JP Seabright

Thank you Mia! 💜

Next Wednesday! Come and join us. Tickets are Pay What You Can and it’s BYOB!

Resharing on #worldmentalhealthday and wishing you all peace and wellbeing, this and every day. 💜

Today! I’m performing at the City Lit Mental Wealth Festival. Come and join us - for music, song, poetry & spoken word. Only £5 to salve your soul. 💜

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening...

My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…

An image of a white-skinned female-presenting person wearing a black tshirt with the words Medecins Sans Frontieres standing in front of a window

This is not the post I planned to write today, but clearly the one I needed to write…

jpseabright.substack.com/p/mental-hea...

Thank you Mark! x

Tickets are only £3 or PWYC with all proceeds and donations going to the work of QUEERCIRCLE

Come and join us - Wednesday 15th October, at Queercircle, North Greenwich.
And if you can’t make it, please reshare!

www.outsavvy.com/event/29864/...

I’m immensely proud of what we’ve achieved with effable, and we have one last event this year, with the excellent Jamie Hale & Lucy Webster, facilitated by Lalah-Simone Springer & featuring 5 effing wonderful poets: Cat Chong, Chloe Clarke, Rick Dove, Jackson Phoenix Nash & Claire Sosienski Smith.

It’s National Poetry Day so one feels obliged to post something ‘poetic’, yet I’ve barely written or published any poetry this year.

But I have co-run an ACE-funded project, edited an anthology & championed the work of queer crip poets, shining a spotlight on voices so often marginalised.

A domed room lined with books around its circumference, with an old-fashioned wooden desk in the foreground stating ‘Quiet Please’

A librarian’s pilgrimage to the old British Library Reading Room.

One of the advantages of being old is that I got to study in here when I moved to London to do my Masters. 🤓📚

I’m so behind on my TBR pile that I’ve only now discovered this lovely review of MotherFlux in the Winter 2024 edition of the Poetry Book Society Bulletin!

Huge thanks to Shalini Sengupta for reading us, Nine Pens for publishing us and Erica and Jem for all the MotherFluxing words. 💜

White lettering against a misty dark landscape

Final part of my Substack series on the developmental processes of my Wastelands project just in time for publication day (@guillemotpress Mon Sept 22) susiecampbell.substack.com/p/wastelands...

Mostly written in the Spring, but set in Autumn, I never imagined that my chapbook Solitary Hotel, which explores grief, loneliness and isolation, would foretell how this September is turning out.

For James. R.I.P. 💔✊🏾

Audio version free with copies bought direct from me:
jp-seabright.square.site

Join us for a unique event celebrating Arts & Activism: Queer Disabled Creativity in Action!

Wednesday 15th October, QUEERCIRCLE, London

www.outsavvy.com/event/29864/...

So excited for our eff-able show in Sheffield this Thursday. We have a fabulous set of poets, performers and host, and Audio Description. Come and join us!

www.outsavvy.com/event/27392/...

eff-able comes to Scotland this Friday! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
We have an effing fabulous show lined up for Glasgow. Do come along if you’re in town, or tell everyone there if you’re not!
www.outsavvy.com/event/28155/...

Order your poetry scratchcards today : www.thepoetrykiosk.com/product-page...

Displaced in Gaza Palestinians are writing their stories, documenting both the horror of the war and the resilience of the people. Young people and Gaza elders are recording testimonies—narrating their stories for the ...

Palestinians are writing their stories, documenting both the horror of the war and the resilience of the people. Young people and Gaza elders are recording testimonies—narrating their stories for the world to read.

The speaker of the poem glimpses the poet over her shoulder

art: Rob's Room

Huge thanks to Max Wallis of Aftershock Review, not only for publishing my effluvium, but for this fabulous editorial reading and comment on it. 💜

of scars visible and invisible. The poem asks how a body can betray itself, how flesh becomes record and trigger, “a mutiny of function / over intent.” It is raw, unflinching, refusing to sanitise what survival costs.

@jpseabright.bsky.social

effluvium by JP Seabright another stain / on the sheet / can't tell if it's / cum or menses

effluvium is a poem of leakage and revolt. Stains blur into one another, sex, blood, mucus; until the body itself becomes hostile, a site of overflow. The speaker moves between bed and self, between past and present, carrying a lifetime of “undreaming,” open.substack.com/pub/aftersho...

White Cloud Over Purple by JP Seabright White Cloud Over Purple is a burst of colour, exploration, and creativity. Published in 2024 by Atomic Bohemian, this collection is page after page of rich, vibrant writing.

As part of my review challenge, the next wonderful book I reviewed was JP Seabright’s @jpseabright.bsky.social incredible ‘White Cloud Over Purple’ published by Atomic Bohemian.

leiabutler.com/2025/08/07/w...

Thank you so much Leia! 💜

Cover of the book Preserving Government Information: Past Present, and Future, by James A, Jacobs and James R. Jacobs.

Digital decay, disappearing data, broken links: why it matters and what we can do.

📖 Join our upcoming #booktalk on PRESERVING GOVERNMENT INFORMATION. Co-hosted by @authorsalliance.bsky.social

📅 Thurs Aug 28
🕙 10 AM PT /1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1513557303...

#preservation

In case you’re doing the #sealeychallenge then Solitary Hotel is a super ‘fun size’ A6 poetry pamphlet that fits inside a back pocket, handbag, or the palm of your hand.

Available now from Red Ceilings Press or direct from me (link in bio).

SOUND ON!
Short extract of the audio version of Solitary Hotel, my latest chapbook, out now with Red Ceilings Press

Available as a free MP3 to everyone who buys a copy of the book direct from me.
Link here and in bio: jp-seabright.square.site product/solitary-hotel/

UK readers, if you can't afford to buy any of these books, order them from your local library. The authors will see your support through loan figures and PLR. You don't even have to finish reading them if you don't want!

SOUND ON!
Another short extract of the audio version of Solitary Hotel, my latest chapbook, out now from Red Ceilings Press.

Available as a free MP3 to everyone who buys a copy of the book direct from me.
Link here and in bio: jp-seabright.square.site product/solitary-hotel/