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poet & facilitator 💥 ruled by mars & glucose🩸 🟠 APRICOT 🧡 @out_spoken_press 📙 📌BEDS
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!!!!! here is a totally surreal day where i went to southwark cathedral to accept an Eric Gregory Award !!!!! truly truly the stuff of dreams. i am sooo grateful to the judges and to @thesocietyofauthors for this meaningful recognition of my work so far, and material support for its continuation. was a joy to share in this celebration of writing and determination alongside my fellow winners💥 endless thank yous to everybody who has refused to let me lose faith in myself and my poems - in all the big and small ways over the years. i will be reeling for a while 🥹🌟🍾💭⛪️🎩✍️🤯💌🫶🫀🫨😭🧡 (the Nicer pics here are thanks to Adrian Pope / Society of Authors 📸🤵)
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10 months ago
SO proud to receive a commendation in the National Poetry Competition (‼️) for my poem Sertraline Fever 🔥 this poem looks back to an episode of hypomania (brought on by a few intersecting factors, like too much sertraline lol). where, in depression, everything had felt meaningless – this was the opposite. i sought pattern and meaning everywhere, and became particularly fixated with the colour orange. it’s taken a while to develop the perspective and poetics to write about this bizarre time. im so thankful that this work has found appreciation in the competition, alongside some fierce poems. massive congrats to all the winners. and huge thanks to @thepoetrysociety & the judges, as well as everyone sending kind words. here are some pics, including a few i found in my camera roll from back then 🧡🍑🍊🐅☢️🐈🥵
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2 years ago
so….. copies of apricot are beginning to find their way out into the world!!! this feels so huge!! this book was written during such an intense and precarious time in my life. this work was both reliant on and vital to my recovery, and it is my best way of articulating so many experiences and feelings. it is so fulfilling (albeit surreal!!) to see it in the hands of people i love. i couldn’t have asked for better than @out_spoken_press & @waynehollowaysmith for my debut collection and i am so proud of the book we’ve put together 🧡 extremely grateful to everyone picking it up and spending time with these poems too. my heart is so full 🟠🥹📙💥🍂
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3 years ago
🪩FESTIVAL ANNOUNCEMENT🪩 We are thrilled to announce: Poems Between Persons with @rainbowbedfordshire Bedfordshire in the Bar 🌈 “the poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages” • Frank O’Hara, Personism, 1959 Join the Rainbow Bedfordshire Writing Group in this interactive and collaborative writing workshop where we will consume, discuss and construct poetry together ✨ Welcoming writers of any experience (and none at all), this workshop explores poetry’s real-world potential to spark reflection, expression and connection within our communities. You can expect: highlighters, post-its, play, curiosity, kindness, kinship and naturally… poems 💛 There will be a range of ways to engage and contribute, with no ‘correct’ way to approach the session…only what you might take from it. This workshop takes place on Thursday 23rd July in The Bar at 15:30PM - 16:30PM AGE RANGE: 16+ BSL Interpretation Led by @opraykt @orkitecht85 @rainbowbedfordshire Image Design credit: Jay Worthington! Image description: an illustration showing many different people sat writing at a table in a cartoon style. The words Poetry Writing with Rainbow Bedfordshire alongside the charity logo. #poetry #community #inclusivefestival
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8 days ago
just a bit of april foolery 🤡❤️‍🔥🗯️🫪🤠🤒🃏
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12 days ago
still processing march actually ⛔️⚠️🔆📊💢*️⃣⛔️
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1 month ago
a feb feat : birthday chaos + kindnesses ❗️; unbinaried hitting the shelves at @eaglebookshop 📖💖; LGBTQ+ history month at @thehigginsbedford 💪🏳️‍🌈; doodles, blossom, karaoke + other signs of encouragement; eyepatch couture 🏴‍☠️🕶️; little bradley walsh 🤵‍♂️
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2 months ago
i got to spend a week of february hiding away on residency in the lake district , and tried to capture the magic as best i could lol 🗻🥹 we got the full works .. sheep, horses, red deer, power cut, snowy fells, road closed by landslip, creative crash out and rebirth 👹 it was such a precious invitation (/challenge) to slow down and stretch out my thoughts❗️ something i was craving more than i knew ☁️ for my 27th bday, i broke in my first pair of adult wellies, learned how to light a log burner and was compelled to dig out this millennial optimism banger 🎧 thank you so much to @thesocietyofauthors for putting me here 🌟might have to be a new fixture in my practice 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️
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3 months ago
UNBINARIED 2025🏳️‍⚧️ Curated anthology book created by Rainbow Bedfordshire. Released annually on Trans Day Of Remembrance 20th November 🏳️‍⚧️ ✨How do I find myself 2025 copy? You can buy at @eaglebookshop Contact directly: [email protected] Or [email protected] Your purchases fund the next publication. ✨Can I be involved for 2026? YES! Your voice and chosen art form matters to us. If you have something to share about gender identity, LGBTQ+ & allies, which could be writing, poems, story’s, photography, art… Email your work or queries to [email protected] ✨Can I buy your ‘Beauty’ art print? 👀 YES! Soon. Follow @r.h.travels for updates 🌻 Edited by @shelbyd4vies and @opraykt with support from Dr Oliver Belas and Dr Alex Baird Artwork Cover Art illustrated by @jayworthington.art Rainbow Rehg Logo designed by René Daigl Video edited by @r.h.travels Rainbow Bedfordshire 🏳️‍🌈 #UnBinaried
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3 months ago
🎁🧣🍷⛔️🤒🛷‼️❤️‍🩹🪫🩸🚫🛑 christmascore
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4 months ago
really can’t tell ya how proud i am to have launched unbinaried 🥹🥹🥹 — and that we were able to offer this launch as a space of solidarity, agency + togetherness on Trans Day of Remembrance. taking a leadership role on this collaborative project has taught me so many skills, and given me a Humbling appreciation for the organisational and logistical work behind the scenes of publishing 🫣🫶 this pamphlet is the culmination of so many strands of thinking, compassionate conversations, converging communities (+ email threads 😵‍💫) i have such enormous gratitude for @shelbyd4vies who invited me onto this wonderful idea and has been my chuckle brother / co-editor, muddling together the whole way thru. also for @mrbelgie + the Radical Education & Humanities Group at Uni of Beds for Making It Actually Happen; the material support, mentorship and allyship you have shown us is truly Moving. i am unbelievably thankful to our contributors, for trusting us with what you have to say, even if that meant pushing your writing out of its comfort zone or seeing your name in print for the very first time. and as always i feel so fortunate to exist within @rainbowbedfordshire - who have nurtured this strong community in which we can build 🩵🤍🩷
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5 months ago
some sweet moments that have happened lately Despite an unlucky streak of sickness 🫁❤️‍🩹💊📉 featuring some bits from @beinghumanfest including a community exhibition & workshop at @thehigginsbedford AND a writing for wellbeing session at @panaceamuseum 🌳🖼️🖌️🧠 see ALSO: halloween diana moment; dreamy day at @youngpoetssummit 📔; autumn scraps n dregs n fragments 🍂
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6 months ago