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Macha Press @machapress.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Designed by @julianmanev with papercuts by @sophieherx.bsky.social Susan Connolly's MIDWINTER is available from @macha.press for pre-order in advance of its Belfast launch event on 29th October: www.machapress.com/subscription...

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Sophie Herxheimer @sophieherx.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thanks Fiona, it was so lovely to see you and so many friends and poets.

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Sophie Herxheimer @sophieherx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tidy Housewife meets quite Untidy Artist sophieherxheimer.substack.com/p/appearance...

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Appearances

dress codes for the woman artist

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Sophie Herxheimer @sophieherx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also why not make a zine or little book every day? It’s a nifty place to quake out uncertain ideas.

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@sophieherx.bsky.social’s #Collage sonnets continue to deliver what we at #NewBootsAndPantisocracies like to call ‘the goods’: The/very Saints call for perfect illusion solidity, accuracy, clouds, waves, ruins frills and ribbons - the whole vista more real than the power of Reason. #ArtSonnetChain

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Sophie Herxheimer @sophieherx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Alphabet of Vegetables live in the shadow of the fishes thanks @perversemag.bsky.social & all who came & went

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Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wrote a Substack about writing proverbs. More at substack.com/@tomjenks/no...

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Sophie Herxheimer @sophieherx.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Excited to be reading with some fab poets at the Betsey Trotwood in Farringdon next week. Thanks @chrissywilliams.bsky.social & see you soon

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Sophie Herxheimer @sophieherx.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

New book!! A true story transformed into a graphic novel by me & Sarah Gavron. Do buy it. @pushkinpress.com

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Macha Press @machapress.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Cover reveal for midwinter by Susan Connolly! Beautiful cover art by @sophieherx.bsky.social and flawless book design by Julian Manev Pre-order here: www.machapress.com/subscription...

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

And, just like that, our latest sonnet chain was complete! Begun by editor @sophieherx.bsky.social on Valentine’s Day and concluded by her fellow editor #NancyCampbell on whatever day yesterday was (the afterfeast of the Dormition?). #ArtSonnetChain #NewBootsAndPantisocracies (1/2)

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Sophie Herxheimer @sophieherx.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Finding fanciful animals where there are mainly woodlice. Walking around run down avenues. Turning them over using constraints! substack.com/@sophieherxh...

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Animal Anagrams

Exhibition alert! Found animals.

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Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

New Substack post on visualising Mrs Beeton, also mentioning the brilliant work of @sophieherx.bsky.social More at tinyurl.com/3f4pa2t7

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Sophie Herxheimer @sophieherx.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

In response to the lovely walk poem #june by Matthew Welton, here’s another June walk @carcanet.bsky.social or am I too late for the comp?

Back view of a woman walking along a path in a Victorian cemetery

First half of a poem that describes a group of strangers walking in a Victorian cemetery

Second half of the poem - describing a walk around a Victorian cemetery.

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Sophie Herxheimer @sophieherx.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Excited to announce my forthcoming first graphic novel, coming out this summer with @pushkinpress.com & #sarahgavron #odetojoy available to pre order - thank you dear readers.

Book jacket of new graphic novel ‘Ode to Joy’ feat a woman and a small boy with suitcases, walking, some crows and buildings. All made of collage.

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Chrissy Williams @chrissywilliams.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Huge thanks to Nancy Campbell @billherbert.bsky.social @azjackson.bsky.social and @sophieherx.bsky.social for making it all happen. It's still going on, and there will be a pamphlet of all these great pieces down the line.

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Macha Press @machapress.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Excellent images from last week's excellent event @thefeministlibrary with @su-anna.bsky.social and @sophieherx.bsky.social Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland #ACNISupported #NationalLottery #ThanksToYou

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Linda’s sonnet ingeniously picks up the materiality of @sophieherx.bsky.social’s opening collage and the developing argument of sonnets 2 & 3 (by @kaddybenyon.bsky.social & @tamaryoseloff.bsky.social) and focusses those in the graphic quality of a typewritten text - remember those? #ArtSonnetChain

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Macha Press @machapress.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Join @su-anna.bsky.social and @sophieherx.bsky.social at London's The Feminist Library for readings, intermedia matter & discussion. April 11, 5:00 -6:30 pm Free, all very welcome. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paper-cuts... Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland

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Katrina Naomi @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Thanks to @sophieherx.bsky.social for a fab shout out to 'dance as if' (published by @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social) in the current issue of @mslexia.bsky.social I'm delighted to be described as 'a champion of collaboration and cross pollination across artforms'. #danceasif #collaboration #poetry

Glossy pamphlet with a glitter ball, over a dark green magazine on a wooden floor

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Macha Press @machapress.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

We're going to London next month! Mark your calendars for Paper Cuts and Poetry at The Feminist Library, featuring reading and discussion by Susanna Galbraith and @sophieherx.bsky.social

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Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Out today on zimzalla: Colour / Grammar by Greg Thomas, a set of colour-coded eco-poetry postcards, in a mandarin orange box. Each box contains two copies of each card: one to keep, one to send. The reverse of each card has a space for an address, a message and a stamp. More at zimzalla.co.uk

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Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

the law of passage when you stop the boats you stop the nurses* * Overseas nurses down by 93%, overseas care workers by 97%. 8.III.26

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The latest sonnet chain has begun: it’s a) our 4th and b) an #ArtSonnetChain, edited by @sophieherx.bsky.social & Nancy Campbell. And the first line to be carried, last line of sonnet 1 to 1st line of sonnet 2, is by Sophie: ‘The trouble with beauty is its ugliness…’ #NewBootsAndPantisocracies

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 16/02/2026

We're thrilled to be teaming up with Borough Road Gallery at LSBU on our newest Young Poets Network writing challenge, all about colour! We can't wait to read your colourful poems! Head to bit.ly/YPNColourChallenge for prompts from poet & visual artist Sophie Herxheimer. Deadline 12 April.

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Sophie Herxheimer @sophieherx.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Are you one, or do you know any, young poets? ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/workshop/col...

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

The #ArtSonnetChain editors are longtime #NewBootsAndPantisocracies co-conspirator, previous chain contributor & cover artist @sophieherx.bsky.social, and the wonderful poet/artist of the idea of Northness (& Greenlandic), #NancyCampbell.

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Cate West @c8west.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Pure joy at Compton Verney helping @sophieherx.bsky.social and her crew of creative families make these fabulous beings. A beacon of light in a gloomy landscape, and too good not to be shared.

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Macha Press @machapress.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Made up that titles by poets Eilish Martin, Sam Furlong & Susanna Galbraith (designer Julian Manev / visual matter @sophieherx.bsky.social) will be featured at this year's Dublin Art Book Fair, 04–14 December at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios! #DABF25 #ACNISupported #NationalLottery #ThanksToYou

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Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

After some time out of print, zimzalla has a new batch of INDEX by @sophieherx.bsky.social (a deck of prophetic poem cards in a luxury red and gold box) back on sale. More at zimzalla.co.uk/060-sophie-h...

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Poems were posted online every fortnight; poets included Anne-Marie Balzer, Jemma Borg, @janeburn.bsky.social, Tishani Doshi, Steve Ely, @sophieherx.bsky.social, Glyn Maxwell, @helenmort.bsky.social, Emma Must, @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social, Jacob Polley, & @jsaphra.bsky.social #EcoSonnetChain (2/3)

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Matthew Paul @matthewepaul.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Very much looking forward to reading poems alongside @sophieherx.bsky.social and talking to Katie Griffiths at Riverside Barn Arts Centre, Manor Road, Walton-on-Thames this coming Wednesday evening, 26th November, 8pm.

Photos of Sophie Herxheimer, Katie Griffiths and Matthew Paul.

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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Happy Monday ✨ I am pleased to announce the publication of my article 'London Blakeans' in vol. 89 of 'Publishing History'! Thank you to all who contributed ❤️❤️ www.proquest.com/scholarly-jo...

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

“…Our Wandsworth teacher told us how to tell ‘the black bib male sparrer’ from ‘the laidee one’, in her once common, now rare south London chant... She’d yell from out her Clapham grave to hear of sparrers in decline. ‘Parrakeets! You what?’” @sophieherx.bsky.social #EcoSonnetChain (4/4)

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Sophie’s sonnet, #10 in the sequence, brings together the toll of species loss and the parallel threat to social cohesion posed by gentrification by posing the interesting question: what do we mean by ‘common’? #EcoSonnetChain #NewBootsAndPantisocracies @sophieherx.bsky.social (3/4)

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Except this week, it’s the final poem of Phase 1 of our Thursday posts (by Claudia Court), and the sonnet happens to be by GFC co-editor and New Boots protest calligrapher, @sophieherx.bsky.social. So it feels like everything is pivoting at once. (No, we didn’t plan this. Are you kidding?) (2/4)

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Our tenth eco sonnet just alighted on a nearby branch and it’s by @sophieherx.bsky.social. What’s common and what’s no longer so? Birds and language and identity - each under seemingly equal threat: newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/e... #EcoSonnetChain #NewBootsAndPantisocracies

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Eco Sonnet #10 – Sophie Herxheimer

It’s bad because we don’t know what will happen.The bush is singing and it shakes with sparrows.Say a sparrowhawk hurls in and decimatesthe flock. Those that live chirp on. Are their shrieksrelief …

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Jo Bell @jobellwriter.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Persons of London! I'll be in town soon to launch my memoir Boater - first at the Poetry Pharmacy inside LUSH on Oxford Street (Weds 20 June) and then in Word on the Water near King's X (Weds 2 July, 3-7pm) Both free - and for the Poetry Pharmacy you need to book via the link below. Please come!

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Launch of Boater - A Life on England’s Waterways

Join award-winning poet Jo Bell for the launch of her debut memoir at the Poetry Pharmacy, Oxford Street

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Anne Welsh @annewelsh.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Thanks to @sophieherx.bsky.social for a great workshop @royalacademyarts.bsky.social this evening. Erasure poetry FTW.

Erasure poem based on a photocopy of a book about Victor Hugo, including black graphite illustration of Hugo and of me!

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Sophie Herxheimer @sophieherx.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Where do the essential human tasks of caring for each other and making art meet? Dan Schifrin & I discuss how these processes do & don’t dovetail in our new podcast series #artandotherpeople podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

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Care in the Chaos: A Filmmaker's Creative Journey (Sarah Gavron)

Podcast Episode · Art & Other People · 26/03/2025 · 44m

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Sophie Herxheimer @sophieherx.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I got round to writing a substack post - looking at paint as a way in & out of the news, and a visit to the Noah Davis exhibition at the Barbican Centre yesterday. substack.com/@sophieherxh...

‘Painting for my Dad’ by Noah Davis. Shows the back view of an older Black man in jeans and t shirt looking from a rocky chasm into the cosmos.

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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The Polish poet Krystyna Miłobędska (1932-2025) died last week. She was an important poet, her work experimental, scrupulous, spare, but also deeply enjoyable. Here’s part of her script for a rare public reading, tr. by Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese & published by me in @mptmagazine.bsky.social in 2013

Truthfully, my autobiography as a writer (and not only as a writer)
looks like this:
A crow settles on the tip of the thinnest twig, though the seat is neither comfortable nor safe, and the swinging itself is a mere trick to keep balance. It is scared. Pretends to be a lighter bird.
I am a creature that is heavy, awkward, hard of seeing, hard of hearing, hard of speaking. This creature wants to appear nimble and weightless to itself and to others. It pretends that it knows well how to live and write smoothly, without any effort. And yet, all the time, it is learning life and writing. It is scared of its own awkwardness, scared that others might notice. To talk about oneself and one's own writing is to talk about imperfection. I will remain this heavy bird.

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

It’s Monday, and that means there’s an empty space in the #GhostFurnitureCatalogue that needs filling with - another empty space. Thanks to Joan Hewitt for this melancholy exploration of the Italian root for ‘stanza’: ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/j...

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Joan Hewitt: The Empty Stanza

It must be swept clean, kept aired,the window opened on a real or an imagined scene.It scarcely matters if a boy slithers over snowin dirty trainers, or an improbably violet seadoes the moon’s bidd…

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