Emma Tanner

I know I've been quiet

I feel like every time I try to write a poem I end up writing this one again

MOTHERLORE MAGAZINE on Instagram: "pre-orders for the BECOMING issue are now open at the link in my bio! this issue is 62 pages of your words on mothering, unbecoming, perimenopause, birth, loss, seas... 77 likes, 4 comments - motherloremagazine on June 9, 2025: "pre-orders for the BECOMING issue are now open at the link in my bio! this issue is 62 pages of your words on mothering, unbecoming, perimen...

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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The Ladder [to Aktion T4] From my Vanner Gallery X Close Poetry Live set (with context!)

Of all the poems I've written lately, it's this one that haunts me - as does the painting and novel that inspired it

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Just saw a post that said "why am I scrolling? what am I looking for?" and I think it's rewired my brain

Reminder that I got another poem going up on my Substack this afternoon 👀

Heracies of the Atomic Priesthood From my Vanner Gallery X Close Poetry Live set (with context!)

So 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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Event: An evening with Close Poetry Join us for an evening of poetry from members of new spoken word group Close Poetry, Millie Woodrow, Tom Nutting and Emma Tanner. Close Poetry runs poetry performance events in Salisbury and the South...

You can buy tickets right here and also see my face in alarmingly good quality
(I should get real headshots....)

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The Vanner Gallery on Instagram: "Join us for an evening of poetry from members of new spoken word group Close Poetry, Millie Woodrow, Tom Nutting and Emma Tanner at 6pm on Thursday 24 April. Close P... 36 likes, 2 comments - thevannergallery on April 6, 2025: "Join us for an evening of poetry from members of new spoken word group Close Poetry, Millie Woodrow, Tom Nutting and Emma Tanner at 6pm on Th...

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

in somehow related news, if anyone knows any good essays, video essays, reviews ect of Oxenfree (1 or 2!) feel free to drop them here

Every 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 😅

oh no.....

YouTube video by Folding Ideas Mantracks: a True Story of Fake Fossils

New 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?

Emma Tanner's Abandoned Notebook | Substack A collection of writing, poetry and thoughts. This is a notebook abandoned on a coffee shop table. Click to read Emma Tanner's Abandoned Notebook, a Substack publication. Launched 25 minutes ago.

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.

LRT is literally how I started reading classical lit and I never stopped 😅

A 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.

I may have been talked into making a Substack.....

the 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

Just 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 💪

this article REALLY hits the nail on the head - I spend about 80% of my time thinking about this

Imagine 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.

the eternal tension between my RSI in my dominant hand and the endless hemming on my goth dress I'm desperate to finish

Truly 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!!