Support our #crowdfund for Up//Roar #Poems of #Queer Resistance with these dolly #handmade #badges from editors @hazardpressuk.bsky.social and #cherrypotts 2.5cm, safety back, using cover art by #frankduffy from Joy//Us or original designs. longlisting poems on Tuesday tinyurl.tools/8330fc82

callout period for Up//Roar #Poems of #Queer Resistance has ended, we have received 326 poems from 127 poets. The longlisting begins - but it's quiet on our crowdfund. We are only 12% funded. please share with everyone you know, and encourage them to help we can't do it alone. tinyurl.tools/8330fc82

You’ve got ‘til 11:59pm tonight to submit your work to UP//ROAR: Poems of Queer Resistance, to be published in 2026 by @arachnepress.bsky.social! Open to LGBTQ+ poets based in the UK/RoI only. Thanks to @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social for the loan of a tiger! arachnepress.submittable.com/submit/33689...

get inspiration for our #LGBTQ+ ##poetry #submissions: editors Cherry Potts & Jeremy Dixon on what Up//Roar could be. You have until Sat 1st Nov 23:59GMT. arachnepress.submittable.com/submi… Love the idea? Help fund the book by contributing to our crowdfund. https://youtube.com/shorts/8g2H7sbknA4

We've collaborated with @spiracleaudiobooks.bsky.social and @renardpress.com to put together an #audiobook #anthology of quirky #christmas #poems from 300CE to now. Launching online Mon10thNov FREE tickets bit.ly/twasthelaunch many of our poets are included and editors are #CherryPotts & #WillDady

A gentle reminder to all LGBTQ+ poets that it’s time to get organised and submit to UP//ROAR: Poems of Queer Resistance, to be published next year by @arachnepress.bsky.social! SUBMISSIONS CLOSE 1 NOV 2025! (Open to LGBTQ+ poets based in the UK/RoI only) arachnepress.submittable.com/submit/33689...

Reminder: LGBTQ+ Poets resident/citizens UK /RoI, 6 days to Submit arachnepress.submittable.com/submit Supporters/Allies! help by joining our crowdfunders www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/uproar-poe... we need to raise a lot, anthologies are expensive, especially ones as good as Up//Roar is going to be.

Our crowdfunder for Up//Roar poems of Queer Resistance is live! This anthology of #LGBTQ+ #poems will be edited by Cherry Potts and Jeremy Dixon (Hazard Press). Help get our tiger roaring! submissions (UK/RoI only) still open til 1st nov www.crowdfunder.co.uk/uproar-poems-of-queer-resistance

youtu.be/ulG41ZR7Zis short video from Cherry Potts & Jeremy Dixon about our planned #LGBTQ+ #poetry anthology - UP//ROAR poems of Queer Resistance, to remind queer poets in UK & RoI #submissions open until 1st November arachnepress.submittable.com/submit crowdfunding soon! keep an eye out for that.

We may have mentioned we are #crowdfunding our next book an epically slow start means we've barely reached 19% with abt 10 days to go. no funds=no book. #ecopoetry and meetings with dead #poets in the lungs of London www.kickstarter.com/projects/147... pls share and help if you can

Hannah Hull talking about Home is a place that visits me at @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social poetry salon last Saturday in #museuminthepark #stroud. Thanks to #dialectpress for organising . Up next free online launch this Thursday 6thOct 7pm www.outsavvy.com/event/29667/... @inpressbooks.bsky.social

The brilliant @arachnepress.bsky.social has been spotlighted for #IndieLitMagGala 2025—a solo-run powerhouse publishing inclusive, radical, community-rooted work since 2012. Massive thanks to @emmalee1.bsky.social for the nomination—this one’s richly deserved. Read here: thebrokenspine.co.uk...#IndieLitMagGala

‪ we are #CROWDFUNDING! in Meeting #JohnClare at #HighBeach #poet Michael Shann writes of the trees, history & people of ancient #EppingForest from #Boudicca to #AlfredHitchcock. Help us bring this book to fruition. www.kickstarter.com/projects/147...

new #poem video from michael shann in #EppingForest from his #poetry collection Meeting John Clare at High Beach. we are #crowdfunding & could REALLY use help spreading the word. No funds=no book. @eefnews.bsky.social @inpressbooks.bsky.social @walthamstowlife.bsky.social @eppingforest.bsky.social

