Jo Bratten
@jobratten.bsky.social
Poet person. London. CLIMACTERIC (2022).
PhD St Andrews. Work in lots of places and in progress. NB: I tend to only follow UK-based poets and publishers here.
jobratten.co.uk
PhD St Andrews. Work in lots of places and in progress. NB: I tend to only follow UK-based poets and publishers here.
jobratten.co.uk
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Jo Bratten
@jobratten.bsky.social
· Dec 30
Having not published a thing in 2023, it was especially gratifying to have a handful of poems published this past year. Big thanks to the editors of these journals for finding homes for these poems…
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OUT NOW. Issue Twenty-One: Long-limbed Darlings badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-1
Issue twenty-one — Bad Lilies
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July 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
OUT NOW. Issue Twenty-One: Long-limbed Darlings badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-1
There is a new bunch of Bad Lilies out and two of them are mine www.badlilies.uk/jo-bratten-1. It’s a corker of an issue
Jo Bratten — Bad Lilies
Two poems by Jo Bratten
www.badlilies.uk
July 5, 2025 at 6:19 AM
There is a new bunch of Bad Lilies out and two of them are mine www.badlilies.uk/jo-bratten-1. It’s a corker of an issue
Spring has finally sprung and with it spring issues of @poetrylondon.bsky.social and @magmapoetry.bsky.social – I’m lucky to have a poem in each, alongside all manner of brilliance 💛
March 30, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Spring has finally sprung and with it spring issues of @poetrylondon.bsky.social and @magmapoetry.bsky.social – I’m lucky to have a poem in each, alongside all manner of brilliance 💛
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Time to spotlight the poets of issue twenty. First up, we have four poems by Matthew Caley badlilies.uk/matthew-caley-1
March 1, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Time to spotlight the poets of issue twenty. First up, we have four poems by Matthew Caley badlilies.uk/matthew-caley-1
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This week from the archive: read Rose Apple and the Desiccated Lake by Naush Sabah, published in PN Review 259, May - June 2021.
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Rose Apple and the Desiccated Lake by Naush Sabah
PN Review 259, May - June 2021
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February 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This week from the archive: read Rose Apple and the Desiccated Lake by Naush Sabah, published in PN Review 259, May - June 2021.
open.substack.com/pub/pnreview/p/rose-app...
open.substack.com/pub/pnreview/p/rose-app...
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Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous.
I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.
🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.
🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
There’s a sort of Trump apologist, a relatively small but loud subset, who probably don’t realize or intend to be, but are so attached to a previous hyperbolic claim that they deny anything important changed.
-US was already an oligarchy
-US was already fascist
-Biden gave Israel a blank check
-Etc
-US was already an oligarchy
-US was already fascist
-Biden gave Israel a blank check
-Etc
November 15, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous.
I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.
🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.
🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
As democracy collapses around our ears I’m not advocating a retreat into illusion, in spite of what this poem might suggest. Hugely grateful to @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social for publishing the first of my Chekhov poems in their Feb/March edition
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February 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
As democracy collapses around our ears I’m not advocating a retreat into illusion, in spite of what this poem might suggest. Hugely grateful to @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social for publishing the first of my Chekhov poems in their Feb/March edition
thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...
thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...
Latest @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social landing on doormats – have gone straight to the crossword where I’m stuck on 29 across
February 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Latest @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social landing on doormats – have gone straight to the crossword where I’m stuck on 29 across
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Bad Lilies returns, with much joy, to a screen near you next month. We’ve some beautiful poems in store for you. Follow us on @badlilies.bsky.social if you don’t already. 🌸
January 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Bad Lilies returns, with much joy, to a screen near you next month. We’ve some beautiful poems in store for you. Follow us on @badlilies.bsky.social if you don’t already. 🌸
You know that poetry Bluesky has found its feet when there’s beef #poetrydiscourse
January 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
You know that poetry Bluesky has found its feet when there’s beef #poetrydiscourse
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I know we don’t really need rain here in the UK at the moment, but I’d still like to share this truly beautiful poem by @niallpoetry.bsky.social which I re-discovered thanks to @marjorielotfi.bsky.social’s January writing reset sessions.
#poetry
#poetry
January 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I know we don’t really need rain here in the UK at the moment, but I’d still like to share this truly beautiful poem by @niallpoetry.bsky.social which I re-discovered thanks to @marjorielotfi.bsky.social’s January writing reset sessions.
#poetry
#poetry
Pages 36-37 of the new @rialtopoetry.bsky.social are especially pleasing - poems by Matthew Caley and @drlauravarnam.bsky.social
January 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Pages 36-37 of the new @rialtopoetry.bsky.social are especially pleasing - poems by Matthew Caley and @drlauravarnam.bsky.social
Am honoured (and unworthy) to follow Elizabeth Bishop in @mconley.bsky.social’s alphabetical journey through poems - really appreciative of the time he gave my little not-a-moon-poem poem 🙏
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Enjoyed this one - here's the letter B! Great poem from @andotherpoems.bsky.social by @jobratten.bsky.social
Enjoyed this one - here's the letter B! Great poem from @andotherpoems.bsky.social by @jobratten.bsky.social
B: Jo Bratten
Despite what its appearance might suggest the moon still has a hot interior
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January 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Am honoured (and unworthy) to follow Elizabeth Bishop in @mconley.bsky.social’s alphabetical journey through poems - really appreciative of the time he gave my little not-a-moon-poem poem 🙏
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Our February / March 2025 issue is now available for pre-order!
Cover image by @stephenwhatcott.bsky.social.
Pre-order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/sing...
Cover image by @stephenwhatcott.bsky.social.
Pre-order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/sing...
January 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Our February / March 2025 issue is now available for pre-order!
Cover image by @stephenwhatcott.bsky.social.
Pre-order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/sing...
Cover image by @stephenwhatcott.bsky.social.
Pre-order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/sing...
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Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
January 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
Surprised to see that the punchiest and clearest piece about Trump today is in the Times, by a former Tory MP…
January 20, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Surprised to see that the punchiest and clearest piece about Trump today is in the Times, by a former Tory MP…
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🔵 Submissions are OPEN for Propel 14, Edited by Susannah Dickey and launching end March 2025 🔵
If you've yet to publish a first full collection, we'd love to read your poems!
>> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit
If you've yet to publish a first full collection, we'd love to read your poems!
>> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit
January 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
🔵 Submissions are OPEN for Propel 14, Edited by Susannah Dickey and launching end March 2025 🔵
If you've yet to publish a first full collection, we'd love to read your poems!
>> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit
If you've yet to publish a first full collection, we'd love to read your poems!
>> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit
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Jane Hirshfield. This poem appears in The Asking: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2024).
January 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Jane Hirshfield. This poem appears in The Asking: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2024).
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I read and love lots of contemporary poetry. But few poems engage me the way Victoria Spires' contribution to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social's #toptweettuesday has this week. Not since @jobratten.bsky.social's 'Sunset Over Watford' (in wave four of @iambapoet.com) has an urban poem hit me this hard.
January 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I read and love lots of contemporary poetry. But few poems engage me the way Victoria Spires' contribution to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social's #toptweettuesday has this week. Not since @jobratten.bsky.social's 'Sunset Over Watford' (in wave four of @iambapoet.com) has an urban poem hit me this hard.
I grew up without a TV so reading obsessively for pleasure is in my bones but in the past decade I’ve lost the ability to do it (for all the usual reasons). Thanks to 19C sensation novels I’ve spent the last weeks staying up way too late to read the next chapter, and the next, and the next…
January 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I grew up without a TV so reading obsessively for pleasure is in my bones but in the past decade I’ve lost the ability to do it (for all the usual reasons). Thanks to 19C sensation novels I’ve spent the last weeks staying up way too late to read the next chapter, and the next, and the next…
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The latest instalment of the Walshaw Moor turbines story - a sorry tale of potentially large-scale habitat destruction & C loss markavery.info/2025/01/02/g...
#windfarm #carbon #miliband #peat #deeppeat #curlew #lapwing #plover #grouse #yorkshire #haworth #bronte #calderdale #walshaw #moorland #£££
#windfarm #carbon #miliband #peat #deeppeat #curlew #lapwing #plover #grouse #yorkshire #haworth #bronte #calderdale #walshaw #moorland #£££
January 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Here's to all the amazing poets and poems we published over the course of 2024 and welcomed into the And Other Poems family.
Three issues and 54 poets!
Here's to more poems in 2025 - submissions for Issue Six are now OPEN!
Three issues and 54 poets!
Here's to more poems in 2025 - submissions for Issue Six are now OPEN!
January 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Here's to all the amazing poets and poems we published over the course of 2024 and welcomed into the And Other Poems family.
Three issues and 54 poets!
Here's to more poems in 2025 - submissions for Issue Six are now OPEN!
Three issues and 54 poets!
Here's to more poems in 2025 - submissions for Issue Six are now OPEN!
Thanks to @clareshawpoet.bsky.social and @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social for wrangling & inspiring over 250 writers during this morning’s writing hour. My mood going into 2025…
January 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Thanks to @clareshawpoet.bsky.social and @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social for wrangling & inspiring over 250 writers during this morning’s writing hour. My mood going into 2025…
Thanks to the many supportive and inspiring writers, on here and elsewhere: it has been lovely meeting so many of you at readings and events.
Wishing you all a happy and productive 2025 - may all your Submittable submissions turn green 💚
Wishing you all a happy and productive 2025 - may all your Submittable submissions turn green 💚
December 30, 2024 at 11:11 AM
Thanks to the many supportive and inspiring writers, on here and elsewhere: it has been lovely meeting so many of you at readings and events.
Wishing you all a happy and productive 2025 - may all your Submittable submissions turn green 💚
Wishing you all a happy and productive 2025 - may all your Submittable submissions turn green 💚