Typo of the day: regasifiction ⛽📖

Save the date: Monday 26-Friday 30 May 2025 📅✏️ Mary Jean Chan and I will be teaching @arvonfoundation.bsky.social's Queer Arvon Writing week - *ONLINE* 💻📄🌈🖊️ We hope you will join us! www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

Save the date 📅: My @ninearchespress.bsky.social stablemates, @jsaphra.bsky.social, Amaan Hyder, & I will be reading together & having a discussion at the wonderful #ChenerBooks in East Dulwich - Tue 18 March @ 7pm 🎤📖📚 Join us! Free event - but please register 🎫👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nine-arche...

Save the date 📅: My @ninearchespress.bsky.social stablemates, @jsaphra.bsky.social, Amaan Hyder, & I will be reading together & having a discussion at the wonderful #ChenerBooks in East Dulwich - Tue 18 March @ 7pm 🎤📖📚 Join us! Free event - but please register 🎫👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nine-arche...

Save the date: Monday 26-Friday 30 May 2025 📅✏️ Mary Jean Chan and I will be teaching @arvonfoundation.bsky.social's Queer Arvon Writing week - *ONLINE* 💻📄🌈🖊️ We hope you will join us! www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

2 weeks already since Polari Salon at SweatBox Soho! 🧖🏻‍♂️😶‍🌫️🌈📖

Just a couple of places left on our amazing 'Dreams and Dreamscapes' workshop with Jane Commane this evening! 💭 Sign up here: buytickets.at/thepoetrybus... @ninearchespress.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Sunday in Greenwich 🌐

Clockwise from top left: my great-grandfather Akrivos trying out inks, signatures & versions of our surname (Tsiolakoudis? 🤔) in Les Aventures de Télémaque; Great-uncle Grigoris’ beautiful cursive in his university chemistry notes; a pressed flower in said notes; Great-aunt Katina’s Romeo & Juliet 📖

#flashbackFriday: Kyiv, 2018 🇺🇦

Also, as I’ve reached middle age, I like to share old photos of mine, brace yourselves 🙈📸

On this platform I plan to share the creative process & influences of my 2nd poetry collection, which I’m happy to say is starting to form. I’ll be drawing a lot from my dad’s youth in an effort to understand him. Here are some photos from his late teens & early 20s in Thessaloniki, America, Korea 🎞️

Hello! We’re here to post about queer poems and our little poetry books - hopefully without the toxicity of other places. 🥰

My poetry collection, GREEKLING, came out in October 2023. A PBS Recommendation, in 2024 it was shortlisted for the Runciman Award & the Polari First Book Prize. You can order it via @ninearchespress.bsky.social: ninearchespress.com/publications... Watch this space for 2025 event announcements! 🌈📖❣️

I’m grateful to Saurabh Sharma for featuring GREEKLING in the Deccan Herald & offering me the opportunity to talk about the collection & my writing ✒️🌈📖🙏