Steph Morris
@herr-morris.bsky.social
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poet, artist, gardener, translator he/him impaired energy (ME) ACE-Funded
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Arachne Press
19 days ago
@nathanevansarts.bsky.social
@grizonne.bsky.social
@em-words.bsky.social
@jftherapy.bsky.social
@free-verse-finnley.bsky.social
@herr-morris.bsky.social
@rabgreen.bsky.social
@mariajastrzebska.bsky.social
@cynsky.bsky.social
@simonmaddrell.bsky.social
@vronchariot.bsky.social
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Arachne Press
19 days ago
Thought it was time we told you exactly who is contributing
#poems
of
#queer
#resistance
to Up//Roar (out in October, advance warning! pre-order now
arachnepress.com/Up-Roar-p815...
) those who are ON Bluesky:
@hazardpressuk.bsky.social
@rickdove.bsky.social
@rachaelclyne.bsky.social
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Ink Sweat & Tears
2 months ago
Our latest word & image feature is three Plant Poems by
@herr-morris.bsky.social
. Each is a playful, flamboyant interpretation which provokes us to look at common foliage at a slant. See them here:
inksweatandtears.co.uk/steph-morris...
#NaturePoetry
#InkSweatAndTears
#WordandImage
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Arachne Press
4 months ago
more Shortlist for Up//Roar
#poems
of
#Queer
Resistance
@free-verse-finnley.bsky.social
@herr-morris.bsky.social
@rabgreen.bsky.social
@mariajastrzebska.bsky.social
@cynsky.bsky.social
@simonmaddrell.bsky.social
@vronchariot.bsky.social
@davewakely.bsky.social
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Permission to be weird
outings and what's allowable where and when
https://open.substack.com/pub/steph270408/p/permission-to-be-weird?r=8cod5&utm_medium=ios
7 months ago
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Owen Jones
8 months ago
I never thought I’d be cheering on a former Tory Cabinet minister. But here’s to the moral clarity, courage and leadership of
@kitmalthouse.bsky.social
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So much shocking news from Gaza but this is really appalling. Feeling powerless, especially with limited energy to take to the streets.
@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social
as my MP, you and the UK government are not powerless. What are you doing to end the killing?
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Eleven-minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story
Hundreds of people have died while seeking food since delivery was taken over by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in May. But Palestinians facing extreme hunger have no choice but to take the risk
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/22/food-aid-gaza-deaths-visual-story-ghf-israel?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
8 months ago
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Ink Sweat & Tears
8 months ago
It's time to choose your Pick of the Month for June 2025. Will you vote for
@rachaelclyne.bsky.social
, Oz Hardwick, Pippa Little,
@herr-morris.bsky.social
, Sreeja Naskar or
@selasimclord.bsky.social
? More at
inksweatandtears.co.uk/june-2025-pi...
#InkSweatandTears
#PickoftheMonth
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Tonight!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magma-92-t...
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Magma 92: The Ownership Issue Launch Party
Please join us to celebrate the launch of Magma 92 at The Seven Dials Club, Covent Garden, London
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magma-92-the-ownership-issue-launch-party-tickets-1474345740799?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl&fbclid=IwY2xjawLkYP9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHnWmPoaSOiEPt6TK2s2Z7t6BIqlbMwblgXzqsI0llDEVd-BFlM3t6E6LPo4Y_aem_I2b0t4ZqGtq1CX6KkOaasw
8 months ago
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I started a Substack — check it out.
open.substack.com/pub/steph270...
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Another new start
time for Stereolab, shorts and Substack
https://open.substack.com/pub/steph270408/p/another-new-start?r=8cod5&utm_medium=ios
9 months ago
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It arrived! Thanks
@magmapoetry.bsky.social
My contribution is a bit mad but I own it… Look forward to delving in.
9 months ago
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10 months ago
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Matt Cain
10 months ago
This is possibly the most important piece of journalism I’ll ever write. At the age of 50, I was diagnosed autistic. Please read my story and share it so others don’t have to wait so long to understand who they are ❤️
#autism
#autistic
#neurodivergent
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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I thought it was being gay that made my life so difficult. Then, at 50, I got an eye-opening diagnosis …
I spent far too many years lonely and angry, thanks to schoolmates who called me ‘weird’ and bosses who dismissed me as ‘hysterical’. But was it my sexuality that put their backs up – or the autism I ...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/05/i-thought-it-was-being-gay-that-made-my-life-so-difficult-then-at-50-i-got-an-eye-opening-diagnosis
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Brave and useful piece here. Thanks
@mattcainwriter.bsky.social
Brace yourselves for similar reassessments of my whole life in the light of an ADHD diagnosis in my 50s
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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I thought it was being gay that made my life so difficult. Then, at 50, I got an eye-opening diagnosis …
I spent far too many years lonely and angry, thanks to schoolmates who called me ‘weird’ and bosses who dismissed me as ‘hysterical’. But was it my sexuality that put their backs up – or the autism I ...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/05/i-thought-it-was-being-gay-that-made-my-life-so-difficult-then-at-50-i-got-an-eye-opening-diagnosis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
10 months ago
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This was a pretty personal poem. Thanks for having me back Helen and all at Ink Sweat & Tears
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10 months ago
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This warming book arrived in the post. Lovely company to be in.
@poetrypharmacy.bsky.social
12 months ago
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The Society of Authors
12 months ago
We’re asking Meta to
#DoTheWriteThing
, are you?
#MetaBookThieves
www.change.org/p/protect-au...
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Sign the Petition
Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training
https://www.change.org/p/protect-authors-livelihoods-from-the-unlicensed-use-of-their-work-in-ai-training
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On the way to demonstrate against meta’s thievery with
@tomwentworth.bsky.social
@societyofauthors.bsky.social
#dothewritething
Last minute placard… Concrete poetry at speed
12 months ago
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Greg Jenner (Historian)
12 months ago
Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive” Theft is not a valid alternative.
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Ruth Martin
12 months ago
Translators have been the canaries in the AI coalmine for a couple of years now and we are already losing work to these systems. Having existing work used to train them without permission or compensation just adds insult to injury.
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Rachel Ward
12 months ago
@bengoldsborough.bsky.social
Like pretty much all my writer and translator friends and colleagues, Meta have used pirated copies of my work to train their AI systems. I’ll be asking META to
#DoTheWriteThing
on Thursday 3 April.
#metabookthieves
#MakeItFair
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Jeremy Dixon
12 months ago
My poetry pamphlet IN RETAIL (
@arachnepress.bsky.social
) has been used to train Meta’s Al without mine or my publisher’s permission or with due regard to copyright. I’m not alone, there are 1000s of writers who’s work has been stolen. Solidarity with
@societyofauthors.bsky.social
!
#DoTheWriteThing
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Owen Jones
about 1 year ago
In every atrocity in history, the silent are always principal players. Those who remain silent over Israel's genocide are enabling it to continue. Their cowardice is paid in the blood of thousands of innocent Palestinians. New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Imagine if all those who are silent about the terrible evil being committed in Gaza spoke up | Owen Jones
No crime in history has been so well documented by its victims. And yet inaction and censorship reign, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/19/imagine-silent-terrible-evil-committed-gaza-inaction-censorship
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#Queerhistory
#greenwich
#museum
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Queer History Night
Researchers and artists share their journeys into the museum archives as part of LGBTQ+ History Month
https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/queens-house/queer-history-night
about 1 year ago
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Got to a serendipitous passage of this book. Actually the whole book is still very relevant and urgent — ends in the late 1930s. 💙📚 📚🌈
about 1 year ago
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This was our Christmas tree, which we left behind in London, and this was the sunset on Christmas Day in the midlands. No time to post ~ Some asymmetrical queer version of
#sandwichgeneration
Happy new year to you all.
about 1 year ago
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JP Seabright
over 1 year ago
Introducing eff-able!
#PoetsOnBlueSky
please share this opportunity for queer, disabled, neurodivergent poets to submit to this anthology, funded by ACE and published by fourteen poems. Subs open until 1st December - all details below!
#poetry
#lgbtqia+
#queer
#disabled
#neurodivergent
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Hi all you newcomers. :) I mostly do words here (and plants) and do art on instagram (and more plants) So here’s what I discovered at
@gladlib.bsky.social
last month: Rowan Williams as a poet.
over 1 year ago
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Thanks for the translators, and from the translators, Rachel!
