Suzanna Fitzpatrick
@suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social
Poet published in magazines & anthologies in the UK, US, Ireland & Canada. Debut pamphlet: Fledglings (Red Squirrel Press, 2016). First collection: Crippled (Red Squirrel Press, 2025).
As it's Remembrance Day, here's a poem from my collection 'Crippled', out now from Red Squirrel Press. Its for my paternal grandfather, who was killed in action aged 22 when my dad was only a few months old.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
As it's Remembrance Day, here's a poem from my collection 'Crippled', out now from Red Squirrel Press. Its for my paternal grandfather, who was killed in action aged 22 when my dad was only a few months old.
www.redsquirrelpress.com/product-page...
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What a night. I cried, I raged, I saw others and I felt seen. Thank you Joelle Taylor for understanding that femme is also a norm-busting performance - what will hopefully be my second collection features a sequence on high femme as a deflection of the patriarchal gaze and burlesque as subversion.
November 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
What a night. I cried, I raged, I saw others and I felt seen. Thank you Joelle Taylor for understanding that femme is also a norm-busting performance - what will hopefully be my second collection features a sequence on high femme as a deflection of the patriarchal gaze and burlesque as subversion.
Off to the launch of #Maryville by Joelle Taylor from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
and vibing ever so slightly queer 😘
and vibing ever so slightly queer 😘
November 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Off to the launch of #Maryville by Joelle Taylor from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
and vibing ever so slightly queer 😘
and vibing ever so slightly queer 😘
The Oxford launch of 'Crippled' is next Fri 14 Nov, 5.45pm in the Crisp Hollamby Lecture Theatre, H B Allen Centre. Excited to be reading with @tessafoley.bsky.social & Sarah Gibbons. FREE, no booking needed. Books for sale, cash or card. Huge thanks to @kebleoxford.bsky.social for the space!
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The Oxford launch of 'Crippled' is next Fri 14 Nov, 5.45pm in the Crisp Hollamby Lecture Theatre, H B Allen Centre. Excited to be reading with @tessafoley.bsky.social & Sarah Gibbons. FREE, no booking needed. Books for sale, cash or card. Huge thanks to @kebleoxford.bsky.social for the space!
'Crippled' is 4 months old and has reached a second print run! So there are plenty of copies if you haven't yet got one 😘 www.redsquirrelpress.com/product-page...
or DM me for a signed copy. Lovely review here, thanks to @gregfreemanpoet.bsky.social: www.writeoutloud.net/public/bloge...
or DM me for a signed copy. Lovely review here, thanks to @gregfreemanpoet.bsky.social: www.writeoutloud.net/public/bloge...
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
'Crippled' is 4 months old and has reached a second print run! So there are plenty of copies if you haven't yet got one 😘 www.redsquirrelpress.com/product-page...
or DM me for a signed copy. Lovely review here, thanks to @gregfreemanpoet.bsky.social: www.writeoutloud.net/public/bloge...
or DM me for a signed copy. Lovely review here, thanks to @gregfreemanpoet.bsky.social: www.writeoutloud.net/public/bloge...
I'm reading and MCing for this on 26 November, readers will include Sarah Gibbons and Glyn Maxwell. Free, no need to book. Books for sale, cash or card. The @poetryschool.bsky.social MA crew possess such a density of talent they're practically a neutron star - come and feel the force!
November 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I'm reading and MCing for this on 26 November, readers will include Sarah Gibbons and Glyn Maxwell. Free, no need to book. Books for sale, cash or card. The @poetryschool.bsky.social MA crew possess such a density of talent they're practically a neutron star - come and feel the force!
Feeling very grown-up: now I have a full collection out, I get to be a full Member of @societyofauthors.bsky.social. Joining them was one of the best things I've done for myself as a writer: they fight tirelessly for writers' rights. Highly recommended. societyofauthors.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Feeling very grown-up: now I have a full collection out, I get to be a full Member of @societyofauthors.bsky.social. Joining them was one of the best things I've done for myself as a writer: they fight tirelessly for writers' rights. Highly recommended. societyofauthors.org
The face of a poet who found out this week she passed her @poetryschool.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social
MA in Writing Poetry with a clean sweep of Distinctions and a Distinction overall. Huge thanks to my tutors & to all my amazing cohort. Roll on Graduation in December!
MA in Writing Poetry with a clean sweep of Distinctions and a Distinction overall. Huge thanks to my tutors & to all my amazing cohort. Roll on Graduation in December!
October 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The face of a poet who found out this week she passed her @poetryschool.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social
MA in Writing Poetry with a clean sweep of Distinctions and a Distinction overall. Huge thanks to my tutors & to all my amazing cohort. Roll on Graduation in December!
MA in Writing Poetry with a clean sweep of Distinctions and a Distinction overall. Huge thanks to my tutors & to all my amazing cohort. Roll on Graduation in December!
