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Teacher and poet. Words in @McNeeseReview @Atrium_Poetry @BathMagg @NimrodJournal Debut pamphlet WALRUSSEY now available from @theblackcatpp !

Leicester, UK

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Bex Hainsworth

6 months

My little book and its poems are now nominated for the Pushcart, Forward, and PEN Heaney Prize! Walrussey, my debut pamphlet of ecopoetry, is available from @theblackcatpp or DM me for a signed copy. (£10 via PayPal or bank transfer, I cover P&P and ship internationally!)

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

What I expect when I submit to a journal for a second time…

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Bex Hainsworth

8 months

Simon Armitage ❤️🍄

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

Marriage, the final frontier! Yesterday I married the love of my life and I’m honoured that I was able to share it with such wonderful people #BexandSamBoldlyGo 💛🥂

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Bex Hainsworth

8 months

So after much encouragement from friends, I finally sent a copy of Walrussey to David Attenborough - many poems were inspired by Blue Planet and I wanted to say thank you. Just received the loveliest letter in response and I have so many emotions! 😱

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Bex Hainsworth

11 months

Still in shock!! Just received word that a poem from Walrussey has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize! Thank you so much @theblackcatpp ! 🐙💙

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Emerging poet.

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2 years

OMG EVERYONE?!? One of the poems in this batch literally just got an acceptance from an awesome paying mag?? I'm happy crying! 😭

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Received quite disparaging comments on my poems in a rejection over the weekend. I thought these poems were my best - they've had tiered rejections from Poetry London and Banshee - but now I'm not so sure. Really doubting myself today ☹️

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

A week ago, I said 'I do'! My husband has read and helped me edit every single one of my poems. He has been there for every acceptance and every rejection. I couldn't ask for a better poetic cheerleader! 💙

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Received quite disparaging comments on my poems in a rejection over the weekend. I thought these poems were my best - they've had tiered rejections from Poetry London and Banshee - but now I'm not so sure. Really doubting myself today ☹️

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

I see your baby names and raise you: litmag names. If I started a litmag, it'd be called 'Deliberate Malingering'. What are your litmag names?

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Bex Hainsworth

7 months

Delighted to announce that my publisher @theblackcatpp has nominated my poem 'An Octopus Picks Litter at the End of the World' for the Forward Prize! I chose this poem to open Walrussey, my debut pamphlet of ecopoetry, and I've been blown away by the responses to it! 💙🐙

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Bex Hainsworth

11 months

Absolutely delighted to receive my first ever Pushcart Prize nomination from the wonderful @StormsJournal for my poem 'Outline'. What a way to start the week! ✨

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11 months

⚡️The 2nd of our 3 @PushcartPrize nominations ‘23 based on Issue II of The Storms journal of #poetry #prose and #visualart are ⚡️ @fionamkorourke ⚡️ @PoetBex ⚡️ @frede_kenter Download our Pushcart Prize noms ‘23 PDF at

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

I am ridiculously excited to reveal the cover of my debut pamphlet 'Walrussey', coming this autumn from @theblackcatpp ! Also beyond delighted to have my ecopoetry heroes @penelopeshuttle and @jessmkrjy providing blurbs 🌊

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Bex Hainsworth

9 months

My poem 'Pasiphaë', about the birth of the minotaur, is now up at the fabulous @havehadhavehad 💀

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

I run a creative writing club at my school and I'm going to deliver a session on concrete/visual poetry. Would love some examples from my poetry mutuals! ✍️❤️

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Bex Hainsworth

10 months

My retelling of the Daphne/Apollo myth is in the latest issue of Heavy Feather Review! 🌿 CW: Harassment

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Bex Hainsworth

3 years

My poem about Wally the walrus and his epic journey home is now up at the lovely Atrium! (Why is there no walrus emoji?!)

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

It's a surprise launch for #NationalPoetryDay ! I am beyond delighted to announce that my debut pamphlet, Walrussey, is now available to purchase from @theblackcatpp . Buy your copy here:

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Bex Hainsworth

9 months

Super excited to kick off my 2024 with acceptances from @OrcaLiterary and @HooghlyReview ✨

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Bex Hainsworth

8 months

That feeling when you see your poem in a dream pub!! My poem 'All houses are haunted by women' in Vol. 61 of @McNeeseReview 🏠

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

A rejection in 23 minutes. Well, that’s a new record.

