New poem ‘Featherweight’, an elegy for my Nan, is published as today’s @Telegraph poem of the week - many thanks to @TATFS for putting it out there

'This is a thoughtful, challenging, ultimately humane collection, which is a delight to read and will repay re-reading.' – Hannah Stone, @thelakepoetry, on John Challis's second collection The Green Parcel.
thelakepoetry.co.uk/reviews/oct26/

'Challis’ poems dealing with his relationship with fatherhood are among the finest of a universally compelling collection.’ – Steve Whitaker, in @TheYorksTimes, on The Green Parcel. A wonderful close reading of @johndchallis's second collection.
yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Unders…

'This collection confirms Challis as a poet alert to the pressure of place, how landscapes hold memory, class, violence, tenderness and unfinished business.' – Kate Boston-Williams, Write Out Loud, on @johndchallis's second collection The Green Parcel.
writeoutloud.net/public/blogent…

‘Here is articulation and exhibition of things described that manages to enter almost the mythic in world-building.’ – Patrick Davidson Roberts, @wildcourtpoetry, on John Challis's second collection The Green Parcel, out this month from @BloodaxeBooks.
wildcourt.co.uk/a-sacred-inter…

Tonight in London. Free entry. No booking required. Readings from 7.30pm. Hope to see you there!

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Blyth is running to be the next UK Town of Culture 2028!
See our town’s digital postcard on the official competition map.
Join us in celebrating our amazing community and all the towns who’ve entered across the UK.
tinyurl.com/2fbpb4za
#UKTownofCulture @DCMS @johndchallis

Such a beautiful collection, full of stringent tenderness for things and places and histories observed and experienced.

"Here is articulation and exhibition of things described that manages to enter almost the mythic in world-building."

Patrick Davidson Roberts reviews 'The Green Parcel', the new @BloodaxeBooks collection from @johndchallis.

wildcourt.co.uk/a-sacred-inter…

June news: shorturl.at/F2oQZ
New books from @johndchallis, #FrankOrmsby & #LawrenceSail; online launch 23/06; #JoannaLowry wins @Mslexia pamphlet comp; The Taste of Lightning on #OxfordWeidenfeldTranslationPrize shortlist; plus much more!

'A fantastic collection which interrogates belonging'

Thanks to @ShashTrevett for this review of John Challis's second collection The Green Parcel in the @PoetryBookSoc Summer Bulletin.

The Green Parcel is out this month @BloodaxeBooks.

'...for Challis, when thoughts crystallise they do so with force [...] These poems are sharp and satisfying' - @JadeCuttle, Poetry Books of the Month, @ObserverUK, on @johndchallis's second collection The Green Parcel, out this month from @BloodaxeBooks.
observer.co.uk/culture/books/…

Thanks so much to @JadeCuttle for this wonderful review of The Green Parcel in today’s @ObsNewReview, alongside Kim Moore’s The House of Broken Things

The Green Parcel is out later in June, but advance copies are available directly from @BloodaxeBooks

bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/th…

Join us this evening for our online launch event with Tishani Doshi, Patricia Smith and Jennifer Lee Tsai!

All three will be reading from their new books and discussing them with Bloodaxe editor Neil Astley.

Watch live at 7pm BST (or later) on YouTube: youtube.com/live/4x0gzWrAC…

Friends in York, I’m excited to be launching my second collection of poetry, The Green Parcel (@BloodaxeBooks) on Thursday 2 July at the Bluebird Bakery, Acomb. I’ll be talking to the wonderful @KrisErinJohnson. Free entry. Book here:

eventbrite.com/e/the-green-pa…

We're delighted to be providing the book stall for the @litandphil's upcoming event with our PBS Summer Recommendation Linda Anderson and John Challis (whose books will be supplied by @BloodaxeBooks).

📆 Wednesday 17 June, 7.30-9pm
📍 The Lit & Phil, Newcastle
🎟 Free / 'Pay whatoets Linda Anderson and John Challis will launch their new collections, Against Falling (Pavilion) and The Green Parcel (Bloodaxe Books).

Tickets here: litandphil.org.uk/event/poetry-l…

Amazing to read my poem ‘Turbine’, commissioned for the Festival of Energy, beneath Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon. The event took place in the Offshore Renewal Energy Catapult, in Blyth, as part of the festival curated by @walktheplank

This week only @Waterstones are offering 25% discount on preorders for forthcoming @BloodaxeBooks poetry books. Offer closes 20 February. Just go to waterstones.com, paste 9781780377698 into the search box, click PREORDER and add code FEB26 for the discount

A poem from my forthcoming @bloodaxebooks collection ‘The Green Parcel’, out in June. The poem originally appeared in last summer’s Poetry Ireland Review (@poetryireland), ed. Stephen Sexton

NEW EVENT: I’ll be reading & talking poetry and place w/@munozpoems & @jakecampbell88 for #BlythCelebrates @ Market Pavilion Blyth on Sat 8 Nov, 7.30pm. FREE!

Sign-up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-night…

#EnergisingBlyth #NorthumberlandCountyCouncil
#NECA

The Green Parcel, my 2nd collection is out June 2026 from @BloodaxeBooks

@Waterstones are offering 25% discount on preorders for Bloodaxe books out early 2026. Offer closes 17 October. Go to waterstones.com, search 9781780377698 click PREORDER and add code OCTOBER25.