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NEON MANILA (Nine Arches Press, 2025)
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My debut collection, NEON MANILA, is officially out and ready to meet you all! Poems about clothing, jewellery, pop music, and London through the queer Filipino lens. Feel free to use the code NEON25 for a discount when buying directly from Nine Arches Press.
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26 days ago
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Taz Rahman
16 days ago
The latest Just Another Poet channel interview features
@troycabida.bsky.social
, whose debut poetry collection 'Neon Manila', published by
@ninearchespress.bsky.social
is a Poetry Book Society Winter 2025 recommendation:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wpz...
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Poet Interview: Troy Cabida
YouTube video by Just Another Poet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wpzk0MdRMs
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Nine Arches Press
5 days ago
Our 2025 titles are now available together as a perfect
#poetry
book bundle, celebrating our brilliant year of publishing. Just £84.99📚 Incl books by
@troycabida.bsky.social
@csmithpoet.bsky.social
@rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social
@julwe1.bsky.social
@tomsastry.bsky.social
ninearchespress.com/shop
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Jennifer Wong
4 days ago
Don’t miss this amazing
@redbeanpoetry.bsky.social
line-up ❄️❄️❄️
@metapheric.bsky.social
@troycabida.bsky.social
Nina Mingya Powles, Erica Hesketh on 3 Dec, 8pm at National Poetry Library to share their new poems and reflect on art-making and transformations!
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/spe...
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Special Edition: Red Bean Poetry | Southbank Centre
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/special-edition-red-bean-poetry
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Nine Arches Press
18 days ago
Stunning sets of poems shared this evening at our online launch. Spellbinding, powerful, sharp and tender poems of love and pain from
@csmithpoet.bsky.social
@troycabida.bsky.social
and
@jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Thank you to our poets and audience 🧡 Find these books:
ninearchespress.com/shop
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Spent Friday morning with fellow
@ninearchespress.bsky.social
poet
@csmithpoet.bsky.social
signing books and recording poems for
@poetrypharmacy.bsky.social
! As both of our books came out the same month, Caroline and I agreed that our books should have the combined nickname of Neon Bycatch!
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17 days ago
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Nine Arches Press
29 days ago
Join us for our next online launch with
@csmithpoet.bsky.social
@troycabida.bsky.social
& guest poet
@jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Thursday 13th November at 7pm. 📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live 🎫 Reserve your place, pay what you can
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
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Nine Arches Press
25 days ago
Have you lined up your copy of NEON MANILA by
@troycabida.bsky.social
? 'A beautiful, tender elegy for intimacy.’ 'What a stylish and truly bold debut.’ ‘An entirely moving collection' Out now - with FREE UK postage.
ninearchespress.com/publications...
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The Neon Manila Tour - coming to a show near you!! Looking forward to sharing poems from my debut collection with you all very soon! See below for dates and locations x
26 days ago
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Nine Arches Press
about 1 month ago
Pick a card. Pick an outfit. Help
@troycabida.bsky.social
get ready for NEON MANILA, arriving this week. Order from Nine Arches Press and get this gorgeous postcard in your copy. Plus, on the reverse you'll find a QR code taking you to the NEON MANILA album 🎵
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Nine Arches Press
about 1 month ago
🎧Listen back to BBC Radio London's Poetry Corner with Jumoké Fashola talking to
@troycabida.bsky.social
about his debut NEON MANILA: chatting craft, mentoring, fashion, fun, queerness, humour, acceptance, truth, identity and more. (1hr14 in)
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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My debut collection, NEON MANILA, is officially out and ready to meet you all! Poems about clothing, jewellery, pop music, and London through the queer Filipino lens. Feel free to use the code NEON25 for a discount when buying directly from Nine Arches Press.
ninearchespress.com/publications...
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26 days ago
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Nine Arches Press
about 1 month ago
Join us for our next online launch with
@csmithpoet.bsky.social
@troycabida.bsky.social
& guest poet
@jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Thursday 13th November at 7pm. 📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live 🎫 Reserve your place, pay what you can
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
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Nine Arches Press
about 2 months ago
Have you lined up your copy of NEON MANILA by
@troycabida.bsky.social
? 'A beautiful, tender elegy for intimacy.’ 'What a stylish and truly bold debut.’ ‘An entirely moving collection' Out at the end of October.
ninearchespress.com/publications...
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Nine Arches Press
about 2 months ago
Our next online launch features
@csmithpoet.bsky.social
@troycabida.bsky.social
& guest
@jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Join us Thursday 13th November, 7pm 📹 Recording sent to all ticket-holders in case you can't join live. 🎫 Reserve your place, pay what you can
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
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Nine Arches Press
2 months ago
Have you lined up your copy of NEON MANILA by
@troycabida.bsky.social
? 'A beautiful, tender elegy for intimacy.’ 'What a stylish and truly bold debut.’ ‘An entirely moving collection'
ninearchespress.com/publications...
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Nine Arches Press
3 months ago
A wonderful blog post from
@troycabida.bsky.social
sharing a poem & insight, from upcoming Neon Manila. Discover 'Black Turtleneck Sonnet', a poem of 'beauty, agency & sex', playing with multiple meanings of an iconic garment. Photos by Pedro Younis.
ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/08/in-c...
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Nine Arches Press
3 months ago
Have you lined up your copy of NEON MANILA by
@troycabida.bsky.social
? 'A beautiful, tender elegy for intimacy.’ 'What a stylish and truly bold debut.’ ‘An entirely moving collection'
ninearchespress.com/publications...
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Nine Arches Press
3 months ago
A wonderful blog post from
@troycabida.bsky.social
sharing a poem and insight, from upcoming Neon Manila. Discover 'Black Turtleneck Sonnet', a poem of 'beauty, agency and sex', playing with multiple meanings of an iconic garment. Photos Pedro Younis.
ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/08/in-c...
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Nine Arches Press
4 months ago
Our next four titles can be pre-ordered using the (limited) FREEUK discount code at checkout. Enjoy free UK postage on the best kind of post 📚 New books by Gregory Leadbetter, Chris McCabe
@csmithpoet.bsky.social
&
@troycabida.bsky.social
ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Poetr...
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And Other Poems
4 months ago
Extract from 'No one wants what I want' by
@troycabida.bsky.social
, published in Issue Seven. Read the full poem here:
andotherpoems.com/2025/08/04/n...
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#poems
#poemoftheday
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So happy to finally launch the cover of my debut collection, NEON MANILA, out 30th of October! Inside are sparkly poems about queer Filipino subjectivity through the lens of clothing, jewellery, urban life, and a journey towards joy. Pre-order your copy now x
ninearchespress.com/publications...
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4 months ago
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Here's a poem from my upcoming poetry collection, NEON MANILA, set to music by Justin de Guzman and an accompanied music video shot by Jack Westmore. "slowed + reverb" is for those first date highs, and the post-date jitters that follow. Hope you like our work x
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Troy Cabida - slowed + reverb (Official Video)
YouTube video by Troy Cabida
https://youtu.be/xICBhevhdL0?si=0fitmBZqai735BEQ
6 months ago
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Two poems from my upcoming debut collection have been recorded to original music by hack mystic and SILKess Demon, which are now available via vinyl and digital with the wonderful people at Pearl Home Records. Check it out below!
pearlhomerecords.bandcamp.com/album/two-po...
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Two Poems, by Troy Cabida
2 track album
https://pearlhomerecords.bandcamp.com/album/two-poems
7 months ago
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Got a couple of short and steamy poems in the latest issue of & Change! Thank you to Kevin Bertolero for putting us all together here x
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7 months ago
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fourteen poems
9 months ago
Still celebrating Troy Cabida’s book being chosen by the Poetry Book Society as their Spring Pamphlet Choice 2025. And there’s also this lovely thoughtful review from Yousif M Qasmiyeh + Alyvia Pirmohamed in the PBS bulletin too. Grab a copy from either the fourteen poems or PBS website! 🥰
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Louie Stowell
9 months ago
Authors and illustrators (and both) of Bluesky! I've shared the petition about the lambeth library cuts, but they'd LOVE some more authors to sign this open letter.
#KidLitUK
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Open letter from Authors and Illustrators to Lambeth Council in support of Lambeth Libraries. A call to halt the proposed £1m cut!
Dear Lambeth councillors and officers, We are authors, illustrators, and book industry workers writing to ask you in the strongest of terms to halt the cuts to Lambeth Libraries that you announced las...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeRviVRPzUI0qfskP43wpFqJSI7OI5RhYjLRsRNLRZbVw9S2g/viewform
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fourteen poems
10 months ago
Thanks to the Poetry Book Society for choosing Troy Cabida’s “Symmetric of Bone: poems after Elsa Peretti” as their Spring 2025 Pamphlet Choice! And a special thank you to Yousif Qasmiyeh and Alycia Pirmohamed for selecting the book. Congratulations Troy!
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Thank you to The Poetry Book Society for making my pamphlet the Spring Pamphlet Choice for 2025!
www.poetrybooks.co.uk/blogs/news/b...
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BOOK OF THE WEEK: SYMMETRIC OF BONE: POEMS AFTER ELSA PERETTI - The Poetry Book Society
"[L]yrical engagement with the material objects transforms these poems into sensorial voyages, saturated with varying materialities, textures and spaces" - PBS Pamphlet Selectors Yousif M. Qasmiyeh &a...
https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/blogs/news/book-of-the-week-symmetric-of-bone-poems-after-elsa-peretti
9 months ago
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Julia
10 months ago
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. 🩷
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Matt Abbott 🍉
10 months ago
A bonus post to The Day Job, gushing about
@mlferg.bsky.social
's brand-new collection. Just because. This post is free for everybody to read 😘
#PoetsOnBluesky
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BONUS POST: Maria Ferguson publishes 'Swell' with Penguin
A stunning new poetry collection for you to get your teeth into
https://mattabbottpoet.substack.com/p/bonus-post-maria-ferguson-publishes-swell
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Hello, Bluesky! My name is Troy, and I'm a poet! Please check out my latest pamphlet, SYMMETRIC OF BONE, out now with
@fourteenpoems.bsky.social
.
www.fourteenpoems.com/shop/symmetr...
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Pre-order Troy Cabida's Symmetric of Bone now — fourteen poems
Inspired by the designs of Elsa Peretti, the new poetry pamphlet from Troy Cabida celebrates art, beauty, and resistance.
https://www.fourteenpoems.com/shop/symmetric-of-bone-by-troy-cabida
10 months ago
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