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Bex Hainsworth

7 months

Totally fangirling over having a poem in the latest issue of One Hand Clapping ( @clapping_one ) alongside Carol Ann Duffy! You can read my poem 'Nocturne for a Closed Spiritualist Church', after the wonderful @JaneBurn14 , here:

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

#Poetry is a protest. Who’s got poems about all things reproductive? Please do send them my way. I want to read your words, your worries, your revels, your rage! ❤️

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Bex Hainsworth

9 months

Hello there @lozzawriting and @TopTweetTuesday ! I humbly offer my poem 'Early Morning Manatee', from Walrussey, my debut pamphlet of ecopoetry (which is now back in stock!)🦭 🌊

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Beyond thrilled to announce that I came runner-up in @Prolebooks ' Prole Laureate Poetry Competition! My poem, 'Requiem', will be published in Prole 34 and you can read it, along with the judge's comments, here:

COMPETITIONS | Prole, Poetry and Prose

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

My poor chapbook has really been racking up the rejections, but I've just found out it was a semifinalist in a major comp, so maybe there is hope for it yet!!

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Bex Hainsworth

7 months

Chuffed to be longlisted, along with so many wonderful poetry friends! ❤️🐕

@ButchersDogMag

Butcher's Dog Publishing

@ButchersDogMag

7 months

Everyone who sent us poems for issue 20 has now received a longlist update. If you've got a query, please send us a message via your Submittable inbox. Good luck!

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

🎶 I’m getting married in the morninggg 🎶

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

A Monday acceptance! Delighted to share that my poem 'Shoreline Abecedarian' will be published by the brilliant @NimrodJournal in 2024 🌊

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

My contributor copy of the wonderful @StormsJournal has arrived on a beautiful sunny day! Sitting out on my balcony and reading through all these amazing pieces ⛈️

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Absolutely stunned to have received a Submittable green in 90 minutes flat! Thank you so much @HeavyFeatherRev for selecting four of my poems for publication in your next print issue!

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

Absolutely thrilled to receive a Best of the Net nomination for my poem 'Anne Neville', published by @BrokenSpineArts ! You can read it here:

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#SelectedPoetry - August -

This batch of poetry features the work of some of the most talented poets in the writing community today.

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1 year

Exciting News! #BOTN 📖 @soopoftheday - "I Hate You" 📖 @RegineEbner - "Desert Streets" 📖 @PoetBex - "Anne Neville" 📖 @deuxiemepeau - "That Snarl Amongst the Goddesses" 📖 @jenlareine - "Sheltered" 📖 @Soozerama - "I've been wanting to write to you about the trampolines"

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Absolutely delighted to receive the loveliest acceptance from @madrigalpress ! My poem 'Barnacle' is going to be in their 'Metamorphosis' issue next month🐚

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

So I've only gone and got an acceptance from @trampset ! Absolutely buzzing! #dreampub

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

So excited to receive my first acceptance of December from @StormsJournal for their second issue! Thank you @deuxiemepeau for such a lovely email 🌩️💙

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

My last three brain cells trying to make sure I've followed all the guidelines before hitting 'submit'.

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Bex Hainsworth

3 years

Ridiculously excited to announce that one of my poems has been accepted for publication in Issue 10 of @the_ethelzine ! Such an amazing press, I am so honoured!✨

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Dared to submit above my station and just received a swift rejection telling me my work “isn’t suitable”. What does your inbox look like today?

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Bex Hainsworth

8 months

Them: Are you an emerging poet? Me:

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Delighted to receive an acceptance from the brilliant @Heroin_Chic_Mag for a very personal poem! I wrote it on Wednesday, submitted it last night, and had an email by this afternoon. Can’t recommend this fab mag enough!

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

Just finished an August 1st submitathon. Nine poetry submissions sent off! 🤞

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Ridiculously excited to announce that my debut pamphlet, a collection of ecopoetry, is going to be published by @theblackcatpp next year! 🐈‍⬛

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Twitter isn't allowed to go down before my debut pamphlet launches next year 😭 I've spent this year building a following of almost 5,000 literary peeps... Do I really have to start the hustle all over again on Instagram/Mastodon?

