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Mirrorstage // Limbic @cipherpress.bsky.social

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You inspire it! πŸ’«

30.10.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Absolutely delighted to be a part of this wonderful curation of @suchmayer.bsky.social! πŸ₯°

28.10.2025 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Front cover of catflap magazine issue 5: it's pale pink with the title and text in a deep burgundy, with a lime green whoosh curving around the title. The magazine's streamline is "Smart Queer Writing With a Disco Heart" and the list of articles reads 
CAConrad ON SONG
Nat Raha ON THE DANCEFLOOR
Marion Hawkes & Katieeeem ON THE DECK
Juliet Jacques PUTIN ON DRAG

Front cover of catflap magazine issue 5: it's pale pink with the title and text in a deep burgundy, with a lime green whoosh curving around the title. The magazine's streamline is "Smart Queer Writing With a Disco Heart" and the list of articles reads CAConrad ON SONG Nat Raha ON THE DANCEFLOOR Marion Hawkes & Katieeeem ON THE DECK Juliet Jacques PUTIN ON DRAG

Back cover of catflap magazine issue 5: it's pale pink with a list of contributors in deep burgundy text, embraced by a lime-green whoosh.

Contributors list:
Emma Hurson
Juliet Jacques
Nat Raha
CAConrad
Marion Hawkes
Katiee.eem
Chi Ta-wei
Tobias Wray
Benjamin Lindsay
Peter Scalpello
Tara McGinn
Gemma Cooper-Novack
Cat Brogan
Jack Thompson

Back cover of catflap magazine issue 5: it's pale pink with a list of contributors in deep burgundy text, embraced by a lime-green whoosh. Contributors list: Emma Hurson Juliet Jacques Nat Raha CAConrad Marion Hawkes Katiee.eem Chi Ta-wei Tobias Wray Benjamin Lindsay Peter Scalpello Tara McGinn Gemma Cooper-Novack Cat Brogan Jack Thompson

Catflap #5 is *finally* out of the bag! Pre-orders from next week.

Thrilled to share this glorious line-up, inc.

Nat Raha @fullnommunism.bsky.social
Juliet Jacques
CAConrad
Marion Hawkes & Katiee.eem
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@chitawei.bsky.social
@pscalpello.bsky.social
@cipherpress.bsky.social's Jack Thompson
& more

28.10.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

It's here.

BAD LANGUAGE
13/11/25

"made with love and horror, & a guidebook for our time" β€” @adamzmith.bsky.social
"Mayer's words & a gift and a gateway" β€” @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social
"incantation & spell distil a complex argument" β€” Lola Olufemi

Pre-order: peninsulapress.co.uk/products/bad...

16.09.2025 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 122    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 9

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13.10.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The cover of Divinations on Survival by Natalie Linh Bolderston against a starry mountain background.

The cover of Divinations on Survival by Natalie Linh Bolderston against a starry mountain background.

Natalie Linh Bolderston's debut collection traces her matrilineal heritage across continents and centuries, interweaving her voice with those of her mother and grandmother. The poems move between 1930s China, 1970s Vietnam and an ancient landscape populated by mother's, daughters and deities from Vietnamese and Chinese myth.

Divinations on Survival asks what it means to share a lineage in the shadow of war, and traces the complex legacies of survival that emerge as a result of conflict. Always returning to the question of how intimate, familial ties are warped and undone by political turmoil, violence and displacement, the collection distils and expands on stories passed down from grandmother to mother, to daughter, and casts women not as victims, but as powerful protectors, healers and survivors. 

Formally innovative and supple, these poems disrupt and unsettle meaning, confronting the colonising force of language to work towards a radical new poetics.

Natalie Linh Bolderston's debut collection traces her matrilineal heritage across continents and centuries, interweaving her voice with those of her mother and grandmother. The poems move between 1930s China, 1970s Vietnam and an ancient landscape populated by mother's, daughters and deities from Vietnamese and Chinese myth. Divinations on Survival asks what it means to share a lineage in the shadow of war, and traces the complex legacies of survival that emerge as a result of conflict. Always returning to the question of how intimate, familial ties are warped and undone by political turmoil, violence and displacement, the collection distils and expands on stories passed down from grandmother to mother, to daughter, and casts women not as victims, but as powerful protectors, healers and survivors. Formally innovative and supple, these poems disrupt and unsettle meaning, confronting the colonising force of language to work towards a radical new poetics.

Divinations on Survival comes out in spring 2026 and can be pre-ordered now. If you would like to book me for a reading, talk or workshop, please feel free to drop me an email: NatalieLinhBolderston@gmail.com

Divinations on Survival comes out in spring 2026 and can be pre-ordered now. If you would like to book me for a reading, talk or workshop, please feel free to drop me an email: NatalieLinhBolderston@gmail.com

Natalie Linh Bolderston is a Vietnamese-Chinese-British poet. In 2020, she received an Eric Gregory Award and co-won the Rebecca Swift Women Poets' Prize. Her poem 'Middle Name with Diacritics' came third in the 2019 National Poetry Competition and was shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. In 2024, she was Creative Future’s writer-in-residence for Stoke-on-Trent, her hometown. Her pamphlet, The Protection of Ghosts, was published by V. Press in 2019.

Natalie Linh Bolderston is a Vietnamese-Chinese-British poet. In 2020, she received an Eric Gregory Award and co-won the Rebecca Swift Women Poets' Prize. Her poem 'Middle Name with Diacritics' came third in the 2019 National Poetry Competition and was shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. In 2024, she was Creative Future’s writer-in-residence for Stoke-on-Trent, her hometown. Her pamphlet, The Protection of Ghosts, was published by V. Press in 2019.

