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Dr Briony Hughes
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Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway; Editor @ Osmosis Press & Resurgence and Ecologist poetry feature; ask me about the RHUL Poetry MA pathway!

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Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social · May 17
I'm partnering with a range of arts, heritage, & environmental organisations to run a summer series of immersive bat walks with poetry performances. Bookings are live for my collaboration with Cambridge University Botanic Garden! 🦇@cubotanicgarden.bsky.social www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/lis...
Listening to the Night: Bat Walk and Poetry Performance - Cambridge University Botanic Garden
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An immense thank you to Veer Books for the opportunity to take Sea Grammar on an outing! Exciting possibilities ahead 👀 🌊
Black board with details of event written in chalk TONIGHT - VEER\2 BooKS * POETRY READING JAMES CUMMINS BRIONY HWGHES AODAN MACCAROLE NEIL PERRY FLORENCE UNIACKE DOUa JONES 7.30 £5 CASH Blackboard with HY Gallery written in stylish font with a bath full of grass sat in the background Image of Sea Grammar concertina book held in hand on London Overground
November 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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This week, the 2nd year Poetry group explored the poetic line through a series of material interventions - a high energy way to get back into the swing of term 📝
Two students typing on an old school typewriter - one student is pointing toward thin strips of paper with written text Two students chopping paper on small guillotines and another looking through a small pile of strips of printed lines A typewriter with the following text typed: This is a line Break A pile of thin strips of paper with single poetic lines featured on each
November 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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HEY FRIENDS - I've found the perfect way to spend your Saturday night
Poster for Veer 2 Poetry Reading with James Cummins, Briony Hughes, Doug Jones, Aodan McCardle, Nell Perry, Florence Uniacke at 7pm in 100 years gallery, 13 Pearson Street, London E2 8JD £3 unwaged / £5 waged on the door
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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A reminder that performances from Brittany Thomas and Ellen Warren from the @ghostcitypress.bsky.social Small Press Takeover are available on Spotify 🧡 open.spotify.com/show/5diNbBi...
Screenshot of Spotify Newest • All Episodes Ghost City Press: Brittany Thomas reads from All the Birds are gay!! Brittany Thomas reads from All the birds are gay!! (Ghost City Press, 2025) at the Small Press Takeover on 21/10/2025. Britt... Tue • 7 min ... Ghost City Press: Ellen Warren reads from Two Legged Killers Ellen Warren reads from Two Legged Killers (Ghost City Press, 2025) at the Small Press Takeover on 21/10/2025. Ellen Warr... Nov 4 • 12 min → ..•
November 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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We're thrilled to announce the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a US poet aged 40 or older for their first or second poetry collection. In addition to publication by Graywolf, the awardee will receive $10,000 from the Poetry Foundation.

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November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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This week, the MA poetry group discussed pamphlets by Fathima Zara, Mary Jean Chan, Freya Bantiff, Gboyega Odubanjo 🧡
Hand holding a selection of the books - they are pink, orange, cream, and blue
November 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Thank you to the wonderful ‘Spineless Wonders Exhibition’ curators at @senatehouselib.bsky.social for guiding the MA poets through the political and material histories of printed pamphlets 🧡
Group of people in a circle around a display cabinet containing a mixture of printed pamphlets in multiple colours Group of people surrounding a glass case also containing books and printed matter. There is another glass case in the foreground with five pamphlets in green and brown and a blue concertina book
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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2 hours of Speculative Frequencies in @SenateHouseLib 🦇
Typewriter up close says senate house unbound
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Tomorrow the @royalholloway.bsky.social Poetics Research Centre will be leading live art performances and showcasing poetry films across floors 4 and 5 of @senatehouselib.bsky.social - be sure to drop by for bats, birds, bugs, and books🧡 www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...
Senate House Unbound: A Poetics Research Centre Takeover
Join the Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre for an interactive evening of poetry celebrating the Spineless Wonders exhibition.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Including my new project Delineations!
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Welcome to ‘The Living Library’: a pop-up exhibition of material ecopoetry curated by @royalholloway.bsky.social and the Landmark Arts Centre 🍃🪾🍁🐝🦇

This event forms part of Being Human Festival - the national festival of the humanities 🧡
A large gothic church - image taken from high up looking down at an exhibition. There are temporary walls displayed throughout featuring text art and table covered in books Woman stood in front of an exhibition area where Susie Campbell’s wound is positioned - framed images of torn fabrics are on the wall and a Concertina books on a mirror table reflecting the ceiling of a church
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Welcome to ‘The Living Library’: a pop-up exhibition of material ecopoetry curated by @royalholloway.bsky.social and the Landmark Arts Centre 🍃🪾🍁🐝🦇

This event forms part of Being Human Festival - the national festival of the humanities 🧡
A large gothic church - image taken from high up looking down at an exhibition. There are temporary walls displayed throughout featuring text art and table covered in books Woman stood in front of an exhibition area where Susie Campbell’s wound is positioned - framed images of torn fabrics are on the wall and a Concertina books on a mirror table reflecting the ceiling of a church
November 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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TOMORROW
brihughespoet.bsky.social Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social · Oct 16
Don’t miss ‘The Living Library’ at the Landmark Arts Centre! This pop-up exhibition of materially innovative ecopoetry (in partnership with @royalholloway.bsky.social) is part of @beinghumanfest.bsky.social - the UK’s National Festival of the Humanities! 9th November 🧡
A POP-UP EXHIBITION OF ECO POETRY CURATED BY BRIONY HUGHES, CAROLINE HARRIS, REDELL OLSEN & KATIE MCGETTIGAN. PLUS LIVE PERFORMANCES, DEMONSTRATIONS & WORKSHOPS PART OF BEING HUMAN 2025: THE UK'S NATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THE HUMANITIES 09/11/25 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM LANDMARK ARTS CENTRE, FERRY RD, TEDDINGTON TW11 9NN
November 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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It was such a privilege to present on the conservation education projects that have emerged from Speculative Frequencies at the @nawewriters.bsky.social conference yesterday 🦇
elating Firepactie cation any liter eating a tritase partners Briony Hughes (30-minute presentation) Room 2: 15:55-16:25 Speculative Frequencies (2025) incorporated writing exercises designed to explore feelings of human-nature enmeshment, alongside establishing kinship with a crucial yet misunderstood mammal - bats. Through partnership with the Bat Conservation Trust, alongside arts/heritage/environmental organisations such as Orleans House, Wildlife Trusts, Royal Parks, and Cambridge Botanic Garden, I explore how poetry can widen the disciplinary scope of eco-education programmes and diversify participation. This presentation offers Speculative Frequencies as a collaboration model - ongoing activities include a kit co-developed with Richmond Council, and outdoor workshops with communities/conservation professionals/policy makers. Dr Briony Hughes is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. She co-edits the Resurgence and Ecologist poetry feature and runs Osmosis Press. Publications include Speculative Frequencies (Permeable Barrier), June: A Haunting (Intergraphia), Rhizomes (Broken Sleep Books), amongst others. Her limited-edition bookarts have been widely collected by UK archives.
November 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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During tonight’s @royalholloway.bsky.social Small Press Takeover, we are incredibly lucky to host readings from Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Cole Swensen, and Jeanne Heuving! This SPT follows the incredible Material Poetics Symposium organised by Serafina Lee, Sara O’Brien, and Max Shirley 🧡
A BLOOMSBURY EVENT SERIES OF LAUNCHES, SHOWCASES, AND EXPERIMENTS IN INDEPENDENT PRESS RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS JEANNE HEUVING COLE SWENSEN 05112025 6.00 РM STEWART HOUSE ROOM 1 (VIA SENATE HOUSE LIBRARY) LONDON WC1E 7HU technē
November 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Don’t forget to book your spot at Wednesday’s ‘Material Poetics: Drafting, Duration, Form’, organised by wonderful PhD students Sarafina Lee, Sara O’Brien, and Max Shirley 🧡 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/material-p...
Material Poetics: Drafting, Duration, Form
One-day symposium bringing together researchers and practitioners working on process materialities and contemporary poetics.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Printing and folding exhibition signage for ‘The Living Library’ - see you on Sunday 9th at Landmark Arts Centre 🧡
Bright colored card with miscellaneous signage copy - that id interrupts the THE FOLY DEER - SCRUB - INSECTS ouchce will support trom me scienust Elaine Mitchell and the Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa. DELINEATIONS FREI
October 31, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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This Halloween, celebrate the nocturnal rhythms of UK bats by ordering copy of Speculative Frequencies from your local independent book store, the Permeable Barrier website, or (if you’re feeling extra spooky) the book is on Amazon 🦇
Image of a hand holding a copy of the book Speculative Frequencies, which features a digitally altered diagram of a long eared bat in hues of red and yellow
October 31, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Next week’s @royalholloway.bsky.social Small Press Takeover featuring Rachel Blau-DuPlessis, Jeanne Heuving, and Cole Swensen is definitely not one to miss🧡
A BLOOMSBURY EVENT SERIES OF LAUNCHES, SHOWCASES, AND EXPERIMENTS IN INDEPENDENT PRESS SMALL PRESS TAKEOVER RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS JEANNE HEUVING COLE SWENSEN 05.11.2025 / 6.00 Pm STEWART HOUSE ROOM 1 (VIA SENATE HOUSE LIBRARY) LONDON WC1E 7HU MORE INFORMATION: BRIONY.HUGHES@RHUL.AC.UK OR REDELL.OLSEN@RHUL.AC.UK
October 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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This is such a beautiful and interesting issue of Resurgence & Ecologist @resurgencetrust.bsky.social - what a privilege for Wastelands to be featured in it! @guillemotpress.bsky.social
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Excited to share that the incredible @susiecampbell.bsky.social is featured in the latest @resurgencetrust.bsky.social - pick up a copy to find out more about ‘waste poetics’ and collaborating with Charlie the dog🩷
Open spread magazine featuring text copy and images of close up textiles Image of magazine cover - the title of the issue is ‘the gift of water’
October 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Excited to share that the incredible @susiecampbell.bsky.social is featured in the latest @resurgencetrust.bsky.social - pick up a copy to find out more about ‘waste poetics’ and collaborating with Charlie the dog🩷
Open spread magazine featuring text copy and images of close up textiles Image of magazine cover - the title of the issue is ‘the gift of water’
October 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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‘Bats, books, and the planet: how English researchers are reimagining our relationship with nature’ 🦇📖🪾 www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/sto...
Bats, books, and the planet: how English researchers are reimagining our relationship with nature
What do bats, handmade books, and wooden libraries have in common?
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October 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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I'm on Spotify! That's a first. Thanks @brihughespoet.bsky.social
brihughespoet.bsky.social Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social · 19d
Did you miss last week’s launch? Excited to announce that next installment of the Small Press Takeover podcast is now live, featuring @ghostcitypress.bsky.social poet @danisalvadori.bsky.social reading from her new microchapbook ‘In the Blood’ 🧡 spotify.link/kQ8nEtdyPXb
Ghost City Press: Dani Salvadori reads from In the Blood
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October 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Did you miss last week’s launch? Excited to announce that next installment of the Small Press Takeover podcast is now live, featuring @ghostcitypress.bsky.social poet @danisalvadori.bsky.social reading from her new microchapbook ‘In the Blood’ 🧡 spotify.link/kQ8nEtdyPXb
Ghost City Press: Dani Salvadori reads from In the Blood
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October 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Sharing my haul from @smallpublishers.bsky.social 2025 - look at these GORGEOUS books 😍
Image of a desk covered in books of various sizes and shapes. In the middle features a fan folded sheet with an ellipsis printed in square brackets Picture of a handmade square book with the title spell of hare collaged onto a delicate paper The same book unfolding to reveal a large page of handmade text - as the book unfolds, it looks like a conch The same book but in the process of closing - the focus of this image is a series of orange book binding strings
October 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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I’M IN AWE - sharing images of handmade pamphlets, objects, zines, and more produced by my incredible MA poetry group for @smallpublishers.bsky.social 🧡
Table covered in books, envelopes, collages, and images of various shapes and sizes Image of some of the work on display at the fair. The work in the foreground is called ‘The Ribs Gift’ and is characterized by calligraphic writing on brown paper Close up image of a collage with handwritten text stuck across the span of the double page spread
October 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM