Celebrating the Bank Holiday weekend with a FLASH SALE ⚡of book bargains. All our 2025 titles are now on SALE at just £6.99 each. That's a saving of £5 on every glorious #poetry book from last year. What's missing from your bookshelves? 📚 ninearchespress.com/shop#!/SALE/...

Thank you @jhalakreview.bsky.social and Denise Saul for your 'Redefining the self in #poetry' piece bringing Surge by Jay Bernard into conversation with Neon Manila by @troycabida.bsky.social jhalakreview.substack.com/p/redefining...

Gentle reminder that I’ll be performing at Reference Point for SPEAKING OF THE GAZE, an evening of poetry on the politics of erotic experience on Monday, 25th of May from 7pm. Tickets are £5 / Pay What You Can below x www.eventbrite.com/e/speaking-o...

An honour to have Neon Manila be reviewed by Denise Saul for the Jhalak Review, alongside Surge by Jay Bernard. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The wonderful poet Ellora Sutton and I are having a joint poetry reading of our debut collections aptly called NEON BITCH. With our host and 14poems publisher Ben Townley-Canning! Mon 27th of April from 7pm at Burley Fisher Books. Tickets below x www.outsavvy.com/event/35055/...

A very kind review of my book, Neon Manila, by fellow poet Robert Eric Shoemaker for Rhino Poetry. rhinopoetry.org/reviews/troy...

The latest issue of RHINO Reviews is live! Featuring: 🦏 Emily Pérez reviewing Natalie Shapero 🦏 @robeshoe.bsky.social reviewing @troycabida.bsky.social 🦏 @alauchter.bsky.social reviewing @kathryncowles.bsky.social 🦏 loads more! Find your next National Poetry Month read here: bit.ly/4sko9SJ

The next leg of The Neon Manila Tour - coming to a city near you! Excited to be reading my neon poems (and new poems 👼) again very soon. First up: NEON BITCH at Burley Fisher Books with Ellora Sutton and Ben Townley-Canning on Monday, 27th of April! linktr.ee/troycabida?u...

Reading poems from Neon Manila on Tuesday, 5th of May at Topping & Company Edinburgh with Jennifer Wong, Safa Khatib, and Karen McCarthy Woolf, who will also be reading from their respective collections. Tickets below :) www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinb...

Here's a very serious-looking photo of me to let you know that I'll be reading poems for the lovely people at Well Versed on Thursday, 7th of May! Come through. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/well-verse...

Reminder about the @arvonfoundation.bsky.social course I’m teaching this May w/ Richard Scott and @troycabida.bsky.social www.southbankcentre.co.uk/venues/natio...

ICYMI residential course in May w/ Richard Scott @troycabida.bsky.social @arvonfoundation.bsky.social 🌸🌱 www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

Excited to be the guest reader for an Arvon poetry course that will be run by Clare Pollard and Richard Scott this coming May on Summoning our Ancestors. Sign up below! www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

Queer poetry in London tomorrow from poets including @troycabida.bsky.social and @mermanpoet.bsky.social.

Sharing poems for EROTOMANIA, an evening of live readings with a group of poets working across eros, fantasy, attachment, and queer subjectivity. Come through Saturday, 21st of Feb from 6:30pm at Present Tense, London. Curated by Bianca Pina. Tickets below! presenttense.co.uk/programme/po...

So lovely to read poems for Wolverhampton Lit Fest yesterday with @csmithpoet.bsky.social and @ninearchespress.bsky.social!!

Thank you @asiancha.bsky.social and @troycabida.bsky.social for sharing this wonderful essay: 'On Neon Manila: A Balancing Act Between Sparkle and Substance', exploring queer Filipino-immigrant embodiment, pop music, resistance, as glamour and violence coexist. chajournal.com/2026/01/27/n...

Wrote an essay on the experience of writing, shaping, then later touring and living with my poetry collection, Neon Manila, for Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. Also happy to have four poems from the book published here! chajournal.com/2026/01/27/n...

Join @csmithpoet.bsky.social and @troycabida.bsky.social with Editor Jane Commane at this wonderful #poetry event on Friday 6th February. Enjoy poem readings and discussion from 11.30am at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery as part of the LitFest. Book your place: wolvesliteraturefestival.co.uk

I’m also teaching an Arvon course w/ Richard Scott and @troycabida.bsky.social www.arvon.org/writing-cour...

Come one and all to our first event of the new year. The incredible @troycabida.bsky.social will be headlining a wonderful night of poetry & community ❤️ Grab your tix here: www.outsavvy.com/event/32142/...

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...

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

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...

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

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!

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...

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...

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

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 🎵 ninearchespress.com/publications...

🎧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/...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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... #poetry #poems #poemoftheday

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...

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

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...

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

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! 🥰

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 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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!

Thank you to The Poetry Book Society for making my pamphlet the Spring Pamphlet Choice for 2025! www.poetrybooks.co.uk/blogs/news/b...

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. 🩷