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fourteen poems @fourteenpoems.bsky.social · Mar 18

Come celebrate our new book (In)Habit by Hetty Cliss at The Common Press in east London on the 10th April. As well as Hetty reading poems from her book, we’ll also have readings from Cia Mangat, Helen Bowell, and Prerana Kumar.

Tickets via the link in our bio!

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fourteen poems @fourteenpoems.bsky.social · Mar 11

Still celebrating Troy Cabida’s book being chosen by the Poetry Book Society as their Spring Pamphlet Choice 2025. And there’s also this lovely thoughtful review from Yousif M Qasmiyeh + Alyvia Pirmohamed in the PBS bulletin too. Grab a copy from either the fourteen poems or PBS website! 🥰

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fourteen poems @fourteenpoems.bsky.social · Mar 10

Just announced! The cover for the debut pamphlet from Hetty Cliss, available for preorder now. (In)Habit charts a declining relationship, using form and fresh imagery to track the clash of the public and private. More to come with readings and a special launch very soon!

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fourteen poems @fourteenpoems.bsky.social · Mar 4

Just finished up the first of our ‘fourteen umami poems’ seminars with Mícheál McCann. This umami kitap collab is so regenerative, speaking directly to emerging queer poets in Turkey. You can join too - keep an eye out for a link to the next one with Helen Bowell on March 18th.

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bec/riley @rileyforsythe.bsky.social · Feb 28

Yay, another awesome post day! The new @mslexia.bsky.social which arrived a few hours after I bought “Mexican Gothic” and which has an interview with Silvia Moreno-Garcia (nice), and The End of Art by Zara meadows, published by @fourteenpoems.bsky.social.

A brown and red poetry pamphlet, ‘The End of Art’ by Zara Meadows on top of Mslexia magazine issue #105.

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Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) @travisclau.bsky.social · Feb 28

ICYMI: I had the joy of chatting about poetry and the shared experience of writing about queerness and disability together with a dear friend & colleague, @cilloyd.bsky.social, to celebrate the release of his chapbook, Pick Up Your Feelings, with @fourteenpoems.bsky.social: shorturl.at/JMy67

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fourteen poems @fourteenpoems.bsky.social · Feb 25

We handed over the FP reins to Christopher Lloyd and Travis Chi Wing Lau to talk inspirations, disability poetics, and to read their work. Watch the longform chat and hear poems from Chris’ pamphlet “Pick Up Your Feelings” and Travis’ forthcoming book! 🥰

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fourteen poems @fourteenpoems.bsky.social · Feb 18

Hazelle Lerum reads “on tasting her girlfriend’s scars” from Issue 15! Desire, vulnerability, and ‘horseplay on the tongue’. Watch on the video below.

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fourteen poems @fourteenpoems.bsky.social · Feb 17

Come celebrate the release of Zara Meadows’ debut pamphlet “The End of Art” at the Seamus Heaney Centre in Belfast.

Zara will be reading poems from the book, along with support from Cal O’Reilly, Dawn Watson, and Mícheál McCann.

Grab a ticket via the link in our bio!

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fourteen poems @fourteenpoems.bsky.social · Feb 14

Last few tickets remaining for this event celebrating our forthcoming book “Hemisferio Cuir: an anthology of young queer Latin American poetry”. Click here to grab a ticket:

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fourteen poems @fourteenpoems.bsky.social · Feb 5

“I build some version of you”

It’s been one year since we published Dale Booton’s “On This Stretch of Queerland” so to celebrate, here’s one of the poems from the book.

Head to fourteenpoems.com to grab a copy of “On This Stretch of Queerland” now!

HBD Queerland!

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VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social · Jan 23

BRAND NEW at VERVE is this pamphlet focussed event which brings four stellar pamphleteers from some of our favourite indie poetry presses together!

