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Dr Patrick Wright @arainbowpoet.bsky.social · Nov 27

My second poetry collection, Exit Strategy, is now available for pre-orders from Broken Sleep Books:

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Patrick Wright - Exit Strategy | Broken Sleep Books

In Exit Strategy, Patrick Wright crafts a vivid exploration of grief and loss, intertwining personal experience with responses to modern and contemporary art. Wright refracts bereavement through the l...

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Dr Patrick Wright @arainbowpoet.bsky.social · 5d

Happy to have received this nomination

𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · 5d

**PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINEES ANNOUNCED**

Please join @afterpoetry.com in congratulating K Roberts, @corinnaboard.bsky.social, Suzi Feay, @arainbowpoet.bsky.social, Matt Cariello and @victoriaspires.bsky.social on their nominations for the next edition of the @pushcartprize.bsky.social.

Promotional poster announcing the six nominees for the 51st edition of The Pushcart Prize, as chosen by the editor of online ekphrastic poetry journal After...

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 11d

With classes underway, I’ve switched from essays to exams. But with the death of the student essay (RIP, slain by ChatGPT), there’s a larger human tragedy: an erosion of critical cognition and the creation of two sharply divided classes of people: those who learn how to think and those who don’t:

The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition

One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.

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Dr Patrick Wright @arainbowpoet.bsky.social · 12d

I also have two poems in this new anthology edited by Charlotte Cosgrove. The quality of these books - inside and out - is so good. Find it on Amazon.

Dr Patrick Wright @arainbowpoet.bsky.social · 12d

Delighted to have a poem included in this excellent anthology - well worth a look:

www.writeoutloud.net/books/

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The Belfast Review @thebelfastreview.bsky.social · Aug 8

Our new issue is now available on Amazon, with free shipping to select locations. (This is the paperback version. Glossy magazine version is on our website.)

Enjoy! 💚

Link below

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Dr Patrick Wright @arainbowpoet.bsky.social · Aug 22

Many thanks to Paul Brookes for interviewing me on my collection Exit Strategy. The interview can be found at The Wombwell Rainbow:

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The Wombwell Rainbow Book Interview: Patrick Wright On “Exit Strategy”

Exit Strategy (Broken Sleep Books, 2025): Patrick Wright is an award-winning poet from Manchester, UK. His poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The North, Gutter, Poetry Salzburg, Agenda, …

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Dr Patrick Wright @arainbowpoet.bsky.social · Aug 19

Pleased to see copies of Exit Strategy today @chorltonbookshop.bsky.social These are now signed copies should anyone want one. Thanks for your support. @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

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Dr Patrick Wright @arainbowpoet.bsky.social · Aug 13

Pleased to have a review of Exit Strategy in Dream Catcher (51) @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

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Dr Patrick Wright @arainbowpoet.bsky.social · Aug 4

Pleased to have a poem and accompanying exploded essay in the latest issue of The Madrigal - X: Discursion now available to order:
www.themadrigalpress.com/issues

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Dr Patrick Wright @arainbowpoet.bsky.social · Jul 30

Dr Patrick Wright @arainbowpoet.bsky.social · Jul 18

I really love this poem and enjoyed hearing you read it.

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Dr Patrick Wright @arainbowpoet.bsky.social · Jul 17

Thank you @magma It was a joy and honour to read my poem at the launch event for Issue 92

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The Belfast Review @thebelfastreview.bsky.social · Jul 8

Poetry (cont): Elizabeth Loudon, Pattie McCarthy, Ross McCleary, Mick McGann-Jones, Marty McKenna, David Rutherford, Claire Thom, Patrick Wright
Nonfiction: Flora Beagley, Marianne Daigh, Attracta Fahy, Ciara McVeigh, Pat Noxolo
Art: Edward Lee
Photography: Brian Michael Barbeito
Plays: Jane Idrissi

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Magma Poetry @magmapoetry.bsky.social · Jul 8

Please join us to celebrate the launch of Magma 92 - 'Ownership' Wed 16 July 7pm.
An eclectic evening of readers includes Martyn Crucefix, Jan Heritage, D A Prince, Peter Daniels, Keith Jarrett and Paul Fenn.
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Magma 92: The Ownership Issue Launch Party

Please join us to celebrate the launch of Magma 92 at The Seven Dials Club, Covent Garden, London

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The Belfast Review @thebelfastreview.bsky.social · Jul 8

Full list of contributors for upcoming Issue 4 - minus the typo. (It’s the typos that keep us humble btw)

New issue 31 July, in print and digital on our website.

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Dr Patrick Wright @arainbowpoet.bsky.social · Jun 30

Magma 92: Ownership is now out and includes one of my recent poems:

magmapoetry.com/latest-issue/

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · Jun 26

Memory drifts between cities and dreamscapes in Patrick Wright / @arainbowpoet.bsky.social's painful meditation on love, absence, and the paper-thin moments that remain.

Read now
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#InkSweatandTears #Submission #PoetryCommunity

An image with the title "Skyscrapers Raining Paper" and a short poem about dreams, separation, and unanswered connections. The text reflects on lingering ties despite waking life's barriers, like a turned-off voicemail and changed locks. The author's name, Patrick Wright, appears at the bottom. The image is of blurred lights.

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Dr Patrick Wright @arainbowpoet.bsky.social · Jun 15

Pleased to have a new poem in The Amphibian issue 8 - available now:
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Dr Patrick Wright @arainbowpoet.bsky.social · Jun 15

‘Exit Strategy explores how a surviving partner might navigate an afterlife, one that has to adjust to a major loss, while trying to make sense of that loss and respond to bereavement.’ Many thanks @emmalee1.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

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Dr Patrick Wright @arainbowpoet.bsky.social · Jun 1

So grateful for the reviews and endorsements for Exit Strategy. Thank you to everyone for the kind words and for reading the book with such care and attention. Available now @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poems

Dr Patrick Wright @arainbowpoet.bsky.social · May 26

‘This book … is immensely powerful and immensely ambitious; its ambition held in the way it maintains, with real deftness, both the centripetal and the centrifugal.’ - Ian Pople

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Patrick Wright - Exit Strategy | Broken Sleep Books

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Dr Patrick Wright @arainbowpoet.bsky.social · May 25

Many thanks to Ian Pople for this review of Exit Strategy

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Dr Patrick Wright @arainbowpoet.bsky.social · Apr 6

Guest poet at acaciapublications.co.uk/2025/04/06/a...

Many thanks to Fokkina McDonnell

Anselm Kiefer's art as inspiration.
@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #art #writing #creativity

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Nina Parmenter @ninaparmenter.bsky.social · Mar 31

Hey everyone. Lovely indie publisher @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social are appealing to everyone to BUY A BOOK to support them. The way it works is that they get some money to keep them publishing, and you get a book! Massive win-win!

www.brokensleepbooks.com/books

Broken Sleep Books | Current Releases

Broken Sleep Books are dedicated to works that transcend the page, and are more than just poets writing poetry. We believe the greatest pieces of writing exist outside of expectation, and are written ...

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Dr Patrick Wright @arainbowpoet.bsky.social · Mar 20

Emma Lee reviews Exit Strategy @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

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“Exit Strategy” Patrick Wright (Broken Sleep Books) – book review

Patrick Wright Exit Strategy book cover Patrick Wright’s “Exit Strategy” explores grief after the death of a partner and art, including ekphrastic poems after artworks by Idris Kh…

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