Original Poetry
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Spurious Language and Revisions, The London Magazine
​www.thelondonmagazine.org/article/poetry-two-poems-by-james-appleby
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I lived once beside a slaughterhouse, Best American Poetry blog
https://shorturl.at/IqQby
Two Musicians in the Family, or, My ancestor ruins his career by buying a barrel organ, Ninth Letter
https://ninthletter.com/2025/01/07/james-appleby
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Tip of the Tongue, La Piccioletta Barca
www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/tip-of-the-tongue
The Man I Saw Dead in the Road Reproaches Me, The Poetry Business
Spotify: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/thepoetrybusiness/episodes/James-Appleby-The-Man-I-Saw-Dead-in-the-Road-Reproaches-Me-with-introduction-e2ur617
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/james-appleby-the-man-i-saw-dead-in-the-road
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Rental Contract and Beautiful Day & Dog Rose, B O D Y
www.bodyliterature.com/2025/06/02/james-appleby​
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Additional poems appear in Stand (Issue 238), The North (Issue 68; four additional poems on website), Poetry Scotland (Issues 103 & 104), Blue Unicorn (Volume XLVII Numbers 2 and 3), Under the Radar (Issue 34), New Welsh Review (Issue 130), Outcrop (Issue 1), Cordite Poetry Review (Issue 106), Acumen (Issue 103 & 105), Marble Poetry (Issue 8), and in Petar Tchouhov's Bulgarian translation in Literaturen Vestnik (9th -15th November 2022).
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Translations
Modern Poetry in Translation, 60th Anniversary Translator-in-Residence
[upcoming]
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Letter to César Vallejo by Xabier Usabiaga, translated from Spanish, ​​The Kenyon Review
https://kenyonreview.org/journal/winter-2025/ [paywall]
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Yongfen Zhang, Female, Central Plains by Yiran Li, translated from Chinese, Asymptote
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NO SAFE AREA by Teona Farmatu, translated from Romanian, La Piccioletta Barca
www.picciolettabarca.com/column/paraphrasis
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Collection of original poems published in Alex Văsieș' translation in Romania's leading cultural magazine
https://www.scena9.ro/article/poezie-james-appelby-alex-vasies
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Residencies, Festivals & Awards
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Spurious Language, Commendation in International Book & Pamphlet Competition
https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions/the-international-book-pamphlet-competition
Awarded for James' upcoming debut poetry pamphlet, Spurious Language.
Upcoming reading at Wordsworth Grasmere, February 2025
"The most prestigious competition of its kind" (The Poetry Business)
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International Writers' and Translators House
Writers' Residency in Ventspills, Latvia
Upcoming in 2025
www.transartists.org/en/air/ventspils-house
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Druskininkai Poetic Fall: Literature Festival
International poetry festival in Druskininkai, Lithuania​
Upcoming in 2025
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Poezia e la Bistrița
International poetry festival in Bistrița, Romania
July 2024
www.facebook.com/poeziaelabistritapunct
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Elizabeth Kostova Foundation Fellowship
Participation in International Poetry Conference, Koprivshtitsa, and CapitaLiterature, Sofia
Awarded for nature poetry
June 2024
https://ekf.bg/news/koprivshtitsa-2024-poetry-conference-fellows​
Poets in Transyvlania Festival
International poetry festival in Sibiu, Romania
Reading with winners of the Prix Goncourt, President of PEN International, and leading European poets
October 2023
https://m.facebook.com/poetsintransylvania/events/
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French Institute of Scotland
New Translations of the French Classics
An hour's showcase of James' new verse translations
13th April 2023
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Sofia Literature and Translation House, Bulgaria
Residency for editor, translator and poet-in-residence
Including International Poetry in English Translation, a talk with Angela Rodel, winner of the International Booker Prize
September 2022
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