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Suzanna Fitzpatrick
@suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social
Poet published in magazines & anthologies in the UK, US, Ireland & Canada. Debut pamphlet: Fledglings (Red Squirrel Press, 2016). First collection: Crippled (Red Squirrel Press, 2025).
The next issue of #TheDeeperRead drops on Fri 6 Feb at 8am, featuring "The Ledge" by Glyn Maxwell from his @tseliotprize.bsky.social-shortlisted book 'How The Hell Are You', available from Picador. Please subscribe and share if you fancy it - it's free! substack.com/@suzannafitz...
February 4, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Honoured that my poem, "Manicure", first published in my collection 'Crippled', is in 'Craft of Care' from Black Pear Press. Editors @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social & Charley Barnes have curated such an important book. Online launch 25 Feb 6.30pm, sign up on FB. blackpear.net/.../charley-...
February 3, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Great @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social event last night hosted by @zoebrooks.bsky.social & @annasaund.bsky.social. Cracking readings from @eveellis14.bsky.social & Isabelle Baafi & open-mics. I read this from my book 'Crippled'. Solidarity to all mourning a loss. www.redsquirrelpress.com/product-page...
February 3, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Great to be shortlisted in this year's WoLF Poetry Competition, thanks to @pandemonialists.bsky.social for organising and to judges @helenivory.bsky.social and @martinfigura.bsky.social . Congrats to the winners! pandemonialists.co.uk/wolves-lit-f...
Wolves Lit Fest Poetry Competition 2026 – Poets, Prattlers and Pandemonialists
pandemonialists.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Reposted by Suzanna Fitzpatrick
The forgotten Alexandria: Rediscovering a lost metropolis on the Tigris

www.heritagedaily.com/2026/02/the-...
The forgotten Alexandria: Rediscovering a lost metropolis on the Tigris
For centuries, one of antiquity’s most important cities slipped quietly out of human memory.
www.heritagedaily.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:55 AM
#TheDeeperRead issue 4 is now up: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper... . Featuring a poem by Sarah Gibbons from her cracking pamphlet "I Go to the Devil", which won the @wigtownbooktown.bsky.social 2024 Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize. DM her on Insta @pulluppoet if you'd like to buy a copy.
January 30, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Third Table after party with Sarah Gibbons, Glyn Maxwell, Lauren Thomas and Olha Shvets.
January 30, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Mellow after the Third Table reading with the @poetryschool.bsky.social MA fam. Total joy to compere this lot, they slap. Shamelessly nicked an idea from @bradleytaylorpoet.bsky.social and took a line from each reader to make a poem. Note to self: don't do whilst MCing. My brain nearly exploded.
January 30, 2026 at 12:02 AM
One year after my partial right knee replacement. I am so grateful to be fully recovered, but running is no longer sensible for me. I mourn it, but just started Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) with Gabor Antali. I was made so welcome, and got to wield a longsword. I can sense poems brewing!
January 29, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Tonight! I'm MCing and also reading, along with Glyn Maxwell, Sarah Gibbons and current and former students of the @poetryschool.bsky.social MA. Free, all welcome!
January 29, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Chuffed to be Commended by Patrick Cotter in the @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social Southword Editor's Poetry Award for my poem "Figurine and Candle", which will be published this summer in Southword issue 50 with the other winners and Commendeds. munsterlit.ie/southword-ed...
Southword Editor’s Poetry Award Result – Munster Literature Centre
munsterlit.ie
January 25, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Reposted by Suzanna Fitzpatrick
TODAY, Friday January 23rd, 2026:

We are ALL residents of Minnesota.

We ALL want #ICE_OutForGOOD 🚫 🧊

Also: #ICE_OUT4ReneeGood 💔
January 23, 2026 at 8:03 AM
#TheDeeperRead 3 is here: Zakia Carpenter-Hall's "Animal Eden" from her @serenbooks.bsky.social pamphlet Into the Same Sound Twice. Deceptively simple poem which reveals more and more the deeper you go. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper... free to subscribe, please do so if you enjoy it!
January 23, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Fantastic night reading at @revkevwrites.bsky.social Open No-Mic at The Queen's Head in Cowden Pound. Wonderful crowd. And will you look at the trifle bowl of wine they provided! Thanks all x Copies of 'Crippled' available from www.redsquirrelpress.com/product-page... or DM me to buy a signed copy.
January 22, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Delighted to be Featured Reader at Kevin Scully's Open No-Mic tonight! 6.30pm, The Queen's Arms, Cowden Pound, TN8 5NP. Horrible weather, but I'm told it's a gorgeous pub. Do come if you're free and in the area, all welcome.
January 22, 2026 at 4:44 PM
The next instalment of #TheDeeperRead drops tomorrow at 8am. Featuring Zakia Carpenter-Hall, whose poem took me to some places - Genesis, FAFO, ecopoetics & fake drunk elephants. Her book, Into the Same Sound Twice, is available from @serenbooks.bsky.social
: www.serenbooks.com/book/into-th...
January 22, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Second poem in Ionosphere 3.1 from @ampliconpress.bsky.social, a great journal exploring the interfaces of science, technology and the human experience. A ghazal; yes, the use of a form traditionally used for love poems is deliberate!
January 21, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Delighted to have two poems in Ionosphere 3.1 from @ampliconpress.bsky.social, a great journal exploring the interfaces of science, technology and the human experience. Here's the first.
January 21, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Reposted by Suzanna Fitzpatrick
Issue 5 of the literary journal ionosphere is now available on Amazon!
Read poetry and essays by @fadingbetty.bsky.social,
@bigjosh84.bsky.social, @zoomburst.substack.com,
@misshalcyon.bsky.social, @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social, and many
others.
January 19, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Off to the @tseliotprize.bsky.social readings at @southbankcentre.bsky.social What a shortlist, going to be an absolute treat.
January 18, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Issue 2 of #thedeeperread is out on substack! Featuring a poem by @marymulholland.bsky.social from her @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social pamphlet 'the elimination game'. Her debut collection is out from @ninearchespress.bsky.social this Oct, can't wait! suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...
January 16, 2026 at 10:19 AM
26 Tory defectors to Reform, every one of them in it for themselves, not this country.
As Robert Jenrick jumps ship, Reform’s “new politics” looks more like a spin cycle for the same people behind 14 years of decline.
January 16, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Excited to be Featured Writer at the Cowden Pound Open No-Mic on Thurs 22 January, reading from my collection Crippled: www.redsquirrelpress.com/product-page.... Thanks to @poetryschool.bsky.social MA alumnus Kevin Scully for inviting me! All welcome.
January 15, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Issue 2 of #thedeeperread drops tomorrow! Featuring "The Regretting Room" by @marymulholland.bsky.social
from her @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social pamphlet 'the elimination game'. This one got very psychological. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Elon Musk thinks he can get away with letting his AI chatbot Grok make sex abuse images of women and children. I’m calling for a full ban on X here in the UK and you should too - add your name to the petition now: 38d.gs/pqac
No more sexual abuse images of women and children: ban X and Grok AI
X's AI chatbot Grok appears to be making sex abuse images of women and children - and Elon Musk thinks he can get away with letting it! I’m calling for a full ban on X here in the UK and you should to...
38d.gs
January 13, 2026 at 5:06 PM