Poppy Cockburn
@poppycockburn.bsky.social
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Writer (poetry, mostly) nu book:
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8 months ago
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inspired by real life life
1 day ago
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I can’t read Fanny Howe without going off down a rabbit hole of personal associations every other sentence. It’s taken me more than a year to read 20 pages.
4 days ago
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It’s 2026 and a man just told me to smile.
5 days ago
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I love whomever it is blasting OutKast on the beach right now
6 days ago
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Is it flying ant day???
10 days ago
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Overheard: She is the most basic bitch I’ve ever met. Her teeth really annoy me.
12 days ago
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Need Troye Sivan to release a double summer album now pls.
12 days ago
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Why is tea more spillable than coffee?
18 days ago
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Book as ode to awfulness.
23 days ago
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Overheard beach edition Shirley Jackson: ‘if you don’t want sand, don’t go to the beach’.
25 days ago
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80% snot
26 days ago
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Instead of a celebratory pint I am digging into super juicy slices of pear 🍐
26 days ago
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(My type)
27 days ago
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Cold & flu capsule summer 💊 🌞 🤗
27 days ago
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We should all be banned from using social media tbf.
28 days ago
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summertime sicko
30 days ago
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I love how in films set in old times, everyone has about 3 friends in total.
about 1 month ago
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lol
about 1 month ago
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Feelin burnt out by everything—work, writing, reading, the weather, the world. Need a quiet mountain and a hot spring.
about 1 month ago
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Just killed a fly with my bare hands.
about 1 month ago
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Ultra ripe mango with a drizzle of olive oil is 👌 🥭
about 1 month ago
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£3.50 vending machine fail :(
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
For the London contingent -- this Zona Motel reading in a couple weeks should be by all measures excellent. Featuring Iphgenia Baal, Lucy K Shaw, Paul Johnathan,
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about 2 months ago
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Night Light poetry reading series #33 (May 2026)
YouTube video by Poetry Books On Tape
https://youtu.be/6MSHdTntQXM
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In the depression bin badly today. Trying to claw my way back out.
about 2 months ago
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my dad just followed me on instagram so guess that platform's ded to me
about 2 months ago
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Sometime you catch an algorithm and you develop a tiny heart shaped agitation.
2 months ago
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Nosecco night in
2 months ago
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Participating in an online reading this month!
add a skeleton here at some point
2 months ago
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in a shocking turn of events, i just received some really good customer service
2 months ago
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was telling a friend about how miserified I’d become by a situation and we both agreed it was a useful invented word
2 months ago
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tip(s): never attempt a home fringe trim a couple of hours out from going on a date. i knew this already, but ignored my own knowledge, so second point is to observe the knowledge one holds
2 months ago
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unfortunately flies do not respond to the command ‘go away’
2 months ago
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Was in such a bad mood I left an event, came home n wrote 20 tiny poems about light, which has helped improve things somewhat.
2 months ago
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IG notes keeps asking for my controversial opinions like it wants me to fall out with everyone I know? Well joke’s on IG because all I can muster is that I don’t really enjoy or particularly rate Ben Lerner’s fiction and although my ethics would align me with veganism, I continue to enjoy meat.
2 months ago
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the atheist urge to purchase chintzy religious iconography
2 months ago
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kinda feel a sure sign a friendship’s ded is if yr friend can’t be happy for yr successes
3 months ago
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Drunk people singing my heart will go on outside my window making me tear up rn
3 months ago
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I guess an absolute fiasco of a day once a year is a fair rate of occurrence
3 months ago
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pretty sure all the temptation island couples already know they’re splitting up so they’re just there for the rebound haven
3 months ago
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How to become a bestselling author: step 1: become a celebrity. step 2: publish a book
3 months ago
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i’m bored of the non-fic memoirists i used to get excited by. feel like they’re milking it now
3 months ago
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my opinion was deemed wrong
3 months ago
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lol at IG ads recommending me flimsy little Prada vests that cost £400
3 months ago
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my writing top tip: write like y're dead already n consequences aren't a thing
3 months ago
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It’s important to have a few friend-not-friends who just like all yr sh** on social media. I need to make a few more of those. I try to be that for some ppl.
3 months ago
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Sorry I can’t come out tonight. I’m staying in to write a personal essay about alcohol and shame.
3 months ago
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Genuinely think ppl hate it when you’re too good at your job. Always good to strategically f up from time to time to keep people on side.
3 months ago
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Bought a curry that’s too hot for me 🔥 😭
3 months ago
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sang video games at karaoke n someone came up to me after n said my voice reminded them of Elizabeth Fraser so i’m happy 🎤 🎮 🖤
3 months ago
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