Steph Morris
@herr-morris.bsky.social
poet, artist, gardener, translator
he/him
impaired energy (ME)
ACE-Funded
he/him
impaired energy (ME)
ACE-Funded
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I never thought I’d be cheering on a former Tory Cabinet minister.
But here’s to the moral clarity, courage and leadership of @kitmalthouse.bsky.social.
But here’s to the moral clarity, courage and leadership of @kitmalthouse.bsky.social.
July 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I never thought I’d be cheering on a former Tory Cabinet minister.
But here’s to the moral clarity, courage and leadership of @kitmalthouse.bsky.social.
But here’s to the moral clarity, courage and leadership of @kitmalthouse.bsky.social.
So much shocking news from Gaza but this is really appalling. Feeling powerless, especially with limited energy to take to the streets. @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social as my MP, you and the UK government are not powerless. What are you doing to end the killing?
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Eleven-minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story
Hundreds of people have died while seeking food since delivery was taken over by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in May. But Palestinians facing extreme hunger have no choice but to take the risk
www.theguardian.com
July 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
So much shocking news from Gaza but this is really appalling. Feeling powerless, especially with limited energy to take to the streets. @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social as my MP, you and the UK government are not powerless. What are you doing to end the killing?
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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It's time to choose your Pick of the Month for June 2025. Will you vote for @rachaelclyne.bsky.social, Oz Hardwick, Pippa Little, @herr-morris.bsky.social, Sreeja Naskar or @selasimclord.bsky.social ? More at inksweatandtears.co.uk/june-2025-pi...
#InkSweatandTears #PickoftheMonth
#InkSweatandTears #PickoftheMonth
July 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
It's time to choose your Pick of the Month for June 2025. Will you vote for @rachaelclyne.bsky.social, Oz Hardwick, Pippa Little, @herr-morris.bsky.social, Sreeja Naskar or @selasimclord.bsky.social ? More at inksweatandtears.co.uk/june-2025-pi...
#InkSweatandTears #PickoftheMonth
#InkSweatandTears #PickoftheMonth
Another new start
time for Stereolab, shorts and Substack
open.substack.com
July 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
It arrived!
Thanks @magmapoetry.bsky.social
My contribution is a bit mad but I own it…
Look forward to delving in.
Thanks @magmapoetry.bsky.social
My contribution is a bit mad but I own it…
Look forward to delving in.
June 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It arrived!
Thanks @magmapoetry.bsky.social
My contribution is a bit mad but I own it…
Look forward to delving in.
Thanks @magmapoetry.bsky.social
My contribution is a bit mad but I own it…
Look forward to delving in.
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Meet our MA in Writing Poetry Graduates: Steph Morris MA, Class of 2017 🎓
Q: What else have you been up to since you graduated?
A: I was longlisted for the National Poetry Prize & won the Live Canon Borough prize. I’ve been in a few anthologies too...read on: poetryschool.com/alu...
Q: What else have you been up to since you graduated?
A: I was longlisted for the National Poetry Prize & won the Live Canon Borough prize. I’ve been in a few anthologies too...read on: poetryschool.com/alu...
MA in Writing Poetry Alumni Profiles • Poetry School
Meet our MA in Writing Poetry Graduates, hear their stories and check out their achievements. Applications for the MA in Writing Poetry are currently open. Please visit the accrediting university, Newcastle’s admissions page for details here. Steph Morris MA, Class of 2017 When did you start writing poetry?I first began writing poetry in the 2010s...
poetryschool.com
June 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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This is possibly the most important piece of journalism I’ll ever write. At the age of 50, I was diagnosed autistic. Please read my story and share it so others don’t have to wait so long to understand who they are ❤️
#autism #autistic #neurodivergent
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
#autism #autistic #neurodivergent
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
I thought it was being gay that made my life so difficult. Then, at 50, I got an eye-opening diagnosis …
I spent far too many years lonely and angry, thanks to schoolmates who called me ‘weird’ and bosses who dismissed me as ‘hysterical’. But was it my sexuality that put their backs up – or the autism I ...
www.theguardian.com
June 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This is possibly the most important piece of journalism I’ll ever write. At the age of 50, I was diagnosed autistic. Please read my story and share it so others don’t have to wait so long to understand who they are ❤️
#autism #autistic #neurodivergent
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
#autism #autistic #neurodivergent
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Brave and useful piece here.
