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Nude #7. White room whose walls,having neither planes nor curves nor angles, are composed of a continuous satiny white membrane like the flesh of some interior organ of the moon. It is a living surface, almost wet. Lucency breathes in and out. Anne Carson, The Glass Essay

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‘Is my heart a rose?/How unspeakable’ (Alice Oswald)…rose-brushed musings today with a visit to Alison Watt’s ‘From Light’ at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery 🥀

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Just like the easter bunny, we're here to offer up some treats in the form of THREE poetry chapbooks 😍 Pre-order is live at salopress.com

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More poetry gorgeousness from @salopress.bsky.social with @jitterbugwrites.bsky.social’s exciting new forthcoming pamphlet! 🙌

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A fabulous @ninearchespress.bsky.social triple launch night, showcasing James McDermott’s unflinching poems of loss & grief, @tomsastry.bsky.social’s adept mixing of satire & elegy, & Laurie Bolger’s fizzing, witty, rom-com energy. 🩷🩷🩷

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It's #NationalPoetryMonth -- check out Judith Copithorne's visual poetry, and her amazing collection ANOTHER ORDER (edited by Eric Schmaltz, published by Talonbooks ): talonbooks.com/books/anothe...

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Excited for this forthcoming beauty from @wendycaitlin.bsky.social @galiamelon.bsky.social @salopress.bsky.social 🩷

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If you want to know more about the WomensArt project - here is my recent interview.... www.ocasa.org.uk/post/women-s...

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My thanks to P.L. Henderson for discussing the brilliant @womensartbluesky.bsky.social project with me to celebrate Women’s History Month 🤩👇👀 www.ocasa.org.uk/post/women-s...

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MAKE UP MY MIND by @leiabutler.bsky.social is out today! This extraordinary, playful, thought-provoking book of visual poetry is available as ebook www.steelincisors.com/product/make... and as lush paperback mixam.co.uk/print-on-dem...

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I like you; your eyes are full of language. Anne Sexton, 1964

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Absolutely love this from @karanchambers.bsky.social ‘s new pamphlet ‘woman | folk’ from @salopress.bsky.social…the perfect poem for International Women’s Day ❤️🤩

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‘Turn on, tune in, and slip sideways into language’…fantastic article by @gregchthomas.bsky.social on the work of Dom Sylvester Houédard. 🤩

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Delighted to be part of the celebration of all things Classics-related with a collage piece in the latest issue of @aothenmagazine.bsky.social … 🌙 aothenmagazine.com#issue8 🌙

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Cannot overstate just how powerful @regretteruane.bsky.social’s erasures are - the challenging of the original text feels urgent and revelatory 👇

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Wonderful online launch of ‘Patient L1’ - a fantastic verse memoir by @simonmaddrell.bsky.social speaking in the voice of @jonb-2149.bsky.social -from @polari.press. 🤩 ‘I’ll live a lot longer than you think…’

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This collection from @leiabutler.bsky.social & @steelincisors.bsky.social looks exciting! 💋

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❛ She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. Author Angela Carter, who died #OTD in 1992.

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stand to face me beloved and open out the grace of your eyes

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More Gothic goodness from @sjartt.bsky.social 🖤

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A perfect @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social pamphlet hour (celebrating the liberating & risk-taking potential of the form, & indie presses) with fabulous readings from Laurie Bolger, @troycabida.bsky.social, Betty Doyle & Ellora Sutton. 🩷

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A gorgeously Gothic Valentines treat tonight courtesy of @gothicauob.bsky.social & @jfpackham.bsky.social exploring uncanny utterances of love & disorientating rapture via Derrida, Barthes, Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’ & more! 🖤🖤🖤

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navigation by light

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Our Bluesky followers can get £5 off any order this month by using code 'BLUE' at the checkout! We'd love to re-connect with the visual poetry community here on Bluesky - please like and repost this message to help us spread the word!

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1 week to go until our Valentine's Special! 💘🖤 🗣 Dr Jimmy Packham 🥀 Gothic & Love 📅 13th Feb 🕐 5 - 6.30pm GMT 📍Zoom Dr Jimmy Packham is a senior lecturer at @unibirmingham, with research specialisms in gothic literature & the blue humanities 🌊

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More Gothic conceptions of female appetite & desire via some collages by yours truly! Many thanks to @genrepunkmag.bsky.social for warmly welcoming the weird!

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Cannot wait to dive into ‘Perfection’ by @vincenzo.bsky.social from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social ❤️

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