Lucy Easthope - Guernsey Lit Fest - 1st May

Come and see me in Guernsey

Lovely to be back at the alma mater for the Family Day - G and I met there and it feels right to go back and show our two children! Proud that my book Crippled is in the poetry section of the college library. @kebleoxford.bsky.social

Spirit of the north: Red Squirrel Press celebrates 20 years | Write Out Loud Spirit of the north: Red Squirrel Press celebrates 20 years

My lovely publisher Red Squirrel Press turns 20 this year, and Write Out Loud have written a great piece about some of the celebrations and recent launches: www.writeoutloud.net/public/bloge...

#TheDeeperRead 15 is out now, featuring "Jackdaw" by Leah Larwood from her book Oneironaut from Indigo Dreams, twinned with my poem "Crow". suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper... please like and subscribe, it's free!

We need a national plan for eating disorders Most of us know someone affected by an eating disorder. Dump the Scales are calling for a proper national plan to improve treatment outcomes. Can you add your name to the petition?

Eating disorders ruin lives. They take lives. They need to be taken seriously.
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Really excited to have made the shortlist of the @livecanon.bsky.social 2025/6 Collection Competition, honoured to be in such great company!

Off to see poetry friends for dinner and trialling the giant fishnets (plus trainers for travel). Donning them was like getting dressed in cobwebs and I don't think they'll survive the night! #burlesqueproblems

#TheDeeperRead 14 featuring a poem by @kukadoodles.bsky.social, first published by Frontier Poetry teamed with "Colour Job", a poem of mine from @theemmapress.bsky.social Slow Things: Poems About Slow Things. Please like and subscribe, it's free! suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

#TheDeeperRead 14 drops this Friday, featuring a poem by @kukadoodles.bsky.social first published by Frontier Poetry, teamed with a poem of mine from @theemmapress.bsky.social Slow Things: Poems About Slow Things. Please like and subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/suzannaf...

Finally. Children don't ask to be born. Whether we are parents ourselves or not, they are the next generation of citizens. They deserve our care now, and they will be our care in the future. bsky.app/profile/38de...

I've been bumping, grinding and shimmying for 5 hours and the artificial knee held out. Huge thanks to @evanadelune.bsky.social for a great day of burlesque. More poems coming!

Off for a day with @evanadelune.bsky.social I wrote about what she terms "the rich, authentic history, rooted in satire" of burlesque in my MA dissertation and part of my 2nd collection explores burlesque & the queer female gaze. So yes, research. But I also really want to get my shimmy on...

The image says, "PRISON SENTENCE FOR ISRAELIS, DEATH SENTENCE FOR PALESTINIANS." It also says, "Israel's death penalty bill is a reminder: this is illegal occupation, functioning as intended," with the OXFAM logo below.

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The Israeli government has granted itself another means to dehumanise, suppress, and kill Palestinians. Israel is violating international law.

#TheDeeperRead 13 is out now, featuring "Ballet" by @janicewarman.bsky.social from her @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social collection These are the things we have lost. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper..., please like and subscribe, it's free!

#TheDeeperRead13 drops Friday, featuring "Ballet" by @janicewarman.bsky.social from her @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social collection These are the things we have lost. substack.com/@suzannafitz..., please like and subscribe, it's free!

Only just got around to sharing because of school holidays! #TheDeeperRead12 featuring "Factum" by @tamaryoseloff.bsky.social from @ninearchespress.bsky.social. Helluva specular, the form invented by Julia Copus. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper..., please like and subscribe, it's free.

Tonight, 6pm! Think there are a few tickets left. Free but you need to register via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/red-door-p...

Thursday pub writing hour while youngest has a class (not driving!). Another swordfighting poem in the works. Need to buy a mask; last night someone accidentally hit me in the face. To be fair, I later accidentally got him in the nuts, so I'd call that quits.

Looking forward to doing a Zoom reading for Red Door Poets 6pm-7pm this Sunday 29 March if anyone fancies joining. Free, but you need to register via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/red-door-p...
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#TheDeeperRead 12 drops this Friday, featuring "Factum" by @tamaryoseloff.bsky.social from her @ninearchespress.bsky.social collection Belief Systems. It's a specular, so I had fun geeking out, invoking the form's inventor Julia Copus. Please like & subscribe, it's free: substack.com/@suzannafitz...

Thanks @matriches.bsky.social !

The force of nature that is @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social has done me an Utherworldly level of kindness here. I commend all her reviews in this series to you, and it’s a joy to sit among them, and to have been read so deeply and so well.

#TheDeeperRead 11 is out, featuring "Clearing Dad's Shed" by @matriches.bsky.social (Collecting the Data, Red Squirrel Press). Fascinates me what crops up; this week it's Swedish Death Cleaning, man caves & Uther Pendragon. Please like and subscribe: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

#TheDeeperRead 11 drops tomorrow: a close reading of "Clearing Dad's Shed" from @matriches.bsky.social Collecting the Data from Red Squirrel Press. Great to feature a fellow drey-dweller! Please like and subscribe: substack.com/@suzannafitz...

Milvus milvus for the win. Coming to a Greggs near you...

Heading to this month's Third Table reading by current and former @poetryschool.bsky.social MA students, hosted by Sarah Gibbons. Vibing St. Patrick's Day Burlesque in fishnets, green cocktail dress and faux (Celtic) tiger coat. Upstairs at The Cheshire Cheese, 5 Little Essex St, WC2R 3LD, 7pm FREE.

Showtime! Helping at the @poetryschool.bsky.social
MA open day with a table groaning with tutor and graduate publications, and this is just a selection! Glyn Maxwell and Meryl Pugh are running sample seminars, Artistic Director James Trevelyan is here, and @tessafoley.bsky.social islogistics queen.

The Reading Circle People who never read poetry don’t write poems that are worth reading – Wendy Cope   If you’re keen to find a way in to reading and appreciating poetry, discover new writing, and open your min…

Spring is officially here! Feeling inspired by golden daffodils? Looking to discover brand new poems? Want to talk poetry in a friendly, welcoming community?

Head on down to Reading Circle next Saturday (21st March) at 2pm in The Community Works. Link to register your spot below:

My poem "Osprey" roosting in @mslexia.bsky.social 109 as one of this year's finalists. Thanks to judge Liz Berry for her generous comments. It responds to a Glyn Maxwell prompt to the @poetryschool.bsky.social
fam where we drew two of Jaak Panksepp's primal emotions at random: here's Seeking/Grief.

#TheDeeperRead 10 is out today, featuring "Body Language" from Anne Stewart's collection The Janus Hour (Overstep Books). Please like and subscribe if you're so minded: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...