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).
#TheDeeperRead 31 drops Fri & features “My Heart in a Glass Case” by Lauren Thomas from Tiny Glories @greenbottlepress.bsky.social & my poem "Playdough Heart", first in Obsessed with Pipework 102. Lauren's other pamphlet, Lavender Hill, is with @thebraag.bsky.social. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com
#TheDeeperRead 30 features Ellen McAteer's My Deep and Gorgeous Thirst from @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social paired with my poem "Travel Light" from Finished Creatures issue 9. Free to read and subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/suzannaf...
A hobby of mine is suggesting you get my and many other brilliant books for less in the Broken Sleep flash sale: www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
Broken Sleep Books@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 6d agoFLASH SALE: 20% off until Sunday night. If there's a book you've been circling, or you fancy taking a punt on something new, now's a good time. Every order goes straight back into publishing writers the bigger presses overlook. That's the whole point of us. www.brokensleepbooks.com/books
Lovely review of my show #ficklepuck at @midlandsfringe.bsky.social. Thanks Anne Ryan-Thomas, @pandemonialists.bsky.social & @artscouncilengland.bsky.social. Now to think where else I can take it, do comment if you have any ideas! Photo: Erica Longfellow. www.midlandsfringe.co.uk/reviews2026/...
#TheDeeperRead has somehow got to 30 and drops tomorrow! Featuring Ellen McAteer's My Deep and Gorgeous Thirst from @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social paired with my poem "Travel Light" from Finished Creatures issue 9. Free to read and subscribe. open.substack.com/pub/suzannaf...
The Edward Cawston Thomas Prize anthology is available: edward-thomas-fellowship.org.uk/poetry-compe.... It features my poems "If I sit in a parked car listening to an owl", Highly Commended by Jane Draycott, and "This spring", awarded First Prize by Daljit Nagra, among excellent bedfellows.
Poetry Competition Anthologies - The Edward Thomas Fellowship
Anthologies of poems from The Edward Thomas Fellowship Poetry Competitions Since 2019 the Edward Thomas Fellowship has published a continuing series of anthologies containing the winning and highly ...
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All of this. 🙏
poets and prattlers@pandemonialists.bsky.social · last wk.Well, that's #MidlandsFringe done and dusted for another year. Thank you from us to everyone who came along, to all our artists, to the venues, the hundreds of people who filled in feedback forms (so we can make the festival even better), and to every single member of the team who made it happen. 🙏
Well, that's #MidlandsFringe done and dusted for another year. Thank you from us to everyone who came along, to all our artists, to the venues, the hundreds of people who filled in feedback forms (so we can make the festival even better), and to every single member of the team who made it happen. 🙏
You Are Stars
Alt: A man in a blue shirt is clenching his fists and saying You Are Stars
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More brilliant shows from Alex Vann, Emma Clowsley, and Imrpov Wolves to finish off the festival yesterday 🎉
#TheDeeperRead 29 posted Fri but was too busy rehearsing my @midlandsfringe.bsky.social show to share! Featuring Roger Bloor's Mapping Broken Roads twinned with my poem "Dose" from Crippled, out from Red Squirrel Press. Free to read and subscribe: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...
The Deeper Read 29
Roger Bloor
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Thanks Sally Long for this generous review of my collection Crippled in Allegro Poetry: www.allegropoetry.org/p/reviews.ht... Copies available from www.redsquirrelpress.com/product-page... or DM me to buy a signed one.
A lovely reading of Cherry Doyle's Wolverhampton Wagtails from Jane Salmons as part of the Black Country Women show last weekend - beautiful poems from great female writers in the Midlands is exactly what we like to see at #MidlandFringe 💪 This brilliant video was shot by Graham Stubbs 🎥
A sublime show from storyteller Janet Crouch for her hour of Stories From Staffordshire, including tales of love, loss, trees, shillings, and more, taking on us an emotional journey. @pandemonialists.bsky.social
Nothing to add. Tina was immense.
Midlands Fringe@midlandsfringe.bsky.social · 2w agoThis Is Not Therapy by Tina Sederholm was certainly therapy for the audience this evening, discussing her career in performance poetry, her love for Indiana Jones, Hitchikers Guide and its meaning of life, as well as finding our own meaning. Phenomenal performance 🥳 @pandemonialists.bsky.social
He's hilarious, proudly black country, and owns the best shirts... It's Brendan Hawthorne with a one man show this afternoon in The Wheatsheaf 🎭 @pandemonialists.bsky.social
TODAY! Fickle Puck, Sat 25 July, 5.45pm, The Pack (Perfect Ale, Cask and Keg), 25-26 Queen Square, Mander Centre, WV1 1TQ. Wolverhampton, are you ready? 😘 @pandemonialists.bsky.social @midlandsfringe.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social www.midlandsfringe.co.uk/shows/25thju...
This afternoon at Battersea Power Station! A galaxy of stars! And me! Come through! www.archeslanetheatre.com/voicesofwand...
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Tomorrow! #ficklepuck at @midlandsfringe.bsky.social funded by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social Saturday 25 July 2026 5.45pm, The Pack (Perfect Ale, Cask and Keg), 25-26 Queen Square, Mander Centre, Wolverhampton, WV1 1TQ. Just turn up, pay-as-you-feel www.midlandsfringe.co.uk/shows/25thju...
This Is Not Therapy by Tina Sederholm was certainly therapy for the audience this evening, discussing her career in performance poetry, her love for Indiana Jones, Hitchikers Guide and its meaning of life, as well as finding our own meaning. Phenomenal performance 🥳 @pandemonialists.bsky.social
My poetry burlesque fantasia Fickle Puck is at @midlandsfringe.bsky.social THIS WEEKEND! Thanks @tessafoley.bsky.social for the pic. Saturday 25 July 2026 5.45pm, The Pack, 25-26 Queen Square, Mander Centre, Wolverhampton, WV1 1TQ. Turn up, pay-as-you-feel www.midlandsfringe.co.uk/shows/25thju...
Setting up for this evening’s #MidlandsFringe show “The Punkawallah’s Rope” by Chrys Salt in the Tistone Studio. 6pm start. A PAYF event. Come along! 😊
My poetry burlesque fantasia Fickle Puck is coming to the Midlands Fringe. Come and see me! Saturday 25 July 2026 5.45pm, The Pack (Perfect Ale, Cask and Keg), 25-26 Queen Square, Mander Centre, Wolverhampton, WV1 1TQ. Turn up, pay-as-you-feel www.midlandsfringe.co.uk/shows/25thju...
Laughing in the Face of Absurdity - Brendan Hawthorne Saturday 25th July 2026, The Wheatsheaf, 12.30pm, Pay-As-You-Feel, Rating: 12+ www.midlandsfringe.co.uk/shows/25thju...
#TheDeeperRead 28 features Wayne Holloway-Smith's RABBITBOX from Simon & Schuster twinned with my poem "Gretel" from my Red Squirrel Press collection Crippled. Quite a bibliography on this one, including Joelle Taylor, Glyn Maxwell & Emily Dickinson. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...
Work in Progress - Shazia Mirza Thursday 23rd July 2026, Arena Theatre, 8pm, Rating: 18+ Headline show! £15 full price and £12 concessions, tickets available here: wlv.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/... Note: This show will be BSL Interpreted
