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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

We're having a sale at thebraag.co/shop, with up to 50% off a whole BUNCH of our titles, including work by @timothyfox.bsky.social, @sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social @sarahkat.bsky.social Kirsten Luckins, Nina Murray, & Anthony Cartwright ✨ 💚 Sale ends February 10th 💚

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perversemag @perversemag.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

The first poem in PERVERSE 9D is 'Merlin' by Sarah Westcott (@sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social). Read all five poems in this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9d

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Chrissy Williams @chrissywilliams.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

BACK ON MONDAY!

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🧵 In 2025, book censorship in the United States is rampant and common. Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country. Read our new report "The Normalization of Book Banning" at: pen.org/report/the-n...

Graphic for PEN America report titled 'Banned in the USA: The Normalization of Book Bans'. Features a stack of colorful books in front of a blackboard with '22,810 books banned in U.S. public schools, 2021-2025' written in chalk.

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Bad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

It's National Poetry Day! We have a new issue coming out later this month but in the meantime, enjoy our last one: badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-1

badlilies.uk

Issue twenty-one — Bad Lilies

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Bad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

A reminder that Bad Lilies is currently OPEN for submissions. Our next issue will be in October and we are looking for poems both for that and for issues into 2026! badlilies.uk/submit

badlilies.uk

Submission FAQ — Bad Lilies

Guidelines to submit to Bad Lilies

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Finished Creatures Poetry Magazine @finishedpoetry.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Submissions are now open for issue nine. The theme is Trespass: rights and wrongs; encroachment and colonisation; faults and forgiveness. Please see the website (link in bio) for information and guidelines. Window closes August 31st. 🕊 xx

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

"A poem found the girl one day. The field found the girl. One day she found a new field. In the first field some children are playing." #TodaysPoem #poetry The field by @sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social (2025 @badlilies.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/4hf4xa7m

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Sarah Westcott — Bad Lilies

Two poems by Sarah Westcott

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Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Hey, we're looking for UK poetry and fiction writers for our submissions open period which closes at the end of the month! We pay royalties on books, stock with indie bookshops, and work with u extensively on your manuscript. Could you please share this to help get the word out?

The Braag (thebraag.co) will be open for submissions of poetry, prose and micro-chapbooks June 15th - July 31st

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Hastings Writers Workshop @hastingswrites.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Poetry & The Ecologies of Serious Noticing with the fantastic @sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social is now available to book! This Saturday, 12th July 10am-1pm £49 Two reduced price places available for those on a low income. www.hastingswritersworkshop.com/courses/p/po...

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Sarah Westcott @sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Kym and all at The Braag are a dream to work with 🖤🦇- If you have something ready send it their way

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Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

MY PRESS IS OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS. WE PAY YOU. WE'RE WEIRD. thebraag.co/the-press/

the braag opens for poetry and prose subs june 15th - july 31st

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Sarah Westcott @sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Time for an annual stag beetle picture - found this fellow in an underpass this morning in danger of being trodden on. Bit cobwebby- I put him under some damp trees. Seven years to reach this ancient form 🖤

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Sarah Westcott @sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

This is a lovely series to be part of - come and join us - we may even write on the beach :)

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Hastings Writers Workshop @hastingswrites.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

We're thrilled to announce our first summer masterclasses! Featuring @catwrote.bsky.social on character, @rubycowling.bsky.social on the short story, sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social‬ on poetry & Emma Petfield on promoting yourself & your writing! More info: www.hastingswritersworkshop.com/courses

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Sarah Westcott @sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Male swollen thigh beetle visiting a dog rose flower 🌸

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Pavilion Poetry @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Just one month to go until our Pavilion Poetry launch event! ☁️📖 Join us for an unforgettable evening with the brilliant Theresa Muñoz, Sarah Corbett, and Olivia McCannon. Tickets are FREE - grab yours now via the link below: bit.ly/PavilionLaun... 📚 #PavilionPoetry #PoetryCommunity #BookLaunch

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

There’s “leaving early to beat the rush” and then there’s this swift.

A screenshot of a report from BirdGuides, where people can send in reports of birds they’ve seen.
Common Swift
Apus apus
Location: Grade, Lizard, Cornwall
Reported: Today 15:13
Seen: Today 15:05
Details: one over A3083

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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

🦇Join our FREE online workshop 'Discover Your Local Bats'! On 20 March 2025, 6.30pm - 8.00pm. You will learn about: Bats and how they are monitored How to find bats in YOUR local area How to take part in our beginner-friendly Sunset Survey Booking required: buytickets.at/bctevents/16...

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Last few days for our current special offer: any 3 Longbarrow hardbacks for £32. Offer includes collections by Steve Ely, Angelina D'Roza, Rob Hindle, Peter Riley, Nancy Gaffield, Mark Goodwin, Matthew Clegg, Fay Musselwhite, Chris Jones, and more longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, arranged diagonally, spines facing outwards.

