I know I've been quiet
I feel like every time I try to write a poem I end up writing this one again
@emmathetanner.bsky.social
Writer, Poet and Professional nuisance. Winner of the 18+ Brighton Peacock Poetry Prize 2016. MA Grad. She/Her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ All views are my own
I know I've been quiet
I feel like every time I try to write a poem I end up writing this one again
TWO BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS!!
1 - I am performing at Sonder in Salisbury this Thursday at 7pm with the wonderful Close Poetry
2 - I wil be IN PRINT for the first time!! I am in the 4th issue of Motherlore magazine, which is available for preorder now! Go get it
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Of all the poems I've written lately, it's this one that haunts me - as does the painting and novel that inspired it
The Ladder [to Aktion T4] open.substack.com/pub/emmathet...
Just saw a post that said "why am I scrolling? what am I looking for?" and I think it's rewired my brain
18.05.2025 16:10 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Reminder that I got another poem going up on my Substack this afternoon ๐
18.05.2025 11:14 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0So I'm posting a poem from my Vanner Gallery set every week of May on Sunday!
I'm trying something new where I add additional context and inspirations below the poem so that you can explore it further, or even get inspired by similar concepts - give it a go!
as a reminder - I will be performing at the Vanner Gallery in Salisbury this THURSDAY!
A unique set made just for this exhibtion. Don't miss it
'There are so few of us left': Even full-time games journalists at big websites are feeling it in 2025:
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You can buy tickets right here and also see my face in alarmingly good quality
(I should get real headshots....)
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I'm going to be performing at the Vanner Gallery on April 24th!! Come along, say hi and celebrate new artists and new poetry collectives!
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I've just finished Dead Letter Dept. and I'm going to need a Jacob Geller essay and/or a Something Rotten episode about it ASAP please and thank you
11.02.2025 19:54 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0in somehow related news, if anyone knows any good essays, video essays, reviews ect of Oxenfree (1 or 2!) feel free to drop them here
01.02.2025 14:05 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Every so often I do a little work on some essays and MAN this one's topics are inscrutible...
Any guesses?
I've been doing reasearch for a project that is as-of-yet pure vibes only for over a year ๐
22.01.2025 20:50 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0oh no.....
22.01.2025 20:49 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0New Folding Ideas!
Mantracks: A True Story of Fake Fossils
youtu.be/2UDXdqqJQPE
WELL - now that I think of it - this might have been a slight fib
I infamously wrote a play made out of one of my books... at age 5
I'm trying my hand at adaptation and playwriting for the first time...on the same project
What could go wrong?
I may have stealthily started a Substack. Come follow me for musings, poetry and stories whenever the whim takes me
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I'm updating my calendar with all the poetry comps I want to enter this year-ish and I'm very tempted to keep track of how much it's going to cost me
Because let me tell you "getting your name out there" is expensive as hell
I haven't had a lot of energy to write anything lately but I keep having to remind myself we're literally in the depths of winter. It's hibernation season bby.
05.01.2025 13:03 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0LRT is literally how I started reading classical lit and I never stopped ๐
05.01.2025 13:01 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A hand holds a small coffee and a Nintendo 3DS rests on a white bedsheet, displaying text from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Don't be jealous of me just because I'm reading The Hunchback of Notre Dame on the Nintendo 3DS please.
05.01.2025 12:42 โ ๐ 7248 ๐ 1096 ๐ฌ 117 ๐ 68I may have been talked into making a Substack.....
01.01.2025 13:55 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0the reason an MFA doesnt improve your writing is because it cant instill in you the single most important quality for a good writer to have: being an absolute weirdo who really wants to make people understand the perverse undulations of their gremlin brain
30.12.2024 20:56 โ ๐ 1049 ๐ 241 ๐ฌ 14 ๐ 13Just did my yearly book cycle out! Books I'm finished with or cannot finish are now in storage and books I actively intend to read or am interested in are now on the prime bookshelf spot ๐ช
30.12.2024 21:21 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0this article REALLY hits the nail on the head - I spend about 80% of my time thinking about this
29.12.2024 14:24 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Imagine writing the Great Literary Work of your generation and then not getting a book contract because you've never gone viral on TikTok or whatever.
29.12.2024 13:52 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0the eternal tension between my RSI in my dominant hand and the endless hemming on my goth dress I'm desperate to finish
29.12.2024 13:50 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Truly never going to shut up again about the fact I truly got to see Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812 in person and in such a fantastic production too!!
23.12.2024 21:58 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0