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JP Seabright

@jpseabright.bsky.social
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genderqueer genrefluid writer of things #pwME 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺📚 Latest book: Solitary Hotel 🖤 Check links for all the others! Co-editor of effable.uk linktr.ee/jpseabright jpseabright.com

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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
let’s embrace the in-between with Traum/A by @jpseabright.bsky.social -sadee
praise for Traum/A
"explores the strange territory woundedness forges between the conscious and subconscious"
- Raegen Pietrucha
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Jenny Mitchell @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
As a poetry co-editor for the Morning Star, I want to feature poets who are often marginalised. Except they seem to be marginalising themselves by not sending their work. Send poems for June! I'd be grateful to receive them at: thursdaypoems@gamil.com morningstaronline.co.uk/article/new-...
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The new poetry co-editor introduces herself
AS A new poetry co-editor on the Morning Star, I’m interested in poems that examine the personal and the political in a way that engages the emotions as well as the logical mind. There are several wor...
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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
More of our excellent contributors to ‘Shored Fragments: Poems in Response to Eliot’s The Waste Land’. @jpseabright.bsky.social Eileen Carney Hulme @suefinch.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm...
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Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Day 2: “Random Forest” by @jpseabright.bsky.social in the latest issue of @badlilies.bsky.social. “Possibilities dangled like future / Tenses. Tempting us with certainties.” www.badlilies.uk/jp-seabright
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JP Seabright — Bad Lilies
A poem by JP Seabright
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Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I wrote this post just under a year ago, and I still stand by everything within it.
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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Still tix left for this is anyone wants to come #GetKeshed with me and Terri on Thursday in the intimate surroundings of @serenitybookshop.bsky.social. Gonna be a banger, as it always is when Terri's in the house 💥💪 www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/sto...
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Bad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
'Random Forest' by @jpseabright.bsky.social badlilies.uk/jp-seabright
Random Forest
It was the summer of suicides.
Long shadows cast over the lawn.
Heat gripped us. A death ray.
Drove us crazy. Until we could no Longer help ourselves. Or each Other. When the time came.
It came often. Without warning.
Sparing only the weakest of us.
Those who had less will to live.
Decision trees danced in the distance.
Ever present. Just out of reach.
We dreamt of being caught In their branches. Enjoying picnics In their shade. Scuffed shoes and Muddy knees. Leaves in our hair.
We dreamt of choices. Of paths Untaken. Roads untraveled.
Possibilities dangled like future
Tenses. Tempting us with certainties.
Like Milgram's dial. Then winter Pulled up its cold white sheet.
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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
"We dreamt of choices. Of paths Untaken. Roads untraveled. Possibilities dangled like future Tenses." #TodaysPoem #poetry Random Forest by @jpseabright.bsky.social (2026 @badlilies.bsky.social) www.badlilies.uk/jp-seabright
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JP Seabright — Bad Lilies
A poem by JP Seabright
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Next Thursday I shall be at The Writing Shed in Hornsey with the fabulous Clara-Laeila Laudette. Hope to see some of you there! Info and tickets here and in bio www.outsavvy.com/event/32841/...
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
How cool is this?! 👇🏼
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Here it is! The 2025 Review nobody asked for: jpseabright.substack.com/p/one-of-tho...
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One of Those End of the Year Things
2025 is so over
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 09/11/2025
Mark it down: Dec 20th @ 20.00 — #PoemsAbout #OpenMic + #ChristmasParty returns! Poets, readers, friends — one final night to lift your words before the year ends. 🎤✨ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1967176915...
A Christmas tree made of soft, out-of-focus lights glows against a dark blue background. The blurred bulbs form a tapering triangle of reds, greens, yellows, and oranges. White text on the left reads: “#POEMSABOUT VIRTUAL CHRISTMAS PARTY & OPEN MIC 20.12.25 @ 20.00 — Hosted by Alan Parry.” The Broken Spine logo, shaped like a black fountain pen nib, appears at the top right.
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 14/11/2025
#PoemsAbout #Desire is live. Post from today through Thursday. Tag your post. Use Alt Text. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché. Engage—don’t ghost. Read 3+, repost, reply. Sign up for prompt packs: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
A halved papaya lies open on a dark, wet surface. Its glistening red interior, filled with pomegranate seeds and dripping juice, carries a sensual, sexually suggestive tone. Scattered berries surround it. The Broken Spine logo, shaped like a black fountain pen nib, appears top left. "@thebrokenspine.co.uk" is written top right in white. At the bottom right, bold white text reads: "Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #DESIRE".
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Directing to you all to this piece from 2021 in advance of the BBC and the Times maliciously raking up and rewriting painful history this week www.theguardian.com/books/2021/a...
