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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Update: I discovered ✨CAConrad✨ and life will never be the same again.

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Poet of the Week 💙 CAConrad

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

suffering from writer's block! Help help help. I've covered pages and pages of my notebook in utter nonsense. Getting nowhere!

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

According to my husband I definitely channel domestic goddess vibes, but it's less Nigella Lawson and more goddess of PRIMAL CHAOS.

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon trans. Don Mee Choi.. Mind-blowing and gut-wrenching. On the second read through I'm realising also stubbornly resists sense. A Korean Book of the Dead. A shamanic voice that lifts away from the personal into the collective, surreal, nightmare-state. Incredible.

A copy of Autobiography of Death by Kim Hyesoon is balanced on my maroon-legginged knees. The front cover reads: /wear a coat woven with water's hair/ a I crouch and cover my face// let's be slant together/ after I jump off/ it'll be your turn to jump... Translated by Don Mee Choi

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ancient Algorithms by Katrine Øgaard Jensen et al., by @sarabandebooks.bsky.social . A handbook and exemplar of creative "mis"translation: sometimes the "rules" used to translate are as creative as the poems themselves: "...cut away everything...that doesn't sound metal."

Ancient Algorithms by Katrine Øgaard Jensen with others including Ursula Andkjær Olsen, Sawako Nakayasu, Aditi Machado, Paul Cunningham, Baba Badji and CAConrad... a green paperback on a bedside table next to a small ceramic dish. My bare foot in the background

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Reading After Image by Jenny George published by @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social. On loss, grief, death, love, and hence the underworld. Moves effortlessly between nature, philosophy, emotion: "Now the birds are our marriage./ I put the seeds out/ every morning/ on a white plate."

A copy of After Image by Jenny George on a floral bed cover. The book cover has a Rothko-esque image by artist Yamamoto Masao, featuring two numinous black areas almost touching, with what looks like a sea or lake in between them, and some small figures and maybe a ship or island.

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Reading Plastic by @matthew-rice.bsky.social on our road trip. Reads like a novel - it has characters so real they jump off the page. Why is it so innovative to write about one's work? Revolutionary to write about plastic beads and latches, and the slow death of a night shift? But it is.

A copy of Plastic by Matthew Rice held up against the dash of a car. Ahead is the open road and a hot, dry open landscape

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Shopping for books to take on holiday. Considerations: does the poetry surprise / delight me? Is the book less than a tenner? Is there a gender balance? Are there enough poems /words in the book 0to make it worth the outlay? Will it fit in my suitcase?

A stack of books on a cafe table. Includes 6 poetry books and one fiction book: The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Savouring this.... Midden Witch by Fiona Benson. It's the POV shift that makes the witch poems so original: from the viewpoint of the villagers persecuting the witches, the violence takes on a brutal enthusiasm, bringing body to the forefront and somehow evoking deeper tenderness.

A copy of Midden Witch by Fiona Benson. Black cover hosts a swollen bottle of something resembling worms writhing within its glowing fluid interior

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

First book of the summer: Mer De Glace by Malgorzata Lebda a @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social edition, so nice to hold and look at.

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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

猶みたし花に明行神の顔 Nao mitashi hana ni ake yuku kami no kao all the more I wish to see in those blossoms at dawn the face of a god 🌸🌿 #poem Basho #haiku #micropoem Translation: Makoto Ueda #art Brian Davis #resist

Basho spoke of cherry blossom:
desert gods speak in
singular resplendence—cactus flower

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rareone777.bsky.social @rareone777.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Poetry for these times.

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Turning all the alarms off on my watch. Winding down the stress levels. Activating summer mode.

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Spent half of last night finishing "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. My face wet with tears, heart physically hurting. I haven't read a book that came close to it since "Birdsong" by Sebastian Faulks. The horror of war is warmed by so much humanity that you can't be numb. Masterful

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Student trying to communicate with me via his AAC device... "Girl fish." After much confusion and worrying he was being inappropriate we realised he meant "mermaid".

