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Poetry magazine edited by Tom Bailey and Laurie Ogden. www.andotherpoems.com
Our latest essay is now up on the AOP website! In it, Caleb Leow writes about Theophilus Kwek and the disparate uses of the word ‘earth’ in his poems.
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Issue Eight subs close at midnight tonight! Get those poems in folks -- details on our website xox
about 1 month ago
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And we're OPEN! Send us your best poems. Tell your friends / neighbours / dogs / cats / cousins / aunts / uncles. (Image by Steve Johnson on Unsplash)
2 months ago
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Submissions open for Issue Eight tomorrow! We can’t wait to read your poems.
2 months ago
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“Pop-Ups from Elsewhere: Maria Sledmere and Oli Hazzard In Conversation”, out now on the And Other Poems website. Read it here:
andotherpoems.com/2025/08/25/p...
3 months ago
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Which small presses are currently open for submissions / competitions for debut pamphlets? Asking for a friend - one of our AOP poets is looking for a home for his first lil book of poems!
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Reminder that we are open year-round for prose submissions! Have an idea for an essay, interview or conversation? Drop us a line.
andotherpoems.com/essays/
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Essays
“essay” (n.), 1590s, meaning “trial, attempt, endeavour,” also “short, discursive literary composition”, from French essai, meaning “trial, attempt, essay”, deri…
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'Poem for Sam' by Blossom Hibbert, published in Issue Seven. Read the full issue here:
andotherpoems.com/issue-seven/
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Extract from 'No one wants what I want' by
@troycabida.bsky.social
, published in Issue Seven. Read the full poem here:
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3 months ago
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Extract from 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Laburnum' by Karishma Sangtani, published in Issue Seven. Read the full poem here:
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3 months ago
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Laura McKee
3 months ago
There are two swordfish poems in this issue, here's one of them!
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Read 'Inventory' alongside 'The Spiders' - both by Lucia Dove, and published in Issue Seven
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3 months ago
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From Theseus' notes on Asterion, by Roberto Salvador Cenciarelli. Read this poem and others published in Issue Seven, out now:
andotherpoems.com/issue-seven/
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3 months ago
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Night / Summer / Orkney by Andrew Dennison, published in Issue Seven. Read the full issue here:
andotherpoems.com/issue-seven/
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3 months ago
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Extract from 'Thingamajiggied' by
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, published in Issue Seven. Read the full poem here:
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Extract from 'Conditions' by Peter Scalpello, published in Issue Seven. Read the full poem here:
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3 months ago
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Extract from 'Way of Going' by
@johncraigwhite.bsky.social
, published in Issue Seven. Read the full poem here:
andotherpoems.com/2025/08/04/w...
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3 months ago
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Extract from 'Back Seat Orbital' by Steph Ellen Feeney, published in Issue Seven. Read the full poem here:
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3 months ago
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Hetty Cliss
3 months ago
My poem ‘Thingamajiggied’ is out now in
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It’s one that means a lot to me. Through it I was able to articulate big thoughts and emotions, the experience of loving and losing someone with dementia, that felt beyond language.
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Thingamajiggied
Hetty Cliss When my grandmother dignified, I couldn’t spook italoud. Not even when a colleague asked three timesif I was ostr…
https://andotherpoems.com/2025/08/04/thingamajiggied/
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'Visualisation Exercise' by Ginny Darke, featured in Issue Seven. Read the full issue here:
andotherpoems.com/issue-seven/
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Extract from 'Gynaecology Ranch' by Phoebe Gilmore. Read the full poem in Issue Seven
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3 months ago
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Issue Seven is now live! We are so excited to share this brilliant issue with you all. Thank you to all the poets who submitted. Read the full issue here:
andotherpoems.com/issue-seven/
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3 months ago
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Coming on Monday: Issue Seven of And Other Poems. We can’t wait to share these poems!! Stay tuned 😎
3 months ago
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Responses now all sent! Get in touch if you haven’t heard from us.
4 months ago
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Howdy friends! We're open for submissions for the whole of May -- send us your weirdest wackiest wonderfullest poems. Submissions guidelines on our website. We can't wait to read your work!
6 months ago
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An update from us about submissions. This issue, we're trialling a submission fee model, but we've included several exceptions in the hope that this isn't a barrier for anyone.
6 months ago
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Jo Rigg
7 months ago
Pleased that one of my poems has found a home here amongst some great company...
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Philip Gross
7 months ago
Happy to be one voice in the conversation here...
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Friends, a little announcement: we’re now accepting submissions year-round for a new essays feature. We want this to be a space for new and original thinking about poetry and poetics, but also about how poetry fits in or around our lives. We can’t wait to hear from you!
7 months ago
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Issue Six of And Other Poems is out now on our website. Read it here:
andotherpoems.com/issue-six/
(Cover photo by kat_katerina on Unsplash)
7 months ago
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Issue Six of And Other Poems, out on Wednesday 16th. We can't wait for you to read these poems.
7 months ago
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Tom's pamphlet "Please Do Not Touch or Feed the Horses" came out yesterday. Get your copy here:
poetrylondon.co.uk/shop/please-...
8 months ago
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AOP is now closed for submissions for Issue Six! We had a record number of subs this time round, and we can't wait to read your work. You should all hear back from us some time in early April.
9 months ago
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Hey folks, Today's your last chance to submit to the next issue of And Other Poems. Send us your strangest, quirkiest, wonderfullest, grittiest, griefiest, funniest, bitterest poems. We can't wait to read them!
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Elizabeth Osmond
10 months ago
“It was anticipated and practiced on the arms of the teenaged both of them” Enjoying reading The Kiss by Janet Roberson in
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The kiss
Janet Rogerson began in an area behind the two peopleand Paris grew incrementally around them.It fell soft in the arms of a d…
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Laurie Ogden
10 months ago
Submissions are still open for Issue 6
@andotherpoems.bsky.social
- send us your poems!
andotherpoems.com/submissions/
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Hi poetry folks, We’re new on here! Do give this a like and share so we can reach as many of you poetry lovers as possible. Much love 🤠
about 1 year ago
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In case you missed it, our latest issue - Issue Five - is out now on our website!
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10 months ago
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𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒃 ~ 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅
10 months ago
*FORWARD PRIZES 2025*
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nominees for Best Single Poem – Written: Hilary Menos (
@thefridaypoem.bsky.social
) – Ruby Woo Tom Bailey – Wheatfield with Crows Rowan Lyster – Preoccupied by a sense that you may be unhappy Congrats! Your poems will be formally submitted soon.
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Keep sending those poems in 🤠🤠🤠
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10 months ago
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An extract from Alexandra Melville’s ‘Step 1/12: I will be powerless over’, first published in Issue Five of And Other Poems. Read the rest of the poem on our website:
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10 months ago
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Here's to all the amazing poets and poems we published over the course of 2024 and welcomed into the And Other Poems family. Three issues and 54 poets! Here's to more poems in 2025 - submissions for Issue Six are now OPEN!
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Submissions for And Other Poems are now OPEN! Send us your weirdest and wonderfullest poems. Guidelines on our website:
andotherpoems.com/submissions/
(Thanks to Nastia Petruk on Unsplash for the image)
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An extract from Janet Rogerson's 'The Kiss', published in Issue Five of And Other Poems. Read the rest of the poem on our website:
andotherpoems.com/issue-five/
10 months ago
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Nancy Kangas's 'Bunch of Animals', published in Issue Five of And Other Poems. Read the rest of the issue on our website.
10 months ago
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An extract from Selima Hill's 'The Person with a Cauliflower', published in Issue Five of And Other Poems. Read the rest of the poems here:
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11 months ago
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Here's Courtney Conrad's (
@courtneyconrad.bsky.social
) poem 'Sunshine', published in Issue Five of And Other Poems. This poem was originally commissioned by
@applesandsnakes.bsky.social
. Read the rest of the issue on our website.
11 months ago
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Sam Garvan
11 months ago
Lovely poem Anne! Happy Christmas!!
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Miranda Peake
11 months ago
Thanks so much to
@andotherpoems.bsky.social
for including my poem. It’s a really great issue with so many brilliant poems x
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Here's Miranda Peake's (
@mirandapeake.bsky.social
) poem 'My mother refuses to go in', published in Issue Five of And Other Poems. Read the rest of the issue on our website!
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