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Original Poetry

Spurious Language and Revisions, The London Magazine

www.thelondonmagazine.org/article/poetry-two-poems-by-james-appleby

I lived once beside a slaughterhouse, Best American Poetry blog

https://shorturl.at/IqQby

Tip of the Tongue, La Piccioletta Barca

www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/tip-of-the-tongue

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).

Translations

Yongfen Zhang, Female, Central Plains by Yiran Li, translated from Chinese, Asymptote

https://shorturl.at/5fX7M

NO SAFE AREA by Teona Farmatu, translated from Romanian, La Piccioletta Barca

www.picciolettabarca.com/column/paraphrasis

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


Residencies, Festivals & Awards

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)

International Writers' and Translators House

Writers' Residency in Ventspills, Latvia

Upcoming in 2025

www.transartists.org/en/air/ventspils-house

Druskininkai Poetic Fall: Literature Festival

International poetry festival in Druskininkai, Lithuania

Upcoming in 2025

​http://pdr.lt/en/

Poezia e la Bistrița

International poetry festival in Bistrița, Romania

July 2024

www.facebook.com/poeziaelabistritapunct

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/

French Institute of Scotland

New Translations of the French Classics
An hour's showcase of James' new verse translations
13th April 2023

https://t.co/pOQuqBXCDn

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

www.npage.org/en/page?id=364

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