Delighted to be shortlisted for Verve's Oct Poem of the Month on the theme of 'ghosted'. True story about a workshop with Glyn Maxwell - I had COVID and he kindly arranged for me to join a @poetryschool.bsky.social MA seminar remotely, but there were mic issues.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Delighted to be shortlisted for Verve's Oct Poem of the Month on the theme of 'ghosted'. True story about a workshop with Glyn Maxwell - I had COVID and he kindly arranged for me to join a @poetryschool.bsky.social MA seminar remotely, but there were mic issues.
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Delighted to be shortlisted for this year's @bridportprize.bsky.social with a poem which came out of the @poetryschool.bsky.social / @newcastleuni.bsky.social MA summer school last year, and huge congratulations to the winners. Full list here:
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October 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Delighted to be shortlisted for this year's @bridportprize.bsky.social with a poem which came out of the @poetryschool.bsky.social / @newcastleuni.bsky.social MA summer school last year, and huge congratulations to the winners. Full list here:
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Fantastic Third Table reading at The Devereux last night with Sarah Gibbons Glyn Maxwell Katherine Cleave and poets from 8 different @poetryschool.bsky.social MA cohorts. Next event is 7pm Weds 26 Nov at The Cheshire Cheese, 5 Little Essex Street, London, WC2R 3LD www.cheshirecheese.pub
October 14, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Fantastic Third Table reading at The Devereux last night with Sarah Gibbons Glyn Maxwell Katherine Cleave and poets from 8 different @poetryschool.bsky.social MA cohorts. Next event is 7pm Weds 26 Nov at The Cheshire Cheese, 5 Little Essex Street, London, WC2R 3LD www.cheshirecheese.pub
Fellow @poetryschool.bsky.social MA student Charlotte Dormandy for @inksweatandtears.co.uk on the @poetrysociety.org.uk #nationalpoetryday theme of 'Play', selected by @cloudscholar.bsky.social. The best short poems Every nook in this opens into big questions. inksweatandtears.co.uk/play-for-nat...
October 8, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Fellow @poetryschool.bsky.social MA student Charlotte Dormandy for @inksweatandtears.co.uk on the @poetrysociety.org.uk #nationalpoetryday theme of 'Play', selected by @cloudscholar.bsky.social. The best short poems Every nook in this opens into big questions. inksweatandtears.co.uk/play-for-nat...
Thanks @cloudscholar.bsky.social for selecting this for @inksweatandtears.co.uk on the @poetrysociety.org.uk #nationalpoetryday theme of 'Play'. Also up today is my @poetryschool.bsky.social MA colleague Charlotte Dormandy, will share her poem shortly.
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October 8, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Thanks @cloudscholar.bsky.social for selecting this for @inksweatandtears.co.uk on the @poetrysociety.org.uk #nationalpoetryday theme of 'Play'. Also up today is my @poetryschool.bsky.social MA colleague Charlotte Dormandy, will share her poem shortly.
inksweatandtears.co.uk/play-for-nat...
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Thanks to @bournemouthjournal.bsky.social for publishing my poem "Flood" in issue 2. Sadly it's a true story #climatechange .
October 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Thanks to @bournemouthjournal.bsky.social for publishing my poem "Flood" in issue 2. Sadly it's a true story #climatechange .
Researching a poem, I'm amazed loo roll dolls are still around. Most houses in the 1980s had one. I prefer artist Shauna Richardson's Drag Race take: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-60166442 The doll in my poem escapes to enjoy a 3-way with Sindy & Barbie. Take that, Section 28 ;)
October 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Researching a poem, I'm amazed loo roll dolls are still around. Most houses in the 1980s had one. I prefer artist Shauna Richardson's Drag Race take: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-60166442 The doll in my poem escapes to enjoy a 3-way with Sindy & Barbie. Take that, Section 28 ;)
I'll be reading at this next Mon 13 Oct with the @poetryschool.bsky.social MA fam past and present, including Sarah Gibbons
and Glyn Maxwell. Free, no need to book - books for sale, though! Or here: www.redsquirrelpress.com/product-page...
and Glyn Maxwell. Free, no need to book - books for sale, though! Or here: www.redsquirrelpress.com/product-page...
October 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I'll be reading at this next Mon 13 Oct with the @poetryschool.bsky.social MA fam past and present, including Sarah Gibbons
and Glyn Maxwell. Free, no need to book - books for sale, though! Or here: www.redsquirrelpress.com/product-page...
and Glyn Maxwell. Free, no need to book - books for sale, though! Or here: www.redsquirrelpress.com/product-page...
Really chuffed to be Poem of the Month in the Poetry Society's e-newsletter. Thanks again to Helen Farish for choosing it as one of the Members' Poems on the theme of 'Clearing'. Check out the other brilliant poems here: poetrysociety.org.uk/membership/m...
October 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Really chuffed to be Poem of the Month in the Poetry Society's e-newsletter. Thanks again to Helen Farish for choosing it as one of the Members' Poems on the theme of 'Clearing'. Check out the other brilliant poems here: poetrysociety.org.uk/membership/m...
@creationtheatre.bsky.social in Oxford are looking for a new General Manager. Applications close Mon 6 Oct, please email recruitment@creationtheatre.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
@creationtheatre.bsky.social in Oxford are looking for a new General Manager. Applications close Mon 6 Oct, please email recruitment@creationtheatre.co.uk
Just invented a new month in a poem: Don't Give A Fucktober. Yes, give a fuck about the many things in the world which urgently require fucks given. But don't give a fuck about all the things with which the patriarchy tries to distract us, however you identify. Here's my #dontgiveafucktober face.
October 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Just invented a new month in a poem: Don't Give A Fucktober. Yes, give a fuck about the many things in the world which urgently require fucks given. But don't give a fuck about all the things with which the patriarchy tries to distract us, however you identify. Here's my #dontgiveafucktober face.
Off to read for The Poetry Society at the Poetry Cafe for #nationalpoetryday with headliner Bradley Taylor and others on the theme of 'play'. Serving a thrifted red playsuit in honour of the occasion. Poet necklace from Wear and Resist who donate to women's charities #persisterhood wearandresist.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Off to read for The Poetry Society at the Poetry Cafe for #nationalpoetryday with headliner Bradley Taylor and others on the theme of 'play'. Serving a thrifted red playsuit in honour of the occasion. Poet necklace from Wear and Resist who donate to women's charities #persisterhood wearandresist.com
Thrilled to be Commended in #nationalpoetryday Stanza comp. I wrote it for @tessafoley.bsky.social in a @poetryschool.bsky.social MA workshop with Joelle Taylor. Congrats Marilyn Longstaff, runners-up Nairn Kennedy & Jack Houston & other Commended poets. I'll be reading at the Poetry Cafe tonight!
October 2, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Thrilled to be Commended in #nationalpoetryday Stanza comp. I wrote it for @tessafoley.bsky.social in a @poetryschool.bsky.social MA workshop with Joelle Taylor. Congrats Marilyn Longstaff, runners-up Nairn Kennedy & Jack Houston & other Commended poets. I'll be reading at the Poetry Cafe tonight!
Happy #nationalpoetryday ! Fancy buying my book? Or indeed any of the many excellent poetry books being published what seems daily at the moment. Poetry is witness, and we need that more than ever.
www.redsquirrelpress.com/product-page... or DM me for a signed copy.
www.redsquirrelpress.com/product-page... or DM me for a signed copy.
October 2, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Happy #nationalpoetryday ! Fancy buying my book? Or indeed any of the many excellent poetry books being published what seems daily at the moment. Poetry is witness, and we need that more than ever.
www.redsquirrelpress.com/product-page... or DM me for a signed copy.
www.redsquirrelpress.com/product-page... or DM me for a signed copy.
Next on the reading pile, Winding / Unwinding by Denni Turp, (Culture Matters) which uses the tired innuendo of "the actress and the bishop" to explore class and gender inequality. This poem alone is both an evocation and a take-down of ingrained privilege. www.culturematters.org.uk/cm-publicati...
October 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Next on the reading pile, Winding / Unwinding by Denni Turp, (Culture Matters) which uses the tired innuendo of "the actress and the bishop" to explore class and gender inequality. This poem alone is both an evocation and a take-down of ingrained privilege. www.culturematters.org.uk/cm-publicati...
Catching up with the post-MA to-read pile(s). In X Coranto from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Kit Ingram weaves the history of the speaker's road with their own situation in 2020. Absolutely gripping, left me feeling as if I'd speed-read an entire novel. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
September 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Catching up with the post-MA to-read pile(s). In X Coranto from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Kit Ingram weaves the history of the speaker's road with their own situation in 2020. Absolutely gripping, left me feeling as if I'd speed-read an entire novel. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
New poem in the Autumn
Poetry News, thanks Helen Farish for selecting it: poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/puntin.... It was inspired by a photo from Erica Longfellow's Oxford Inverted exhibition. Reader, I dumped him. Never mess with a poet, they will throw shade at you in a poem 30 years later #FAFO 😜
Poetry News, thanks Helen Farish for selecting it: poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/puntin.... It was inspired by a photo from Erica Longfellow's Oxford Inverted exhibition. Reader, I dumped him. Never mess with a poet, they will throw shade at you in a poem 30 years later #FAFO 😜
September 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
New poem in the Autumn
Poetry News, thanks Helen Farish for selecting it: poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/puntin.... It was inspired by a photo from Erica Longfellow's Oxford Inverted exhibition. Reader, I dumped him. Never mess with a poet, they will throw shade at you in a poem 30 years later #FAFO 😜
Poetry News, thanks Helen Farish for selecting it: poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/puntin.... It was inspired by a photo from Erica Longfellow's Oxford Inverted exhibition. Reader, I dumped him. Never mess with a poet, they will throw shade at you in a poem 30 years later #FAFO 😜