poet: fourteen poems (issue 13) | Impossible Archetype (issue 16) | Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal (issue 11) | co-founder of Queer Poetry Collective

London, England
Joined February 2009
James Merrill began this beautiful poem in December 1994 and completed it in a hospital bed in February 1995, shortly before he died from an AIDS-related illness. It appeared in Poetry magazine later the same year.
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Our Stanza group The Queer Poetry Collective's next event looks exciting!
The Queer Poetry Collective is BACK with another @TheCommonPress event! All proceeds go to keeping this space alive💃🏻✨🍂 Following the amazing Shanay Neusum-James and @p_scalpello, we have our first open mic! Excited for this one, reg link below 👇 outsavvy.com/event/23625/que…
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The Queer Poetry Collective is BACK with another @TheCommonPress event! All proceeds go to keeping this space alive💃🏻✨🍂 Following the amazing Shanay Neusum-James and @p_scalpello, we have our first open mic! Excited for this one, reg link below 👇 outsavvy.com/event/23625/que…
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Rich Ware retweeted
'Need it be that serious? Yes, / he said, the waves moaning how they’re / moon-trained all year regardless of season' 'Coast' by Oluwaseun Olayiwola (@itsamule) the-tls.co.uk/literature/ori…
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Join our newest Stanza group, the Queer Poetry Collective, for their first event in East London next week, a fundraiser for @TheCommonPress! What a line-up!
Unreal to announce the Queer Poetry Collective, an initiative @warer and I have launched under @PoetrySociety to bring together #QueerPoetsForQueerCauses Our first event is @TheCommonPress fundraiser on 16 Oct with some truly beautiful voices ❤️ Join us: outsavvy.com/event/22859/que…
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‘This year I turned my back on the world’ - massive congratulations to @VChangPoet for winning the @ForwardPrizes for best collection (and all the other bloody brilliant shortlisted poets.) Just look at these line-breaks omg
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Unreal to announce the Queer Poetry Collective, an initiative @warer and I have launched under @PoetrySociety to bring together #QueerPoetsForQueerCauses Our first event is @TheCommonPress fundraiser on 16 Oct with some truly beautiful voices ❤️ Join us: outsavvy.com/event/22859/que…
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I'm writing today about kennings in Old English. Essentially these are two word-metaphors that were used instead of concrete nouns, and they are exquisite. A ship was a 'wave-horse', the sea was a 'whale-road', the mind was a 'thought-chamber', and the sun was a 'sky-candle'.
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This is what in Japanese is known as ‘tsundoku’: buying book after book to add to a pile you will never get to.
My cartoon for the @GuardianBooks autumn reading special.
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Get ready for our biggest night of the year 🎉 Next month, Out-Spoken moves to the Queen Elizabeth Hall for #LondonLiteratureFestival. 🎟️ Tickets buff.ly/3Tujrm9 📅 24 October 🕝 7.45pm 📍Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre 🧏 BSL interpreted
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There are now 278 of the BTC episodes up at the new YouTube Channel & 12 suggested playlists to explore the archives through. From the Grammar of Black & Indigenous Futurities to Art-Making in the Anthropocene to the Legends of Sci-Fi & Fantasy youtube.com/@BetweentheCover… @Tin_House
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Sex is great but have you ever read a Carl Phillips poem aloud to yourself in a quiet tone?
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Gays after one (1) mild inconvenience
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Islington Stanza had a fab time reading at @PoetrySociety Stanza Bonanza last night! Thank you to @RawaneeCreative for hosting us✨✨✨
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Carl Phillips, the poet that you are 💜💜
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We can't lose another queer space in London! Help us save the Common Press by donating at the link below. Led by BIPOC, trans folks, and queer women, we have been ranked as one of London’s top 10 independent bookshops by @thebookseller 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🔥 crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the…
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COMMUNITY QUEER BOOKSHOP, let's go! The amazing @TheCommonPress needs us to invest so it can survive and thrive. Authors, readers, lovers, latte slurpers, unite! crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the…
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This is better than any speech from a politician we’ve heard recently 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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ICYMI Propel Issue 12, edited by Tishani Doshi, is OUT NOW With 20 new poems by poets yet to publish a first full collection, you can read and listen to the issue here: propelmagazine.co.uk/twelve
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