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Imogen Reid
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PhD Chelsea College of Arts. Work in: Partisan Hotel, gorse journal, Mercurius Magazine, Sublunary Editions, 3AM Magazine, Essence Press, Vanguard Readings. Chapbooks with Gordian Projects & Nightjar Press, book with Rossi Contemporary
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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · Oct 30
Excited to have my new chapbook, "Fabrication" published by @nicholasroyle.bsky.social & Nightjar Press. I'm delighted that it's been paired with @arthurmandal.bsky.social's"Old Tutor, New Tutor". Now available to order online here: nightjarpress.weebly.com/fabrication.... pic.x.com/Smq9DtGXU7
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Line Drawing/Grid, Layered Print on Hahnemühle Laid Paper
January 3, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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Line Drawing/Grid, Layered Print on Hahnemühle Laid Paper
January 3, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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Gifted some money for Christmas and not sure what to spend it on? Just a reminder that the Vanguard Special Edition: Poetry Only, valued at £80, is still on special offer of £40 (plus £10 p&p). What a bargain!

Further details here: richardskinner.weebly.com/vanguard-spe...
December 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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We didn’t get Books Council Wales funding, it would've meant 5 years of stability. It’s a blow, and it means a rockier road ahead, but our commitment to ambitious, inclusive, working-class publishing stays firm. If you want to help: buy a book, spread the word, or donate:

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Dear friends, I’m writing with some difficult news. We recently applied for long-term revenue funding through the Books Council of Wales, support that would have secured stability for Broken Sleep Books for the next five years and helped us continue publishing the ambitious, risk-taking, inclusive work we believe in so deeply. Unfortunately, we were not successful. It’s disappointing, of course. We put forward a strong application, had a positive interview, and genuinely believed our publishing programme where we champion low socio-economic status authors, working-class authors, and marginalised authors, while widening access to the arts and degentrifying the arts, reflected the cultural values Wales should be proud to support. Clearly, our idea of cultural value doesn’t fully match the Books Council’s. Sometimes decisions go another way. What hasn’t changed is our commitment. Broken Sleep Books will carry on publishing with the same determination, ambition, and care that has always sustained us, just with fewer resources and a much harder road ahead. If you value what we do, there are meaningful ways you can help us weather this moment: 📚 Buy a book, or a few Every purchase directly supports the press. Browse the catalogue here: https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/books 🎁 Consider our books as gifts With the holidays approaching, this makes a real difference. 💬 Spread the word Tell a friend, share our books online, recommend us to a bookshop, or forward this newsletter. ❤️ Make a donation (if you’re able) Some readers have asked how they can help directly. If you’d like to support our work with a small donation, we’ve set up a simple option here: https://ko-fi.com/brokensleepbooks (Please only give if you’re in a position to do so, we know times are hard for many.) Broken Sleep has always been a community effort, powered by readers, writers, booksellers, and supporters who believe in literature that takes risks and makes space for voices that don’t always find a home elsewhere. Thank you, sincerely, for sticking with us. Your support means everything, especially right now.
November 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Issue 8 is OPEN FOR SUBS!

Remix our works!

Mind the Off Limits List: buff.ly/xboarlD

Rules: buff.ly/W6Q0BoP

Deadline: Jan 31

#writingcommunity #artistcommunity #collage #art #indiepublishing #indielit #litmag #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingprompt
January 2, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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'Lyrical, political and nuanced' - Katrina Naomi

'Meridian is a kind of requiem, a poem that mourns the passing of the world it is travelling through' - Billy Mills

New year offer: £3 off Nancy Gaffield's 'Meridian' (until 3 January)
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'Meridian' by Nancy Gaffield. Several copies of an aquamarine blue hardback arranged in a stack
January 2, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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I’m going to thank all the editors and venues who accepted my work in 2025 – which looks generous, but is really just a way of telling you where I got published this year: Catamaran, @southeastreview.bsky.social ,Los Angeles Review, @maudlinhouse.bsky.social, Marrow, Oyster River Pages and Euphony.
December 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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A book page, white on white (after Malevich)
December 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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In a combination of prose and free-form poems, I, bird destabilises reality, conjuring aspects of David Lynch and Marina Abramović. This is a collection for our times - 'genocide is being perpetrated in a foreign land ... Now is the time for the 'Screaming Tree' ('The White Room').
- Amanda Bell
January 1, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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Registration for the online launch is here on Eventbrite - link below

www.brokensleepbooks.com/events
January 1, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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A love letter to the greatest double act in cinema, My Ear Is Full of Milk gathers poets, essayists, and storytellers who have spent a lifetime laughing with, and thinking through, Laurel & Hardy.

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A bold, graphic book cover on a deep navy-blue background. At the top, large orange uppercase text reads ‘BROKEN SLEEP BOOKS PRESENTS’. On the right, stacked blue lettering spells out the title ‘MY EAR IS FULL OF MILK’. Centred is a stylised, vintage-inspired illustration of Laurel & Hardy: one in warm yellow and orange tones wearing a bowler hat, smiling broadly, and the other in pale cream and green tones wearing a tall brown hat, tilted and grinning mischievously. In the lower left, light blue text reads ‘An anthology of writing for Laurel & Hardy’. Diagonally across the lower right corner, bold orange text states ‘EDITED BY SIMON BARRACLOUGH & AARON KENT’.
December 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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On Thursday 15th January at 7pm (UK time) the live online launch of 'My Ear is Full of Milk,' a new anthology celebrating the life, work and legacy of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Subscribers already have an invitation. If you'd like to join them, email me via davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site
January 1, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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A huge thank you to @nicholasroyle.bsky.social & @saltpublishing.com, @thelincolnreview.bsky.social, @vikshirley.bsky.social & @sublunary.bsky.social for publishing (nominating) my work in 2025. To Rossi Contemporary & Claire Oberst, for exhibiting it & @lauradavispoems.bsky.social for carrying it!
December 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Grid, Layered Print on Hahnemühle Laid Paper
December 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Check out the Contributors' Curio: buff.ly/eHwvv5k!

Our curio houses info on our contributors' creative projects.

This #Spotlight is on Julia Biggs @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social !
December 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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a favorite from "Nets," Jen Bervin's erasure of Shakespeare sonnets
so solemn and so rare, you, who had to hope
December 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Just wait..
This cannot be a new year..
yet
December 31, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Compressing the Cornered: a TextArt riff on Irving Penn's 'Portraits in a Corner' and one of mine (with thanks to @imogenreid.bsky.social )
December 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Earlier in the summer, after a shattering loss, in The Carbon Arc, a collection of essays on cinema published by Vanguard Editions @richardnskinner.bsky.social, on time and memory in Eternity and a Day (1998) by Theo Angelopoulos

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"You Will Never Love Less" Eternity and a Day (1998) Time and Memory on the Threshold between Life and Death: The Poet's Journey Christina Tudor-Sideri The end is the end and not the consciousness of the end. I uproot these words from a past conversation about death and let them echo in my head as I cross the bridge connecting a small island in the Black Sea to the path home. I have grown accustomed to these fourteen minutes back-and-forth, to the cry of seagulls, to the faint rays of the winter sun on my skin. Behind me, the formless world roars and rumbles as if entire cities were crumbling into dust, yet all I leave is water. The sound of the wind reminds me of the wind in Homer, of Theo Angelopoulos and his winter landscapes, of snow and sea and the disappearing horizon. There have been many homes. There is no home. Two sides of the same abyss. I think about the wonders and wanderings of life, about being wonderstruck by the trembling of leaves. The wind in the early Lumière films. And again, Homer. What a sea the winds are rising. A tapestry of what I have read and written and discussed in the course of a lifetime weaves itself in the air and falls upon my shoulders, as if to remind me that colder days are coming. In these fourteen minutes, the walk home becomes a journey through the whole of time. Time in its passage, leaving splinters of itself as memories in the brain. Time, all-pervading. Time, like Caravaggio's finger into the wound of existence. Time on film. The journey of others. I have yet to recognize what is it that returns in recollection, nor do I know whether it belongs entirely to me. Nevertheless, I embrace it. It won't be long now. Home.
December 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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December 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Sundress Publications is open for submissions for microgrant applications from Palestinian writers with a chapbook or full-length book in progress. Projects of all genres are welcome. Visit our website to learn more and apply by December 31, 2025. www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/09...
December 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Excited to have my new chapbook, "Fabrication" published by @nicholasroyle.bsky.social & Nightjar Press. I'm delighted that it's been paired with @arthurmandal.bsky.social's"Old Tutor, New Tutor". Now available to order online here: nightjarpress.weebly.com/fabrication.... pic.x.com/Smq9DtGXU7
October 30, 2024 at 7:37 PM
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Been delving into this wonderful treasure trove of postcards by the wonderful @vikshirley.bsky.social Available from the excellent @tomjenksuk.bsky.social ‘s Zimzalla.
October 18, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Today’s Nico post for @thearsonista.bsky.social is an incredible cut-up poem from @vikshirley.bsky.social ⚡️ ⚡️⚡️
The Woodcutter by Vik Shirley
Nico (1967) by Michael Ochs. Vik Shirley is a poet and writer from Bristol living in Edinburgh . Her collections and chapbooks include: Persona Digitalia (PhotoWorks, 2025), a photo poetr…
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December 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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some above/ground press author activity: Chris Banks, Vik Shirley, Melanie Dennis Unrau, Gregory Betts, Gary Barwin + J.R. Carpenter, / @garybarwin.bsky.social @whatisapoem.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social ;
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some author activity: Banks, Shirley, Unrau, Betts, Barwin + Carpenter,
Chris Banks offers his "best Canadian poetry books of 2025" list, via The Woodlot ; Vik Shirley has a new poem up at Burning House Press ; M...
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December 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM