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Serge ♆ Neptune
@mermanpoet.bsky.social
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Queer non-binary poet / DYCP recipient / baba-yaga stan / "Mother Night" @ TheEmmaPress / poems in Poetry Review & elsewhere

photo by Sofia Falconi

(he/they)

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Still pinching myself that I got to read with Joelle Taylor and Joshua Blackman at the Poetry Society to launch the autumn issue of the Poetry Review

Thank you again @poetrysociety.org.uk for the opportunity

Grateful for all my blessings ✨️

Pics taken by poet extraordinaire Shannon Smith-Meekings
At the pub after the reading Reading for the Poetry society Wayne and I at the pub
October 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Reading at the Poetry Review autumn launch with some big names on Wednesday at the Poetry café 🙏🏻 very grateful
Joshua Blackman, Safia Elhillo, Safa Khatib, Serge Neptune, Claudine Toutoungi and Joelle Taylor's portraits stucked against a blue background next to the autumn issue of the Poetry Review
October 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Two of my poems are in the autumn issue of The Poetry Review!!! 😭

Yes, THAT Poetry Review! The main British Poetry magazine and one of the hardest in the world to get into 💅🏻

Big thanks to @poetrysociety.org.uk and Wayne, marvellous editor
Cover of The Poetry Review. The cover illustration is a bunch of gold ballons deflated. The names on the top right are Safia Elhillo, Forrest Gander & Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Harrison Hamm and Safa Khatib. At the bottom the verse: "ricocheting // not unlike baptism sideways"
September 17, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Lucky find. New Heather Christle
Paper Crown, a poetry collection by Heather Christle
September 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Celebrated birthday last Friday and was gifted a gothic bouquet
Serge is a fairskinned person with shirt brown hair, a beard and a moustache. They were clear glasses, a pale blue t-shirt and hold in their hands a bouquet wrapped in black paper. They sit at a table facing a clear window on the street and a brick wall can be seen in the back
August 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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I haven't read a poetry debut this good in years.

This is Silk Work by Imogen Cassel published by @prototypepubs.bsky.social
Cover of Silk Work by Imogen Cassel. The cover is blue with a white rectangle bearing the title Faun I woke up like Nijinsky. You do. We've all been there, it happens to the best of us. Now clarity of gesture, now the hand's rehearsed articulation over chopsticks. There is nothing immutable about anyone; the barre of the brow's ledge like a soiled metaphor. Anyway, there i am, green faun-eyed and muscles incandescendent with quiet, Suspended in a type of rage, clearing out an afternoon. You put out four dumb suitors with the bins again As if before, with some bust in jade, and the concept Of emphasis, fearing sequins and a line's drowning gravity. Taking a rite strict from the split air, one-handed, To mark a torso signatured against time. Well, Shadow of the earth, my arms with Bruises After pondwater. Yes I am beautiful / for noticing. And leaving en pointe, there's happiness following solo, At a distance, skinning itself into heaven like a snake.
June 13, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Got myself a Foyalty card, so I guess I have to buy books now
Hanne Ørstavik - Ti Amo Anne Carson - Economy of the Unlost Maggie Nelson - The Argonauts Johanne Lykke Holm - Strega Simone De Beauvoir - A Very Strange Death
June 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Mother Night graduated to the pamphlet stand @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk in good company @theemmapress.bsky.social
A bookshop stand with poetry pamphlets
May 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Haven't felt like reading much poetry lately, so I'm mostly reading graphic novels. This is an alternative version of the little mermaid, showing what would happen if Ariel lost to Ursula. Loved it
Cover of Part of Your Workd, a twisted tale graphic novel based on a novel by Liz Braswell, illustrated by Kelly and Nichole Matthews, and adapted by Stephanie Kate and Strohm. The cover illustrates a fierce-looking Ariel, with red hair, blue eyes and pale skin, holding the trident and wearing a crown. Part of a giant Ursula can be seen in the distant background
April 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Some reading outside poetry...
Three books on a wooden table. Their titles are: Death's Head (Animal Skulls in Witchcraft and Spirit Work) by Blake Malliway, The Gordon's Guide to Magical Resistance edited by Laura Tempest Zakroff, and The Poison Path Grimoire (Dark Herbalism, Poison Magic, and Baneful Allies) by Coby Michaels
March 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Hullo,

here I come with two pieces of good news

I'm so honoured to have my pamphlet Mother Night, published with the @theemmapress.bsky.social, reviewed in the latest issue of @poetrylondon.bsky.social

