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Jeremy Dixon

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Poetry & Book Arts | he/him A VOICE COMING FROM THEN IN RETAIL JOY//US: Poems of Queer Joy (All available here: https://t.ly/qUcAE) BOLD IN THE LIFE (Available here: https://shorturl.at/Fi1UF)

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Jeremy Dixon @hazardpressuk.bsky.social · Jul 1

Taking a moment to appreciate everything that has happened to me in poetry! Back in Summer 2019 none of these books existed! So grateful to my publishers @arachnepress.bsky.social & @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social; & to everyone who has supported me and my writing!

Photo of all four books grouped together.

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John McCullough @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social · 7h

This week @Waterstones are offering 25% discount on preorders for @BloodaxeBooks titles out in early 2026, including mine. Offer closes 17 October. Just go to waterstones.com, put 9781780377810 into the search box, click PREORDER and add code OCTOBER25 for the discount.

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Jeremy Dixon @hazardpressuk.bsky.social · 19h

It’s in there but not quite in those words! 😃

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9 GOLDEN RULES:
READING POETRY IN PUBLIC
I’ve been thinking about making this little book for ages and having a stall at @smallpublishers.bsky.social is the impetus I’ve needed to get it finished! See you @conwayhall.bsky.social on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 October!

Photo of two mockups of the book, one on top of the other

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it's frank-en-SCHTEEN 🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 3d

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it's frank-en-SCHTEEN 🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 It's launched! you have until midnight on Hallowe'en / Noson Calan Gaeaf / Samhain to pledge! very grateful for any sharing x🎃

Check out Queer Crow Death Magic Tarot by Frank Duffy on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/fra... #tarot #tarotsky

Queer Crow Death Magic Tarot

A 78-card potent jewel-coloured tarot deck created with linoprinting. Artwork is complete & project is ready to print.

www.kickstarter.com

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 3d

Today is Bookshop Day, a day to celebrate ALL bookshops on our high streets.

Bookshops are an integral part of an author's livelihood, and we celebrate all the talented booksellers who share their guidance and expertise.

Visit your local bookshop today and show them your support.

#bookshopday

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 4d

Based on the Wirral, @hazardpressuk.bsky.social is the imprint of queer poet and book artist Jeremy Dixon. Small runs often incorporate collage with the emphasis on handmade, happenstance, and recycling found text and images. We welcome him back to #smallpublishersfair25 at Conway Hall on 24/25 Oct

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Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social · 6d

Hannah Hull talking about Home is a place that visits me at @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social poetry salon last Saturday in #museuminthepark #stroud. Thanks to #dialectpress for organising .
Up next free online launch this Thursday 6thOct 7pm www.outsavvy.com/event/29667/... @inpressbooks.bsky.social

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 7d

"Mark paid careful attention to the small things in the world around him and he made each of us complicit in his process."

Erica Van Horn on the much-missed artist Mark Pawson, a mainstay of the Fair, who passed away earlier this year. Read more about Mark:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk/mark-pawson-...

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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 7d

www.creativetourist.com/event/deryn-...

Deryn Rees-Jones at Open Eye Gallery | Literature | Creative Tourist

For the seventh Matt Simpson Memorial Reading, hosted by LiPS, Deryn Rees-Jones will be reading from her new collection, Hôtel Amour.

www.creativetourist.com

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 8d

Directed by writer and artist Erica Van Horn and poet, artist and editor Simon Cutts, Coracle is a printer-publisher and editor of spaces based in Tipperary. They return to #smallpublishersfair25 on 24 /25 October: this year's exhibition also draws on several decades of work by Erica Van Horn.

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The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 13d

Something Gothic this way comes… Submissions are OPEN for The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry. We want poems of neon dread, fractured love, haunted minds.

Closing date: October 31st

#PoetrySubmissions #SubmissionWindow #TheHavishamSteps #ModernGothicPoetry

Something Gothic This Way Comes: Submit to The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry - The Broken Spine

Submissions Open Throughout October 2025 | Publication in 2026

thebrokenspine.co.uk

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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · 12d

Today is National Poetry Day - Jess & I will be taking over the national poetry day instagram 7-9pm answering your questions, reading poems and playing The Poetry Fruit Machine 🎰 🍒🍋💰

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · 14d

It's nearly time again ...

If you've been looking for a home for that 'after' or ekphrastic poem, @afterpoetry.com is the place for you.

Submissions reopen tomorrow – October 1st 2025.

You then have the entire month to send in your poem for a chance to feature in After... in 2026.

Good luck! 🤞🏼

Promotional poster advertising that submissions to online ekphrastic poetry journal After... will reopen for the whole of October 2025. Gives the web address to visit as afterypoetry.com/submit.

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Julia Webb @julwe1.bsky.social · 17d

Just a reminder that the Cafe Writers International poetry competition is open. Our wonderful (sole) judge this year is Jessica Mookherjee. Top prize is £1000 www.cafewriters.co.uk/home/poetry-...

Poetry Competition | Cafe Writers

www.cafewriters.co.uk

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 19d

We are delighted to announce that we will publish @sachacoward.bsky.social’s Queer as Folklore in paperback and ebook editions in December 2025.

Initially published by Unbound, it was longlisted for the 2025 Polari Prize and has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society awards. #booksky

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 18d

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.

Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social

We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.

Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 18d

Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts

After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...

Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts

Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.

pressgazette.co.uk

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 20d

This year's exhibition at Small Publishers Fair (24 & 25 October) draws on several decades of work by artist and writer Erica Van Horn, who has been a participant at the Fair since the beginning.

Details of the exhibition can be found here:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk/exhibition-2...

Illustration from a post card announcing an installation of books by Erica Van Horn at Franklin Furnace, NYC in 1986

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 20d

This year's @smallpublishers.bsky.social cards, designed (as always) by @uniformbooks.bsky.social, and featuring the work of Erica Van Horn (the subject of this year's exhibition).

Fri 24 / Sat 25 October, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL. 11am-7pm, admission free, all welcome.

Promotional cards for the 2025 Small Publishers Fair amongst euphorbia leaves in the publisher's garden.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 23d

‘No amount of knowledge about medieval literary culture can make the Pearl Manuscript tell us what it means. Everyone has to speculate at some point.’

@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the manuscript that contains the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Tom Johnson · Supereffable: Mysteries of the Pearl Manuscript

Any book made by hand is unique, but the Pearl Manuscript’s claim to uniqueness is unparalleled: the manuscript...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 24d

Terrie Reddish and I recorded a talk for 'BIND25 - preserving the past and crafting the future', Association of Book Crafts New Zealand conference. We discuss aspects of bookmaking in all its forms and ways to get involved in the communities of its practices, at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XWo...

Slide images from a talk showing the Libris Awards, Association of Polish Bookbinders, London Centre for Book Arts, Codex Polaris.

Slide images from a talk showing Galerie Druck & Buch, UWE letterpress studios, Herzog August Bibliothek, Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius.

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Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social · 25d

Saturday 04/10/2026
10:30-12:00
Wirral Poetry Festival hosts Afonydd poets Sian Northey, Siôn Aled Owen, & Robbie Burton at Bebington Library, Civic Way Bebington Wirral CH63 7PN
free, no booking required

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Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social · 25d

We are preparing a new UK/RoI #queerpoetry anthology. Up//Roar: Poems of Queer Resistance.
call out is live until 1st Nov. arachnepress.submittable.com/submit/33689...
pls share with any #queerpoets you know
@hazardpressuk.bsky.social is editing with me
@mxfrankduffy.bsky.social is doing cover

cartoony rather sad looking pink tiger face

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 25d

Good morning.

Together with @littletollerbooks.bsky.social we publish a very important book

The destruction of our peat lands is of international concern.

40 nature writers incl. Rob Macfarlane - Amy Liptrot - Horatio Clare & music legend Patti Smith.

You can order here: www.littletoller.co.uk

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Ross White @rosswhite.com · 26d

Make books. Make journals. Make chapbooks and zines and pretty letters. Make papercraft. Make beautiful things with words. Let no one take that from you. Make words.

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 27d

Small Publishers Fair returns to London's Conway Hall
next month, with 66 UK & international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks. More details soon.

Fri 24 & Sat 25 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL smallpublishersfair.co.uk

Promotional card for the 2025 Small Publishers Fair, with a full list of the 66 participating artists and publishers. Full details at https://smallpublishersfair.co.uk/publishers-2025/

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