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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

C’mon #queerart let’s fund a bunch of queers making poetry in a crypt! London’s only neuroqueer generative poetry festival with 5 nights of open mic comes back to The Crypt Gallery under St Pancras Chruch in October as part of the Bloomsbury Festival. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fund-our-q...

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FUND OUR QUEER POETRY FESTIVAL IN A CRYPT

A 5 day festival of Experimental Queer poetry in a Victorian Crypt in London. A world premiere by Neil Bartlett. Lets Make It Weird.

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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

A year ago I started following @havehashad.com I could never HAVE predicted this would ever happen. HAS anyone got time for a poetry game? HAD I known I’d be posting this a year ago I would have told myself to shut up. (Express train to heaven mixed media text on blue sky 2026)

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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Why he no one heard about HOLD SPACE POETRY FESTIVAL? 7 nights during holy week 14 neurodivergent queer poets lived & worked in a crypt in London. sober. free. unfunded. hold space continues this summer in hackney wick. free entry. come as you are. www.outsavvy.com/event/35285/... #holdspace

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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Poems for Lent (Day 21) • Mary Oliver •

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Jane Hirshfield

THE DARK HOUR

The dark hour came
in the night and purred by my ear.
Outside, in rain,
the plush of the mosses stood higher.
Hour without end, without measure.
It opens the window and calls its own name in.

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Rick Barot ♥️ A beautiful reminder of what poetry can do.

During the pandemic, I had days when I felt I was by myself on a shore drained of the tide, dragging a stick across miles of wet sand. There were also days when I was a boy again, sliding down a snowy hill on a flattened cardboard box. And there were days when I remembered the teacher who made us memorize a poem each week, and when we asked why, she said we might one day find ourselves in a wreck at the side of the road and we would recite these poems to stay alive.

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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

the reason you should start a poetry podcast is you get to meet your poetry heroes - so pleased to make a show with the incredible Kiik Akari-Kawaguchi buy his incredible poetry book disintegration made plain and easy via @pizamapress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1cy8...

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HOW TO MAKE POEMS THAT DISINTEGRATE

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Praxis Studios @praxis-studios.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I recently had the privilege of talking to @nolsnathankski.bsky.social on the his podcast, and the episode is live now! Follow the link below to hear us discuss my book, outsider art, cooking, feet (that's metrical feet), and even improvise some new poems. open.spotify.com/episode/2fTO...

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HOW TO MAKE VEGAN GOTH POETRY AT THE END OF THE WORLD

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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

lol my picture was stolen from a group show and now they organisers are ghosting me

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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

really looking forward to tony in conversation at bárd books in august.

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Transtifa @syyyyyyyyy.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Why would anyone want to read a book nobody wanted to write?

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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

i mean i hate the late capitalism as much as the next queer but having a poetry book arrive thousands of miles into your little london post box in 4 days is wild. thank you @asterismbooks.bsky.social 🫴✨🦋

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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Orbit open mic blew open my soul windows last night. Felt like weeping with joy this morning 🫰

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Outsider Art @outsiderart.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Linda DiLeva #folkart

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

"God sent an angel. One of his least qualified, though." Quite a stretch of poems for #PoemADayJuly — and today's is no different, with "I’m not a religious person but" by Chen Chen A poem is a conversation between the text and the reader. Let's listen. @thevogelman.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com

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full text of "I’m not a religious person but" by Chen Chen

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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

people need to stop writing books about my life innit

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small poems @small-poems.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Linda Gregg

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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

. From 'Poetry' magazine (1967) —W.S. Merwin #poetry #poem #booksky

HOW WE ARE SPARED

At midsummer before dawn an orange light returns
to the mountains
Like a great weight and the small birds cry out
And bear it up

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

There is air inside a shark to live Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi (@pizamapress.bsky.social)

this is loneliness

Since I could remember water
I’ve had a fear of a shark attacking me
One fear is the shark eats everything
Contained in my pants
And becomes either too full
Or sickened to finish
And I must drag myself
Like a red marker
To a teenage lifeguard
The other fear is I am consumed
Like the head of a corndog
And am forced to discover
There is air inside a shark to live
As a teenager the superpower
I always wanted was teleportation
It seemed to me the ability to teleport
Meant I would never
Have to be alone with my thoughts
This is loneliness my elevator
Carries me 444 years below the ice
I teleport to where
I can meet any celebrity I want
They all hate me

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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

not me spending $20 on UPS because of this description 🤭 also the @tomsnarsky.bsky.social post sealed the deal.

