "The flameless tea lights: Why is there so much resignation in a package"

Advent is upon us, and we’ve been celebrating over at Sidekick Books! Every day we’ve opened a new window of poetry mishmashery, featuring: i) Hybardrid Twitterbots, mixing famous poets with other poets and other texts…

Kirsten Irving, poet & editor

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