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Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social · Jul 15

2nd SEPTEMBER: REGENT’S PARK, LONDON🦇 There are still tickets left for my collaborative bat walk and poetry performance with @theroyalparks.bsky.social - I’ll be reading from my latest collection, Speculative Frequencies, which was published in June with Permeable Barrier🦇🦇🦇

Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social · Jun 27

BOOKINGS ARE NOW LIVE for my immersive bat walk and poetry performance at Regent’s Park on 2nd September! This event is in collaboration with @theroyalparks.bsky.social as part of the Help Nature Thrive project 🦇🦇🦇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pipistrell...

Pipistrelles and Poems: A bat walk and poetry performance

Poets throughout the ages have been inspired by bats. Join us for a twilight bat walk paired with a live poetry performance.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · Jun 1

This summer we're cooking up a special project!
We're reading & promoting poetry micro-chaps!
Open June 1-20.
Special how? : Author Review exchanges, Creative Insights, & Detailed Promos.
Guidelines: engineidling.net
#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #indielit #poems #indiepress #writers #poetry

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Rose @roseramsden.bsky.social · Jun 1

you can read the entire issue here!!

Issue 15 Contents — Propel Magazine

www.propelmagazine.co.uk

Rose @roseramsden.bsky.social · Jun 1

so pleased to share my poem that has been published by the wonderful @propelmagazine.bsky.social!! after three years, many rejections, and many, many edits, I'm glad this piece has found its home

A right-aligned poem:
sleepwalking

nobody but the moon watching me
bleeding through my jeans
house party music drifting
im pins and needles
im brain freeze
a sainsburys bag floating
a telephone pole with its arms splayed out
the metro pages murmuring
a shut tesco express
i want my mum
to tell me i shouldve brought a jacket
im a gerund
im conditional tense
a friend of a friend of a friend
compound complex sentences yet
i cant get the text to express the staccato
rhythm of my chest
i should have just kissed her
ive got a dark fruit tab rattling in my head
and i cry during sex
theres a graveyard between my legs
if i could put my trauma on a plate
and throw it away with the egg shell and fish paste
i would
it made me who i am today
a girl who cant stay awake
a black sack ripping beneath its own weight
i think therefore i am searching
for my house keys at the bottom of my tote bag

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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · May 31

🔵 Propel Issue 15, Ed. Sanah Ahsan is OUT NOW 🔵

Read & listen to the full issue:
propelmagazine.co.uk/fifteen

bsky.app/profile/prop...

Cover of Propel Issue 15, May 2025, Ed. Sanah Ahsan. contributors: Hasti, Yousef Alawi, Liva Jean, Regina Avendaño, Jory Garner, J.J. Carey, Danny Carlo Pandolfi, Shannon Smith Meekings, Kate Fenwick, Alice Weatherley, Rowan Lyster, Zainab Imran, Rose Ramsden, Marianne Habeshaw, E.M. Davis, Rona Luo, Oli Isaac, Kit Byford and Phoebe Gilmore.

$Contents page for Propel Issue 15: Contents Introduction by Editor Sanah Ahsan 1 Impasse, Hasti 3 Palestine’s Poppies, Yousef Alawi 4 Translation/Transliteration, Yousef Alawi 6 Still Life, Liva Jean 7 Baby, Regina Avendaño 8 Real Girl, Jory Garner 9 Headingley Wants, J.J. Carey 10 If you bet the whole house how much do you care anyway, Danny Carlo Pandolfi 12 In the year before i thought i was in love, Shannon Smith Meekings 14 Trying to Hitch a Lift Outside the Betting Shop, Kate Fenwick 16 16:33, Alice Weatherley 17 My parents dancing in a 20s dive bar, Rowan Lyster 18 Ghazal, Zainab Imran 20 sleepwalking, Rose Ramsden 22 summer prey in the night, Marianne Habeshaw 24 Duplex for my body, E.M. Davis 26 A short talk on fractions, Rona Luo 27 making a scene, Oli Isaac 28 chorus, Kit Byford 29 Instructions for the wake, Phoebe Gilmore 30 Contributors 32$

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Rose @roseramsden.bsky.social · May 30

So excited for this tomorrow!!

Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · May 30

🔵 Propel Issue 15, edited by Sanah Ahsan,
is out TOMORROW 31 MAY 🔵

As Sanah says, "These poets are calling you to pay attention to y/our one life. On its quiet insistence that, even in rupture, something bewildering begins again."

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Rose @roseramsden.bsky.social · May 19

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOO SO SO PROUD OF YOU AND SO DESERVED!!!!

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Rose @roseramsden.bsky.social · May 7

Well done Nicola! Well deserved!

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Rose @roseramsden.bsky.social · Mar 13

I'm so excited!!

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Karan Chambers @karanchambers.bsky.social · Mar 13

With special readings from my fellow @royalholloway.bsky.social MA students including the lovely @roseramsden.bsky.social

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Karan Chambers @karanchambers.bsky.social · Mar 13

Join me for the launch of ‘woman | folk’ my debut pamphlet from @salopress.bsky.social

Guest readers include @wendycaitlin.bsky.social & @galiamelon.bsky.social

Grab your free ticket (link in bio!) Thanks to @brihughespoet.bsky.social for organising & being the Best Poetry Tutor in the World ™️

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Poster advertising the launch of my @SaloPress pamphlet ‘woman | folk’. The central image is a teal, purple, and beige design of a woman holding an infant surrounded by Celtic knotwork. Details of the launch are included on the poster and can be found in the Eventbrite link in my bio.]

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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · Mar 10

🍒🍒e(i Issue 5: Trashy Daydreams is LIVE! 🍒🍒

Our #spotlight is on Damon Hubbs @hubbsd.bsky.social !

Check out their work at buff.ly/lOedrf9!

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity

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Rose @roseramsden.bsky.social · Mar 9

It happens fairly often, I'd say at least 50% of the time after I see something published I get new ideas to improve it so in that way my poems are never really finished and often end up with various editions floating about online

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Karan Chambers @karanchambers.bsky.social · Mar 8

I could’ve posted any poem from my pamphlet for International Women’s Day. It’s angry (rightfully so, considering the lives of women in Sudan, Afghanistan, Gaza, America, here, all over the world), but I have chosen a poem of hope — I want to create a better world for the women who come after us.

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A photo of page 22 from my pamphlet ‘woman | folk’ laid on a hessian cloth with a white lace border on the left hand. The poem text reads:

woman: free

here at the edges      you
wait                 ocean reaching
for the shore                spray turning
skin to      salt & glitter

one day           you dip            a toe
in sirensong              & it feels
so good                       next day
you lower                    your whole self

naked               into stinging
surf       & marvel          at the way
it holds you        the way no one
ever has           marvel

at the way water is
a soft     question      pebbled into dark
the way          your own body
has always been

the answer ]

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Rose @roseramsden.bsky.social · Mar 4

this game caused me psychic damage and also I get a cameo which means legally you are obliged to play it

Stanwixbuster @stanwixbuster.co.uk · Mar 4

hi everyone, it's my birthday. it's also the day that SEXTUPLE L goes live on steam

it's entirely free and is just the same version as before but now it's on steam. if you could be kind enough to leave a review as a birthday present that would be lovely thanks
store.steampowered.com/app/3490240/...

A screenshot from LATEX, LEATHER, LIPSTICK, LOVE, LUST

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Salò Press @salopress.bsky.social · Feb 24

Delivery day for woman | folk by @karanchambers.bsky.social 😍😍😍

We'll be posting all pre-orders later today.

salopress.com

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Rose @roseramsden.bsky.social · Feb 23

you can read (a slightly different version) on ink sweat & tears' website here!!
inksweatandtears.co.uk/rose-ramsden/

Rose Ramsden | Ink Sweat and Tears

inksweatandtears.co.uk

Rose @roseramsden.bsky.social · Feb 23

my poem was recently published by Ink Sweat & Tears and in typical me fashion, because I can't help myself, I made some edits

A prose poem/concrete poem making a rectangle shape on a white background reading:

The last home

We left the play early. The last day before the start of secondary school. Dad told me off for slapping the seats, wanting to see the dust rise like smoke. Floating to the ceiling, dirtying the light. The doors hissed open and a stranger emerged. Approached with a stare that trickled down the neckline of my shirt. Unwrapped the skin from my bones. He held out his hand to my father and grinned. Gums like the flesh left on cherry pits. I closed my cardigan. Gazed at the seat. The filth beneath, festering.

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Rose @roseramsden.bsky.social · Feb 11

ossify is such a killer word I need to find a way to use it in every conversation now

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Rose @roseramsden.bsky.social · Feb 9

you can read the rest of the issue here: www.engineidling.net/current

Current Issue — the engine(idling

www.engineidling.net

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Rose @roseramsden.bsky.social · Feb 9

a few weeks ago I was published by @the-engine-idling.bsky.social for issue 5, in response to the prompt 'trashy daydreams' aka rose does gay gender drama angst

A graphic image of a poem:
Give me a 90s makeover and I’ll pretend I don’t want to suck the
lip gloss from your teeth

Place an apple slice behind my ear and tell me
about the vibrator you made from the head of an electric toothbrush
and a bottle of nail varnish remover. Not very effective.
Puncture skin &
replace the absence
with nickel bronze from anxious thumbprints.
Step into girl like lingerie
a set with tasteful lace, baby blue
like a sexy easter egg.
Remove my sight and reveal
I was fuckable all along.

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Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social · Jan 24

One of my wonderful MA poets, Karan Chambers, is featured in the Feb/March edition of The London Magazine! HUGE congratulations to @karanchambers.bsky.social 🔥

The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social · Jan 24

Our February / March 2025 issue is now available for pre-order!

Cover image by @stephenwhatcott.bsky.social.

Pre-order here: thelondonmagazine.org/product/sing...

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