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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 14d

We're delighted to announce one of our acts for the next MUSHAIRA is our very own Gabrielle Bates (@gabriellebates.bsky.social)!

October 24th 2025, doors at 7 at Cafe OTO
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87...

Mushaira is a live literature reading series featuring authors published by indie presses.

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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 20d

Poems by Kyle Carrero Lopez, Soham Patel, and this one by @gabriellebates.bsky.social:

www.thebeliever.net/the-letter/

The Letter - Believer Magazine

www.thebeliever.net

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · 24d

trying to force myself to share at least the occasional poem, now that I'm throwing new work against the walls. this one was published in Southern Indiana Review 🖤 I wrote it in a time when I had not really slept for many months and was going insane.

GABRIELLE BATES
New Baroque Derangement
I was conceived in a restless biome, a riot of wisteria.
Unguarded. Bitch of blue.
A woman pushed her tongue into my mouth and it was good weather.
There were spirals, spirals at the heart as pure lasso—ice pure loss skipping liquid, straight to air I could and couldn't bare because I was and wasn't.
Combing a lone shore there under the moonlit backwash of receding waves, all that grit in my gums and oceanscape's
overlappings, I am telling you in that fading cyanic
I saw your faces. In the sands. I saw.
Every person I might have been or birthed
I could not reach but I could see.
A consciousness I'd once called mine clambering into a swan boat.
And high above, and far around, the rope of air caught music's meat. I saw what seeing used to mean.

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · Aug 11

Looking forward to publishing this beautiful collection of poems by Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social 📖 Judas Goat, coming to the UK and Ireland in October 2025.

Pre-order now: tinyurl.com/JudasGoat87

#letscreate #the87press #indiepress #SupportIndiePublishers #literature #preorder

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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · Aug 17

Today’s poem is selected by Gabrielle Bates (@gabriellebates.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry.

“Radio, Radio” appeared in Radio, Radio by Ben Doyle, published by Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Shared here with deep gratitude.

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · Aug 21

“How many nights have I done this. Whittled / a carousel out of my hands. Invited to bed their / wooden breath.” — @gabriellebates.bsky.social , “Carousel” www.guernicamag.com/carousel/

Carousel

<p>The foal in its wet white bag / isn’t dead yet. Cue the cheery organ music. </p>

www.guernicamag.com

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · Jun 26

Have a look at the gorgeous cover for Judas Goat by Gabrielle Bates 😍 @gabriellebates.bsky.social

We will be bringing this poetry collection to the UK and Ireland in October 2025.

Pre-order now: tinyurl.com/JudasGoat87

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · Jun 7

🌺💐🌸🌹🌷💐🌸🌹!!!

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · Jun 7

Bring. It. On...💗🌺🎉🐐

Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · Jun 7

🎀 UK/Ireland Cover Reveal and Preorder Link

Judas Goat (the87press edition) coming Oct 24, 2025

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · Jun 7

If you/anyone you know in the UK is interested in ordering a copy & thereby supporting me and this amazing press, please place an order with your favorite local bookshop! (You can also order through this link, but the shop might not make as much that way) uk.bookshop.org/p/books/juda...

Judas Goat a book by Gabrielle Bates.

Gabrielle Bates’s electric debut collection Judas Goat plumbs the depths of intimate relationships. The book’s eponymous animal is used to lead sheep to slaughter while its own life is spared, and its...

uk.bookshop.org

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · Jun 7

🎀 UK/Ireland Cover Reveal and Preorder Link

Judas Goat (the87press edition) coming Oct 24, 2025

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Brooklyn Poets @brooklynpoets.bsky.social · May 6

Early registration is now open for our craft lab on June 8, "Pressing at the Barrier," led by @gabriellebates.bsky.social! Register by May 18th to take advantage of our early discount & save $15. Limited financial aid available–apply by May 18th. Register at brooklynpoets.org/events/all/p...

Pressing at the Barrier — Brooklyn Poets

June 8, 5-8pm (ET) with Gabrielle Bates / online

brooklynpoets.org

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SM Badawi @smbadawi.bsky.social · May 8

Today’s class focuses on poems from @ruthawad.bsky.social’s Outside the Joy & @gabriellebates.bsky.social Judas Goat 🌟

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · May 25

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Montserrat Andrée Carty @montseandree.bsky.social · May 5

New episode up with @gabriellebates.bsky.social & @patrycjasara.bsky.social ! This was such a special conversation on art, language and friendship ❤️.

www.musingsoftheartist.com/episodes-2/g...

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · May 6

We're very excited to have @gabriellebates.bsky.social joining the87press! We will be bringing her poetry collection, Judas Goat, to the UK and Ireland in October 2025.

Gabrielle Bates’ electrifying debut questions what it means to love another person and how to exorcise childhood fears.

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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · May 20

back in the PNW for the first time since i moved away 💚 it was a dream to read at Powell’s, especially with my artwife & @tinhouse.bsky.social pressmate, @gabriellebates.bsky.social. shoutout to our brilliant editor, Alyssa Ogi

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · Apr 20

Wrote a poem from the perspective of an ice swan melting & McNeese Review was kind to publish it. I thought this might be one of those odd personal experiments no one would want, with a pulse only I could feel—glad to be wrong 🤍

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · Mar 19

Can't wait for the COSMIC TANTRUM book tour to celebrate @sarahlynwrites.bsky.social stunning debut⚡ @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social in Seattle on April 10, 7 pm, w/the mesmerizing @gabriellebates.bsky.social. I'll be reading a preview of my next novel, TERRY DACTYL, masks required because we love you💞

Sarah Lyn @sarahlynwrites.bsky.social · Mar 19

4/2, SF:
At The Booksmith w/ Preeti Vangani, Joe Wadlington, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Sage Curtis & Sally Ashton

4/4, Portland:
At Bishop & Wilde w/ Ellee Achten, Genevieve DeGuzman, Julia Gaskill & Jessica E. Johnson

4/10, Seattle:
At Open Books w/ Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore & Gabrielle Bates

Screenshot of a list of events entitled "Spring Book Tour," which lists the following events: 3/27, Los Angeles, 6 pm. AWP offsite party with NUP @ JW Marriott Hotel. 3/29, Los Angeles, 1-2 pm. Book Signing @ NUP's AWP booth, #315. 3/31, Tucson, 5 pm. Book launch @ The Ninth House, with Jes Baker. 4/2, San Francisco, 7 pm. Book launch @ The Booksmith, w/ Sally Ashton, Sage Curtis, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Preeti Vangani & Joe Wadlington. 4/4, Portland, 7 pm. Book launch @ Bishop & Wilde, w/ Ellee Achten, Genevieve DeGuzman, JUlia Gaskil,, & Jessica E. Johnson. 4/10, Seattle, 7 pm. Book launch @ Open Books w/ Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore & Gabrielle Bates.

Graphic with photos of Sarah, Preeti, Joe, Maggie, Sage, Sally, and Cosmic Tantrum, that reads "Sarah Lyn Rogers & friends celebrating Cosmic Tantrum. Wednesday, April 2, 7:00 pm. Tickets at booksmith.com/event"

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · Mar 12

Thank you darling ♥️🥲

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Koss (she/they/Aquarian) @kossworks.bsky.social · Mar 8

Some truly amazing poems by @gabriellebates.bsky.social !!! Blown away. Thank you, Gabrielle, for your gift.

#poetry, #poetrybook, #poems, @tinhouse.bsky.social

tinhouse.com/book/judas-g...