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Hotch Potch 5.1 is out, and I have a full-length story in it! www.hotchpotchliteratureandart.com/issues. The story is titled "Labyrinth".

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Hotch Potch Literature & Art - Issues

Issues: current and past

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Maybe there should be separate coffee shops for people who want to think and people who want to talk.

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Current main pleasures in life: saunas, hot chocolate, enjoying Diana Wynne Jones' Howl's Moving Castle (and sequels) with my youngest.

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I have just realised that peppermint tea, under some circumstances including a slight cold, smells like pepper!

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

My 7-year-old: "What's the point of a pencil?" Turned out he was being serious. "Why don't we just use a computer?"

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Poetry reading @hotnumbers.bsky.social went ok. The vibe was great, a mix of ages and a wide variety of styles.

Middle aged poet Hannah Floyd at a reading. Location is a hipster cafe with art on the walls. She wears a red shirt and black jeans. She has one hand in her pocket.

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Feeling oddly nervous about Thursday: my first booked-in-advance open mic since before COVID. Not sure I have the wardrobe for this.

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Didn't know that there may have been a pre-Christian belief in a "chthonic otherworld"... this book "Twilight of the Godlings" a fascinating cauldron of information @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social

A hardback copy of Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain's Supernatural Beings by Francis Young. The cover has a faint picture of a woman's face with ringlets, a long flowing gown, and a kind of foliage crowning and surrounding her head: it is perhaps part of a stone sculpture. I am holding the book in the dentist's waiting room.

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Like Defying Gravity: Me chatting to Gail Schwartz, editor of Hotch Potch Literature and Art, about leaps of faith: substack.com/@hotchpotchl...

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Like Defying Gravity

Hannah Floyd and the Inherited Leap of Uprooting

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anne carson bot @annecarsonbot.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

God had the book of life open at PLEASURE and was holding the pages down in one hand because of the wind from the door. For I made their flesh as a sieve wrote God at the top of the page and then listed in order: Alcohol Blood Gratitude Memory Semen Song Tears Time.

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

“There’s always a next right thing to do.”

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The stories are great but y'all need to see those storytelling artworks. No paywall.

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Reading @victoriachang.bsky.social in the small hours, soaking it up. Maybe if I soak it up I could write like this. Poems that make you say "oh my god". & tell such truthful lies. "I have cut eight lines off this poem for no/ other reason except that they were lies. Perhaps all lines/ are lies."

A page showing an illustration from Victoria Chang's book "with my back to the world". It shows a faintly printed poem which has been scribbled on with rounded fake writing using a calligraphy pen. The scribble has lines and a title. Above the book in the picture are two charging cables which cross each other.

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Reading (for the second time) @victoriachang.bsky.social 's "With My Back to the World". I love the way these poems inhabit the artworks they describe. But I also love the moments of distance: "I realized that I needed to/ return on a day when I too could rope off my sadness."

A hardback copy of Victoria Chang's "With My Back to the World" sits on my knees and is propped up by the little table in front of my seat on the train. Also on the table: a brown bag with the remains of my dinner, and a glass water bottle.

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Unbelievably, I have had a second drabble published in: www.hotchpotchliteratureandart.com. This time last year, I didn't know what a drabble was. Apparently, a drabble is a very short fiction, 100 words or so. Like a dribble. Hopefully not drivel.

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Hotch Potch Literature & Art

Volume 4, Issue 2

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Current read: Monster by @dzifabenson.bsky.social . It's phenomenal. It's like attending a stunning multimedia exhibition - but it's a poetry book.

Monster by Dzifa Benson on a coffee table with a stylish earthenware teapot and a chunky mug

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Pleased (and relieved) that one of the many poems I wrote based on the Epic of Gilgamesh has been published!! So excited to be in the first issue of Glasgow-based SEXTET magazine in conjunction with @sixfootgallery.bsky.social : sextet.co.uk/hannah-floyd

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Hannah Floyd – SEXTET

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

It's not even October yet and somehow my class have eaten all 5 of my whiteboard markers. 👍 Special ed.

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Excited to have another drabble coming out in the next issue of @hotchpotchliterary.bsky.social! A sneak preview of the cool genre-bending artworks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=enDU...

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Coming Soon! HP 4.2 - A New Issue!

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Amazing 😍 night out at @cambridgejunction.bsky.social seeing @jayahadadream.bsky.social and Lowkey (Kareem Dennis). Words are not just for nerds!! Restoring faith in humanity.

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Day 7: Prelude to Bruise by @theferocity.bsky.social . "The dress is an oil slick. The dress/ ruins everything." Sexy, slick lines and commitment to personal story, all of it gay, all so hot I don't get a dull moment to figure out the pitch perfect techniques.

Front cover of Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones. Bottom third of the cover has a silhoutte image of 8 people bathing in a lake. The atmosphere is balmy, sunset.

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Day 6: When God Is a Traveller by Arundhati Subramaniam. After yesterday's tough reading this book was refreshingly lightweight. No bad thing - there was even some humour. My favourite poem was "Bhakti": the suggestion was to put God in a hip flask to "keep it illicit".

A copy of the book When God is a Traveller by Arundhati Subramaniam lying on a bedsheet. The picture on the cover is artwork by the same name: a lush picture of a peacock and an archer slaying a stag appearing from behind some foliage

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Day 5: Gathering of Bastards by Romeo Oriogun. It's solid and powerful. Each is a travel poem but it's not "travel": it's exile. He grieves for home, and for the dead, killed by colonialism. "your language is extinct, /a dead thing wandering at the boundary of darkness; you must/ hold it and shout".

Front cover of Gathering of Bastards by Romeo Oriogun. The cover is at an angle so the picture is distorted: it shows the torsos of two young Black men standing back to back. The one behind is screaming. The one facing us has his mouth taped shut.

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Day 4: "Blade By Blade" by @danushalameris.bsky.social. These poems show a bright, painful love of life, and each tells a story: "Many things are inherited./ Whole histories, for example - and the long paths walked in the heat, /in the dead of night -away from them."

A copy of "Blade By Blade" by Danusha Laméris sitting on a table diagonally, in front of a board game on a white tablecloth. The board game is Dune. The book has a dark blue cover and against the blue background there is a magnified close up of a grass blade (or something similar) showing its tiny spurs.

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I didn't realise this was a book of essays till I unwrapped it. But I devoured this book. It explores the lives of several West Coast US poets and digs up gold. for me it lit up the question not of "how good" a poem is but why write poetry? How to live & practice? And how to use poetry for change?

Front cover of Guard The Mysteries by Cedar Sigo. My finger on it, pressing down.

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The End of Everything and Everything that Came After That by Nick Lantz. My favourite poem ended up being the first poem "Ruin". It takes huge strides between continents, stanzas, ideas. "Everyone// has a burning building inside them. (Maybe / just a dollhouse /smoking from its dormers."

Copy of The End of Everything and Everything that comes after that by Nick Lantz. Propped open on a table, with a vase and a water bottle. And a handful of acorns

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Gephyromania by TC Tolbert was a great way to kick off the challenge. Muscular, fun and passionate. Plays with grammar and preconceptions: "Because letting you go/is a trip to the mailbox. And to think of you/ near is to prepare a picnic by slitting the paper bag..."

A copy of Gephyromania by TC Tolbert sticking out of a green Radley handbag

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Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

A friend recommended this: It's an encouragement to read poetry in book format. I've ordered a few books off their list, or at least the ones I could find on this side of the pond anyway, and the rest of August is looking good! www.thesealeychallenge.com

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the sealey challenge

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