Also featuring poems by: Shannan Mann @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social | David McLoghlin | Rafael Mendes | Emma Must | @nessao.bsky.social | Kerri Sonnenberg | @bredaspaight.bsky.social | Anna Szilagyi | David Tom's | Jemma Walsh | Stella Wong Launch details soon ✨️

Introducing Banshee 20 poets! We're delighted to be featuring work by @colmbrennan.bsky.social | @hettycliss.bsky.social | Polina Cosgrave | @satyadash.bsky.social | Stephen de Búrca | @michaeldooley.bsky.social | Malcolm Greenlee Farley | @racheljeffcoat.bsky.social | Finn Dunne Leavy (1/2)

Banshee Press@bansheepress.bsky.social · last yr.

Issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) has gone to print! Our landmark 20th issue, guest edited by acclaimed author @clarakiyoko.bsky.social, has a speculative fiction theme and marks our tenth anniversary in print. The beautiful cover art is by @erinconnally.bsky.social ✨ bansheepress.org/shop/p/issue...

I wrote about the decision myself and other authors took to withdraw from the longlist of the Polari Book Prizes for LGBTQ+ writers www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why I withdrew my book from an LGBTQ+ literary prize | Jason Okundaye

The Polari first book prize claims to promote trans rights and trans voices. But when I saw the longlist, I had to act, says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye

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I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’

Extract from 'Thingamajiggied' by @hettycliss.bsky.social , published in Issue Seven. Read the full poem here: andotherpoems.com/2025/08/04/t...

My poem ‘Thingamajiggied’ is out now in @andotherpoems.bsky.social It’s one that means a lot to me. Through it I was able to articulate big thoughts and emotions, the experience of loving and losing someone with dementia, that felt beyond language. andotherpoems.com/2025/08/04/t...

Thingamajiggied

Hetty Cliss When my grandmother dignified, I couldn’t spook italoud. Not even when a colleague asked three timesif I was ostr…

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Issue Seven is now live! We are so excited to share this brilliant issue with you all. Thank you to all the poets who submitted. Read the full issue here: andotherpoems.com/issue-seven/ #poetry #poems

New poem in www.aftershockreview.com edited by @maxwallis.bsky.social 💜

Beyond hyped for this one, the first in our summer event series! Join us for an incredible pride poetry night with @carolinebirduk.bsky.social, Richard Scott, Sophie Robinson and Roberto Salvador Cenciarelli ❤️ www.outsavvy.com/event/27015/...

🟢 NEW PAMPHLET 🟢 Haia Mohammed, The Age of Olive Trees Pre-order now / All proceeds to author www.outspokenldn.com/shop/haia In 2023, Joelle Taylor read the work of Haia, a young poet in Gaza, at the fundraiser we did. We stayed in contact (1/3)

CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS! Editors Isabelle Baafi @timtimtmi.bsky.social & @sohinibasak.bsky.social can't wait to receive your submissions for Magma 93: The Liberation Issue. What does ‘liberation’ mean to you? 📷 Luizph/Pexels More info and to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...

The cover for my debut poetry pamphlet just dropped!! 🏡 You can order (In)Habit in all its red and pink beauty here: www.fourteenpoems.com/shop/inhabit...

(In)Habit by Hetty Cliss (pre-order) — fourteen poems

We can’t wait for you to read the debut pamphlet from Hetty Cliss, released March 31st. About (In)Habit A collection of raw and moving poems, the book charts the decline of a relationship th...

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fourteen poems@fourteenpoems.bsky.social · 2y ago

Just announced! The cover for the debut pamphlet from Hetty Cliss, available for preorder now. (In)Habit charts a declining relationship, using form and fresh imagery to track the clash of the public and private. More to come with readings and a special launch very soon!

What’s more exciting to me as an editor than under 30 debut lists? A poet who returns with something exquisite after a decade of silence. Books that take years to discover their shape, not more-of-the-same sequels to best sellers. Poets who reinvent themselves because life has reinvented them.

I’m losing the will to post on all these social media accts but this is an important one. @queer-poetry-co.bsky.social are hosting our first ever FLINTA* open mic fundraising for @thecommonpress.bsky.social on 26 Feb. I am beyond excited for this one 🥹 www.outsavvy.com/event/24804/...

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2y ago

Trump, with Netanyahu sitting next to him, says "Gaza maybe is a demolition site right now ... you can't live in Gaza right now. I think we need another location."

Since we’re new to BlueSky and so many of you are too, we’ve decided to extend our submissions window to 10th December. 10 more days to send your queer crip erotic poetry! Info here and below 👇🏼 effable.uk #PoetsOnBlueSky #poetry #disabled #queer #neurodivergent

eff-able anthology@eff-able.bsky.social · 2y ago

Submissions are open until 1st Dec for eff-able : a spicy anthology of queer crip poetry eff-able is conceived and run by George Parker @agparker.bsky.social and JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social and funded by a National Lottery Project Grant from Arts Council England. #poetry #queer #crip

god i love books. yes, reading them. but sometimes, just holding them. and i wish they could hold me. and then i see (again) that they do.

Sharing my own new poem from the Invisible Strings anthology. 🫶🏼✨

“let me map you to oasis. / let me show you where / the weapons are.” From Danez Smith’s ‘Bluff’

If I listened to the critics I’d never write a word. Keep the vision for yourself, never mind what they want. Trust your instinct. Your gut. There is no other way to write. Follow your excitements. Perhaps no one has charted this route? Lead the fashion, don’t follow fashion.

Wrote a new poem yesterday. Every time this happens after a fallow period and I’m reimmersed in the mysterious attention poems call on, I feel present, contented and excited all at once. I love it. 💫

The wonderful @propelmagazine.bsky.social has now joined Bluesky. An online and physical poetry magazine launched in 2022 that features poetry from the U.K. and Ireland exclusively from poets who are yet to publish a full collection.

“It’s not the bad people who are brave / I fear, it’s the good people who are afraid.” Revisiting Terrance Hayes’ American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin.