Reposted by JP Seabrightfifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 08/07/2026let’s embrace the in-between with Traum/A by @jpseabright.bsky.social -sadee 031
Reposted by JP SeabrightJenny Mitchell @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026As 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-...morningstaronline.co.ukThe new poetry co-editor introduces herselfAS 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... 45629
Reposted by JP SeabrightBlack Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 26/04/2026More 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... 043
Reposted by JP SeabrightEleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Day 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-seabrightbadlilies.ukJP Seabright — Bad LiliesA poem by JP Seabright 241
Reposted by JP SeabrightEmma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026I wrote this post just under a year ago, and I still stand by everything within it. 312029
Reposted by JP SeabrightStu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Still 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...ticketsource.co.uk 0810
Reposted by JP SeabrightBad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social · 16/02/2026'Random Forest' by @jpseabright.bsky.social badlilies.uk/jp-seabright 172
Reposted by JP SeabrightVicki 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-seabrightbadlilies.ukJP Seabright — Bad LiliesA poem by JP Seabright 1124
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Next 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/... 031
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Here it is! The 2025 Review nobody asked for: jpseabright.substack.com/p/one-of-tho...jpseabright.substack.comOne of Those End of the Year Things2025 is so over 031
Reposted by JP SeabrightThe Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 09/11/2025Mark 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... 53417
Reposted by JP SeabrightThe 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 02012
Reposted by JP SeabrightMiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Directing 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...theguardian.comPointing out racism in books is not an ‘attack’ – it’s a call for industry reform | Monisha RajeshI was called aggressive for criticising passages in Kate Clanchy’s memoir. But the real problem lies deep in the overwhelmingly white world of publishing 411045
Reposted by JP SeabrightIan Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · 06/11/2025My 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-badcoeditto.fmPronounsListen to Pronouns 261
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Check out these fabulous illustrations by @molluscdimension.bsky.social of our @eff-able.bsky.social event on Weds! 💜 051
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 12/10/2025This 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! 120
Reposted by JP Seabrighteff-able anthology @eff-able.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Next Wednesday! Come and join us. Tickets are Pay What You Can and it’s BYOB! 021
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Resharing on #worldmentalhealthday and wishing you all peace and wellbeing, this and every day. 💜 150
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Today! 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... 041
Reposted by JP SeabrightBill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 08/10/2025My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…theoatmeal.comA cartoonist's review of AI art - The OatmealThis is a comic about AI art. 14612224
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 06/10/2025This is not the post I planned to write today, but clearly the one I needed to write… jpseabright.substack.com/p/mental-hea... 030
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 02/10/2025It’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. 143
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 26/09/2025A 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. 🤓📚 050
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 20/09/2025I’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. 💜 020
Reposted by JP SeabrightSusie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Final 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... 052
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Mostly 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 030
Reposted by JP Seabrighteff-able anthology @eff-able.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Join us for a unique event celebrating Arts & Activism: Queer Disabled Creativity in Action! Wednesday 15th October, QUEERCIRCLE, London www.outsavvy.com/event/29864/...outsavvy.comArts & Activism: Queer Disabled Creativity in Action Tickets - London - OutSavvyJamie 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... 121
Reposted by JP Seabrighteff-able anthology @eff-able.bsky.social · 09/09/2025So 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/...outsavvy.comThis is Not a Side Show: eff-able in Sheffield! Tickets - Sheffield - OutSavvyJoin 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... 011
Reposted by JP Seabrighteff-able anthology @eff-able.bsky.social · 01/09/2025eff-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/...outsavvy.comThis is Not a Side Show: eff-able in Glasgow! Tickets - Glasgow - OutSavvyJoin 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... 022
Reposted by JP SeabrightDerek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Order your poetry scratchcards today : www.thepoetrykiosk.com/product-page... 0125
Reposted by JP SeabrightHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 21/08/2025Palestinians 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.progressive.orgDisplaced in GazaPalestinians 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 ... 1239165
Reposted by JP SeabrightIan Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 21/08/2025The speaker of the poem glimpses the poet over her shoulder art: Rob's Room 0112
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Huge thanks to Max Wallis of Aftershock Review, not only for publishing my effluvium, but for this fabulous editorial reading and comment on it. 💜 071
Reposted by JP SeabrightThe Aftershock Review (Max Wallis) @maxwallis.bsky.social · 21/08/2025of 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 011
Reposted by JP SeabrightThe Aftershock Review (Max Wallis) @maxwallis.bsky.social · 21/08/2025effluvium 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...open.substack.comeffluvium by JP Seabrightanother stain / on the sheet / can't tell if it's / cum or menses 132
Reposted by JP SeabrightLeia Butler @leiabutler.bsky.social · 13/08/2025As 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...leiabutler.comWhite Cloud Over Purple by JP SeabrightWhite 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. 131
Reposted by JP SeabrightInternet Archive @archive.org · 14/08/2025Digital 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 2314108
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 14/08/2025In 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). 041
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 14/08/2025SOUND 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/ 020
Reposted by JP SeabrightElen Caldecott @elencaldecott.bsky.social · 11/08/2025UK 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! 3244115
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 05/08/2025SOUND 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/ 010
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 02/08/2025SOUND 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/ 032
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Latest 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... 021
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Look 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. 032
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Really 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 021
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Enormous 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. 031
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 22/07/2025New 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-seabrighttheredceilingspress.co.ukSolitary Hotel - JP Seabright | Red Ceilings PressChapbook RCP118A6 40 Pages40 Copies£9 092
Reposted by JP Seabrighteff-able anthology @eff-able.bsky.social · 04/07/2025So 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. 173