Maya Caspari

Ideally writing or napping. Lecturer @UoYEnglish, based in London / York. Sometimes poet. Rarely here.

[Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh @FiddianQasmiyeh]

Remembering Zoë Wicomb with love and joy

[Wasafiri @WasafiriMag]

In our fifth – and final! – episode of sub(VERSE)ive, @thatmoonpoet speaks to poet @mayamnc. Maya shares her thoughts on the weight of language choices, the interweaving nature of touch and time, the reader's encounter with a poem, and much more.

https://t.co/siCbyL0LJB

[Out-Spoken Press @Outspoken_Press]

Please read & share the scholarship story of Gazan poet Haia,

❗️and how you can take one action now to help her and the other scholars trapped in Gaza by UK govt red tape ❗️

[Wasafiri @WasafiriMag]

In a bittersweet finale to our sub(VERSE)ive series, we have the final bonus episode with poet, lecturer, and Wasafiri Associate Editor, @Mayamnc, on her debut pamphlet, ALMOST, WITH TENDERNESS (@Outspoken_Press).

https://t.co/7n9oOENRxl

[Wasafiri @WasafiriMag]

English: Shared Futures is the UK’s largest conference in English Studies. The 2025 edition takes places 3-5 July in York, UK. This panel will be chaired by Wasafiri Associate Editor @Mayamnc

Please send proposals to [email protected] by Tuesday 20 May.

[Claire Crawford @_claireamelia]

Such a lovely event, congratulations to @Mayamnc 👏💛✨

[Out-Spoken Press @Outspoken_Press]

Thank you to reader @shevchenkonight & to everyone who came out to @BurleyFisher yesterday for the launch of @Mayamnc’s Almost, with Tenderness ❤️

[Wasafiri @WasafiriMag]

@WindhamCampbell This interview is conducted by our Associate Editor @Mayamnc, from our 40th anniversary issue Wasafiri 119: Futurisms.

https://t.co/mmGJ6EA8wm

[Wasafiri @WasafiriMag]

Congratulations to Wasafiri contributor Anthony V Capildeo on winning the @WindhamCampbell Prize in Poetry this year!

In celebration, we've made an interview between them and Palestinian writer Yousif M Qasmiyeh free access until 30 April:

https://t.co/mmGJ6EA8wm

[The Poetry Society @PoetrySociety]

(1/5) Congratulations to the National Poetry Competition longlist!

Everyone on the longlist wrote a poem that stood out to the judges, Romalyn Ante, Stephen Sexton and John McAuliffe, out of over 21,000 other works. Well done to all of our longlisted poets!

[New Writing North @NewWritingNorth]

Avidya by Vidyan Ravinthiran (Bloodaxe Books)

New Famous Phrases by Daniel Hinds (Broken Sleep Books)

Almost, With Tenderness by Maya Caspari (Out Spoken Press)

Subcutaneous by Maria Isakova-Bennett

Wanderland by Sarah Clare Conlon (Red Ceilings Press)

[New Writing North @NewWritingNorth]

It's #WorldPoetryDay. Here's a round-up of new poetry collections by poets in the North.

Everything is Present by Anna Woodford (Salt Publishing)

An Interesting Detail by Kimberly Campanello (Bloomsbury Publishing)

What She Said by Ilisha Thiru Purcell (Verve Books)

[Out-Spoken Press @Outspoken_Press]

Join us to celebrate the launch of @Mayamnc's Almost, with Tenderness on 3 April @BurleyFisher – Maya will be joined by @shevchenkonight and Editor Anthony Anaxagorou.

Free to attend, but please do register here:
https://t.co/04ZOx1OM2W

[Out-Spoken Press @Outspoken_Press]

✨✨✨Happy Publication Day to @Mayamnc whose brilliant debut pamphlet, ALMOST, WITH TENDERNESS, is out today ✨✨✨

Order your copy here:
https://t.co/bdX1YQG7gk

And join us at @BurleyFisher on 3 April to celebrate the launch (registration link below)

[Wasafiri @WasafiriMag]

The Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize is open to works in translation for the very first time. Editor @SansyG outlines why and how this is a major step for the prize and Wasafiri more widely, in our efforts to be as global as can be.

https://t.co/oqd9Y2VkMX

[Maya Caspari @Mayamnc]

@WasafiriMag @BurleyFisher Thank you 💜!

[Out-Spoken Press @Outspoken_Press]

🟡 Join us to celebrate the publication of Almost, with Tenderness by Maya Caspari (@Mayamnc), with Charlotte Shevchenko Knight (shevchenkonight) & hosted by editor Anthony Anaxagorou

🟡 @BurleyFisher 6.30pm Thursday 3 April
Free to attend; register here: https://t.co/04ZOx1OM2W

[Maya Caspari @Mayamnc]

Just very briefly back on here to say I’m so excited that my little poetry book will be out with Out-Spoken in March ✨!

[Out-Spoken Press @Outspoken_Press]

📢 We're delighted to announce our 2025-26 list under editor Anthony Anaxagorou, with new poetry from:

🟡Nikesh Shukla
🟡Simon Maddrell
🟡Natalie Shapero
🟡Maya Caspari
🟡Joladé Olusanya
🟡Madeleine Kruhly

It's going to be 🔥

https://t.co/Xfw24Oh0rr

[Propel Magazine @propelmagazine]

In the end the moths get everything even our hearts

— from 'Moths' by Maya Caspari (@Mayamnc)
https://t.co/tNYpaBkw6M

While subs are open for our next issue, edited by @helenmort, out in January, we're looking back at Issue 12, edited by Tishani Doshi –