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'Someone’s rhythm sneaking in again. Sharing a language. The osmosis of rubbing up. Communing.' (Kathleen Fraser) Ed. Briony Hughes, Saskia McCracken, Cat Chong
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Him Hymn: Tamsyn Challenger
Released 25th November 2025Edition of 200 copies.ISBN: 978-1-0369-6283-8 “Any map of heartbreak can only be a version or representation of the territory, but this almost impossible task is also the…
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November 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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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
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💙
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
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!💙🖤
Described by @suchmayer.bsky.social as containing ‘life after life after life […] with all the sardonic seriousness, [and] the deadpan profound, that characterises Bussey-Chamberlain’s work’ - this launch is not to be missed!
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Housmans Poetry Series: Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain launches ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’
Join us for another poetry evening, this time in collaboration with our great friends Osmosis Press, launching a new collection, ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’, from Prudence Bussey-Chamberlai…
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November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Described by @suchmayer.bsky.social as containing ‘life after life after life […] with all the sardonic seriousness, [and] the deadpan profound, that characterises Bussey-Chamberlain’s work’ - this launch is not to be missed!
housmans.com/event/housma...
housmans.com/event/housma...
series ‘Dickinson’, Waldrop’s palimptext method, Denise Riley’s ‘Time Lived Without Its Flow’, Randy Schilt’s ‘And The Band Played On’, and ‘The Dead Poet’s Society’, to challenge conventional renderings of death, grief, citation, the banality of bodies and their upkeep. (3/4)
November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
series ‘Dickinson’, Waldrop’s palimptext method, Denise Riley’s ‘Time Lived Without Its Flow’, Randy Schilt’s ‘And The Band Played On’, and ‘The Dead Poet’s Society’, to challenge conventional renderings of death, grief, citation, the banality of bodies and their upkeep. (3/4)
means to live with grief, where Death becomes an embodied figure who runs both literally and figuratively through the text. Borrowing from Emily Dickinson’s figure of death in ‘because I could not stop for death’, this collection mixes Wiz Khalifa from Alena Smith’s Apple TV (2/4)
November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
means to live with grief, where Death becomes an embodied figure who runs both literally and figuratively through the text. Borrowing from Emily Dickinson’s figure of death in ‘because I could not stop for death’, this collection mixes Wiz Khalifa from Alena Smith’s Apple TV (2/4)
✨LAUNCH EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT✨
We are delighted to be launching Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’ at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social as part of the Housman’s Poetry Series on the 26th of November at 7pm!
This collection is a consideration of/ writing through what it (1/4)
We are delighted to be launching Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’ at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social as part of the Housman’s Poetry Series on the 26th of November at 7pm!
This collection is a consideration of/ writing through what it (1/4)
November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
✨LAUNCH EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT✨
We are delighted to be launching Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’ at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social as part of the Housman’s Poetry Series on the 26th of November at 7pm!
This collection is a consideration of/ writing through what it (1/4)
We are delighted to be launching Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’ at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social as part of the Housman’s Poetry Series on the 26th of November at 7pm!
This collection is a consideration of/ writing through what it (1/4)
“This brief collection packs in life after life after life, an expansive exploration of Dickinson’s choice of “kindly” for Death’s stop, with all the sardonic seriousness, the deadpan profound, that characterises Bussey-Chamberlain’s work.” (So Mayer) osmosispress.com/grief-is-the...
Grief is the Thing in Pleather: Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain
Forthcoming 26th November 2025: Preorder BelowEdition of 100 copies.ISBN: 978-1-0369-3369-2 “Grief is the thing in pleather: iterative, reshuffling noir signifiers, re-marking punctuation, al…
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November 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
“This brief collection packs in life after life after life, an expansive exploration of Dickinson’s choice of “kindly” for Death’s stop, with all the sardonic seriousness, the deadpan profound, that characterises Bussey-Chamberlain’s work.” (So Mayer) osmosispress.com/grief-is-the...
“These poems are confronting, gorgeous and wild. When you read them, you’ll hear songs. Tamsyn Challenger knows exactly to which rhythm a broken heart beats.” (Nadia de Vries) osmosispress.com/him-hymn-tam...
Him Hymn: Tamsyn Challenger
Forthcoming 25th November 2025: Preorder BelowEdition of 200 copies.ISBN: 978-1-0369-6283-8 “Any map of heartbreak can only be a version or representation of the territory, but this almost impossib…
osmosispress.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
“These poems are confronting, gorgeous and wild. When you read them, you’ll hear songs. Tamsyn Challenger knows exactly to which rhythm a broken heart beats.” (Nadia de Vries) osmosispress.com/him-hymn-tam...
It has been an absolute joy to work on these books - and we are so excited for you to hold them in your hands. Head over to the Osmosis website to read excerpts from each publication and preorder your own copy! Preorders will be posted on Saturday
Love, Briony and Cat 🖤
Love, Briony and Cat 🖤
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
It has been an absolute joy to work on these books - and we are so excited for you to hold them in your hands. Head over to the Osmosis website to read excerpts from each publication and preorder your own copy! Preorders will be posted on Saturday
Love, Briony and Cat 🖤
Love, Briony and Cat 🖤
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🖤
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
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🖤
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🖤
as an inevitable eventuality, as ‘You will crash, or / You will run out of gas’, Bussey-Chamberlain perceives the drop dead pride in the ‘buzz of flies’ who linger at both endings of the crash and empty fuel tank. (4/4)
Blurb by @marbledmayhem
Blurb by @marbledmayhem
September 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
as an inevitable eventuality, as ‘You will crash, or / You will run out of gas’, Bussey-Chamberlain perceives the drop dead pride in the ‘buzz of flies’ who linger at both endings of the crash and empty fuel tank. (4/4)
Blurb by @marbledmayhem
Blurb by @marbledmayhem
is not handsome, a buzz of flies’. Echoing Dickinson’s ‘I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - (591)’, this poem rewrites the fly as the omen of Death’s ego. As Caroline Hogue wrote in 2015, the blowfly ‘pollutes everything it touches. Its eggs are maggots. It is as carrion as a buzzard’. Framed (3/4)
September 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
is not handsome, a buzz of flies’. Echoing Dickinson’s ‘I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - (591)’, this poem rewrites the fly as the omen of Death’s ego. As Caroline Hogue wrote in 2015, the blowfly ‘pollutes everything it touches. Its eggs are maggots. It is as carrion as a buzzard’. Framed (3/4)
from Alena Smith’s Apple series Dickinson, Bussey-Chamberlain’s collection reimagines Death’s identity in the age of the incel. Interpellated into the poem, ‘When your engine finally gives out Death pulls up, kicks his / door wide open, says Ride or Die. You choose both. Close up / his face (2/4)
September 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
from Alena Smith’s Apple series Dickinson, Bussey-Chamberlain’s collection reimagines Death’s identity in the age of the incel. Interpellated into the poem, ‘When your engine finally gives out Death pulls up, kicks his / door wide open, says Ride or Die. You choose both. Close up / his face (2/4)
This week Osmosis is so excited to be featuring an extract from the forthcoming collection 'Grief is a Thing in Pleather' by Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain! Writing back to Emily Dickinson’s figure of death in ‘because I could not stop for death’ alongside Wiz Khalifa’s character (1/4)
September 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This week Osmosis is so excited to be featuring an extract from the forthcoming collection 'Grief is a Thing in Pleather' by Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain! Writing back to Emily Dickinson’s figure of death in ‘because I could not stop for death’ alongside Wiz Khalifa’s character (1/4)
Her critical work includes two monographs, The Feminist Fourth Wave: Affective Temporality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Queer Troublemakers: Poetics of Flippancy (Bloomsbury, 2019). Her debut novel Bone Horn was published in June 2025 with Cipher Press. (5/5)
August 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Her critical work includes two monographs, The Feminist Fourth Wave: Affective Temporality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Queer Troublemakers: Poetics of Flippancy (Bloomsbury, 2019). Her debut novel Bone Horn was published in June 2025 with Cipher Press. (5/5)
Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of two books of poetry, Retroviral* (Veer, 2018) and {Coteries} (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2017), and the co-author of House of Mouse with SJ Fowler (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2017). (4/5)
August 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of two books of poetry, Retroviral* (Veer, 2018) and {Coteries} (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2017), and the co-author of House of Mouse with SJ Fowler (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2017). (4/5)
palimptext method, Denise Riley’s Time Lived Without Its Flow, Randy Schilt’s And The Band Played On, and The Dead Poet’s Society, to challenge conventional renderings of death, grief, citation, alongside the banality of bodies and their upkeep.
Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain is a Senior (3/5)
Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain is a Senior (3/5)
August 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
palimptext method, Denise Riley’s Time Lived Without Its Flow, Randy Schilt’s And The Band Played On, and The Dead Poet’s Society, to challenge conventional renderings of death, grief, citation, alongside the banality of bodies and their upkeep.
Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain is a Senior (3/5)
Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain is a Senior (3/5)
with grief, where Death becomes an embodied figure who runs both literally and figuratively through the text. Borrowing from Emily Dickinson’s figure of death in ‘because I could not stop for death’, this collection mixes Wiz Khalifa from Alena Smith’s Apple TV series Dickinson, Waldrop’s (2/5)
August 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
with grief, where Death becomes an embodied figure who runs both literally and figuratively through the text. Borrowing from Emily Dickinson’s figure of death in ‘because I could not stop for death’, this collection mixes Wiz Khalifa from Alena Smith’s Apple TV series Dickinson, Waldrop’s (2/5)
This week, interrupting our typical weekly Featured Writing schedule as we’re incredibly announce Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s latest collection will be forthcoming from Osmosis Press this October 2025!
This collection is a consideration of and a writing through what it means to live (1/5)
This collection is a consideration of and a writing through what it means to live (1/5)
August 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This week, interrupting our typical weekly Featured Writing schedule as we’re incredibly announce Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s latest collection will be forthcoming from Osmosis Press this October 2025!
This collection is a consideration of and a writing through what it means to live (1/5)
This collection is a consideration of and a writing through what it means to live (1/5)
health, and the convivial practices of writing; ‘aiming for fingers splinterless’, the lyric appears as ‘health without instruments’.
Blurb by @marbledmayhem.bsky.social
Blurb by @marbledmayhem.bsky.social
August 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
health, and the convivial practices of writing; ‘aiming for fingers splinterless’, the lyric appears as ‘health without instruments’.
Blurb by @marbledmayhem.bsky.social
Blurb by @marbledmayhem.bsky.social
‘wir kommen wir kommen wir kommen’. Combining Spanish, German, and English, the poem ‘se comen la hora’ of its shape echoes the face of a clock, the rays of the sun, and the flower blooming in the heat. ‘[Q]uerida patria me mato las manos’, Haecker writes, entwining concerns around labour, (2/3)
August 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
‘wir kommen wir kommen wir kommen’. Combining Spanish, German, and English, the poem ‘se comen la hora’ of its shape echoes the face of a clock, the rays of the sun, and the flower blooming in the heat. ‘[Q]uerida patria me mato las manos’, Haecker writes, entwining concerns around labour, (2/3)
This week in the Osmosis Featured Writing series, ‘la máquina se turna’ in the ‘omnicultural / revolution’ by Samuel Haecker. This visual poem revolves, subverting the linear conventions of poems written in English; ‘caressing mouths fed regrowth’ are ‘littering rejuvenation’ as (1/3)
August 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This week in the Osmosis Featured Writing series, ‘la máquina se turna’ in the ‘omnicultural / revolution’ by Samuel Haecker. This visual poem revolves, subverting the linear conventions of poems written in English; ‘caressing mouths fed regrowth’ are ‘littering rejuvenation’ as (1/3)