Astra Papachristodoulou
@heyastranaut.bsky.social
Poet ★ Artist ★ Astranaut ★
www.astranaut.co.uk
www.astranaut.co.uk
Missing Caryatid. #GiveTheMarblesBack
November 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Missing Caryatid. #GiveTheMarblesBack
My concrete poem about the Elgin Marbles was published at Thraca Magazine today. 🇬🇷🏛️🏺#GiveTheMarblesBack
November 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
My concrete poem about the Elgin Marbles was published at Thraca Magazine today. 🇬🇷🏛️🏺#GiveTheMarblesBack
The copies of our newspaper are here! What a beautiful thing! Order the first issue of The Visual Poetry Times now via @thepoetrykiosk.bsky.social - it’s small but packed with visual poetry fun ❤️ I’m now off to post the contributors’ copies. www.thepoetrykiosk.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The copies of our newspaper are here! What a beautiful thing! Order the first issue of The Visual Poetry Times now via @thepoetrykiosk.bsky.social - it’s small but packed with visual poetry fun ❤️ I’m now off to post the contributors’ copies. www.thepoetrykiosk.com
What a treat to feature in @aswirl.bsky.social for the first time with a meandering poem that features at the back page! 💙 Aswirl is a tiny quarterly magazine based in Brighton and edited by Robin Boothroyd. It celebrates minimalist and concrete poetry.
October 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
What a treat to feature in @aswirl.bsky.social for the first time with a meandering poem that features at the back page! 💙 Aswirl is a tiny quarterly magazine based in Brighton and edited by Robin Boothroyd. It celebrates minimalist and concrete poetry.
Free workshop! National Poetry Day in-person workshop at The Poetry Café themed around poetry games! 🎯🎲👾
Thursday 2 October 2025, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm. Booking required. 🔗bit.ly/poetrygames25
Thursday 2 October 2025, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm. Booking required. 🔗bit.ly/poetrygames25
September 22, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Free workshop! National Poetry Day in-person workshop at The Poetry Café themed around poetry games! 🎯🎲👾
Thursday 2 October 2025, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm. Booking required. 🔗bit.ly/poetrygames25
Thursday 2 October 2025, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm. Booking required. 🔗bit.ly/poetrygames25
Playing with words. #boycottstarbucks
September 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Playing with words. #boycottstarbucks
It’s a pleasure to return to the jury of the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award (poetry division) for the second year in a row, with respected poets @mccabio.bsky.social in the lead, @naush.bsky.social, Degna Stone and Nasser Hussain. Good luck to those who submitted! 🤩
September 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
It’s a pleasure to return to the jury of the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award (poetry division) for the second year in a row, with respected poets @mccabio.bsky.social in the lead, @naush.bsky.social, Degna Stone and Nasser Hussain. Good luck to those who submitted! 🤩
I’m very excited to announce my second solo exhibition at DUNOON MOCA! The show showcases a form of tactile poetry that tackles social and ecological issues, while it also challenges our perception of what poetry can be.
Banners 4 Justice runs from 6-28 Sept. Details: www.dunoon-moca.com 💙
Banners 4 Justice runs from 6-28 Sept. Details: www.dunoon-moca.com 💙
September 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I’m very excited to announce my second solo exhibition at DUNOON MOCA! The show showcases a form of tactile poetry that tackles social and ecological issues, while it also challenges our perception of what poetry can be.
Banners 4 Justice runs from 6-28 Sept. Details: www.dunoon-moca.com 💙
Banners 4 Justice runs from 6-28 Sept. Details: www.dunoon-moca.com 💙
Today I delivered a workshop at the Southbank Centre! We made concrete poems with a group of local Year 5s. 🩷 The workshop was part of the Imagine the Future project, a large-scale visual poetry project for every Lambeth school that encourages young people’s creativity.
July 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Today I delivered a workshop at the Southbank Centre! We made concrete poems with a group of local Year 5s. 🩷 The workshop was part of the Imagine the Future project, a large-scale visual poetry project for every Lambeth school that encourages young people’s creativity.
This is my object poem “decision die”. 5cm x 5cm. #ceasefire #stopthewar 🍉
June 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This is my object poem “decision die”. 5cm x 5cm. #ceasefire #stopthewar 🍉
This is ‘mille kisses’. Since giving birth 6 months ago, I have spent countless hours feeding and bonding with my baby. Breastfeeding has been exhausting, challenging, rewarding, comforting and truly a full-time job but I cherish the opportunity to be able to do it! ❤️
June 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is ‘mille kisses’. Since giving birth 6 months ago, I have spent countless hours feeding and bonding with my baby. Breastfeeding has been exhausting, challenging, rewarding, comforting and truly a full-time job but I cherish the opportunity to be able to do it! ❤️
I really like this - simple and to the point! ‘Creation myth’ by Mike Johnson.
June 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I really like this - simple and to the point! ‘Creation myth’ by Mike Johnson.
