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Leia Butler
@leiabutler.bsky.social
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Writer from London. Tear and Share (brokensleep) - Thoughts I lost in the Laundry (stanchionzine) - make up my mind (steelincisors) other work in Streetcake magazine - she/her
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I picked up these wonderful books a few weeks ago at the small publishers fair and can confirm @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social books are beautiful. Highly recommend supporting them ⬇️
Three books: 1.The process of poetry 2. The dark within them 3. In conversation with literary journals
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Had such a lovely day today at the @smallpublishers.bsky.social fair. Was lovely to have my little collection of spider stickers as part of the Royal Holloway table. I’ll be around tomorrow also! Book haul pending
Table full of poetry books and other visual poetry items 3 books made from stickers called spider_web_feelings
October 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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This is incredible! Such a celebration of some really exciting work. I’ve got a subscription and can’t wait for the next one 👏 @thepoetrykiosk.bsky.social
The visual poetry times
October 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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So excited so start reading this STUNNING book! Huge congrats @susiecampbell.bsky.social on your beautiful collection ❤️🎉
Wastelands by susie campbell
October 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Wonderful trip to the National Poetry Library today! Took the time to pay a visit to my first book baby
October 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Huge congrats @stanchion.bsky.social Jeff on this beautiful book. It is stunning ✨👏
Street cats and where to find them by Jeff Bogle
August 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Another year around the sun ☀️🎉
Birthday cakes with a candle in
July 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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I realised that I had missed the 1st birthday of Thoughts I Lost in the Laundry! Tonight I celebrate with a cupcake. Huge thanks to everyone who supported and picked up a copy. I’m especially thankful to Jeff @stanchion.bsky.social for taking a chance on it ❤️🧦

www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
Copy of Thoughts I Lose in the Laundry by Leia Butler alongside a mini cupcake with a lit candle.
June 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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My lovely friend gave me the most wonderful gift yesterday. She drew the socks mentioned in my poetry book with @stanchion.bsky.social. So special 🧦

You can pick up the book here: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page... or as a PDF here www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...
June 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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So happy to have received my physical copy of my book with @steelincisors.bsky.social 💄
Poetry collection ‘make up my mind’ by Leia Butler. It is surrounded by various make up products like nail varnish and lip gloss. It is laying on the grass.
April 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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In celebration of publication day today I played around with some special swatches!
You can pick up my newest collection from @steelincisors.bsky.social as a PDF or physical book by going to www.steelincisors.com/product/make...
Make up container with 4 colours of pink, yellow, green and blue. The words ‘make up my mind’ appear in each quad. 4 swatches in green, pink, yellow and blue with the words ‘make up my mind’.
March 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Before the launch of my book tomorrow I have one last blurb to share! A huge thank you to @jpseabright.bsky.social for this really kind review of my upcoming book with @steelincisors.bsky.social ❤️

You can pick the book up here: mixam.co.uk/print-on-dem...
With an exuberant burst of colour, Butler conceals and reveals contemporary anxieties, loss and longing in this exciting and experimental new collection. Make up my mind is both playful and poignant, complimenting compelling visuals with confessional text. It’s a perfect example of subject and form expertly intertwined, and there’s something almost primitive in the make-up mark-making, yet very ‘of the moment’ in capturing the fears, desires, and concerns of the modern woman.
March 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Another day another blurb for my upcoming book with @steelincisors.bsky.social

A huge thanks to Richard from @hempressbooks.bsky.social for this really kind blurb ✨

You can get the collection from this link www.steelincisors.com/product/make...
Social materia makes up as in daydream but also physically construct/construe a body and what are the boundaries of consent &c. that are crossed in the doing. What is undone enacts in turn on social impositions like job interviews or funerals when all we want is to autonomise desire. The body not disavowing but strung up also in drug slang sense by organs. Leia Butler turns objects on the gaze. Let them trouble. Be troubled. - by Richard Capener, author of The Enochian Alphabet
March 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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It’s less than a week now until my newest visual poetry collection comes out with @steelincisors.bsky.social.

Want to know a bit more about it? Here’s a blurb from @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social who is a fantastic writer and someone I admire so much. Thanks Nikki! ❤️
Leia Butler has done it again! I absolutely love how she says so much with so few words. You can hear her tenderness, her gently sardonic thoughts, her self-critical demon that pops up on her shoulder sometimes, her humour and guilty confessions. I love how she plays with space, language and expectations all at once. Quote by Nikki Dudley, author of Erode with Me
March 19, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Christmas wrapping is done, now I can relax and get reading this beauty! ✨ @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
Black Bough Poetry Christmas and Winter Anthology Volume 5
December 21, 2024 at 6:04 PM