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over 1 year ago
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At peace
@gladlib.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
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Queer poems with
@arachnepress.bsky.social
this Friday 19.00 for UK 'National Coming Out Day' online - so you can join us from any country and be joy-us.
#queerpoetry
#queerliterature
www.facebook.com/events/84507...
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over 1 year ago
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It’s
#internationaltranslationday
or
#hieronymustag
and here is a book I translated recently, one I was commended for, the one I’m working on now and one of the first translations I read after the bible, still much loved.
over 1 year ago
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Check out the new issue of Impossible Archetype, people. Going to treat myself and print it out. Always the best bit about having a poem in a magazine or anthology: discovering what everyone else has been writing, being part of a lovely literary gathering on paper.
impossiblearchetype.wordpress.com
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Impossible Archetype
About Impossible Archetype
https://impossiblearchetype.wordpress.com/
over 1 year ago
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West Midlands poetry people, this will be a lovely event:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ghost-part...
I'm supporting Fred and Liz. Come along!
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GHOST PARTICLES
You're invited to the launch of Fred D'Aguiar's sequence,'Ghost Particles', published by Fair Acre Press.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ghost-particles-tickets-978020524717?aff=oddtdtcreator
over 1 year ago
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Kelly jones telling truth on the radio. (Last item)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Front Row - Emily Tesh and the Hugo Awards; Dating shows; Kelly Jones - BBC Sounds
Emily Tesh on her Hugo Award winning book, Some Desperate Glory.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0021x3r?partner=uk.co.bbc
over 1 year ago
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We wrote about how we wrote joy (with difficulty at first, then it all came pouring out).
lgbtqreads.com/2024/06/26/i...
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Inside an Anthology: Joy//Us ed. by Cherry Potts and Jeremy Dixon
Today on the site I’m delighted to spotlight Joy//Us, an anthology of poetry edited by Cherry Potts and Jeremy Dixon and published by Arachne Press! Here’s a little more about the colle…
https://lgbtqreads.com/2024/06/26/inside-an-anthology-joy-us-ed-by-cherry-potts-and-jeremy-dixon/
over 1 year ago
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West Midlands poetry people, this will be a lovely event:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ghost-part...
I'm supporting Fred and Liz. Come along!
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GHOST PARTICLES
You're invited to the launch of Fred D'Aguiar's sequence,'Ghost Particles', published by Fair Acre Press.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ghost-particles-tickets-978020524717?aff=oddtdtcreator
over 1 year ago
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Not long till the anthology Joy//Us comes out, poems of queer joy, by us, for us, for you, get a copy here:
arachnepress.com/JOY-US-poems...
Or at one of the lovely readings and launch events. I'm reading at the Brixton, Brighton, Bishop's Castle events, see here:
arachnepress.com/events/
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JOY//US poems of queer joy
Publishing 17th MAY 2024 £9.99 Edited by Cherry Potts and Jeremy Dixon Poetry/ LGBTQ+ An eclectic collection of poetry that illuminates and celebrates, who, how, why and where we are now. Trudy Howson...
https://arachnepress.com/JOY-US-poems-of-queer-joy-p606092625
almost 2 years ago
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Help this
#queerpoetry
anthology fly!
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about 2 years ago
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Bluesky literarti
@arachnepress.bsky.social
are crowdfunding to enable this lovely anthology of
#queerpoetry
. You can buy things or just donate. Includes
#vispo
#concretepoetry
#riso
#stencil
etc by me.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/147...
about 2 years ago
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This is really worrying
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over 2 years ago
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The RLF fed me this title; I ran with it…
www.rlf.org.uk/showcase/ste...
over 2 years ago
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homage to Sarah Maguire
over 2 years ago
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Here are the pictures. Astonishing work. (Phone was too full of music to allow uploads it turns out)
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over 2 years ago
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Bluesky won’t let me add photos, anyway, El Anatsui at Tate Mod was beautiful.
www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
over 2 years ago
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Up for another couple of weeks.
over 2 years ago
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