Here are a few poems from my collection Constellations (Guillemot Press), a sequence of visual poems based on the 88 recognised astronomical constellations. 🖤 #concretepoetry
June 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Here are a few poems from my collection Constellations (Guillemot Press), a sequence of visual poems based on the 88 recognised astronomical constellations. 🖤 #concretepoetry
These are going to be fun! Thanks @trickhouse.bsky.social 💛
June 18, 2025 at 9:08 AM
These are going to be fun! Thanks @trickhouse.bsky.social 💛
I’m happy to have work exhibited at HOUSE OF HABERDASH, a group exhibition and community arts project, bringing together over 30 contemporary artists whose work explores objects that you might find in haberdasheries. Runs until August 8th at the Torriano Meeting House.
June 7, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I’m happy to have work exhibited at HOUSE OF HABERDASH, a group exhibition and community arts project, bringing together over 30 contemporary artists whose work explores objects that you might find in haberdasheries. Runs until August 8th at the Torriano Meeting House.
My academic essay ‘From Beuys to O’Sullivan: an ecofeminist approach to contemporary sculptural poetry’ has just been published by @innovativepoetry.bsky.social! You can download/read/share it: poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/8... 🖤
May 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
My academic essay ‘From Beuys to O’Sullivan: an ecofeminist approach to contemporary sculptural poetry’ has just been published by @innovativepoetry.bsky.social! You can download/read/share it: poetry.openlibhums.org/article/id/8... 🖤
My poem ‘Words to describe honey’. This was recently published in Vol. 16 of Tokyo Poetry Journal. 💛
May 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
My poem ‘Words to describe honey’. This was recently published in Vol. 16 of Tokyo Poetry Journal. 💛
I’m very pleased to be returning to the @poetryschool.bsky.social for the 3rd year, this time with the course ‘Introduction to Visual Poetry’! This online course runs from May to July 2025 and will be packed with fun writing prompts & pointers to innovative poets. 😍 poetryschool.com/courses/intr...
March 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I’m very pleased to be returning to the @poetryschool.bsky.social for the 3rd year, this time with the course ‘Introduction to Visual Poetry’! This online course runs from May to July 2025 and will be packed with fun writing prompts & pointers to innovative poets. 😍 poetryschool.com/courses/intr...
This is my sculptural poem ‘decayed’ which was exhibited at the Words from the Wild show at Royal Holloway last year. The bark was recovered from a local restoration area in Bushy Park and belonged to one of the several conker trees that were recently cut down.
February 18, 2025 at 9:43 AM
This is my sculptural poem ‘decayed’ which was exhibited at the Words from the Wild show at Royal Holloway last year. The bark was recovered from a local restoration area in Bushy Park and belonged to one of the several conker trees that were recently cut down.
Heartfelt thanks to Museo MUACC in Cagliari (Italy) for the opportunity to take part in the exhibition Books As Art which launched yesterday! The overarching mission of the project is focused on ‘restoring’ women’s artistic research back into the cultural history of the 20th and 21st centuries. 🖤
December 6, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Heartfelt thanks to Museo MUACC in Cagliari (Italy) for the opportunity to take part in the exhibition Books As Art which launched yesterday! The overarching mission of the project is focused on ‘restoring’ women’s artistic research back into the cultural history of the 20th and 21st centuries. 🖤
I am 3 weeks away from my due date (can’t wait to meet baby!) so this was probably the last visit to my exhibition at the National Poetry Library! I loved going through the exhibition’s visitors book and look forward to spending more time with it at the end of the show. ❤️
November 27, 2024 at 5:12 PM
I am 3 weeks away from my due date (can’t wait to meet baby!) so this was probably the last visit to my exhibition at the National Poetry Library! I loved going through the exhibition’s visitors book and look forward to spending more time with it at the end of the show. ❤️
Here’s my eraser poem (published by zimZalla) which is about the power of words. The box includes a bonus poem. £5.50 plus p&p: zimzalla.co.uk
November 20, 2024 at 8:46 AM
Here’s my eraser poem (published by zimZalla) which is about the power of words. The box includes a bonus poem. £5.50 plus p&p: zimzalla.co.uk
All visitors of my first solo exhibition Making Poetry at the Southbank Centre can claim a free scratchcard when they visit. I made 5,000 of these by hand, and each of them features lines of poetry from the exhibition. If you’re lucky you may even pick a winning card! 💛
November 16, 2024 at 1:08 PM
All visitors of my first solo exhibition Making Poetry at the Southbank Centre can claim a free scratchcard when they visit. I made 5,000 of these by hand, and each of them features lines of poetry from the exhibition. If you’re lucky you may even pick a winning card! 💛
This is one of my favourite National Poetry Library commissions from my current solo exhibition. This tactile poetic response to Simmias of Rhodes is made of eggshell and beeswax, and is about motherly love and unborn possibilities. 🤍
November 15, 2024 at 11:47 AM
This is one of my favourite National Poetry Library commissions from my current solo exhibition. This tactile poetic response to Simmias of Rhodes is made of eggshell and beeswax, and is about motherly love and unborn possibilities. 🤍
You are welcome to explore my debut solo exhibition ‘Making Poetry’ at the National Poetry Library in London, which is on until January 5th! 💛 www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/mak...
November 14, 2024 at 7:59 PM
You are welcome to explore my debut solo exhibition ‘Making Poetry’ at the National Poetry Library in London, which is on until January 5th! 💛 www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/mak...