Just packing my holiday reading! 📚 Can’t wait to get stuck in @catherineredford.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @moette.bsky.social

Happy Yorkshire Day, everyone!! 🐑 Huge congratulations to @pdevonald.bsky.social and @meanerharker.bsky.social, I picked your names out of a hat in York this morning 🥳 If you missed out, you can still grab a signed copy of Circulaire from me for £7 - I’ll cover p&p, just drop me a DM 💛

GIVEAWAY ALERT!! 🚨 I’m giving away TWO free copies of my pamphlet, Circulaire, to celebrate Yorkshire Day on August 1st! 🐑 If Yorkshire puddings, family, folklore, and northern womanhood are your jam, just drop a comment below to be added to the draw 💛

This (rather relentless) weather reminded me of a poem from my second pamphlet, Circulaire ☀️

For @tomsnarsky.bsky.social’s #smallpoemsunday, ‘Bucca’ from Walrussey, my debut pamphlet of oceanic ecopoetry, available here: blackcatpress.co.uk/product-page/walrussey

Happy Shark Awareness Day! 🦈 Here’s my poem ‘Greenland Shark’ from Walrussey, my collection of marine ecopoetry - available from @blackcatpress.bsky.social here: www.blackcatpress.co.uk/product-page...

Starting my summer reading with Dream Logic by Satya Bosman (the wonderful editor over at @blackcatpress.bsky.social) ☀️ Some absolutely cracking concrete poetry alongside beautifully surreal pieces! 🥚🥄

Delighted to have a new poem in the Oxford Review of Books! (Shame about the typo, but I’ve been called worse 😂)

Congratulations @poetbex.bsky.social Hope you are reading your poem at Saturday's event 🧄

Bex Hainsworth@poetbex.bsky.social · last mo.

Honoured to have been shortlisted in The Ver Prize! Huge thank you to Vanessa Lampert for selecting my poem ‘Garlic’ for this year’s anthology 🧄

Honoured to have been shortlisted in The Ver Prize! Huge thank you to Vanessa Lampert for selecting my poem ‘Garlic’ for this year’s anthology 🧄

So excited to have a poem in the 10th anniversary issue of @yorkliteraryreview.bsky.social! 🌼

Stunning!

Bex Hainsworth@poetbex.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Beyond thrilled to share my poem ‘Epilogue’, shortlisted by Victoria Kennefick in @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social’s Poet of the Festival competition ❤️

Beyond thrilled to share my poem ‘Epilogue’, shortlisted by Victoria Kennefick in @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social’s Poet of the Festival competition ❤️

Delighted to have a poem on the shortlist of this year’s Artemesia Arts Poetry Competition alongside @victoriaspires.bsky.social and @ella-b-winters.bsky.social ❤️ Huge thanks to Malika Booker for judging and Kate from Artemesia Arts for keeping us all in the loop!

ICYMI ‘Mussel Bed’, my ekphrastic poem based on this section of The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, is in the latest issue of @poetryireland.bsky.social 🐚

Delighted to receive my copy of @poetryireland.bsky.social and honoured that Sinéad Morrissey selected my poem 'Mussel Bed' to be a part of this special home-themed issue! 🐚

My garden has been in full bloom this week, which is a great excuse for a poetic photoshoot 🌼 If you love poems about growth and everyday beauty, then Circulaire is the pamphlet for you! 💛 Please do drop me a DM if you would like a signed copy ☕️

This week's weather has brought me back to this poem, published in my second pamphlet, Circulaire 🍋 💛 (Link to the @writtenoffbooks.bsky.social shop is in my bio or drop me a DM for a signed copy!)

"It’s been thirteen years since I hung up on you, standing in a forest, in the middle of the city I was calling home." #TodaysPoem #poetry Hiraeth by Bex Hainsworth (@poetbex.bsky.social) (2024 @frazzledlit.bsky.social) www.frazzledlit.com/p/two-poems-...

Two Poems by Bex Hainsworth

Hiraeth/Parkin

frazzledlit.com

If you love poems about growth and blossoming, then Circulaire might be the pamphlet for you! 🌼 I have signed author copies available (Drop me a DM, £10 via PayPal) or you can grab a copy from Written Off Publishing here: writtenoffpublishing.com/shop/p/circula… 💛

Happy 100th Birthday, Sir David Attenborough! 🥳 Several poems in Walrussey were inspired by Blue Planet and I will always treasure this lovely letter from Sir David 💙

Delighted to have a poem in the new issue of @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social! My poem ‘Artemisia’ is about the botanist/naval strategist queen behind the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus 🏛️

Happy Earth Day!! 🌎 Approximately 71% of our planet’s surface is water and if you fancy reading some oceanic poetry, then look no further than Walrussey 🦭 My debut pamphlet was published by Black Cat Poetry Press in 2023 and I still have a signed author copies available 💙

Lovely review of my poem 'An Octopus Picks Litter at the End of the World' from my debut pamphlet, Walrussey 🐙 🌊

Michael Staniforth@staniforthmick.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Day 87! I read An Octopus Picks Litter at the End of the World by @poetbex.bsky.social published in @typehousemagazine.com (and their own pamphlet). Making good use of the things that she finds. Read my review here: mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/03/28/s...

Thank you, @poetbex.bsky.social! 💞

Bex Hainsworth@poetbex.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I've been cheating on poetry with fiction, but I'm diving into this haul today and very excited!! 📚 @chenchenwrites.bsky.social @rholanderpoet.bsky.social @corinnaboard.bsky.social @galiamelon.bsky.social @wendycaitlin.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social

I've been cheating on poetry with fiction, but I'm diving into this haul today and very excited!! 📚 @chenchenwrites.bsky.social @rholanderpoet.bsky.social @corinnaboard.bsky.social @galiamelon.bsky.social @wendycaitlin.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social

I loved being a part of this anthology!! Thank you so much for the shout-out, Ben 🐉

Ben Blench@benblench.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Having a great time getting stomped into a pulp by the monsters in DEVASTATION SONGS, the @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social anthology of Kaiju writing. Too many good ones to highlight so here's an especially stomach-turning monstrosity by @poetbex.bsky.social

Thrilled to have a new poem in the fabulous @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social! 🩸

Blood+Honey@bloodhoneylit.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Poem "Remedy" by Bex Hainsworth “It's been fifteen years since I allowed / her fussing, but now we both indulge. / I can’t say which balm soothes the burn. / When she slips teabags into my suitcase, / I smile, hold close her charms.” www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/remedy

Happy World Book Day! 📚 I’m proud to have two little pamphlets out in the world and I still have signed author copies available! 🌊 ☕️ Walrussey is for fans of ecopoetry and Circulaire is for those who love love! Just drop me a comment, £10 via PayPal, and I’ll cover p&p! 💛

‘D is for Deficiency’ from my latest pamphlet, Circulaire 💛 If poetry about the joy and messiness of existing in a body is your jam, then you can grab a copy here: writtenoffpublishing.com/shop/p/circu... I also have signed author copies available, just drop a comment! £10 via PayPal) ☕️