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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 6h

don't forget im launching the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press, 2025) in Ottawa next week at Plan 99 w Stephanie Bolster + Zane Koss, also launching new books! / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social
robmclennan.substack.com/p/the-book-o...

the book of sentences

, notes on my new poetry title, available from University of Calgary Press,

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ACLU of South Carolina @aclusc.bsky.social · 2d

Advocacy Director Courtney Thomas on Beloved by Toni Morrison, one of the most banned and challenged books in the country. #BannedBooksWeek

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 2d

Autumn's here, issue 11 of @awirlzine beautifully championing the small, minimal & concrete in poetry! My [landfill blackberries], written specifically to submit to this issue, combines loopy waste poetics (Wastelands @guillemotpress.bsky.social ) with 'aswirlish' minimalism!

black and white zine cover against red background, cover design is tiny triangles or are they falling leaves

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 2d

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Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social · 2d

She’s almost been out for a year now. She’s still enjoying the wildness of it all. Nice to see her in a bookshop today. Available @serenbooks.bsky.social 🩷

Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 6d

What a perfect day for @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social to arrive here on this platform #nationalpoetryday!

Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 6d

Good afternoon and Happy National Poetry Day! This is the very first post from Poets for the Planet here on Bluesky. We are very glad to be here. To start us off here's Wendell Berry's classic, The Peace of Wild Things #nationalpoetryday #poetrysky www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ewB...

“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry, A Poetry Film by Charlotte Ager & Katy Wang

YouTube video by The On Being Project

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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 6d

Good afternoon and Happy National Poetry Day! This is the very first post from Poets for the Planet here on Bluesky. We are very glad to be here. To start us off here's Wendell Berry's classic, The Peace of Wild Things #nationalpoetryday #poetrysky www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ewB...

“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry, A Poetry Film by Charlotte Ager & Katy Wang

YouTube video by The On Being Project

www.youtube.com

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Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social · 9d

This wonderful anthology arrived in the post over the weekend! Very excited to include Versus Versus on the MA poetry pathway reading list ✨

A hand holding a blue book. The cover reads Versus Versus 100 poems by deaf, disabled & neurodivergent poets. The cover design consists of a box filled with a pattern of blues and reds - somewhat like the marks of a finger print but arranged in oscillating waves

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 12d

'I didn't lick this': best audience response? By the cool @davidmullinhere.bsky.social, sticker by @Lindenprint. A taste of the wonderful event last night to launch Wastelands @guillemotpress.bsky.social w brilliant Prerana Kumar & @taniahershman.bsky.social thanks to Jennifer Lee Tsai for pics 2/3.

Book cover with sticker showing orange arrow on yellow background

3 women writers seated and talking to audience

Susie standing, reading poetry, pile of waste at her feet

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you!

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you dear Lucy xx

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 16d

Publication Day! @guillemotpress.bsky.social
www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry/susie... Opportunity to thank you all for your support for this book. First launch at Manchester Poetry Library this Thursday 4pm. Come say hi!

poster with 3 author pictures plus images of clock, book, beaver

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 17d

Got my copy! Super excited to discuss WASTELANDS with @susiecampbell.bsky.social at Blackwells, Oxford on 16 Nov. Expect monsters, modernism, and the medieval as we discuss re-weaving the poem! Booking open now www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/susie-camp...

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 17d

Publication Eve! (Tomorrow 22 Sept is Pub Day for Wastelands @guillemotpress.bsky.social w 1st launch event in Manchester on Thurs) So I'm celebrating with a little selection of pics some of you have shared of pre-ordered copies arriving. With my huge thanks. www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry/susie...

Book cover with beaver on green background

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 18d

‘Very odd’! great accolade!

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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 18d

Great night yesterday at Bard Books, Roman Road, for the launch of 22 Fictions: @desperatelit.bsky.social @andreamason.bsky.social 's reading, "Today, At the Dump, The World Is In The Bin" was an absolute highlight 🔥🔥🔥
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22 Fictions: An Anthology - Desperate Literature

A CHEERIO collaboration with two of Europe’s leading writing prizes — a collection of innovative short fiction from 22 of the most exciting writers currently working in the form. “If 22 Fictions is ...

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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 18d

You can read @andreamason.bsky.social brilliant short story @minorliteratures.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2023/09/21/t..., but you'll really want to get yourself a copy the print version too ;-) 👇 🔥🔥🔥

Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 18d

Great night yesterday at Bard Books, Roman Road, for the launch of 22 Fictions: @desperatelit.bsky.social @andreamason.bsky.social 's reading, "Today, At the Dump, The World Is In The Bin" was an absolute highlight 🔥🔥🔥
desperateliterature.com/product/22-f...
www.cheeriopublishing.com/22-fictions

22 Fictions: An Anthology - Desperate Literature

A CHEERIO collaboration with two of Europe’s leading writing prizes — a collection of innovative short fiction from 22 of the most exciting writers currently working in the form. “If 22 Fictions is ...

desperateliterature.com

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 18d

Final part of my Substack series on the developmental processes of my Wastelands project just in time for publication day (@guillemotpress Mon Sept 22) susiecampbell.substack.com/p/wastelands...

White lettering against a misty dark landscape

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 19d

Exciting to see pre-orders of Wastelands @guillemotpress.bsky.social starting to arrive!

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 20d

I can’t wait to hear @taniahershman.bsky.social and Prerana Kumar read - and to share the platform with them! (I’ll be reading from my new book Wastelands) @guillemotpress.bsky.social Come join us!

Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 20d

Very much looking forward to my first in-person reading from my new book, 'It's Time: A Chronomemoir', next Thurs 4pm at the Manchester Poetry Library alongside my brilliant @guillemotpress.bsky.social stablemates @susiecampbell.bsky.social and Prerana Kumar! No booking necessary, come say hello!

A cream-coloured background with three photos down the right=hand side, of a person with short red hair and the name 'Tania Hershman' underneath, a person with long dark and the name 'Prerana Kumar' underneath, and a person with long brown hair and the name 'Susie Campbell' underneath. On the left hand side is the text 'Presented by Guillemot Press: Discussing and reading from their recent works. Free event' and under that a picture of an open book, a clock and a small animal holding a book. At the bottom is the text '4pm on Thursday 25th September, Manchester Poetry Library.'

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 23d

Was an absolute pleasure working with this cohort of consummate professionals to bring wave twenty-three of @iambapoet.com to birth. I'm glad to have had the chance to publish their poems – many of which are first-publication exclusives.

Visit, read, listen, share. Because iamb is what you make it.

𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒃 ~ 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 @iambapoet.com · 23d

Autumn again. Trees put on their prettiest frocks, then get more naked day by day. Everything now is poetry – and it comes in waves. Leave the chilly air outside. Light a fire, make hot chocolate. Let senses and soul dive beneath @iambapoet.com's newest wave.

www.iambapoet.com/wave/23

poets | wave 23 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard

Read 45 poems from 15 emerging and established poets – and hear their authors read them too. Welcome to wave 23 of iamb.

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 24d

Wastelands events w London added! @guillemotpress.bsky.social
SEPT 25, Manchester Poetry Lib (no need to book)
OCT 25, London, Small Publ Fair (no need to book)
NOV 16, Oxford Blackwell's (free booking here eventbrite.co.uk/e/1668864280...
Book pre-orders: guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry/susie...

Poster, gold background with author's face and drawing of a beaver from book cover

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 24d

HURRAH!

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 27d

So looking forward to this! Tickets available now!

Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 27d

Tickets (free) booking now! Oxford launch of my debut collection Wastelands @guillemotpress.bsky.social + brilliant guest poet @drlauravarnam.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social +intro by Prof Kate McLoughlin. Blackwell's, Broad St. Oxford
Sun. Nov 16, 3pm

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1668864280...

Susie Campbell with Laura Varnam REWEAVING THE POEM

Professor Kate McLoughlin introduces an afternoon of poetry performance and conversation with Susie Campbell and Laura Varnam

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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 27d

Tickets (free) booking now! Oxford launch of my debut collection Wastelands @guillemotpress.bsky.social + brilliant guest poet @drlauravarnam.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social +intro by Prof Kate McLoughlin. Blackwell's, Broad St. Oxford
Sun. Nov 16, 3pm

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1668864280...

Susie Campbell with Laura Varnam REWEAVING THE POEM

Professor Kate McLoughlin introduces an afternoon of poetry performance and conversation with Susie Campbell and Laura Varnam

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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