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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · 07/10/2026

What makes a good 'after' or #ekphrastic poem? As week one of submissions to @afterpoetry.com draws to a close – and with almost 40 poems received – @victoriaspires.bsky.social tells us what she's looking for as she helps @markantonyowen.com decide ... bit.ly/4zn1ys7

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A month of afters

Tucking in to some delicious after poetry

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This Friday! Need to get working on my set 😁 Looking forward to it 🥳

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · 02/10/2026

Throughout October, @markantonyowen.com will be assisted and supported by @victoriaspires.bsky.social as they pick their favourite 'after' and #ekphrastic poems from those sent in. Don't miss your chance to appear in @afterpoetry.co.uk in 2027. Polish that poem and go to afterpoetry.com/submit.

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A whole month of Afters ... can't wait! 😍

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🥳 This Thursday! Tomorrow! At The Muse in Notting Hill: maps.app.goo.gl/t7hXd3ZxzDx5...

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🌲My review of @internetofwords.com 's new pamphlet 'Forest Management', is now up on Substack, coupled with an illuminating interview ✨ victoriaspires.substack.com

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reading next week at the launch of the new issue of Slow Burn Poetry. Alongside, amongst others, the excellent @tomnutting.bsky.social , which is very exciting. Come and see us! 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/slow-burn-...?

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🎸 The latest review on my Substack is a strictly one-off special! 🎸 Reviewing @matt-guntrip-music.bsky.social 's album So Long. "The songs are quite complexly-melodic, and his vocal style is soft and unforced." victoriaspires.substack.com

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I so enjoyed writing an endorsement for @pollyoliverwales.bsky.social 's debut collection with @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social – because I got to read it and savour it ❤️

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𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒃 ~ 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 @iamb.uk · 15/09/2026

That time of year again. You close the curtains earlier each evening. You want something warm, nourishing. Wave twenty-seven of @iamb.uk has got you. Make a nest on the sofa, pull the blankets around you, and settle down with 45 poems read by their authors. iamb.uk/index/wave/27

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wave twenty-seven | autumn 2026 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard

Hear the poets of wave 27 of literary poetry journal iamb read their poems for autumn 2026 .

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Catch up with my interview with @fiddes.bsky.social & much more in Dave's latest digest. Lots about performance and page poetry, poetry criticism, by the looks of it... looking forward to getting stuck in

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Paul @paulwritespoems.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

📣***Exciting Announcement***📣 Join me as I host a launch for the new book from @internetofwords.com ‘Forest Management’. With special guest readers @victoriaspires.bsky.social and @ninaparmenter.bsky.social 09.10.26 🎟️ shorturl.at/N1fkS

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Delighted to be part of the poetry support crew for @internetofwords.com at the virtual launch of Forest Management 🥳 Get your ticket & join us on Friday 9th Oct 🥳

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Our #poet of the month on the #SilverBranch project for Sept '26 - L.J. Ireton @literaryvegan.bsky.social 'The sun burns a butter-pearl disc 🌄 in the smoke-silk fog, the trees turn gothic in the veil.' shorturl.at/DMRXC 🔗 #poetry #poetrylovers #imagism

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

📚 New: review of Hotel Petroleum+ interview with @fiddes.bsky.social victoriaspires.substack.com "Poetry can be the wake-up call not to outsource our curiosity and experience but to relish the lucidity of the present moment."

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I was delighted to receive my copy of the Artemesia Arts competition anthology and to have had two poems shortlisted this year, alongside @ella-b-winters.bsky.social , @poetbex.bsky.social and others ☺️ Here's one if the two, In the Hide

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Congratulations @ella-b-winters.bsky.social , a delight to be in the anthology alongside your brilliant poem 🙌🏼

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𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒃 ~ 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 @iamb.uk · 01/09/2026

Meet the poets of wave twenty-seven: Anna Shelton, Benedicta Norell, Chloe Victoria Gorman, Elizabeth Cook, Em Gray, Francesca L Rolle, John Adlam, McLord Selasi Azelekor, Nathaniel Calhoun, Niamh Hollis-Locke, Paul Connolly, Rachel Hosein Nisbet, Rosie Barrett, Simon Maddrell and Tracie Renee.

