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Oliver Fox

@oliverfox.bsky.social

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Poems, mostly. Buy my pamphlet, Haptics, via Broken Sleep Books

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Oliver Fox @oliverfox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

poetrysociety.org.uk/the-politics... I highly recommend Holly Pester’s essay on this!

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Oliver Fox @oliverfox.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I’m going to be reading in Reading!! This Friday!!! If you happen to be in Reading!!!!!!

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Show 4 of #LineBreaks now online with poems from @gillshawwrites.bsky.social @oliverfox.bsky.social @niaandthepoems.bsky.social @wendycaitlin.bsky.social & more With #annakibbey & @galiamelon.bsky.social on.soundcloud.com/zRYoLYROmi3L...

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Line Breaks w/ Anna Kibbey, Sarah O’Connor, Galia Admoni - 28 Jul 26

A lyrical hour of fresh readings, uplifting tunes and poetry chat, featuring voices from London and the UK. May contain sonnets.

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Oliver Fox @oliverfox.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

But also I don’t have a good answer or solution to any of this beyond advocating for poetry as a foundational art form that drives and shapes wider culture and so is deserving of funding and subsidy

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Oliver Fox @oliverfox.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

achievements of something really costly in another art form are more likely to be immediately obvious. It’s hard for a poem to ‘look’ expensive like a play or a video game.

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Oliver Fox @oliverfox.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

This then floods the market because anybody can write and publish literally anything in seconds, but also creates a sense that poetry is inherently cheap, which isn’t great if you are devoting significant time and care into trying to write really good work. Doubly so because the technical

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Oliver Fox @oliverfox.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Good thread! It’s something I’ve def thought about too and I think the unique challenge with poetry is that the barrier to entry is basically 0 cost compared to those other art forms. Even to make a bad play, video game, or painting, requires significant money, time and effort. So for poems

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 25/04/2025

Oliver Fox is the winner of the Free Verse Prize 2025 for his poem 'The Volunteers'.

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Oliver Fox @oliverfox.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Pagey B’s

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Oliver Fox @oliverfox.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Idk if I’m in one of these starter packs or what but influx of new followers so here’s the greatest poem anyone has ever written, The Butcher’s Story by Mary Ruefle, which I think is in the collection Dunce and her Selected Porms

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Genuinely do not want to be sanctimonious but the feeling of writing so far exceeds the feeling of publishing/“being a writer” that I can’t wrap my head around bypassing the former via AI. Don’t you want to wander through the day muttering syllables to yourself and laughing at the sun’s jokes etc?

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I promise you this: no poem will ever make me appreciate the beauty of nature. Don’t care, not going to contemplate it, I’m going to keep looking at my phone where the content is

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Oliver Fox @oliverfox.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Hiya Ella!

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Oliver Fox @oliverfox.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Poetry twitter is suddenly back! This is nice.

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