Celebrating shortlistee @eveellis14.bsky.social at the @michaelmarksawards.bsky.social. We met in @tamaryoseloff.bsky.social's @poetryschool.bsky.social seminar & her poems consistently knock my fishnets off. I feature Spit Valve on my Substack #TheDeeperRead 18: open.substack.com/pub/suzannaf...

Dropping tomorrow, #TheDeeperRead 18, featuring @eveellis14.bsky.social's Spit Valve, published by Ignition Press & shortlisted for @michaelmarksawards.bsky.social. It's twinned with a poem I wrote in response, out now from Verve in Stitching a Net to Hold Joy. substack.com/@suzannafitz...

Over the moon that my #ignitionpress pamphlet, Spit Valve, has made the @michaelmarksawards.bsky.social shortlist. Congratulations to my fellow shortlistees! michaelmarksawards.org/shortlist/ev...

When the day demands your book be seen! Spring is blooming with the latest poems by @betarish.bsky.social 🌸 Have you got your copy yet? ninearchespress.com/publications...

Hear, hear @betarish.bsky.social!

Dr Laura Varnam@drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Fantastic evening at the launch for @betarish.bsky.social new collection from @ninearchespress.bsky.social Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak 🌸 Fantastic merch 🔥 Incredible poet cloak 🧡 Superb guest readers. And wonderful readings from the man of the hour! 👏

lot of blossom about today...

Nine Arches Press@ninearchespress.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Sharing the gorgeous title poem from our freshly published Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak by @betarish.bsky.social Have you got your copy? ninearchespress.com/publications...

London launch of Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak by @betarish.bsky.social A splendid bloom of poets accompany Rishi to celebrate, hear from @eveellis14.bsky.social Maisie Lawrence, Arji Manuelpillai and more. Upstairs at The Devereaux, Temple, WC2R 3JJ Monday 30th March, 7.30pm

London launch of Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak by @betarish.bsky.social 🌸 A gorgeous bloom of poets accompany Rishi to celebrate, hear from @eveellis14.bsky.social Maisie Lawrence, Arji Manuelpillai and more. Upstairs at The Devereaux, Temple, WC2R 3JJ Monday 30th March, 7.30pm

And the BAFTA goes to... huge congratulations to Dean Atta and the team behind Two Black Boys In Paradise, WINNER of the Best British Short Animation. A joy to see Dean's poem from 'There is (still) love here' brought to life like this. ninearchespress.com/publications...

This Monday, 2 Feb @ 7pm: I’m thrilled to be the opening reader for the brilliant, Forward-Prize winning Isabelle Baafi, courtesy of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival online series. Tickets via the link! www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...

Looking forward to reading at Poetry in Aldeburgh next Friday with fellow #ignitionpress poets Clementine Burnley & Alicia Pirmohamed! Tix at bit.ly/ignitioninaldeburgh.

Dear all, I’m desperately seeking a course I can do on the lyric essay. I don’t mind if it’s in-person or online, but I need something I can do (UK time zone) in the evening or during the day on weekends. Any recommendations or leads? Please comment below. Thank you! xxx

Such a breathtaking opening poem in this pamphlet by @eveellis14.bsky.social @ignitionpress.bsky.social

My copy of my pamphlet SPIT VALVE arrived in the post! It took me an obscenely long time to make this little thing. Goodness knows you have more important things to do, but I will be so honored if you read it.

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.

Good morning! My pamphlet SPIT VALVE is now available for purchase from my very wonderful publisher, ignitionpress: shop.brookes.ac.uk/product-cata...

If you're in London, come to the launch on 3 April @burleyfisher.bsky.social! Excited to be reading with the brilliant @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social! bsky.app/profile/outs...

Out-Spoken Press@outspokenpress.bsky.social · 2y ago

🟡 Join us to celebrate the publication of Almost, with Tenderness by @mayacaspari.bsky.social, with @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social & hosted by editor @aanaxagorou.bsky.social 🟡 Burley Fisher Books (@burleyfisher.bsky.social) 🟡 6.30pm Thursday 3 April Free to attend; register here: buff.ly/qA9lMmJ

Today's knockout poem by an emerging poet, @eveellis14.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/evee...

Eve Ellis@eveellis14.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here’s the opening poem from SPIT VALVE, which is coming very soon from ignitionpress. Oxford Brookes have made it their featured Weekly Poem. Get your content warnings firmly in place, then enjoy. x

Here’s the opening poem from SPIT VALVE, which is coming very soon from ignitionpress. Oxford Brookes have made it their featured Weekly Poem. Get your content warnings firmly in place, then enjoy. x

We’re delighted to share the cover of Almost, with Tenderness, the debut pamphlet by @mayacaspari.bsky.social “Tenderness manifests, both surreal and hyperreal … This is brilliant” — Anthony V. Capildeo Out 20 March / Pre-order now: outspokenldn.com/shop/almost

“War is the time to save the smallest insect and each other.” I don’t have the words to describe Victoria Amelina’s unfinished book, but it has shaken me.

Launching my #ignitionpress pamphlet at the @poetrysociety.bsky.social cafe next month alongside these excellent new pamphlets by Ian Farnes & Patrick Romero McCaffert. Come along?

I feel this. Lovely interview with @timothyfox.bsky.social, whose pamphlet will be out soon.

Ivy Grimes@ivygrimes.bsky.social · 2y ago

"I realized that the storytellers I grew up around were just as lyrical, and their art just as valid, as any of the great poets." -interview with @timothyfox.bsky.social ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-...

The opening poem from Nicola Healy’s Michael Marks-winning pamphlet, A Newer Wildness. I can’t stop thinking about this work— the dignity & originality Healy brings to the subject of anorexia. I’m all admiration.

Please share and share again - the demise of twitter definitely stops us getting the word out more. The second #curae literary prize - a special literary award for unpaid carers - has just opened for a second time. thecuraeprize.uk You’ve got until 1/03 to enter!

The Curae Prize

A writing prize - just for writers who are also carers

thecuraeprize.uk

Please consider helping out @thebookishtype.bsky.social after this horrible robbery by buying some of your festive gifts from them. They are a really lovely queer bookshop in Leeds (with a banging poetry selection too) and you can buy online: thebookishtype.co.uk/collections/...

Poetry

Established in 2019, The Bookish Type is an independent LGBTIQA+ bookshop at 58 Merrion Centre, LS2 8NG. Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10-6.

thebookishtype.co.uk

The BookishType@thebookishtype.bsky.social · 2y ago

Sorry to say we're closed today (Tuesday) 😔 Someone has bricked our window, robbed the cash drawer and, bizarrely, the Bluetooth speaker 🎶 All the books are safe! Turns out robbers dont read. If you wanna help out this struggling queer bookshop our website is still open Merry bloody Christmas 😥