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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

can confirm the new lorde record is a good soundtrack to a visit to the clap clinic

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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

the salma amrou poem “full moon on suicide watch” in @rattlepoetry.bsky.social today shook me to my core - 🤯

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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

got taken by a cutie to Adam & Yves @barbican.bsky.social and can confirm queer frivolity ensued i needed more gay porn growing up

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Alden Van Buskirk

Last will and

If I die in sleep it will be in a convulsion whose "terror"
and "beauty" proved irresistible at last. I rise, the
quivering bud afraid to blossom.
It comes out of dreams where music,
color and objects interchange
but for their continual flame. It is within this flame-
flower I am drawn up sweating half awake and
horizontal. Spine arches in short
spasms. I see nothing above.
Darkness everywhere or are my eyes gone out.
Before now: I gave in to life and awoke
trembling — a coward.
But every time more rigid,
every time more pull, I
hurt with desire to
explode and vow no more retreats.
God wants to fuck me too,
and death will be my final lover.
I give her all.

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Dave this is all true
Recall N.Y.C. Xmas last, one night alone

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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

got rejected by Propel Magazine but did a get a facial this morning so the universe do be like that

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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

things i’ve been called recently - selfish, indulgent, cute, an empathetic soul, emotionally immature, daddy, mate, bro, sir.

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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

i spent £500 on a poetry course 😉

i wanted to tell my mum
if i’m not a poet i will hang myself!
but instead she gave me a couple of grand! 🙏

parents - some buy us to see if we will forgive them/🤭
pocket money to keep us there
i guess /🫴✨
poets need to be spoon fed - 😋
silver / gold / plastic / bent.
where are the mothers of the lost/kids under bridges
do their spirits keep them in cardboard-soggy sleeping-bag-caresses
sucking green glass teats 6-4-£5🤪
smoking to the butt - formula from a fostered bottle
survival served in pyjamas they had no right to choose
what can you become / when no one gets to name you
why isn’t it the first thing we make
(for ourselves)
there would be a lot more kids called BLUEY!
i’m here for it 😎
but no kids for me pweeze
i still weep for the 🐈
“nols is dissapointed easily, most jobs eagerly started are left unfinished.”
ain’t that what most parents pray for?
the hoping, the going first / the never knowing
we put everything we love in boxes in the end

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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Lent poetry performances 3rd March - Sweet sundays 5th March - testing grounds 9th March - The Jago solidarity open mic 12th march - morrocco bound books 15th march - words scarlets letters poetry 16th march - wordspacepoems workshop 19th march - Yer Bard 20th march - verbal discharge

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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

me getting a sound bath while in the bath 🫴💦🫀

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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

i found a non binary jeweller to turn my wisdom teeth into cuff links 😎

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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

got accepted on the @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social spring poetry course ❤️‍🔥 🫴 my favourite press and such an incredible line up of poet facilitators maybe it is the lunar eclipse but feeling all the feels 💜

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small poems @small-poems.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Theory, by Franz Wright #poetry

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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

i keep forgetting about the lunar eclipses and then i’m like NOLS STOP MANIFESTING 🫴💀

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⚷ @birdheartedgirl.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

if you are quiet and a bit too kind if you read too much and see art and grace in almost everything if you plant flowers and feed the deer get lost in the sky and love the sound of rain, or maybe you wander like a river while others only want to walk straight just know this— i'll always love you 🍃

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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

poetry workshop followed by top surgery cabaret i am so blessed 🫴🫀

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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

my love language is quickly drawing their portrait and posting it without context on social media

chalk pastel automatic portrait on fabriano paper by nols nathankski

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Nols Nathankski @nolsnathankski.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

@kevinatwater.bsky.social Achilles record is absolute chills. rarely is the youth experience so beautifully described

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Recovery, sculpture carved from applewood c.1959 at Netherne Hospital, by an individual who was compelled to live there, whose identity is currently unknown to us. Art therapist Edward Adamson obtained special permission for this person to use tools & work in a summerhouse in the hospital grounds

Black and white photo of a tall carved wooden sculpture of a slender bald humanoid figure seen from the side, their shadow cast on the wall in front by strong bright spring sunlight, to their left, another abstract organic wood sculpture, the arrangement giving an impression of the figure looking at exhibits in a gallery

Black and white photo of a pale slender sculpture of a bald humanoid form with beautiful expression standing in a gallery, bathed in bright gentle spring sunshine

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