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Dr Briony Hughes
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Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway; Editor @ Osmosis Press & Resurgence and Ecologist poetry feature; ask me about the RHUL Poetry MA pathway!

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I'm partnering with a range of arts, heritage, & environmental organisations to run a summer series of immersive bat walks with poetry performances. Bookings are live for my collaboration with Cambridge University Botanic Garden! 🦇@cubotanicgarden.bsky.social www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/lis...
Listening to the Night: Bat Walk and Poetry Performance - Cambridge University Botanic Garden
www.botanic.cam.ac.uk
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We are overjoyed to welcome Tamsyn Challenger’s tender, unflinching, and urgent Him Hymn into the world today! This publication is Challenger’s debut book of poetry, written with an incredible commitment to an intimate and luminous lyric I💙
November 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
TODAY TODAY TODAY
SAVE THE DATE Small Birds Press will be reading at the Small Press Takeover on Tuesday 25th November! Join the @royalholloway.bsky.social Poetics Research Centre in Bloomsbury at 6:30 (7pm start) for an evening of book arts and experimental performance! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/small-pres...
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Which publications did I recommend to my students today?
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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We have a handful of additional review copies for Him Hymn and Grief is the Thing in Pleather! Drop our editor @brihughespoet.bsky.social a message if you’re interested in reviewing!💙🖤
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Which books did I recommend to my students yesterday?
November 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Do bats fall in love? At the start of this month, I had the absolute honour of writing a poem for a very important wedding ceremony 🖤

I’m sharing a handful of pictures of a couple of poems from the ten-page chapbook I made for them 🦇
November 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Over the summer, I collaborated with the @royalholloway.bsky.social estates team to develop a series of multisensory creative writing exercises to accompany woodland/arboretum walking routes and new interpretation signage. Here's a sneak preview! intranet.royalholloway.ac.uk/students/cam...
Notes from the gardener's barn - Royal Holloway Student Intranet
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November 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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PREORDER ALERT 🚨🚨🚨

IT FEELS SO GOOD TO BE BACK! This month, Tamsyn Challenger’s ‘Him Hymn’ and Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s ‘Grief is the Thing in Pleather’ will be released on 25th and 26th respectively🖤
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
In today’s workshop, the MA poets will be discussing publications from @brokensleep and @badbettypress - Vik Shirley, Matthew Haigh, Natalie Whittaker, and Helen Bowell🧡
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Free event:
SAVE THE DATE Small Birds Press will be reading at the Small Press Takeover on Tuesday 25th November! Join the @royalholloway.bsky.social Poetics Research Centre in Bloomsbury at 6:30 (7pm start) for an evening of book arts and experimental performance! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/small-pres...
November 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
SAVE THE DATE Small Birds Press will be reading at the Small Press Takeover on Tuesday 25th November! Join the @royalholloway.bsky.social Poetics Research Centre in Bloomsbury at 6:30 (7pm start) for an evening of book arts and experimental performance! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/small-pres...
November 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Here is my book haul from Saturday’s Veer 2 event at Hundred Years Gallery - what an incredible evening!
November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
A November walk in the @royalholloway.bsky.social woodland - the perfect start to the week 🌳🪾🦌🌿
November 17, 2025 at 9:16 AM
An immense thank you to Veer Books for the opportunity to take Sea Grammar on an outing! Exciting possibilities ahead 👀 🌊
November 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This week, the 2nd year Poetry group explored the poetic line through a series of material interventions - a high energy way to get back into the swing of term 📝
November 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
HEY FRIENDS - I've found the perfect way to spend your Saturday night
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
A reminder that performances from Brittany Thomas and Ellen Warren from the @ghostcitypress.bsky.social Small Press Takeover are available on Spotify 🧡 open.spotify.com/show/5diNbBi...
November 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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We're thrilled to announce the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a US poet aged 40 or older for their first or second poetry collection. In addition to publication by Graywolf, the awardee will receive $10,000 from the Poetry Foundation.

www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/poetr...
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This week, the MA poetry group discussed pamphlets by Fathima Zara, Mary Jean Chan, Freya Bantiff, Gboyega Odubanjo 🧡
November 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Thank you to the wonderful ‘Spineless Wonders Exhibition’ curators at @senatehouselib.bsky.social for guiding the MA poets through the political and material histories of printed pamphlets 🧡
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
2 hours of Speculative Frequencies in @SenateHouseLib 🦇
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Tomorrow the @royalholloway.bsky.social Poetics Research Centre will be leading live art performances and showcasing poetry films across floors 4 and 5 of @senatehouselib.bsky.social - be sure to drop by for bats, birds, bugs, and books🧡 www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...
Senate House Unbound: A Poetics Research Centre Takeover
Join the Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre for an interactive evening of poetry celebrating the Spineless Wonders exhibition.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Including my new project Delineations!
Welcome to ‘The Living Library’: a pop-up exhibition of material ecopoetry curated by @royalholloway.bsky.social and the Landmark Arts Centre 🍃🪾🍁🐝🦇

This event forms part of Being Human Festival - the national festival of the humanities 🧡
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Welcome to ‘The Living Library’: a pop-up exhibition of material ecopoetry curated by @royalholloway.bsky.social and the Landmark Arts Centre 🍃🪾🍁🐝🦇

This event forms part of Being Human Festival - the national festival of the humanities 🧡
November 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
TOMORROW
Don’t miss ‘The Living Library’ at the Landmark Arts Centre! This pop-up exhibition of materially innovative ecopoetry (in partnership with @royalholloway.bsky.social) is part of @beinghumanfest.bsky.social - the UK’s National Festival of the Humanities! 9th November 🧡
November 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM