✒️eurydice | poet & editor

Can anyone recommend some essays / books on horror tropes in literature? I would like to stock up on some more ✨selective✨ readings, as I've nearly finished all of my current tbr horror books, and I have ✨ideas✨...
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My New Years Resolutions For 2026:
- Write more frequently
- Finish my short story/novelette
- Get more poems published
- Save up enough to get the chest tattoo I want
- Double down on my mullet
- Become even more of a cryptid to my house-mates
you know... normal things to want

#twentytwentysix

poets be like "yeah i know a place" and it's a romanticized view of a gas station at 2am on a long drive to another city where your eyes soften on the fog and squint at the burning fluorescent lights in the interior of the convenience store inside...what was i talking about again

...I also just want to own a bookstore

It's always someone's dream to open a bookstore; but genuinely, I just want to start a bunch of local outreach programs to teach people how to make zines, write poetry & short stories. I want to organise reading nights for poetry and fiction that happen more than once a month, have interviews, etc

the single greatest piece of writing advice i can give is to read your writing out loud. all of it. start to finish. it's the fastest way you can learn to hear what sounds natural and what doesn't.

one of my favourite things to do is head to a not-so-nearby second-hand bookstore; buy a few books on poetry or writing that have already been annotated by their previous owner/s, and engage with their comments in the margins.
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aaaaaaah! I want a friend group of poets to talk to! I want a discord server dedicated to writing and discussing poetry! I want regular online meetings to share our favourite poems, our recent publications, and our works in progress! I am longing, impatient and aching...
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Currently reading You Will Find Your Way by Naomi Arnold. I’ve been annotating, underlining, writing back; turning reading into a conversation, not consumption.
#amreading #poetrybooks #marginalia #readingpoetry #australianpoetry #YouWillFindYourWay

If you’re still writing the same thing, maybe it’s because it isn’t finished with you yet.
A piece on repetition, creative patience, and unfinished work.

Now live on Sleeping Eurydice, Link in Bio.
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the everyday urge to arrange a poetry group so that we can send letters and poems to each other [the old-fashioned way].
#poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poem #WritingCommunity #writing #letters #correspondence #poetrygroup #poets

December belongs to poetry. To reflection, nostalgia, and endings that don’t quite close.
I’ve put together a December poetry reading list; poems for looking back gently, and forward without certainty.

Read it on Sleeping Eurydice, Link in BIO.

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Spent some time this week binding a tiny booklet of some of my favourite poems. Highlights include poetry from: John Milton, William Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, & Dylan Thomas.
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Almost 200 followers!
Thank you all so much for being here. It means the world that you’ve chosen to follow along on this little journey of mine. Your support, kindness, and curiosity keep me going.

Here’s to growing, creating, and sharing more together.
#thankyou

Not my usual style, but this poem slipped out while I was sat at a friend’s house, opera playing in the background, and voices drifting over it. Moving and settling in has slowed my writing, but sometimes inspiration sneaks in quiet and unexpected.

#poetry #writers #poem #new #original #inspired

Haven't written any poems in a while. Mostly due to starting back at Uni and beginning to write "When Paradise Fades".
However, I've mostly finished moving into my new place, so hopefully I'll start having some more time to write now!

#poem #poetry #poet #writer #novelette #novel #newhouse #update

I’ve been deep in the outlining process for When Paradise Fades. Each chapter is scaffolded by small, intimate moments that fold into something stranger. It forgets what it was and becomes something else. Just like Laira.

#writing #writingcommunity #wip #novelette #writingprocess #outline #writer

As always, start one project and then start three others... I have begun drafting my latest work-in-progress, "When Paradise Fades". (Working Title).

Follow to keep up-to-date on my progress, and to see what else i get up to in the mean time.

#wip #Literature #writers #novella #literature #gothic

I’m finally yelling about poetry on the internet!

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New videos, chaotic thoughts, and original poetry.

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One of my poems in @MagResurrection 's new issue, <be(numb)ed>, "Wakeful Dreams," was written after a nightmare. As such, the poem has a really fun final line.

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ISSUE IV: <BE(numb)ED> (the unconscious) benumbed /bəˈnəmd/ [deprived of physical or emotional feeling] 1: to make inactive : DEADEN 2: to make numb especially by cold benumb(v.)”deprive of…

You can read <be(numb)ed> here: resurrectionmag.com/benumbed/

Got two poems published this weekend in the newest issue of Resurrection Magazine, " <be(numb)ed> ".

Grateful to the team for the care and curation, and for giving these aching little things a place to live.

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The Cleansing Power of Fire: An Infested Publishing Anthology The Cleansing Power of Fire: An Infested Publishing Anthology : Publishing, Infested, Maloney, Ali, Boucher, Amy, May, Angelika, Subko, C J, Mitchell, David, Waites, Lydia, Howard, Stephen, Rappert, Florence-Susanne: Amazon.com.au: Books

You can grab the anthology here: www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0F66G21Q...

The Cleansing Power of Fire is out now, and my poem Sin-Eater is among the offerings.

Huge thanks to Infested for letting this piece rise from the ashes. So proud to be alongside so many brilliant voices.

Grab the anthology's link in the comments!
#HorrorPoetry #NewRelease #ReligiousHorror #poetry

Cover image for The Cleansing Power of Fire anthology. Featuring a goats head through a red filter. Image by Cutfingers.

The full TOC for The Cleansing Power of Fire on a red background with a bowing skeleton.

OUT NOW!!
Sing and rejoice, brothers and sisters! Your redemption is here. Let fire purge whatever ails you.
🐁☀️🐀
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@infestedpublishing.bsky.social always kills with their anthologies, and this one is brilliant. Folk horror, religious trauma, it’s got it all!

Here’s a gift from me to you.

A poem titled "Lament"

Two verses, repeating like grief does, inspired by The Song of Achilles.

#poetrygift #TheSongOfAchilles #queerpoetry #griefwriting #Achilles #Patroclus #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #Lament

Next Saturday, my poem "Sin-Eater" will appear in The Cleansing Power of Fire, a horror anthology from Infested Publishing.
It’s a piece about hunger, grief, and sacred rot—where the divine tastes like ash and the body becomes the altar.
21.06.2025.
#InfestedPublishing #Poetry #HorrorLit #Anthology

"Every bus station is a confession booth."

Strangers pass, glances linger, and hands ache for the nearness.

Another new poem in the works.

#Poetry #AmWriting #WIP #poetrycommunity #ProsePoem

I’ve been working on something.
City Issues is a new poetry zine about grief, trauma, survival, and the mess of living in a world that never asked you to stay kind.
Some of it is old. Some of it is new.
Coming Soon.

#poetryzine #cityissues #urbanpoetry #writingcommunity #indiepoetry