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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 · 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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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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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 · 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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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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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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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 · 16/06/2025

Calling all Northerners! I’m heading to York in 9 days time, reading at Rise Up! alongside Rosie Garland and Spencer Wood. Come and join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/rise-up-june-tickets-1372556496429?aff=oddtdtcreator

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

New substack post just dropped! jpseabright.substack.com/p/this-is-no...

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Late to post, but honoured to be one of fifty contributing poets to this anthology published by Dahlia Books - Bring Me Gold : Fifty Poems for Palestine 🇵🇸 All proceeds go to @medicalaidpal.bsky.social You can buy your copy here: www.dahliapublishing.co.uk/product/poems-for-palestine

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

A real joy and honour to read at the launch of Long Poem Magazine at the Barbican Library today. Amongst such poetic luminaries! And at my favourite cultural hangout.📚

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

My latest Substack post - only 7 weeks after the last one! Give it a read. Go on. You know you want to. Link in bio, and here of all places: jpseabright.substack.com/p/more-effin...

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Delighted to be heading to York a month today for the brilliant Rise Up! performing alongside Spencer Wood and the fabulous @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social Come and join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/rise-up-june-tickets-1372556496429?aff=oddtdtcreator

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Delighted to finally receive my contributor copy for this beautiful anthology on Becoming, published by the @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social 🧡 & @panmacmillan.bsky.social Huge thanks to @arachnepress.bsky.social the original publishers of this poem in their Joy//Us anthology. 🧡

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Happy Mother’s Day to most of the rest of the world, and Happy Mothers’ Day in our queer fam. Which also means it’s Happy Book Birthday to MotherFlux, my poetic collaboration with Jem Henderson and Erica Gillingham. One today! 🥳💜

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I love this sitting down ‘action shot’ taken by Kirsty Catherell at the wonderful Enrich Festival two weeks ago. A fantastic event, and a treat to share the stage with @agparker.bsky.social & @rickdove.bsky.social for a cheeky preview of the queer crip erotic poetry of @eff-able.bsky.social 💜

A white-skinned middle-aged female-presenting person wearing blue jeans, pink tshirt and black shirt sitting on a red throne talking into a microphone

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Wonderful to be in this brilliant, exciting, inspiring and much-needed new journal, edited by the equally brilliant and exciting @maxwallis.bsky.social 💜 So many fantastic poets in this, whose work I LOVE, it’s a joy to be amongst them. 🙏🏼 You can get your copy here! www.aftershockreview.com

Purple cover of a soft-back journal called The Aftershock Review, includes list of contributor names on the front

Table of contents inside a poetry journal

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

DISRUPTION! Come and join me for an online workshop on Weds 2nd April (7-9pm GMT) where we’ll explore disruptive and experimental texts that queer poetic form, and which protest, subvert or reject societal norms. Link in my bio and here: www.beyondformcreativewriting.org/current-workshops

A pink square with ripped text running across it and a chaos of books behind, and the words “Rip it up and start again”
Beyond Form Online Workshop
DISRUPTION!
Queering Form
JP Seabright
2nd April, 7-9pm
Poetry Workshop

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Fanks for having me Faversham! And to @jahshabby.bsky.social for making it happen 🙏🏼

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Another late post of a recent publication: A Year of Deep Listening - 365 text scores for Pauline Oliveros came out in January. Never thought I’d be published by @mitpress! A celebration of Oliveros’ life and work, this is a wonderful project and book by the Center for Deep Listening

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

So very late in posting this due to being so very busy for so very long. But so very delighted to have work in this excellent and much-needed anthology. From @listen2yourskin and available for UK readers at www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk/products/take-the-fruit

Book with black cover and image of green snake curled around a red apple and the words Take The Fruit. Resting on a yellow background.

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Birthday Publication! 🥳 High-Rise: Brutalist Poetry Out now from @brokenspinearts.bsky.social A fantastic list of contributors that I’m delighted to be a part of. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DX27Y5Y...

Abstract washes of dark blue, black and gold colour, over the shape of a concrete brutalist style building.

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Blue Monday 💙 Latest blog post: open.substack.com/pub/jpseabri...

Graded blue background with text BLU / R JP Seabright and link to substack blog

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Lovely to receive my contributor copy of @ninearchespress.bsky.social Under the Radar journal today, with my last published poem of the year Dark Horse. Thanks to Jane and @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social for selecting it for this special Sound themed issue.

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Latest blog post, one of those end-of-year this is what I did things. Best avoid with caution. Heartfelt thanks to the editors, publishers, and readers who engaged with my work this year. Thank you for reading me. 🙏🏼💜 jpseabright.substack.com/p/in-which-n...

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Ha! ‘You may be entitled to compensation…’ Or find this newly published anthology of interest:

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Lovely to be in the top three (for the 4th year running!) of Local Poets in the @forestpoets.bsky.social competition. Huge thanks to @paulmcgrane.bsky.social for his brilliant efforts in organising, to Jacqueline Saphra for selecting, & congrats again to Olivia Tuck for her wonderful winning poem!

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This amazing anthology launches this Sunday 15th December. If you’re Stateside and can make it to the ‘reverse service’ do go! Hugely delighted to have work in this brilliant collection, published by @listen2yourskin and out now. www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk/products/take-the-fruit

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

It is indeed a proto-punk glam Tuesday morning, thanks Spotify open.spotify.com/playlist/37i...

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

My latest blog post featuring : a little bit of everything Polari, Perverse, the Apocalypse, @eff-able.bsky.social Prog rock & more jpseabright.substack.com/p/wintering

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Amazing performance of BLUE NOW at the Southbank tonight, honouring the life and work of Derek Jarman, and all those lost to AIDS on this #WorldAIDSDay Directed by Neil Bartlett, read by Travis Alabanza, Jay Bernard, Joelle Taylor and Russell Tovey. 💙

A blue background with the silhouette of a man side-on to the right hand side.

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Found it! In my submission, I described the output of ‘cutting up’ Chris’s book as having ‘a surprisingly accurate yet hallucinogenic overview of Kelso's work’ (I did ask his permission first)

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Black Friday (a poem) open.substack.com/pub/jpseabri...

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Post a picture of yourself to show the newbies what they’re dealing with. #madqueercriplit

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

Out tomorrow! I’m a huge Fran Fan, so to have my poem selected by her for a journal as special as @propelmagazine is such a pinching-myself thrill. 💙 Thanks to Fran Lock, all at Propel (esp Patricia) and @out_spoken_press for this golden moment. 💙

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Delighted to have a poem in this forthcoming anthology from #SundayMorningsAtTheRiver alongside so many brilliant writers, addressing oppression, war and colonialism. Out on 10th February, with all proceeds donated to @MedicalAidPal Medical Aid for Palestine. 🇵🇸

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

Delighted to be reading next Saturday with the fabulous Meryl Pugh, Michael McKimm and Jo Morris Dixon to celebrate the UK book launch of Fragments from Before the Fall. Tickets are free but space is limited🎟️ tinyurl.com/s72fbmdw hosted by the wonderful Library for Change in Leytonstone.

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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

📢Guest Reader Klaxon!💥 Honoured to be a guest reader alongside the wonderful Taz Rahman & Dr Chris Laoutaris for the next issue of Acropolis Journal, with the theme WOUNDS. Submissions will open 1st-14th February 2024 More info here: acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acro…

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