the happiest day of my life
my first collection is out in the world / available from
@brokensleep
a thousand thank you's to everyone who has helped me on this journey / one love
charlie 💚
Hello everyone, things
@brokensleep
will be delayed for a while.Aaron was rushed to Cardiff hospital yesterday with a bleed on the brain. He's stable and responding to commands. He's very confused but knows who he is. Please send healing thoughts to Aaron
@GodzillaKent
. Thank you
my debut collection of poems 'a fondness for the colour green' has been out for a month
would you like to win a copy ? i'm giving away not one not two but six signed copies
simply like & retweet to enter before the end of august
thx for your support / big love 💚 💚 💚
my first collection 'a fondness for the colour green' is available for pre-order 🍏🌲🟢
immense gratitude to my mentor
@dradny
& to mark waldron,
@EllaFrears
,
@JadeCuttle
& tim murphy for editing
finally, a big hug to
@GodzillaKent
for everything 💚 📗
would you like a fantastic selection of new eco poetry?!?
am giving away a copy of
@GodzillaKent
& my anthology
pls like & RT to enter before the end of July
entries open everywhere on planet earth 🌍🌎🌏
over the 🌜to announce my new poetry pamphlet 'Santa Lucía' will be published in late may/early june 2021 by
@invisiblehandpress
. mad love to editor
@j_r_appleyard
& to everyone who has supported my work so far!
👇 sneak preview of words/mood 👇
it's been a lot of fun writing and editing my first collection 'a fondness for the colour green'
some fantastic poets & people have helped me put it all together 🥰🍃💫
thank you
@dradny
@EllaFrears
mark waldron jade cuttle & tim murphy 🌿
hello everyone, my latest news on
@GodzillaKent
from his wife emma, is he is still stable and waiting on the results of a test. let's all hope he has a safe night and for some positive developments over the coming days.
thanks for all the messages, your support is incredible 💙
Merry Christmas everyone!
i'm giving away a bundle of my pamphlets 🎅
to enter simply engage with this tweet (like, RT, comment whatever) before the 29th December
Entries open worldwide 🌍🌎🌏
Aaron has been making some positive steps over the past few days, using his phone to show doctors pictures of his children and briefly facetiming with his wife Emma. Let's hope the green shoots of recovery continue. Thanks for all your support, it's been super.
i'm giving away two copies of my new
@invisiblehand_p
pamphlet...simply like and rt this tweet for a chance to win. entries welcome from around the world 🌎🌍 🌎
Thank you to the extraordinary number of people who've shown kindness to Anthropocene in its first year. I'm looking forward to many more birthdays! 🌿🍃🍀
Thanks for all your supportive comments - so many, just shows how valued Aaron is in the poetry community.
I'll keep you updated with any developments, fingers crossed positive ones 🤞
loved working together with my good friend
@GodzillaKent
on this anthology of new eco poetry 🌳
the cover is a photo of the underside of a mushroom - taken by
@350Emma
🍄
hope you agree it's a thing of beauty
PREORDER:
Footprints: an anthology of new ecopoetry
Released 30th June, 2022 // 178 pages
FOR EVERY BOOK SOLD WE WILL PLANT ONE TREE THROUGH (more:trees)
@moretreeshq
What sets new ecopoetry apart is that it is written on the edge of a precipice.
cover reveal
designed & edited by the unstoppable
@GodzillaKent
fifty years ahead of schedule
broken sleep books 2072 anthology
hope you'll be there ✌️
i'm starting a weekly email for
@anthro_poetry
so if you're interested in why i chose to publisher a poem or if you want to be reminded new poems are up...pls subscribe
i'm kind of making it up as i go along so any ideas for what to include are welcome💙🌊💙
love to you all 💓
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"...the film ends & another film begins /
but it is the same film /
wrapped up in the rhetorical walls we walk through..."
'madonna', a poem by
@charliebaylis6
, now up on Wild Court here:
🌸 over the moon to be shortlisted for best reviewer. came out of the blue (i did nothing in the way of canvasing) but thank you everyone who voted (for me or otherwise). proud to be there & my love to emma lee, sam smith and juliette van der molen 🌸
thrilled to be a minnow in a pool of sharks
this will be my first ever published translation !
it goes from Spanish to English & I'm translating Benjamin Prado 🐺
a pleasure to have a poem in one of my favourite magazines 🍍🌊☕
thank you to the editor
@chrissywilliams
and to
@JamesRoome
for his helpful suggestions
take a look 👇
i'm reading
@brokensleep
this thursday...hope to see you there
i'm going to bring out a special guest..a clue - she's a cancer🦀
thrilled to be reading w this absolute gang
@byadrija
@fuscowriting
@KernowFiction
cliff forshaw & julia rose lewis 🍭🍾⭐️
i'm really happy about this.... a testament to aaron's hard work & dedication 🐯
thank you to everyone who voted & all the other wonderful presses nominated ☘️🍏🌱
my sylvia plath poem 'chalcot square' is now free to read on
@TheLondonMag
do take a look - it took so many f*cking rewrites
thank you to lucy for picking it out 🔵💙🔵
Our free reads this month include
@charliebaylis6
’s ‘chalcot square’, a poem that turns our eyes to the blue plaque:
words appear
on the walls
great lakes strung from her fingers
builders vomiting multicoloured glitter over gravel
Read in full online:
good news - my
@brokensleep
1st collection is now available for the price of sending a single poem to a completely unknown poetry competition
treat yourself!
i've 2 new poems up on
@NewWritingNet
today...
from my first poetry collection a fondness for the colour green 🍏☘️🍃
i'd like to take a moment to express solidarity with the uea staff so cruelly made redundant recently 🫶
thank you to andreea iulia scridon for her intelligent review & to editor
@JamiePCameron
for dealing the cards to the right hands 🃏
@TheLondonMag
have been very supportive of my writing over the years...hope to see you guys at the next party 💚🍏🍸
great article in poetry wales
actually every poem i've sent out in 2023 has been rejected so far 😑 ... but will keep trying 🥳
fingers crossed for your poems too 🤞
#HowIWriteAPoem
will be taking a hiatus this month while we share our
#OvercomingRejection
series
In Part One, we're dealing with the emotional impact of rejection & releasing it
Quote
@theeabsentee
🔗
💬 Share your best tips for releasing rejection
Here it is! We’re super excited to share the cover of Santa Lucia, the wonderful new pamphlet by
@charliebaylis6
We cannot wait to get this out there!
Launch details coming soon!
💪💚❤️💪
poetry friends, please send me your favorite small press poems below...will print of the coolest ones and stick them in my super unofficial small press poetry diary of 2022
New poem video. 'Daisy Miller' from my
@brokensleep
pamphlet Drag City. Filmed with my good friends
@otto_video
.
Directed by
@macgarrity
Cinematography [+starring]
@fatosholgacher
Music by Madison Willing.
It's less than a minute long. Take a peek.🧿👇
Announcing the BROKEN SLEEP BOOKS EXTRAVAGANZA!
Featuring almost 90 Broken Sleep authors reading a poem or an extract they have recorded from their Broken Sleep release, in advance of the end of our crowdfunder on April 15th.
Tickets are Pay What You Want.
1/3
i would like to invite you to my reading with friends
@jasgraywrites
&
@JackBarkerClark
hosted by
@liamhbishop
7 pm hyde park book club, leeds - 27th of july - £3
tickets & info :
hope to see you there 🍏🌷🍃
come join me to launch 'santa lucía' from
@invisiblehand_p
on 26/6 7.30 pm (uk time)
reading alongside will be mark waldron and
@poppypersonism
hosted by
@j_r_appleyard
tickets are free - you'd be a fool to miss out! 🔴🟢🔴
i'm reading tomorrow night in leeds from my first collection 'a fondess for the colour green' with fellow trouble-makers
@jasgraywrites
,
@JackBarkerClark
hosted by
@liamhbishop
🍃🌱🍀
hope to see you there 👇
I'm absolutely buzzing to share this news...
This mentally ill, working-class gal is a
@PoetrySociety
National Poetry Competition 2021 commended winner!! 🙌
My poem 'When I First Bled' was chosen from 16700+ poems by 7000+ poets from 100 countries 🤯
a new poem up in
@berlinlit
💫🦜🌲
dedicated to my friend
@tru_romank
& borrowing a phrase from her poem in the same issue 🍸
danke to the editors!
and shout out to fellow
@invisiblehand_p
label mate
@quinoa_cowboy
👋
who had work in the same issue
Want to go swimming? I've got 9 author copies of my
@theredceilings
pamphlet left. If you'd like a copy just send me enough to cover p&p (say £3) and I'll post you one...🌊💙🏊
would you like to write about my
@brokensleep
1st poetry collection ?
for a review copy of 'a fondess for a colour green' reach out to the lovely stuart mcpherson
@theeabsentee
stuart
@brokensleepbooks
.com 🐙
help me twitter!
i'm looking for some poems about a telephone box in the middle of the desert ... the ringtone is the aria from madam butterfly ...when it rings a thousand pink and blue butterflies explode from the telephone box into the sky ?
a very worrying attitude. the first point says to me that this person sees names they don't recognise and dismisses them out of hand as 'very newly emergent'. infuriating. 🤬
a lot of care goes into choosing broken sleep books!
THREAD:
Was awarded a small grant for an upcoming book yesterday, but one of the panel had 2 issues with Broken Sleep Books:
1. Many writers seem to be 'very newly emergent.'
2. The variety of genre displayed indicates a lack of aesthetic direction.
come & see me read a few poems from my
@brokensleep
collection 'a fondness for the colour green'
@Cheltpoetfest
🦚💚🌳
reading w/ the most excellent
@warwick_nicola
+ open mic + charming host
@AnnaSaund1
🌞
September 11th 7pm...link for tickets 👇
andrew is my mentor & i learnt a lot from him 🌱
we'll be working together again if / when the time comes to do a second collection
nice see my book out in the world! 🌳☘️🍃
Very pleased to receive my copy of
@charliebaylis6
’s debut collection published by
@brokensleep
. I had the pleasure of working closely with Charlie on the book and he describes me as the ‘Martin Hannett figure’ behind it. I’ll take that. Buy it.
Actually went and won Publisher of the Year at the
#michaelmarksawards
- I'm genuinely stunned.
A wonderful way to end the year after the toughest few months of my life.
I love each and every one of you.
The new rules and the continued coronavirus pandemic might affect the way many of us live our lives, and it's normal that this can impact people's mental health.
Our volunteers continue to be here if you need to talk about how you're feeling 📱 116 123 ✉️ jo
@samaritans
.org 💚
i'm reading tonight in nottingham from my
@brokensleep
collection 'a fondness for the colour green'
8pm @ the organ grinder free entry
would be lovely to see you there 💚🦚🫑
We're running a series of Zoom readings, showcasing Broken Sleep authors past, present, and future. So far we've got readings from a selection of authors from 2018 and 2019 lined up. Grab your tickets while they're still available!
The Plum Review has an abosulty stella line up 🪶🫒
+ small contribution from me, writing in a little pissed off as was on holiday trying to get away from things
looking back am grateful to
@GodzillaKent
for the chance because chances are not infinite😎
PREORDER (10.12.22):
The Broken Sleep Books Anthology showcases the best writing from the press in 2022, featuring extracts from every publication, covering poetry, non-fiction and short fiction.