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This is not a drill! ‘Grief is the Thing in Pleather’ by Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain is RELEASED today! A limited edition of 100 copies 🪰🪰🪰 osmosispress.com/grief-is-the...

We have a handful of additional review copies for Him Hymn and Grief is the Thing in Pleather! Drop our editor @brihughespoet.bsky.social a message if you’re interested in reviewing!💙🖤

PREORDER ALERT 🚨🚨🚨 IT FEELS SO GOOD TO BE BACK! This month, Tamsyn Challenger’s ‘Him Hymn’ and Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s ‘Grief is the Thing in Pleather’ will be released on 25th and 26th respectively🖤

Described by @suchmayer.bsky.social as containing ‘life after life after life […] with all the sardonic seriousness, [and] the deadpan profound, that characterises Bussey-Chamberlain’s work’ - this launch is not to be missed! housmans.com/event/housma...

✨LAUNCH EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT✨ We are delighted to be launching Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’ at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social as part of the Housman’s Poetry Series on the 26th of November at 7pm! This collection is a consideration of/ writing through what it (1/4)

Such a great essay by @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social - on the monstrous, disability & the feminine @crimereads.bsky.social Wonderful Laura has her debut book Awakened out this week with Robot Books!

sigh. you might want this

They’ve also published a dark and filthy little self-portrait giving orgasmic angel vibes… A lot of wonderful work in this issue. Have a look. Thanks so much to J D Howse and @marbledmayhem.bsky.social for their unflinching support!

Deconstructing Moving Mountains - this episode is 'Air' - featuring @jaxxi.bsky.social @marbledmayhem.bsky.social Hannah Hodgson, Louisa Adjoa Parker, and me. #NatureWriting #BookSky Moving Mountains is out in US & Canada 6th May #30DaysWild #365DaysWild open.substack.com/pub/louiseke...

‘The Gaza Strip…is a periphery filled with a people refusing the margins, and defying the colonial delusion that they can be rendered peripheral, disposable collateral.’ Nour Joudah www.academia.edu/128883092/Gaza_Indigenous_Urbanism_Amid_Elimination

TODAY. GUMS AND POMATUMS BY SALVATORE DIFALCO. from @marbledmayhem.bsky.social: This week, ‘Jerry Lee Jones [is] on [the] radio / causing itch to the air’, in Gums and Pomatums by Salvatore Difalco. Gesturing between the American pianist, singer and songwriter, hair (1/5)

Ahead of MOVING MOUNTAINS launching in the #US & #Canada (6th May) I'm introducing the anthology here... After the section titled 'Water' is 'Air' - with new work from #poet Hannah Hodgson & @marbledmayhem.bsky.social, a #poem & prose by Louisa Adjoa Parker, #CNF by me & poetry by @jaxxi.bsky.social

Now that MOVING MOUNTAINS: WRITING NATURE THROUGH ILLNESS & DISABILITY is out in paperback in the UK I am beyond thrilled to announce that it will soon also be available across the Atlantic!! MOVING MOUNTAINS IS OUT FOR PUBLICATION IN THE USA & CANADA ON 6th MAY AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW! #BookSky

Timglaset Editions to cease publishing. After long deliberation I have decided to put Timglaset to rest. The press has been under a lot of pressure since the recession in 2022-23. 1/5

free palestine

from @marbledmayhem.bsky.social : "This week Osmosis reaffirms our commitment to solidarity with the people of Palestine featuring the poem seared by Nadiya Aamer." (1/7)

TONIGHT. NADIYA AAMER: seared.

IT’S YOUR LAST DAY TO TRANSMIT US A SIGNAL FOR THIS ISSUE OF PERMEABLE BARRIER! Send your submissions to [email protected]!

THE POETICS OF TRANS-BIO-SABOTAGE Happening today, online, from 6-8pm GMT! If you’d like a link to this event, message me!

A POETRY ANNOUNCEMENT Submissions for Permeable Barrier close in just under a week! Send us poems, video art, essays, anything outside or in between. Connect with us, send us a signal. www.permeablebarrier.com/submissions

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Today I learned about the 🇨🇦 artist Sandra Sawatzky and the epic-scaled embroidered tapestry she has created, emulating the Bayeux tapestry, to chronicle the history of fossil fuel extraction. #needlework, #SubversiveStitch www.theblackgoldtapestry.com

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes

Hello Bluesky! Excited to be co-convening this brilliant event on how contemporary arts practices engage with expert cultures in health and biomedicine. Durham University, 20th February. Free, booking via Eventbrite medhumsplatform.org/event/materi...

