Fabulous book post. Fantastic writing from @kymdeyn.bsky.social, @nathanielspain.bsky.social and @fworrallo.bsky.social .
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Just a handful of micros left by authors: @corinnaboard.bsky.social Lauren Thomas Stevie Ronnie Heather Chapman Last chance to get a physical copy if you want one! 💚
Anthony Cartwright has won a Rubery Book Award for Necrosmologies, which was published by the Braag in 2025! A huge congratulations to Anthony for a much-deserved win 🖤
New Braag micros up at thebraag.co/shop/ 🌸 Lavender Hill by Lauren Thomas looks unflinchingly at the natural world and the darker side of female experience. 🦠 Little Book O’ Moss by @corinnaboard.bsky.social is a bright glimpse into the miniature world of moss.
Guys this is my press! If you've got a weird little manuscript hanging around, please send it our way!
The Braag | Press & Journal@thebraag.bsky.social · 2mo ago💚 We're seeing poetry pamphlets and novellas from UK Authors + Smaller manuscripts from authors worldwide! 💚 #poetry #writingcommunity
It's PIG Sunday! Check out our latest update with all the news on local poetry events and some brilliant submission opportunities, including current submissions windows at @thebraag.bsky.social and Bad Betty Press. poetry-in-glasgow.art/updates/deta...
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Welcome to Poetry in Glasgow (PIG), your community resource for local events, opportunities and helpful miscellany. No matter whether you are a seasoned poet, a regular slam champion, an aspiring bard...
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What a thrill to see ‘Empirical’ highlighted by the Poetry Book Society for #SouthAsianHeritageMonth! Thank you to lovely Sarala for letting me know! #ukpoets #poetrysky Available here: www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/emp... or direct from @thebraag.bsky.social
💚 We're seeing poetry pamphlets and novellas from UK Authors + Smaller manuscripts from authors worldwide! 💚 #poetry #writingcommunity
💚 We're seeing poetry pamphlets and novellas from UK Authors + Smaller manuscripts from authors worldwide! 💚 #poetry #writingcommunity
You don't want to miss Issue 15.5 of Carmen et Error, which opens with this gorgeous Rachel Bruce poem, 'The Vampire'. carmenerror.com?page_id=662
You don't want to miss Issue 15.5 of Carmen et Error, which opens with this gorgeous Rachel Bruce poem, 'The Vampire'. carmenerror.com?page_id=662
Day 139! I read Poison Highways by Evelyn Pae published by @thebraag.bsky.social in Carmen et Error. Forget babies, kids need to be asking where roads come from. Read my review here: mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/s...
S/D/Y May 19 – Poison Highways by Evelyn Pae – Carmen et Error
A good story should have at least two layers, one of the deeper, truer meaning, and one of the entertaining veneer. I am certain this piece had a lot to say about industrialisation vs nature, maybe…
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The thing about the poetry book Polblar Tmolkop is that it's only about Paul Blart Mall Cop in the way that it's not actually about Paul Blart Mall Cop at all. The other thing about Polblar Tmolkp is that it will make you weep.
The Braag | Press & Journal@thebraag.bsky.social · 5mo agoA segment from the opening poem of 'polblar tmolkop' by @andrewblair.co.uk! polblar tmolkop is available to pre-order via thebraag.co/shop 🛸🛸
Spent Saturday in London checking out the new Tracey Emin exhibition (so good!) at the Tate, then over to Knightsbridge for the #FreeVerse poetry fair where I picked up Necrosmologies by Anthony Cartwright (an absolute dark gem of a book published by @thebraag.bsky.social)
Day 30(!!): "LIFE IN THE KINGDOM OF CATERPILLARS" by Sam Grudgings in @thebraag.bsky.social. What a stunner to end National Poetry Month with! I love when I finish a poem and think "Wow, I'll never read anything like this again." carmenerror.com?page_id=652
Issue 15.0 - Carmen et Error
LIFE IN THE KINGDOM OF CATERPILLARS by Sam Grudgings Hail our disordered bodies & their possible forms! Hail the scapegoat! The sending! The metamorphosis in waiting! Hail the bodies un...
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Got word from @thebraag.bsky.social that my chapbook of Southern Gothic poetry and weird flash fiction is going into a second printing!!! Thanks to @kymdeyn.bsky.social for all their support and to all who have bought a copy!!! thebraag.co/product/ever...
Newsletter from The Braag today, featuring our recent books, sad trombone noises, a new micro, going apeshit, a letter from the editor and Carmen et Error Issue 15.0. Happy reading! 💚 thebraag.beehiiv.com/p/carmen-et-...
Carmen et Error Issue 15.0 + Braag News
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Carmen et Error Issue 15.0 features work from: 🐛 @samjgrudgings.bsky.social 🦀 Andy Qifeng Zeng 🚦 Penny Blackburn 🦌 Jessica Tillings For an issue full of strange decaying, bodies & abandoned cooling towers. carmenerror.com?page_id=652
Issue 15.0 - Carmen et Error
LIFE IN THE KINGDOM OF CATERPILLARS by Sam Grudgings Hail our disordered bodies & their possible forms! Hail the scapegoat! The sending! The metamorphosis in waiting! Hail the bodies un...
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New Carmen et Error issue drops tomorrow, a little bit of strangeness for your easter 🐣💀
Okay, I get publishers affirming that the books we've produced are human-made, but have we also considered bringing back medieval book curses??? Just saying.
Poets, poetry lovers (or even poetry curious) in Newcastle/the North East? Come to a free reading at lovely indie bookshop 1b books in Heaton tomorrow! I’ll be reading from ‘Empirical’ & @andrewblair.co.uk from ‘polblar tmolkop’ our new pamphlets with @thebraag.bsky.social #ukpoets
IT IS TIME! Come and see 2026 poetry authors and hear them read from their gorgeous, weird, wild pamphlets tomorrow night at 1b Books in NEWCASTLE ❤️
It's here! Huge thanks to the wonderful @thebraag.bsky.social and @kymdeyn.bsky.social #poetrysky #ukpoets Order here: thebraag.co/product/empi... “A gorgeous book; there are so many moments of transcendence in Empirical, a collection which sets ‘the blood singing.’” —Mona Arshi, author of Mouth
Put a blog up with both launch events (Newcastle and Edinburgh) and pre-order links for polblar Tmolkop, the only known poetry pamphlet inspired by Paul Blart Mall Cop, which is published by @thebraag.bsky.social next week.
Launches and Links
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