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
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...
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
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-...
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 @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...
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
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February 2, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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...
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The forgotten Alexandria: Rediscovering a lost metropolis on the Tigris
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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.
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February 2, 2026 at 7:55 AM
The forgotten Alexandria: Rediscovering a lost metropolis on the Tigris
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#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
#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.
Third Table after party with Sarah Gibbons, Glyn Maxwell, Lauren Thomas and Olha Shvets.
January 30, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Third Table after party with Sarah Gibbons, Glyn Maxwell, Lauren Thomas and Olha Shvets.
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
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.
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
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!
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
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!
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
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January 25, 2026 at 4:17 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...
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TODAY, Friday January 23rd, 2026:
We are ALL residents of Minnesota.
We ALL want #ICE_OutForGOOD 🚫 🧊
Also: #ICE_OUT4ReneeGood 💔
We are ALL residents of Minnesota.
We ALL want #ICE_OutForGOOD 🚫 🧊
Also: #ICE_OUT4ReneeGood 💔
January 23, 2026 at 8:03 AM
TODAY, Friday January 23rd, 2026:
We are ALL residents of Minnesota.
We ALL want #ICE_OutForGOOD 🚫 🧊
Also: #ICE_OUT4ReneeGood 💔
We are ALL residents of Minnesota.
We ALL want #ICE_OutForGOOD 🚫 🧊
Also: #ICE_OUT4ReneeGood 💔
#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
#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!
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
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.
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
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.
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...
: www.serenbooks.com/book/into-th...
January 22, 2026 at 4:16 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...
: www.serenbooks.com/book/into-th...
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
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!
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
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.
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.
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
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.
Read poetry and essays by @fadingbetty.bsky.social,
@bigjosh84.bsky.social, @zoomburst.substack.com,
@misshalcyon.bsky.social, @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social, and many
others.
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
Off to the @tseliotprize.bsky.social readings at @southbankcentre.bsky.social What a shortlist, going to be an absolute treat.
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
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...
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
26 Tory defectors to Reform, every one of them in it for themselves, not this country.
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
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.
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
from her @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social pamphlet 'the elimination game'. This one got very psychological. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:58 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
from her @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social pamphlet 'the elimination game'. This one got very psychological. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com
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
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