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Dr Briony Hughes
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Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway; Editor @ Osmosis Press & Resurgence and Ecologist poetry feature; ask me about the RHUL Poetry MA pathway!

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Which publications did I recommend to my students today?
The Last Hundred (Guillemot) and Pretty Broad Tastes (Rough Trade Books) Physical Memory Manual
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Which books did I recommend to my students yesterday?
Festival by Mia You The art of the fold by Hedi kyle
November 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Do bats fall in love? At the start of this month, I had the absolute honour of writing a poem for a very important wedding ceremony 🖤

I’m sharing a handful of pictures of a couple of poems from the ten-page chapbook I made for them 🦇
November 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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In today’s workshop, the MA poets will be discussing publications from @brokensleep and @badbettypress - Vik Shirley, Matthew Haigh, Natalie Whittaker, and Helen Bowell🧡
Hand holding copies of three of the books - the Bad Betty book by Matt Haigh is black with a snake on it whilst Vik Shirley’s book is light blue with a deer skull A image of the cover of Helen Bowell’s The Barman. This book is black and has an abstract and hand sketched drawing of containers holding a spider in a central square
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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SAVE THE DATE Small Birds Press will be reading at the Small Press Takeover on Tuesday 25th November! Join the @royalholloway.bsky.social Poetics Research Centre in Bloomsbury at 6:30 (7pm start) for an evening of book arts and experimental performance! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/small-pres...
Small Press Takeover poster - a Bloomsbury event Series of Launches, Showcases, and Experiments in Independent Press. Small Birds Press. 25.11.2024 @ 6.30pm Stewart House Room 1 Via Senate House Library London WC1E 7HU
November 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Here is my book haul from Saturday’s Veer 2 event at Hundred Years Gallery - what an incredible evening!
Books by Robert Kiley, Aodan McCurdle, Jimmy Cummings, Nell Perry, and Florence Uniacke
November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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A November walk in the @royalholloway.bsky.social woodland - the perfect start to the week 🌳🪾🦌🌿
November 17, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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An immense thank you to Veer Books for the opportunity to take Sea Grammar on an outing! Exciting possibilities ahead 👀 🌊
Black board with details of event written in chalk TONIGHT - VEER\2 BooKS * POETRY READING JAMES CUMMINS BRIONY HWGHES AODAN MACCAROLE NEIL PERRY FLORENCE UNIACKE DOUa JONES 7.30 £5 CASH Blackboard with HY Gallery written in stylish font with a bath full of grass sat in the background Image of Sea Grammar concertina book held in hand on London Overground
November 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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This week, the 2nd year Poetry group explored the poetic line through a series of material interventions - a high energy way to get back into the swing of term 📝
Two students typing on an old school typewriter - one student is pointing toward thin strips of paper with written text Two students chopping paper on small guillotines and another looking through a small pile of strips of printed lines A typewriter with the following text typed: This is a line Break A pile of thin strips of paper with single poetic lines featured on each
November 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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HEY FRIENDS - I've found the perfect way to spend your Saturday night
Poster for Veer 2 Poetry Reading with James Cummins, Briony Hughes, Doug Jones, Aodan McCardle, Nell Perry, Florence Uniacke at 7pm in 100 years gallery, 13 Pearson Street, London E2 8JD £3 unwaged / £5 waged on the door
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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A reminder that performances from Brittany Thomas and Ellen Warren from the @ghostcitypress.bsky.social Small Press Takeover are available on Spotify 🧡 open.spotify.com/show/5diNbBi...
Screenshot of Spotify Newest • All Episodes Ghost City Press: Brittany Thomas reads from All the Birds are gay!! Brittany Thomas reads from All the birds are gay!! (Ghost City Press, 2025) at the Small Press Takeover on 21/10/2025. Britt... Tue • 7 min ... Ghost City Press: Ellen Warren reads from Two Legged Killers Ellen Warren reads from Two Legged Killers (Ghost City Press, 2025) at the Small Press Takeover on 21/10/2025. Ellen Warr... Nov 4 • 12 min → ..•
November 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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This week, the MA poetry group discussed pamphlets by Fathima Zara, Mary Jean Chan, Freya Bantiff, Gboyega Odubanjo 🧡
Hand holding a selection of the books - they are pink, orange, cream, and blue
November 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Thank you to the wonderful ‘Spineless Wonders Exhibition’ curators at @senatehouselib.bsky.social for guiding the MA poets through the political and material histories of printed pamphlets 🧡
Group of people in a circle around a display cabinet containing a mixture of printed pamphlets in multiple colours Group of people surrounding a glass case also containing books and printed matter. There is another glass case in the foreground with five pamphlets in green and brown and a blue concertina book
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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2 hours of Speculative Frequencies in @SenateHouseLib 🦇
Typewriter up close says senate house unbound
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Welcome to ‘The Living Library’: a pop-up exhibition of material ecopoetry curated by @royalholloway.bsky.social and the Landmark Arts Centre 🍃🪾🍁🐝🦇

