Julia
@chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social
A captivating @serenbooks.bsky.social launch tonight of @notjustdancing.bsky.social’s innovative, multilayered & lyrical collection ‘Hôtel Amour’ (alongside fantastic readings from @oliviamcc.bsky.social & Menna Elfyn). 😍
November 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
A captivating @serenbooks.bsky.social launch tonight of @notjustdancing.bsky.social’s innovative, multilayered & lyrical collection ‘Hôtel Amour’ (alongside fantastic readings from @oliviamcc.bsky.social & Menna Elfyn). 😍
Truly inspiring poetry tonight courtesy of the @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social brilliant ‘four pamphleteers’ - @maxwallis.bsky.social, @thewordtinker.bsky.social, @glynedwards.bsky.social & @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Truly inspiring poetry tonight courtesy of the @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social brilliant ‘four pamphleteers’ - @maxwallis.bsky.social, @thewordtinker.bsky.social, @glynedwards.bsky.social & @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
Intimate autumn reading courtesy of @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social 😍
October 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Intimate autumn reading courtesy of @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social 😍
Kicking off the weekend in style with a @salopress.bsky.social poets showcase hosted by @moette.bsky.social 🤩! Fabulously experimental work mining female experience from @karanchambers.bsky.social, Laia Sales Merino, @wendycaitlin.bsky.social, @galiamelon.bsky.social & @victoriaspires.bsky.social 👏🏻
July 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Kicking off the weekend in style with a @salopress.bsky.social poets showcase hosted by @moette.bsky.social 🤩! Fabulously experimental work mining female experience from @karanchambers.bsky.social, Laia Sales Merino, @wendycaitlin.bsky.social, @galiamelon.bsky.social & @victoriaspires.bsky.social 👏🏻
Looking forward to diving into ‘sea pictures’ by the marvellous @maryfrancesness.bsky.social from Penteract Press & discovering hidden magic in the confluence of stone, Melville & Coleridge 🌊
June 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Looking forward to diving into ‘sea pictures’ by the marvellous @maryfrancesness.bsky.social from Penteract Press & discovering hidden magic in the confluence of stone, Melville & Coleridge 🌊
A brilliant celebration tonight of @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social’s publication of ‘Frank: Sonnets’ & ‘Modern Poetry’ by Diane Seuss, touching on the sonnet as a site of tradition, care, memoir & music (with an intimate reaching for Keats along the way). ❤️
May 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A brilliant celebration tonight of @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social’s publication of ‘Frank: Sonnets’ & ‘Modern Poetry’ by Diane Seuss, touching on the sonnet as a site of tradition, care, memoir & music (with an intimate reaching for Keats along the way). ❤️
Perfect poetry post today courtesy of the always-fabulous indie press @salopress.bsky.social! Huge congratulations to @wendycaitlin.bsky.social @galiamelon.bsky.social & @jitterbugwrites.bsky.social on the arrival of their pamphlets into the world! Hooray 🙌🩷
May 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Perfect poetry post today courtesy of the always-fabulous indie press @salopress.bsky.social! Huge congratulations to @wendycaitlin.bsky.social @galiamelon.bsky.social & @jitterbugwrites.bsky.social on the arrival of their pamphlets into the world! Hooray 🙌🩷
Inordinately excited to learn that my collage micro-chapbook ‘Roles’ will be published by the marvellous @ghostcitypress.bsky.social as part of its 2025 summer series! 🥳 Huge thanks to guest editors @tomsnarsky.bsky.social & @gabrielleghogan.bsky.social. Hurrah!
April 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Inordinately excited to learn that my collage micro-chapbook ‘Roles’ will be published by the marvellous @ghostcitypress.bsky.social as part of its 2025 summer series! 🥳 Huge thanks to guest editors @tomsnarsky.bsky.social & @gabrielleghogan.bsky.social. Hurrah!
