The Aftershock Review (Max Wallis)
@maxwallis.bsky.social
📚 Max Wallis | Author of the Polari Prize-shortlisted Modern Love (2011) & Everything Everything (2016).
🖋️ Poems in The Rialto, Poetry Scotland, Spectator
✍️ Freelance journalist (The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph).
🌈 Gay, disabled, survivor.
🖋️ Poems in The Rialto, Poetry Scotland, Spectator
✍️ Freelance journalist (The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph).
🌈 Gay, disabled, survivor.
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WE GOT THE FUNDING! “I am writing to offer you a grant of £XX,XXX towards the costs of The Aftershock Review. Congratulations on your successful application.” THANK YOU EVERYONE. THANK YOU, CONTRIBUTORS. THANK YOU
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Getting ready to read The Aftershock Review. Look at those names. Oh my! Many thanks @maxwallis.bsky.social🌟
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Getting ready to read The Aftershock Review. Look at those names. Oh my! Many thanks @maxwallis.bsky.social🌟
So much this @betarish.bsky.social. I think it is soft hope & breath made paper. It is part unpeeling part armour part wish part prayer. A mosaic that appears only when the pieces of us settle. Sometimes the poem asks; sometimes the reader answers; often the answer is simply the act of making.
Putting a draft of a poem away, I was just struck by the madness that is this thing that we do; that we scribble something down in the hope it finds ears, eyes, hearts; maybe even lodges in them. And yet we do. This is what faith is. Carry on.
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
So much this @betarish.bsky.social. I think it is soft hope & breath made paper. It is part unpeeling part armour part wish part prayer. A mosaic that appears only when the pieces of us settle. Sometimes the poem asks; sometimes the reader answers; often the answer is simply the act of making.
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We’ve got great news for writers across the UK and RoI – the 2026 RSL Ondaatje Prize is now taking submissions! 🥳
Applications are open until 5pm on 12 December 2025. Apply now: https://rsliterature.org/rsl-ondaatje-prize/
Applications are open until 5pm on 12 December 2025. Apply now: https://rsliterature.org/rsl-ondaatje-prize/
November 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
We’ve got great news for writers across the UK and RoI – the 2026 RSL Ondaatje Prize is now taking submissions! 🥳
Applications are open until 5pm on 12 December 2025. Apply now: https://rsliterature.org/rsl-ondaatje-prize/
Applications are open until 5pm on 12 December 2025. Apply now: https://rsliterature.org/rsl-ondaatje-prize/
‘The sun sang honorific hymns
and I was in an Uber to die.’
Except I didn’t. And found a life i long thought impossible. Thank you @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social for publishing my first book in a decade. I have copies if you want to buy one. Otherwise available at usual places! 1/2
and I was in an Uber to die.’
Except I didn’t. And found a life i long thought impossible. Thank you @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social for publishing my first book in a decade. I have copies if you want to buy one. Otherwise available at usual places! 1/2
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
‘The sun sang honorific hymns
and I was in an Uber to die.’
Except I didn’t. And found a life i long thought impossible. Thank you @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social for publishing my first book in a decade. I have copies if you want to buy one. Otherwise available at usual places! 1/2
and I was in an Uber to die.’
Except I didn’t. And found a life i long thought impossible. Thank you @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social for publishing my first book in a decade. I have copies if you want to buy one. Otherwise available at usual places! 1/2
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SO THRILLED to be in the ‘poetry rupture’ that is The Aftershock Review Issue2. Thanks @maxwallis.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
SO THRILLED to be in the ‘poetry rupture’ that is The Aftershock Review Issue2. Thanks @maxwallis.bsky.social
Do you use a social media tool to manage Bluesky etc etc at once? Or use IFTTT? Trying to figure out if I’m doing this correctly or could do it more efficiently.
November 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Do you use a social media tool to manage Bluesky etc etc at once? Or use IFTTT? Trying to figure out if I’m doing this correctly or could do it more efficiently.
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So happy to see Issue 2 of The Aftershock Review @maxwallis.bsky.social out in the world with two of my poems in it among some true literary heavyweights!!
#Poetry #Published #AftershockReview
#Poetry #Published #AftershockReview
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
So happy to see Issue 2 of The Aftershock Review @maxwallis.bsky.social out in the world with two of my poems in it among some true literary heavyweights!!
#Poetry #Published #AftershockReview
#Poetry #Published #AftershockReview
Www.aftershockreview.com to order. Thank you so much everyone.
November 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Www.aftershockreview.com to order. Thank you so much everyone.
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Another issue of this triumph of modern poetry publishing landed on my doormat today. To call it a journal is to do it a disservice; the quality of its production equal in every way to that of the work between its covers. Kudos to @maxwallis.bsky.social for having the vision to make this happen.
November 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Another issue of this triumph of modern poetry publishing landed on my doormat today. To call it a journal is to do it a disservice; the quality of its production equal in every way to that of the work between its covers. Kudos to @maxwallis.bsky.social for having the vision to make this happen.
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So proud to be in the second Aftershock Review, can’t wait to read it all. Thanks so much @maxwallis.bsky.social
#poemsabout #poetsonbluesky
#poemsabout #poetsonbluesky
November 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
So proud to be in the second Aftershock Review, can’t wait to read it all. Thanks so much @maxwallis.bsky.social
#poemsabout #poetsonbluesky
#poemsabout #poetsonbluesky
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I’ve just seen a narrowboat that looks like it’s entirely crewed by cats, and it’s not even 10am
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I’ve just seen a narrowboat that looks like it’s entirely crewed by cats, and it’s not even 10am
Buy a copy of issue two here, I’m so very very proud of it: www.aftershockreview.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Buy a copy of issue two here, I’m so very very proud of it: www.aftershockreview.com
Across Dunne’s sequence, we move from the mother’s humiliation to the child’s car journey toward the father’s absence. By the time we reach In the Prison Gardens, love exists only within visitation hours… a ritual of limited touch, a tenderness fenced by rules.
November 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Across Dunne’s sequence, we move from the mother’s humiliation to the child’s car journey toward the father’s absence. By the time we reach In the Prison Gardens, love exists only within visitation hours… a ritual of limited touch, a tenderness fenced by rules.
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In today's poem, 'Serenity Prayer', @maxwallis.bsky.social's speaker uses a familiar form to find solace and seek guidance in navigating through the minutiae of the everyday and discovering the truths that can be found in them.
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#InkSweatandTears #Poetry
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#InkSweatandTears #Poetry
October 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
In today's poem, 'Serenity Prayer', @maxwallis.bsky.social's speaker uses a familiar form to find solace and seek guidance in navigating through the minutiae of the everyday and discovering the truths that can be found in them.
inksweatandtears.co.uk/max-wallis/
#InkSweatandTears #Poetry
inksweatandtears.co.uk/max-wallis/
#InkSweatandTears #Poetry
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It's not the 'internet'. It's 'electric hobby horses'.
October 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
It's not the 'internet'. It's 'electric hobby horses'.
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Join our four RSL Jerwood Poets – Roseanne Watt, Scott McKendry, clare e. potter and Karen McCarthy Woolf – at this year’s Push the Boat Out Festival for a premiere of new collaborations co-conceived with musician, Kathryn Williams: https://rsliterature.org/whats-on/the-clearing/
The Clearing - Royal Society of Literature
Saturday 22 November, 19:30-20:30, Push the Boat Out Festival, The Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh. General admission: £15 + booking fee | Concession: £12 + booking fee Join this year’s four RSL Jerwood Poets – Roseanne Watt, Scott McKendry, clare e. potter and Karen McCarthy Woolf – for a premiere of new collaborations co-conceived with musician, Kathryn […]
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October 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Join our four RSL Jerwood Poets – Roseanne Watt, Scott McKendry, clare e. potter and Karen McCarthy Woolf – at this year’s Push the Boat Out Festival for a premiere of new collaborations co-conceived with musician, Kathryn Williams: https://rsliterature.org/whats-on/the-clearing/
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All welcome to the launch of the Four Pamphleteers with Verve.
Come along to the online readings to hear @maxwallis.bsky.social and @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social and Rue Collinge. Bring wine, bring crisps, bring everyone.
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Come along to the online readings to hear @maxwallis.bsky.social and @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social and Rue Collinge. Bring wine, bring crisps, bring everyone.
@vervepoetrypress.bsky.social
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FOUR PAMPHLETEERS: Rue Collinge, Glyn Edwards, Max Wallis & Katrina Naomi
VERVE Poetry Press presents Rue Collinge, Glyn Edwards, Max Wallis & Katrina Naomi reading from their brand new pamphlets.
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October 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
All welcome to the launch of the Four Pamphleteers with Verve.
Come along to the online readings to hear @maxwallis.bsky.social and @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social and Rue Collinge. Bring wine, bring crisps, bring everyone.
@vervepoetrypress.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/four-pamph...
Come along to the online readings to hear @maxwallis.bsky.social and @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social and Rue Collinge. Bring wine, bring crisps, bring everyone.
@vervepoetrypress.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/four-pamph...
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October 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Delighted that @maxwallis.bsky.social has chosen a poem of mine for Aftershock Issue 2! It was first generated in @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social and @clareshawpoet.bsky.social ‘s excellent January writing hours- which was also where I got to hear of Max’s brilliant project !
September 25, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Delighted that @maxwallis.bsky.social has chosen a poem of mine for Aftershock Issue 2! It was first generated in @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social and @clareshawpoet.bsky.social ‘s excellent January writing hours- which was also where I got to hear of Max’s brilliant project !
Tune into BBC Radio 4 Front Row tonight to hear about The Aftershock Review. ALSO - At age 36 I have passed my driving test! What a life you can live when you choose to live the one you want.
October 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Tune into BBC Radio 4 Front Row tonight to hear about The Aftershock Review. ALSO - At age 36 I have passed my driving test! What a life you can live when you choose to live the one you want.
We have been awarded a £15,000 grant from the T S Eliot Foundation. Words can't explain what I'm feeling right now, but thank you to everyone who believes in us. And to all who see what recovery, survival, persistence and change can do. And most of all - to the poets who trust us with your words.
October 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
We have been awarded a £15,000 grant from the T S Eliot Foundation. Words can't explain what I'm feeling right now, but thank you to everyone who believes in us. And to all who see what recovery, survival, persistence and change can do. And most of all - to the poets who trust us with your words.
In @pascalepetit.bsky.social's final, fourth, poem, What Eagle Saw, Petit turns her focus skyward. The eagle hovers above the neonatal ward, her vision both forensic and mythic, maternal and ecological. @rsliterature.bsky.social
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What Eagle Saw by Pascale Petit
VO by Max Wallis - 'Eagle looked down and with her laser vision / zoomed into the neonatal clinic.'
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September 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
In @pascalepetit.bsky.social's final, fourth, poem, What Eagle Saw, Petit turns her focus skyward. The eagle hovers above the neonatal ward, her vision both forensic and mythic, maternal and ecological. @rsliterature.bsky.social
aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/what-eagle...
aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/what-eagle...
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September 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Kathleen Ryan: Bad Lemon, Aventurine, smokey quartz, rhodonite, calcite, quartz, labradorite, green line jasper, kambaba jasper, pink opal, citrine, amethyst, rose quartz, agate, serpentine, pink lepidolite, malachite, mother of pearl, freshwater pearl, bone, glass, acrylic, steel pins, polystyrene