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!

Nude #7. White room whose walls,having neither planes nor curves nor angles, are composed of a continuous satiny white membrane like the flesh of some interior organ of the moon. It is a living surface, almost wet. Lucency breathes in and out. Anne Carson, The Glass Essay

‘Is my heart a rose?/How unspeakable’ (Alice Oswald)…rose-brushed musings today with a visit to Alison Watt’s ‘From Light’ at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery 🥀

Just like the easter bunny, we're here to offer up some treats in the form of THREE poetry chapbooks 😍 Pre-order is live at salopress.com

More poetry gorgeousness from @salopress.bsky.social with @jitterbugwrites.bsky.social’s exciting new forthcoming pamphlet! 🙌

A fabulous @ninearchespress.bsky.social triple launch night, showcasing James McDermott’s unflinching poems of loss & grief, @tomsastry.bsky.social’s adept mixing of satire & elegy, & Laurie Bolger’s fizzing, witty, rom-com energy. 🩷🩷🩷

It's #NationalPoetryMonth -- check out Judith Copithorne's visual poetry, and her amazing collection ANOTHER ORDER (edited by Eric Schmaltz, published by Talonbooks ): talonbooks.com/books/anothe...

Excited for this forthcoming beauty from @wendycaitlin.bsky.social @galiamelon.bsky.social @salopress.bsky.social 🩷

If you want to know more about the WomensArt project - here is my recent interview.... www.ocasa.org.uk/post/women-s...

My thanks to P.L. Henderson for discussing the brilliant @womensartbluesky.bsky.social project with me to celebrate Women’s History Month 🤩👇👀 www.ocasa.org.uk/post/women-s...

MAKE UP MY MIND by @leiabutler.bsky.social is out today! This extraordinary, playful, thought-provoking book of visual poetry is available as ebook www.steelincisors.com/product/make... and as lush paperback mixam.co.uk/print-on-dem...

I like you; your eyes are full of language. Anne Sexton, 1964

Absolutely love this from @karanchambers.bsky.social ‘s new pamphlet ‘woman | folk’ from @salopress.bsky.social…the perfect poem for International Women’s Day ❤️🤩

‘Turn on, tune in, and slip sideways into language’…fantastic article by @gregchthomas.bsky.social on the work of Dom Sylvester Houédard. 🤩

Delighted to be part of the celebration of all things Classics-related with a collage piece in the latest issue of @aothenmagazine.bsky.social … 🌙 aothenmagazine.com#issue8 🌙

Cannot overstate just how powerful @regretteruane.bsky.social’s erasures are - the challenging of the original text feels urgent and revelatory 👇

Wonderful online launch of ‘Patient L1’ - a fantastic verse memoir by @simonmaddrell.bsky.social speaking in the voice of @jonb-2149.bsky.social -from @polari.press. 🤩 ‘I’ll live a lot longer than you think…’

This collection from @leiabutler.bsky.social & @steelincisors.bsky.social looks exciting! 💋

❛ She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. Author Angela Carter, who died #OTD in 1992.

stand to face me beloved and open out the grace of your eyes

More Gothic goodness from @sjartt.bsky.social 🖤

A perfect @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social pamphlet hour (celebrating the liberating & risk-taking potential of the form, & indie presses) with fabulous readings from Laurie Bolger, @troycabida.bsky.social, Betty Doyle & Ellora Sutton. 🩷

A gorgeously Gothic Valentines treat tonight courtesy of @gothicauob.bsky.social & @jfpackham.bsky.social exploring uncanny utterances of love & disorientating rapture via Derrida, Barthes, Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’ & more! 🖤🖤🖤

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