Troy Cabida
@troycabida.bsky.social
NEON MANILA (Nine Arches Press, 2025)
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Publication Day for NEON MANILA by @troycabida.bsky.social
A dazzling #debut exploring queer Filipino identity & pop culture, embracing fashion, humour, music, dating, desire & everyday city living. A book of 'unflinching vulnerability' & finding your own truth 🧡
ninearchespress.com/publications...
A dazzling #debut exploring queer Filipino identity & pop culture, embracing fashion, humour, music, dating, desire & everyday city living. A book of 'unflinching vulnerability' & finding your own truth 🧡
ninearchespress.com/publications...
My debut collection, NEON MANILA, is officially out and ready to meet you all! Poems about clothing, jewellery, pop music, and London through the queer Filipino lens.
Feel free to use the code NEON25 for a discount when buying directly from Nine Arches Press.
ninearchespress.com/publications...
Feel free to use the code NEON25 for a discount when buying directly from Nine Arches Press.
ninearchespress.com/publications...
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Stunning sets of poems shared this evening at our online launch. Spellbinding, powerful, sharp and tender poems of love and pain from @csmithpoet.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social and @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Thank you to our poets and audience 🧡
Find these books: ninearchespress.com/shop
Thank you to our poets and audience 🧡
Find these books: ninearchespress.com/shop
November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Stunning sets of poems shared this evening at our online launch. Spellbinding, powerful, sharp and tender poems of love and pain from @csmithpoet.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social and @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Thank you to our poets and audience 🧡
Find these books: ninearchespress.com/shop
Thank you to our poets and audience 🧡
Find these books: ninearchespress.com/shop
Spent Friday morning with fellow @ninearchespress.bsky.social poet @csmithpoet.bsky.social signing books and recording poems for @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social!
As both of our books came out the same month, Caroline and I agreed that our books should have the combined nickname of Neon Bycatch!
As both of our books came out the same month, Caroline and I agreed that our books should have the combined nickname of Neon Bycatch!
Guess who I bumped into at The Poetry Pharmacy in Oxford Street! What an amazing place of seductive aromas, enticing poetry books and warm hospitality. Lovely to sign books together and read poems. 😊Thank you @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Spent Friday morning with fellow @ninearchespress.bsky.social poet @csmithpoet.bsky.social signing books and recording poems for @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social!
As both of our books came out the same month, Caroline and I agreed that our books should have the combined nickname of Neon Bycatch!
As both of our books came out the same month, Caroline and I agreed that our books should have the combined nickname of Neon Bycatch!
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Join us for our next online launch with @csmithpoet.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social & guest poet @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Thursday 13th November at 7pm.
📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live
🎫 Reserve your place, pay what you can
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Thursday 13th November at 7pm.
📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live
🎫 Reserve your place, pay what you can
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November 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Join us for our next online launch with @csmithpoet.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social & guest poet @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Thursday 13th November at 7pm.
📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live
🎫 Reserve your place, pay what you can
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
Thursday 13th November at 7pm.
📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live
🎫 Reserve your place, pay what you can
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
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Have you lined up your copy of NEON MANILA by @troycabida.bsky.social?
'A beautiful, tender elegy for intimacy.’
'What a stylish and truly bold debut.’
‘An entirely moving collection'
Out now - with FREE UK postage.
ninearchespress.com/publications...
'A beautiful, tender elegy for intimacy.’
'What a stylish and truly bold debut.’
‘An entirely moving collection'
Out now - with FREE UK postage.
ninearchespress.com/publications...
November 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Have you lined up your copy of NEON MANILA by @troycabida.bsky.social?
'A beautiful, tender elegy for intimacy.’
'What a stylish and truly bold debut.’
‘An entirely moving collection'
Out now - with FREE UK postage.
ninearchespress.com/publications...
'A beautiful, tender elegy for intimacy.’
'What a stylish and truly bold debut.’
‘An entirely moving collection'
Out now - with FREE UK postage.
ninearchespress.com/publications...
The Neon Manila Tour - coming to a show near you!!
Looking forward to sharing poems from my debut collection with you all very soon! See below for dates and locations x
Looking forward to sharing poems from my debut collection with you all very soon! See below for dates and locations x
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The Neon Manila Tour - coming to a show near you!!
