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Jo Bratten

@jobratten.bsky.social

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Poet person. London. CLIMACTERIC (2022). PhD St Andrews. Work in lots of places and in progress. NB: I tend to only follow UK-based poets and publishers here. jobratten.co.uk

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Jo Bratten @jobratten.bsky.social · Dec 30

Having not published a thing in 2023, it was especially gratifying to have a handful of poems published this past year. Big thanks to the editors of these journals for finding homes for these poems…

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Jo Bratten @jobratten.bsky.social · Jul 6

Thanks Gareth - your poem is brilliant also!

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Jo Bratten @jobratten.bsky.social · Jul 5

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Jo Bratten @jobratten.bsky.social · Jul 5

Thank you so much Mark – this is a poem that got rejected a lot, so I’m especially pleased it’s got such a good home, and kind readers 🩷

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Bad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social · Jul 4

OUT NOW. Issue Twenty-One: Long-limbed Darlings badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-1

Issue twenty-one — Bad Lilies

badlilies.uk

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Jo Bratten @jobratten.bsky.social · Jul 5

There is a new bunch of Bad Lilies out and two of them are mine www.badlilies.uk/jo-bratten-1. It’s a corker of an issue

Jo Bratten — Bad Lilies

Two poems by Jo Bratten

www.badlilies.uk

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Jo Bratten @jobratten.bsky.social · Jul 5

I concur. This is a superb poem. The last word in mower poems.

Jo Bratten @jobratten.bsky.social · Mar 30

Thank you - your Magma poem is gorgeous 💛

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Jo Bratten @jobratten.bsky.social · Mar 30

And these by @jsaphra.bsky.social and @jesstraynor.bsky.social 🔥

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Jo Bratten @jobratten.bsky.social · Mar 30

Some favourites - this spread with @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social and @katewakeling.bsky.social

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Jo Bratten @jobratten.bsky.social · Mar 30

Spring has finally sprung and with it spring issues of @poetrylondon.bsky.social and @magmapoetry.bsky.social – I’m lucky to have a poem in each, alongside all manner of brilliance 💛

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Jo Bratten @jobratten.bsky.social · Mar 14

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Jo Bratten @jobratten.bsky.social · Mar 3

Happy birthday for tomorrow dear Kathryn ❤️❤️

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Jo Bratten @jobratten.bsky.social · Mar 1

Loved all of these

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Bad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social · Mar 1

Time to spotlight the poets of issue twenty. First up, we have four poems by Matthew Caley badlilies.uk/matthew-caley-1

The Bubble
after Jean Gautier, loosely breathe out the bubble appears
an explosion
about to burst an idea
— please anything but an idea! — wafting on its own propulsion transparent star glass globe
or opal pendant from an earlobe ovum a perfection on the verge of error
a simulacra of a screen-saver's mazy shine
looping its loops of colour even before log-in the whole damn world in its taut circumference window-streaked spherical a tear shed for its own
brief existence
one click one scroll one nudge a tick of tinnitus in your ear one burp and it's gone

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Jo Bratten @jobratten.bsky.social · Mar 1

Beautiful poem @corinnaboard.bsky.social ❤️

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PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social · Feb 27

This week from the archive: read Rose Apple and the Desiccated Lake by Naush Sabah, published in PN Review 259, May - June 2021.

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Rose Apple and the Desiccated Lake by Naush Sabah

PN Review 259, May - June 2021

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Jo Bratten @jobratten.bsky.social · Feb 26

The bearded dancers made me think this was a parody but it seems no…

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · Nov 15

Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous.

I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.

🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Nov 15

There’s a sort of Trump apologist, a relatively small but loud subset, who probably don’t realize or intend to be, but are so attached to a previous hyperbolic claim that they deny anything important changed.

-US was already an oligarchy
-US was already fascist
-Biden gave Israel a blank check
-Etc

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Jo Bratten @jobratten.bsky.social · Feb 6

Thank you Elizabeth: that’s high praise! Chekhov is universal, of course: we all get him… ❤️

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Jo Bratten @jobratten.bsky.social · Feb 6

I mean

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Jo Bratten @jobratten.bsky.social · Feb 6

As democracy collapses around our ears I’m not advocating a retreat into illusion, in spite of what this poem might suggest. Hugely grateful to @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social for publishing the first of my Chekhov poems in their Feb/March edition

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Jo Bratten @jobratten.bsky.social · Feb 3

Latest @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social landing on doormats – have gone straight to the crossword where I’m stuck on 29 across

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Kathryn Gray @kathryngray.bsky.social · Jan 26

Bad Lilies returns, with much joy, to a screen near you next month. We’ve some beautiful poems in store for you. Follow us on @badlilies.bsky.social if you don’t already. 🌸

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Jo Bratten @jobratten.bsky.social · Jan 26

Such a delicate, gorgeous poem Zoë ❤️❤️

Jo Bratten @jobratten.bsky.social · Jan 26

Latest Poetry Society post…

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