Happy to use trans rights for a photo op though yeah? Fuck you Keir Starmer

What a gorgeous final issue bath magg, thank you for helping me find some of my favourite ever poems / poets over the past few years 🦆🛁

So excited for this 🙌🏻

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This wonderful pamphlet by Yanita Georgieva arrived in the post this morning from Broken Sleep Books Full of beautiful, moving poems, here's my favourite 🌺

“Too much freedom and not enough tenderness.” A poem by Keetje Kuipers.

Ada Limón • The Hurting Kind

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Book Dr Betty Doyle to read at your events this summer! Saw Betty read from her gorgeous pamphlet at Verbose Manchester a couple of years ago and she was amazing ✨🍓

In an exciting turn of events I will now be hosting the #openmic at Queer Lit this evening! The line up looks sick so get yourself down nice and early to grab a good seat ✨

Huge thank you to all the open micers and the contributors from the JOY//US anthology who shared their work at Queer Lit last night. Thoroughly enjoyed being the surprise host for the evening ☀️🐦

It's in the diary 🙌🏻

Thank you to Jade Lantern Records and Publishing and host of dreams, John Clifford, for inviting me to read some poems as part of the 2161 festival in Macclesfield this weekend ☀️ Met some lovely folks, read poems about being a dyke, drove home while the sun set. 11/10

Returned home from 5 days of camping yesterday to find my copy of Ciara brilliant pamphlet 'Impossible Heat' from Little Betty waiting Was too excited to unpack so did the most dykey thing I could think of instead (read it cover to cover to my girlfriend in bed) ✨

I keep thinking how 3 little girls were killed & more were hurt & traumatised, & instead of talking about their precious lives, we are being forced to focus on violent entitled white men burning cars & towns, who don’t give a shit about women’s & girls’ safety.

Love this poem beckymaywriter 🎉❤️

Really enjoying the latest issue of Gutter, in particular Akshay Sreeja's 'Prose poem for my Turkish Barber' and Sherre Vernon's poem 'Because She Suddenly Remembers I'll Die' Well worth a read if you can get your hands on a copy ✨

‘They are kissing as the streets fill with balloons/ or soldiers’ #DorianneLaux

My poem that is a runner up in the Stanza competition for the #NationalPoetryDay2024 theme of Counting. Thank you so much Rachel Long for choosing it. Trigger warning baby loss. The Poetry Society National Poetry Day Miscarriage Association Sands - baby loss charity 💙🧡 Tomm