Looking forward to sharing poems from my debut collection with you all very soon! See below for dates and locations x
Looking forward to sharing poems from my debut collection with you all very soon! See below for dates and locations x
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Pick a card. Pick an outfit.
Help @troycabida.bsky.social get ready for NEON MANILA, arriving this week.
Order from Nine Arches Press and get this gorgeous postcard in your copy.
Plus, on the reverse you'll find a QR code taking you to the NEON MANILA album 🎵
ninearchespress.com/publications...
Help @troycabida.bsky.social get ready for NEON MANILA, arriving this week.
Order from Nine Arches Press and get this gorgeous postcard in your copy.
Plus, on the reverse you'll find a QR code taking you to the NEON MANILA album 🎵
ninearchespress.com/publications...
October 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Pick a card. Pick an outfit.
Help @troycabida.bsky.social get ready for NEON MANILA, arriving this week.
Order from Nine Arches Press and get this gorgeous postcard in your copy.
Plus, on the reverse you'll find a QR code taking you to the NEON MANILA album 🎵
ninearchespress.com/publications...
Help @troycabida.bsky.social get ready for NEON MANILA, arriving this week.
Order from Nine Arches Press and get this gorgeous postcard in your copy.
Plus, on the reverse you'll find a QR code taking you to the NEON MANILA album 🎵
ninearchespress.com/publications...
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🎧Listen back to BBC Radio London's Poetry Corner with Jumoké Fashola talking to @troycabida.bsky.social about his debut NEON MANILA: chatting craft, mentoring, fashion, fun, queerness, humour, acceptance, truth, identity and more.
(1hr14 in)
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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October 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🎧Listen back to BBC Radio London's Poetry Corner with Jumoké Fashola talking to @troycabida.bsky.social about his debut NEON MANILA: chatting craft, mentoring, fashion, fun, queerness, humour, acceptance, truth, identity and more.
(1hr14 in)
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
(1hr14 in)
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
My debut collection, NEON MANILA, is officially out and ready to meet you all! Poems about clothing, jewellery, pop music, and London through the queer Filipino lens.
Feel free to use the code NEON25 for a discount when buying directly from Nine Arches Press.
ninearchespress.com/publications...
Feel free to use the code NEON25 for a discount when buying directly from Nine Arches Press.
ninearchespress.com/publications...
Publication Day for NEON MANILA by @troycabida.bsky.social
A dazzling #debut exploring queer Filipino identity & pop culture, embracing fashion, humour, music, dating, desire & everyday city living. A book of 'unflinching vulnerability' & finding your own truth 🧡
ninearchespress.com/publications...
A dazzling #debut exploring queer Filipino identity & pop culture, embracing fashion, humour, music, dating, desire & everyday city living. A book of 'unflinching vulnerability' & finding your own truth 🧡
ninearchespress.com/publications...
November 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
My debut collection, NEON MANILA, is officially out and ready to meet you all! Poems about clothing, jewellery, pop music, and London through the queer Filipino lens.
Feel free to use the code NEON25 for a discount when buying directly from Nine Arches Press.
ninearchespress.com/publications...
Feel free to use the code NEON25 for a discount when buying directly from Nine Arches Press.
ninearchespress.com/publications...
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Join us for our next online launch with @csmithpoet.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social & guest poet @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Thursday 13th November at 7pm.
📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live
🎫 Reserve your place, pay what you can
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
Thursday 13th November at 7pm.
📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live
🎫 Reserve your place, pay what you can
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
October 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Join us for our next online launch with @csmithpoet.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social & guest poet @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Thursday 13th November at 7pm.
📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live
🎫 Reserve your place, pay what you can
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
Thursday 13th November at 7pm.
📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live
🎫 Reserve your place, pay what you can
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
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Have you lined up your copy of NEON MANILA by @troycabida.bsky.social?
'A beautiful, tender elegy for intimacy.’
'What a stylish and truly bold debut.’
‘An entirely moving collection'
Out at the end of October.
ninearchespress.com/publications...
'A beautiful, tender elegy for intimacy.’
'What a stylish and truly bold debut.’
‘An entirely moving collection'
Out at the end of October.
ninearchespress.com/publications...
October 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Have you lined up your copy of NEON MANILA by @troycabida.bsky.social?
'A beautiful, tender elegy for intimacy.’
'What a stylish and truly bold debut.’
‘An entirely moving collection'
Out at the end of October.
ninearchespress.com/publications...
'A beautiful, tender elegy for intimacy.’
'What a stylish and truly bold debut.’
‘An entirely moving collection'
Out at the end of October.
ninearchespress.com/publications...
Reposted by Troy Cabida
Our next online launch features @csmithpoet.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social & guest
@jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Join us Thursday 13th November, 7pm
📹 Recording sent to all ticket-holders in case you can't join live.
🎫 Reserve your place, pay what you can
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
@jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Join us Thursday 13th November, 7pm
📹 Recording sent to all ticket-holders in case you can't join live.
🎫 Reserve your place, pay what you can
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October 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Our next online launch features @csmithpoet.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social & guest
@jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Join us Thursday 13th November, 7pm
📹 Recording sent to all ticket-holders in case you can't join live.
🎫 Reserve your place, pay what you can
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
@jessmookherjee.bsky.social
Join us Thursday 13th November, 7pm
📹 Recording sent to all ticket-holders in case you can't join live.
🎫 Reserve your place, pay what you can
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...
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Have you lined up your copy of NEON MANILA by @troycabida.bsky.social?
'A beautiful, tender elegy for intimacy.’
'What a stylish and truly bold debut.’
‘An entirely moving collection'
ninearchespress.com/publications...
'A beautiful, tender elegy for intimacy.’
'What a stylish and truly bold debut.’
‘An entirely moving collection'
ninearchespress.com/publications...
September 27, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Have you lined up your copy of NEON MANILA by @troycabida.bsky.social?
'A beautiful, tender elegy for intimacy.’
'What a stylish and truly bold debut.’
‘An entirely moving collection'
ninearchespress.com/publications...
'A beautiful, tender elegy for intimacy.’
'What a stylish and truly bold debut.’
‘An entirely moving collection'
ninearchespress.com/publications...
Reposted by Troy Cabida
A wonderful blog post from @troycabida.bsky.social sharing a poem & insight, from upcoming Neon Manila. Discover 'Black Turtleneck Sonnet', a poem of 'beauty, agency & sex', playing with multiple meanings of an iconic garment.
Photos by Pedro Younis.
ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/08/in-c...
Photos by Pedro Younis.
ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/08/in-c...
September 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
A wonderful blog post from @troycabida.bsky.social sharing a poem & insight, from upcoming Neon Manila. Discover 'Black Turtleneck Sonnet', a poem of 'beauty, agency & sex', playing with multiple meanings of an iconic garment.
Photos by Pedro Younis.
ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/08/in-c...
Photos by Pedro Younis.
ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/08/in-c...
Reposted by Troy Cabida
Have you lined up your copy of NEON MANILA by @troycabida.bsky.social?
'A beautiful, tender elegy for intimacy.’
'What a stylish and truly bold debut.’
‘An entirely moving collection'
ninearchespress.com/publications...
'A beautiful, tender elegy for intimacy.’
'What a stylish and truly bold debut.’
‘An entirely moving collection'
ninearchespress.com/publications...
September 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Have you lined up your copy of NEON MANILA by @troycabida.bsky.social?
'A beautiful, tender elegy for intimacy.’
'What a stylish and truly bold debut.’
‘An entirely moving collection'
ninearchespress.com/publications...
'A beautiful, tender elegy for intimacy.’
'What a stylish and truly bold debut.’
‘An entirely moving collection'
ninearchespress.com/publications...
Reposted by Troy Cabida
A wonderful blog post from @troycabida.bsky.social sharing a poem and insight, from upcoming Neon Manila.
Discover 'Black Turtleneck Sonnet', a poem of 'beauty, agency and sex', playing with multiple meanings of an iconic garment. Photos Pedro Younis.
ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/08/in-c...
Discover 'Black Turtleneck Sonnet', a poem of 'beauty, agency and sex', playing with multiple meanings of an iconic garment. Photos Pedro Younis.
ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/08/in-c...
August 28, 2025 at 8:40 AM
A wonderful blog post from @troycabida.bsky.social sharing a poem and insight, from upcoming Neon Manila.
Discover 'Black Turtleneck Sonnet', a poem of 'beauty, agency and sex', playing with multiple meanings of an iconic garment. Photos Pedro Younis.
ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/08/in-c...
Discover 'Black Turtleneck Sonnet', a poem of 'beauty, agency and sex', playing with multiple meanings of an iconic garment. Photos Pedro Younis.
ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/08/in-c...
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Our next four titles can be pre-ordered using the (limited) FREEUK discount code at checkout.
Enjoy free UK postage on the best kind of post 📚
New books by Gregory Leadbetter, Chris McCabe @csmithpoet.bsky.social & @troycabida.bsky.social ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Poetr...
Enjoy free UK postage on the best kind of post 📚
New books by Gregory Leadbetter, Chris McCabe @csmithpoet.bsky.social & @troycabida.bsky.social ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Poetr...
August 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Our next four titles can be pre-ordered using the (limited) FREEUK discount code at checkout.
Enjoy free UK postage on the best kind of post 📚
New books by Gregory Leadbetter, Chris McCabe @csmithpoet.bsky.social & @troycabida.bsky.social ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Poetr...
Enjoy free UK postage on the best kind of post 📚
New books by Gregory Leadbetter, Chris McCabe @csmithpoet.bsky.social & @troycabida.bsky.social ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Poetr...
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Extract from 'No one wants what I want' by @troycabida.bsky.social , published in Issue Seven. Read the full poem here: andotherpoems.com/2025/08/04/n... #poetry #poems #poemoftheday
August 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Extract from 'No one wants what I want' by @troycabida.bsky.social , published in Issue Seven. Read the full poem here: andotherpoems.com/2025/08/04/n... #poetry #poems #poemoftheday
So happy to finally launch the cover of my debut collection, NEON MANILA, out 30th of October! Inside are sparkly poems about queer Filipino subjectivity through the lens of clothing, jewellery, urban life, and a journey towards joy.
Pre-order your copy now x
ninearchespress.com/publications...
Pre-order your copy now x
ninearchespress.com/publications...
Excited to reveal the striking cover of NEON MANILA, the bold debut #poetry collection by @troycabida.bsky.social
Artwork by Kulay Labitigan.
Available to pre-order from us, out late October.
Line up your copy of this captivating and 'tender elegy for intimacy'.
ninearchespress.com/publications...
Artwork by Kulay Labitigan.
Available to pre-order from us, out late October.
Line up your copy of this captivating and 'tender elegy for intimacy'.
ninearchespress.com/publications...
August 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
So happy to finally launch the cover of my debut collection, NEON MANILA, out 30th of October! Inside are sparkly poems about queer Filipino subjectivity through the lens of clothing, jewellery, urban life, and a journey towards joy.
Pre-order your copy now x
ninearchespress.com/publications...
Pre-order your copy now x
ninearchespress.com/publications...
Here's a poem from my upcoming poetry collection, NEON MANILA, set to music by Justin de Guzman and an accompanied music video shot by Jack Westmore.
"slowed + reverb" is for those first date highs, and the post-date jitters that follow. Hope you like our work x
"slowed + reverb" is for those first date highs, and the post-date jitters that follow. Hope you like our work x
Troy Cabida - slowed + reverb (Official Video)
YouTube video by Troy Cabida
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June 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Here's a poem from my upcoming poetry collection, NEON MANILA, set to music by Justin de Guzman and an accompanied music video shot by Jack Westmore.
"slowed + reverb" is for those first date highs, and the post-date jitters that follow. Hope you like our work x
"slowed + reverb" is for those first date highs, and the post-date jitters that follow. Hope you like our work x
Two poems from my upcoming debut collection have been recorded to original music by hack mystic and SILKess Demon, which are now available via vinyl and digital with the wonderful people at Pearl Home Records.
Check it out below!
pearlhomerecords.bandcamp.com/album/two-po...
Check it out below!
pearlhomerecords.bandcamp.com/album/two-po...
Two Poems, by Troy Cabida
2 track album
pearlhomerecords.bandcamp.com
May 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Two poems from my upcoming debut collection have been recorded to original music by hack mystic and SILKess Demon, which are now available via vinyl and digital with the wonderful people at Pearl Home Records.
Check it out below!
pearlhomerecords.bandcamp.com/album/two-po...
Check it out below!
pearlhomerecords.bandcamp.com/album/two-po...
Got a couple of short and steamy poems in the latest issue of & Change! Thank you to Kevin Bertolero for putting us all together here x
ISSUE NO. 9 of & CHANGE is now available for pre-order!! Featuring incredible new poems by Troy Cabida, Luís Costa, Samuel Ernest, Hunter Hodkinson, Jason Lingard, Antment Pimentel Mendoza, Mu Cao (trans. Hongwei Bao), Miguel Murphy, and James J. Siegel!!
www.andchangepoetry.com/issues/p/no-9
www.andchangepoetry.com/issues/p/no-9
May 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Got a couple of short and steamy poems in the latest issue of & Change! Thank you to Kevin Bertolero for putting us all together here x
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Still celebrating Troy Cabida’s book being chosen by the Poetry Book Society as their Spring Pamphlet Choice 2025. And there’s also this lovely thoughtful review from Yousif M Qasmiyeh + Alyvia Pirmohamed in the PBS bulletin too. Grab a copy from either the fourteen poems or PBS website! 🥰
March 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Still celebrating Troy Cabida’s book being chosen by the Poetry Book Society as their Spring Pamphlet Choice 2025. And there’s also this lovely thoughtful review from Yousif M Qasmiyeh + Alyvia Pirmohamed in the PBS bulletin too. Grab a copy from either the fourteen poems or PBS website! 🥰
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Authors and illustrators (and both) of Bluesky! I've shared the petition about the lambeth library cuts, but they'd LOVE some more authors to sign this open letter. #KidLitUK docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter from Authors and Illustrators to Lambeth Council in support of Lambeth Libraries. A call to halt the proposed £1m cut!
Dear Lambeth councillors and officers,
We are authors, illustrators, and book industry workers writing to ask you in the strongest of terms to halt the cuts to Lambeth Libraries that you announced las...
docs.google.com
March 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Authors and illustrators (and both) of Bluesky! I've shared the petition about the lambeth library cuts, but they'd LOVE some more authors to sign this open letter. #KidLitUK docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Thanks to the Poetry Book Society for choosing Troy Cabida’s “Symmetric of Bone: poems after Elsa Peretti” as their Spring 2025 Pamphlet Choice!
And a special thank you to Yousif Qasmiyeh and Alycia Pirmohamed for selecting the book.
Congratulations Troy!
And a special thank you to Yousif Qasmiyeh and Alycia Pirmohamed for selecting the book.
Congratulations Troy!
January 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Thanks to the Poetry Book Society for choosing Troy Cabida’s “Symmetric of Bone: poems after Elsa Peretti” as their Spring 2025 Pamphlet Choice!
And a special thank you to Yousif Qasmiyeh and Alycia Pirmohamed for selecting the book.
Congratulations Troy!
And a special thank you to Yousif Qasmiyeh and Alycia Pirmohamed for selecting the book.
Congratulations Troy!
Thank you to The Poetry Book Society for making my pamphlet the Spring Pamphlet Choice for 2025!
www.poetrybooks.co.uk/blogs/news/b...
www.poetrybooks.co.uk/blogs/news/b...
BOOK OF THE WEEK: SYMMETRIC OF BONE: POEMS AFTER ELSA PERETTI - The Poetry Book Society
"[L]yrical engagement with the material objects transforms these poems into sensorial voyages, saturated with varying materialities, textures and spaces" - PBS Pamphlet Selectors Yousif M. Qasmiyeh &a...
www.poetrybooks.co.uk
March 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Thank you to The Poetry Book Society for making my pamphlet the Spring Pamphlet Choice for 2025!
www.poetrybooks.co.uk/blogs/news/b...
www.poetrybooks.co.uk/blogs/news/b...