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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 10h

Don't miss the #smallpublishersfair25 readings and talks on both days of the Fair. Friday's readings take place in The Green Room (2pm-5pm); Saturday's readings take place in The Library (12.30pm-5pm). All are free.

Full programme for Fri 24 / Sat 25 Oct:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk/readings-2025

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 1d

Two weeks today! Join us for #smallpublishersfair25: 66 UK and international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks.

Fri 24 & Sat 25 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (Holborn tube)

Further details:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk

Promotional card for the 2025 Small Publishers Fair, with a full list of the 66 participating artists and publishers. Full details at https://smallpublishersfair.co.uk/publishers-2025/

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 12h

Edited by poet and author Sam Riviere, and based in London, If a Leaf Falls Press publishes limited-edition titles with an emphasis on appropriative & procedural writing processes. You can find their titles at #smallpublishersfair25, Conway Hall, London, Fri 24 / Sat 25 Oct
smallpublishersfair.co.uk

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 1d

I think I may have written several already...

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to London launch
‘Wastelands’
Sat 25th Oct 12.30 Conway Hall

& more at the magical celebration of writers publishers & books that is the Small Publishers Fair 2025!
susiecampbell.substack.com/p/that-magic...
or just see you at Conway Hall Library!
@guillemotpress.bsky.social

white lettering against poster for Small Publishers Fair

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 3d

don't forget im launching the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press, 2025) in Ottawa next week at Plan 99 w Stephanie Bolster + Zane Koss, also launching new books! / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social
robmclennan.substack.com/p/the-book-o...

the book of sentences

, notes on my new poetry title, available from University of Calgary Press,

robmclennan.substack.com

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ACLU of South Carolina @aclusc.bsky.social · 5d

Advocacy Director Courtney Thomas on Beloved by Toni Morrison, one of the most banned and challenged books in the country. #BannedBooksWeek

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you!

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 5d

Autumn's here, issue 11 of @awirlzine beautifully championing the small, minimal & concrete in poetry! My [landfill blackberries], written specifically to submit to this issue, combines loopy waste poetics (Wastelands @guillemotpress.bsky.social ) with 'aswirlish' minimalism!

black and white zine cover against red background, cover design is tiny triangles or are they falling leaves

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 5d

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Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social · 5d

She’s almost been out for a year now. She’s still enjoying the wildness of it all. Nice to see her in a bookshop today. Available @serenbooks.bsky.social 🩷

Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 9d

What a perfect day for @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social to arrive here on this platform #nationalpoetryday!

Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 9d

Good afternoon and Happy National Poetry Day! This is the very first post from Poets for the Planet here on Bluesky. We are very glad to be here. To start us off here's Wendell Berry's classic, The Peace of Wild Things #nationalpoetryday #poetrysky www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ewB...

“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry, A Poetry Film by Charlotte Ager & Katy Wang

YouTube video by The On Being Project

www.youtube.com

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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 9d

Good afternoon and Happy National Poetry Day! This is the very first post from Poets for the Planet here on Bluesky. We are very glad to be here. To start us off here's Wendell Berry's classic, The Peace of Wild Things #nationalpoetryday #poetrysky www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ewB...

“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry, A Poetry Film by Charlotte Ager & Katy Wang

YouTube video by The On Being Project

www.youtube.com

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Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social · 12d

This wonderful anthology arrived in the post over the weekend! Very excited to include Versus Versus on the MA poetry pathway reading list ✨

A hand holding a blue book. The cover reads Versus Versus 100 poems by deaf, disabled & neurodivergent poets. The cover design consists of a box filled with a pattern of blues and reds - somewhat like the marks of a finger print but arranged in oscillating waves

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 15d

'I didn't lick this': best audience response? By the cool @davidmullinhere.bsky.social, sticker by @Lindenprint. A taste of the wonderful event last night to launch Wastelands @guillemotpress.bsky.social w brilliant Prerana Kumar & @taniahershman.bsky.social thanks to Jennifer Lee Tsai for pics 2/3.

Book cover with sticker showing orange arrow on yellow background

3 women writers seated and talking to audience

Susie standing, reading poetry, pile of waste at her feet

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you!

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you dear Lucy xx

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 19d

Publication Day! @guillemotpress.bsky.social
www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry/susie... Opportunity to thank you all for your support for this book. First launch at Manchester Poetry Library this Thursday 4pm. Come say hi!

poster with 3 author pictures plus images of clock, book, beaver

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 20d

Got my copy! Super excited to discuss WASTELANDS with @susiecampbell.bsky.social at Blackwells, Oxford on 16 Nov. Expect monsters, modernism, and the medieval as we discuss re-weaving the poem! Booking open now www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/susie-camp...

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 20d

Publication Eve! (Tomorrow 22 Sept is Pub Day for Wastelands @guillemotpress.bsky.social w 1st launch event in Manchester on Thurs) So I'm celebrating with a little selection of pics some of you have shared of pre-ordered copies arriving. With my huge thanks. www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry/susie...

Book cover with beaver on green background

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 21d

‘Very odd’! great accolade!

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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 21d

Great night yesterday at Bard Books, Roman Road, for the launch of 22 Fictions: @desperatelit.bsky.social @andreamason.bsky.social 's reading, "Today, At the Dump, The World Is In The Bin" was an absolute highlight 🔥🔥🔥
desperateliterature.com/product/22-f...
www.cheeriopublishing.com/22-fictions

22 Fictions: An Anthology - Desperate Literature

A CHEERIO collaboration with two of Europe’s leading writing prizes — a collection of innovative short fiction from 22 of the most exciting writers currently working in the form. “If 22 Fictions is ...

desperateliterature.com

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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 21d

You can read @andreamason.bsky.social brilliant short story @minorliteratures.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2023/09/21/t..., but you'll really want to get yourself a copy the print version too ;-) 👇 🔥🔥🔥

Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 21d

Great night yesterday at Bard Books, Roman Road, for the launch of 22 Fictions: @desperatelit.bsky.social @andreamason.bsky.social 's reading, "Today, At the Dump, The World Is In The Bin" was an absolute highlight 🔥🔥🔥
desperateliterature.com/product/22-f...
www.cheeriopublishing.com/22-fictions

22 Fictions: An Anthology - Desperate Literature

A CHEERIO collaboration with two of Europe’s leading writing prizes — a collection of innovative short fiction from 22 of the most exciting writers currently working in the form. “If 22 Fictions is ...

desperateliterature.com

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 21d

Final part of my Substack series on the developmental processes of my Wastelands project just in time for publication day (@guillemotpress Mon Sept 22) susiecampbell.substack.com/p/wastelands...

White lettering against a misty dark landscape

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 22d

Exciting to see pre-orders of Wastelands @guillemotpress.bsky.social starting to arrive!

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 23d

I can’t wait to hear @taniahershman.bsky.social and Prerana Kumar read - and to share the platform with them! (I’ll be reading from my new book Wastelands) @guillemotpress.bsky.social Come join us!

Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 23d

Very much looking forward to my first in-person reading from my new book, 'It's Time: A Chronomemoir', next Thurs 4pm at the Manchester Poetry Library alongside my brilliant @guillemotpress.bsky.social stablemates @susiecampbell.bsky.social and Prerana Kumar! No booking necessary, come say hello!

A cream-coloured background with three photos down the right=hand side, of a person with short red hair and the name 'Tania Hershman' underneath, a person with long dark and the name 'Prerana Kumar' underneath, and a person with long brown hair and the name 'Susie Campbell' underneath. On the left hand side is the text 'Presented by Guillemot Press: Discussing and reading from their recent works. Free event' and under that a picture of an open book, a clock and a small animal holding a book. At the bottom is the text '4pm on Thursday 25th September, Manchester Poetry Library.'

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