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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Extract from 'Thingamajiggied' by @hettycliss.bsky.social , published in Issue Seven. Read the full poem here: andotherpoems.com/2025/08/04/t...

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Hetty Cliss @hettycliss.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Big thanks to Tom Bailey and Laurie Ogden for including me in an issue with poets whose work I adore and others I’m excited to discover. Check out the whole issue!

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Hetty Cliss @hettycliss.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

My poem ‘Thingamajiggied’ is out now in @andotherpoems.bsky.social It’s one that means a lot to me. Through it I was able to articulate big thoughts and emotions, the experience of loving and losing someone with dementia, that felt beyond language. andotherpoems.com/2025/08/04/t...

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Hetty Cliss When my grandmother dignified, I couldn’t spook italoud. Not even when a colleague asked three timesif I was ostr…

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Issue Seven is now live! We are so excited to share this brilliant issue with you all. Thank you to all the poets who submitted. Read the full issue here: andotherpoems.com/issue-seven/ #poetry #poems

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

New poem in www.aftershockreview.com edited by @maxwallis.bsky.social 💜

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Em Taylor @emwrote.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Beyond hyped for this one, the first in our summer event series! Join us for an incredible pride poetry night with @carolinebirduk.bsky.social, Richard Scott, Sophie Robinson and Roberto Salvador Cenciarelli ❤️ www.outsavvy.com/event/27015/...

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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

🟢 NEW PAMPHLET 🟢 Haia Mohammed, The Age of Olive Trees Pre-order now / All proceeds to author www.outspokenldn.com/shop/haia In 2023, Joelle Taylor read the work of Haia, a young poet in Gaza, at the fundraiser we did. We stayed in contact (1/3)

Cover of The Age of Olive Trees by Haia Mohammed
Off-white background with title text in serif font, green and black block-print style outline of olive leaves

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Magma Poetry @magmapoetry.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

CALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS! Editors Isabelle Baafi @timtimtmi.bsky.social & @sohinibasak.bsky.social can't wait to receive your submissions for Magma 93: The Liberation Issue. What does ‘liberation’ mean to you? 📷 Luizph/Pexels More info and to submit: magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...

A person rides a bicycle down a long, straight road bordered by green fields and a blue sky with fluffy clouds.

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

What’s more exciting to me as an editor than under 30 debut lists? A poet who returns with something exquisite after a decade of silence. Books that take years to discover their shape, not more-of-the-same sequels to best sellers. Poets who reinvent themselves because life has reinvented them.

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Em Taylor @emwrote.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I’m losing the will to post on all these social media accts but this is an important one. @queer-poetry-co.bsky.social are hosting our first ever FLINTA* open mic fundraising for @thecommonpress.bsky.social on 26 Feb. I am beyond excited for this one 🥹 www.outsavvy.com/event/24804/...

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FLINTA* Poetry Night @ Goldie Saloon Tickets - London - OutSavvy

We're BACK for a night of queer poetry and community. Join us for our first FLINTA* Poetry Night at Goldie Saloon on 26 February 2025 @ 19:30 withticket proceeds donated to The Common Press' fundrais...

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

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eff-able anthology @eff-able.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Since we’re new to BlueSky and so many of you are too, we’ve decided to extend our submissions window to 10th December. 10 more days to send your queer crip erotic poetry! Info here and below 👇🏼 effable.uk #PoetsOnBlueSky #poetry #disabled #queer #neurodivergent

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

god i love books. yes, reading them. but sometimes, just holding them. and i wish they could hold me. and then i see (again) that they do.

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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Sharing my own new poem from the Invisible Strings anthology. 🫶🏼✨

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Hetty Cliss @hettycliss.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

“let me map you to oasis. / let me show you where / the weapons are.” From Danez Smith’s ‘Bluff’

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Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

If I listened to the critics I’d never write a word. Keep the vision for yourself, never mind what they want. Trust your instinct. Your gut. There is no other way to write. Follow your excitements. Perhaps no one has charted this route? Lead the fashion, don’t follow fashion.

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Hetty Cliss @hettycliss.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Wrote a new poem yesterday. Every time this happens after a fallow period and I’m reimmersed in the mysterious attention poems call on, I feel present, contented and excited all at once. I love it. 💫

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Anthony Anaxagorou @aanaxagorou.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The wonderful @propelmagazine.bsky.social has now joined Bluesky. An online and physical poetry magazine launched in 2022 that features poetry from the U.K. and Ireland exclusively from poets who are yet to publish a full collection.

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Hetty Cliss @hettycliss.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

“It’s not the bad people who are brave / I fear, it’s the good people who are afraid.” Revisiting Terrance Hayes’ American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin.

AMERICAN SONNET FOR MY PAST AND FUTURE ASSASSIN by Terrance Hayes

Suppose you could speak nothing but money And acrimony. Suppose all the sunflowers Van Gogh destroyed, all the stones in Virginia's Pockets & all the stones Georgia painted as vaginas Were simply a matter of making something greater Than money. Prince taught us a real man has A beautiful woman in him. Suppose we cannot Forget what happened in Money. Suppose You're someone who celebrates Thomas Jefferson's Birthday. Suppose he was someone whose love For a black woman was blinded by blackness, Hers & his, yours & mine. I ain't mad at you, Assassin. It's not the bad people who are brave I fear, it's the good people who are afraid.

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