Suzanna Fitzpatrick
@suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social
Poet published in magazines & anthologies in the UK, US, Ireland & Canada. Debut pamphlet: Fledglings (Red Squirrel Press, 2016). First collection: Crippled (Red Squirrel Press, 2025).
It was #BiVisibilityDay on Weds 23 Sept. This is why it's important, and why it's important for everyone to have the right to take up their own space. Poem from The Aftershock Review pocket aftershock DIRTY LAUNDRY, ed. Gerry Potter and @maxwallis.bsky.social www.aftershockreview.com/product-page...
This poetry Substack from @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social dives beautifully into contemporary poems for a deeper read....
Suzanna Fitzpatrick@suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 4d ago#TheDeeperRead 38 features "When You Brother Dies You Want" by @cloudscholar.bsky.social from his @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social pamphlet Cathedral, twinned with "Endgame XX" from my Red Squirrel Press collection Crippled. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...
#TheDeeperRead 38 features "When You Brother Dies You Want" by @cloudscholar.bsky.social from his @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social pamphlet Cathedral, twinned with "Endgame XX" from my Red Squirrel Press collection Crippled. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...
Less than a month to go!
Suzanna Fitzpatrick@suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 3w agoI’m delighted to be judging this year’s Waltham Forest Poetry Competition on the theme of “Music”. There are categories for adults, young writers and for funny poems. It closes at midnight UK time on Monday 19 October. Full details here: pctothepowerof2.wordpress.com/enter/
Thrilled my poem "The dunnock has no need of social media" is Editor's Pick in @consilience.bsky.social issue 26 "Birds". Thanks Sam Illingworth, and great working with Rachel David. www.consilience-journal.com/issue-26-the... I get the irony, back to looking for birds out of the train window now.
#TheDeeperRead 37 features "Load" from Caroline Davies' Elements of Water from @greenbottlepress.bsky.social , twinned with my poem "Flood" from The Bournemouth Journal 2. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...
I’m delighted to be judging this year’s Waltham Forest Poetry Competition on the theme of “Music”. There are categories for adults, young writers and for funny poems. It closes at midnight UK time on Monday 19 October. Full details here: pctothepowerof2.wordpress.com/enter/
#TheDeeperRead 36 is here, featuring "Radiolaria" from Claire Walker's How to Shape Our Mouths from The Black Cat Poetry Press, twinned with my poem "Tardigrade Waltz", first published by @chrissywilliams.bsky.social in Perverse issue 8I: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...
The Deeper Read 36
Claire Walker
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Off to read at Third Table with other @poetryschool.bsky.social MA students and staff past and present including @merylpugh.bsky.social Glyn Maxwell @tessafoley.bsky.social. FAFO pendant by the fabulous Sarah Day of Wear and Resist, who donates to women's charities for every piece. #persisterhood
Very excited to be on such a great shortlist for the Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year 2026, thanks to judges Luigi Marchini, Lucy Crispin and Gillian Laker. I'll be reading at the online awards evening on 1 October, free to attend: us05web.zoom.us/j/8681424660...
Love @ellecordova.bsky.social's work, and this is genius. I have just wrestled, cajoled and slashed a 47-line draft to 36 lines, and it's the better for it (many darlings murdered etc) but will probably still be tweaked #poetlife. youtube.com/shorts/YqPPy...
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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#TheDeeperRead 35 features @tamsinhopkins.bsky.social's Live Canon pamphlet Once We Get Past Poker Night, twinned with a poem I wrote for Glyn Maxwell whilst on the @poetryschool.bsky.social MA which was shortlisted for Verve's Poem of the Month. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...
This iconic 1971 photo of Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes has always said so much without saying a word. Two women. Two raised fists. One shared fight for equality. Dorothy passed in 2022. Now Gloria is gone too. Two giants who helped change America. Rest in power, Gloria. ✊🏼✊🏾
Delighted to be on the shortlist for this year's Yeovil Literary Prize, thanks John Challis! Fingers crossed. Full list here: www.yeovilprize.co.uk/P2026_Result...
#TheDeeperRead 34 is here: @patrickcotterpoet.bsky.social's "Crow, My Friend" from his Dedalus Press collection Quality Control at the Miracle Factory, twinned with my poem "A cat and a crow face off" from Spelt magazine ed. @wendypratt.bsky.social: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...
#TheDeeperRead 34 drops Fri: @patrickcotterpoet.bsky.social's "Crow, My Friend" from his Dedalus Press collection Quality Control at the Miracle Factory, twinned with my poem "A cat and a crow face off" from Spelt magazine ed. @wendypratt.bsky.social: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...
#TheDeeperRead 33 is here, featuring "tentacles" from Gillie Robic's I Think I Could Be Wrong from @livecanon.bsky.social, paired with my poem "Ocean" from Daughters of Violence issue 2. Free to read and subscribe: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...
I'm thrilled - I started The Deeper Read this Jan and have posted every week. It’s a delight to explore the contemporary poetry scene and geek out about how poems tick and the random associations they set off in my ADHD brain. Kinda chic how talented you all are ;) substack.com/@suzannafitz...
The @foundationswift.bsky.social and their Women Poets' Network do amazing work supporting and promoting women writers. Please support them if you can. If you're a woman poet and not yet a member, I highly recommend joining; membership starts at £25 a year: www.justgiving.com/campaign/wom...
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Stop Big Chicken Choking our Rivers
Watching Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy, I was shocked to see the damage the chicken industry is doing to rivers, communities and animals. And now I’ve learned the Government wants to expand Big ...
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#TheDeeperRead 32 is out, featuring "Household Gods" from @burnedthumb.bsky.social's Comrades of Dark Night from Red Squirrel Press, twinned with my poem “Vulnerability” from London Grip New Poetry #60, Summer 2026, edited by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...
Thrilled to have a poem in @magmapoetry.bsky.social 96: Antarctica (not the current issue pictured, which is also a banger!). Huge thanks to @cherylmoskowitz.bsky.social Elizabeth Lewis Williams & Branwell Roberts for choosing "The British Antarctic Survey is a Menopause Friendly Employer".
We took a much-needed breather when this year's #MidlandsFringe finished, but these last few days we've been going through feedback from audience *and* performers, and... well... it's really rather good. Thank you. Thank you for all your support and your incredibly wonderful performances.
Leonardo DiCaprio Raising Glass
Alt: Leonardo DiCaprio is holding a glass of champagne and raising it towards the camera. Or you, if you prefer.
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#TheDeeperRead 31 features “My Heart in a Glass Case” from Lauren Thomas' Tiny Glories @greenbottlepress.bsky.social & my poem "Playdough Heart", from Obsessed with Pipework 102. Lauren's other pamphlet, Lavender Hill, is with @thebraag.bsky.social. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...