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Poets Poetry Pamphlets Poetry Festival Pamphlet Hour at Verve Poetry Festival

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Kayleigh Jayshree @kayleighjayshree.bsky.social · Jan 24

The Love of My Life Is a Haunted House with a Picket Fence

@fourteenpoems.bsky.social are wonderful and brilliant. After years of trying my poem nestled its way into Issue 13, inspired by Phoebe Bridgers and pure elbow-grease love 💖💙💜

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Troy Cabida @troycabida.bsky.social · Jan 29

Hello, Bluesky!

My name is Troy, and I'm a poet! Please check out my latest pamphlet, SYMMETRIC OF BONE, out now with @fourteenpoems.bsky.social.

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Pre-order Troy Cabida's Symmetric of Bone now — fourteen poems

Inspired by the designs of Elsa Peretti, the new poetry pamphlet from Troy Cabida celebrates art, beauty, and resistance.

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fourteen poems @fourteenpoems.bsky.social · Jan 31

Thanks to the Poetry Book Society for choosing Troy Cabida’s “Symmetric of Bone: poems after Elsa Peretti” as their Spring 2025 Pamphlet Choice!

And a special thank you to Yousif Qasmiyeh and Alycia Pirmohamed for selecting the book.

Congratulations Troy!

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fourteen poems @fourteenpoems.bsky.social · Jan 28

We can’t wait for you to read our new book - the debut pamphlet from rising poetry star Zara Meadows, published this Feb.

In “The End of Art” Zara Meadows writes about love, queer identities, and family connections alongside a redrawing of contemporary Belfast.

Preorder at fourteenpoems.com now!

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fourteen poems @fourteenpoems.bsky.social · Jan 22

Thrilled that two of our pamphlet poets (Troy Cabida and Ellora Sutton) will be taking part in the Verve Poetry Festival this year. They’ll be reading from their pamphlets and talking about the importance of the pamphlet as a form alongside Betty Doyle and Laurie Bolger. Tickets at the link in bio!

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fourteen poems @fourteenpoems.bsky.social · Jan 21

“I am not the only one brushing my teeth. Two streets away from me, somebody is dying young.”

Click to watch Abu Leila read their Issue 15 poem ‘Shine teeth”!

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fourteen poems @fourteenpoems.bsky.social · Jan 10

We’re putting the final touches to our new anthology, a celebration of young queer Latin American Poetry ed by Leo Boix. Feat a range of poets from across Latin America, the poems featured in the book will be in Spanish + English. If you’re as excited as we are, you can pre-order via the bio link! 🥰

The cover of hemisferio curio, an anthology of young queer Latin American poetry edited by Leo Boix. The book cover is a mix of pink and green and is set on a white background

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fourteen poems @fourteenpoems.bsky.social · Jan 10

The Issue 16 deadline is fast approaching! Send us your queerest poems by Jan 12th. All details are at fourteenpoems.com/submit. Can’t wait to read your poems!

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Rich @warer.bsky.social · Jan 9

Bit (!) late posting it on here, but 2024 was a year of poetry firsts for me: @fourteenpoems.bsky.social taking my first published work, and in print, then Impossible Archetype, and an amazing @faberbooks.bsky.social poetry course that set me on my way courtesy of Richard Scott & Rachel Long

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fourteen poems @fourteenpoems.bsky.social · Jan 8

So excited to collaborate with the brilliant Umami Kitap over the next 12 months. We’ll be launching FOURTEEN UMAMI POEMS + building bridges between queer poets in the UK/Ireland and Turkey with workshops, seminars, and eventually a new book of queer poems in Turkish published by Umami. Stay tuned!

Fourteen umami poems in a tangerine colour over a lighter orange background

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fourteen poems @fourteenpoems.bsky.social · Jan 8

Hello! We’re kicking off the new year with the cover letter from our new issue. Yes it looks like a celeb notes app apology, but I promise it’s about queer love, poems, and joy. More queer poems in 2025! 💫

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fourteen poems @fourteenpoems.bsky.social · Jan 8

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fourteen poems @fourteenpoems.bsky.social · Jan 8

So pleased and proud to feature your work! Congrats on a 💫 year!

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