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Susie Campbell
@susiecampbell.bsky.social
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Makes poetry in multi-modes. Tenter (2020), Enclosures (2021), The Sleeping Place (2023), wastelands (forthcoming, Guillemot Press, 2025)
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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · Aug 31
'Partners in Crime': my latest substack about how my rescue dog Charlie became an active collaborator in my 'Wastelands' poetry project (available to pre-order www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry/susie...)
Substack link: susiecampbell.substack.com/p/partners-i...
Close up of a dog's face with a pink nose and a white stripe on his forehead A different close up of the same dog, this time curled up
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#WeKeepTelling and we keep raising funds. Please share widely, do what you can. Thank you. chuffed.org/project/mawa...
Help displaced families in Mawasi
Make a great change for the better: help relieve the suffering of displaced families in Mawasi, Gaza, who are facing hunger, thirst, and heat.
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November 9, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Tomorrow!
Dark pink writing on pale pink background and image of origami deer
November 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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The Carbon Arc will launch in Manchester November 12th, published by @richardnskinner.bsky.social work by @anne-worthington.bsky.social @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social @ggaffa.bsky.social @nicholasroyle.bsky.social Maria Fusco, Gareth Evans, Sam Mills et al. richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-car...
November 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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This Sun Nov 9th, 'Wastelands' is at Living Library exhibit of eco poetry, Landmark Arts Centre,Teddington. I'll be talking about the project processes kindly described by Caroline Bergvall in her blogpost on the book (www.carolinebergvallcoaching.com/blog/on-coll...) @guillemotpress.bsky.social
Exhibition poster, dark pink writing on a pink background. Image of origami deer. Black and white image of a blogpost with writing, image of a dog, and a banner across it
November 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Thank you so much, Susie! So looking forward to our readings and discussion together on 16 Nov at Blackwells! Link for free tickets below 👇
susiecampbell.bsky.social Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 7d
Showcasing @drlauravarnam.bsky.social my brilliant guest at Oxford Blackwell's Wastelands launch Nov 16 3pm. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1668864280...)
Laura is Lecturer in Old & Middle English Literature at University College, Oxford. Her poetry is inspired by the medieval texts that she teaches.
A woman wearing glasses, a bright blue knitted vest over a blue striped shirt, and a dragon brooch. This is Dr Laura Varnam. Book cover, green background with white title Primers and blue names of poets, including Laura Varnam. Laura's 'Grendel's Mother Bites Back' is in this volume, Primers 7 @ninearchespress.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Care4Calais is turning 10 - help us raise £10k to celebrate!
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Care4Calais is turning 10 - help us raise £10k to celebrate
Help us celebrate ten years of grassroots volunteers providing emergency aid, of being on the ground in times of greatest need, and of fearless advocacy for every refugee's right to sanctuary.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
susiecampbell.bsky.social
Showcasing @drlauravarnam.bsky.social my brilliant guest at Oxford Blackwell's Wastelands launch Nov 16 3pm. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1668864280...)
Laura is Lecturer in Old & Middle English Literature at University College, Oxford. Her poetry is inspired by the medieval texts that she teaches.
A woman wearing glasses, a bright blue knitted vest over a blue striped shirt, and a dragon brooch. This is Dr Laura Varnam. Book cover, green background with white title Primers and blue names of poets, including Laura Varnam. Laura's 'Grendel's Mother Bites Back' is in this volume, Primers 7 @ninearchespress.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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We're keeping our Bats & Vampires #poetry Halloween sale on until firework night! Spread the word far and wide.

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Halloween Special - Sidekick Books
Creatures of the Night pack: Battalion 148pp, ISBN 9781909560000 Ten Poets Spend the Night at a Vampire's Castle 64pp, ISBN 978-1-909560-41-3
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November 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Happy Halloween!

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October 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Everything quietens and slows. Some live on;
some, dying, persist as seeds, bones, spores.
We are rich with life and can’t outrun it.

From the title poem of Rob Hindle's collection 'Sapo', available with £2 off until Sunday
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Orpheus returned to the world songless and broken. People watched and said nothing, knowing his wife was lost. One day they’d tell stories: how he chased her beyond death, brought her out of the earth and clutched her to him till at dawn a neighbour found them in the garden inarticulate. Autumn has come down from the north with its poems and shadows, its old memories. Each year we shrink from the journey, gather like moths round lamps, dance at the dark. Everything quietens and slows. Some live on; some, dying, persist as seeds, bones, spores. We are rich with life and can’t outrun it. Better to settle as the toad settles, believing in his end and his endless nativity. From 'Sapo' by Rob Hindle
October 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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This is such a beautiful and interesting issue of Resurgence & Ecologist @resurgencetrust.bsky.social - what a privilege for Wastelands to be featured in it! @guillemotpress.bsky.social
brihughespoet.bsky.social Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social · 11d
Excited to share that the incredible @susiecampbell.bsky.social is featured in the latest @resurgencetrust.bsky.social - pick up a copy to find out more about ‘waste poetics’ and collaborating with Charlie the dog🩷
Open spread magazine featuring text copy and images of close up textiles Image of magazine cover - the title of the issue is ‘the gift of water’
October 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Tickets (free!) going fast for this exciting event on Sunday afternoon 3pm 16th November at Oxford Blackwell's, Broad Street. Book now to avoid disappointment - link in post below! Come along and say hello!
guildmedmak.bsky.social The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 12d
Not one but two Guild members are speaking at Oxford's @blackwells.bsky.social! Join poets Susie Campbell (Wastelands, Guillemot Press, 2025) and @drlauravarnam.bsky.social (Grendel’s Mother Bites Back, Primers 7, 2024) for 'Reweaving the Poem' on Sunday 16th November.
Susie Campbell with Laura Varnam REWEAVING THE POEM
Professor Kate McLoughlin introduces an afternoon of poetry performance and conversation with Susie Campbell and Laura Varnam
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October 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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It's going to be fantastic!
drlauravarnam.bsky.social Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 11d
So looking forward to this! Thank you @susiecampbell.bsky.social for the invitation! Sunday 16th November at Blackwell's, Oxford- hear me reading my Grendel's Mother poems and Susie reading from her incredible new book WASTELANDS!
guildmedmak.bsky.social The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social · 12d
Not one but two Guild members are speaking at Oxford's @blackwells.bsky.social! Join poets Susie Campbell (Wastelands, Guillemot Press, 2025) and @drlauravarnam.bsky.social (Grendel’s Mother Bites Back, Primers 7, 2024) for 'Reweaving the Poem' on Sunday 16th November.
October 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Now available: The Folded Clock, text and images by Gerhard Rühm, trans. by @wordkunst.bsky.social who also translated Rühm's Cake & Prostheses for us last year. Both incorporate images with the text and lexical play with roots in Dada.
More info here: www.twistedspoon.com/folded-clock...
October 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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@smallpublishers.bsky.social Haul! I 'Flight Paths' by @ggaffa.bsky.social/@nightjarpress.bsky.social , NaoKo TakaHashi' & @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social 'Blabbermind' by Andrew Kotting, @susiecampbell.bsky.social & @guillemotpress.bsky.social ,SJ Fowler/ Sampson Low. Fantastic reading from all 🔥🔥🔥
October 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Looking forward to reading an excerpt from my new @guillemotpress.bsky.social book, 'It's Time: A Chronomemoir', at my first European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social this Tuesday on Zoom and hearing the other readers! Tickets free, last few left! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...
saloneurope.bsky.social European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · Oct 3
Join us for our quarterly Online Open Mic Salon, with our effervescent host, @kiklodge.bsky.social

As usual, it will feature gripping readings and a highly serious quiz

Reading spots are full this round, but join our Substack, if you’re not already on it, to hear about these when they’re announced
Black writing on a cream background. Photo of Kik Lodge at an outdoor café in the bottom right corner, EWS logo in the top right. Text: Online Pop-up Salon with Kik Lodge. 28 Oct 2025 7pm CET/6pm GMT.
October 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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What a joy! This year's @smallpublishers.bsky.social Thank you to everyone who came to the London launch of Wastelands (first pic), bought copies of the book at the @guillemotpress.bsky.social stall W(second pic), or just came to say hello!
Library, woman reading and talking, she is wearing blue jeans and a dark grape (purple) cardigan crowded hall from above, bookstalls with people buying books
October 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Buying too many books at the Small Publishers Fair at Conway Hall @smallpublishers.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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New digital piece available in the latest issue of "The Lit Platform"! "Flight Diaries" is the latest iteration of my ongoing work in finding ways of visualising and poetically narrating my experiences as a glider pilot theliteraryplatform.com/stories/flig...

#art #poetry #digital #flight #data #dh
A screenshot from Flight Diaries. A traced glider flightpath over a map. A popup box with statistics relating to a particular moment of the flight. A poem at the bottom. "A little upwind of the field / a matter of luck / a gentle landing".
October 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Looking forward to Wastelands @guillemotpress.bsky.social at @smallpublishers.bsky.social tomorrow and to visiting all the wonderful presses and book artists represented there! Just a reminder that I will be reading upstairs in the library at Conway Hall tomorrow from 12.30pm! Do come and say hello!
Crowds of people looking at books at rows of bookstalls
October 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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#ChemicalCocktail - there is no escape on this #PoisonedPlanet.

Deeply disturbing study on baby clothes: "pesticides, surfactants, flame retardants, plasticizers"

#PublicHealth #PlanetaryBoundaries #OneHealth
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Elucidation of xenobiotics in textiles for infants using non-targeted approaches: The role of fabrics as a source of early-life exposure to potentially harmful chemicals
The contemporary textile industry utilizes a vast array of chemical substances spanning multiple functional and structural classes. Recent data sugges…
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October 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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This Saturday 25th October, I can be found near table 18 @guillemotpress.bsky.social table signing books or reading & talking about Wastelands up in the library 12.30-1pm! Come say hi!
smallpublishers.bsky.social Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 19d
One day to go! Here's a webpage with all the essential info for your visit to #smallpublishersfair25 at Conway Hall, London, this Fri & Sat (24 & 25 Oct, 11am-7pm): programme, new titles, map, venue info, directions, and now updated with table plan.
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Table plan for the 2025 Small Publishers Fair at Conway Hall.
October 23, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Unlikely scenes perhaps as I prepare for London launch of ‘Wastelands’ @guillemotpress.bsky.social at @smallpublishers.bsky.social pthis Saturday (but Manchester Poetry Library audience may recognise their donations - now carefully washed!) #poetry #waste
paper coffee cups washed and stacked
October 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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great opportunity to get my media meteorology The Gathering Cloud directly from the publisher @uniformbooks.bsky.social at @smallpublishers.bsky.social
uniformbooks.bsky.social Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 24d
Uniformbooks will be at the Small Publishers Fair next Fri 24 & Sat 25, with a selection of our titles. If there are any you'd especially like, please email in the next few days (uniformbooks@gmail.com) and we'll make sure we bring them along for you. @smallpublishers.bsky.social
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October 22, 2025 at 7:23 AM