Seeing as how the Rapture (inexplicably) failed to happen, I think it's safe to announce that l'll be part of Halifax Town Fest! Saturday 18th October at the fab @bookcornerhx.bsky.social 💜 with wonderful poets @suzannahevans.bsky.social & @amandadalton.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social

Happy #PublicationDay to two of our visiting authors: @heatherclarkauthor.bsky.social for THE SCRAPBOOK (9th July) & @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social for THIS IS HOW I FIGHT (18th October with @suzannahevans.bsky.social & Amanda Dalton) Tickets on our website: bookcornerhalifax.com/events/

In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)...

Currently the only way to recycle these is to pay £25-£45 for an envelope to use which is expensive and excludes a lot of people. So do a quick sign if you get the chance: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Join the Emma Press team! 🎉 📍Birmingham-based 🗓️ 6 months Paid internship opportunity via a brilliant new initiative from Creative Access and David Tebbutt Trust to support people from under-represented backgrounds to build a career in publishing. APPLY BY 30 JUNE: buff.ly/55aaew1

Applications open for 1 *FREE* place for writer from an underrepresented community on our "Shorts: short fic, poetry, non fic & hybrids" residential @arvonfoundation.bsky.social course in Aug. Email [email protected] by 4 Jun telling me how you're eligible & why this particular course interests you!

Saw this on a tree near us earlier and it’s pure poetry:

In Praise of Stuck open.substack.com/pub/suzannah...

This list keeps getting longer eh?

How is the solution to ‘an island of strangers’ to introduce a rhetoric that estranges us further from each other? How is it not an investment in community and a reinstatement of resources lost under austerity?

Cambridge launch of 'Ten Poets Travel to the Dark Side of the Moon': tomorrow, 6pm, Waterstones. Here I am discussing it and other space poetry books, inc. 'Space Baby' by @suzannahevans.bsky.social and 'Watcher of the Skies' by @theemmapress.bsky.social. shotscarecrow.substack.com/p/low-gravit...

I was looking for something else and then I found this poem and had to stop for a bit (Jen Hadfield, from The Stone Age)

Happy ALCS day to all who celebrate. Nearly covered the cost of my new glasses this time 🤓

Well, that’s my weekend reading sorted! Diving into Green - the tasty new chapbook from @suzannahevans.bsky.social 🌱🌳🌿

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Very thanks Pete! You’re all following Pete already, right?

Thanks Kat! Redder norange to you all today ❤️🧡

I'm trying to start each morning with poetry & today it's the turn of Near Future by @suzannahevans.bsky.social (Nine Arches Press). Also re-reading Riddley Walker atm so this poem felt esp appropriate. Find me under the burntree when the lights go out

It was a good one, I have to say 🤩

How did I miss this gem of Suzannah Evans'? #Poem #Poetry #Uranus #Christmas #ProjectAboena projectabeona.wordpress.com/2024/12/24/t...

No dating was observed

One second from every episode of Twin Peaks.

I’m a day late spotting this, but Green thanks you 💚🐸🥦🌳🦖

Sat behind one of my poetry heroes last night at Glasgow film theatre!

That’s a lot! Only 5 weeks to go.

Our booksale offers all the titles of 2024 for just £7.99 each and our evergreen creative handbooks at just £9.99 each. Come in for a browse: buff.ly/3zEinCy

1 - literary festivals contribute fuck all to author incomes 2 - fans? What happened to critically engaged readers 3 - books expand yr inner life but do not apply to real world situs eg fossil fuels/ gaza ?! 4 - ‘we need books to propagate & pay for the empire’ = creative economy discour$e 😷

It’s a cold and it’s a broken “cowabunga”

Every time you share a "The Conversation" post I want to remind you that they have a multi-million dollar annual budget and pay writers zero dollars, including adjuncts and grad students. We cannot rely on exploited labor to achieve a better public humanities. www.patreon.com/posts/better...

Good evening. I would like to share my good news with you. It's a book about the apocalypse. ninearchespress.com/publications...

I hope I die warmed by the life that I tried to live — Nikki Giovanni 🖤🙏🏾

If the X Files were filmed today Mulder would be Q Anon

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Black Ice Friday 🥶

A few reasons to order books from Longbarrow Press: 1. First-rate poems 2. Scrupulously edited 3. Meticulously designed 4. Handsomely produced 5. Fastidiously packaged longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Hey loves - I've made a @poetrysociety.bsky.social Young Poets Network challenge around sharing our built environments with our fellow earthling critters. Please pass this on to the young poets in your lives. Get writing - I'm excited to see your poems! ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/workshop/ear...

I promise I will make a face of total post-gig overstimulation, as detailed below, if you attend

Today! Doors at 2pm Open mic from 2.30 Tom Sastry @ 3.10 Non Canon @ 3.30 @suzannahevans.bsky.social @ 4pm Paywhatyouwant in advance/on the door www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/sid...

My Saturday reading was Near Future by @suzannahevans.bsky.social from Nine Arches Press. A wonderful speculative gem of a book that seems all the more real for its otherworldliness 📚💙 #poetry

Bristol people! I’m playing/organising this lovely afternoon of poetry and acoustic music tomorrow (Sunday 17th November). It’s paywhatyouwant and we’re opening the gig with a poetry/spoken word open mic time. Come along! Spread the word! Tix: www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/sid...

Hello! I’m happy to have some Bluesky followers at last! I’m Suzannah, I live in Sheffield and I write things (poems for a while now, presently fiction). I’m more into doing than being, but that’s because I’m lucky enough to be so. I like birds & dogs. Also I’ve got a gig on Sunday, pls come

This is coming up, Bristol friends, and it would be awesome to see you!

Bristol! This lovely paywhatyouwant afternoon gig is one week today; @suzannahevans.bsky.social, me, and Tom Sastry celebrate the release of Suzannah’s latest book. Tix from www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/sid... Shares appreciated, thanks! #poetry #livemusic #acoustic #Bristol

Bristol types - I’m playing my first post-baby gig as part of a matinee show to celebrate the release of my pal @suzannahevans.bsky.social’s ace new book. It’s going to be lovely. Paywhatyouwant HTTPS://HDFST.UK/E117807

Join us, Bristol! We may reprise the ‘embarrassing anecdotes from the past’ segment from tours gone by

remember writers, come October you are no longer “thrilled” you are “resurrected,” you aren’t “happy to announce” you are “howling at the moon,” you aren’t “so excited” you are “a heart beating beneath floorboards so loud the rats hear it a block away”

Just in case you thought ‘All of Us Strangers’ was a fun queer joy film to watch as a vile virus ravages your feeble body- No it is very not. I sobbed out all the fluids I’ve been diligently consuming.

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