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Bex Hainsworth

9 months

Walrussey's second print run has landed!! You can purchase your copy from @theblackcatpp here: or DM me for a signed copy! (Happy to ship internationally) 🦭 🌊

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Bex Hainsworth

10 months

Honoured to have my first 💀 about the birth of the minotaur published over on @havehadhavehad today! 🐂

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@havehadhavehad

10 months

how about a little slice of 🔥 today, courtesy of @PoetBex ?!

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

Thrilled to receive an acceptance from @fullhouselit today! My poem ‘Ode’ will be published in their summer issue ☀️

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

I've been desperate to share this news all month, and now I can finally reveal that my poem, 'Coiled', is going to be in Issue 10 of @BathMagg along with all these amazing poets!! 🎉 Absolute dream acceptance right here! 🎉

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⭐️ Issue 10 ⭐️ launching August 27 will feature the likes of @chenchenwrites , @kim_addonizio , @CPhillipsPoet , @a_pirmohamed , @AMcMillanPoet , @IsabelleBaafi and many more! Roll on launch date 🚀🦆

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Delighted to receive an acceptance from the amazing @HonestUlsterman ! My poem, 'Pendle Hill', will be in their next issue 🍃

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Bex Hainsworth

11 months

This week's frosty weather has reminded me to post my poem 'Wool', recently published in Issue 9 of the fabulous @MagazineSpelt 🐏 ❄️

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

Had to return to ‘The engineer’ by Jemma Borg. Absolutely haunting.

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Submitathon completed! 📨

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Bex Hainsworth

11 months

Super excited to receive my first ever skull from @havehadhavehad 💀 My poem 'Pasiphaë', about the birth of the minotaur, was accepted as part of their 'Senses' call-out! Thank you so much @lexicola 💀

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

ICYMI: My poem 'Requiem' came runner-up in the Prole Laureate Poetry Competition ( @Prolebooks ). You can read the other winning poems and wonderful judge's comments here:

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Thank you so much to these amazing mags and journals who were kind enough to publish my poetry this month! 🦊 @FragmentedVoic1 ⛵️ @boatsagainstmag 💜 @violetetc 🐶 @mosspuppymag ✨ @celestitepoetry 🐴 @okaydonkeymag (scandalised there isn't a donkey emoji!)

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

To celebrate a day of adulting, I bought myself this sloth because it is soft and has a nice face. Now taking name suggestions! (Maybe something literary...?)

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

After a rather brutal streak of rejections, feeling ridiculously excited to have received acceptances from the magical @spellbindermag and @indigolit_ ! ✨

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

So pleased with this poetry haul for my birthday! Can't wait to dive in @blackboughpoems @JaneBurn14 @Elaine__Beckett #TaniaHershman @NineArchesPress 🎉❤️

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

It's me! Honoured to be this week's featured poet at the wonderful @OlneyMagazine with two new mythical marine poems! 🐳

@OlneyMagazine

Olney Magazine 💛

2 years

This week's #FeaturedPoet @PoetBex has two excellent poems with us, which will be spotlighted on our homepage for the next 7 days! "Valley of the Whales" "Thetis" Read, share, and follow Bex! 💛

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

Delighted to have a poem in the new issue of @TypehouseLitMag ! This is the poem which opens my debut pamphlet 'Walrussey', published this autumn by @theblackcatpp 🐙🌊

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Pleased to announce that a name has been decided! Twitter, meet Edgar Allan Slow 🦥

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

To celebrate a day of adulting, I bought myself this sloth because it is soft and has a nice face. Now taking name suggestions! (Maybe something literary...?)

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

This autumn I have been very fortunate to see my work in print in some wonderful publications, culminating in the release of Walrussey, my debut pamphlet! Huge thanks to @AothenMagazine @MagazineSpelt @SidhePress @Prolebooks @tideriseslit @VictorinaPress @theblackcatpp 💙

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Delighted to receive an acceptance from the lovely @DustmagPoetry for their upcoming ninth issue! ❤️

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

My poem 'Permian' (a confessional about my final week at university) is now up at the fantastic @berlinlit alongside some gorgeous work! You can check it out here:

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Permian - berlin lit

In my final week at university,after four years of grey shower cubicles,I discover a bathtub on the second floorof the dormitory. Moving slowly in the thick, equatorial air,I sink into a volcanic...

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Issue two online now!

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

Beyond excited to receive an acceptance from @OxonianReview , a dream pub edited by graduate members of the University of Oxford!

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

Does anyone else's stomach do a little flip when you see a themed submission call and think 'omg I have poems for that'?! #poetry #WritingCommmunity

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

Walrussey, my debut pamphlet from @theblackcatpp , is a collection of poems about the climate crisis and its effect on our marine ecosystems. It features poetry first published in @okaydonkeymag @Atrium_Poetry @IcefloeP and @fahmidanjournal 💙🌊

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Delighted to receive my first acceptance of March from the wonderful @HyacinthReview for their heritage/inheritance open call!

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Honoured to have my poem, 'Ichthyosaur Fossil at the Natural History Museum', published in the latest issue of the wonderful @fahmidanjournal 🐟 CW: Pregnancy, animal death.

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Due to a bout of Covid, I actually have the time to post my first @TopTweetTuesday ! Thank you @Ammonites_Stars and @blackboughpoems for hosting. I humbly present this tiny poem from my pre-2010 vault ✋

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Thrilled to have made the #poetry longlist for the next issue of the wonderful @NorthGravy ! 🎉

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

Delighted to receive an acceptance from the lovely @SidhePress for their 'Glisk and Glimmer' anthology! Can't wait to see my poem 'We leave each other moons' in print alongside many wonderful writers 🌖🌗🌘

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

Hello there @MatthewMCSmith and @TopTweetTuesday ! I'd like to offer my poem 'Bucca', about a coastal creature of Cornish folklore, from Walrussey, my debut pamphlet of ecopoetry - now available from @theblackcatpp 🌊

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Bex Hainsworth

3 years

Woke up this morning to an acceptance from @boatsagainstmag . They'll be publishing 'Lobsters', one of my favourite poems, in May. An absolutely wonderful start to my week! 🦞🦞🦞

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

We lost little Dax last night. He passed away peacefully in his sleep, warm and cosy in the nest his dad made for him ❤️🐹 We adopted him from a local rescue and are so glad we were able to give him over a year of love and treats and cuddles!

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

I have a poem in this effervescent anthology!! Can't wait to read all these glittering pieces 💡✨

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SÍDHE PRESS

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#CoverReveal ! #GliskAndGlimmer , our new anthology, is out September 8 @Ammonites_Stars

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GIVEAWAY ALERT! 🎉 Walrussey, my debut pamphlet of ecopoetry, is three weeks old today and to celebrate, Wally is willing to part with THREE signed copies - free to a good home! Please DM me to get a hold of yours! 💙🌊 🐳

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Dead chuffed to be longlisted for the next issue of the wonderful @ButchersDogMag ! Their lovely email has absolutely made my Tuesday! 😊

@ButchersDogMag

Butcher's Dog Publishing

@ButchersDogMag

2 years

Outcome emails for our Spring issue are in your inboxes now. From here, co-editors Degna Stone and Jo Clement will whittle the longlist down to the 24-25 poems we'll print in our canny bi-annual journal. Take heart, folks: we received over two thousand eight hundred poems! 🐾

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Wrote a poem this week that I'm proud of and sent it off to a dream journal. It's been sitting in my drafting notebook for almost a year - I was so nervous it was going to turn out rubbish - so I'm very pleased it now exists and is out in the world!

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2 years

ICYMI: My poem 'Communion' in Issue #9 of the superb @delicatelit 💜💙

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1 year

It's my birthday today! 🎉 I'm so happy my birthday has coincided with the release of Walrussey, my debut pamphlet, so now my little book and I can always celebrate together! You can order your copy from @theblackcatpp here:

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Have returned home to North Yorkshire for half-term and spent the morning with Outlandish by @_dodo . Each poem demands a second reading and makes me want to write and write and write! ❤️

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2 years

Look what arrived in the post today! Can't wait to get stuck into 'Temporary Stasis' by the wonderful @lucy_holme ( @brokensleep ) ⚓️

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Hello there, @eaturlettuce and @blackboughpoems ! Super excited to be posting my second ever @TopTweetTuesday . Here is 'Three Minisons for Ceto', first published in the wonderful @MinisonProject 🌊💙

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I've been so humbled by the response to this poem in the wonderful @delicatelit ! This issue is phenomenal and I'm so honoured to be a part of it! 💙💜

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Delicate Friend Issue #11 OUT NOW!

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Amidst all of the discomfiting challenges that come with early romance, @PoetBex 's "Communion" offers us a simple moment of solace to follow us into the chillier months. Find it in full here, alongside the stunning work of 10 other creatives:

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

Beyond delighted to receive my first ever Best of the Net nomination from the lovely @gastropodamag for my poem about semi-colons, which you can read here:

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A flower with a single petal, plucked:he loves me not. Sideways glance,pursing of lips, progeny of silence. The insides of a button. Smudged paintwork on dice and Babushka dolls. Wall-scars from a...

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Hi! We’re thrilled to announce our Best of the Net nominations for this year!

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Absolutely loving 'Wilder' by @jemma_borg ( @PavilionPoetry ). Stunning poetry exploring the natural world and our place in it - especially love 'Les Pyramides de Port-Coton, Rough Sea' and 'Marsh thistle'!

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Currently reading one of my many poetic Christmas presents: 'Gravity' by the amazing @LynneSchmidt . These poems are raw, relatable, and electrifying! An absolutely stunning collection 🪐✨

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Bex Hainsworth

10 months

My poem 'Early Morning Manatee' from Walrussey, my debut pamphlet of oceanic odes! 🌊 There are only a handful of copies left, so scoop yours up from @theblackcatpp here:

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

the poet / the poem My poem 'Walrussey' (first published in the lovely @Atrium_Poetry ) has given its name to my debut pamphlet, now available to purchase from @theblackcatpp :

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

Just finished painting my nails an oceanic blue, ready for tonight's SOLD OUT launch! 🌊 *Essie has not endorsed this product placement.

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Bex Hainsworth

7 months

Absolutely loving (m)othersongs by @PoetSarahDoyle . So many beautifully phrased poems which make me go, "I wish I'd written that!" ❤️

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Very pleased to announce that my poem 'Circulaire' has been accepted by @press_roi for their upcoming Dinosaur issue! 🦕

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

My poem about Thetis (nymph and mother of Achilles) is now up at the super @OlneyMagazine where I am this week's Featured Poet!

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

So honoured that my poem, 'Communion', is part of this amazing issue! 💙💜

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Delicate Friend Issue #11 OUT NOW!

2 years

Delicate Friend Issue #9 : STATIC, considers the inherent pressure of inertia. Fluid suspended in midair. Love frozen in time. Memories thrown into sharp relief beneath shifting electric lights. Take in the work of these 11 incredible creatives:

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Woke up in the middle of the night, groggily checked my phone, thought I'd found a rejection. Discovered this morning that it was actually an acceptance from the absolutely amazing @okaydonkeymag for my poem 'Whale Fall'! 🐳

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Bex Hainsworth

7 months

My poem 'Witness' was highly commended in @Passionfruitlit 's Being in Bodies Competition! You can read it, along with a whole bunch of fabulous poems, by clicking the link below ❤️

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7 months

Our 'Being in Bodies' themed issue is now live! You can (and should! It's full of incredible poems) read it here:

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Bex Hainsworth

1 year

My poem 'Ode' is in the fantastic Summer 2023 issue of @fullhouselit ! You can read the full issue here:

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Bex Hainsworth

11 months

I've been blown away by the response to this tweet! ❤️ If you liked this oceanic ode, there are 27 more in Walrussey, my debut pamphlet of ecopoetry, now available to purchase from @theblackcatpp :

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Bex Hainsworth

11 months

Still in shock!! Just received word that a poem from Walrussey has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize! Thank you so much @theblackcatpp ! 🐙💙

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

Honoured to have my poem 'Lump' featured in the fabulous new issue of @DustmagPoetry . This is a very personal poem about my recent cancer scare and I'm so glad it's found such a wonderful home. You can read it here:

Lump by Bex Hainsworth

Lump I found it whilst showering. Soapy fingers stalled over an unexpected hump. Wrapped in a towel,I sent a photo to my doctor friend in New Zealand. Kept quiet for all of two hours, then asked you...

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Bex Hainsworth

2 years

My poem 'Barnacle' in @madrigalpress . Honoured to be a part of the phenomenal Metamorphosis issue!

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