Jeremy Dixon

A revealing book full of clever, funny poems that often use Polari, the secret language used when homosexuality was a crime. There’s an enthusiastic delight in the poets use of these linguistically intriguing words. Jeremy Dixon is not just commemorating Polari but reclaiming and celebrating it.

Thanks for the bona screevings Topher! ❤️

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

Now that’s a great way to start a Doctor Who episode! ❤️

How to be hopeful: Alice Oswald’s poem Mist The poet on the startling wonders of the natural world

Poem of the day: Mist by the marvellous Alice Oswald who was arrested yesterday in the Palestine protests. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

2019 – IN RETAIL
2021 – A VOICE COMING FROM THEN
2024 – JOY//US: Poems of Queer Joy
2025 – BOLD IN THE LIFE

I was writing for over 20 years before I had my first pamphlet published at 56 years old. Believe in your creativity, find your mentors, find poetry pals, listen to feedback, listen to your feelings, find the right editor, find the right publisher, never be put off and totally believe in your work!

Photo of all four books grouped together.

Taking a moment to appreciate everything that has happened to me in poetry! Back in Summer 2019 none of these books existed! So grateful to my publishers @arachnepress.bsky.social & @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social; & to everyone who has supported me and my writing!

Me holding a copy of my book in the middle of Bold Street

Here I am holding a copy of BOLD IN THE LIFE on BOLD STREET very happy in the knowledge that the pamphlet itself contains a poem entitled BOLD IN THE LIFE ON BOLD STREET! Poetry is such a special kind of magic!

‘Singular poems of language and love and the outsider life in a doomed Spanish landscape’

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James McConachie’s ‘Consolamentum’ @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social

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You can’t have a poetry pamphlet without a poetry tour, so I’m enthused to present the first dates of the BOLD IN THE LIFE: Trolling Me Screeves Tour 2025 – Part Oney! Wednesday 30 April BROKEN SLEEP BOOKS Joint Online Launch Wednesday 21 May WORDSMITHERY Birkenhead Monday 2 June POW! London Tuesday 1 July LIVER BARDS Liverpool I’ve irons in fires for more readings in the second half of the year but if you’re a poetry event both online and in person looking some poetic Polari fun, please get in touch (especially if you’re in Wales!).

Presenting the first dates of the BOLD IN THE LIFE: Trolling Me Screeves Tour 2025 – Part Oney!

I’ve more readings lined up in the second half of the year but if you’re a poetry event both online and in person looking some poetic Polari fun, please get in touch (especially if you’re in Wales!).

Tom Hardy rented a house near where my mum lived. I was driving her home & we passed him jogging on the lanes. I slowed down for him to pass and he waved. ‘Who’s that?’, she said, ‘Is Mike jogging again?’. (Her neighbour Mike is 80!) 😃

My poetry pamphlet IN RETAIL (@arachnepress.bsky.social) has been used to train Meta’s Al without mine or my publisher’s permission or with due regard to copyright. I’m not alone, there are 1000s of writers who’s work has been stolen. Solidarity with @societyofauthors.bsky.social!
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Hey everyone. Lovely indie publisher @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social are appealing to everyone to BUY A BOOK to support them. The way it works is that they get some money to keep them publishing, and you get a book! Massive win-win!

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Happy World Poetry Day! To celebrate the occasion, we are making The Poetry Review modern archive freely available for the next 24 hours for everyone to enjoy the best in international poetry. Click here to take advantage of this offer! bit.ly/4irqvug 📚

I found this classic Mel & Kim vinyl in a chazza and it’s rather synchrontainious as one of the poems in my new pamphlet BOLD IN THE LIFE is dedicated to Kim, so I thought I’d share it. (And if you like it, you can preorder the book here: www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...). Bona walloping!

A book cover with a dark teal background. At the top, the author’s name, Jeremy Dixon, is displayed in a white monospaced font. The title, BOLD IN THE LIFE, is centred and written in large block letters filled with vibrant, multicoloured watercolor textures. Beneath the title, the subtitle Poems Screeved in yer Actual Polari appears in bright blue monospaced text. At the bottom, the publisher’s name, Broken Sleep Books, is shown in a soft yellow monospaced font, spaced out with wide letter spacing.

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Jeremy Dixon’s Bold in the Life is an electrifying affirmation of Polari, the coded language once palavered through queer spaces, now reanimated in poetry that is unapologetic, irreverent, & deeply celebratory

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Thanks Katherine! I hope your screevering is going bona too! ❤️

COVER REVEAL!
So delighted to announce that my bona new Polari-inspired poetry pamphlet BOLD IN THE LIFE is now available for pre-order from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social (released 30 April 2025)!

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Poetry Wales Award 2024-25 - Poetry Wales The Poetry Wales Award (formerly the Wales Poetry Award) is back for 2024-25! The Poetry Wales Award is a single-poem competition open to poets worldwide to share their new, never-before-published wor...

THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO IMPRESS ME AND SAVE YOURSELF FROM ELIMINATION!

(OOOPPSS SORRY WRONG JUDGING!)

SUBMISSIONS CLOSE TONIGHT 11.59pm GMT!

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Never feel bad, you can’t do everything and whoever asks for an endorsement should always be ready to accept being refused for whatever reason. Also, people should know who is always going to be asked for a blurb and perhaps think of asking someone else who isn’t.

Feb 2025 marks 6 years since IN RETAIL was published by @arachnepress.bsky.social. IN RETAIL inspired A VOICE COMING FROM THEN which inspired JOY//US which inspired the forthcoming BOLD IN THE LIFE (@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social). I am so, so grateful to Cherry & to everyone who has bought the book!

Brilliant! I was so happy that Katherine let me use her art in my book. Here’s my set!

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Quick reminder: If you’re in the Dumfries area tomorrow (Thurs), do join us for a fun THE BOY I LOVE event at Waterstones from 6pm. Be fab to see you there! X

Two weeks left to submit to Poetry Wales Award. Send your unpublished poems that delight in language and the sounds words make, that surprise, that dance, that need no explanation, that do the work, that rage, that protest conformity, that refuse cliche, that contradict, that entice, that inspire, that rock, that can’t be trusted, that console, that meet the deadline, that do what other poems don’t, that embrace creative truth. Worldwide submissions are open until 17 February 2025.

Two weeks left to enter your poems to the @poetrywales.bsky.social Award 2025. Worldwide submissions are open until 17 February 2025.

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Black Thorn is insanely cheap for the whole of February. If you fancy reading a slow-burn psychological thriller with an autistic main character, fill your boots 🧡

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Northern folkies - see you in Boro for some poems?

Freespill x Butcher's Dog x Borderlands present THRESHOLDS, 5.30-8 pm Tuesday, 18th February in The Crypt. I'm told it isn't as creepy as it sounds...

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And such a brilliant reader, conversational and authoritative at the same time!