Just over a week to submit to the seventh issue of Permeable Barrier! This latest issue is guest edited by our very own @brihughespoet.bsky.social!
Cat Chong
@marbledmayhem.bsky.social
Poet, publisher, essayist, crip—PhD on gender, genre & disability at NTU, Singapore. Vising PhD Fellow: IMH, Durham. Digital Editor at Osmosis Press. Debut collection: 712 Stanza Homes for the Sun (2023) (they/them)♿️🏳️⚧️
TONIGHT!
Osmosis Press@osmosispress.bsky.social · 10mo ago✨LAUNCH EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT✨ We are delighted to be launching Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’ at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social as part of the Housman’s Poetry Series on the 26th of November at 7pm! This collection is a consideration of/ writing through what it (1/4)
This is not a drill! ‘Grief is the Thing in Pleather’ by Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain is RELEASED today! A limited edition of 100 copies 🪰🪰🪰 osmosispress.com/grief-is-the...
Grief is the Thing in Pleather: Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain
Released 26th November 2025Edition of 100 copies.ISBN: 978-1-0369-3369-2 “Grief is the thing in pleather: iterative, reshuffling noir signifiers, re-marking punctuation, always to the same en…
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We have a handful of additional review copies for Him Hymn and Grief is the Thing in Pleather! Drop our editor @brihughespoet.bsky.social a message if you’re interested in reviewing!💙🖤
PREORDER ALERT 🚨🚨🚨 IT FEELS SO GOOD TO BE BACK! This month, Tamsyn Challenger’s ‘Him Hymn’ and Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s ‘Grief is the Thing in Pleather’ will be released on 25th and 26th respectively🖤
Described by @suchmayer.bsky.social as containing ‘life after life after life […] with all the sardonic seriousness, [and] the deadpan profound, that characterises Bussey-Chamberlain’s work’ - this launch is not to be missed! housmans.com/event/housma...
Housmans Poetry Series: Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain launches ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’
Join us for another poetry evening, this time in collaboration with our great friends Osmosis Press, launching a new collection, ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’, from Prudence Bussey-Chamberlai…
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✨LAUNCH EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT✨ We are delighted to be launching Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’ at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social as part of the Housman’s Poetry Series on the 26th of November at 7pm! This collection is a consideration of/ writing through what it (1/4)
Such a great essay by @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social - on the monstrous, disability & the feminine @crimereads.bsky.social Wonderful Laura has her debut book Awakened out this week with Robot Books!
Laura Elliott@tinywriterlaura.bsky.social · last yr.i absolutely loved getting to write this piece on abjection and power for @crimereads.bsky.social! the function of monstrosity is something i’ve been obsessed with for a while crimereads.com/the-horror-o...
They’ve also published a dark and filthy little self-portrait giving orgasmic angel vibes… A lot of wonderful work in this issue. Have a look. Thanks so much to J D Howse and @marbledmayhem.bsky.social for their unflinching support!
Deconstructing Moving Mountains - this episode is 'Air' - featuring @jaxxi.bsky.social @marbledmayhem.bsky.social Hannah Hodgson, Louisa Adjoa Parker, and me. #NatureWriting #BookSky Moving Mountains is out in US & Canada 6th May #30DaysWild #365DaysWild open.substack.com/pub/louiseke...
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deconstructing Moving Mountains
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‘The Gaza Strip…is a periphery filled with a people refusing the margins, and defying the colonial delusion that they can be rendered peripheral, disposable collateral.’ Nour Joudah www.academia.edu/128883092/Gaza_Indigenous_Urbanism_Amid_Elimination
Gaza: Indigenous Urbanism Amid Elimination
The structure of the ongoing Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is a model that will be duplicated across Indigenous urban centers in Palestine. In navigating my own grief, I reexamine how Gaza ...
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TODAY. GUMS AND POMATUMS BY SALVATORE DIFALCO. from @marbledmayhem.bsky.social: This week, ‘Jerry Lee Jones [is] on [the] radio / causing itch to the air’, in Gums and Pomatums by Salvatore Difalco. Gesturing between the American pianist, singer and songwriter, hair (1/5)
Ahead of MOVING MOUNTAINS launching in the #US & #Canada (6th May) I'm introducing the anthology here... After the section titled 'Water' is 'Air' - with new work from #poet Hannah Hodgson & @marbledmayhem.bsky.social, a #poem & prose by Louisa Adjoa Parker, #CNF by me & poetry by @jaxxi.bsky.social
Now that MOVING MOUNTAINS: WRITING NATURE THROUGH ILLNESS & DISABILITY is out in paperback in the UK I am beyond thrilled to announce that it will soon also be available across the Atlantic!! MOVING MOUNTAINS IS OUT FOR PUBLICATION IN THE USA & CANADA ON 6th MAY AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW! #BookSky
Timglaset Editions to cease publishing. After long deliberation I have decided to put Timglaset to rest. The press has been under a lot of pressure since the recession in 2022-23. 1/5
from @marbledmayhem.bsky.social : "This week Osmosis reaffirms our commitment to solidarity with the people of Palestine featuring the poem seared by Nadiya Aamer." (1/7)
IT’S YOUR LAST DAY TO TRANSMIT US A SIGNAL FOR THIS ISSUE OF PERMEABLE BARRIER! Send your submissions to permeablebarrier@outlook.com!
THE POETICS OF TRANS-BIO-SABOTAGE Happening today, online, from 6-8pm GMT! If you’d like a link to this event, message me!
A POETRY ANNOUNCEMENT Submissions for Permeable Barrier close in just under a week! Send us poems, video art, essays, anything outside or in between. Connect with us, send us a signal. www.permeablebarrier.com/submissions
Today I learned about the 🇨🇦 artist Sandra Sawatzky and the epic-scaled embroidered tapestry she has created, emulating the Bayeux tapestry, to chronicle the history of fossil fuel extraction. #needlework, #SubversiveStitch www.theblackgoldtapestry.com
Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes
Hello Bluesky! Excited to be co-convening this brilliant event on how contemporary arts practices engage with expert cultures in health and biomedicine. Durham University, 20th February. Free, booking via Eventbrite medhumsplatform.org/event/materi...
Materialising Methods
What can practice-based research tell us about working with disciplinary cultures that are not our own? This one-day symposium explores how contemporary art practices engage with expert cultures in he...
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When I first read this, I had no idea she'd be so spot on. Like spot on. It was scary as fiction, even scarier as reality.
Leah Stokes@leahstokes.bsky.social · 2y agoCannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
this is both an indictment of how devalued research archives have become, and how insanely bad UK salaries are across the board
Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2y agoMy God this salary. I love the British Library, I really do. I worked in the Dept. of Medieval Manuscripts as a curatorial fellow & then as a research associate; I have spent hundreds of hours there as a researcher. And I get it, this is the going rate for such positions in the UK. But Jesus Christ.
The #writers in the Chronically Ill & #Disabled (CIAD) writers Starter Pack include the following. It'd be fab if authors in it can add a link to your book(s)/website(s) below so people are up to date with all the fab #books on offer (whether backlist, new or imminent) & can buy them easily [Thread]
[…] by Fady Joudah is one of @electriclit.bsky.social best poetry books of the year electricliterature.com/electric-lit...
![Screenshot from Electric Lit’s best poetry books of the year: […]: Poems by Fady Joudah
This unforgettable collection provokes from its very title: the ellipsis represents an unfinished thought, a loss for words, a life extinguished, erased. Joudah sustains the tension of the collection by reminding us always of the impossibly high stakes, the lives lost every day in his native Palestine. He employs a measured tone and Ivric precision that cut to the heart of the tragedy, allowing the poems to speak on both the personal and the academic level. The collection leaves the reader with re-fortified belief in the cause of Palestinian resistance and with gratitude to be living at the same time as such a monumental talent.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bv4psdh7brztu3qigmxbs4bv/bafkreid5zkxl3se7jaumdruqzh72acohxtrwpdaipwjstcx62jo25i2mge)