My debut poetry collection, Divinations on Survival, can now be pre-ordered! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

See below for more info. If you'd like to book me for a reading / talk / workshop next year, drop me an email: NatalieLinhBolderston@gmail.com

#PoetryNews #UKPoetry

13.10.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

We're publishing a new book by the incredible @pscalpello.bsky.social in 2026! A sexy and thought-provoking novel-in-verse, MIRRORSTAGE is follows our narrator on a road trip through modern Britain after their release from hospital. More info πŸ‘€ : www.instagram.com/p/DK1t0AIou-...

04.08.2025 10:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ’« ANNOUNCING THE POETRY IN TRANSLATION PRIZE πŸ’«

Fitzcarraldo Editions, Giramondo Publishing and New Directions are pleased to announce the Poetry in Translation Prize, a new biennial award for an outstanding poetry collection translated into English: fitzcarraldoeditions.com/2025/06/anno...

24.06.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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cipher_press on Instagram: "🚨GUESS WHAT…. Excited + lucky to announce that, next Spring, we’ll be publishing the second book from one of our favourite poets/w…" 🚨GUESS WHAT…. Excited + lucky to announce that, next Spring, we’ll be publishing the second book from one of our favourite poets/writers/humans, Peter Scalpello 🩡🩡🩡We published Peter’s debut collection, Limbic in 2022 and it was such an honour to see the incredible response to their work. Mirrorstage is another phenomenal, important book - a hybrid prose-poetry journey through recovery and psychology that’s at once heartbreaking, sexy, witty, and beguilingly insightful. Out in March 2026!! @pscalpello

New book with the icons @cipherpress.bsky.social coming next year!!
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15.06.2025 09:12 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Gender of Sound by Anne Carson Human history is filled with unacceptable sounds: high-pitched voices, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing and ritual shouts. Who makes them? Those deviant from or deficient in the masculine idea...

The Gender of Sound by Anne Carson

'Putting a door on the female mouth has been an important project of patriarchal culture from antiquity to the present day. Its chief tactic is an ideological association of female sound with monstrosity, disorder and death.'

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11.03.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 5

Need!

18.03.2025 11:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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2 years of Vehicle 🧑 I’m so glad this book is still going. Thanks to everyone who’s reading it, sharing it with others, taking the time to review it, citing it in their own projects, teaching it 🧑 @prototypepubs.bsky.social prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/vehi...

11.02.2025 09:14 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Delighted to have Oluwaseun Olayiwola here this evening in conversation with Camille Ralphs and reading from STRANGE BEACH, the first book in the new poetry list from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

Signed copies are available to order here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/strang...

30.01.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A slide with text reading "Announcing the 2025 Dorothies . . ." and then two book covers. On the left the cover for Lana Lin's The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam, which is orange on top with a black and white photograph of Lana Lin and her partner H. Lan Thao Lam in their home. The cover is an overt homage to the 1933 cover of Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which featured a photograph of Stein and Toklas taken by Man Ray. On the left is the cover for The Endless Week by Laura Vazquez (translated by Alex Niemi). The cover features a work by the French artist Pierette Bloch that looks something like a sea of small black clouds floating on a cream-colored background, and, below this, the title and author and translator names in black text on white.

A slide with text reading "Announcing the 2025 Dorothies . . ." and then two book covers. On the left the cover for Lana Lin's The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam, which is orange on top with a black and white photograph of Lana Lin and her partner H. Lan Thao Lam in their home. The cover is an overt homage to the 1933 cover of Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which featured a photograph of Stein and Toklas taken by Man Ray. On the left is the cover for The Endless Week by Laura Vazquez (translated by Alex Niemi). The cover features a work by the French artist Pierette Bloch that looks something like a sea of small black clouds floating on a cream-colored background, and, below this, the title and author and translator names in black text on white.

We're delighted to announce our two titles for Fall 2025. Lana Lin's THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM and Laura Vazquez's THE ENDLESS WEEK (trans. by Alex Niemi). Both books will be out on 10-7-25. Please visit our website for more info on these two amazing books and their authors/translator! πŸ¦‰

23.01.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 112    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 9

Oh YES πŸ™ŒπŸ”₯

19.12.2024 22:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The God File: Yentling (broygas edition) The God File: Yentling (broygas edition) A5, 32 pages 16 poems by Sarah Crewe & So Mayer that revisit Yentl, Black Sabbath, doykheit, dumplings & Port of Liverpool to always always say β€œZionis...

CAConrad says:

"be the revolution where you stand

IT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE COLLABORATIVE CHAPBOOKS EVER!"

THE GOD FILE: YENTLING

✏️me & Sarah Crewe
🎨Loose Associations
πŸ–¨οΈ riso @burleyfisher.bsky.social
πŸ’°to #Valentines4Palestine tx @englishpen.bsky.social

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09.12.2024 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3

As we’re all starting out, here’s a Starter Pack of LGBTQIA+ writers to enrich your life and feed. Will update as more folk arrive. 🌈 πŸ“– ❀️

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13.11.2024 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2062    πŸ” 256    πŸ’¬ 150    πŸ“Œ 14

Blue was the very first film screening I ever organised, as a fundraiser, on World AIDS Day. I was 19. Programming started as activism & awareness for me, and it still is, including democratising programming & curation itself!

01.12.2024 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hello! πŸ‘‹

How nice it is to be here.

We are Prototype, an independent publisher of fiction, poetry, anthologies and interdisciplinary projects, based in London.

prototypepublishing.co.uk

28.11.2024 11:06 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Thanks a lot Damian, hope you're keeping well! 😊

29.11.2024 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And like a magical charm @pscalpello.bsky.social appears here!!! Everyone get their book LIMBIC from @cipherpress.bsky.social & follow them πŸ’žπŸ’˜β€οΈβ€πŸ”₯

29.11.2024 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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29.11.2024 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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