Karan Chambers
@karanchambers.bsky.social
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Order my pamphlet ‘woman | folk’ from @SaloPress now! Highly Commended Cheltenham Comp ‘23. Poems: The London Mag, Under the Radar, Butcher’s Dog, Gutter, Mslexia, Propel.
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Poster advertising the launch of my @SaloPress pamphlet ‘woman | folk’. The central image is a teal, purple, and beige design of a woman holding an infant surrounded by Celtic knotwork. Details of the launch are included on the poster and can be found in the Eventbrite link in my bio.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fe7z4f7xmvxhwzts6fxq5kgu/bafkreidkmoeej33axkwpyg7jmuwlq5hgjh226j754s3fo7q2jdqjzbexty)
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A photo of a stack of books on a wooden tabletop with a white wall in the background. The books, from top to bottom are:
Verity Spott, Hopelessness
Alycia Pirmohamed, Another Way to Split Water
The Forward Book of Poetry 2025
Jade Cuttle, Antonia Taylor, Laura Varnam, Primers: Volume Seven
Ruth Padel, Girl
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Twelve Words for Moss
Jessica Traynor, Pit Lullabies
Laynie Browne, Everyone and Her Resemblances ]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fe7z4f7xmvxhwzts6fxq5kgu/bafkreicycdup4qylyqywmswodvklvc6zk7qgixdtyeh7oappayz4cucv3u)
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A promotional poster for the Runnymede International Literary Festival taking place one Saturday 15th March in Senate House Room 104. The poster includes the names of the performers: Karenjit Sandhu, Robert Hampson and Joanna Levi, Jeff Hilson, Redell Olsen, Amy Evans Bauer, Cat Chong, plus new writing from the Poetry and Poetic Practice MA Pathways. There are two images: one with a neon green filter on a picture of a hand holding a butterfly and the other of a close up butterfly with geometric stripes of pink and grey. ]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fe7z4f7xmvxhwzts6fxq5kgu/bafkreid6r6drukza4ycacf4wu7hg2u6oqqp5cricqztkomuttfpmx7tokm)
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A photo of page 22 from my pamphlet ‘woman | folk’ laid on a hessian cloth with a white lace border on the left hand. The poem text reads:
woman: free
here at the edges you
wait ocean reaching
for the shore spray turning
skin to salt & glitter
one day you dip a toe
in sirensong & it feels
so good next day
you lower your whole self
naked into stinging
surf & marvel at the way
it holds you the way no one
ever has marvel
at the way water is
a soft question pebbled into dark
the way your own body
has always been
the answer ]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fe7z4f7xmvxhwzts6fxq5kgu/bafkreie2gq2n5ykj7bpktmnp2xp4vdw2gg2tzs5cndnueh42m2ftsf43aq)
