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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · 8d

Issue Eight subs close at midnight tonight!

Get those poems in folks -- details on our website xox

And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · Sep 1

And we're OPEN!

Send us your best poems. Tell your friends / neighbours / dogs / cats / cousins / aunts / uncles.

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · Aug 31

Submissions open for Issue Eight tomorrow!

We can’t wait to read your poems.

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · Aug 25

“Pop-Ups from Elsewhere: Maria Sledmere and Oli Hazzard In Conversation”, out now on the And Other Poems website.

Read it here: andotherpoems.com/2025/08/25/p...

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · Aug 18

Which small presses are currently open for submissions / competitions for debut pamphlets?

Asking for a friend - one of our AOP poets is looking for a home for his first lil book of poems!

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · Aug 18

Reminder that we are open year-round for prose submissions! Have an idea for an essay, interview or conversation? Drop us a line.

andotherpoems.com/essays/

Essays

“essay” (n.), 1590s, meaning “trial, attempt, endeavour,” also “short, discursive literary composition”, from French essai, meaning “trial, attempt, essay”, deri…

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · Aug 17

'Poem for Sam' by Blossom Hibbert, published in Issue Seven. Read the full issue here: andotherpoems.com/issue-seven/ #poetry #poems #poemoftheday

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · Aug 16

Extract from 'No one wants what I want' by @troycabida.bsky.social , published in Issue Seven. Read the full poem here: andotherpoems.com/2025/08/04/n... #poetry #poems #poemoftheday

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · Aug 15

Extract from 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Laburnum' by Karishma Sangtani, published in Issue Seven. Read the full poem here: andotherpoems.com/2025/08/04/t...

#poetry #poems #poemoftheday

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · Aug 7

There are two swordfish poems in this issue, here's one of them!

And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · Aug 7

'Visualisation Exercise' by Ginny Darke, featured in Issue Seven. Read the full issue here: andotherpoems.com/issue-seven/ #poetry #poem #poemoftheday

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · Aug 13

Read 'Inventory' alongside 'The Spiders' - both by Lucia Dove, and published in Issue Seven andotherpoems.com/2025/08/04/t... #poetry #poems #poemoftheday

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · Aug 12

From Theseus' notes on Asterion, by Roberto Salvador Cenciarelli. Read this poem and others published in Issue Seven, out now: andotherpoems.com/issue-seven/ #poetry #poems #poemoftheday

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · Aug 11

Night / Summer / Orkney by Andrew Dennison, published in Issue Seven. Read the full issue here: andotherpoems.com/issue-seven/ #poetry #poems #poemoftheday

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · Aug 10

Extract from 'Thingamajiggied' by @hettycliss.bsky.social , published in Issue Seven. Read the full poem here: andotherpoems.com/2025/08/04/t...

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · Aug 9

Extract from 'Conditions' by Peter Scalpello, published in Issue Seven. Read the full poem here: andotherpoems.com/2025/08/04/c... #poetry #poem #poemoftheday

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · Aug 8

Extract from 'Way of Going' by @johncraigwhite.bsky.social , published in Issue Seven. Read the full poem here: andotherpoems.com/2025/08/04/w... #poetry #poem #poemoftheday

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · Aug 7

Extract from 'Back Seat Orbital' by Steph Ellen Feeney, published in Issue Seven. Read the full poem here: andotherpoems.com/2025/08/04/b... #poems #poetry

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Hetty Cliss @hettycliss.bsky.social · Aug 5

My poem ‘Thingamajiggied’ is out now in @andotherpoems.bsky.social It’s one that means a lot to me. Through it I was able to articulate big thoughts and emotions, the experience of loving and losing someone with dementia, that felt beyond language.

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Thingamajiggied

Hetty Cliss When my grandmother dignified, I couldn’t spook italoud. Not even when a colleague asked three timesif I was ostr…

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · Aug 7

'Visualisation Exercise' by Ginny Darke, featured in Issue Seven. Read the full issue here: andotherpoems.com/issue-seven/ #poetry #poem #poemoftheday

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · Aug 6

Extract from 'Gynaecology Ranch' by Phoebe Gilmore. Read the full poem in Issue Seven #poetry #poem andotherpoems.com/2025/08/04/g...

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · Aug 4

Issue Seven is now live! We are so excited to share this brilliant issue with you all. Thank you to all the poets who submitted. Read the full issue here: andotherpoems.com/issue-seven/ #poetry #poems

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · Jul 30

Coming on Monday: Issue Seven of And Other Poems. We can’t wait to share these poems!!

Stay tuned 😎

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · Jul 23

Responses now all sent! Get in touch if you haven’t heard from us.

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · May 1

We publish work from all over the world. Do send us some of yours! Submissions are open as of this morning.

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · May 1

Howdy friends! We're open for submissions for the whole of May -- send us your weirdest wackiest wonderfullest poems.

Submissions guidelines on our website. We can't wait to read your work!

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