‘Is my heart a rose?/How unspeakable’ (Alice Oswald)…rose-brushed musings today with a visit to Alison Watt’s ‘From Light’ at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery 🥀
April 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
‘Is my heart a rose?/How unspeakable’ (Alice Oswald)…rose-brushed musings today with a visit to Alison Watt’s ‘From Light’ at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery 🥀
A fabulous @ninearchespress.bsky.social triple launch night, showcasing James McDermott’s unflinching poems of loss & grief, @tomsastry.bsky.social’s adept mixing of satire & elegy, & Laurie Bolger’s fizzing, witty, rom-com energy. 🩷🩷🩷
April 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
A fabulous @ninearchespress.bsky.social triple launch night, showcasing James McDermott’s unflinching poems of loss & grief, @tomsastry.bsky.social’s adept mixing of satire & elegy, & Laurie Bolger’s fizzing, witty, rom-com energy. 🩷🩷🩷
Wonderful online launch of ‘Patient L1’ - a fantastic verse memoir by @simonmaddrell.bsky.social speaking in the voice of @jonb-2149.bsky.social -from @polari.press. 🤩 ‘I’ll live a lot longer than you think…’
February 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Wonderful online launch of ‘Patient L1’ - a fantastic verse memoir by @simonmaddrell.bsky.social speaking in the voice of @jonb-2149.bsky.social -from @polari.press. 🤩 ‘I’ll live a lot longer than you think…’
A perfect @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social pamphlet hour (celebrating the liberating & risk-taking potential of the form, & indie presses) with fabulous readings from Laurie Bolger, @troycabida.bsky.social, Betty Doyle & Ellora Sutton. 🩷
February 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
A perfect @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social pamphlet hour (celebrating the liberating & risk-taking potential of the form, & indie presses) with fabulous readings from Laurie Bolger, @troycabida.bsky.social, Betty Doyle & Ellora Sutton. 🩷
A gorgeously Gothic Valentines treat tonight courtesy of @gothicauob.bsky.social & @jfpackham.bsky.social exploring uncanny utterances of love & disorientating rapture via Derrida, Barthes, Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’ & more! 🖤🖤🖤
February 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A gorgeously Gothic Valentines treat tonight courtesy of @gothicauob.bsky.social & @jfpackham.bsky.social exploring uncanny utterances of love & disorientating rapture via Derrida, Barthes, Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’ & more! 🖤🖤🖤
Cannot wait to dive into ‘Perfection’ by @vincenzo.bsky.social from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social ❤️
February 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Cannot wait to dive into ‘Perfection’ by @vincenzo.bsky.social from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social ❤️
Spotted in the ‘wild’ today (aka Heffers Bookshop in Cambridge)… ‘Portrait in Mustard’ by @wendycaitlin.bsky.social from @serenbooks.bsky.social. Hurrah! 🥳 💜💛
February 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Spotted in the ‘wild’ today (aka Heffers Bookshop in Cambridge)… ‘Portrait in Mustard’ by @wendycaitlin.bsky.social from @serenbooks.bsky.social. Hurrah! 🥳 💜💛
Gorgeous poetry post courtesy of @salopress.bsky.social with the arrival of ‘Perfume’ by Charley Barnes. By turns intense, erotic, intimate & compelling…but always brilliant 🤩
January 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Gorgeous poetry post courtesy of @salopress.bsky.social with the arrival of ‘Perfume’ by Charley Barnes. By turns intense, erotic, intimate & compelling…but always brilliant 🤩
Couldn’t possibly visit St Ives without spending time in the Barbara Hepworth museum & sculpture garden…so am obviously thinking of these two beauties by @wendycaitlin.bsky.social too. ❤️
January 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Couldn’t possibly visit St Ives without spending time in the Barbara Hepworth museum & sculpture garden…so am obviously thinking of these two beauties by @wendycaitlin.bsky.social too. ❤️
Vendredi soir avec Sophie… 🛏️
January 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Vendredi soir avec Sophie… 🛏️