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2nd SEPTEMBER: REGENT’S PARK, LONDON🦇 There are still tickets left for my collaborative bat walk and poetry performance with @theroyalparks.bsky.social - I’ll be reading from my latest collection, Speculative Frequencies, which was published in June with Permeable Barrier🦇🦇🦇

This summer we're cooking up a special project!
We're reading & promoting poetry micro-chaps!
Open June 1-20.
Special how? : Author Review exchanges, Creative Insights, & Detailed Promos.
Guidelines: engineidling.net
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Issue 15 Contents — Propel Magazine

you can read the entire issue here!!

A right-aligned poem: sleepwalking nobody but the moon watching me bleeding through my jeans house party music drifting im pins and needles im brain freeze a sainsburys bag floating a telephone pole with its arms splayed out the metro pages murmuring a shut tesco express i want my mum to tell me i shouldve brought a jacket im a gerund im conditional tense a friend of a friend of a friend compound complex sentences yet i cant get the text to express the staccato rhythm of my chest i should have just kissed her ive got a dark fruit tab rattling in my head and i cry during sex theres a graveyard between my legs if i could put my trauma on a plate and throw it away with the egg shell and fish paste i would it made me who i am today a girl who cant stay awake a black sack ripping beneath its own weight i think therefore i am searching for my house keys at the bottom of my tote bag

so pleased to share my poem that has been published by the wonderful @propelmagazine.bsky.social!! after three years, many rejections, and many, many edits, I'm glad this piece has found its home

Cover of Propel Issue 15, May 2025, Ed. Sanah Ahsan. contributors: Hasti, Yousef Alawi, Liva Jean, Regina Avendaño, Jory Garner, J.J. Carey, Danny Carlo Pandolfi, Shannon Smith Meekings, Kate Fenwick, Alice Weatherley, Rowan Lyster, Zainab Imran, Rose Ramsden, Marianne Habeshaw, E.M. Davis, Rona Luo, Oli Isaac, Kit Byford and Phoebe Gilmore.

Contents page for Propel Issue 15: Contents Introduction by Editor Sanah Ahsan 1 Impasse, Hasti 3 Palestine’s Poppies, Yousef Alawi 4 Translation/Transliteration, Yousef Alawi 6 Still Life, Liva Jean 7 Baby, Regina Avendaño 8 Real Girl, Jory Garner 9 Headingley Wants, J.J. Carey 10 If you bet the whole house how much do you care anyway, Danny Carlo Pandolfi 12 In the year before i thought i was in love, Shannon Smith Meekings 14 Trying to Hitch a Lift Outside the Betting Shop, Kate Fenwick 16 16:33, Alice Weatherley 17 My parents dancing in a 20s dive bar, Rowan Lyster 18 Ghazal, Zainab Imran 20 sleepwalking, Rose Ramsden 22 summer prey in the night, Marianne Habeshaw 24 Duplex for my body, E.M. Davis 26 A short talk on fractions, Rona Luo 27 making a scene, Oli Isaac 28 chorus, Kit Byford 29 Instructions for the wake, Phoebe Gilmore 30 Contributors 32

🔵 Propel Issue 15, Ed. Sanah Ahsan is OUT NOW 🔵

Read & listen to the full issue:
propelmagazine.co.uk/fifteen

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So excited for this tomorrow!!

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOO SO SO PROUD OF YOU AND SO DESERVED!!!!

Well done Nicola! Well deserved!

I'm so excited!!

With special readings from my fellow @royalholloway.bsky.social MA students including the lovely @roseramsden.bsky.social

[Image ID: Poster advertising the launch of my @SaloPress pamphlet ‘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 ‘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 ™️

🍒🍒e(i Issue 5: Trashy Daydreams is LIVE! 🍒🍒

Our #spotlight is on Damon Hubbs @hubbsd.bsky.social !

Check out their work at buff.ly/lOedrf9!

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It happens fairly often, I'd say at least 50% of the time after I see something published I get new ideas to improve it so in that way my poems are never really finished and often end up with various editions floating about online

[image id: A photo of page 22 from my pamphlet ‘woman | folk’ laid on a hessian cloth with a white lace border on the left hand. The poem text reads: woman: free here at the edges      you wait                 ocean reaching for the shore                spray turning skin to      salt & glitter   one day           you dip            a toe in sirensong              & it feels            so good                       next day you lower                    your whole self   naked               into stinging surf       & marvel          at the way                 it holds you        the way no one ever has           marvel   at the way water is             a soft     question      pebbled into dark the way          your own body          has always been   the answer ]

I could’ve posted any poem from my pamphlet for International Women’s Day. It’s angry (rightfully so, considering the lives of women in Sudan, Afghanistan, Gaza, America, here, all over the world), but I have chosen a poem of hope — I want to create a better world for the women who come after us.

this game caused me psychic damage and also I get a cameo which means legally you are obliged to play it

Delivery day for woman | folk by @karanchambers.bsky.social 😍😍😍

We'll be posting all pre-orders later today.

salopress.com

you can read (a slightly different version) on ink sweat & tears' website here!!
inksweatandtears.co.uk/rose-ramsden/

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

ossify is such a killer word I need to find a way to use it in every conversation now

Current Issue — the engine(idling

you can read the rest of the issue here: www.engineidling.net/current

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

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 🔥