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JP Seabright
@jpseabright.bsky.social
genderqueer genrefluid writer of things #pwME 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺📚
Latest book: Solitary Hotel 🖤 Check links for all the others!
Co-editor of https://effable.uk

https://linktr.ee/jpseabright
https://jpseabright.com
This Wednesday, come and join me and George Parker (your friendly queer crip eff-able Book Daddies™️) at QUEERCIRCLE for an enlightening discussion on queer disabled art and activism with the brilliant Jamie Hale and Lucy Webster, led by Lalah-Simone Springer!
October 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Today! I’m performing at the City Lit Mental Wealth Festival. Come and join us - for music, song, poetry & spoken word. Only £5 to salve your soul. 💜

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening...
October 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This is not the post I planned to write today, but clearly the one I needed to write…

jpseabright.substack.com/p/mental-hea...
October 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
A librarian’s pilgrimage to the old British Library Reading Room.

One of the advantages of being old is that I got to study in here when I moved to London to do my Masters. 🤓📚
September 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I’m so behind on my TBR pile that I’ve only now discovered this lovely review of MotherFlux in the Winter 2024 edition of the Poetry Book Society Bulletin!

Huge thanks to Shalini Sengupta for reading us, Nine Pens for publishing us and Erica and Jem for all the MotherFluxing words. 💜
September 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Mostly written in the Spring, but set in Autumn, I never imagined that my chapbook Solitary Hotel, which explores grief, loneliness and isolation, would foretell how this September is turning out.

For James. R.I.P. 💔✊🏾

Audio version free with copies bought direct from me:
jp-seabright.square.site
September 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
In case you’re doing the #sealeychallenge then Solitary Hotel is a super ‘fun size’ A6 poetry pamphlet that fits inside a back pocket, handbag, or the palm of your hand.

Available now from Red Ceilings Press or direct from me (link in bio).
August 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
SOUND ON!
Short extract of the audio version of Solitary Hotel, my latest chapbook, out now with Red Ceilings Press

Available as a free MP3 to everyone who buys a copy of the book direct from me.
Link here and in bio: jp-seabright.square.site product/solitary-hotel/
August 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
SOUND ON!
Another short extract of the audio version of Solitary Hotel, my latest chapbook, out now from Red Ceilings Press.

Available as a free MP3 to everyone who buys a copy of the book direct from me.
Link here and in bio: jp-seabright.square.site product/solitary-hotel/
August 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
SOUND ON!
Another short extract of the audio version of Solitary Hotel, my latest chapbook, out now from Red Ceilings Press
Available as a free MP3 to everyone who buys a copy of the book direct from me.
jp-seabright.square.site product/solitary-hotel/
August 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Latest blog post about my new book (out now from Red Ceilings Press) where I write about its inspiration : Samuel Barber, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and the North Norfolk coast and my writing ‘process’.

open.substack.com/pub/jpseabri...
August 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Look at my beautiful book babies!

Solitary Hotel is a book-length poem sequence inspired by Samuel Barber’s song of the same name, which sets to music text from James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Available now from Red Ceilings Press (or direct from me) Both links in bio.
August 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Really honoured for my latest chapbook, Solitary Hotel, to have been read and endorsed by the brilliant Richard Skinner - author, poet, educator, essayist, publisher and all round polymath.

Available now from Red Ceilings Press www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/product-page/solitary-hotel-jp-seabright
July 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Enormous thanks to the wonderful Susie Campbell, a poet and creator I’ve long admired, for these words about Solitary Hotel, my latest chapbook, available now from the equally wonderful Red Ceilings Press.
July 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
COMING SOON…
July 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Calling all Northerners! I’m heading to York in 9 days time, reading at Rise Up! alongside Rosie Garland and Spencer Wood. Come and join us!

www.eventbrite.com/e/rise-up-june-tickets-1372556496429?aff=oddtdtcreator
June 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
New substack post just dropped!

jpseabright.substack.com/p/this-is-no...
June 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Late to post, but honoured to be one of fifty contributing poets to this anthology published by Dahlia Books - Bring Me Gold : Fifty Poems for Palestine 🇵🇸

All proceeds go to @medicalaidpal.bsky.social

You can buy your copy here: www.dahliapublishing.co.uk/product/poems-for-palestine
June 1, 2025 at 9:18 AM
A real joy and honour to read at the launch of Long Poem Magazine at the Barbican Library today. Amongst such poetic luminaries! And at my favourite cultural hangout.📚
May 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM
My latest Substack post - only 7 weeks after the last one!

Give it a read. Go on. You know you want to.

Link in bio, and here of all places: jpseabright.substack.com/p/more-effin...
May 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Delighted to be heading to York a month today for the brilliant Rise Up! performing alongside Spencer Wood and the fabulous @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social

Come and join us!
www.eventbrite.com/e/rise-up-june-tickets-1372556496429?aff=oddtdtcreator
May 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Delighted to finally receive my contributor copy for this beautiful anthology on Becoming, published by the @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social
🧡 & @panmacmillan.bsky.social

Huge thanks to @arachnepress.bsky.social
the original publishers of this poem in their Joy//Us anthology. 🧡
May 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Happy Mother’s Day to most of the rest of the world, and Happy Mothers’ Day in our queer fam.

Which also means it’s Happy Book Birthday to MotherFlux, my poetic collaboration with Jem Henderson and Erica Gillingham. One today! 🥳💜
May 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I love this sitting down ‘action shot’ taken by Kirsty Catherell at the wonderful Enrich Festival two weeks ago.

A fantastic event, and a treat to share the stage with @agparker.bsky.social & @rickdove.bsky.social for a cheeky preview of the queer crip erotic poetry of @eff-able.bsky.social 💜
May 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Wonderful to be in this brilliant, exciting, inspiring and much-needed new journal, edited by the equally brilliant and exciting @maxwallis.bsky.social 💜

So many fantastic poets in this, whose work I LOVE, it’s a joy to be amongst them. 🙏🏼

You can get your copy here!
www.aftershockreview.com
May 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM