Julia Webb
@julwe1.bsky.social
Neurodivergent poet and editor. Steering editor for 'Lighthouse'. Latest collection 'Grey Time' (Nine Arches press, 2025). https://juliawebb.org/ https://visual-poetics.blogspot.com/ https://storymachines.co.uk/portfolio/lighthouse/
A superb and in depth view of my latest poetry collection 'Grey Time' by Paul McDonald over on London Grip today. londongrip.co.uk/2026/10/lond...
London Grip Poetry Review – Julia Webb – londongrip.co.uk
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I am revisiting Bad Machine by George Szirtes, partly because I was looking for a particular poem to share with a mentee, but once the book was in my hand I was drawn to reread it. This sequence took my breath away. blackboxmanifold.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/issues/issue...
Blackbox Manifold - George Szirtes
Postcard 2 After Caroline Wright 1. Joke Shop* Do you remember the advertisements for Whoopee Cushions? Do you remember Jumping Beans? Do you remember Fart Powder, Itching Powder, Sneezing Powder? Do ...
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Guildhall Jumble Sale – Julia Webb @julwe1.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2026/09/22/g...
Guildhall Jumble Sale – Julia Webb
Guildhall Jumble Sale . . Julia Webb is a Neurodivergent writer from a working class background. She is a founding editor of Lighthouse Literary Journal. Her most recent collection, Grey Time, was …
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Congratulations to @julwe1.bsky.social - FIRST PLACE with her poem 'The Disappearances' in the 2026 Spring/Summer Prose Poetry Competition adjudicated by Ingrid Jendrzejewski. "The poem is perfectly paced, note-perfect, and tugged at my emotions with every read." theprosepoem.com/2026-spring-...
So happy to have won The Prose Poem's spring/summer competition
Nine Arches Press@ninearchespress.bsky.social · last mo.Congratulations to @julwe1.bsky.social - FIRST PLACE with her poem 'The Disappearances' in the 2026 Spring/Summer Prose Poetry Competition adjudicated by Ingrid Jendrzejewski. "The poem is perfectly paced, note-perfect, and tugged at my emotions with every read." theprosepoem.com/2026-spring-...
I have a new substack post on simplicity in poetry juliawebb2.substack.com/p/simplicity...
Simplicity in Poetry
A couple of people have consistently referred to my work as being ‘simple’.
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At last - some great news! Hannah has waited ages for this.
Hannah Linden@hannahl1n.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'm so happy to share that my debut collection, Sudden Barnacle, will be published by Blue Diode Press in autumn 2027!
I'm so happy to share that my debut collection, Sudden Barnacle, will be published by Blue Diode Press in autumn 2027!
Thanks to Emma Lee for such a close and attentive reading and review of my recent poetry collection Grey Time. emmalee1.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/g...
“Grey Time” Julia Webb (Nine Arches Press) – book review
Julia Webb Grey Time book cover Julia Webb’s fourth collection focuses on grief after bereavement. Grief can be a tricky topic as the poet can either include the reader, by focusing on exploration …
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@hannahl1n.bsky.social and I are reading at Grand Plans at The Sair, Linthwaite on Sunday (9th August) 6pm. There is open mic too. We would love to see you and hear your poems. More details here #UKpoetry www.facebook.com/events/36970...?
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Please join us for the zoom launch of Lighthouse issue 30 on 17th June - our last ever issue. Lots of fab poetry and prose.https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lighthouse-issue-30-launch-tickets-1990569509989?aff=oddtdtcreator
Lighthouse Issue 30 Launch
Lighthouse launches issue 30 - the neurodivergent (and final) issue
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Looking forward to celebrating International Women's Day with the women who collaborated with @gillcresearch.bsky.social Safety in Numbers anthology tonight... poem chains in response to other women's poems. Glorious. Happy Women's Day everyone.
The Cafe Writers Poetry Competition results are up! www.cafewriters.co.uk/home/poetry-...
Poetry Competition | Cafe Writers
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On my website tomorrow my review of the fabulous collection’Grey time’ by @julwe1.bsky.social Don’t miss it. #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers. www.nigelkentpoet.wordpress.com
I have a poem up on @theprosepoem.bsky.social site. It's one of my Mr Green poems and was longlisted in their competition in 2024 theprosepoem.com/mr-green-is-...
Mr Green is a Garden – The Prose Poem
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A rather lovely and insightful review of my poetry collection 'Grey Time' on @kent-nj.bsky.social's blog today. nigelkentpoet.wordpress.com/2026/02/21/r...
Review of ‘Grey Time’ by Julia Webb
Grief is one of those enduring subjects of poetry, and I guess I must have read a hundred poems based on that theme. It is a brave poet who takes it on. Julia Webbdoes just that in her new collecti…
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I always find it fascinating when poets talk about how they wrote a poem. I love this poem so it's wonderful to hear @julwe1.bsky.social talk about the background of this poem in her latest collection.
Julia Webb@julwe1.bsky.social · 8mo agoDelighted to have a poem from Grey Time with a bit about how I wrote/edited over on Nigel Kent's Drop-in blog nigelkentpoet.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/d...
Delighted to have a poem from Grey Time with a bit about how I wrote/edited over on Nigel Kent's Drop-in blog nigelkentpoet.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/d...
Drop-in by Julia Webb
I’m delighted to welcome writer and artist, Julia Webb, to the blog to introduce you to her fabulous latest collection. My fourth collection Grey Time (Nine Arches Press, 2025) circles around…
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If you are in or near Bedford I am reading at Ouse Muse tomorrow (3 Feb) The venue is the Eagle Bookshop, readings start at at 8 p.m..
Please do consider voting - Jess Mookherjee wrote such a brilliant review!
Ink Sweat & Tears@inksweatandtears.co.uk · 9mo agoRight out of January and into its #PickoftheMonth vote! Will you choose poems from Helen Akers, @samc4rr.bsky.social, Antony Dunn, Myra Schneider, Zumwalt, or @jessmookherjee.bsky.social's review of 'Grey Time' by @julwe1.bsky.social. inksweatandtears.co.uk/january-2026... #InkSweatandTears #Vote
Reviews of Rachael Boast's Versus Versus anthology and of recent poetry collections by @jesstraynor.bsky.social and @pascalepetit.bsky.social feature in Issue 36 of Under the Radar. With thanks to reviewers @julwe1.bsky.social, @jennywcreative.bsky.social, @betarish.bsky.social.
Nine Arches Press@ninearchespress.bsky.social · 9mo agoThank you National Poetry Library for choosing Under the Radar as your Magazine of the Month - to mark this lovely accolade we're offering new (or returning) readers 10% off a digital or print subscription: type UTR10% at the checkout: ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Under... Don't miss out!
Thank you @inksweatandtears.co.uk & @jessmookherjee.bsky.social for your review of GREY TIME by @julwe1.bsky.social 'Elegy does not erase harm. Webb honours that contradiction.' 'Grey Time does not console. It stays. And that feels like truth.' Read in full inksweatandtears.co.uk/jessica-mook...
New podcast episode with five fabulous poets, recorded for our November 2025 Poetry Spotlight event. www.mklitfest.org/podcasts @julwe1.bsky.social @lesleysharpe.bsky.social @zoebrooks.bsky.social @annasaund.bsky.social #poetry @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social #poetry
New podcast episode with five fabulous poets, recorded for our November 2025 Poetry Spotlight event. @julwe1.bsky.social @lesleysharpe.bsky.social @zoebrooks.bsky.social @annasaund.bsky.social #poetry @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social #poetry www.mklitfest.org/podcasts
@cafewriters.bsky.social has just released a few extra tickets for tomorrow night's event with Pádraig Ó Tuama and Reshma Ruia www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cafe-write...
Cafe Writers Jamuary 2026
Cafe Writers Featuring Pádraig Ó Tuama and Reshma Ruia
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