
Julia
@chiaroscuro1897
Poet | Writer | Freelance Art Historian | Published in @InkSweatTears @blackboughpoems @AnnieJournal & more
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My thanks to PL Henderson ♀ 🎨 for discussing the brilliant #WOMENSART project with me to celebrate Women’s History Month 🤩👇 ocasa.org.uk/post/women-s-h…


“Suddenly everything was made beautiful by desire’s spell.” – C.P. Cavafy, “Below the House”, translated by Daniel Mendelsohn #poetry #cavafy





A trio of treats from Nine Arches Press with the launch of James McDermott 🌈’s ‘Father Myself’, Tom Sastry’s ‘Life Expectancy Begins to Fall’ & Laurie Bolger’s ‘Lady’…covering everything from loss & heartache to satirical snapshots & celebrations of girlhood. 🙌


‘Is my heart a rose?/How unspeakable’ (Alice Oswald)… roses, memento mori & eerie beauty today with a trip to see Alison Watt’s ‘From Light’ Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery 🎨Alison Watt


Bookings open. Verse Verso: Visual Poetry and Artist Books The Warburg Institute With Chris McCabe Rachel Smith UCL Special Collections Gefn Press Robin Tomens Gustavo Grandal Montero, Andrew Morrison Bookings via the Warburg Institute website. warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/verse-v…


Inordinately excited to learn that my collage micro-chapbook ‘Roles’ will be published by the brilliant Ghost City Press as part of its 2025 summer series! 🥳 Many thanks to guest editors Tom Snarsky & effectively off ""X"" xoxo free palestine. Hurrah (& yay)!


Am very fortunate to have an object poem in the anniversary ‘Sex, Angels’ issue of RIC Journal 😇… so, if angelically erotic encounters sound inviting do take a look 👀! Sincere thanks to Saudamini & Philippe Charlier

So looking forward to this from the brilliant Emma L Filtness and Atomic Bohemian 👇

Gorgeous poetry post courtesy of the brilliant Salò Press with the arrival of these beauties by Wendy Allen 𝔾𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕒✨גליה (she/her) & @jitterbugwrites! 🎉


Today is World Dracula Day, which celebrates the possible date Bram Stoker’s Gothic vampire novel was first published in 1897. Take a look at our collection of Dracula essays which we published on the novel’s 125th anniversary. Tatiana Fajardo Clay Franklin Johnson gothickeatspress.com/dracula-and-be…




Beautiful poetry post courtesy of Penteract Press with the arrival of ‘sea pictures’ by Mary Frances…stones really do speak in this briny delight 🌊.




Today my micro-chapbook ‘ROLES’ - an assortment of ballet-themed collage poems - pirouettes into the world with Ghost City Press 🩰 You can enjoy a surreal plié, jeté or relevé for free here: ghostcitypress.com/2025-summer-se…