When I first read this, I had no idea she'd be so spot on. Like spot on. It was scary as fiction, even scarier as reality.

this is both an indictment of how devalued research archives have become, and how insanely bad UK salaries are across the board

The #writers in the Chronically Ill & #Disabled (CIAD) writers Starter Pack include the following. It'd be fab if authors in it can add a link to your book(s)/website(s) below so people are up to date with all the fab #books on offer (whether backlist, new or imminent) & can buy them easily [Thread]

[…] by Fady Joudah is one of @electriclit.bsky.social best poetry books of the year electricliterature.com/electric-lit...

@sfdirewolf.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/rich...

'[...] is a collection that captures so much. It is an important lyrical document that is, in a sense, infinite - unfinished - and perhaps it will always be so.' Gratitude to @alycia.bsky.social for this reading of Fady Joudah’s […] in @wasafirimag.bsky.social

“Palestine will be liberated in Arabic” Listen to Makdisi Street with Fady Joudah >> www.patreon.com/posts/palest...

What an incredible fundraiser wshop from @workshops4gaza.bsky.social: ‘volunteers from the Refaat Alareer mobile library in Atlanta will discuss how the collective came to be… [&] practical advice on how to start and sustain a liberation library.’ www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/hif...

not to be too harsh but what’s the use of transgender representation in congress if they will immediately give in to fascist demands. genuinely what’s the purpose to this at all here

Join us this Saturday for our book launch MUSHAIRA at Cafe OTO!! We're super excited to be celebrating book launches with our 4 incredible authors - Kat Sinclair, Omar Sakr, Jimin Seo, and Kazim Ali! We're so lucky to have them all in London! Get tix while you can: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87...

From @marbledmayhem.bsky.social: "This week Osmosis is sitting in ‘a field of soft black fenland’, amongst ‘this birdsong / this sunlight / this wild and this vast’ landscape of vibrant visual poems by Fianna (Fiona Russell Dodwell)." (1/3)

MOVING MOUNTAINS: Writing Nature Through Illness & Disability launches in paperback on 6th March 2025! You can preorder now from the usual places & do ask your local bookshop/library for a copy too. Available as an ebook/hardback now. 📚💚 #NatureWriting #Disability uk.bookshop.org/p/books/movi...

Too tired to make a starter pack but I've started a very on-brand list of UK indie bookstores who've made it to Bluesky – hello @proud-geek.co.uk & @bookhaus.bsky.social, hoping to see more pals on here soon! Follow @englishpen.bsky.social while you're at it… bsky.app/profile/did:...

Moving Mountains has a starter pack! 11 of 26 contributors are currently found on Bluesky...find and follow them here. go.bsky.app/8k5Y17V

hey! this above/ground press sale ends tomorrow night! and then i'll stop talking about it! (but you should really be paying attention, abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2024/07/toda...

NADIYA AAMER. POEM FOR GAZA. TODAY ON OSMOSIS. FREE FREE PALESTINE.

If you missed our launch of Moving Mountains at Manchester Poetry Library, you can catch up here! With thanks to @drdavidcooper.bsky.social for hosting, @marbledmayhem.bsky.social @mailbykite.bsky.social & Sally Huband for joining me & reading their beautiful work! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxy8...

Four new visual poems are up at @osmosis press.bsky.social. Thanks to Cat Chong and @brihughespoet.bsky.social for giving these chimerical creations a home! osmosispress.com/2023/11/26/j...

Check out our latest pod! New hope for the conversion therapy ban. The abuse of imprisoned trans woman Sarah Jane Baker. ONS defends its’ census data against Tory claims. Alyx talks about her time at the TransLucent conference.. whatthetrans.com/ep93/

“The labour of childbearing is shared here in the grief ‘after that first lost / summer’. Now, as the sunsets wash ‘through her dream[s]’ the poet vows to ‘smile at every single leaf waving green like they do I will wave back like sleep tight and goodnight and goddamn’.” (6/6)

Over at Osmosis Press we’re treating you to four poems from Ben Pelhan this weekend!!

We had a terrific time at the @smallpublishers.bsky.social over the weekend and, now we're back in Cornwall, this morning Luke has written a little account of our trip www.guillemotpress.co.uk/journal/2023...

As cultural workers and people fundamentally invested in the practice of language we must speak out and take action to prevent further colonial brutality and for the emancipation and liberation of all oppressed peoples. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.