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JP Seabright
@jpseabright.bsky.social
genderqueer genrefluid writer of things #pwME 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺📚
Latest book: Solitary Hotel 🖤 Check links for all the others!
Co-editor of https://effable.uk

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New book available now from Red Ceilings Press.

Solitary Hotel is a poem sequence inspired by Samuel Barber’s song. It explores loneliness, longing, isolation and love lost and profound, on the North Norfolk coast.
www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/product-page/solitary-hotel-jp-seabright
Solitary Hotel - JP Seabright | Red Ceilings Press
Chapbook RCP118A6 40 Pages40 Copies£9
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Mark it down: Dec 20th @ 20.00 — #PoemsAbout #OpenMic + #ChristmasParty returns! Poets, readers, friends — one final night to lift your words before the year ends. 🎤✨

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November 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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#PoemsAbout #Desire is live. Post from today through Thursday. Tag your post. Use Alt Text. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché. Engage—don’t ghost. Read 3+, repost, reply. Sign up for prompt packs: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
November 14, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Directing to you all to this piece from 2021 in advance of the BBC and the Times maliciously raking up and rewriting painful history this week

www.theguardian.com/books/2021/a...
Pointing out racism in books is not an ‘attack’ – it’s a call for industry reform | Monisha Rajesh
I was called aggressive for criticising passages in Kate Clanchy’s memoir. But the real problem lies deep in the overwhelmingly white world of publishing
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November 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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My friend Emilija released a song they created based on a poem I wrote for TDoV about four years ago. The very appropriately named "Pronouns".

#Song #Poem #Trans #Nonbinary #Pronouns #TDoV #TransDayOfVisibility #Poet #Singer #Songwriter #Composer

https://ditto.fm/pronouns-ian-badcoe
Pronouns
Listen to Pronouns
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November 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Check out these fabulous illustrations by @molluscdimension.bsky.social of our @eff-able.bsky.social event on Weds! 💜
October 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM
This Wednesday, come and join me and George Parker (your friendly queer crip eff-able Book Daddies™️) at QUEERCIRCLE for an enlightening discussion on queer disabled art and activism with the brilliant Jamie Hale and Lucy Webster, led by Lalah-Simone Springer!
October 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Next Wednesday! Come and join us. Tickets are Pay What You Can and it’s BYOB!
October 10, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Resharing on #worldmentalhealthday and wishing you all peace and wellbeing, this and every day. 💜
This is not the post I planned to write today, but clearly the one I needed to write…

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October 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Today! I’m performing at the City Lit Mental Wealth Festival. Come and join us - for music, song, poetry & spoken word. Only £5 to salve your soul. 💜

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October 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
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October 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This is not the post I planned to write today, but clearly the one I needed to write…

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October 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
It’s National Poetry Day so one feels obliged to post something ‘poetic’, yet I’ve barely written or published any poetry this year.

But I have co-run an ACE-funded project, edited an anthology & championed the work of queer crip poets, shining a spotlight on voices so often marginalised.
October 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
A librarian’s pilgrimage to the old British Library Reading Room.

One of the advantages of being old is that I got to study in here when I moved to London to do my Masters. 🤓📚
September 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I’m so behind on my TBR pile that I’ve only now discovered this lovely review of MotherFlux in the Winter 2024 edition of the Poetry Book Society Bulletin!

Huge thanks to Shalini Sengupta for reading us, Nine Pens for publishing us and Erica and Jem for all the MotherFluxing words. 💜
September 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Final part of my Substack series on the developmental processes of my Wastelands project just in time for publication day (@guillemotpress Mon Sept 22) susiecampbell.substack.com/p/wastelands...
September 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Mostly written in the Spring, but set in Autumn, I never imagined that my chapbook Solitary Hotel, which explores grief, loneliness and isolation, would foretell how this September is turning out.

For James. R.I.P. 💔✊🏾

Audio version free with copies bought direct from me:
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September 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Join us for a unique event celebrating Arts & Activism: Queer Disabled Creativity in Action!

Wednesday 15th October, QUEERCIRCLE, London

www.outsavvy.com/event/29864/...
Arts & Activism: Queer Disabled Creativity in Action Tickets - London - OutSavvy
Jamie Hale and Lucy Webster, in conversation with Lalah-Simone Springer Join us for a unique event, celebrating queer disabled activism and creativity. Hear from Jamie Hale, award-winning poet, playwr...
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September 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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So excited for our eff-able show in Sheffield this Thursday. We have a fabulous set of poets, performers and host, and Audio Description. Come and join us!

www.outsavvy.com/event/27392/...
This is Not a Side Show: eff-able in Sheffield! Tickets - Sheffield - OutSavvy
Join us at Sidney and Matilda in Sheffield to celebrate queer crip sensual joy - and the release of spicy anthology of queer crip poetry, eff-able. Expect a night of queer crip spiciness as Sheffield...
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September 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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eff-able comes to Scotland this Friday! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
We have an effing fabulous show lined up for Glasgow. Do come along if you’re in town, or tell everyone there if you’re not!
www.outsavvy.com/event/28155/...
This is Not a Side Show: eff-able in Glasgow! Tickets - Glasgow - OutSavvy
Join us at The Boardwalk in Glasgow to celebrate queer crip sensual joy - and the release of spicy anthology of queer crip poetry, eff-able. Expect a night of queer crip spiciness as Glasgow's hottes...
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September 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Order your poetry scratchcards today : www.thepoetrykiosk.com/product-page...
August 30, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Palestinians are writing their stories, documenting both the horror of the war and the resilience of the people. Young people and Gaza elders are recording testimonies—narrating their stories for the world to read.
Displaced in Gaza
Palestinians are writing their stories, documenting both the horror of the war and the resilience of the people. Young people and Gaza elders are recording testimonies—narrating their stories for the ...
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August 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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The speaker of the poem glimpses the poet over her shoulder

art: Rob's Room
August 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Huge thanks to Max Wallis of Aftershock Review, not only for publishing my effluvium, but for this fabulous editorial reading and comment on it. 💜
effluvium is a poem of leakage and revolt. Stains blur into one another, sex, blood, mucus; until the body itself becomes hostile, a site of overflow. The speaker moves between bed and self, between past and present, carrying a lifetime of “undreaming,” open.substack.com/pub/aftersho...
effluvium by JP Seabright
another stain / on the sheet / can't tell if it's / cum or menses
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August 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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of scars visible and invisible. The poem asks how a body can betray itself, how flesh becomes record and trigger, “a mutiny of function / over intent.” It is raw, unflinching, refusing to sanitise what survival costs.

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August 21, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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effluvium is a poem of leakage and revolt. Stains blur into one another, sex, blood, mucus; until the body itself becomes hostile, a site of overflow. The speaker moves between bed and self, between past and present, carrying a lifetime of “undreaming,” open.substack.com/pub/aftersho...
effluvium by JP Seabright
another stain / on the sheet / can't tell if it's / cum or menses
open.substack.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:45 AM