Beyond thrilled to announce that my poem THE BEAUTY HERE IS ALMOST UNBEARABLE placed third in the Magma Poetry Editor’s Prize competition! 💫 Thanks to the judges and all those involved behind the scenes!

This week's Meg's Monday Muse celebrates the #SolarEclipse2024 taking place today and visible in North America. Find out more at the link!
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'Liberation in #Greekling is a complicated dance, one often charged with loss...'
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I'm truly grateful for this incredibly thoughtful review by Joseph Dance of my Nine Arches Press collection in #EuropeanLiteratureNetwork 🙏📖🧡
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Today's AI mis-transcription gem as a tercet:

you go the shining sports
in this highlight
that sounded good

Friends – #GREEKLING is now all sold out Nine Arches Press & has gone into a second printing! Woop! ✌️📚🥳 Thank you to everyone who's bought a copy so far 🙏❣️❣️ If you'd like one, head to your favourite bookshop or order online via my brilliant publisher: ninearchespress.com/publications/p…

The glamour of having an M&S sandwich for dinner at Brighton railway station after a poetry reading 🥪 #GREEKLINGontour

“Base of the Obelisk of Theodosius. Constantinople”
Photo by James Robertson (c. 1855)

Brighton friends: #Greekling will be on the road again this Thursday 21 March! ⛵️🚂📖 I'll heading to Kemptown Bookshop to read alongside Simon Maddrell whose new @PolariPress collection, A Finger in Derek Jarman’s Mouth, is out now 💙💙 7pm, free admission: eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-readi…

We're edging! Edging closer to hitting our target. If you're in North America, like queer comics, & want to read something adults-only that confronts one of the worst crises ever to hit the LGBTQ community, you only have 1 week left to make it happen! kck.st/3I1XDZ9 💋

Flowers for my mum’s 🤐0th birthday 🎂💐

An #Athens triptych 🤍

Today’s reading pleasure: Kostya Tsolakis Greekling (@NineArchesPress , 2023)

Grief’s confusing. Five months tomorrow since Pa’s funeral & (against all odds) I feel well, focused, but also all over the shop? Not sure how the two can co-exist. I’m tired, but hopeful, super-nostalgic, but also keen on a happy, fulfilling future. I guess that’s resilience? 🤔

Knackered in Munich, back when I wore flat caps, March 2011 📸

With my parents on my nameday, Athens, 21 May 2005 📸

🍑🍌🥥 Hello Fruits! Our submission window is REOPENING on the theme of 'Queer Space' until 25th March 2024!!!

We’re particularly looking to hear from queer people of colour, trans folk and women. 💜💜💜

As always, send us your most daring work. 🍑🍌🥥 1/

So, I booked a little solo research trip in May: Karlsruhe! I want to visit the churches where two generations of Weindels (my Oma's family) were baptised & married before my 2x great-grandfather Rudolf immigrated to Bavaria. Oh & a visit to Strasbourg Cathedral won't hurt 😉

I predict excommunication once I’ve written the poem ⛪️👉🤭

I’m reading a booklet I bought at a church in Greece a while ago about a military saint’s life, deeds & miracles, & it is - as I hoped - incredibly queer 🌈⚔️👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨

Our next pamphlet submission window is now open! Send us your queer manuscripts - all info at fourteenpoems.com/submit. And keep your eyes peeled for two more pamphlets this Spring from Chris Lloyd and Yas Necati (Kaan K). ✌🏻