Kayleigh Jayshree
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Kayleigh Jayshree
@kayleighjayshree.bsky.social
poet & short story writer & publishing workerer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ chihuahua lover 🥭🌌
debut pamphlet w/ fourteen poems🧡✨

https://www.fourteenpoems.com/shop/mango-starblush-by-kayleigh-jayshree

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Here is a thread of my published work so far 📚
ewan mcgregor sang really excellently in moulin rouge … and never did it again

and i respect that
September 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
You know you live in London when you go on holiday and spend less money x
September 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
My debut pamphlet with @fourteenpoems.bsky.social is out very soon! I’m so happy (and impressed at how many I can hold in each hand) link here www.fourteenpoems.com/shop/mango-s...
September 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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> Kayleigh Jayshree @kayleighjayshree.bsky.social
> Rich Ware @warer.bsky.social
> Bonnie Hancell
> Tom Mason
> Meron Berhanu
> Emily A. Taylor @emwrote.bsky.social
> Sophia Georghiou
> Claire Berlyn
> William Wyld 

Huge gratitude to Richard & all our contributors.
propelmagazine.co.uk/sixteen
Propel Sixteen, edited by Richard Scott — Propel Magazine
Propel Sixteen, edited by Richard Scott, July 2025
propelmagazine.co.uk
July 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Saw in reviews that Under the Eye of the Big Bird was confusing and hard to read… where
July 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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We're thrilled to announce that the winners of the Breaking the Rules Challenge on Young Poets Network are now online.

Here's an excerpt from Safa Maryam's winning poem 'Suspected Alzheimer’s, awaiting assessment.' Read the rest of the winning poems at bit.ly/EstorickYPN
June 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Bro they turned your poignant remark into a tiresome cliche through sheer repetition bro
June 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
every time in the past month i asked my partner what he’s dreamt about he’s said ‘twin peaks’ and when ive asked him to clarify hes said, half asleep and quietly.. ‘i cant’
June 22, 2025 at 11:24 AM
why is it the less books i take with me on holibob the more i read??? Why have i read most of my books already and its been two hours
June 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Elon saying he’s going to reprogram his chatbot’s view of history is a perfect example of why these kinds of AI products aren’t the neutral “tools” people always defend them as. They’re little political projects reflecting the ideologies of their creators
June 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Warren Mortimer’s elegiac piece reflects on grief and the resilience of loss. A poem where small departures echo loud.
@woz012poetry.bsky.social

Read!
inksweatandtears.co.uk/warren-morti...

#InkSweatandTears #Submission #PoetryCommunity
June 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
i hate having no object permanence have had a full tub of heroes in my cupboard since at least march
May 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Something something AI something water something drought something hubris something disaster
May 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Congratulations to the brilliant @mayacaspari.bsky.social on the publication of her debut pamphlet!
✨✨✨Happy Publication Day to
@mayacaspari.bsky.social
whose brilliant debut pamphlet, ALMOST, WITH TENDERNESS, is out today ✨✨✨

Order your copy here:
outspokenldn.com/shop/almost

And join us at
@burleyfisher.bsky.social
on 3 April to celebrate the launch (registration link below)
March 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Brilliant news for a brilliant publisher!
We are over the moon to have THREE poetry books in excellent company on the #JhalakPrize Poetry Longlist - congratulations @mailbykite.bsky.social @timtimtmi.bsky.social & Amaan Hyder - and all the other brilliant poets & writers recognised by the Jhalak prize longlist! 🥳📚
March 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Come celebrate our new book (In)Habit by Hetty Cliss at The Common Press in east London on the 10th April. As well as Hetty reading poems from her book, we’ll also have readings from Cia Mangat, Helen Bowell, and Prerana Kumar.

Tickets via the link in our bio!
March 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Funding fights, memoirs by Boris Becker and Stallone, plus the queen of romantasy: this year’s London book fair
Funding fights, memoirs by Boris Becker and Stallone, plus the queen of romantasy: this year’s London book fair
The 2025 book trade jamboree featured a bonanza of heart-shaped fiction, celebrity memoirs, and some vexed discussion about festival finances and children’s reading
www.theguardian.com
March 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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February 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Nosferatu !!! Very good
February 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Happy Valentine's Day! What better way to commemorate the day than to read dizzying words of love and devotion? We've got you covered with this selection of excerpts, which have been published in full in The Poetry Review.

What are your favourite love poems? Let's get the discussion blooming.
February 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Steering the Craft is one of the best books on writing I’ve read. Short chapters, examples, exercises to revisit. Realistic (which matters!)
February 13, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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One place remaining on this workshop this evening after someone sadly had to pull out last minute.
Come join us!
Always good to have a full house!

www.tickettailor.com/events/thepo...
Buy tickets – Online Workshop: 'Tadaima: I’ve come back!' with Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana – Zoom
ただ今 Tadaima: I’ve come back! Following on from 3 sell-out workshops on Japanese forms, this session will share Alex’s recent...
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February 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I forgot A Court of Thorns and Roses at home (am in London) and my partner is reading it to me over facetime 🥺 hes the best
February 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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this is my first black history month working at a black-owned bookstore, and yesterday i was sitting at the desk feeling like i was missing something. but in fact i did not need to curate a bhm display bc over half our stock is black books. a surprising relief that i’m still processing
February 3, 2025 at 1:41 AM