Stuart Charlesworth
@stuchacha.bsky.social
Poet & Nurse & that
Works in Mental Health services
Helps run Cafe Writers
Most recently pub in Poetry Wales & 14 Poems
Knits, reads, runs. Likes Trade Unions
Studied at UEA (nursing & Creative Writing) & Aberystwyth (international Politics)
Non binary
Works in Mental Health services
Helps run Cafe Writers
Most recently pub in Poetry Wales & 14 Poems
Knits, reads, runs. Likes Trade Unions
Studied at UEA (nursing & Creative Writing) & Aberystwyth (international Politics)
Non binary
Stand up for trans rights 🏳️⚧️
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
May 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Stand up for trans rights 🏳️⚧️
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
Halima Cassell sculptures are ace!
March 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Halima Cassell sculptures are ace!
@elizabethlovatt.bsky.social I’m ❤️ing your Lesbian Line book! Got about 80 pages left & am a bit narked that I have to go to work tomorrow instead of finishing it.
March 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
@elizabethlovatt.bsky.social I’m ❤️ing your Lesbian Line book! Got about 80 pages left & am a bit narked that I have to go to work tomorrow instead of finishing it.
I read Galatea by @madelinemiller.bsky.social yesterday and then watched Mannequin again.
March 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I read Galatea by @madelinemiller.bsky.social yesterday and then watched Mannequin again.
I read #NinaSimone ‘s Gum by @warrenellis.bsky.social today. Fabulous book i have meant to read for ages. Just gone for a run listening to her Philips recordings and heard Pirate Jenny in a whole new light. Wondering if the recording of the Meltdown concert has appeared yet.
March 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I read #NinaSimone ‘s Gum by @warrenellis.bsky.social today. Fabulous book i have meant to read for ages. Just gone for a run listening to her Philips recordings and heard Pirate Jenny in a whole new light. Wondering if the recording of the Meltdown concert has appeared yet.
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please join us tonight to celebrate our competition winners! details in the link! mailchi.mp/d6293af64caa...
March 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
please join us tonight to celebrate our competition winners! details in the link! mailchi.mp/d6293af64caa...
One of the best sounds in the world is that of books dropping from a letterbox! Have just received these from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social ! Read poetry! Support small presses! Literacy is power! @rushikawick.bsky.social @arainbowpoet.bsky.social #HelenTaithCurtis
March 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
One of the best sounds in the world is that of books dropping from a letterbox! Have just received these from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social ! Read poetry! Support small presses! Literacy is power! @rushikawick.bsky.social @arainbowpoet.bsky.social #HelenTaithCurtis
My mum died of alzheimer’s early Tuesday. My head is a mess. I wrote this poem after visiting the @foundlingmuseum.bsky.social @poetrywales.bsky.social published it. It’s weird to be posting this. I am reading Joyce’s Dubliners at the moment, in a roundabout way it has prompted me to do so.
February 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
My mum died of alzheimer’s early Tuesday. My head is a mess. I wrote this poem after visiting the @foundlingmuseum.bsky.social @poetrywales.bsky.social published it. It’s weird to be posting this. I am reading Joyce’s Dubliners at the moment, in a roundabout way it has prompted me to do so.
Interesting conversations in our house when Ricken from Severence gets confused with Dicken from The Secret Garden
February 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Interesting conversations in our house when Ricken from Severence gets confused with Dicken from The Secret Garden
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Tomorrow night we have @pascalepetit.bsky.social and @simonmaddrell.bsky.social with us! How cool is that?! Details in the link: mailchi.mp/e0187a65a6b8...
February 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Tomorrow night we have @pascalepetit.bsky.social and @simonmaddrell.bsky.social with us! How cool is that?! Details in the link: mailchi.mp/e0187a65a6b8...
Some pics from @listencambridge.bsky.social last night. Elliot Galvin, Ruth Goller, Sebastian Roachford & Mandhira De Saram made some incredible sonic art! The original congregation of the beautiful Unitarian Church would be amazed to hear such sounds from instruments they recognise.
February 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Some pics from @listencambridge.bsky.social last night. Elliot Galvin, Ruth Goller, Sebastian Roachford & Mandhira De Saram made some incredible sonic art! The original congregation of the beautiful Unitarian Church would be amazed to hear such sounds from instruments they recognise.
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We're not in Narnia anymore. #CSLewis's 'modern fairy tale for grown-ups' warns of a world where technocrats are kings. That Hideous Strength, dramatised by Melissa Murray, with a great cast led by Anneika Rose & Joel MacCormack 3pm Sun 9 Feb @BBCRadio4 #audiodrama www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - CS Lewis: That Hideous Strength, The people from NICE
Lewis's 'modern fairy tale for grown-ups' warns of a world where technocrats are kings.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 9, 2025 at 8:28 AM
We're not in Narnia anymore. #CSLewis's 'modern fairy tale for grown-ups' warns of a world where technocrats are kings. That Hideous Strength, dramatised by Melissa Murray, with a great cast led by Anneika Rose & Joel MacCormack 3pm Sun 9 Feb @BBCRadio4 #audiodrama www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Just received a brilliant print of #OscarWilde by the artist Katherine Anteney. ❤️ do you recognise it @hazardpressuk.bsky.social ?!