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Pointing out racism in books is not an ‘attack’ – it’s a call for industry reform | Monisha Rajesh
I was called aggressive for criticising passages in Kate Clanchy’s memoir. But the real problem lies deep in the overwhelmingly white world of publishing
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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 06/11/2025
My friend Emilija released a song they created based on a poem I wrote for TDoV about four years ago. The very appropriately named "Pronouns". #Song #Poem #Trans #Nonbinary #Pronouns #TDoV #TransDayOfVisibility #Poet #Singer #Songwriter #Composer ditto.fm/pronouns-ian-badcoe
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Pronouns
Listen to Pronouns
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Check out these fabulous illustrations by @molluscdimension.bsky.social of our @eff-able.bsky.social event on Weds! 💜
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
This Wednesday, come and join me and George Parker (your friendly queer crip eff-able Book Daddies™️) at QUEERCIRCLE for an enlightening discussion on queer disabled art and activism with the brilliant Jamie Hale and Lucy Webster, led by Lalah-Simone Springer!
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eff-able anthology @eff-able.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Next Wednesday! Come and join us. Tickets are Pay What You Can and it’s BYOB!
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Resharing on #worldmentalhealthday and wishing you all peace and wellbeing, this and every day. 💜
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Today! I’m performing at the City Lit Mental Wealth Festival. Come and join us - for music, song, poetry & spoken word. Only £5 to salve your soul. 💜 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening...
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…
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A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
This is not the post I planned to write today, but clearly the one I needed to write… jpseabright.substack.com/p/mental-hea...
An image of a white-skinned female-presenting person wearing a black tshirt with the words Medecins Sans Frontieres standing in front of a window
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
It’s National Poetry Day so one feels obliged to post something ‘poetic’, yet I’ve barely written or published any poetry this year. But I have co-run an ACE-funded project, edited an anthology & championed the work of queer crip poets, shining a spotlight on voices so often marginalised.
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
A librarian’s pilgrimage to the old British Library Reading Room. One of the advantages of being old is that I got to study in here when I moved to London to do my Masters. 🤓📚
A domed room lined with books around its circumference, with an old-fashioned wooden desk in the foreground stating ‘Quiet Please’
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I’m so behind on my TBR pile that I’ve only now discovered this lovely review of MotherFlux in the Winter 2024 edition of the Poetry Book Society Bulletin! Huge thanks to Shalini Sengupta for reading us, Nine Pens for publishing us and Erica and Jem for all the MotherFluxing words. 💜
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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Final part of my Substack series on the developmental processes of my Wastelands project just in time for publication day (@guillemotpress Mon Sept 22) susiecampbell.substack.com/p/wastelands...
White lettering against a misty dark landscape
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Mostly written in the Spring, but set in Autumn, I never imagined that my chapbook Solitary Hotel, which explores grief, loneliness and isolation, would foretell how this September is turning out. For James. R.I.P. 💔✊🏾 Audio version free with copies bought direct from me: jp-seabright.square.site
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eff-able anthology @eff-able.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Join us for a unique event celebrating Arts & Activism: Queer Disabled Creativity in Action! Wednesday 15th October, QUEERCIRCLE, London www.outsavvy.com/event/29864/...
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Arts & Activism: Queer Disabled Creativity in Action Tickets - London - OutSavvy
Jamie Hale and Lucy Webster, in conversation with Lalah-Simone Springer Join us for a unique event, celebrating queer disabled activism and creativity. Hear from Jamie Hale, award-winning poet, playwr...
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eff-able anthology @eff-able.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
So excited for our eff-able show in Sheffield this Thursday. We have a fabulous set of poets, performers and host, and Audio Description. Come and join us! www.outsavvy.com/event/27392/...
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This is Not a Side Show: eff-able in Sheffield! Tickets - Sheffield - OutSavvy
Join us at Sidney and Matilda in Sheffield to celebrate queer crip sensual joy - and the release of spicy anthology of queer crip poetry, eff-able. Expect a night of queer crip spiciness as Sheffield...
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eff-able anthology @eff-able.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
eff-able comes to Scotland this Friday! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We have an effing fabulous show lined up for Glasgow. Do come along if you’re in town, or tell everyone there if you’re not! www.outsavvy.com/event/28155/...
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This is Not a Side Show: eff-able in Glasgow! Tickets - Glasgow - OutSavvy
Join us at The Boardwalk in Glasgow to celebrate queer crip sensual joy - and the release of spicy anthology of queer crip poetry, eff-able. Expect a night of queer crip spiciness as Glasgow's hottes...
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Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Order your poetry scratchcards today : www.thepoetrykiosk.com/product-page...
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 21/08/2025
Palestinians are writing their stories, documenting both the horror of the war and the resilience of the people. Young people and Gaza elders are recording testimonies—narrating their stories for the world to read.
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Displaced in Gaza
Palestinians are writing their stories, documenting both the horror of the war and the resilience of the people. Young people and Gaza elders are recording testimonies—narrating their stories for the ...
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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The speaker of the poem glimpses the poet over her shoulder art: Rob's Room
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Huge thanks to Max Wallis of Aftershock Review, not only for publishing my effluvium, but for this fabulous editorial reading and comment on it. 💜
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The Aftershock Review (Max Wallis) @maxwallis.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
of scars visible and invisible. The poem asks how a body can betray itself, how flesh becomes record and trigger, “a mutiny of function / over intent.” It is raw, unflinching, refusing to sanitise what survival costs. @jpseabright.bsky.social
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The Aftershock Review (Max Wallis) @maxwallis.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
effluvium is a poem of leakage and revolt. Stains blur into one another, sex, blood, mucus; until the body itself becomes hostile, a site of overflow. The speaker moves between bed and self, between past and present, carrying a lifetime of “undreaming,” open.substack.com/pub/aftersho...
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effluvium by JP Seabright
another stain / on the sheet / can't tell if it's / cum or menses
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Leia Butler @leiabutler.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
As part of my review challenge, the next wonderful book I reviewed was JP Seabright’s @jpseabright.bsky.social incredible ‘White Cloud Over Purple’ published by Atomic Bohemian. leiabutler.com/2025/08/07/w...
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White Cloud Over Purple by JP Seabright
White Cloud Over Purple is a burst of colour, exploration, and creativity. Published in 2024 by Atomic Bohemian, this collection is page after page of rich, vibrant writing.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 14/08/2025
Digital decay, disappearing data, broken links: why it matters and what we can do. 📖 Join our upcoming #booktalk on PRESERVING GOVERNMENT INFORMATION. Co-hosted by @authorsalliance.bsky.social 📅 Thurs Aug 28 🕙 10 AM PT /1 PM ET 📍 ONLINE 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1513557303... #preservation
Cover of the book Preserving Government Information: Past Present, and Future, by James A, Jacobs and James R. Jacobs.
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
In case you’re doing the #sealeychallenge then Solitary Hotel is a super ‘fun size’ A6 poetry pamphlet that fits inside a back pocket, handbag, or the palm of your hand. Available now from Red Ceilings Press or direct from me (link in bio).
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
SOUND ON! Short extract of the audio version of Solitary Hotel, my latest chapbook, out now with Red Ceilings Press Available as a free MP3 to everyone who buys a copy of the book direct from me. Link here and in bio: jp-seabright.square.site product/solitary-hotel/
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Elen Caldecott @elencaldecott.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
UK readers, if you can't afford to buy any of these books, order them from your local library. The authors will see your support through loan figures and PLR. You don't even have to finish reading them if you don't want!
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
SOUND ON! Another short extract of the audio version of Solitary Hotel, my latest chapbook, out now from Red Ceilings Press. Available as a free MP3 to everyone who buys a copy of the book direct from me. Link here and in bio: jp-seabright.square.site product/solitary-hotel/
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
SOUND ON! Another short extract of the audio version of Solitary Hotel, my latest chapbook, out now from Red Ceilings Press Available as a free MP3 to everyone who buys a copy of the book direct from me. jp-seabright.square.site product/solitary-hotel/
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Latest blog post about my new book (out now from Red Ceilings Press) where I write about its inspiration : Samuel Barber, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and the North Norfolk coast and my writing ‘process’. open.substack.com/pub/jpseabri...
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Look at my beautiful book babies! Solitary Hotel is a book-length poem sequence inspired by Samuel Barber’s song of the same name, which sets to music text from James Joyce’s Ulysses. Available now from Red Ceilings Press (or direct from me) Both links in bio.
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Really honoured for my latest chapbook, Solitary Hotel, to have been read and endorsed by the brilliant Richard Skinner - author, poet, educator, essayist, publisher and all round polymath. Available now from Red Ceilings Press www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/product-page/solitary-hotel-jp-seabright
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Enormous thanks to the wonderful Susie Campbell, a poet and creator I’ve long admired, for these words about Solitary Hotel, my latest chapbook, available now from the equally wonderful Red Ceilings Press.
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
New book available now from Red Ceilings Press. Solitary Hotel is a poem sequence inspired by Samuel Barber’s song. It explores loneliness, longing, isolation and love lost and profound, on the North Norfolk coast. www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/product-page/solitary-hotel-jp-seabright
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Solitary Hotel - JP Seabright | Red Ceilings Press
Chapbook RCP118A6 40 Pages40 Copies£9
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
COMING SOON…
Old photographic image of a women wearing Victorian dress sitting reading a book on a cliff edge with a hotel in the background.
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eff-able anthology @eff-able.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
So very proud and excited to be bringing eff-able to the National Poetry Library next Wednesday! Hosted by your eff-able Book Daddies, and featuring our contributing poets: Catherine Balaq, Cat Chong, Rick Dove, Arden Fitzroy, Cleo Henry, Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, John McCullough and Scarlett Ward.
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