Cherry Potts

Here’s where I was published in 2025: I Can’t Even Think Straight (UK/Commonwealth and North America). Person Unlimited (UK/Commonwealth paperback), Joy and Becoming (Poetry Pharmacy anthologies), Aftershock Review (Issue 2), ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas (audio anthology), and Refuse to Be Quiet: An Anthology by the First Story Group at Platanos College (edited by me). Thanks to everyone who has been part of my publishing journey this year!

Lovely to see Audiobook in a Card stocked in the @royalacademyarts Seeing ’Twas The Night Before Christmas on display feels particularly special — it was a joy to create alongside so many wonderful poets, and edited with care by @willhdady and @cherry_potts_writer Thank you to everyone involved — and to the Royal Academy for supporting independent publishing and creative storytelling. Now available in-store at the Royal Academy of Arts Gift Shop. #audiobookinacard #independentpubishing #giftideas #royalacademyofarts

Please join us for the free online launch of @spiraclehq Audiobook anthology ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, edited by @cherry_potts_writer and @willhdady . I have two poems included, alongside an impressive array of winter poems past and present. Details on how to book your free place above #audiobooks #anthology #onlinelaunch #poetrycommunity #poetry #poetrylovers #poems #winter #winterpoems

It was a joy to hop on a jolly zoom in a heatwave-baked park with @spiraclehq and @cherry_potts_writer late summer – and a slight surprise to be asked to curate an audiobook of Christmas poems. A few months of careful crafting later, as the clocks go back and the mercury drops, these glorious samples land on my doorstep. If you don’t know Spiracle’s groundbreaking @audiobookinacard scheme, allow us to introduce you. They’re found a way of taking audio from the Mars-bound billionaire’s techsphere, and returned it, beautifully packaged and curated, to bookshops. So roll up, headphones on, and allow Cherry and I to introduce you to this joyous collection… 🎄🔔 “We have found a cornucopia of poems old and new, far wider than traditionally read, both in terms of the obvious poems that spring to mind and in the sense of what people tend to mean by ‘Christmas’. We were delighted to find many soulful, sometimes cheeky, often deeply community-focused ways of celebrating the winter dark and return of light, which we hope can breathe life into anyone’s winter festivities. Donkeys and wise men? Sure, but not as you know them, and so too the wayward band of Christmas temps. Father Christmas gets a look in, of course, together with his dark twin, Krampus”. /audiobooks/twas-the-night-before-christmas

I’m very happy to announce that submissions are open for UP//ROAR: Poems of Queer Resistance, which will be published next year by @arachnepress . I’ll be co-editing with @cherry_potts_writer . Following the success of JOY//US: Poems of Queer Joy, we decided that as the world has taken a dramatic turn for the worse for many LGBTQ+ people, then queer creative poetic resistance was needed! That can be whatever it means to you (apart from violence and hate - we don’t do that). Coming out as Queer Resistance! Living bold as Queer Resistance! Pushing back as Queer Resistance! Shouting out as Queer Resistance! Showing up as Queer Resistance! Knowing history as Queer Resistance! Doing the work as Queer Resistance! Politics as Queer Resistance! Creativity as Queer Resistance! The printed book as Queer Resistance! The exclamation mark as Queer Resistance! Now is the time for Queer Resistance! Submitting your poetry to UP//ROAR is Queer Resistance! The call out is live and submissions close 1st November (UK/RoI only, LGBTQ+ poets only). Link in bio! Big thanks to frank duffy for letting use this image until the final cover design is finished! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrysubmissions #lgbtq #lgbtqpoetry

A small opinion piece in #poetrynews on why I don't publish #naturepoetry except for when I do... which is usually, but not exclusively #Ecopoetry. Afonydd is a good example of this, using rivers to carry memory and myth, anger and hope, through the medium of flooding, pollution, swimming and fish, amongst many others in a #bilingual journey around #Wales #Cymru

Launch of #afonydd poems for Welsh rivers with @arachnepress @cardiffunilib @cherry_potts_writer @sara_huws Da iawn, pawb!

2025 Brockley Max post (details of 2026 events coming soon 👀) To celebrate 🎉 the first public showing of my new book covers I'll be giving away three copies of the Rockstar Ending series prequel, For Those About to Rock, at Brockley Station this morning. Also performing a short story alongside my friend and fellow writer @neil.lawrence.7399 Everything will have a unique Brockley-themed twist. Come along and start your Sunday with a little lighthearted local culture, and grab a ☕ to enjoy in the 🌞 And if you can't make this morning we'll also be joining the hugely talented Writers of Our Age tonight, 6.30pm at The Brookmill with stores about local wisdom + open mic. See you soon! Links in bio to for more details...

The next #TigerBayPoetry will feature #WBOY nominee @rhianelizabeth_poet along with readings from the new #afonydd anthology, out from @arachnepress on 29 May. Confirmed poets so far include @tazphotopoetry @feetpetiteperson @withaneerhys @mat.troy.writes and others. Open mic as always, £3 at the door. See you all at Chapter on 26 June! @llencymru_litwales @poetrywales @brokensleepbooks @cherry_potts_writer

I returned home from the Free Verse Poetry Book & Magazine Fair with a big smile and a tote bag packed with goodies. I can't wait to do it all again next year!

How about a poem to brighten up a grey Monday morning? 🌈 Here's @cherry_potts_writer from @arachnepress , reading her poem "Great Queen Street" from the anthology "Joy//Us Poems of Queer Joy". We were thrilled to catch Cherry at the @indiepressnetwork Inaugural Salon hosted at @keatshousemuseum over the weekend. To listen to more by Arachne press, head to our website where you can find many wonderful stories and poems from the brightest voices in independent publishing. . . . . #arachnepress #keatshouse #poetry #queerpoetry #queerjoy #poetryreading #independentpublishing #indiepress

It's also #internationdayofactionforrivers . Here's the river #taff at #Pontypridd . Look out for #Afonydd #poetry #anthology coming soon from @arachnepress #rivers #environment #wales