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Laura Theis
@lauratheis.bsky.social
Author of 'A Spotter's Guide To Invisible Things', 'Introduction To Cloud Care', etc.
https://www.livecanon.co.uk/store/product/a-spotters-guide-to-invisible-things-by-laura-theis
#poetsonbluesky
Thank you Fiona Benson for including my poem in the beautiful Winchester Prize anthology The Lantern Room among so many favourite new poems...
October 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Hooray hooray I am absolutely star-struck to be on this lovely list 🤩 & so grateful to Fiona Benson and I can't wait to hear everyone read their poems in October....
September 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
A poem inspired by a true story 😅🍅🌱

Thank you so much @mosspuppymag.bsky.social mag for featuring my poem in your beautiful Cedar pop-up issue...
August 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Dear #poetsonbluesky today I have something really exciting to share with you: The beautiful cover for my @theemmapress.bsky.social children's debut 'Poems from a Witch’s Pocket' designed by the incredibly talented Kate Foster...Pre-orders are open now!
theemmapress.com/shop/childre...
June 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Love this new one by Ada Limòn...
June 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
ODE TO JUNE....From my @livecanon.bsky.social book A Spotter's Guide To Invisible Things....this poem was first published by @candlestickpress.bsky.social

www.livecanon.co.uk/store/produc... #poetsonbluesky
June 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
If you're anywhere near Oxford, come along to this on Monday! creationtheatre.co.uk/show/poetryr...
May 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It's Walpurgis Eve, the perfect opportunity to share this beautiful book and the specially commissioned artwork for my Walpurgis poem....Edited by the lovely Julia Rios and witchy linocut artwork by the wonderful Jessica P Wick....
Happy Walpurgis/ Beltane/May Day Eve 💚🧹🧙‍♀️
#poetsonbluesky
April 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
My lovely author copy of this beautiful anthology, edited by Victoria Kennefick...
April 18, 2025 at 10:27 AM
A little summary of my upcoming April/May Events...✨
April 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This poem from Introduction To Cloud Care was first published in Passengers Vol 5 Issue 6 & really special to me cos it was

💔 the last ever issue of a journal I loved

💝 the first time I ever had a poem published alongside the amazing @chenchenwrites.bsky.social

🎙 came w/ a lovely audio reading
March 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Does anyone have some FUN books to recommend? Thank you!!
March 15, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Hooray it's book launch day! ✨

The stars are (quite literally) aligned so I suggest you find somewhere you can watch the sky while listening to
@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
poets read their poetry to you...

Tickets:
www.brokensleepbooks.com/events

Buy: www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
February 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Hooray! "my home is flooding and all I want to do is learn about seahorses" won a prize! You can read it here:

www.andrewjamison.co.uk/prize

#poetsonbluesky #poemsabout #seahorses
February 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This one is for all the writers....
- from Introduction To Cloud Care
@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
#brokensleepbooks #poetsonbluesky #poetsky #cloudcare
February 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
"when they float so low you could touch them / without lifting a hand (which they know you will not)..."

I'm so happy I re-discovered this old picture my friend took of me at a festival - by total coincidence it works as a "promo-shot" for Introduction To Cloud Care! 😅 #poetsonbluesky #cloudcare
February 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Huge congratulations everyone...✨
February 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"Dr. Rage Will See You Now"
- another #kidlit poem of mine up on Dirigible Balloon...
February 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Still sharing various poems that mention clouds on here in the run-up to the publication of my book Introduction To Cloud Care..☁️ www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
This one's by Larkin...
February 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Looking forward to reading alongside
@rickyraypoet.bsky.social and all these other wonderful
@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social poets for the online launch of our books (mine is Introduction To Cloud Care) on the 28th of February
#poetsonbluesky #booksky
February 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Sharing more cloud-themed poems by other writers on here in the run-up to the publication of my book Introduction To Cloud Care..☁️ www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page... This is another one by the wonderful Ada Limón...
February 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I'm so happy to have three brand new poems for children up on the Dirigible Balloon! #poetsonbluesky #poetsky

Here is Pea Museum, one I wrote during a workshop run by the wonderful
@gcthewriter.bsky.social

dirigibleballoon.org/poem/Pea-Mus...
February 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
A bit more info about the new book!

Please let me know if you have any questions about how to pre-order from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social or anything else to do with the book...
There'll be an online launch on February 28 & an Oxford launch on 22 March (I'll make an extra post about those soon..)
February 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Sharing some cloud-themed poems by other writers on here in the run-up to the publication of my book Introduction To Cloud Care.. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page... This one by Baudelaire is very mysterious, but that is why I like it...
February 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Ahhhh it's coming around so fast - exactly one month from today, my new book Introduction To Cloud Care will be released by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social I'm incredibly grateful for everyone who already pre-ordered!❤️https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/laura-theis-introduction-to-cloud-care
January 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM