Vikki C.
@vikkicwrites.bsky.social
IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS (Ice Floe Press) | WHERE SANDS RUN FINEST (DarkWinter Press) | THE ART OF GLASS HOUSES| Bridport Prize 2025 Shortlist | Pushcart, BOTN, Orison BSL nominee | Contributing editor: The Winged Moon
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In The Blueprint of Her Iris – A Collaboration. Vikki C. (Poems) Robert Frede Kenter (Images)
Now Available for pre-order: In The Blueprint of Her Iris is a collaboration between Vikki C. (Poems) and Robert Frede Kenter (Images). It is 69 pages, full colour, 6″ x 9″ dimensions. …
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🔥 Now available for pre-order from @icefloepress.bsky.social 🔥
IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS - A hybrid collaboration – my poems with stunning visual art by @rfredekenter.bsky.social. Exploring origins, heritage, ecologies & love amid our current crises.
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IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS - A hybrid collaboration – my poems with stunning visual art by @rfredekenter.bsky.social. Exploring origins, heritage, ecologies & love amid our current crises.
icefloepress.net/in-the-bluep...
Thank you so much @jenwithwords.bsky.social! A beautiful message and photo! I'm so grateful and happy that you've been enjoying IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS (@icefloepress.bsk.social).
Much warmth for the season ahead and thank you for supporting our collaboration 💙
@rfredekenter.bsky.social
Much warmth for the season ahead and thank you for supporting our collaboration 💙
@rfredekenter.bsky.social
✨Today’s Bookmail!✨
A bold and striking collaboration of words by @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and images by @rfredekenter.bsky.social (both amazing artists that I very much admire) published by @icefloepress.bsky.social
This book is a wordy visual treat (also, a great holiday gift idea)!
A bold and striking collaboration of words by @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and images by @rfredekenter.bsky.social (both amazing artists that I very much admire) published by @icefloepress.bsky.social
This book is a wordy visual treat (also, a great holiday gift idea)!
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Thank you so much @jenwithwords.bsky.social! A beautiful message and photo! I'm so grateful and happy that you've been enjoying IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS (@icefloepress.bsk.social).
Much warmth for the season ahead and thank you for supporting our collaboration 💙
@rfredekenter.bsky.social
Much warmth for the season ahead and thank you for supporting our collaboration 💙
@rfredekenter.bsky.social
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✨Today’s Bookmail!✨
A bold and striking collaboration of words by @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and images by @rfredekenter.bsky.social (both amazing artists that I very much admire) published by @icefloepress.bsky.social
This book is a wordy visual treat (also, a great holiday gift idea)!
A bold and striking collaboration of words by @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and images by @rfredekenter.bsky.social (both amazing artists that I very much admire) published by @icefloepress.bsky.social
This book is a wordy visual treat (also, a great holiday gift idea)!
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
✨Today’s Bookmail!✨
A bold and striking collaboration of words by @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and images by @rfredekenter.bsky.social (both amazing artists that I very much admire) published by @icefloepress.bsky.social
This book is a wordy visual treat (also, a great holiday gift idea)!
A bold and striking collaboration of words by @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and images by @rfredekenter.bsky.social (both amazing artists that I very much admire) published by @icefloepress.bsky.social
This book is a wordy visual treat (also, a great holiday gift idea)!
Reposted by Vikki C.
"..its language teaching us to kiss through a war."
'Diaspora' from IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS.
Poems by Vikki C. in dialogue with stunning artwork by Robert Frede Kenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social
Available from @icefloepress.bsky.social Link below 💙
(Alt text included)
#poetrycommunity
'Diaspora' from IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS.
Poems by Vikki C. in dialogue with stunning artwork by Robert Frede Kenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social
Available from @icefloepress.bsky.social Link below 💙
(Alt text included)
#poetrycommunity
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
"..its language teaching us to kiss through a war."
'Diaspora' from IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS.
Poems by Vikki C. in dialogue with stunning artwork by Robert Frede Kenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social
Available from @icefloepress.bsky.social Link below 💙
(Alt text included)
#poetrycommunity
'Diaspora' from IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS.
Poems by Vikki C. in dialogue with stunning artwork by Robert Frede Kenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social
Available from @icefloepress.bsky.social Link below 💙
(Alt text included)
#poetrycommunity
"..its language teaching us to kiss through a war."
'Diaspora' from IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS.
Poems by Vikki C. in dialogue with stunning artwork by Robert Frede Kenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social
Available from @icefloepress.bsky.social Link below 💙
(Alt text included)
#poetrycommunity
'Diaspora' from IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS.
Poems by Vikki C. in dialogue with stunning artwork by Robert Frede Kenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social
Available from @icefloepress.bsky.social Link below 💙
(Alt text included)
#poetrycommunity
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
"..its language teaching us to kiss through a war."
'Diaspora' from IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS.
Poems by Vikki C. in dialogue with stunning artwork by Robert Frede Kenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social
Available from @icefloepress.bsky.social Link below 💙
(Alt text included)
#poetrycommunity
'Diaspora' from IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS.
Poems by Vikki C. in dialogue with stunning artwork by Robert Frede Kenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social
Available from @icefloepress.bsky.social Link below 💙
(Alt text included)
#poetrycommunity
Reposted by Vikki C.
@vikkicwrites.bsky.social @lucycoatswriter.bsky.social @createdtoread.bsky.social and many more feature in this starter pack of people associated with the great Bridport Prize. @bridportprize.bsky.social Please follow and repost if you can #poetsonbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #booksky
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
@vikkicwrites.bsky.social @lucycoatswriter.bsky.social @createdtoread.bsky.social and many more feature in this starter pack of people associated with the great Bridport Prize. @bridportprize.bsky.social Please follow and repost if you can #poetsonbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #booksky
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If you're working on submissions this weekend, remember @icefloepress.bsky.social is open to your visionary, expansive hybrids on PROCESS/ MARGINALIA/OTHERWOR(L)D(S)!
Hybrid = 2 mediums at least.
Some brilliant work coming in so far. Deadline: 30 November.
We look forward to reading your work🔥
Hybrid = 2 mediums at least.
Some brilliant work coming in so far. Deadline: 30 November.
We look forward to reading your work🔥
We've extended our call for subs
PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) until Nov 30th 2025.
poems/video/prose/CNF/essay/art/photo/sound pieces 2 elements incl. aspects of process & margins however you conceive that. Excited for groundbreaking unpublished wonder! send to: [email protected]
PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) until Nov 30th 2025.
poems/video/prose/CNF/essay/art/photo/sound pieces 2 elements incl. aspects of process & margins however you conceive that. Excited for groundbreaking unpublished wonder! send to: [email protected]
November 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
If you're working on submissions this weekend, remember @icefloepress.bsky.social is open to your visionary, expansive hybrids on PROCESS/ MARGINALIA/OTHERWOR(L)D(S)!
Hybrid = 2 mediums at least.
Some brilliant work coming in so far. Deadline: 30 November.
We look forward to reading your work🔥
Hybrid = 2 mediums at least.
Some brilliant work coming in so far. Deadline: 30 November.
We look forward to reading your work🔥
Reposted by Vikki C.
To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.
Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter
November 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.
Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter
If you're working on submissions this weekend, remember @icefloepress.bsky.social is open to your visionary, expansive hybrids on PROCESS/ MARGINALIA/OTHERWOR(L)D(S)!
Hybrid = 2 mediums at least.
Some brilliant work coming in so far. Deadline: 30 November.
We look forward to reading your work🔥
Hybrid = 2 mediums at least.
Some brilliant work coming in so far. Deadline: 30 November.
We look forward to reading your work🔥
We've extended our call for subs
PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) until Nov 30th 2025.
poems/video/prose/CNF/essay/art/photo/sound pieces 2 elements incl. aspects of process & margins however you conceive that. Excited for groundbreaking unpublished wonder! send to: [email protected]
PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) until Nov 30th 2025.
poems/video/prose/CNF/essay/art/photo/sound pieces 2 elements incl. aspects of process & margins however you conceive that. Excited for groundbreaking unpublished wonder! send to: [email protected]
November 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
If you're working on submissions this weekend, remember @icefloepress.bsky.social is open to your visionary, expansive hybrids on PROCESS/ MARGINALIA/OTHERWOR(L)D(S)!
Hybrid = 2 mediums at least.
Some brilliant work coming in so far. Deadline: 30 November.
We look forward to reading your work🔥
Hybrid = 2 mediums at least.
Some brilliant work coming in so far. Deadline: 30 November.
We look forward to reading your work🔥
Reposted by Vikki C.
