Susie Campbell

South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water **With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**

South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water chuffed.org/project/1132...

‘How to access a jellyfish’ (artwork, The Cinema beneath the Lake) Out today! www.lulu.com/shop/stephen...

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/...

@julianday.bsky.social Thanks for the reposts on here and the other place!

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...

See my latest article: 'Floating By II' thetidalthames.com/2025/08/03/f...
Random objects carried along Lambeth Reach. Some colourful, some amusing, some annoying, and some thought-provoking, with suggestions at the end as to how to help tackle the ever-present litter problem along the river.

have a fabulous time! x

Really excited to discuss bats, dark aesthetics, poetic language, and conservation practice with multimedia artist Nestor Pestana and @nhm.org biodiversity specialist Stephanie Holt! 2pm on Saturday 2nd August at Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham 🦇 www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art...

The inspiration to write The Cinema Beneath the Lake - and the final product #surrealism

Exciting book mail from @taniahershman.bsky.social today (Thank you!). I'm fond of books that take the form of a diary and do something different with it, and there's poetry thrown into the mix, too! 'It's Time' is right down my street, it seems, and I look forward to reading more of it.

South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water **With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**

The Sameer Project won’t stop!
Their daily water distributions in the Central Gaza area continue. They distributed 24,000 liters of fresh water yesterday, July 26th.

Donate:
chuffed.org/project/1132...

France Will Recognize Palestinian Statehood, Macron Says

France Will Recognize Palestinian Statehood, Macron Says www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

Emergency 48 Hour Water-Fast Fundraiser for Gaza | LaunchGood | LaunchGood This fast is our voice against famine — join us to bring life-saving food to Gaza’s starving families!

Please help if you can x www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

@imogenforster.bsky.social thanks so much for the repost!

a string of litter

dressmaker's mannequin modelling coat made of waste

smiling woman (Susie) wearing coat made of waste

New post on my substack about the making of a performance garment from waste. This is the second in a series of posts about the developmental fieldwork that went into the making of 'Wastelands' my poetry collection out soon
@guillemotpress.bsky.social
susiecampbell.substack.com/p/wastecoat?...

Sundress Publications is open for submissions for grant applications from trans writers with a chapbook or full-length book in progress. All eligible authors are welcome to submit during our application period which closes on July 15th, 2025. www.sundresspublications.com/submit#trans...

Fantastic news, Wendy! Congratulations! ❤️

Well this is incredibly exciting!!! I’ve been shortlisted in the poetry category for the Alpine Fellowship! I’m chuffed to bits and very grateful to the judges 🙏🏻🎉 alpinefellowship.com/poetry-prize

Ahead of September's launch of 'Wastelands', my new poetry collection forthcoming from
@guillemotpress.bsky.social

I talk about a short developmental film I made here: open.substack.com/pub/susiecam....
and the film can be viewed here:
youtube.com/watch?v=nEsz...

(reposting with better links)

Apologies, better substack link here open.substack.com/pub/susiecam...

Film poster showing a woman bent over in agony against a landscape

Ahead of September's launch of 'Wastelands', my new poetry collection forthcoming from @guillemotpress.bsky.social
I talk about a short developmental film I made here: substack.com/history/post...
and the film can be viewed here:
youtube.com/watch?v=nEsz...

Book cover showing reflection of a street lamp and pond weeds in water. Just showing behind the book is the cover of a magazine which has black and white photos on it.

Such a pleasure to review Carol Watts's latest poetry collection Mimic Pond (Shearsman Books) for Long Poem Magazine. longpoemmagazine.org.uk/reviews/mimi...

Just catching up with some Bluesky posts and spotted this apt praise for Becca Drake's beautiful Unstill Landscapes, another gorgeous publication from @guillemotpress.bsky.social
#poetry #summer #ocean #planet

A close-up of a page (from a 17c book) printed in italic type highlighting four ampersands of varying design in close proximity to each other. 222050 • Folger Shakespeare Library

four. different. ampersands. !!!!

& they all illustrate the origin of the ampersand in the ligature of the latin conjunction “et” (“and”).

222050 • @folger.edu

rob mclennan's clever substack | Substack new fiction + musings on literature, poetry, reading, etcetera ; recent works-in-progress include "the green notebook," "reading in the margins: a writing diary," and "the genealogy book," http://robm...

okay, i've it scheduled as a free substack post for july 2nd, in case such intrigues: robmclennan.substack.com

This Thursday!

An edge of land in Nova Scotia: broken, splintered trees in the foreground; dark earth; a distant, curving line of trees; part-blue, part-clouded skies.

"It’s as though you’re able to stand outside the present and see yourself as a kind of ghost..."

@helentookey.bsky.social and @martinheslop.bsky.social on their new text/audio collaboration 'To the End of the Land'. Full interview here:
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/on-the-air

A massive and overdue #LifttotheSky for @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social for such powerful writing and tireless generosity in supporting other people in the #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #PoemsAbout
Thank you, Paul, for your kindness, warmth and encouragement

Britain has escalated the global nuclear arms race – and is bringing us closer to armageddon | Simon Tisdall The UK’s strategic defence review plans to normalise nuclear weapons. Don’t believe the PR hype: they are immoral, irrational and catastrophic, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

“The UK’s strategic defence review risks normalising nuclear warfare. Don’t believe the PR hype: these weapons are immoral, irrational and catastrophic” - spot on 👇

Swift Diaries Second Wave

A new leisurely June post on the swifts we share our house with @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social @petegreensolo.com @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social