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Sarah Cave
@cavepoet.bsky.social
Writer, artist, experimenter, ordinand, hedgeling.
Poetry Dr @Prayer.
The Book of Yona (Shearsman, April, 2024)
Editor (Guillemot Press) PhD/AuDHD
Pinned
Perhaps Yona is a penguin pebble.
I've always wanted to write a play where people just occasionally walk into the room and acknowledge the weather to each other. Does this exist already...? if so my year is made.
November 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
aborted novel elevator pitches: 'writing an extended novel about safeguarding is in fact more interesting than you'd think...'
November 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Come see Susie, Kate, and I on Sunday at Blackwell’s!
November 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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This Sunday! Last few (free) tickets for Oxford launch of Wastelands here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/susie-camp...
Sunday Nov 16th 3pm Blackwell's Books, Broad Street, Oxford. Do come along and say hi!
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
October 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
One day I'll get the story about Schopenhauer pushing his landlady down the stairs into a sermon... sadly today is not that day.
October 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Reading some new poems on October 25th in OST in Truro. Come.
October 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Watching my 3 year old nephew running a rock he found along different surfaces to hear the 'good sounds' on his way to nursery while his family hurried him was a vision of myself four hours later navigating London.
September 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Wrote this. May write more. May contain liturgy. May not. open.substack.com/pub/cavepoet...
Where is Henrietta, Christopher?
On Bi-Erasure in Christopher Hampton's Carrington
open.substack.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I think my writing needs to come with the content warning... 'may contain liturgy.'
September 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Guillemot will be at this...
Small Publishers Fair returns to London's Conway Hall
next month, with 66 UK & international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks. More details soon.

Fri 24 & Sat 25 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL smallpublishersfair.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Ugh to all the memes and videos following me around the internet I say, AuDHD is having three degrees and not understanding how forms work.
September 16, 2025 at 11:03 AM
While marking, I was disappointed to discover that Space Opera has nothing to do with actual opera. It did make me think that I'd like to turn Perseverance Valley into an opera.
August 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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pls RT, modernists - CFP now out for 'Weird Modernisms', the collaborative conference between @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social !

July 2026, Loughborough University.

www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
August 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
ADHD affirmation of the day: I do not have the concentration to read books I do not enjoy, unless I'm enjoying not enjoying them. It makes for a much more positive literary experience.
August 19, 2025 at 6:15 AM
A warning for anyone thinking about following me (or socialising with me). I very much inhabit social media like I inhabit a room quietly listening occasionally contributing non sequiturs that nobody asked for. Like this for instance.
August 14, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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“Becca Drake explores the very roots of being ... and how nature proceeds in making connections within us and between us. It’s the special journeys she makes that are exciting.” Daljit Nagra on BBC Poetry Extra. Unstill Landscapes is Book of the Month on Poetry Extra. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Poetry Extra - In The Studio - Nikita Gill: Imagining Hekate - BBC Sounds
Daljit Nagra selects a highlight from the BBC World Service poetry archive.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Considering my project fieldwork, undertaken on my local landfill site, as a poetic 'waste archaeology', and how this influenced the poetics of my forthcoming poetry collection 'Wastelands' out soon from @guillemotpress.bsky.social

Substack post here: open.substack.com/pub/susiecam...
Waste Archaeology
in the making of 'Wastelands'
open.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Hot plot point: Where in the lectionary are they?
August 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
What happened at Sunday school stays at Sunday school *looks at content for fourth collection*... sort of.
July 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Does anyone else leave themselves negative commentary in the marginalia when they're writing?
July 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
My favourite phrase today = 'lived homiletics.'
July 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
At a time when I really should be reading theology, I'm reading Barbara Pym novels and obsessing over Adrienne Rich. Thanks ADHD.
July 14, 2025 at 9:18 AM
typo of the day: 'I think ink'
June 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The play went well. The Hazel players were a success and we weren't closed down by the Master of the Revels!
Writing a play for my Waldorf class and I can't help sporadically hearing the line 'Will, where's my pages?' from Shakespeare in Love.
June 26, 2025 at 6:19 AM