💐!!10th ANNIVERSARY!!💐 Sept 2025 marks a decade of publishing for Out-Spoken Press, founded by @aanaxagorou.bsky.social in 2015. Come and celebrate with us and a host of Out-Spoken poets at a special event: Tuesday 16 September, 7–10pm Star of Kings, London N1 0AX OSPanniversary.eventbrite.co.uk

Spent too much at Free Verse - happy anyway!

Any recommendations for poets that enjoy working with primary school children?

This collection has been on my to-read list for a while, so I snapped it up in the recent @outspokenpress.bsky.social sale and did not regret it! Brilliant poetry @chickenbex.bsky.social ❤️🪶 #poetry #poetsonbluesky

Relaxing birthday weekend achieved!

One of my favourite collections of 2024. I highly recommend reading this.

🌲Our winter FLASH SALE is now on 🌲 Save up to 50% on Out-Spoken Press titles on our shop this week (ends 14 December) www.outspokenldn.com/press

Having a Lemsip and Covid kind of weekend.

When poets say the moon is a cliche and when Sylvia Plath said the moon is: “White as a knuckle and terribly upset. It drags the sea after it like a dark crime”

That sinking feeling when you edit an early phrase out of a poem and now you need to reconfigure every line break!

As an introduction, I’m a poet from Essex. I love poetry, particularly the kind that is strange and makes you think or feel. Here’s an example from my debut collection ‘Down’. www.outspokenldn.com/shop/down

I’m not sure I ever really worked out the ‘other place’ so here’s to more new learning!