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Madelaine Culver

@fromxthextower.bsky.social

UK writer, vis/poet + horror scholar ๐Ÿ’ซ Debut poetry book: The Second Dream PhD on woman-led horror & intertextual poetics at Northumbria Uni ๐Ÿ’‹๐Ÿ”ช www.notesfromthetower.info

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en=raptur=ed [riverrun] & mingle words swirl, turn, floating above in non=compliance / ouch! / fizzle-fizzle-fizzle-fizzle : : : : : COLLIDING, reversible, submersible, ludic, NOT re=call=ed : PluS-MinuS-PluS- MinuS / / / / / => f...

My latest book en=raptur=ed [riverrun] & mingle is out now from @rangermagazine.bsky.social. words swirl, turn, floating above in non=compliance. Check it out!

It free to downloand here: static1.squarespace.com/static/63a1d...

You can buy in print here: www.lulu.com/shop/joshua-...

04.02.2026 23:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sharing @psychoholosuite.bsky.social's fascinating reading and creative transformation of The Second Dream again because it deserves to be seen! Thanks so much Oli ๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿ–ค

#poetry #scifi #horror

31.01.2026 10:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You still have time to get a proposal in if you are quick...

21.01.2026 02:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The day has finally arrived, itโ€™s launch time for giallo-autophagised mega project โ€˜All The Colour Of The Darkโ€™.

A horror spiral into surrealism/perversion/even sci-fi at one point.

Available as a free PDF on Psycho H [with some sample visuals below]

psychoholosuite.com/2025/10/28/n...

28.10.2025 14:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tentacular poetry and arts magazine is open for submissions, in a radical rolling issue 12, which will repeatedly renew itself, exploring the theme and practice of "Un/finished". For more, and to submit, see www.tentacularmag.com/submit

02.11.2025 11:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿ–ค

06.05.2024 08:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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[De-Con-Struc] The Second Dream // Madelaine Culver +++ Text: The Second Dream Author: Madelaine Culver Publisher: Steel Incisors Plot: The blackness from Under The Skin sublimates out from its Scottish void to investigate the novelette form and someth...

De-con-struc of 'The Second Dream' by @fromxthextower.bsky.social [published by Steel Incisors], with pretty Asemic scrawls and an abstract reframing [deframing?] of Glazer's 'Under The Skin'

psychoholosuite.com/2024/04/30/d...

01.05.2024 09:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿ–ค

25.03.2024 07:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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'Ponds' [by Nick Borelli] + 'The Second Dream [by
@fromxthextower.bsky.social] on a date/photoshoot around Hong Kong.

25.03.2024 03:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ–ค

14.03.2024 15:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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FREE EBOOK!

What We Did During the Apocalypse: The Archive of the Babel Tower Notice Board

Download here:

hempressbooks.com/shop

13.03.2024 19:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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What We Did During the Apocalypse: The Archive of the Babel Tower Notice Board โ€” Hem Press The Babel Tower Notice Board was a journal, podcast and reading series that ran from August 2020 - December 2021. Founded and edited by Richard Capener with Chloรซ Proctor joining as Assistant Editor...

BlueSky is a void I telegraph to, but sharing again to encourage engagement with this. Collecting all that was published by the Board from late 2020 to the end of 2021, it's a genuine slice of art history from a particular artistic community at a particular moment in time. #poetry #writing #vispo

14.03.2024 08:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
LungA School

NEWS: LungA School has a lovely new website: www.lungaschool.is/en *AND* is open for applications for the Fall ART programme โ˜†ยฐยฐยฐPLS SHAREยฐยฐยฐโ˜†

04.03.2024 17:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Full House Presents - Online launch for Amanda Earl's chapbook The ... The Seasons, an Excerpt from Welcome to Upper Zygonia is a place of wonder, and of whimsy; a lyrical and visual fantastic voyage to a place of imagination, far away in the Zygonian Galaxy. In thi...

Very excited to be reading with James Knight, Maria Sledmere, and Karenjit Sandhu in celebration of the launch of my digital chapbook with Full House Literary, The Seasons March 3, 2024, 2:30 pm EST/ 7:30 pm GMT. Register for Zoom link: www.wegottickets.com/event/610322

15.02.2024 16:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My piece on Agnes Richter's jacket (Hubertusberg Asylum, 1895) as an embodied, multi-modal language of extremity, & my own textile-text experiments in response, is now up on Clare Carlin's brilliant 'Textile Message' project. Honoured to be included. piecedwork.com/2024/02/12/s...

15.02.2024 20:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you Mark ๐Ÿ˜Š

13.02.2024 08:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Canโ€™t order this fast enough. I have some of Madelaineโ€™s prints in my studio, they are some of my favourite things.

13.02.2024 07:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿฅฐ

13.02.2024 08:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you so much Isabella ๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ’•

13.02.2024 08:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you so much Imogen ๐Ÿฅฐโค๏ธ

13.02.2024 08:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you Susie ๐Ÿฅฐ

12.02.2024 13:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I wrote a book and it's now available to pre-order from Steel Incisors via the below link ๐Ÿฅฐ

Huge thanks to my brilliant editor @badbadpoet.bsky.social and everyone who's supported the creation of this work ๐Ÿ–ค

www.steelincisors.com/product/the-...

12.02.2024 11:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

An Erica Baum visual poem for #smallpoemsunday, from her book โ€œDog Earโ€

11.02.2024 20:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Nightingales
with flexible bodies
squeezed through
a riddled poem

Birdhouse Holes

25.11.2023 15:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Lovely photos of my contribution to the LOOP pop-up exhibition at Northumbria University in November ๐Ÿ–ค

These asemic & text-based poems engage with research I'm conducting for my PhD around the affective and ideological dimensions of women-led narratives in British horror cinema

๐Ÿ“ท Mark Duffy

12.12.2023 15:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I'm in Kingston on Tuesday for the Writers Kingston Football and Literature event, with Jules Sprake and SJ Fowler / Peter Dunkley and Ian Brady / Michael Sutton / Kate Howe / Matt Sokulsky / Alex Allen / Marcia Knight Latter / Julia Rose Lewis / Safia Kamel. www.writerskingston.com/football

09.12.2023 08:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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So chuffed to have been included in the Seeing in Tongues visual poetry anthology from Steel Incisors, brilliantly curated and edited by @badbadpoet.bsky.social ๐Ÿ–ค

So many incredible pieces but here's a few of my faves by @vickikaye.bsky.social, Emma Filtness, and Mark Wynne

#vispo #poetry

09.12.2023 12:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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