We've received some amazing work so far. Visual, sound, text hybrids - complex, layered and expansive 🔥
The call is extended to 30 November so still time to submit your innovative hybrids on PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S). See Ice Floe site for details ✨️
@icefloepress.bsky.social
The call is extended to 30 November so still time to submit your innovative hybrids on PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S). See Ice Floe site for details ✨️
@icefloepress.bsky.social
We've extended our call for subs
PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) until Nov 30th 2025.
poems/video/prose/CNF/essay/art/photo/sound pieces 2 elements incl. aspects of process & margins however you conceive that. Excited for groundbreaking unpublished wonder! send to: [email protected]
PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S) until Nov 30th 2025.
poems/video/prose/CNF/essay/art/photo/sound pieces 2 elements incl. aspects of process & margins however you conceive that. Excited for groundbreaking unpublished wonder! send to: [email protected]
November 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We've received some amazing work so far. Visual, sound, text hybrids - complex, layered and expansive 🔥
The call is extended to 30 November so still time to submit your innovative hybrids on PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S). See Ice Floe site for details ✨️
@icefloepress.bsky.social
The call is extended to 30 November so still time to submit your innovative hybrids on PROCESS / MARGINALIA / OTHERWOR(L)D(S). See Ice Floe site for details ✨️
@icefloepress.bsky.social
Delighted to have 3 VU-themed poems accepted by @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social for 'The Rules of Verse-Poetry Inspired by The Velvet Underground' edition. Such a quick response too🔥
Gratitude to EIC @davidestringel.bsky.social & Poetry Editors @hubbsd.bsky.social & @seangmeggeson.bsky.social🙏
Gratitude to EIC @davidestringel.bsky.social & Poetry Editors @hubbsd.bsky.social & @seangmeggeson.bsky.social🙏
November 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Delighted to have 3 VU-themed poems accepted by @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social for 'The Rules of Verse-Poetry Inspired by The Velvet Underground' edition. Such a quick response too🔥
Gratitude to EIC @davidestringel.bsky.social & Poetry Editors @hubbsd.bsky.social & @seangmeggeson.bsky.social🙏
Gratitude to EIC @davidestringel.bsky.social & Poetry Editors @hubbsd.bsky.social & @seangmeggeson.bsky.social🙏
Reposted by Vikki C.
Cable Street issue 10 is about one week away! Our biggest issue yet, with some wonderful writing and visual art. #poetry #fiction #creativenonfiction #photography #visualarts
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Cable Street issue 10 is about one week away! Our biggest issue yet, with some wonderful writing and visual art. #poetry #fiction #creativenonfiction #photography #visualarts
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A poem about holding on. With gratitude for good therapy & for the generous editors at The Louisville Review.
November 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
A poem about holding on. With gratitude for good therapy & for the generous editors at The Louisville Review.
Reposted by Vikki C.
From @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social's book, Exploding Head: bookshop.org/a/862/9780892555772
#poem #books #writing
#poem #books #writing
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
From @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social's book, Exploding Head: bookshop.org/a/862/9780892555772
#poem #books #writing
#poem #books #writing
Reposted by Vikki C.
November 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Reposted by Vikki C.
💯 Cable Street is reviewing an Ice Floe book in our 10th issue, which comes out next week. Small, indie presses cooperate rather than compete. I wish the whole world did that!
Congrats @icefloepress.bsky.social and publisher @rfredekenter.bsky.social 💙📚
Congrats @icefloepress.bsky.social and publisher @rfredekenter.bsky.social 💙📚
Fantastic to see @icefloepress.bsky.social at #267 in Brecht's ranking of Top Poetry Magazines. Brilliant, visionary press with international focus. Honoured & proud to be an Ice Floe author along with many talented writers & artists.
More exciting projects to come in 2026-7 🔥
#writingcommunity
More exciting projects to come in 2026-7 🔥
#writingcommunity
Lovely to make #267 in the Top Poetry Magazine list for 2026. Inspired & and honour... lots to come in 2026-7! Watch for it.
November 18, 2025 at 1:57 AM
💯 Cable Street is reviewing an Ice Floe book in our 10th issue, which comes out next week. Small, indie presses cooperate rather than compete. I wish the whole world did that!
Congrats @icefloepress.bsky.social and publisher @rfredekenter.bsky.social 💙📚
Congrats @icefloepress.bsky.social and publisher @rfredekenter.bsky.social 💙📚
Reposted by Vikki C.
Fantastic to see @icefloepress.bsky.social at #267 in Brecht's ranking of Top Poetry Magazines. Brilliant, visionary press with international focus. Honoured & proud to be an Ice Floe author along with many talented writers & artists.
More exciting projects to come in 2026-7 🔥
#writingcommunity
More exciting projects to come in 2026-7 🔥
#writingcommunity
Lovely to make #267 in the Top Poetry Magazine list for 2026. Inspired & and honour... lots to come in 2026-7! Watch for it.
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 18, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Fantastic to see @icefloepress.bsky.social at #267 in Brecht's ranking of Top Poetry Magazines. Brilliant, visionary press with international focus. Honoured & proud to be an Ice Floe author along with many talented writers & artists.
More exciting projects to come in 2026-7 🔥
#writingcommunity
More exciting projects to come in 2026-7 🔥
#writingcommunity
Reposted by Vikki C.
Wood inlay door in Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain. Felt like we closed a door tonight, as we finished uploading Cable Street Issue 10. Look for it next week at cablestreet.org.
#literature #art #poetry #litmag
#literature #art #poetry #litmag
November 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Wood inlay door in Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain. Felt like we closed a door tonight, as we finished uploading Cable Street Issue 10. Look for it next week at cablestreet.org.
#literature #art #poetry #litmag
#literature #art #poetry #litmag
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Yes to this! Love @icefloepress.bsky.social ❤️
Fantastic to see @icefloepress.bsky.social at #267 in Brecht's ranking of Top Poetry Magazines. Brilliant, visionary press with international focus. Honoured & proud to be an Ice Floe author along with many talented writers & artists.
More exciting projects to come in 2026-7 🔥
#writingcommunity
More exciting projects to come in 2026-7 🔥
#writingcommunity
Lovely to make #267 in the Top Poetry Magazine list for 2026. Inspired & and honour... lots to come in 2026-7! Watch for it.
November 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Yes to this! Love @icefloepress.bsky.social ❤️
Fantastic to see @icefloepress.bsky.social at #267 in Brecht's ranking of Top Poetry Magazines. Brilliant, visionary press with international focus. Honoured & proud to be an Ice Floe author along with many talented writers & artists.
More exciting projects to come in 2026-7 🔥
#writingcommunity
More exciting projects to come in 2026-7 🔥
#writingcommunity
Lovely to make #267 in the Top Poetry Magazine list for 2026. Inspired & and honour... lots to come in 2026-7! Watch for it.
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 18, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Fantastic to see @icefloepress.bsky.social at #267 in Brecht's ranking of Top Poetry Magazines. Brilliant, visionary press with international focus. Honoured & proud to be an Ice Floe author along with many talented writers & artists.
More exciting projects to come in 2026-7 🔥
#writingcommunity
More exciting projects to come in 2026-7 🔥
#writingcommunity
Reposted by Vikki C.
Lovely to make #267 in the Top Poetry Magazine list for 2026. Inspired & and honour... lots to come in 2026-7! Watch for it.
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Lovely to make #267 in the Top Poetry Magazine list for 2026. Inspired & and honour... lots to come in 2026-7! Watch for it.
Reposted by Vikki C.
Adding some color to gloomy November
November 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Adding some color to gloomy November
Reposted by Vikki C.
Thank you, Tom!💛
cc: @thetenderbetween.bsky.social, @ornithopterpress.bsky.social
Eve’s marvelous book is available here: www.ornithopterpress.com/store/p26/SI...
Eve’s marvelous book is available here: www.ornithopterpress.com/store/p26/SI...
SIGNAL TO NOISE, poems by Eve Luckring
Signal to Noise is a haunting of the ears, a fathoming of loss, an appraisal of fragmented attention. Constructed in two parts, the book invites the reader into a state of transitional uncertainty as ...
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October 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Thank you, Tom!💛
Reposted by Vikki C.
Eve Luckring 💙
from SIGNAL TO NOISE (Ornithopter Press)
@thetenderbetween.bsky.social
@ornithopterpress.bsky.social
from SIGNAL TO NOISE (Ornithopter Press)
@thetenderbetween.bsky.social
@ornithopterpress.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Eve Luckring 💙
from SIGNAL TO NOISE (Ornithopter Press)
@thetenderbetween.bsky.social
@ornithopterpress.bsky.social
from SIGNAL TO NOISE (Ornithopter Press)
@thetenderbetween.bsky.social
@ornithopterpress.bsky.social
Reposted by Vikki C.
Proof copy is here, and she’s lovely, so let this be a little reminder that MORE FLOWERS is out with @triohousepress.org in less than 3 months! You can pre-order at the link in the replies or wherever books are sold!
Here’s to more poetry and more flowers!
🌺🌸🌼
Here’s to more poetry and more flowers!
🌺🌸🌼
November 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Proof copy is here, and she’s lovely, so let this be a little reminder that MORE FLOWERS is out with @triohousepress.org in less than 3 months! You can pre-order at the link in the replies or wherever books are sold!
Here’s to more poetry and more flowers!
🌺🌸🌼
Here’s to more poetry and more flowers!
🌺🌸🌼