Sophie Dumont
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Poet | Editor | Copywriter Debut poetry collection out with Corsair (Little, Brown Book Group) Oct 2025 📘🛶 “a book of watersheds - love, death and rivers” - Linda France 📍Bristol/Bath, UK
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SCULLING is out with #Corsair on Oct 2nd 💙🛶💚

LinkTree: linktr.ee/sophie_dumont

📷: My amazing pal Jae Frederick

#BookSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity
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Thank you @literatureworks.bsky.social! It was such a privilege spending dedicated time on the quay and investigating every nook and cranny. So pleased I can relive it through my poem. 💙
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Congratulations to @sophiedumont.bsky.social on the launch of her debut collection 'Sculling', featured in @theguardian.com's latest poetry review roundup.
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I’ve written an article for @thetimes.com exploring my experience of grief, my wrestling with guilt and the phenomenon of “chimerism”, which means that recipients of donated organs have two sets of DNA.

Find it online or in print in today’s Sunday Times Style.

💙

www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...
Knowing who received my ex’s heart changed the way I grieved
When Sophie Dumont’s first love died in a car crash, his organs were donated. She writes about how the experience affected her
www.thetimes.com
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Over the poet’s moon to have a review of my debut poetry collection Sculling in @theguardian.com today! 🫠💙

Thank you, Philip Terry. ✨

Have a read of the brilliant roundup with a fab pic of @ursulakleguin.com:

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Pick up a copy before my mum buys them all.
The best recent poetry – review roundup
So Far So Good by Ursula K Le Guin; Thrums by Thomas A Clark; Sculling by Sophie Dumont; Magadh by Shrikant Verma
www.theguardian.com
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Publication week!📘

💙Pre-order for delivery or collect in stores on Thurs, #NationalPoetryDay

💙 Tag me in (or send me) a pic of my book put in the wild. Let me know where in the world you are! 🌍

💙I’ll be signing in #Bath & #Bristol bookshops this week

www.hachette.co.uk/titles/sophi... #BookSky
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#Bristol folk, this is tonight! Delighted to be supporting @citizen-chris.bsky.social with the launch of his new poetry book. ✨🚀
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Tonight! Join us at The Bridge Inn in Bristol for the launch of ‘Why I Wear My Past to Work’. With six top Bristol poets followed by open mic! 🎉 From 7pm! 🎙️ @tomsastry.bsky.social @basementofmybrain.bsky.social @sophiedumont.bsky.social @parlyareepress.bsky.social
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SCULLING is out with #Corsair on Oct 2nd 💙🛶💚

LinkTree: linktr.ee/sophie_dumont

📷: My amazing pal Jae Frederick

#BookSky #Poetry #PoetryCommunity
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Words from a hero of mine. 💚💙
Thank you, Philip Gross. @vaikuspg.bsky.social

My debut collection Sculling is out on Thursday October 2nd, National Poetry Day!

Pre-order: www.toppingbooks.co.uk/books/sophie...

#ScullingBook #NationalPoetryDay #PhilipGross
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Delicious post dayy 💌 ‘Poetry and fiction with a cerulean hue’ @mslexia.bsky.social giving the fans what they want. 🤝

…and a peek at the colour I recently painted my kitchen cupboards. 💙🧵
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My poetry debut SCULLING is now available to pre-order while climbing Arthur’s Seat!

Made this t-shirt and didn’t put any deets about the book on it so that I can reuse it for book number 2! Being my own accountability buddy. 🤝

👉 tinyurl.com/2s42bxzu

#ScullingBook #BookSky #WritingCommunity
Image of Sophie Dumont smiling in a white t-shirt stating PRE-ORDER MY BOOK in black font. Edinburgh’s Arthur’s seat is in the background.
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Grateful to have a #FathersDay poem on picking yarrow and dementia in the latest of Dust Poetry Magazine.

This is a gorgeous online mag full of ideas of mythology, memory and oscillating relationships.

Read my #poem here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/yarrow-...