JP Seabright

Thank you for having me Bad Lilies 💜

Random Forest It was the summer of suicides. Long shadows cast over the lawn. Heat gripped us. A death ray. Drove us crazy. Until we could no Longer help ourselves. Or each Other. When the time came. It came often. Without warning. Sparing only the weakest of us. Those who had less will to live. Decision trees danced in the distance. Ever present. Just out of reach. We dreamt of being caught In their branches. Enjoying picnics In their shade. Scuffed shoes and Muddy knees. Leaves in our hair. We dreamt of choices. Of paths Untaken. Roads untraveled. Possibilities dangled like future Tenses. Tempting us with certainties. Like Milgram's dial. Then winter Pulled up its cold white sheet.

'Random Forest' by @jpseabright.bsky.social badlilies.uk/jp-seabright

JP Seabright — Bad Lilies A poem by JP Seabright

"We dreamt of choices. Of paths
Untaken. Roads untraveled.
Possibilities dangled like future
Tenses."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Random Forest by @jpseabright.bsky.social (2026 @badlilies.bsky.social) www.badlilies.uk/jp-seabright

Thank you for reading me 🙏🏼💜

Next Thursday I shall be at The Writing Shed in Hornsey with the fabulous Clara-Laeila Laudette.

Hope to see some of you there!
Info and tickets here and in bio
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How cool is this?! 👇🏼

No way!? That’s amazing. Would love to know what they made of it. Sorry, I’ve only now seen this msg. Thanks for reading me! 💜🙏🤖

One of Those End of the Year Things 2025 is so over

Here it is! The 2025 Review nobody asked for:

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Mark it down: Dec 20th @ 20.00 — #PoemsAbout #OpenMic + #ChristmasParty returns! Poets, readers, friends — one final night to lift your words before the year ends. 🎤✨

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Pointing out racism in books is not an ‘attack’ – it’s a call for industry reform | Monisha Rajesh I was called aggressive for criticising passages in Kate Clanchy’s memoir. But the real problem lies deep in the overwhelmingly white world of publishing

Directing to you all to this piece from 2021 in advance of the BBC and the Times maliciously raking up and rewriting painful history this week

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Pronouns Listen to Pronouns

My friend Emilija released a song they created based on a poem I wrote for TDoV about four years ago. The very appropriately named "Pronouns".

#Song #Poem #Trans #Nonbinary #Pronouns #TDoV #TransDayOfVisibility #Poet #Singer #Songwriter #Composer

https://ditto.fm/pronouns-ian-badcoe

Check out these fabulous illustrations by @molluscdimension.bsky.social of our @eff-able.bsky.social event on Weds! 💜

We have a stonking lineup of eff-able poets too! Cat Chong Chloe Clark, Rick Dove Jackson Phoenix Nash and Claire Sosienski Smith. 💜

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

This Wednesday, come and join me and George Parker (your friendly queer crip eff-able Book Daddies™️) at QUEERCIRCLE for an enlightening discussion on queer disabled art and activism with the brilliant Jamie Hale and Lucy Webster, led by Lalah-Simone Springer!

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. 💜

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My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…

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

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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!

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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.

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

Wednesday 15th October, QUEERCIRCLE, London

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