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@nicolatl.bsky.social

Studying MA poetry at Royal Holloway, London She/Her also at #Nico2la

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I am so so excited to be on the list! @afterpoetry.com is so brilliant and I can’t wait to read the other selected pieces. Such a fantastic idea for a journal.

16.11.2025 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Come! Hear the banks of the Thames as you've never heard them before.

09.10.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Many feelings: joy, gratitude, fear, excitement as we approach pub day for #TheFeministArtOfWalking @plutopress.bsky.social The final preview is Juno Books in Sheffield on Saturday, we launch on Monday then the tour continues next week, last chance to pre-order: www.plutobooks.com/product/the-...

16.10.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reading Issue 4 by the pool. In subscribers' inboxes tmrw morning. Free to subscribe. www.themadridreview.com
#free #madrid #litmag #summervibes #reading

27.05.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This book is wonderful πŸ–€πŸ¦‡

21.05.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A LOVE THE WEIGHT OF AN ANIMAL | confingo A love the weight of an animal - Elizabeth Gibson's first full-length collection of poems - is a love song to Manchester life. Encounters with urban animals – a cormorant, a dead squirrel, caterpillar...

Super-excited that my debut collection is available to pre-order for the special price of £7! 😊 Do have a look, especially if you are interested in foxes, geese, queer joy, and/or neurodivergent urban exploring 🦊 www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page...

03.05.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, Rose!

07.05.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Big Thank You to @sidekickbooks.bsky.social, and @brihughespoet.bsky.social, for inviting me to read alongside their brilliant poets. It was lovely to meet you all, and listen to your fabulous poems! πŸ’š

06.05.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thrilled to be part of this!

06.05.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The countdown begins! We're setting off for the Moon TONIGHT @senatehouselib.bsky.social with @brihughespoet.bsky.social and @llc-rhul.bsky.social ! Our crew: @abbieday.bsky.social, @dixonkat.bsky.social, Al Crow, @grizonne.bsky.social, Giles Goodland, Andy Jackson, Freya Sacksen & Jerrold Yam. πŸŒ”πŸš€πŸ‘©β€πŸš€

29.04.2025 11:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm really looking forward to Carla Brunello at Ronnie Scott's tonight!

09.04.2025 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This launch is taking place tomorrow and I GUARANTEE that you won’t want to miss it!

24.03.2025 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
black and white image of a deer skull against a blurred background showing the outline of a hill

black and white image of a deer skull against a blurred background showing the outline of a hill

Equinox blog post in which I announce that WASTELANDS, my first full poetry collection & the culmination of my waste & wastelands project, will be coming out w/
@guillemotpress.bsky.social this September.
Image is 'deer skull and landfill'.
Blog post is here susiespeak.wordpress.com/.../spring-

20.03.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Without France, we'd be printing new pound notes with King Charles III on them.

17.03.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 7410    πŸ” 1335    πŸ’¬ 394    πŸ“Œ 55
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Support Pamenar Press | Pamenar Press (Powered by Donorbox) Pamenar Press is an independent press producing books of poetry and hybrid/critical writing which are cross-cultural, multi-lingual, and working in those provisional and radical areas of interconnecte...

Please Support Pamenar Press :
donorbox.org/support-pame...

09.03.2025 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Poster advertising the launch of my @SaloPress pamphlet β€˜woman | folk’. The central image is a teal, purple, and beige design of a woman holding an infant surrounded by Celtic knotwork. Details of the launch are included on the poster and can be found in the Eventbrite link in my bio.]

[Image ID: Poster advertising the launch of my @SaloPress pamphlet β€˜woman | folk’. The central image is a teal, purple, and beige design of a woman holding an infant surrounded by Celtic knotwork. Details of the launch are included on the poster and can be found in the Eventbrite link in my bio.]

Join me for the launch of β€˜woman | folk’ my debut pamphlet from @salopress.bsky.social

Guest readers include @wendycaitlin.bsky.social & @galiamelon.bsky.social

Grab your free ticket (link in bio!) Thanks to @brihughespoet.bsky.social for organising & being the Best Poetry Tutor in the World ℒ️

13.03.2025 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 7
The Blue Humanities: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Blue Humanities is a book series about humans and water, in all the forms that both of these assume and create. Re-examining relations between human and wat…

INCREDIBLY excited to announce that my monograph, 'Hydropoetics: Methodology, Material, and Practice for Ecofeminist Poetry' will be published as part of the new Bloomsbury series in The Blue Humanities 🌊 Watch this space!! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/th...

18.02.2025 12:38 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
A poster with the following key information: Rae Armantrout in Conversation with Peter Middleton - 14.03.25 6pm GMT Stewart House 1 Senate House Library: Royal Holloway Poetics Research
Centre presents a reading by Rae Armantrout.
Rae will read from Go
Figure (Weslyan, 2024), plus new, unpublished material. After the reading,
Rae will be in conversation with Peter Middleton, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Southampton.

A poster with the following key information: Rae Armantrout in Conversation with Peter Middleton - 14.03.25 6pm GMT Stewart House 1 Senate House Library: Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre presents a reading by Rae Armantrout. Rae will read from Go Figure (Weslyan, 2024), plus new, unpublished material. After the reading, Rae will be in conversation with Peter Middleton, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Southampton.

A poster with the following key information: Runnymede International Literary Festival Senate House Room 104 10 am - 5pm Saturday 15th March: PERFORMANCES FROM KARENJIT SANDHU, ROBERT HAMPSON AND JOANNA LEVI, JEFF HILSON, REDELL OLSEN, AMY EVANS BAUER, CAT CHONG, PLUS NEW WRITING FROM THE POETRY AND POETIC PRACTICE MA PATHWAYS

A poster with the following key information: Runnymede International Literary Festival Senate House Room 104 10 am - 5pm Saturday 15th March: PERFORMANCES FROM KARENJIT SANDHU, ROBERT HAMPSON AND JOANNA LEVI, JEFF HILSON, REDELL OLSEN, AMY EVANS BAUER, CAT CHONG, PLUS NEW WRITING FROM THE POETRY AND POETIC PRACTICE MA PATHWAYS

A reminder of two Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre events taking place this weekend! On Friday we will be joined by Rae Armantrout for an evening of poetry and discussion. This unmissable event will be followed by the annual Runnymede International Literary Festival throughout Saturday🧑

12.03.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

You can order my pamphlet now from @salopress.bsky.social

08.03.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My debut pamphlet is available now for pre-order from the amazing @SaloPress β€” link is in my bio.

I’m so excited to share these poems with you!

#PublishedPoet #DebutPamphlet #IndependentPublisher #SaloPress #Folklore #Feminism #FuckThePatriarchy #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Poet #Poetry

05.01.2025 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

THURSDAY!

04.03.2025 10:23 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A graphic image of a poem:
Give me a 90s makeover and I’ll pretend I don’t want to suck the
lip gloss from your teeth

Place an apple slice behind my ear and tell me
about the vibrator you made from the head of an electric toothbrush
and a bottle of nail varnish remover. Not very effective.
Puncture skin &
replace the absence
with nickel bronze from anxious thumbprints.
Step into girl like lingerie
a set with tasteful lace, baby blue
like a sexy easter egg.
Remove my sight and reveal
I was fuckable all along.

A graphic image of a poem: Give me a 90s makeover and I’ll pretend I don’t want to suck the lip gloss from your teeth Place an apple slice behind my ear and tell me about the vibrator you made from the head of an electric toothbrush and a bottle of nail varnish remover. Not very effective. Puncture skin & replace the absence with nickel bronze from anxious thumbprints. Step into girl like lingerie a set with tasteful lace, baby blue like a sexy easter egg. Remove my sight and reveal I was fuckable all along.

a few weeks ago I was published by @the-engine-idling.bsky.social for issue 5, in response to the prompt 'trashy daydreams' aka rose does gay gender drama angst

09.02.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
An event poster featuring the image from Rae Armantrout’s newest collection β€˜Go Figure’. The image is a diagram of wind turbines and a mechanical crow. The background is red, whilst the turbine is yellow. The information on the poster reads: Rae Armantrout In Conversation with Peter Middleton’ 14.03.25 6pm gmt Stewart House 1

An event poster featuring the image from Rae Armantrout’s newest collection β€˜Go Figure’. The image is a diagram of wind turbines and a mechanical crow. The background is red, whilst the turbine is yellow. The information on the poster reads: Rae Armantrout In Conversation with Peter Middleton’ 14.03.25 6pm gmt Stewart House 1

On Friday 14th March, the Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre is hosting a reading with Pulitzer Prize-winner Rae Armantrout!

03.03.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A prose poem/concrete poem making a rectangle shape on a white background reading:

The last home

We left the play early. The last day before the start of secondary school. Dad told me off for slapping the seats, wanting to see the dust rise like smoke. Floating to the ceiling, dirtying the light. The doors hissed open and a stranger emerged. Approached with a stare that trickled down the neckline of my shirt. Unwrapped the skin from my bones. He held out his hand to my father and grinned. Gums like the flesh left on cherry pits. I closed my cardigan. Gazed at the seat. The filth beneath, festering.

A prose poem/concrete poem making a rectangle shape on a white background reading: The last home We left the play early. The last day before the start of secondary school. Dad told me off for slapping the seats, wanting to see the dust rise like smoke. Floating to the ceiling, dirtying the light. The doors hissed open and a stranger emerged. Approached with a stare that trickled down the neckline of my shirt. Unwrapped the skin from my bones. He held out his hand to my father and grinned. Gums like the flesh left on cherry pits. I closed my cardigan. Gazed at the seat. The filth beneath, festering.

my poem was recently published by Ink Sweat & Tears and in typical me fashion, because I can't help myself, I made some edits

23.02.2025 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
St Vincent - Dig A Pony - Live @ All Points West Festival 8/1/09 in HD
YouTube video by suprefan St Vincent - Dig A Pony - Live @ All Points West Festival 8/1/09 in HD

One of my favorite things ever.

#Music #MusicSky #Live #LiveMusic #guitar

30.01.2025 11:16 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Marianne Faithfull was a towering artist, not just the muse she was painted as The late singer made her share of bad decisions – but someone this artistically adventurous and unafraid was never going to have an ordinary life β€’ News: Marianne Faithfull, singular icon of British pop, dies aged 78 It is difficult to think of a moment…

Marianne Faithfull was a towering artist, not just the muse she was painted as

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Flash Fiction Prize - Fish Publishing Flash Fiction Contest online from Fish Publishing. 10 flash stories (300 words max) will be published in the annual Fish Anthology

You've got til Feb 28th to send me your 300-word (or less) gems - even the strange ones in all sorts of shapes and styles that you think no-one else but you could love! #FlashFiction www.fishpublishing.com/competition/...

23.01.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4

One of my wonderful MA poets, Karan Chambers, is featured in the Feb/March edition of The London Magazine! HUGE congratulations to @karanchambers.bsky.social πŸ”₯

24.01.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

That's fantastic news, Karan!

27.01.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So how’s it going so far?

25.01.2025 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 31996    πŸ” 9599    πŸ’¬ 494    πŸ“Œ 340

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