Writers on Boxing
@writersonboxing.bsky.social
An archive of writing on boxing, including books, essays, plays, operas & our boxing fanzine, The Spit Bucket. 🥊 https://writersonboxing.com/about/
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I've been reading a lot about boxing and thought I'd put everything together in a list in case it's of interest to anyone else.
writersonboxing.com/reading-list/
#boxing #books #sportswriting
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#boxing #books #sportswriting
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Issue 7 of The Spit Bucket is now available to download (free!). We have contributions from the UK, Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, USA and Canada, and as usual a great range of visual art, poetry and prose.
Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
October 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Issue 7 of The Spit Bucket is now available to download (free!). We have contributions from the UK, Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, USA and Canada, and as usual a great range of visual art, poetry and prose.
Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
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Very lucky to have another flash CNF from my Fight Nights series in the new issue of The Spit Bucket. Huge thanks to @writersonboxing.bsky.social for including my work in their fine journal! Download the issue at https://writersonboxing.com/the-spit-bucket-a-boxing-fanzine/
The Spit Bucket – a boxing fanzine
The Spit Bucket is a zine celebrating the wonderful responses made by artists to the sport of boxing. We welcome submissions from prose writers, poets and visual artists of all forms. See below for…
writersonboxing.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Very lucky to have another flash CNF from my Fight Nights series in the new issue of The Spit Bucket. Huge thanks to @writersonboxing.bsky.social for including my work in their fine journal! Download the issue at https://writersonboxing.com/the-spit-bucket-a-boxing-fanzine/
Issue 7 of The Spit Bucket is now available to download (free!). We have contributions from the UK, Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, USA and Canada, and as usual a great range of visual art, poetry and prose.
Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
October 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Issue 7 of The Spit Bucket is now available to download (free!). We have contributions from the UK, Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, USA and Canada, and as usual a great range of visual art, poetry and prose.
Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
I'm a joiner and furniture maker away from this boxing account and used to work for Isokon so booked to view some of their historical items (older version of the ones I made) in the collection at V&A East Storehouse in Hackney Wick.
September 29, 2025 at 6:24 AM
I'm a joiner and furniture maker away from this boxing account and used to work for Isokon so booked to view some of their historical items (older version of the ones I made) in the collection at V&A East Storehouse in Hackney Wick.
🥊 Only two weeks left to get your prose, poetry, art work in for consideration for issue 7 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine. 🥊
Full submission info here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Full submission info here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
September 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
🥊 Only two weeks left to get your prose, poetry, art work in for consideration for issue 7 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine. 🥊
Full submission info here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Full submission info here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
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🥊🚨We're looking for submissions for issue 7 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine. Send us your boxing-themed art, prose or poetry by 26 September to be considered. 🚨🥊
Submission info here:
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Submission info here:
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
The Spit Bucket – a boxing fanzine
The Spit Bucket is a zine celebrating the wonderful responses made by artists to the sport of boxing. We welcome submissions from prose writers, poets and visual artists of all forms. See below for…
writersonboxing.com
August 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
🥊🚨We're looking for submissions for issue 7 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine. Send us your boxing-themed art, prose or poetry by 26 September to be considered. 🚨🥊
Submission info here:
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Submission info here:
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
🥊🚨We're looking for submissions for issue 7 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine. Send us your boxing-themed art, prose or poetry by 26 September to be considered. 🚨🥊
Submission info here:
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Submission info here:
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
The Spit Bucket – a boxing fanzine
The Spit Bucket is a zine celebrating the wonderful responses made by artists to the sport of boxing. We welcome submissions from prose writers, poets and visual artists of all forms. See below for…
writersonboxing.com
August 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
🥊🚨We're looking for submissions for issue 7 of The Spit Bucket boxing fanzine. Send us your boxing-themed art, prose or poetry by 26 September to be considered. 🚨🥊
Submission info here:
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Submission info here:
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Book blog no.114: 'Boxing Athenas' by N'Krumah Lawson Daku.
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#boxing #photography #books
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#boxing #photography #books
#114: ‘Boxing Athenas’ by N’Krumah Lawson Daku
‘Boxing Athenas’ is a photographic essay by artist N’Krumah Lawson Daku.This project began in 2010 as a way of documenting female boxers at Parisian club Boxing Beats Aubervillier…
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June 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Book blog no.114: 'Boxing Athenas' by N'Krumah Lawson Daku.
writersonboxing.com/2025/06/11/1...
#boxing #photography #books
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#boxing #photography #books
Fantastic conversation in the latest issue of The Spit Bucket with @sheetboxing-en.bsky.social about the notation method he has devised for transcribing boxing movement.
Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
June 11, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Fantastic conversation in the latest issue of The Spit Bucket with @sheetboxing-en.bsky.social about the notation method he has devised for transcribing boxing movement.
Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Issue 6 of our #boxing #fanzine The Spit Bucket is now in the world. Pick up copies from us in person, or download a free PDF here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Contributors include: @donmcrae.bsky.social @retired-eric.bsky.social @cov-art.bsky.social @sheetboxing-en.bsky.social
Contributors include: @donmcrae.bsky.social @retired-eric.bsky.social @cov-art.bsky.social @sheetboxing-en.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Issue 6 of our #boxing #fanzine The Spit Bucket is now in the world. Pick up copies from us in person, or download a free PDF here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Contributors include: @donmcrae.bsky.social @retired-eric.bsky.social @cov-art.bsky.social @sheetboxing-en.bsky.social
Contributors include: @donmcrae.bsky.social @retired-eric.bsky.social @cov-art.bsky.social @sheetboxing-en.bsky.social
🚨🥊 two weeks left to get your boxing-related art, prose and poetry into us for the birthday edition of The Spit Bucket 🥊🚨
🥊🚨 zine call-out… please share! 🚨🥊
We’re looking for submissions of poetry, prose and visual art in o celebrate one year of our #boxing #zine
Follow the link for info and get your work into us by 16 May.
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
We’re looking for submissions of poetry, prose and visual art in o celebrate one year of our #boxing #zine
Follow the link for info and get your work into us by 16 May.
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
May 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
🚨🥊 two weeks left to get your boxing-related art, prose and poetry into us for the birthday edition of The Spit Bucket 🥊🚨
National finals day in Derby 🥊
April 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
National finals day in Derby 🥊
Lenny is brilliant, the club is brilliant. Like a second home.
Ahead of the British Boxing Awards this month, I met with Islington Boxing Club’s Lenny Hagland to discuss their nomination for the Grassroots Hero/Initiative award.
Hagland speaks about the club's transformation, its community and wanting to leave a legacy.
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Hagland speaks about the club's transformation, its community and wanting to leave a legacy.
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‘My dad left a legacy, I want to do the same’: Lenny Hagland on building Islington Boxing Club, fighters and a community
i visited Lenny Hagland at Islington Boxing Club’s gym on Hazelville Road to discuss the club’s recent nomination at the British Boxing Awards. We also spoke about how he has built the …
jackimmcrae.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Lenny is brilliant, the club is brilliant. Like a second home.
Boxing book blog no.113: 'The Last Bell: Life, Death and Boxing' by @donmcrae.bsky.social
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#113: ‘The Last Bell: Life, Death and Boxing’ by Donald McRae
The Last Bell: Life, Death and Boxing, published by Simon and Schuster, is Donald McRae’s exploration of grief, sporting and political corruption, and is most likely his final book on the sub…
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April 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Boxing book blog no.113: 'The Last Bell: Life, Death and Boxing' by @donmcrae.bsky.social
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Boxing blog post no.112: 'Soft Tissue Damage' by Anna Whitwham, published by @roughtrade1976.bsky.social
Click here to read: writersonboxing.com/2025/04/06/1...
Click here to read: writersonboxing.com/2025/04/06/1...
#112: ‘Soft Tissue Damage’ by Anna Whitwham
Soft Tissue Damage by Anna Whitwham (Rough Trade Books) is that rare but wonderful thing: a new boxing book to preorder, forget about, and then be surprised by as it falls through the letterbox.Thi…
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April 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Boxing blog post no.112: 'Soft Tissue Damage' by Anna Whitwham, published by @roughtrade1976.bsky.social
Click here to read: writersonboxing.com/2025/04/06/1...
Click here to read: writersonboxing.com/2025/04/06/1...
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🥊🚨 zine call-out… please share! 🚨🥊
We’re looking for submissions of poetry, prose and visual art in o celebrate one year of our #boxing #zine
Follow the link for info and get your work into us by 16 May.
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
We’re looking for submissions of poetry, prose and visual art in o celebrate one year of our #boxing #zine
Follow the link for info and get your work into us by 16 May.
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
April 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
🥊🚨 zine call-out… please share! 🚨🥊
We’re looking for submissions of poetry, prose and visual art in o celebrate one year of our #boxing #zine
Follow the link for info and get your work into us by 16 May.
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
We’re looking for submissions of poetry, prose and visual art in o celebrate one year of our #boxing #zine
Follow the link for info and get your work into us by 16 May.
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
🥊🚨 zine call-out… please share! 🚨🥊
We’re looking for submissions of poetry, prose and visual art in o celebrate one year of our #boxing #zine
Follow the link for info and get your work into us by 16 May.
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
We’re looking for submissions of poetry, prose and visual art in o celebrate one year of our #boxing #zine
Follow the link for info and get your work into us by 16 May.
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
April 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
🥊🚨 zine call-out… please share! 🚨🥊
We’re looking for submissions of poetry, prose and visual art in o celebrate one year of our #boxing #zine
Follow the link for info and get your work into us by 16 May.
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
We’re looking for submissions of poetry, prose and visual art in o celebrate one year of our #boxing #zine
Follow the link for info and get your work into us by 16 May.
writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
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Check out my article on a long forgotten boxer named Buddy Saunders in this fantastic edition of The Spit Bucket!
Issue 5 of The Spit Bucket is now out in the world. Amongst others brilliant work by @jackbedell.bsky.social @andrewrihn.bsky.social @jewishboxing.bsky.social @cov-art.bsky.social @retired-eric.bsky.social
Grab copies from us at boxing shows or download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Grab copies from us at boxing shows or download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
March 2, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Check out my article on a long forgotten boxer named Buddy Saunders in this fantastic edition of The Spit Bucket!
Issue 5 of The Spit Bucket is now out in the world. Amongst others brilliant work by @jackbedell.bsky.social @andrewrihn.bsky.social @jewishboxing.bsky.social @cov-art.bsky.social @retired-eric.bsky.social
Grab copies from us at boxing shows or download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Grab copies from us at boxing shows or download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
March 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Issue 5 of The Spit Bucket is now out in the world. Amongst others brilliant work by @jackbedell.bsky.social @andrewrihn.bsky.social @jewishboxing.bsky.social @cov-art.bsky.social @retired-eric.bsky.social
Grab copies from us at boxing shows or download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
Grab copies from us at boxing shows or download here: writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
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Very stoked to have a new micro CNF piece from my Fight Nights series in Issue 5 of The Spit Bucket zine. Thank you to everyone at @writersonboxing.bsky.social for having me in their pages again! 🥊 https://writersonboxing.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/the-spit-bucket-issue-5.pdf
March 1, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Very stoked to have a new micro CNF piece from my Fight Nights series in Issue 5 of The Spit Bucket zine. Thank you to everyone at @writersonboxing.bsky.social for having me in their pages again! 🥊 https://writersonboxing.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/the-spit-bucket-issue-5.pdf
Two boxing themed posters opposite each other at a tube station/
February 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Two boxing themed posters opposite each other at a tube station/
The work that @oispooky.bsky.social does is remarkable grapplingwithhistory.com/2025/01/20/a...
A quick note on A Thousand Blows, Black boxers in 1880s London, and ‘woke history’
Ching Hook (Hezekiah Moscow), Alec Munroe, Jem Haines, Jack Davenport, Albert Pearce, ‘Meat Market Charlie’ Bartlett, Violet and Rosaline Mills, Jack Watson, J. Oliver, Tom Tully, Felix Scott, Char…
grapplingwithhistory.com
February 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The work that @oispooky.bsky.social does is remarkable grapplingwithhistory.com/2025/01/20/a...
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🥊 Only one week to go to get your submissions into us for issue 5 of The Spit Bucket #boxing #zine 🥊
🚨🥊 #zine #submission callout 🥊🚨
We’re accepting submissions of poetry, prose and visual art for issue 5 of our #boxing #fanzine The Spit Bucket.
Deadline is 14 February 2025. Full details - writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
We’re accepting submissions of poetry, prose and visual art for issue 5 of our #boxing #fanzine The Spit Bucket.
Deadline is 14 February 2025. Full details - writersonboxing.com/the-spit-buc...
February 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM