Inordinately excited to be the collage ‘cover girl’ (!) for @streetcakemag.bsky.social’s special 100th issue 🥳

Weekend reading courtesy of @salopress.bsky.social with the latest poetry pamphlets from @corinnaboard.bsky.social (Mædwe) & @poppycockburn.bsky.social (Confetti) 🤩🤩

All the hype surrounding the forthcoming Wuthering Heights film leaving you cold? Dive into @poetclare.bsky.social’s brilliant series of prose poems about Emily Brontë in ‘Lives of the Female Poets’ instead! @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 😍

Honoured to have a collage piece included in the latest hope-filled, light-spilling issue of @antiheroinchic.bsky.social. Many thanks to EIC James Diaz 🤩

'as the curtain rises the movements are hard the line is clipped the champagne flat' A devastatingly beautiful 'psychological adagio' from the fouetté-turning mind of @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social via @ghostcitypress.bsky.social 👏🏻 'DANCING sees you through' 🖤 #magicalrealism #angelacarter #collage

Congratulations to the brilliant @madelinepotter.bsky.social on the publication of ‘Theological Monsters’… this erudite text promises all manner of Gothic delights! 😈🖤👇

Delighted to have an object poem included in the latest issue of Volupté Journal exploring the decadent fairy tale as it relates to the work of Renée Vivien 👇 journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/vo...

Very excited for these gorgeous-looking @salopress.bsky.social chapbooks by the fabulous @corinnaboard.bsky.social @poppycockburn.bsky.social & Anna Brook 😍😍😍👇

Starting the New Year in the company of @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social’s compelling novel in verse ‘Filly’ from @bansheepress.bsky.social 🤩

2026…

a favorite from "Nets," Jen Bervin's erasure of Shakespeare sonnets

“From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star.” (Milton) 🎨 Gustave Doré #bookwormsat

Klaxon! www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/...

Check out the Contributors' Curio: buff.ly/eHwvv5k! Our curio houses info on our contributors' creative projects. This #Spotlight is on Julia Biggs @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social !

Something for the Gothically-inclined… pleased to have a dark little hybrid piece in the ‘Spectral & Strange’ bonus issue of @mugwortmagazine.bsky.social edited by @kategarrettwrites.bsky.social 🖤

100% this @wendycaitlin.bsky.social @serenbooks.bsky.social 😍👇

A captivating @serenbooks.bsky.social launch tonight of @notjustdancing.bsky.social’s innovative, multilayered & lyrical collection ‘Hôtel Amour’ (alongside fantastic readings from @oliviamcc.bsky.social & Menna Elfyn). 😍

🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤 Our #spotlight is on Julia Biggs @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social ! Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity

Truly inspiring poetry tonight courtesy of the @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social brilliant ‘four pamphleteers’ - @maxwallis.bsky.social, @thewordtinker.bsky.social, @glynedwards.bsky.social & @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

🖤 e(i Issue 7: The Urge is LIVE! 🖤 Our #spotlight is on Julia Biggs @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social ! Check out their work at buff.ly/RViXupP! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity

Delighted to feature in the new issue of @asteralesjournal.bsky.social alongside such fabulous poets, writers & artists! 🤩 Many thanks to editors @djvorreyer.bsky.social & @rebunting.bsky.social 🙌

Thrilled to have 2 collage pieces (unapologetically indebted to Angela Carter) featured in the latest issue of @the-engine-idling.bsky.social devoted to ‘The Urge’! Huge thanks to EIC @dehm000.bsky.social for curating this celebration of feminine appetites & desires. 🤩

Thrilled & honoured to learn @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social has nominated my piece ‘Habitat’ for a Pushcart Prize! 🤩 Huge thanks to supremely supportive editors @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social & @petermcallister.bsky.social & congratulations to my (decidedly more talented) fellow nominees. 🥳

Intimate autumn reading courtesy of @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social 😍

For the inaugural issue of Draught Journal @draughtjournal.bsky.social: On Bookmarks and Other Ruins—a reflection on the bookmark as a fragile site of memory, desire, and incompletion, accompanied by images of my own bookmarks. draughtjournal.com/article/on-b...

Treating myself this National Poetry Day by preordering @anniebrechin.bsky.social’s new collection 💋

Just been reading this by @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social . I had it saved as a tab on my phone but it had got lost amongst many tabs. I'm glad to have found it again. It's really clever ❤️

Surprised but delighted to be Best of the Net nominated by @genrepunkmag.bsky.social for my dark foray into female appetites & desires! Huge thanks to EIC @audreytcarroll.bsky.social & congratulations to my fellow nominees! 🥳

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*Blushes wildly*…. if you have not yet discovered the rather marvellous @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social & his starter packs for members of the poetry community then now is the moment! 🥰

Kicking off the weekend in style with a @salopress.bsky.social poets showcase hosted by @moette.bsky.social 🤩! Fabulously experimental work mining female experience from @karanchambers.bsky.social, Laia Sales Merino, @wendycaitlin.bsky.social, @galiamelon.bsky.social & @victoriaspires.bsky.social 👏🏻

Pirouetting its way into the world today, my micro-chapbook ‘ROLES’ (a series of ballet-themed collage poems) is out with @ghostcitypress.bsky.social 🩰 You can read this surreal assortment of pliés for free here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

ROLES by Julia Biggs (@chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social) is out today as part of the 2025 Summer Series! Download your free copy here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-...

Looking forward to this @rialtopoetry.bsky.social event 👇

'night-blooming/ moonlit/ leaves like silk/ sprawling in irresistible soft abandon' Read vispo sequence 'Natural Habitat ' by Julia Biggs in our Nature Edition:

Delighted to be part of Bristol-based publisher Strange Region’s ‘Vocal Inhabitants’ anthology, which is now on sale! Full of experimental writing & visual art (plus a weird little collage piece by yours truly) do support this lovely indie offering! strangeregion.bigcartel.com/product/voca...

Looking forward to diving into ‘sea pictures’ by the marvellous @maryfrancesness.bsky.social from Penteract Press & discovering hidden magic in the confluence of stone, Melville & Coleridge 🌊

If you do one thing in London this weekend please go see the UK’s AIDS Quilt in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall.

Delighted to have 2 vispo in the new nature edition of @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social alongside fiction & poetry from the likes of @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social, @zoebrigley.bsky.social & more! Thanks to eds @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social & @petermcallister.bsky.social inkfishmag.com/natural-habi...

💧 Fitzcarraldo Classic No. 9, LILI IS CRYING by Hélène Bessette, tr. Kate Briggs, with an introduction by Eimear McBride, publishes today 💧 ‘Living literature, for me, in France today – it’s Hélène Bessette.’ — Marguerite Duras Order a copy here: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/lili-i...

It’s that time, once again. Here’s the lineup for our 10th annual Summer Series!

For those looking to celebrate World Dracula Day in style, @essiefox.bsky.social’s ’Dangerous’ may be the most fang-tastic (sorry) solution 🧛🖤🦇🩸

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A brilliant celebration tonight of @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social’s publication of ‘Frank: Sonnets’ & ‘Modern Poetry’ by Diane Seuss, touching on the sonnet as a site of tradition, care, memoir & music (with an intimate reaching for Keats along the way). ❤️

For those in need of some lunar lusciousness, do read @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social’s rather gorgeous moon poem! 🌕 🖤

I've made a little Substack post about my collage/poems in Constructing a Witch (@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social ) It's free, if you want to take a squint . . . #collage #collagepoem #constructingawitch #magic

Perfect poetry post today courtesy of the always-fabulous indie press @salopress.bsky.social! Huge congratulations to @wendycaitlin.bsky.social @galiamelon.bsky.social & @jitterbugwrites.bsky.social on the arrival of their pamphlets into the world! Hooray 🙌🩷

Am very fortunate to have an object poem in the anniversary ‘Sex, Angels’ issue of RIC Journal…so if angelically erotic encounters sound inviting, do take a look 👀 😇 (My thanks to editors @saudaminideo.bsky.social & Philippe Charlier) ricjournal.com/2025/04/30/t...

Inordinately excited to learn that my collage micro-chapbook ‘Roles’ will be published by the marvellous @ghostcitypress.bsky.social as part of its 2025 summer series! 🥳 Huge thanks to guest editors @tomsnarsky.bsky.social & @gabrielleghogan.bsky.social. Hurrah!