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In Catfish, Pascale Petit’s third poem, we are taken back to the very beginning: the hospital ward, the incubator, the first wound of birth. Yet the poem refuses any clinical language. Ihttps://aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/catfish-by-pascale-petit

When I launched The Aftershock Review I never expected the response we’ve had. What began bedbound grew into a magazine that sold out multiple print runs, reached one million+ potential readers in 3 months, and has been featured in The Guardian, The Bookseller, and soon The Times and Front Row.

This poem originally appeared in The Aftershock Review, with thanks to @maxwallis.bsky.social.

Day 92 - Epigenetics / homecoming / family open.substack.com/pub/aftersho...

Huge thanks to Max Wallis of Aftershock Review, not only for publishing my effluvium, but for this fabulous editorial reading and comment on it. 💜

effluvium is a poem of leakage and revolt. Stains blur into one another, sex, blood, mucus; until the body itself becomes hostile, a site of overflow. The speaker moves between bed and self, between past and present, carrying a lifetime of “undreaming,” open.substack.com/pub/aftersho...

I assume the poets have all welcomed this gift

Hear me read 'Frog Song' through the Aftershock Review substack Along with my other new poems given a doorway to readers by @maxwallis.bsky.social, Frog Song is going to be in my 3rd collection Emergency Dream, publishing with @serenbooks.bsky.social in March 2026. #Swims #PondLife #BeMoreFrog

Delighted to share the 3rd of my poems in @maxwallis.bsky.social - Fox / Plague Year Season 3. I'm unspeakably grateful for Max's careful reading of all these poems. This analysis in particular made me cry the good tears - 'survival is not abstraction but practice itself: animal, embodied, ongoing.'

Editorial Note by Max Wallis “Polly Atkin’s Pain Parade takes what most of us try to hide or name in whispers and lets it arrive at full volume, in costume. Pain becomes pageant, procession, myth. " Pain Parade by Polly Atkin open.substack.com/pub/aftersho... @pollyrowena.bsky.social

Day 89 - Write about the dentist, or doctors, or from a time in the past (and give your past-self some spoilers) open.substack.com/pub/aftersho...

Today I am 1 year, 5 months and 1 day sober. If you want to buy me a drink perhaps consider a magazine instead? www.aftershockreview.com

“Riotous and razor sharp, this phenomenal pamphlet is proof that survival and recovery is not only possible - it can be sexy, too.” - Rhian Elizabeth Published with @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social in November. www.vervepoetrybookshop.com/product-page... Thank you!!!! Ps thanks Original Brian xx

Joseph Fasano said this about Well Done, You Didn’t Die and I still haven’t quite recovered. This pamphlet nearly didn’t happen. I nearly didn’t happen. Preorder with Verve Poetry Press now. www.vervepoetrybookshop.com/product-page...

Scanning the pages of the @theguardian.com, I thought, 'There's a face I know!' It was that of @maxwallis.bsky.social, above a piece by Suzi Feay, on the remarkable and literally life-changing poetry journal, 'The Aftershock Review' – to which I'm proud to have made two contributions. bit.ly/4faKgWc

Joseph Fasano said this about Well Done, You Didn’t Die and I still haven’t quite recovered. This pamphlet nearly didn’t happen. I nearly didn’t happen. Preorder with Verve Poetry Press now. www.vervepoetrybookshop.com/product-page...

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... A poetry magazine that helps with mental challenges. @theguardian.com @maxwallis.bsky.social

#Poetry 🍃 #Aftershock is proof that you can take an awful few years and make them into potentially the most astonishing year. Having not wanted to live at all…to choose life over and over again. It’s incredible @maxwallis.bsky.social 🍃 @lindseyhilsum.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social #ICYMI

Here's a lovely story. Better still, @maxwallis.bsky.social is here. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... ‘How can I find meaning from the ruins of my life?’: the little magazine with a life-changing impact | Poetry | The Guardian

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... ‘How can I find meaning from the ruins of my life?’: the little magazine with a life-changing impact | Poetry | The Guardian

I have a new book coming out in November with @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social www.vervepoetrybookshop.com/product-page...

Aftershock has arrived on billboards! Head to the Deansgate/Bridgewater crossroads ❤️

Me reading my poem Fulcrum published by @fourteenpoems.bsky.social Effable @jpseabright.bsky.social

Day 69 - The Daily Aftershock - You Avoid the News Just in Case - Write a villanelle You Avoid the News Just in Case You avoid the news just in case some simple headline knocks you flat in bed. You don’t want to be reminded of that place. open.substack.com/pub/aftersho...

Day 69 - The Daily Aftershock - You Avoid the News Just in Case - Write a villanelle You Avoid the News Just in Case You avoid the news just in case some simple headline knocks you flat in bed. You don’t want to be reminded of that place. open.substack.com/pub/aftersho...

Thank you Ludlow!

Another excellent evening of poetry in the Marches with Pele Cox and, tonight, Max Wallis @maxwallis.bsky.social and Suzy Feay. Ludlow, it's not only about food and the castle you know.

Visual poetry uses shape to speak. Today, that shape is a sash window: Two stacked rectangles. Four lines per pane. A form that holds stillness. When trauma makes the body want to jump or freeze, form can sometimes help us stay. aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/day-62-the... #poetry

This has had over 10,000 views and 487 likes on Instagram @chenchenwrites.bsky.social and if just 10% bought a copy it would be a huge boost to my early June sales 💜 for the queers, the heres, t’wases and t’werents. www.aftershockreview.com

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@mcrlitfest.bsky.social heya, I’d love to chat to you about this if possible ? www.thebookseller.com/news/new-poe... New poetry magazine The Aftershock Review launches

Do you know what is really good? THE AFTERSHOCK REVIEW! @maxwallis.bsky.social and @annapercypoet.bsky.social have played a blinder in curating and producing this mag, every page an enduring poetical treasure. (this is an old pic, I'm not in the boozer on a Friday morning, sadly)

We have had an astonishing 20,876 views of our Substack! Please comment/RT/like and subscribe! We have a 30 day free offer and a year of poetry coming. aftershockpoetry.substack.com #poetry #micropoetry #poetrylist

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The ASTONISHING @chenchenwrites.bsky.social which you can read more in the mag and here: aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/pride-2025...

Suzi's Book Bag: The Aftershock Review and her poem The London McDevitt i.m. Niall McDevitt A tribute to poetry, survival, and Niall McDevitt - and the Aftershock Review itself - by Suzi Feay. (I am very emotional!) aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/suzis-book...

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“From the most extraordinary low a year ago... to this. I don’t know anyone who’s done anything comparable.” aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/suzis-book...

Exciting new poetry from @dalebooton.bsky.social in the launch issue of The Aftershock Review! Read and order here 👇

Absolutely thrilled to be a part of The Aftershock Review. Thank you to the wonderful @maxwallis.bsky.social for believing in these poems.