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Steph Morris

@herr-morris.bsky.social
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poet, artist, gardener, translator he/him impaired energy (ME) ACE-Funded

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Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
@nathanevansarts.bsky.social @grizonne.bsky.social @em-words.bsky.social @jftherapy.bsky.social @free-verse-finnley.bsky.social @herr-morris.bsky.social @rabgreen.bsky.social @mariajastrzebska.bsky.social @cynsky.bsky.social @simonmaddrell.bsky.social @vronchariot.bsky.social
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Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Thought it was time we told you exactly who is contributing #poems of #queer #resistance to Up//Roar (out in October, advance warning! pre-order now arachnepress.com/Up-Roar-p815...) those who are ON Bluesky: @hazardpressuk.bsky.social @rickdove.bsky.social @rachaelclyne.bsky.social continues...
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 21/01/2026
Our latest word & image feature is three Plant Poems by @herr-morris.bsky.social. Each is a playful, flamboyant interpretation which provokes us to look at common foliage at a slant. See them here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/steph-morris... #NaturePoetry #InkSweatAndTears #WordandImage
Photograph of a risoprint of sycamore leaves. Many yellow leaves are aranged around a dark central leaf. On the most bottom left leaf the words 'flat blank hands halt it all' are splayed along each lobe of the leaf. Top left text reads: Plant poems. Bottom right text reads: Steph Morris (c)
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Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
more Shortlist for Up//Roar #poems of #Queer Resistance @free-verse-finnley.bsky.social @herr-morris.bsky.social @rabgreen.bsky.social @mariajastrzebska.bsky.social @cynsky.bsky.social @simonmaddrell.bsky.social @vronchariot.bsky.social @davewakely.bsky.social help us raise production costs
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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Permission to be weird
outings and what's allowable where and when
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I never thought I’d be cheering on a former Tory Cabinet minister. But here’s to the moral clarity, courage and leadership of @kitmalthouse.bsky.social.
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
So much shocking news from Gaza but this is really appalling. Feeling powerless, especially with limited energy to take to the streets. @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social as my MP, you and the UK government are not powerless. What are you doing to end the killing? www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Eleven-minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story
Hundreds of people have died while seeking food since delivery was taken over by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in May. But Palestinians facing extreme hunger have no choice but to take the risk
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 20/07/2025
It's time to choose your Pick of the Month for June 2025. Will you vote for @rachaelclyne.bsky.social, Oz Hardwick, Pippa Little, @herr-morris.bsky.social, Sreeja Naskar or @selasimclord.bsky.social ? More at inksweatandtears.co.uk/june-2025-pi... #InkSweatandTears #PickoftheMonth
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Bottom right: stamp saying VOTE

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The IS&T June 2025 Pick of the Month

Rachael Clyne
Oz Hardwick
Pippa Little
Steph Morris
Sreeja Naskar
McLord Selasi
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Tonight! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magma-92-t...
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Magma 92: The Ownership Issue Launch Party
Please join us to celebrate the launch of Magma 92 at The Seven Dials Club, Covent Garden, London
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I started a Substack — check it out. open.substack.com/pub/steph270...
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Another new start
time for Stereolab, shorts and Substack
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
It arrived! Thanks @magmapoetry.bsky.social My contribution is a bit mad but I own it… Look forward to delving in.
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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Matt Cain @mattcainwriter.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
This is possibly the most important piece of journalism I’ll ever write. At the age of 50, I was diagnosed autistic. Please read my story and share it so others don’t have to wait so long to understand who they are ❤️ #autism #autistic #neurodivergent www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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I thought it was being gay that made my life so difficult. Then, at 50, I got an eye-opening diagnosis …
I spent far too many years lonely and angry, thanks to schoolmates who called me ‘weird’ and bosses who dismissed me as ‘hysterical’. But was it my sexuality that put their backs up – or the autism I ...
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Brave and useful piece here. Thanks @mattcainwriter.bsky.social Brace yourselves for similar reassessments of my whole life in the light of an ADHD diagnosis in my 50s www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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I thought it was being gay that made my life so difficult. Then, at 50, I got an eye-opening diagnosis …
I spent far too many years lonely and angry, thanks to schoolmates who called me ‘weird’ and bosses who dismissed me as ‘hysterical’. But was it my sexuality that put their backs up – or the autism I ...
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
This was a pretty personal poem. Thanks for having me back Helen and all at Ink Sweat & Tears
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This warming book arrived in the post. Lovely company to be in. @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social
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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
We’re asking Meta to #DoTheWriteThing, are you? #MetaBookThieves www.change.org/p/protect-au...
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Sign the Petition
Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
On the way to demonstrate against meta’s thievery with @tomwentworth.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social #dothewritething Last minute placard… Concrete poetry at speed
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive” Theft is not a valid alternative.
META BOOK THIEVES - They Must Do The Write Thing

