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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

We're delighted to announce one of our acts for the next MUSHAIRA is our very own Gabrielle Bates (@gabriellebates.bsky.social)! October 24th 2025, doors at 7 at Cafe OTO www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87... Mushaira is a live literature reading series featuring authors published by indie presses.

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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 18/09/2025

Poems by Kyle Carrero Lopez, Soham Patel, and this one by @gabriellebates.bsky.social: www.thebeliever.net/the-letter/

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

trying to force myself to share at least the occasional poem, now that I'm throwing new work against the walls. this one was published in Southern Indiana Review 🖤 I wrote it in a time when I had not really slept for many months and was going insane.

GABRIELLE BATES
New Baroque Derangement
I was conceived in a restless biome, a riot of wisteria.
Unguarded. Bitch of blue.
A woman pushed her tongue into my mouth and it was good weather.
There were spirals, spirals at the heart as pure lasso—ice pure loss skipping liquid, straight to air I could and couldn't bare because I was and wasn't.
Combing a lone shore there under the moonlit backwash of receding waves, all that grit in my gums and oceanscape's
overlappings, I am telling you in that fading cyanic
I saw your faces. In the sands. I saw.
Every person I might have been or birthed
I could not reach but I could see.
A consciousness I'd once called mine clambering into a swan boat.
And high above, and far around, the rope of air caught music's meat. I saw what seeing used to mean.

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Looking forward to publishing this beautiful collection of poems by Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social 📖 Judas Goat, coming to the UK and Ireland in October 2025. Pre-order now: tinyurl.com/JudasGoat87 #letscreate #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature #preorder

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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Today’s poem is selected by Gabrielle Bates (@gabriellebates.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. “Radio, Radio” appeared in Radio, Radio by Ben Doyle, published by Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Shared here with deep gratitude.

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

“How many nights have I done this. Whittled / a carousel out of my hands. Invited to bed their / wooden breath.” — @gabriellebates.bsky.social , “Carousel” www.guernicamag.com/carousel/

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<p>The foal in its wet white bag / isn’t dead yet. Cue the cheery organ music. </p>

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Have a look at the gorgeous cover for Judas Goat by Gabrielle Bates 😍 @gabriellebates.bsky.social We will be bringing this poetry collection to the UK and Ireland in October 2025. Pre-order now: tinyurl.com/JudasGoat87

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

🌺💐🌸🌹🌷💐🌸🌹!!!

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Bring. It. On...💗🌺🎉🐐

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

If you/anyone you know in the UK is interested in ordering a copy & thereby supporting me and this amazing press, please place an order with your favorite local bookshop! (You can also order through this link, but the shop might not make as much that way) uk.bookshop.org/p/books/juda...

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Judas Goat a book by Gabrielle Bates.

Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships. The book’s eponymous animal is used to lead sheep to slaughter while its own life is spared, and its...

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

🎀 UK/Ireland Cover Reveal and Preorder Link Judas Goat (the87press edition) coming Oct 24, 2025

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Brooklyn Poets @brooklynpoets.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Early registration is now open for our craft lab on June 8, "Pressing at the Barrier," led by @gabriellebates.bsky.social! Register by May 18th to take advantage of our early discount & save $15. Limited financial aid available–apply by May 18th. Register at brooklynpoets.org/events/all/p...

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Pressing at the Barrier — Brooklyn Poets

June 8, 5-8pm (ET) with Gabrielle Bates / online

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SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Today’s class focuses on poems from @ruthawad.bsky.social’s Outside the Joy & @gabriellebates.bsky.social Judas Goat 🌟

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Montserrat Andrée Carty @montseandree.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

New episode up with @gabriellebates.bsky.social & @patrycjasara.bsky.social ! This was such a special conversation on art, language and friendship ❤️. www.musingsoftheartist.com/episodes-2/g...

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

We're very excited to have @gabriellebates.bsky.social joining the87press! We will be bringing her poetry collection, Judas Goat, to the UK and Ireland in October 2025. Gabrielle Bates’ electrifying debut questions what it means to love another person and how to exorcise childhood fears.

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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

back in the PNW for the first time since i moved away 💚 it was a dream to read at Powell’s, especially with my artwife & @tinhouse.bsky.social pressmate, @gabriellebates.bsky.social. shoutout to our brilliant editor, Alyssa Ogi

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Wrote a poem from the perspective of an ice swan melting & McNeese Review was kind to publish it. I thought this might be one of those odd personal experiments no one would want, with a pulse only I could feel—glad to be wrong 🤍

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Can't wait for the COSMIC TANTRUM book tour to celebrate @sarahlynwrites.bsky.social stunning debut⚡ @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social in Seattle on April 10, 7 pm, w/the mesmerizing @gabriellebates.bsky.social. I'll be reading a preview of my next novel, TERRY DACTYL, masks required because we love you💞

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Koss @kossworks.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Some truly amazing poems by @gabriellebates.bsky.social !!! Blown away. Thank you, Gabrielle, for your gift. #poetry, #poetrybook, #poems, @tinhouse.bsky.social tinhouse.com/book/judas-g...

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

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Kenyon Review @kenyonreview.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Read & listen to this stunning piece “One Two” by @gabriellebates.bsky.social in our Fall 2024 issue! kenyonreview.org/piece/one-two/

A light blue and purple graphic with an excerpt from "One Two" by Gabrielle Bates: "I straddle you on an old dirt floor in June/ a rabbit filling her belly with white pearls."

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Thank you so much for having me on your show, Brad! OtherPpl is wonderful; I loved being a guest 💗

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

this poem wow (“six apologies, lord” by Olena Kalytiak Davis)

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Cody Stetzel @bearable.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

@gabriellebates.bsky.social Recommendation: Song and The Orchard by Brigit Pegeen Kelly ( BOA Editions ) @westbranchmagazine.bsky.social westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/this-long-wi... and from Plume - plumepoetry.com/uncovering-w...

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

—Nazim Hikmet, trans. by Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk

OCCUPATION
As dawn breaks on the horns of my ox, I plow the earth with patient pride.
The earth is moist and warm on my bare feet.
I beat iron all morning-the darkness is dyed red.
In the afternoon heat I pick olives, the leaves the loveliest of greens:
I'm light from head to toe.
Guests come without fail each evening, my door is wide open to all songs.
At night I wade knee-deep into the water and pull the nets out of the sea: the fish get all mixed up with the stars.
Now I'm responsible for the state of the world:
people and earth, darkness and light.
So you see I'm up to my ears in work.
Hush, my rose, hush—
I'm busy falling in love with you.

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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

NBCC member @sharalessley.bsky.social, editor-at-large for West Branch, edited a feature on the 30th anniversary of Brigit Pegeen Kelly's "SONG," including essays by David Baker, @amitmajmudar.bsky.social, @gabriellebates.bsky.social, and C. Dale Young:

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This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective – West Branch

A Thrice-Yearly Magazine of Poetry, Fiction, Essays, and Reviews

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Happy birthday to my first book, Judas Goat 🎀 She pairs well with Kristeva’s Powers of Horror, the oeuvre of Brigit Pegeen Kelly, growing up religious, death thoughts, tenderness despite, the long horizontal pupils of prey animals, and holding on close to your dog.

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I feel like someone should write about these together

Powers of Horror by Julia Kristeva and Judas Goat by Gabrielle Bates

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Shara Lessley @sharalessley.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Calling all #BrigitPegeenKelly fans! Five new #essays on the 30th anniversary of SONG by @davidbakerpoet.bsky.social @amitmajmudar.bsky.social @gabriellebates.bsky.social C. Dale Young, and yours truly. Please help us celebrate this singular #poet! 🎉🐐 westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/this-long-wi...

Cover image for Brigit Pegeen Kelly's poetry collection SONG.

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Satya Dash @satyadash.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

A GIFT!!

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I loved our conversation about it so much 🥲🥲🥲

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Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 14/01/2025

I can’t think of anyone better to write about this book

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Last year I received one of the most intimidating and meaningful invitations of my life, to contribute an essay to this West Branch retrospective on Brigit Pegeen Kelly’s SONG. westbranch.blogs.bucknell.edu/this-long-wi...

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Another matching opportunity from poet Eduardo Corral ❤️

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I am SO excited to be doing an event with @therakha.net at Phinney Books on Feb 11 to celebrate his English debut novel The Dissenters (@graywolfpress.bsky.social) 💛 Youssef’s U.S. book tour only has four stops & we are so lucky Seattle is one of them—I hope you’ll mark your calendar & join us

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

So excited for this event! My copy of Playworld arrived in the mail today ♥️♥️♥️

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

From @gabriellebates.bsky.social's book, Judas Goat: bookshop.org/a/862/978195... #poem #poets #gabriellebates #books #writers

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Adam Clay @adamclay.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Gabrielle Bates in the new Kenyon Review @kenyonreview.bsky.social @gabriellebates.bsky.social

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

! thank you so much for reading 🖤

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Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

“If I write myself into a state, does that make the state false?” - @gabriellebates.bsky.social

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