Steph Morris
@herr-morris.bsky.social
poet, artist, gardener, translator he/him impaired energy (ME) ACE-Funded
Thought it was time we told you exactly who is contributing #poems of #queer #resistance to Up//Roar (out in October, advance warning! pre-order now arachnepress.com/Up-Roar-p815...) those who are ON Bluesky: @hazardpressuk.bsky.social @rickdove.bsky.social @rachaelclyne.bsky.social continues...
Our latest word & image feature is three Plant Poems by @herr-morris.bsky.social. Each is a playful, flamboyant interpretation which provokes us to look at common foliage at a slant. See them here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/steph-morris... #NaturePoetry #InkSweatAndTears #WordandImage
more Shortlist for Up//Roar #poems of #Queer Resistance @free-verse-finnley.bsky.social @herr-morris.bsky.social @rabgreen.bsky.social @mariajastrzebska.bsky.social @cynsky.bsky.social @simonmaddrell.bsky.social @vronchariot.bsky.social @davewakely.bsky.social help us raise production costs
I never thought I’d be cheering on a former Tory Cabinet minister. But here’s to the moral clarity, courage and leadership of @kitmalthouse.bsky.social.
So much shocking news from Gaza but this is really appalling. Feeling powerless, especially with limited energy to take to the streets. @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social as my MP, you and the UK government are not powerless. What are you doing to end the killing? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Eleven-minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story
Hundreds of people have died while seeking food since delivery was taken over by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in May. But Palestinians facing extreme hunger have no choice but to take the risk
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It's time to choose your Pick of the Month for June 2025. Will you vote for @rachaelclyne.bsky.social, Oz Hardwick, Pippa Little, @herr-morris.bsky.social, Sreeja Naskar or @selasimclord.bsky.social ? More at inksweatandtears.co.uk/june-2025-pi... #InkSweatandTears #PickoftheMonth
It arrived! Thanks @magmapoetry.bsky.social My contribution is a bit mad but I own it… Look forward to delving in.
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The Poetry School@poetryschool.bsky.social · last yr.Meet our MA in Writing Poetry Graduates: Steph Morris MA, Class of 2017 🎓 Q: What else have you been up to since you graduated? A: I was longlisted for the National Poetry Prize & won the Live Canon Borough prize. I’ve been in a few anthologies too...read on: poetryschool.com/alu...
This is possibly the most important piece of journalism I’ll ever write. At the age of 50, I was diagnosed autistic. Please read my story and share it so others don’t have to wait so long to understand who they are ❤️ #autism #autistic #neurodivergent www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
I thought it was being gay that made my life so difficult. Then, at 50, I got an eye-opening diagnosis …
I spent far too many years lonely and angry, thanks to schoolmates who called me ‘weird’ and bosses who dismissed me as ‘hysterical’. But was it my sexuality that put their backs up – or the autism I ...
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Brave and useful piece here. Thanks @mattcainwriter.bsky.social Brace yourselves for similar reassessments of my whole life in the light of an ADHD diagnosis in my 50s www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
I thought it was being gay that made my life so difficult. Then, at 50, I got an eye-opening diagnosis …
I spent far too many years lonely and angry, thanks to schoolmates who called me ‘weird’ and bosses who dismissed me as ‘hysterical’. But was it my sexuality that put their backs up – or the autism I ...
theguardian.com
This was a pretty personal poem. Thanks for having me back Helen and all at Ink Sweat & Tears
Ink Sweat & Tears@inksweatandtears.co.uk · last yr.Steph Morris’s 'Tag' is a quiet defiance against cruelty and forced labels. A poem about identity, resistance, and the names we choose to wear. @herr-morris.bsky.social. Read now! inksweatandtears.co.uk/steph-morris-3/ #InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity
On the way to demonstrate against meta’s thievery with @tomwentworth.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social #dothewritething Last minute placard… Concrete poetry at speed
Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive” Theft is not a valid alternative.
Translators have been the canaries in the AI coalmine for a couple of years now and we are already losing work to these systems. Having existing work used to train them without permission or compensation just adds insult to injury.
The Society of Authors@societyofauthors.bsky.social · last yr.Thank you to everyone who has signed our petition, 6,000+! Authors deserve to have a livelihood and compensation from their work, if you haven't signed do so now 👇
@bengoldsborough.bsky.social Like pretty much all my writer and translator friends and colleagues, Meta have used pirated copies of my work to train their AI systems. I’ll be asking META to #DoTheWriteThing on Thursday 3 April. #metabookthieves #MakeItFair
My poetry pamphlet IN RETAIL (@arachnepress.bsky.social) has been used to train Meta’s Al without mine or my publisher’s permission or with due regard to copyright. I’m not alone, there are 1000s of writers who’s work has been stolen. Solidarity with @societyofauthors.bsky.social! #DoTheWriteThing
In every atrocity in history, the silent are always principal players. Those who remain silent over Israel's genocide are enabling it to continue. Their cowardice is paid in the blood of thousands of innocent Palestinians. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Imagine if all those who are silent about the terrible evil being committed in Gaza spoke up | Owen Jones
No crime in history has been so well documented by its victims. And yet inaction and censorship reign, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Got to a serendipitous passage of this book. Actually the whole book is still very relevant and urgent — ends in the late 1930s. 💙📚 📚🌈
This was our Christmas tree, which we left behind in London, and this was the sunset on Christmas Day in the midlands. No time to post ~ Some asymmetrical queer version of #sandwichgeneration Happy new year to you all.
Introducing eff-able! #PoetsOnBlueSky please share this opportunity for queer, disabled, neurodivergent poets to submit to this anthology, funded by ACE and published by fourteen poems. Subs open until 1st December - all details below! #poetry #lgbtqia+ #queer #disabled #neurodivergent
eff-able anthology@eff-able.bsky.social · 2y agoSubmissions 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
Hi all you newcomers. :) I mostly do words here (and plants) and do art on instagram (and more plants) So here’s what I discovered at @gladlib.bsky.social last month: Rowan Williams as a poet.
Thanks for the translators, and from the translators, Rachel!
Rachel Ward@racheltranslates.bsky.social · 2y agoThere didn't seem to be a more general starter pack of translators either, so I made one. Incomplete (obviously) and focusing mainly on people who post regularly for reasons of space: go.bsky.app/V9bV6EG