Promotional poster for wave twenty-seven of online poetry journal iamb. As well as naming all 15 poets set to feature, it has their author photos in black and white. The publication date shown is September 15th 2026.

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Spent some time yesterday at John Clare Cottage, Helpston. victoriaspires.substack.com

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It's been a little while 😅 I'm still a bit hither and thither as it's still the school summer hols, but I do have a mini chapbook out with Shadow & Sax. You can order it directly from them www.shadowandsax.com/product-page... Or if you want a copy sent from within the UK, I'll have some soon ⚙️

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Rube Goldberg Machine by Victoria Spires | Shadow and Sax

Rube Goldberg Machine by Victoria SpiresIn Rube Goldberg Machine, Victoria Spires follows the strange, beautiful ways we try to understand ourselves and each other. These poems move through memory, la...

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Off to spend time with words, they're good company.

Black text on a plain white background, which reads "Taking a break. Back in a bit".

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Here's another round-up of mini reviews from the last few months. Featuring @internetofwords.com , @jlmmorton.bsky.social , @tomsnarsky.bsky.social , Andrew McDonnell, Linda France, Eve Luckring & Iain Sinclair 📚 victoriaspires.substack.com

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"I love Emotional Dance Music because it’s like peering over someone’s shoulder at their texts dissecting the night before." New review of @sleepssundays.bsky.social. victoriaspires.substack.com

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Been enjoying two previous collections by the legendary @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social today 🙌🏼

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Thank you to @janpsolivagant.bsky.social for last weeks stunning stint. For mine this week please use tags #promptcombo #MapPoem and tag me thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @bsky.social. A map poem is using the page as topography. You are making a map of words.

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

A lovely time at Ware Poets on Friday evening for their prize event, including meeting up with the super talented and lovely @karanchambers.bsky.social 🤩

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Looking back @victoriaspires.bsky.social #SilverBranch feature www.blackboughpoetry.com/about-1

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Congratulations to @karanchambers.bsky.social, @helenedemetriades.bsky.social & all the winners and commended poets. I was pleased to be commended for my poem 'Where the waves are green' 🥳

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Lovely news with @corinnaboard.bsky.social 🫶🏼 And congratulations @sophiaargyris.bsky.social @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social @tomnutting.bsky.social & all the other poets I cannot find to tag on here ☺️

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I have three poems from a sequence in the summer issue of Cambridge Review of Books, with thanks to Jacob Burgess Rollo & the team. This is one of them. The whole sequence is responding to the (often unknown) lives of female still life artists.

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Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Great fun launching Hotel Petroleum last night @poetrysociety.org.uk with wondrous readings from @victoriaspires.bsky.social and @betarish.bsky.social

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 03/07/2026

There was @victoriaspires.bsky.social, taking us down various rabbit holes with her fresh and distinctive voice, @betarish.bsky.social with poems that raised smiles and won the room, and of course, @fiddes.bsky.social, whose poetry just undoes me with its brilliant imagery and perfectly hewn lines.

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 02/07/2026

On my way to that London for the launch of @fiddes.bsky.social's @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social collection, 'Hotel Petroleum' at The Poetry Café in Covent Garden. He's being joined by @betarish.bsky.social and @victoriaspires.bsky.social. Good luck to you all, guys! x #poetry #poetryreadings

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Thanks very much @markantonyowen.com for posting these poems, which I hadn't got around to sharing here yet. I was very pleased to work with the Orb editorial team to get them sharpened up ready for publication ✨

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Come through.

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Come along! Still a few free tickets available. Thursday 2nd July at the Poetry Cafe.

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