Captivating reading from Hannah Copley last night at The Soho Poly celebrating her latest collection Lapwing. 💚 This deserves all the prizes. Out now from Pavilion Poetry

On the way into work. Current mood:
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An important message from Gay's the Word

Today we remember the 40th anniversary of the raid on Gay’s the Word bookshop

....and how we fought back!

10th April 1984 - 10th April 2024

youtu.be/YGjLX1RsIUw

Do join us this Sunday at 18:30 on Zoom for the launch of ‘Mischief of One Kind and Another’ from Jen Feroze 💙 Jennie E Owen Ben Tufnell - it promises to be a great hour of poetry. Tickets are free - see our website for more info. See you there 💜

Repost from Empty Room
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An absurd cut-up thriller by poet and essayist JP Seabright. Listen to one of three variants selected by random lottery.

VARIANT: MARINE
emptyroomradio.com/chd-seabright-1

Shout out to the poetry editors who do it out of love and passion because I can tell you from first hand experience it’s certainly not done for money - because there is none. All income goes back into publishing the books, running the websites, ISBN, paying illustrators etc.

How did you get here?

CONTROL. HALT. DELETE. by JP Seabright is now broadcasting on Empty Room. Listen to one of three variants selected by random lottery. JP Seabright

Listen: t.ly/wweUm
emptyroomradio.com/chd-seabright-1
emptyroomradio.com/chd-seabright-2
emptyroomradio.com/chd-seabright-3

Please come and see some awesome queer poetry - for free! - at The Soho Poly near Oxford Street next Thurs 🌈📚

Repost from Empty Room
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A futile drama by poet and essayist JP Seabright. Listen to one of three variants selected by random lottery.

VARIANT: ULTRAVIOLET
emptyroomradio.com/chd-seabright-3

Queer Joy Klaxon! 🌈👇🏼

A public service announcement from Empty Room

A new dystopia from poet and essayist JP Seabright. Listen to one of three variants selected by random lottery.

VARIANT: BRONZE
emptyroomradio.com/chd-seabright-2

Introducing the87press Book Subscription 2024-25 📚

We're running a subscription for our 10 new books (+1 secret release) upcoming in the next year. Basically, you pay for the books upfront at a discount, and they show up at your door throughout the year!
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the87press-2…

Brilliant event next week, featuring Live Canon poets Deborah Finding and Tessa Foley with @KatDixon2012, @ianw and Cleo Henry , curated by Deborah who is poet-in-residence The Soho Poly

Don't miss it.

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Looking forward to this next week - featuring great poets including 3 fourteen poems alumni: Cleo Henry, Deborah Finding, and Kat Dixon (she/her)!

A random pile of books pulled off the shelves this morning by my daughter “for you to read mummy” 💜

Briefly Zine is a little lit mag seeking bold, succinct writing and photography. We publish writers and photographers from the UK and around the world. OPEN for all of April! Free to submit… and WE PAY 🥳

CONTROL. HALT. DELETE.
You can listen to the trailer of my radio play here, broadcasting from Empty Room on April 10th.

open.spotify.com/episode/3pQdWM…

The best thing about going away is coming home to book post!

Look at these beauties from Rachael Allen, the latest Fieldnotes, Sabeen Chaudhry and the wonderful Leia 🧦💜

A Lapwing among the tulips 😍. Pre-release copies are out in the world and I’m honestly pretty emotional about it.

Thank you 💚 Deryn Rees-Jones 💚& the Liverpool University Press team for everything 💚- being a Pavilion Poetry poet is a dream.

To pre-order Lapwing: poetrybooks.co.uk/products/lapwi…