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Sarah Westcott @sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Spring swans and spawn (a palate cleanser) 💚🌱

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Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

New issue of The Marrow is out (don’t think they’re on here). Excellent pieces from poetry friends @rcurzon.bsky.social, @sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social and @janezwart.bsky.social

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Issue Three Contents — The Marrow International Poetry

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Rebecca McMackin @rebeccalovesplants.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Remember a few years ago when we found out that some moths emit ultrasonic clicks to jam bat sonar? Then recently we heard that some plants make ultrasonic clicks when dehydrated? Well now researchers have found that some moths HEAR those plant clicks and use them to decide where to lay eggs. 🪲🧪🌿🌎

nytimes.com

When They Hear Plants Crying, Moths Make a Decision

A new study suggests that the insects rely on the sounds made by distressed vegetation to guide important reproductive choices.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 29/11/2024

Cove Park awards residencies for writers and artists every year and you can also self fund. I’ve lusted after one of their cabins for years. Beautiful. Take a look. Please share.

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Residencies

Cove Park’s Awarded and Open residencies support research, creative development, and the production of new work. We welcome national and international artists, creative practitioners, and researchers ...

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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Hi folks! We have just 7 copies of Unfurl left and 10 copies of @sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social 's Pond left! I won't be doing a reprint this side of Christmas, so if you'd like one now's the time. thebraag.co?page_id=533

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Caroline Bird @carolinebirduk.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

‘until the town becomes a cinema’ from John Burnside’s last book, ‘Ruin, Blossom’

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Jean Atkin @jmatkin.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I'm really thrilled and so proud to win this competition alongside wonderful poets @sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social and Will Kemp. Thank you Maria Isakova Bennett and the beautifully hand-stitched Coast to Coast to Coast. Congratulations to all Highly Commended and Commended poets!

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Tanya Shadrick @tanyashadrick.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Like my mentor #DavidNash, I make work with long timespans: It’s also the art I’m most drawn to… If that speaks to you too, here’s a starter pack of others engaged in serious noticing - through repetition, return, time series & other forms of slow art… go.bsky.app/V6j8hdS

Join the conversation - slow art: artists who work with time and repetition. A Bluesky starter pack created by artist and author Tanya Shadrick

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Em Gray @em-words.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Much in this 'little soul' of a #poem www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

A screen shot from The Poetry Foundation's website of Jane Hirshfield's poem 'Harness', that reads:

Little soul,
you and I will become

the memory
of a memory of a memory.

A horse
released of the traces
forgets the weight of the wagon.

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Hannah Copley @hannahcopley.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Prepping for eco workshops with these 💚. Not incl. the many single poems I’ll be 🔗 to. Work by @asimk.bsky.social @sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social Wayne Price, Janette Ayachi & Isabel Galleymore 🩵 Send me more poems please, esp on deeeeep time, hyperobjects & despair 🙏

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

All I want for Christmas, is Coooooo #pigeonSky 🪶

A pied black feral pigeon standing on a window sill outside, with snow coveringvthe ground visible behind him

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Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Hey folks, if you like gorgeous, weird literature on a small scale maybe give @thebraag.bsky.social a follow! We've been pretty reliant on twitter for sales and views, but it'd be great for that to not be the case!

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Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 07/02/2024

Alexander the Great is gay???? 🤯🤯 well. anyway. here's my poetry book with queer alexander the great, furious mermaids, and an interlude where i take πολυτρόπως to mean Odysseus plays for both teams.

Alexandros, or
Dramatis Personae

ALEXANDER - prettyboy, wine-drunk, divine. His father’s son
[whoever that is].
THESSALONIKE - the mermaid with very, very sharp teeth.
Her grief, pure as a mirror.
CALLISTHENES - nephew of Aristotle, court historian,
I’m sure he’s just fine!!
FATHERS (PLURAL) - Freud is going to have something
to say about this.
MOTHER - when Alexander conquered the world
his last (unfinished) desire was to see Olympia again.

HEPHAESTION - the only thing that ever conquered Alexander
[other than wine / temper / his 33rd year]

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

"Visionary, urgent ... truly extraordinary blendings of environmental and social history. It swept me along." - Mark Wormald on 'Eely' Out now: Steve Ely's 'Eely'. Includes 'The European Eel' (now out of print) and 3 sections / 100 pages of new material. longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Order any Longbarrow Press hardback and you'll receive a free copy of our 2024 mini-anthology Winter Songs (while stocks last) longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

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Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

oh chicago rat hole, you will always be famous to me

Poem in the shape of the chicago rat hole that reads

A group of rats is a mischief
After the Chicago Rat Hole baybee

you
rat, you
chicago rat, chi
c a g o rat hole of rats
ra t’s rats, whole rats, con
crete rats, accident of tim
e rat, a rat’s ti me is two
year’s or so, they have
many children and rich
social lives, rats are
capable of jealousy, ra
ts become more resilient
when they drive tiny cars, a
happy rat bruxes, a rat is capa
ble of the most resplendent joy, d
omestic rats grieve their cage mate
s, rats have been known to chew thro
o u g h concrete, to live happily in walls, to j u d i
ciously leave sinking ships, to undergo awful t
ragedies, rats which become entangled by their
tails are called rat kings, but the country of rats
is a republic, reached only through scurrying, i
t does not belong to a map but inside
the domed
rodent ey
e which
owns
all it
sees.

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