Diolch/Many thanks to the judges+team @forwardprizes.bsky.social for including Naming the Trees as highly commended.🙏 Inspired by the campaign to save Penrhos Nature Reserve from being developed. Here's my copy in the leaf wave+rustle of where it began🌳💚 @arachnepress.bsky.social @nation.cymru

An Epping Forest video from Michael Shann  Meeting John Clare at High Beach by Michael Shann Poems from Epping Forest Here's a video from the poet Michael Shann of him reading the title poem, at High Beach. The Crowdfunder is LIVE on Kickstarter for the next 28 days. You won't find any other info…

Help us crowd fund our next book Meet Meeting John Clare at High Beach by Michael Shann Poems from Epping Forest Michael Shann lives close to Epping Forest and walks, runs and cycles there regularly. Epping Forest is ancient woodland, and has a history to match. Meeting John Clare at High Beach…

hand made crowd funding rewards for Meeting John Clare at High Beach Crowdfunding is something we rather hate to have to do, but it does at least provide an opportunity to have a bit of creative play in the process. Second guessing what funders might be interested in, apart from the actual book,…

Submission call live for UP//ROAR POEMS OF QUEER RESISTANCE Following the success of Joy//Us, we are preparing another queer poetry anthology. Up//Roar: Poems of Queer Resistance. Jeremy Dixon and Cherry Potts are editing again, and we feel that the world has taken a dramatic turn for the worse,…

Home is a place that visits me Launch Events and more Afonydd readings Home is a place that visits me by Hannah Hull will be out on 25th September. You can still pre-order and get the book just before it hits the streets. It is a marvellously strange book, illustrated and quirky, alarming and…

we are #CROWDFUNDING! in Meeting John Clare at High Beach poet Michael Shann writes of the trees, history & people of ancient Epping Forest from Boudicca to Alfred Hitchcock. Help us bring this book to fruition. www.kickstarter.com/projects/147... @eppingforest.bsky.social @johnclare.bsky.social

Saturday 04/10/2026 2-4pm IPN Poetry Salon at Museum in the Park, Stroud, Hannah Hull is reading from Home is a place that visits me alongside Afonydd poets Des Mannay & Iris Anne Lewis, plus poets from other member publisers. Free tix www.dialect.org.uk/coursesworks...

Saturday 04/10/2026 10:30-12:00 Wirral Poetry Festival hosts Afonydd poets Sian Northey, Siôn Aled Owen, & Robbie Burton at Bebington Library, Civic Way Bebington Wirral CH63 7PN free, no booking required

online #booklaunch Home is a place that visits me Debut #poetry by #hannahhull 9thOct 7pm FREE but PLEASE book to get the link www.outsavvy.com/event/29667/... part poetry, part graphic novel, part autofiction. free music download with books purchased at this event

We are preparing a new UK/RoI #queerpoetry anthology. Up//Roar: Poems of Queer Resistance. call out is live until 1st Nov. arachnepress.submittable.com/submit/33689... pls share with any #queerpoets you know @hazardpressuk.bsky.social is editing with me @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social is doing cover

as summer gets washed away into autumn, it is the last weekend of our 'Hot Weather' #Sale. Pick #books from the special selection at arachnepress.com/Hot-Weather-... and use the code HOT at the checkout. Finishes 31st August. #poetry #childrensbooks #sff #shortfiction

Hot Weather sale use code HOT at checkout, SALE ENDS 31st AUGUST #poetry #fantasy #shortfiction whether you are a hide in the shade or a bask in the sun reader, something for everyone... arachnepress.com/Hot-Weather-...

Heads up! an unusual #booklaunch for Hannah Hunter Hull's Home is a place that visits me - with an #Artistfilm and #Q&A with @clareshawpoet.bsky.social at Workshop 21 Water Street Todmorden OL14 5AB FRIDAY 26th SEPTEMBER 7-9pm Tix £8/£5 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/home-is-a-...

Day 15 Sealey Challege - Afonydd: Poems for Welsh Rivers, Arachne Press A poem by @tigerbaynatasha.bsky.social #poetry #writing @nessowen.bsky.social @arachnepress.bsky.social

I received a royalty from sales of the JOY//US anthology, in which I have a poem, @arachnepress.bsky.social That's right. Money. From poetry. The royalty was just enough to buy a fancy sandwich at Foyles, but given the prices in there, that's quite impressive. arachnepress.com/JOY-US-poems...

@sealeychallenge.bsky.social day 11 Arachne Press, A470: Poems for the Road. Super poetic work in this anthology. @arachnepress.bsky.social @nessowen.bsky.social arachnepress.com/books/poetry...

Our Hot Weather Sales is still on - until the end of August. we live in hope the weather will buck up a bit, wearing a jumper while typing this! If you are doing the #thesealeychallenge over August, grab some poetry books half price! arachnepress.com/Hot-Weather-... use code HOT at checkout

our hot weather sale continues... Use the code HOT at checkout. sale includes fiction titles by #cherrypotts #liamhogan @davidhartley.bsky.social #lilypeters and a profusion of anthology contributors arachnepress.com/Hot-Weather-... @inpressbooks.bsky.social

@arachnepress.bsky.social Making me more than a little homesick. Diolch yn fawr.

forget prime - buy poetry in our HOT weather sale - 50% with code HOT cool books for hot weather arachnepress.com/Hot-Weather-... highlighting poets with books in the sale: including @emmalee1.bsky.social @sarahleavesley.bsky.social #annemacaulay #adriennesilcock @inpressbooks.bsky.social

Another video from the Afonydd tour - #PatEdwards and #SionAled with Pat's poem 'The Talk of the Village' read at Poetry Pharmacy last month arachnepress.com/Afonydd-p711...

Don't forget our Hot Weather Sale 50% off with the code HOT 'cool books for hot weather' (Liam Hogan) arachnepress.com/Hot-Weather-... Pride in London yesterday, so let's highlight LGBTQ+ authors with books in the sale: #JaneAldous #KateFoley #cherrypotts #tomdingley #cathythomasbryant #JoyHoward

Spend the hot weather with a #book... We are putting 33 backlist titles (for the temperature) on sale. Choose from anything from #poetry anthologies to #childrensbooks! pick some titles from THE HOT WEATHER SALE arachnepress.com/Hot-Weather-... and use the code HOT at the checkout for 50% off

A government ban on Hungary’s Pride parade backfired Saturday as over 100,000 people marched through Budapest, far more than usual PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government

My article in PoetryNews about Ecopoetry.

An unexpected mention in @theguardian.com no less. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... thanks to Carol Rumens

part of our line up for our next bilingual Afonydd #poems for #Welsh #Rivers #Cerddi #Afonydd #Cymru event, with #rhianelizabeth at TigerBayPoetry 26th June 7.30 Chapter Arts Centre, Canton, Cardiff matthewmcsmith.bsky.social pendweller.bsky.social traceyrhys.bsky.social garethwd.bsky.social

@jennymitchellgo.bsky.social Please check your spam, I've emailed 3 times in response to yours - you clearly aren't getting my emails! If there's another way to contact you please let me know. thanks Cherry

happy #independentbookshopweek to #poetrypharmacy where we spent a happy sunday morning launching #Afonydd in #BishopsCastle our only non-Wales event (so far). We had a lovely time in their new performance/workshop space The Lab, with lots of poets reading their own and other peoples poems.

Happy #IndependentBookshopWeek to #thehoursbrecon where we read from Afonydd just under a fortnight ago. Great bookshop - great cafe, great surroundings. The have great books too, including Afonydd and A470! @inpressbooks.bsky.social @llyfraucymru.bsky.social

Book people, writers AND publishers, esp those coping with outside pressures with their own or their loved ones' health, it's worth reading this whole thread.

Mae na gerddi gwych yn y gyfrol hon a mae'r cyfieithiadau o safon uchel iawn hefyd. Llongyfarchiadau @arachnepress.bsky.social ac i'r golygyddion a'r cyfranwyr i gyd

All set up at @swanseastones.bsky.social for #poems for #Welsh #Rivers #cerddi #Afonydd #Cymru 6pm upstairs in the cafe

We are having a great time touring#Afonydd around Wales - last night was sold out but there are tickets for tonight in Swansea - 6pm. I've been putting random times on previous posts it is DEFINITELY 6pm! w/ loads of poets incl natholborow.bluesky.social & tomorrow at Machynlleth Seneddy-dy 6.30pm

Catch our next #Afonydd event Cardiff is sold out so see us at @waterstones.bsky.social #Swansea Wed 11June6.30 www.waterstones.com/events/poetr...