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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🍂🌀Autumn is here! 🌀🍂 With poems by Tim Buescher, Jane Alyson Clarke, Stephen Woolley, Georgina Titmus, Charlotte Jung, Takahito Sawamura and more. £5 per issue £15 subscriptions Link in bio 🤙🏻

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Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

DIRTY LITTLE ZINE: design and print your own 8-page zine!: dirtylittlezine.com

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Stella Untalan Studio @stellth.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My copy @aswirl.bsky.social I love poetry and I love my subscription to this little poetry quarterly. #photography #poetry

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today

$Margaret McGirr’s letter (“AI can lend a hand, but it will struggle to replace one”, July 21) and Chine McDonald’s guest column (“This retro revival is more than a longing for the past”, Opinion, August 7) both touch (sic) on something that should be obvious, but is carefully ignored by almost everyone in the tech world. Namely that our intelligence is embodied, evolved and biological, and inseparable from our bodies. The brain’s job is to control the body in the world; it is the last organ to develop. Every square centimetre of our hands (and of the rest of our skin) contains about a 170 touch sensors or nerve endings, sensitive to different kinds of touch: a slap, a burn, a caress, a hug — each of which travels to different parts of the midbrain, prompting the appropriate response. Quickly to the autonomic nervous system for something dangerous; more slowly via a different channel for something carrying meaning. In addition to the hand’s limitless versatility, it is self-repairing, regulates its own temperature, knows without being programmed how much pressure to exert on an egg, a tennis ball or a day-old chick, and can fuse neurologically to whatever it holds. So when we put a glass down on the table or slide a knife through an apple, we feel the table, or the apple, not the glass or handle in our hand (try it!). Finally, and most urgently, the entire human body — including the hands — does everything on 25 or so watts of completely renewable energy: a tiny fraction of what a humanoid robot, even one of the current primitive iteration of robots, needs. The “retro revival” is thus not cultural nostalgia. It’s millions of years of evolution crying out to be heard, before we suppress it totally in the service of an automated — and dead — planet. Sheila Hayman Member of the Advisory Board, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, London NW1, UK$

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Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

to walk with- out touching the earth is best done by looking 12.VIII.26

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The submission window is now closed. Can’t wait to put issue fifteen together! 🍂🌀

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995.

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The submission window for the autumn issue closes on Friday - get those last-minute subs in! ⏳🌀

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It’s the height of summer but the mind still turns to autumn… submissions for issue fifteen are now open! Send in your short, minimal & concrete poetry by 31st July. Bonus points for mellow, misty, fruitful poems 🍂🌀

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

It’s been a pleasure to publish some of these in the pages of aswirl; full ms available for free below 👌🏻

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Geof Huth @geofhuth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Conglommerence 178: hereby

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Joe Devlin @joedevlin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

A drawing based on a typographical ornament found in an 18th century Methodist pamphlet.

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Summer is here 😎🌀 issue 14 on sale now

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The editor will be reading at Placeholder at the Hope and Ruin in Brighton in 1 week among a flock of Robins 🐦🌀

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Summer is coming 🕯️🌀

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

We’ve received more submissions than ever before this month! Keep them coming: the window closes one week tomorrow. ☀️🌀

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

We’ve received more submissions than ever before this month! Keep them coming: the window closes one week tomorrow. ☀️🌀

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Geof Huth @geofhuth.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Stoen 678: truſt hereinbefore ſpecified

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Submissions are now OPEN for the summer issue! Send in your short, minimal & concrete poems by 30th April. The more sun-soaked & thunderstormy the better! ☀️🌀

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Idly wondering if a tote bag emblazoned with the names of all the small presses that have folded in the last ten years (due to rising costs and declining sales) might shift a few units

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Paulo da Fonseca @paulodafonseca.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Bob Cobbing. Beethoven Today, 1970

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The Poetry Kiosk @thepoetrykiosk.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Issue 2 of The Visual Poetry Times is here and is looking SHARP! Subscribers, hold on tight, your copies are on their way to you and should arrive in the next few days.🤍 Subscribe or buy a one-off copy here: www.thepoetrykiosk.com/product-page...

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Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

A new limited edition publication to mark my sixtieth birthday, published in letterpress by The Salamander Press. The poem is a homage to Velimir Khlebnikov. Edition of 50 copies, £4.50.

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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Moreau’s Philosophy is here, beautifully produced by Asatami Legesse Edizioni. DM if you’d like a copy.

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Ella B. Winters @ella-b-winters.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

So pleased to have a little poem in the latest issue of @aswirl.bsky.social! 🌀

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

spring is here! issue thirteen on sale now 🌀🌱

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Issue thirteen was due to publish in one week but a printing error was discovered during our quality control checks. It will need to be reprinted and remade, which will push back the publication date by a week or two. Thanks for your patience 🌱🌀

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Astra Papachristodoulou @heyastranaut.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I’ve been having a lot of fun with these minimalist concrete poems for children! Like every poet, I love playing with words. This series has been inspired by Ian Hamilton Finlay’s 1970 poem ‘Catameringue’. More to come!

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

🌀aswirl is everywhere🌀

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Spring is coming 👀🌱🌀

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Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

(for E) we will walk a little way behind the others giving words to what violence did to us wondering if the un- ending has an ending we will trust that love can be trusted again. 5.II.26 (where E could be everyone, or anyone, and is always someone)

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The submission window closes at midnight tonight! Get those last-minute poems in quick 🌱🌀

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Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Week 4 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Submissions for the spring issue close in 1 week! 🌱🌀

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Now reading 🪐🇧🇷

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Submissions remain OPEN for the spring issue. We’ve received some excellent work so far – keep it coming! 🌱🌀

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

It’s always nice to look back on a year of publishing and forward to another. aswirl is back for its fourth year and 2026 subscriptions are now on sale ✉️🌀

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alexis @objetautre.com · 29/12/2025

something magic still exists

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

A new year in Brighton, a new year for aswirl: submissions are now OPEN for the spring issue 🌀🌱Send in your short, minimal and concrete poems by 30th January.

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

The editor's favourite poetry books read this year. 📚🌀 (clockwise from top left) :–

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

One of the editor’s favourite books of 2025: Thomas A Clark’s ‘thrums’ on @carcanet.bsky.social #beattentive

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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Two new Oo Press postcards, Chaos by Felix Delandre and Straitjacket by Charlotte Jung. £5 for both including postage. Buy at Oo-press.com/postcard-poems

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

A beautiful 1673 edition of ‘100 Poets, 1 Poem each’, a Classical Japanese poetry anthology and one of the editor’s favourites 💯🌀

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Winter is here! ❄️🌀 With poems by Alec Finlay, Mark Rutter, Mark Valentine, Leia Butler, Ryan Hooper and more. This is a fantastic issue – on sale now!

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