This event forms part of Being Human Festival - the national festival of the humanities 🧡
A large gothic church - image taken from high up looking down at an exhibition. There are temporary walls displayed throughout featuring text art and table covered in books Woman stood in front of an exhibition area where Susie Campbell’s wound is positioned - framed images of torn fabrics are on the wall and a Concertina books on a mirror table reflecting the ceiling of a church
November 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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It was such a privilege to present on the conservation education projects that have emerged from Speculative Frequencies at the @nawewriters.bsky.social conference yesterday 🦇
elating Firepactie cation any liter eating a tritase partners Briony Hughes (30-minute presentation) Room 2: 15:55-16:25 Speculative Frequencies (2025) incorporated writing exercises designed to explore feelings of human-nature enmeshment, alongside establishing kinship with a crucial yet misunderstood mammal - bats. Through partnership with the Bat Conservation Trust, alongside arts/heritage/environmental organisations such as Orleans House, Wildlife Trusts, Royal Parks, and Cambridge Botanic Garden, I explore how poetry can widen the disciplinary scope of eco-education programmes and diversify participation. This presentation offers Speculative Frequencies as a collaboration model - ongoing activities include a kit co-developed with Richmond Council, and outdoor workshops with communities/conservation professionals/policy makers. Dr Briony Hughes is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway. She co-edits the Resurgence and Ecologist poetry feature and runs Osmosis Press. Publications include Speculative Frequencies (Permeable Barrier), June: A Haunting (Intergraphia), Rhizomes (Broken Sleep Books), amongst others. Her limited-edition bookarts have been widely collected by UK archives.
November 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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During tonight’s @royalholloway.bsky.social Small Press Takeover, we are incredibly lucky to host readings from Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Cole Swensen, and Jeanne Heuving! This SPT follows the incredible Material Poetics Symposium organised by Serafina Lee, Sara O’Brien, and Max Shirley 🧡
A BLOOMSBURY EVENT SERIES OF LAUNCHES, SHOWCASES, AND EXPERIMENTS IN INDEPENDENT PRESS RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS JEANNE HEUVING COLE SWENSEN 05112025 6.00 РM STEWART HOUSE ROOM 1 (VIA SENATE HOUSE LIBRARY) LONDON WC1E 7HU technē
November 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Printing and folding exhibition signage for ‘The Living Library’ - see you on Sunday 9th at Landmark Arts Centre 🧡
Bright colored card with miscellaneous signage copy - that id interrupts the THE FOLY DEER - SCRUB - INSECTS ouchce will support trom me scienust Elaine Mitchell and the Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa. DELINEATIONS FREI
October 31, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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This Halloween, celebrate the nocturnal rhythms of UK bats by ordering copy of Speculative Frequencies from your local independent book store, the Permeable Barrier website, or (if you’re feeling extra spooky) the book is on Amazon 🦇
Image of a hand holding a copy of the book Speculative Frequencies, which features a digitally altered diagram of a long eared bat in hues of red and yellow
October 31, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Next week’s @royalholloway.bsky.social Small Press Takeover featuring Rachel Blau-DuPlessis, Jeanne Heuving, and Cole Swensen is definitely not one to miss🧡
A BLOOMSBURY EVENT SERIES OF LAUNCHES, SHOWCASES, AND EXPERIMENTS IN INDEPENDENT PRESS SMALL PRESS TAKEOVER RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS JEANNE HEUVING COLE SWENSEN 05.11.2025 / 6.00 Pm STEWART HOUSE ROOM 1 (VIA SENATE HOUSE LIBRARY) LONDON WC1E 7HU MORE INFORMATION: BRIONY.HUGHES@RHUL.AC.UK OR REDELL.OLSEN@RHUL.AC.UK
October 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Excited to share that the incredible @susiecampbell.bsky.social is featured in the latest @resurgencetrust.bsky.social - pick up a copy to find out more about ‘waste poetics’ and collaborating with Charlie the dog🩷
Open spread magazine featuring text copy and images of close up textiles Image of magazine cover - the title of the issue is ‘the gift of water’
October 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Sharing my haul from @smallpublishers.bsky.social 2025 - look at these GORGEOUS books 😍
Image of a desk covered in books of various sizes and shapes. In the middle features a fan folded sheet with an ellipsis printed in square brackets Picture of a handmade square book with the title spell of hare collaged onto a delicate paper The same book unfolding to reveal a large page of handmade text - as the book unfolds, it looks like a conch The same book but in the process of closing - the focus of this image is a series of orange book binding strings
October 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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There is no help available for this by Caitlin Luckhurst
Archival box containing computer chip and typewritten text stuck to roof of box
October 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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T Shot sustanon by Myles Karageorgopoulos
Prose poem printed in striking capitals on sheet of paper - pinned to wall alongside other works
October 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Leafy Inkings & More by Khadijah Sobrany
Pamphlet held in hand featuring image of painted house plant scene Image of the page featuring a poem called Morning Dew which plays with fragmentation and punctuation
October 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM