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.
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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October 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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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.
“Riotous and razor sharp, this phenomenal pamphlet is proof that survival and recovery is not only possible - it can be sexy, too.” - Rhian Elizabeth
Published with @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social in November.
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Thank you!!!!
Ps thanks Original Brian xx
Published with @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social in November.
www.vervepoetrybookshop.com/product-page...
Thank you!!!!
Ps thanks Original Brian xx
August 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
“Riotous and razor sharp, this phenomenal pamphlet is proof that survival and recovery is not only possible - it can be sexy, too.” - Rhian Elizabeth
Published with @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social in November.
www.vervepoetrybookshop.com/product-page...
Thank you!!!!
Ps thanks Original Brian xx
Published with @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social in November.
www.vervepoetrybookshop.com/product-page...
Thank you!!!!
Ps thanks Original Brian xx
Joseph Fasano said this about Well Done, You Didn’t Die and I still haven’t quite recovered.
This pamphlet nearly didn’t happen. I nearly didn’t happen.
Preorder with Verve Poetry Press now.
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This pamphlet nearly didn’t happen. I nearly didn’t happen.
Preorder with Verve Poetry Press now.
www.vervepoetrybookshop.com/product-page...
August 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Joseph Fasano said this about Well Done, You Didn’t Die and I still haven’t quite recovered.
This pamphlet nearly didn’t happen. I nearly didn’t happen.
Preorder with Verve Poetry Press now.
www.vervepoetrybookshop.com/product-page...
This pamphlet nearly didn’t happen. I nearly didn’t happen.
Preorder with Verve Poetry Press now.
www.vervepoetrybookshop.com/product-page...
I have a new book coming out in November with @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social www.vervepoetrybookshop.com/product-page...
July 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I have a new book coming out in November with @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social www.vervepoetrybookshop.com/product-page...
Aftershock has arrived on billboards! Head to the Deansgate/Bridgewater crossroads ❤️
July 4, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Aftershock has arrived on billboards! Head to the Deansgate/Bridgewater crossroads ❤️
Me reading my poem Fulcrum published by @fourteenpoems.bsky.social Effable @jpseabright.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Me reading my poem Fulcrum published by @fourteenpoems.bsky.social Effable @jpseabright.bsky.social
Thank you Ludlow!
June 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Thank you Ludlow!
Make each pane hold its own emotional weather. Think of silence pressed to glass… Think of what you see when you can’t go outside. Two panes. One window. Your language inside it. #poetry
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June 16, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Make each pane hold its own emotional weather. Think of silence pressed to glass… Think of what you see when you can’t go outside. Two panes. One window. Your language inside it. #poetry
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June 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
The ASTONISHING @chenchenwrites.bsky.social which you can read more in the mag and here: aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/pride-2025...
June 6, 2025 at 7:40 AM
The ASTONISHING @chenchenwrites.bsky.social which you can read more in the mag and here: aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/pride-2025...
This Pride we’re spotlighting some of the queer poets from The Aftershock Review: Issue One. We’re starting with Dale Booton.
Dale’s poem Wide Awake doesn’t soothe. It stings.
@dalebooton.bsky.social
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#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrybluesky
Dale’s poem Wide Awake doesn’t soothe. It stings.
@dalebooton.bsky.social
aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/pride-2025...
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrybluesky
June 5, 2025 at 6:05 AM
This Pride we’re spotlighting some of the queer poets from The Aftershock Review: Issue One. We’re starting with Dale Booton.
Dale’s poem Wide Awake doesn’t soothe. It stings.
@dalebooton.bsky.social
aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/pride-2025...
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrybluesky
Dale’s poem Wide Awake doesn’t soothe. It stings.
@dalebooton.bsky.social
aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/pride-2025...
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrybluesky
There are poems that circle a subject, and poems that walk straight into it. The ‘S’ word by Mark Antony Owen is a record of that moment, when someone says it out loud. aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/the-s-word...
May 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
There are poems that circle a subject, and poems that walk straight into it. The ‘S’ word by Mark Antony Owen is a record of that moment, when someone says it out loud. aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/the-s-word...
And static image for those who don't like video. Today I am 1 year, 2 months, 2 days sober. New poem. www.aftershockreview.com #sober #recovery #poetry
May 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
And static image for those who don't like video. Today I am 1 year, 2 months, 2 days sober. New poem. www.aftershockreview.com #sober #recovery #poetry
Today I am 1 year, 2 months, 2 days sober. New poem. www.aftershockreview.com #sober #recovery #poetry
May 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Today I am 1 year, 2 months, 2 days sober. New poem. www.aftershockreview.com #sober #recovery #poetry
TODAY’S PROMPT: WRITE ABOUT BIRTH
Write about the moment before. Before the breath. Before the name.
Write the first hurt. The first silence. The first time you were seen.
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Write about the moment before. Before the breath. Before the name.
Write the first hurt. The first silence. The first time you were seen.
aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/day-18-wri...
May 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
TODAY’S PROMPT: WRITE ABOUT BIRTH
Write about the moment before. Before the breath. Before the name.
Write the first hurt. The first silence. The first time you were seen.
aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/day-18-wri...
Write about the moment before. Before the breath. Before the name.
Write the first hurt. The first silence. The first time you were seen.
aftershockpoetry.substack.com/p/day-18-wri...
Day 17 of the Daily Aftershock - head to our substack for more @poetrysociety.bsky.social #poetry
May 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Day 17 of the Daily Aftershock - head to our substack for more @poetrysociety.bsky.social #poetry