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Casey Bottono

@bottonowriter.bsky.social
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Poet, writer and workshop facilitator discussing #disability, #grief and #mentalhealth Based in SW England theartypoet.substack.com

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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This week, I'm learning to share an experience that still gets stuck in my throat. My poem Soil and Solitude has been published by The Garfield Lake Review, and I've put a link in my latest Substack post. #griefsky #poetrycommunity A Bittersweet Milestone open.substack.com/pub/theartyp...
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A Bittersweet Milestone
On sending precious words into the world, and owning the sacred story.
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Lara Ianuzzi @laraianuzzi.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Bearing Witness #monoprint Acrylic on Paper #art #printmaking
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
@benjlmorgan.bsky.social Hi Ben, thank you so much for reposting my post. Hope you have a great day.
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This week on Substack, I finally wrote about how films and the act of going to the cinema gives me room to grieve. open.substack.com/pub/theartyp... #amwriting #grief #griefsky #mentalhealth #selfcare #suicideloss
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When Grief Shows Up At The Cinema
I’ve recently realised that I have a tradition of watching films at the end of the year.
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Hi all, I'm hoping to verify which of Emily Dickinson's poems appear in Jane Hirshfield's anthology Women In Praise of the Sacred. Book itself is out of print, and Google is not being helpful. I would be very grateful if anyone could chime in. Thanks! Casey
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Solemn business, life Just minding your own, and then Grief sneaks up on you. #BlueskyPoets #griefsky #haiku #mentalhealth #micropoetry #poetrycommunity #vss365
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Peter Lilly Poetry @plpoetry.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
My poem "Deserted Posts" in issue 3 of The Candayman's Trumpet, speaking to the importance of in-person oral storytelling. Get in touch with Jack Caradoc @dreich.bsky.social to sign up to receive new amazing editions each month. I'm really enjoying issue 4 from this month.
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WillowHasSnacks🏳️‍⚧️🔮📚 @willowhassnacks.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Can confirm. #librarians #booksky
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Navigating the world of grief support is difficult, but doing so as a person with a #disability has extra layers. I'm grateful to Let's Talk About Loss for providing a platform for an article that has been brewing for some time. letstalkaboutloss.org/2025/07/23/r... #amwriting #grief #griefsky
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Reach Out Your Hand: On Finding the Courage to Ask for Help - Let's Talk About Loss
Casey writes a blog all about asking for help and support as a disabled young griever, for Disability Pride Month
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
@alejotag.bsky.social Thank you so much for reaching out to connect. I really admire what you are creating. Take care, Casey
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
@radicaldruid.com Hi John. Thank you for reaching out to connect in this space. Take care!
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
@julianday.bsky.social Hi Julian - thank you very much for reading and sharing my essay. Take care, Casey
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
This essay I wrote in 2020 is the closest I have come to a mission statement. Realising that it was no longer available online made me sad, so I fixed it and rehomed it on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/theartyp... #BlueskyPoets #grief #griefsky #mentalhealth #poetry #selfcare
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Reflections on the role of poetry
As I await the opportunity to share my latest published work, I want to share a piece that I rediscovered recently…with a few adjustments.
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
@saltpublishing.com Hello! Thank you so much for connecting with me - it's a pleasure to meet you here.
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
@createdtoread.bsky.social Hi Rachel - thank you so much for connecting. It's a pleasure to meet you here. :)
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Hello friends, I am delighted to share my latest published poem, Living in the Conditional...kindly given a home by Mona Soorma of Lit Ezine. manicsylph.com/lit-ezine-vo... #amwriting #BlueskyPoets #griefsky #mentalhealth #poetrycommunity #selfcare
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Lit eZine Vol 8 | p-11 | POETRY | Living in the Conditional
SHORT POEM LIVING IN THE CONDITIONALby Casey Bottono Image by Elisa from Pixabay Worry rumbling If this, then what? I wrestle control of my mindBy coming home to the breath. Right here, in this bre…
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Lafcadio @lafcadiobsky.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
our song plays on repeat again if I listen to it a hundred times maybe you will reappear #tanka #TankaThursday
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Alan Parry He/Him @alanparrywriter.co.uk · 19/06/2025
The complete piece
as a boy
my uncle held my hand
in the street
granddad called him queenie
told folk—don’t mistake him
for my son

A new poem from me: Real Men Do Not Sprout Feathers
Second one this week.
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This week, I wrote about my experience of planting a tree in remembrance of my friend Steve, as I mark the fourth anniversary of his death. theartypoet.substack.com/p/finding-fa... #grief #griefsky #mentalhealth #selfcare #suicideloss
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Finding Faith in Trees
An essay on finding the right moment, and good help.
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Anybody out there enjoy playing darts? I'm nearly two months in, and would love to connect with some other darts players.
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
@marionbe.bsky.social Morning! Thank you for reposting the Substack post I shared yesterday. Hope you have a great day.
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
In the process of learning to live alongside loss, my relationship with music changed drastically. It took me a long time to recognise that as another form of loss. #grief #griefsky #mentalhealth #selfcare #suicideloss open.substack.com/pub/theartyp...
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Making Room for Music
On rebuilding a relationship with a creative constant.
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
A conversation with a friend on my birthday inspired me to write about my relationship with music in the aftermath of loss. theartypoet.substack.com/p/making-roo... #amwriting #BlueskyPoets #grief #griefsky #mentalhealth #music #selfcare #suicideloss
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Making Room for Music
On rebuilding a relationship with a creative constant.
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The surge in LGBT+ censorship laws across Europe is alarming. From Italy to Hungary, rights are under attack. Tell the EU: Take action NOW to stop discrimination! Sign & share campaigns.allout.org/no-lgbt-cens...
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No LGBT+ censorship in Europe
Anti-LGBT+ laws are spreading across Europe, threatening fundamental freedoms. The EU must act now! Sign the petition and demand protection for LGBT+ rights.
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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
One of the greatest networks on here is the #POETRYCOMMUNITY This thread includes starter packs featuring some terrific POETS and supporters of #poetry. Please follow and repost if you can. Here's starter pack one (full). Thank you! #booksky #poets
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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
@bottonowriter.bsky.social @sueimnw.bsky.social @mother-poet.bsky.social @medhawrites.bsky.social @johnchmura.bsky.social @mavismoog.bsky.social @davidbirch.bsky.social @ravenbranhard.bsky.social I’ve added you to the 3rd starter pack in the thread 👇. Hope that helps. Please repost pack if you can
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Over the Easter weekend, I brought two previous grief-related projects to a kind of end. It's hard to know when a project might have run its course, so I shared some of my thoughts on #Substack open.substack.com/pub/theartyp... #amwriting #grief #griefsky #mentalhealth #selfcare
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On Haphazard Endings
Some thoughts on closing grief-related projects
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
🧵 Lovely poetry folks: it's time for me to step gingerly onto the merry-go-round of self promotion and announce that my debut pamphlet Soi-même is available now for pre-order from the wonderful @salopress.bsky.social Thank you so much to Salo for taking this on ❤️❤️ salopress.com/store/soi-meme/
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PRE-ORDER Soi-même - Victoria Spires
Soi-même delves into the ‘mechanics of failure’ inbuilt into every situation where desire ebbs and flows, and as subject and object trade places. It seeks to pose questions without answers, about how ...
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Chance meetings can form cherished connections. Today marks 10 years since I visited the London Book Fair, so that became this week's Substack post. open.substack.com/pub/theartyp... #amwriting #grief #mentalhealth #selfcare #writersky #writingcommunity
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Looking back at the London Book Fair
A reflection and a remembrance
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Saving the fragments is part of writing.
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
@foxandstarbooks.bsky.social Thank you very much for following me. :)
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
'I want to forgive, but first I need to feel everything that stands between me and forgiveness.' @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social speaks truth. #YouCouldMakeThisPlaceBeautiful is a memoir about the end of her marriage and yet it resonates deeply amidst my difficult walk with grief.
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This is amazing!
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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
"The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we’re visiting, life." Ursula K. Le Guin
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Never forget that in 1861 Charles Darwin wrote in a letter to a friend… “But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything" …because this is my favorite reminder that we can do great things even if we don't always have great days
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Kate Wise @katewise.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Any recommendations for (UK, generally) magazines accepting and interested in concrete poetry? #poetrybluesky #poetrycommunity
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
@yaffles-nest.bsky.social Hello, and thank you for reaching out to connect. I'm looking forward to learning more about your publication and your mission.
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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"It’s a matter of placing your mind / in front of your face" A poem by 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘃𝘀𝗸𝘆 in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/bus-ride-by-alex-braslavsky.html #poetry #poetrycommunity
I am the youngest one in this flotational room,
one only meant for roads,
but I will be the biggest ears.

In that room, parallel to ours, my friends froze to death.
They outwrung their organs,
They insisted we all listen.
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Early April is a tender time for me. In today's #Substack post, I talk a bit about why and share a new way to interact with my work. open.substack.com/pub/theartyp... #amwriting #grief #griefsky #mentalhealth #poetry #selfcare
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A Loving Remembrance
Plus a new way to engage with my work.
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
@emmawulfe.bsky.social Hello! Thank you so much for connecting with me here (and on Substack!) Looking forward to reading more of your work. Take care, Casey
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Knowing, yet waiting Hardly sleeping all that night Facing bitter truth #BlueskyPoets #death #grief #griefsky #mentalhealth #selfcare #vss365
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
@granthope.bsky.social Hi Grant, thank you for reaching out to connect. I look forward to finding out more about your work. Take care! Casey
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Bridget @8rid6et.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
🦜 empathy for birds I too have a song stuck in my head #haiku #senryu #writer #poem #poetrycommunity #poetry
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Bridget @8rid6et.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
📻🦜 Bird Radio: Tune in for the world’s longest jam session All your favorites obsessively repeating one hit wonders Now playing the world’s greatest hits all day every day #haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writer
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Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
#currentlyreading @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social 's #YouCouldMakeThisPlaceBeautiful It's amazing how so few words can provoke so many thoughts. #amreading #art #grief #mentalhealth #selfcare
Text on a grey background reads: A FRIEND SAYS EVERY BOOK BEGINS WITH AN UNANSWERABLE QUESTION - Then what is mine? How to grieve.
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