My thanks to the editors and @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social for your kind words
Writing Forward, Looking Back Katrina Naomi on four pamphlets that reach for new forms and vocabularies to examine loss, defiance, and hope Eric Yip Exposure Ignition Jay Gao Bark, Archive, Splinter Out-Spoken Helen Mort Dad vs. Dad Verve Serge Neptune Mother Night Emma
March 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Queer powers restored or whatever they say
Serge is a Caucasian person with short brown hair, a beard and moustache. He wears clear glasses and a blue t-shirt
March 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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🤷‍♂️
sex values attraction: masculine 92.9% sex drive: hypersexual 83.3% dominance axis: submissive 66.7% deviance axis: vanilla 75% affection axis: open 68.7%
February 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Taking advantage of the Mercury cazimi on a Sunday
Two candles tied by string with a bay leaf on a wooden surface. One candle is red and yellow and smaller tealight candles are lit behind it
February 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Hullo, I'll be sharing some poems this upcoming Sunday at with the amazing @dzifabenson.bsky.social introduced by @goldwildpoppy

see you there?
Sunday 9th of February, 2025 at 7.30 pm VENN DIAGRAMS #16 Hosted by Patrizia Longhitano (@goldwildpoppy) With Dzifa Benson Serge Neptune + OPEN MIC TORRIANO MEETING HOUSE - 99 Torriano Avenue, London, NW5 2RX Tickets at the door: £6 (£5 concessions)
February 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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So, they made a notebook replica of the Grimmerie from Wicked (as if I needed another spellbook lol) and I had to buy it. Also they made it wrong, because it opens the other way around lol but I still like it
A half rhomboid green box on a wooden table with golden ornaments and writing that says Wicked A half-rhomboid shaped notebook in brown faux leather with embossed ornamentations. A rhomboid shaped notebook open on a page picturing wings on a wooden table next to a cup of coffee A rhomboid shaped notebook open on a page with mysterious writing on a wooden table next to a cup of coffee
February 2, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Felt very cute, might delete later (also new shirt)
Serge is a fair-skinned person, with wavy brown hair, beard, a moustache, wearing clear glasses and grey shirt with a chequered collar. He poses by a wooden background Serge is a fair-skinned person, with wavy brown hair, beard, a moustache, wearing clear glasses and grey shirt with a chequered collar. He wears jeans and a black belt. He poses by some old stairs.
January 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Enjoying Oluwaseun Olayiwola's debut after a stimulating conversation between him and Camille Ralphs at the London Review Bookshop
Strange Beach by Oluwaseun Olayiwola
January 31, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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better than this monstrosisty
coppola hat
January 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Babygirls reunited @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social
Charlotte and Serge pose in front of green wallpaper with vegetable motives. Charlotte has fair skin, brown hair with a fringe and wears a grey jumper. Serge has wavy brown hair, a beard and moustache, and wears a blue jumper and clear-framed glasses Serge has wavy brown hair, a beard and moustache, and wears a blue jumper with a silver necklace and clear-framed glasses. He poses while sipping a pink drink in a restaurant. On the tables are glasses and a coke. A wooden table with cutlery, gourmet dishes, a coke, glasses and a pink mocktaol Two desserts on a wooden table with glasses and napkins
January 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Anne, you did it again 💙
An elderly woman wearing glasses and boxing gloves
January 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Love this "Literary Witches" Oracle Deck... I love that they included contemporary writers such as Anne Carson and Joy Harjo
A spread of cards from the Literary Witches oracle deck on a wooden surface. The cards include: Gertrude Stein, Volcano, Anne Carson, Peacock, Anna Akhmatova, teacup. A spread of cards from the Literary Witches oracle deck on a wooden surface. The cards include: tree, Sylvia Plath, skull, Emily Dickinson, white dress, Mary Shelley A spread of cards from the Literary Witches oracle deck on a wooden surface. The cards include: Toni Morrison, lion, Joy Harjo, ghost, Sappho, bees The Literary Witches oracle deck box covering the volcano card and the Anne Carson card
January 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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literally this
Left side: a blonde girl with a disgusted face and the writing says "Nosferatu is a rotting corpse". Right side: same girl with an interested expression and the writing says "the gays when they see his moustache"
January 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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This one too
MY ENEMY I have a new enemy he is so good-looking here is a photograph of him in the snow he is in the snow and so is the photo I put it there because I hate him and because it is always snowing in the photograph my enemy is acting like there are no neighbors but there are always neighbors they just might be far away he is 100% evil and good-looking he looks good in his parka in the snow if you asked he would call it a helmet all he ever does is lie he does not breathe or move or glow he is not that kind of man it is not that kind of snow
January 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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gurl
A drag queen in a blonde wig with huge pink lips and a pale blue dress, sitting on a pink couch in a pink room with the subtitles "take all the loads you want, your dad's not comin' back"
January 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM