Jeremy Dixon

This week @Waterstones are offering 25% discount on preorders for @BloodaxeBooks titles out in early 2026, including mine. Offer closes 17 October. Just go to waterstones.com, put 9781780377810 into the search box, click PREORDER and add code OCTOBER25 for the discount.

It’s in there but not quite in those words! 😃

Photo of two mockups of the book, one on top of the other

9 GOLDEN RULES:
READING POETRY IN PUBLIC
I’ve been thinking about making this little book for ages and having a stall at @smallpublishers.bsky.social is the impetus I’ve needed to get it finished! See you @conwayhall.bsky.social on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 October!

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Today is Bookshop Day, a day to celebrate ALL bookshops on our high streets.

Bookshops are an integral part of an author's livelihood, and we celebrate all the talented booksellers who share their guidance and expertise.

Visit your local bookshop today and show them your support.

#bookshopday

Based on the Wirral, @hazardpressuk.bsky.social is the imprint of queer poet and book artist Jeremy Dixon. Small runs often incorporate collage with the emphasis on handmade, happenstance, and recycling found text and images. We welcome him back to #smallpublishersfair25 at Conway Hall on 24/25 Oct

Hannah Hull talking about Home is a place that visits me at @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social poetry salon last Saturday in #museuminthepark #stroud. Thanks to #dialectpress for organising .
Up next free online launch this Thursday 6thOct 7pm www.outsavvy.com/event/29667/... @inpressbooks.bsky.social

"Mark paid careful attention to the small things in the world around him and he made each of us complicit in his process."

Erica Van Horn on the much-missed artist Mark Pawson, a mainstay of the Fair, who passed away earlier this year. Read more about Mark:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk/mark-pawson-...

Deryn Rees-Jones at Open Eye Gallery | Literature | Creative Tourist For the seventh Matt Simpson Memorial Reading, hosted by LiPS, Deryn Rees-Jones will be reading from her new collection, Hôtel Amour.

www.creativetourist.com/event/deryn-...

Directed by writer and artist Erica Van Horn and poet, artist and editor Simon Cutts, Coracle is a printer-publisher and editor of spaces based in Tipperary. They return to #smallpublishersfair25 on 24 /25 October: this year's exhibition also draws on several decades of work by Erica Van Horn.

Something Gothic This Way Comes: Submit to The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry - The Broken Spine Submissions Open Throughout October 2025 | Publication in 2026

Something Gothic this way comes… Submissions are OPEN for The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry. We want poems of neon dread, fractured love, haunted minds.

Closing date: October 31st

#PoetrySubmissions #SubmissionWindow #TheHavishamSteps #ModernGothicPoetry

Today is National Poetry Day - Jess & I will be taking over the national poetry day instagram 7-9pm answering your questions, reading poems and playing The Poetry Fruit Machine 🎰 🍒🍋💰

Promotional poster advertising that submissions to online ekphrastic poetry journal After... will reopen for the whole of October 2025. Gives the web address to visit as afterypoetry.com/submit.

It's nearly time again ...

If you've been looking for a home for that 'after' or ekphrastic poem, @afterpoetry.com is the place for you.

Submissions reopen tomorrow – October 1st 2025.

You then have the entire month to send in your poem for a chance to feature in After... in 2026.

Good luck! 🤞🏼

Just a reminder that the Cafe Writers International poetry competition is open. Our wonderful (sole) judge this year is Jessica Mookherjee. Top prize is £1000 www.cafewriters.co.uk/home/poetry-...

We are delighted to announce that we will publish @sachacoward.bsky.social’s Queer as Folklore in paperback and ebook editions in December 2025.

Initially published by Unbound, it was longlisted for the 2025 Polari Prize and has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society awards. #booksky

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.

Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social

We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.

Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

Illustration from a post card announcing an installation of books by Erica Van Horn at Franklin Furnace, NYC in 1986

This year's exhibition at Small Publishers Fair (24 & 25 October) draws on several decades of work by artist and writer Erica Van Horn, who has been a participant at the Fair since the beginning.

Details of the exhibition can be found here:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk/exhibition-2...

Promotional cards for the 2025 Small Publishers Fair amongst euphorbia leaves in the publisher's garden.

This year's @smallpublishers.bsky.social cards, designed (as always) by @uniformbooks.bsky.social, and featuring the work of Erica Van Horn (the subject of this year's exhibition).

Fri 24 / Sat 25 October, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL. 11am-7pm, admission free, all welcome.

Tom Johnson · Supereffable: Mysteries of the Pearl Manuscript Any book made by hand is unique, but the Pearl Manuscript’s claim to uniqueness is unparalleled: the manuscript...

‘No amount of knowledge about medieval literary culture can make the Pearl Manuscript tell us what it means. Everyone has to speculate at some point.’

@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the manuscript that contains the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Slide images from a talk showing the Libris Awards, Association of Polish Bookbinders, London Centre for Book Arts, Codex Polaris.

Slide images from a talk showing Galerie Druck & Buch, UWE letterpress studios, Herzog August Bibliothek, Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius.

Terrie Reddish and I recorded a talk for 'BIND25 - preserving the past and crafting the future', Association of Book Crafts New Zealand conference. We discuss aspects of bookmaking in all its forms and ways to get involved in the communities of its practices, at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XWo...

Saturday 04/10/2026
10:30-12:00
Wirral Poetry Festival hosts Afonydd poets Sian Northey, Siôn Aled Owen, & Robbie Burton at Bebington Library, Civic Way Bebington Wirral CH63 7PN
free, no booking required

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We are preparing a new UK/RoI #queerpoetry anthology. Up//Roar: Poems of Queer Resistance.
call out is live until 1st Nov. arachnepress.submittable.com/submit/33689...
pls share with any #queerpoets you know
@hazardpressuk.bsky.social is editing with me
@mxfrankduffy.bsky.social is doing cover

Good morning.

Together with @littletollerbooks.bsky.social we publish a very important book

The destruction of our peat lands is of international concern.

40 nature writers incl. Rob Macfarlane - Amy Liptrot - Horatio Clare & music legend Patti Smith.

You can order here: www.littletoller.co.uk

Make books. Make journals. Make chapbooks and zines and pretty letters. Make papercraft. Make beautiful things with words. Let no one take that from you. Make words.

Promotional card for the 2025 Small Publishers Fair, with a full list of the 66 participating artists and publishers. Full details at https://smallpublishersfair.co.uk/publishers-2025/

Small Publishers Fair returns to London's Conway Hall
next month, with 66 UK & international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks. More details soon.

Fri 24 & Sat 25 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL smallpublishersfair.co.uk

We'll be at @smallpublishers.bsky.social at London's Conway Hall on Fri 24/ Sat 25 October with tablemates @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social and many excellent presses and artists including @uniformbooks.bsky.social @essencepress.bsky.social @hazardpressuk.bsky.social and more. Hope to see you there.

Sending ❤️

‘Wordsworth-Related Business’ would make a good title! 😉

Home - Museum of the Home We are the only Museum of the Home in the world, revealing and rethinking the ways we live in order to live better together.

This is one of my favourite small museums!

New pots available now! www.roseschmits.com