Sarah Cave

Picture of the book against a background showing the city of Oxford. The faces of the three readers are shown in the foreground.

This Sunday! Last few (free) tickets for Oxford launch of Wastelands here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/susie-camp...
Sunday Nov 16th 3pm Blackwell's Books, Broad Street, Oxford. Do come along and say hi!

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Hopefully not Schopenhauer. He'll be too busy enjoying his poodles, while the lady who is not his landlady is not weeping at the bottom of the stairs that may or not may not be stairs.

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

Perhaps the sermon will be about how stories get set down and the canon is decided and who gets to decide the process of that deciding.

One day I'll get the story about Schopenhauer pushing his landlady down the stairs into a sermon... sadly today is not that day.

Reading some new poems on October 25th in OST in Truro. Come.

Watching my 3 year old nephew running a rock he found along different surfaces to hear the 'good sounds' on his way to nursery while his family hurried him was a vision of myself four hours later navigating London.

Where is Henrietta, Christopher? On Bi-Erasure in Christopher Hampton's Carrington

Wrote this. May write more. May contain liturgy. May not. open.substack.com/pub/cavepoet...

I think my writing needs to come with the content warning... 'may contain liturgy.'

Guillemot will be at this...

Ugh to all the memes and videos following me around the internet I say, AuDHD is having three degrees and not understanding how forms work.

While marking, I was disappointed to discover that Space Opera has nothing to do with actual opera. It did make me think that I'd like to turn Perseverance Valley into an opera.

Image of 'The Empress' by Pamela Coleman Smith - figure with long hair, crown of stars, holding sceptre-like object. Two trees (pines?) made up of dots on right-hand side. Text: Weird Modernisms, BAMS/MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026, Loughborough University, UK

pls RT, modernists - CFP now out for 'Weird Modernisms', the collaborative conference between @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social !

July 2026, Loughborough University.

www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

Additionally because I remember them and fixate on how lovely they were to read, I have a house full of books I couldn't possibly part with.

ADHD affirmation of the day: I do not have the concentration to read books I do not enjoy, unless I'm enjoying not enjoying them. It makes for a much more positive literary experience.

I have marked four papers before 8 am. May the Lord bless my future life with no marking. May darkness turn light.

Also there will be occasional wild cries in the night about marking.

A warning for anyone thinking about following me (or socialising with me). I very much inhabit social media like I inhabit a room quietly listening occasionally contributing non sequiturs that nobody asked for. Like this for instance.

Poetry Extra - In The Studio - Nikita Gill: Imagining Hekate - BBC Sounds Daljit Nagra selects a highlight from the BBC World Service poetry archive.

“Becca Drake explores the very roots of being ... and how nature proceeds in making connections within us and between us. It’s the special journeys she makes that are exciting.” Daljit Nagra on BBC Poetry Extra. Unstill Landscapes is Book of the Month on Poetry Extra. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Waste Archaeology in the making of 'Wastelands'

Considering my project fieldwork, undertaken on my local landfill site, as a poetic 'waste archaeology', and how this influenced the poetics of my forthcoming poetry collection 'Wastelands' out soon from @guillemotpress.bsky.social

Substack post here: open.substack.com/pub/susiecam...

Hot plot point: Where in the lectionary are they?

What happened at Sunday school stays at Sunday school *looks at content for fourth collection*... sort of.

The poet part of me wants to lift it and turn it into a meta narrative

Does anyone else leave themselves negative commentary in the marginalia when they're writing?

I have been told that this is a boring post and instead of deleting it I shall just acknowledge that it is... in a boring sort of way.

My favourite phrase today = 'lived homiletics.'

At a time when I really should be reading theology, I'm reading Barbara Pym novels and obsessing over Adrienne Rich. Thanks ADHD.

typo of the day: 'I think ink'

The play went well. The Hazel players were a success and we weren't closed down by the Master of the Revels!

Obviously Forster did a bit more than write about the weather.