Thanks
@mattcainwriter.bsky.social
Brace yourselves for similar reassessments of my whole life in the light of an ADHD diagnosis in my 50s
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Thanks
@mattcainwriter.bsky.social
Brace yourselves for similar reassessments of my whole life in the light of an ADHD diagnosis in my 50s
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
I thought it was being gay that made my life so difficult. Then, at 50, I got an eye-opening diagnosis …
I spent far too many years lonely and angry, thanks to schoolmates who called me ‘weird’ and bosses who dismissed me as ‘hysterical’. But was it my sexuality that put their backs up – or the autism I ...
www.theguardian.com
June 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Brave and useful piece here.
Thanks
@mattcainwriter.bsky.social
Brace yourselves for similar reassessments of my whole life in the light of an ADHD diagnosis in my 50s
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Thanks
@mattcainwriter.bsky.social
Brace yourselves for similar reassessments of my whole life in the light of an ADHD diagnosis in my 50s
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This was a pretty personal poem.
Thanks for having me back
Helen and all at Ink Sweat & Tears
Thanks for having me back
Helen and all at Ink Sweat & Tears
Steph Morris’s 'Tag' is a quiet defiance against cruelty and forced labels. A poem about identity, resistance, and the names we choose to wear. @herr-morris.bsky.social.
Read now!
inksweatandtears.co.uk/steph-morris-3/
#InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity
Read now!
inksweatandtears.co.uk/steph-morris-3/
#InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity
June 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
This was a pretty personal poem.
Thanks for having me back
Helen and all at Ink Sweat & Tears
Thanks for having me back
Helen and all at Ink Sweat & Tears
April 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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On the way to demonstrate against meta’s thievery with @tomwentworth.bsky.social
@societyofauthors.bsky.social
#dothewritething
Last minute placard…
Concrete poetry at speed
@societyofauthors.bsky.social
#dothewritething
Last minute placard…
Concrete poetry at speed
April 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM
On the way to demonstrate against meta’s thievery with @tomwentworth.bsky.social
@societyofauthors.bsky.social
#dothewritething
Last minute placard…
Concrete poetry at speed
@societyofauthors.bsky.social
#dothewritething
Last minute placard…
Concrete poetry at speed
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Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive”
Theft is not a valid alternative.
Theft is not a valid alternative.
April 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive”
Theft is not a valid alternative.
Theft is not a valid alternative.
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Translators have been the canaries in the AI coalmine for a couple of years now and we are already losing work to these systems. Having existing work used to train them without permission or compensation just adds insult to injury.
Thank you to everyone who has signed our petition, 6,000+! Authors deserve to have a livelihood and compensation from their work, if you haven't signed do so now 👇
Sign the Petition
Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training
www.change.org
April 3, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Translators have been the canaries in the AI coalmine for a couple of years now and we are already losing work to these systems. Having existing work used to train them without permission or compensation just adds insult to injury.
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@bengoldsborough.bsky.social Like pretty much all my writer and translator friends and colleagues, Meta have used pirated copies of my work to train their AI systems. I’ll be asking META to #DoTheWriteThing on Thursday 3 April. #metabookthieves #MakeItFair
April 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
@bengoldsborough.bsky.social Like pretty much all my writer and translator friends and colleagues, Meta have used pirated copies of my work to train their AI systems. I’ll be asking META to #DoTheWriteThing on Thursday 3 April. #metabookthieves #MakeItFair
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My poetry pamphlet IN RETAIL (@arachnepress.bsky.social) has been used to train Meta’s Al without mine or my publisher’s permission or with due regard to copyright. I’m not alone, there are 1000s of writers who’s work has been stolen. Solidarity with @societyofauthors.bsky.social!
#DoTheWriteThing
#DoTheWriteThing
April 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
My poetry pamphlet IN RETAIL (@arachnepress.bsky.social) has been used to train Meta’s Al without mine or my publisher’s permission or with due regard to copyright. I’m not alone, there are 1000s of writers who’s work has been stolen. Solidarity with @societyofauthors.bsky.social!
#DoTheWriteThing
#DoTheWriteThing
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In every atrocity in history, the silent are always principal players.
Those who remain silent over Israel's genocide are enabling it to continue.
Their cowardice is paid in the blood of thousands of innocent Palestinians.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Those who remain silent over Israel's genocide are enabling it to continue.
Their cowardice is paid in the blood of thousands of innocent Palestinians.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Imagine if all those who are silent about the terrible evil being committed in Gaza spoke up | Owen Jones
No crime in history has been so well documented by its victims. And yet inaction and censorship reign, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM
In every atrocity in history, the silent are always principal players.
Those who remain silent over Israel's genocide are enabling it to continue.
Their cowardice is paid in the blood of thousands of innocent Palestinians.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Those who remain silent over Israel's genocide are enabling it to continue.
Their cowardice is paid in the blood of thousands of innocent Palestinians.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Got to a serendipitous passage of this book.
Actually the whole book is still very relevant and urgent — ends in the late 1930s.
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Actually the whole book is still very relevant and urgent — ends in the late 1930s.
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January 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Got to a serendipitous passage of this book.
Actually the whole book is still very relevant and urgent — ends in the late 1930s.
💙📚
📚🌈
Actually the whole book is still very relevant and urgent — ends in the late 1930s.
💙📚
📚🌈
This was our Christmas tree, which we left behind in London, and this was the sunset on Christmas Day in the midlands. No time to post ~ Some asymmetrical queer version of #sandwichgeneration
Happy new year to you all.
Happy new year to you all.
January 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This was our Christmas tree, which we left behind in London, and this was the sunset on Christmas Day in the midlands. No time to post ~ Some asymmetrical queer version of #sandwichgeneration
Happy new year to you all.
Happy new year to you all.
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Introducing eff-able!
#PoetsOnBlueSky please share this opportunity for queer, disabled, neurodivergent poets to submit to this anthology, funded by ACE and published by fourteen poems.
Subs open until 1st December - all details below!
#poetry #lgbtqia+ #queer #disabled #neurodivergent
#PoetsOnBlueSky please share this opportunity for queer, disabled, neurodivergent poets to submit to this anthology, funded by ACE and published by fourteen poems.
Subs open until 1st December - all details below!
#poetry #lgbtqia+ #queer #disabled #neurodivergent
Submissions are open until 1st Dec for eff-able : a spicy anthology of queer crip poetry
eff-able is conceived and run by George Parker @agparker.bsky.social and JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social
and funded by a National Lottery Project Grant from Arts Council England.
#poetry #queer #crip
eff-able is conceived and run by George Parker @agparker.bsky.social and JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social
and funded by a National Lottery Project Grant from Arts Council England.
#poetry #queer #crip
November 20, 2024 at 10:29 AM
Introducing eff-able!
#PoetsOnBlueSky please share this opportunity for queer, disabled, neurodivergent poets to submit to this anthology, funded by ACE and published by fourteen poems.
Subs open until 1st December - all details below!
#poetry #lgbtqia+ #queer #disabled #neurodivergent
#PoetsOnBlueSky please share this opportunity for queer, disabled, neurodivergent poets to submit to this anthology, funded by ACE and published by fourteen poems.
Subs open until 1st December - all details below!
#poetry #lgbtqia+ #queer #disabled #neurodivergent
Hi all you newcomers. :)
I mostly do words here (and plants) and do art on instagram (and more plants)
So here’s what I discovered at @gladlib.bsky.social last month: Rowan Williams as a poet.
I mostly do words here (and plants) and do art on instagram (and more plants)
So here’s what I discovered at @gladlib.bsky.social last month: Rowan Williams as a poet.
November 15, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Hi all you newcomers. :)
I mostly do words here (and plants) and do art on instagram (and more plants)
So here’s what I discovered at @gladlib.bsky.social last month: Rowan Williams as a poet.
I mostly do words here (and plants) and do art on instagram (and more plants)
So here’s what I discovered at @gladlib.bsky.social last month: Rowan Williams as a poet.