The Aftershock Review (Max Wallis)
@maxwallis.bsky.social
📚 Max Wallis | Author of the Polari Prize-shortlisted Modern Love (2011) & Everything Everything (2016).
🖋️ Poems in The Rialto, Poetry Scotland, Spectator
✍️ Freelance journalist (The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph).
🌈 Gay, disabled, survivor.
🖋️ Poems in The Rialto, Poetry Scotland, Spectator
✍️ Freelance journalist (The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph).
🌈 Gay, disabled, survivor.
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WE GOT THE FUNDING! “I am writing to offer you a grant of £XX,XXX towards the costs of The Aftershock Review. Congratulations on your successful application.” THANK YOU EVERYONE. THANK YOU, CONTRIBUTORS. THANK YOU
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Congratulations Beth 🎉🎉🎉Fabulous poem in the fabulous ‘Aftershock Review’ @maxwallis.bsky.social - this small but mighty poem more than holds its space! I love it like a prayer … polished and buffed like the taps you turn and off with your elbows 🥰😘❤️
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Congratulations Beth 🎉🎉🎉Fabulous poem in the fabulous ‘Aftershock Review’ @maxwallis.bsky.social - this small but mighty poem more than holds its space! I love it like a prayer … polished and buffed like the taps you turn and off with your elbows 🥰😘❤️
“My life of excess was replaced with illness, then slowly with hope. My mantra remains simple: choose life, over and over again. And on the hardest mornings, the only words I can still say to myself: well done, you didn’t die.”
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My frenetic London party lifestyle drove me to a nervous breakdown
Max Wallis was at the epicentre of the style set. Then he crashed, was sectioned — and changed his life
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November 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
“My life of excess was replaced with illness, then slowly with hope. My mantra remains simple: choose life, over and over again. And on the hardest mornings, the only words I can still say to myself: well done, you didn’t die.”
www.thetimes.com/article/f38a...
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Just devoured this today @maxwallis.bsky.social. Thanks for sending. Fantastic write, so real. @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Just devoured this today @maxwallis.bsky.social. Thanks for sending. Fantastic write, so real. @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social
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November 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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there were nights / I couldn't tell the difference / between touch and vanishing
Two poems from my new book. The first one won @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social June’s POTM
“Our winning poem for Poem of the Month is Thinking of how many elevators by Max Wallis which was the most loud and unapologetic entry. Beginning with thinking about intimate opportunities in private spaces
“Our winning poem for Poem of the Month is Thinking of how many elevators by Max Wallis which was the most loud and unapologetic entry. Beginning with thinking about intimate opportunities in private spaces
November 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
there were nights / I couldn't tell the difference / between touch and vanishing
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Another issue of this triumph of modern poetry publishing landed on my doormat today. To call it a journal is to do it a disservice; the quality of its production equal in every way to that of the work between its covers. Kudos to @maxwallis.bsky.social for having the vision to make this happen.
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Two poems from my new book. The first one won @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social June’s POTM
“Our winning poem for Poem of the Month is Thinking of how many elevators by Max Wallis which was the most loud and unapologetic entry. Beginning with thinking about intimate opportunities in private spaces
“Our winning poem for Poem of the Month is Thinking of how many elevators by Max Wallis which was the most loud and unapologetic entry. Beginning with thinking about intimate opportunities in private spaces
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Two poems from my new book. The first one won @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social June’s POTM
“Our winning poem for Poem of the Month is Thinking of how many elevators by Max Wallis which was the most loud and unapologetic entry. Beginning with thinking about intimate opportunities in private spaces
“Our winning poem for Poem of the Month is Thinking of how many elevators by Max Wallis which was the most loud and unapologetic entry. Beginning with thinking about intimate opportunities in private spaces
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November 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Am sitting on the rug, deep in the new issue of The Aftershock Review. I’m honoured to have three poems in exceptional company in an edition which explores ‘the anatomy of aftermath,’ all thanks to @maxwallis.bsky.social Anna Percy and Suzi Feay.
November 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Am sitting on the rug, deep in the new issue of The Aftershock Review. I’m honoured to have three poems in exceptional company in an edition which explores ‘the anatomy of aftermath,’ all thanks to @maxwallis.bsky.social Anna Percy and Suzi Feay.
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I'm delighted to be part of this anthology of groundbreaking poetry on trauma. Congratulations @maxwallis.bsky.social
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November 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I'm delighted to be part of this anthology of groundbreaking poetry on trauma. Congratulations @maxwallis.bsky.social
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Truly inspiring poetry tonight courtesy of the @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social brilliant ‘four pamphleteers’ - @maxwallis.bsky.social, @thewordtinker.bsky.social, @glynedwards.bsky.social & @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Truly inspiring poetry tonight courtesy of the @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social brilliant ‘four pamphleteers’ - @maxwallis.bsky.social, @thewordtinker.bsky.social, @glynedwards.bsky.social & @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
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Getting ready to read The Aftershock Review. Look at those names. Oh my! Many thanks @maxwallis.bsky.social🌟
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Getting ready to read The Aftershock Review. Look at those names. Oh my! Many thanks @maxwallis.bsky.social🌟
So much this @betarish.bsky.social. I think it is soft hope & breath made paper. It is part unpeeling part armour part wish part prayer. A mosaic that appears only when the pieces of us settle. Sometimes the poem asks; sometimes the reader answers; often the answer is simply the act of making.
Putting a draft of a poem away, I was just struck by the madness that is this thing that we do; that we scribble something down in the hope it finds ears, eyes, hearts; maybe even lodges in them. And yet we do. This is what faith is. Carry on.
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
So much this @betarish.bsky.social. I think it is soft hope & breath made paper. It is part unpeeling part armour part wish part prayer. A mosaic that appears only when the pieces of us settle. Sometimes the poem asks; sometimes the reader answers; often the answer is simply the act of making.
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We’ve got great news for writers across the UK and RoI – the 2026 RSL Ondaatje Prize is now taking submissions! 🥳
Applications are open until 5pm on 12 December 2025. Apply now: https://rsliterature.org/rsl-ondaatje-prize/
Applications are open until 5pm on 12 December 2025. Apply now: https://rsliterature.org/rsl-ondaatje-prize/
November 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
We’ve got great news for writers across the UK and RoI – the 2026 RSL Ondaatje Prize is now taking submissions! 🥳
Applications are open until 5pm on 12 December 2025. Apply now: https://rsliterature.org/rsl-ondaatje-prize/
Applications are open until 5pm on 12 December 2025. Apply now: https://rsliterature.org/rsl-ondaatje-prize/
‘The sun sang honorific hymns
and I was in an Uber to die.’
Except I didn’t. And found a life i long thought impossible. Thank you @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social for publishing my first book in a decade. I have copies if you want to buy one. Otherwise available at usual places! 1/2
and I was in an Uber to die.’
Except I didn’t. And found a life i long thought impossible. Thank you @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social for publishing my first book in a decade. I have copies if you want to buy one. Otherwise available at usual places! 1/2
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
‘The sun sang honorific hymns
and I was in an Uber to die.’
Except I didn’t. And found a life i long thought impossible. Thank you @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social for publishing my first book in a decade. I have copies if you want to buy one. Otherwise available at usual places! 1/2
and I was in an Uber to die.’
Except I didn’t. And found a life i long thought impossible. Thank you @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social for publishing my first book in a decade. I have copies if you want to buy one. Otherwise available at usual places! 1/2
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SO THRILLED to be in the ‘poetry rupture’ that is The Aftershock Review Issue2. Thanks @maxwallis.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
SO THRILLED to be in the ‘poetry rupture’ that is The Aftershock Review Issue2. Thanks @maxwallis.bsky.social
Do you use a social media tool to manage Bluesky etc etc at once? Or use IFTTT? Trying to figure out if I’m doing this correctly or could do it more efficiently.
November 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Do you use a social media tool to manage Bluesky etc etc at once? Or use IFTTT? Trying to figure out if I’m doing this correctly or could do it more efficiently.
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So happy to see Issue 2 of The Aftershock Review @maxwallis.bsky.social out in the world with two of my poems in it among some true literary heavyweights!!
#Poetry #Published #AftershockReview
#Poetry #Published #AftershockReview
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
So happy to see Issue 2 of The Aftershock Review @maxwallis.bsky.social out in the world with two of my poems in it among some true literary heavyweights!!
#Poetry #Published #AftershockReview
#Poetry #Published #AftershockReview
Www.aftershockreview.com to order. Thank you so much everyone.
November 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Www.aftershockreview.com to order. Thank you so much everyone.
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Another issue of this triumph of modern poetry publishing landed on my doormat today. To call it a journal is to do it a disservice; the quality of its production equal in every way to that of the work between its covers. Kudos to @maxwallis.bsky.social for having the vision to make this happen.
November 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Another issue of this triumph of modern poetry publishing landed on my doormat today. To call it a journal is to do it a disservice; the quality of its production equal in every way to that of the work between its covers. Kudos to @maxwallis.bsky.social for having the vision to make this happen.
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So proud to be in the second Aftershock Review, can’t wait to read it all. Thanks so much @maxwallis.bsky.social
#poemsabout #poetsonbluesky
#poemsabout #poetsonbluesky
November 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
So proud to be in the second Aftershock Review, can’t wait to read it all. Thanks so much @maxwallis.bsky.social
#poemsabout #poetsonbluesky
#poemsabout #poetsonbluesky
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I’ve just seen a narrowboat that looks like it’s entirely crewed by cats, and it’s not even 10am
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I’ve just seen a narrowboat that looks like it’s entirely crewed by cats, and it’s not even 10am
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November 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Across Dunne’s sequence, we move from the mother’s humiliation to the child’s car journey toward the father’s absence. By the time we reach In the Prison Gardens, love exists only within visitation hours… a ritual of limited touch, a tenderness fenced by rules.
November 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Across Dunne’s sequence, we move from the mother’s humiliation to the child’s car journey toward the father’s absence. By the time we reach In the Prison Gardens, love exists only within visitation hours… a ritual of limited touch, a tenderness fenced by rules.