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JP Seabright
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genderqueer genrefluid writer of things #pwME 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺📚 Latest book: Solitary Hotel 🖤 Check links for all the others! Co-editor of https://effable.uk https://linktr.ee/jpseabright https://jpseabright.com
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New book available now from Red Ceilings Press.

Solitary Hotel is a poem sequence inspired by Samuel Barber’s song. It explores loneliness, longing, isolation and love lost and profound, on the North Norfolk coast.
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Solitary Hotel - JP Seabright | Red Ceilings Press
Chapbook RCP118A6 40 Pages40 Copies£9
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This Wednesday, come and join me and George Parker (your friendly queer crip eff-able Book Daddies™️) at QUEERCIRCLE for an enlightening discussion on queer disabled art and activism with the brilliant Jamie Hale and Lucy Webster, led by Lalah-Simone Springer!
Resharing on #worldmentalhealthday and wishing you all peace and wellbeing, this and every day. 💜
This is not the post I planned to write today, but clearly the one I needed to write…

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Today! I’m performing at the City Lit Mental Wealth Festival. Come and join us - for music, song, poetry & spoken word. Only £5 to salve your soul. 💜

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This is not the post I planned to write today, but clearly the one I needed to write…

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I’m immensely proud of what we’ve achieved with effable, and we have one last event this year, with the excellent Jamie Hale & Lucy Webster, facilitated by Lalah-Simone Springer & featuring 5 effing wonderful poets: Cat Chong, Chloe Clarke, Rick Dove, Jackson Phoenix Nash & Claire Sosienski Smith.
It’s National Poetry Day so one feels obliged to post something ‘poetic’, yet I’ve barely written or published any poetry this year.

But I have co-run an ACE-funded project, edited an anthology & championed the work of queer crip poets, shining a spotlight on voices so often marginalised.
A librarian’s pilgrimage to the old British Library Reading Room.

One of the advantages of being old is that I got to study in here when I moved to London to do my Masters. 🤓📚
I’m so behind on my TBR pile that I’ve only now discovered this lovely review of MotherFlux in the Winter 2024 edition of the Poetry Book Society Bulletin!

Huge thanks to Shalini Sengupta for reading us, Nine Pens for publishing us and Erica and Jem for all the MotherFluxing words. 💜
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Final part of my Substack series on the developmental processes of my Wastelands project just in time for publication day (@guillemotpress Mon Sept 22) susiecampbell.substack.com/p/wastelands...
Mostly written in the Spring, but set in Autumn, I never imagined that my chapbook Solitary Hotel, which explores grief, loneliness and isolation, would foretell how this September is turning out.

For James. R.I.P. 💔✊🏾

Audio version free with copies bought direct from me:
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Palestinians are writing their stories, documenting both the horror of the war and the resilience of the people. Young people and Gaza elders are recording testimonies—narrating their stories for the world to read.
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Palestinians are writing their stories, documenting both the horror of the war and the resilience of the people. Young people and Gaza elders are recording testimonies—narrating their stories for the ...
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The speaker of the poem glimpses the poet over her shoulder

art: Rob's Room
Huge thanks to Max Wallis of Aftershock Review, not only for publishing my effluvium, but for this fabulous editorial reading and comment on it. 💜
effluvium is a poem of leakage and revolt. Stains blur into one another, sex, blood, mucus; until the body itself becomes hostile, a site of overflow. The speaker moves between bed and self, between past and present, carrying a lifetime of “undreaming,” open.substack.com/pub/aftersho...
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another stain / on the sheet / can't tell if it's / cum or menses
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of scars visible and invisible. The poem asks how a body can betray itself, how flesh becomes record and trigger, “a mutiny of function / over intent.” It is raw, unflinching, refusing to sanitise what survival costs.

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