February 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Just received a brilliant print of #OscarWilde by the artist Katherine Anteney. ❤️ do you recognise it @hazardpressuk.bsky.social ?!
Please celebrate our Cafe Writers winners!
Announcing our Competition winners 🎉
First prize £1000
Esther Morgan - Polishing the Glasses
Second Prize £300
Laura McKee - the mail never gets delivered…
Third Prize £200
Lesley Sharpe - dream: vessel
The Norfolk Prize - Cai Draper -
More in the link:
mailchi.mp/917113ca0a07...
First prize £1000
Esther Morgan - Polishing the Glasses
Second Prize £300
Laura McKee - the mail never gets delivered…
Third Prize £200
Lesley Sharpe - dream: vessel
The Norfolk Prize - Cai Draper -
More in the link:
mailchi.mp/917113ca0a07...
Announcing our Competition winners 🎉
mailchi.mp
February 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Please celebrate our Cafe Writers winners!
I saw Joan of Arc’s signature and the surviving MS of Julian of Norwich’s first MS yesterday, and i went to the Moomin shop so that was a good day! Thank you @britishlibrary.bsky.social thank you #MoominShop
February 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I saw Joan of Arc’s signature and the surviving MS of Julian of Norwich’s first MS yesterday, and i went to the Moomin shop so that was a good day! Thank you @britishlibrary.bsky.social thank you #MoominShop
🎵 Danger is great joy. Dark is bright as fire.
January 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
🎵 Danger is great joy. Dark is bright as fire.
This company are working to reduce stigma & raise the visibility of adult survivors of CSA. They’re encouraging survivors & allies to wear Zebra print on Friday. If the usual silence on this subject is questionable to you, please take a look. www.vivgordoncompany.co.uk/blog/zebra-d...
ZEBRA DAY CSA SURVIVOR PRIDE 2025
WEAR & SHARE ZEBRA ON FRIDAY, 31st JANUARY 2025. Bring an end to stigma, bear witness to the scale and impact of child sexual abuse, stand alongside survivors in solidarity and celebrate our...
www.vivgordoncompany.co.uk
January 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
This company are working to reduce stigma & raise the visibility of adult survivors of CSA. They’re encouraging survivors & allies to wear Zebra print on Friday. If the usual silence on this subject is questionable to you, please take a look. www.vivgordoncompany.co.uk/blog/zebra-d...
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Expect more from us in here in the next few weeks, like the results of our poetry competition & details of our events!
January 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Expect more from us in here in the next few weeks, like the results of our poetry competition & details of our events!
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One of my recent poems on class and queerness - love performing this.
January 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
One of my recent poems on class and queerness - love performing this.
We have lots of cookbooks in the house. These are two of the best
January 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We have lots of cookbooks in the house. These are two of the best
Got this print of ‘Girl In the Woods’ by Su Blackwell, happily commemorating that time I was in Poetry Review
January 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Got this print of ‘Girl In the Woods’ by Su Blackwell, happily commemorating that time I was in Poetry Review
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The #TSEliotPrize readings are now up (shall link in due course), but you can watch my short reading at the Royal Festival Hall via the link. Good lord, I am a bit theatrical … and the poem dedicated to terrified trans siblings … oh my … #poetry #trans
youtu.be/FdQCm4SAU-M?...
youtu.be/FdQCm4SAU-M?...
Rachel Mann reads from 'Eleanor Among the Saints'
YouTube video by T. S. Eliot Prize
youtu.be
January 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The #TSEliotPrize readings are now up (shall link in due course), but you can watch my short reading at the Royal Festival Hall via the link. Good lord, I am a bit theatrical … and the poem dedicated to terrified trans siblings … oh my … #poetry #trans
youtu.be/FdQCm4SAU-M?...
youtu.be/FdQCm4SAU-M?...
If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery
January 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery
This will clearly be an excellent course & a fantastic treat for those who get on it!
Save the date: Monday 26-Friday 30 May 2025 📅✏️ Mary Jean Chan and I will be teaching @arvonfoundation.bsky.social's Queer Arvon Writing week - *ONLINE* 💻📄🌈🖊️ We hope you will join us! www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
Online Writing Week: Queer Poetry | A supportive space to nurture your unique voice | Arvon
This Queer Arvon Writing Week invites you to a welcoming and supportive space, where you’ll explore how notions of gender, sexuality, race, class and ableism intersect in our lives and our writing. W...
www.arvon.org
January 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This will clearly be an excellent course & a fantastic treat for those who get on it!