The Society of Authors are protesting Meta’s HQ today 

This image shows illustrations of authors holding placards saying “make it fair” and “do the write thing”
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Ruth Martin @dances-with-voles.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Translators have been the canaries in the AI coalmine for a couple of years now and we are already losing work to these systems. Having existing work used to train them without permission or compensation just adds insult to injury.
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Rachel Ward @racheltranslates.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
@bengoldsborough.bsky.social Like pretty much all my writer and translator friends and colleagues, Meta have used pirated copies of my work to train their AI systems. I’ll be asking META to #DoTheWriteThing on Thursday 3 April. #metabookthieves #MakeItFair
Society of Authors image #DoTheWriteThing and protect authors' livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI Training #MetaBookThieves. At the bottom are a diverse bunch of people waving placards reading #BookThieves, Make It Fair, Do the Write Thing and Compensation for Creators
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Jeremy Dixon @jeremydixonpoet.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
My poetry pamphlet IN RETAIL (@arachnepress.bsky.social) has been used to train Meta’s Al without mine or my publisher’s permission or with due regard to copyright. I’m not alone, there are 1000s of writers who’s work has been stolen. Solidarity with @societyofauthors.bsky.social! #DoTheWriteThing
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
In every atrocity in history, the silent are always principal players. Those who remain silent over Israel's genocide are enabling it to continue. Their cowardice is paid in the blood of thousands of innocent Palestinians. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Imagine if all those who are silent about the terrible evil being committed in Gaza spoke up | Owen Jones
No crime in history has been so well documented by its victims. And yet inaction and censorship reign, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/que... #Queerhistory #greenwich #museum
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Queer History Night
Researchers and artists share their journeys into the museum archives as part of LGBTQ+ History Month
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Got to a serendipitous passage of this book. Actually the whole book is still very relevant and urgent — ends in the late 1930s. 💙📚 📚🌈
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
This was our Christmas tree, which we left behind in London, and this was the sunset on Christmas Day in the midlands. No time to post ~ Some asymmetrical queer version of #sandwichgeneration Happy new year to you all.
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Introducing eff-able! #PoetsOnBlueSky please share this opportunity for queer, disabled, neurodivergent poets to submit to this anthology, funded by ACE and published by fourteen poems. Subs open until 1st December - all details below! #poetry #lgbtqia+ #queer #disabled #neurodivergent
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hi all you newcomers. :) I mostly do words here (and plants) and do art on instagram (and more plants) So here’s what I discovered at @gladlib.bsky.social last month: Rowan Williams as a poet.
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Thanks for the translators, and from the translators, Rachel!
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
At peace @gladlib.bsky.social
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Queer poems with @arachnepress.bsky.social this Friday 19.00 for UK 'National Coming Out Day' online - so you can join us from any country and be joy-us. #queerpoetry #queerliterature www.facebook.com/events/84507...
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Redirecting...
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
It’s #internationaltranslationday or #hieronymustag and here is a book I translated recently, one I was commended for, the one I’m working on now and one of the first translations I read after the bible, still much loved.
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 31/08/2024
Check out the new issue of Impossible Archetype, people. Going to treat myself and print it out. Always the best bit about having a poem in a magazine or anthology: discovering what everyone else has been writing, being part of a lovely literary gathering on paper. impossiblearchetype.wordpress.com
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Impossible Archetype
About Impossible Archetype
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 10/08/2024
West Midlands poetry people, this will be a lovely event: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ghost-part... I'm supporting Fred and Liz. Come along!
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GHOST PARTICLES
You're invited to the launch of Fred D'Aguiar's sequence,'Ghost Particles', published by Fair Acre Press.
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
Kelly jones telling truth on the radio. (Last item) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Front Row - Emily Tesh and the Hugo Awards; Dating shows; Kelly Jones - BBC Sounds
Emily Tesh on her Hugo Award winning book, Some Desperate Glory.
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 11/08/2024
We wrote about how we wrote joy (with difficulty at first, then it all came pouring out). lgbtqreads.com/2024/06/26/i...
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Inside an Anthology: Joy//Us ed. by Cherry Potts and Jeremy Dixon
Today on the site I’m delighted to spotlight Joy//Us, an anthology of poetry edited by Cherry Potts and Jeremy Dixon and published by Arachne Press! Here’s a little more about the colle…
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 10/08/2024
West Midlands poetry people, this will be a lovely event: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ghost-part... I'm supporting Fred and Liz. Come along!
eventbrite.co.uk
GHOST PARTICLES
You're invited to the launch of Fred D'Aguiar's sequence,'Ghost Particles', published by Fair Acre Press.
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 06/05/2024
Not long till the anthology Joy//Us comes out, poems of queer joy, by us, for us, for you, get a copy here: arachnepress.com/JOY-US-poems... Or at one of the lovely readings and launch events. I'm reading at the Brixton, Brighton, Bishop's Castle events, see here: arachnepress.com/events/
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JOY//US poems of queer joy
Publishing 17th MAY 2024 £9.99 Edited by Cherry Potts and Jeremy Dixon Poetry/ LGBTQ+ An eclectic collection of poetry that illuminates and celebrates, who, how, why and where we are now. Trudy Howson...
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
Help this #queerpoetry anthology fly!
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 03/02/2024
Bluesky literarti @arachnepress.bsky.social are crowdfunding to enable this lovely anthology of #queerpoetry . You can buy things or just donate. Includes #vispo #concretepoetry #riso #stencil etc by me. www.kickstarter.com/projects/147...
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
This is really worrying
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
The RLF fed me this title; I ran with it… www.rlf.org.uk/showcase/ste...
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
homage to Sarah Maguire
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Here are the pictures. Astonishing work. (Phone was too full of music to allow uploads it turns out)
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Bluesky won’t let me add photos, anyway, El Anatsui at Tate Mod was beautiful. www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
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Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Up for another couple of weeks.
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