Permeable Barrier Seven January 19th - March 22nd full guidelines on permeable barrier . com "I write to break out into perfect primeval Consent. I wish I could tenderly lift from the dark side of history, voices that are anonymous, slighted - inarticulate." - Susan Howe, There Are Not Leaves Enough to Crown to Cover to Crown to Cover (1990) Email submissions to guest editor Briony Hughes permeablebarrier@outlook.com

Just over a week to submit to the seventh issue of Permeable Barrier! This latest issue is guest edited by our very own @brihughespoet.bsky.social!

TONIGHT!

Grief is the Thing in Pleather: Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain Released 26th November 2025Edition of 100 copies.ISBN: 978-1-0369-3369-2 “Grief is the thing in pleather: iterative, reshuffling noir signifiers, re-marking punctuation, always to the same en…

This is not a drill! ‘Grief is the Thing in Pleather’ by Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain is RELEASED today! A limited edition of 100 copies 🪰🪰🪰 osmosispress.com/grief-is-the...

We have a handful of additional review copies for Him Hymn and Grief is the Thing in Pleather! Drop our editor @brihughespoet.bsky.social a message if you’re interested in reviewing!💙🖤

PREORDER ALERT 🚨🚨🚨

IT FEELS SO GOOD TO BE BACK! This month, Tamsyn Challenger’s ‘Him Hymn’ and Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s ‘Grief is the Thing in Pleather’ will be released on 25th and 26th respectively🖤

Housmans Poetry Series: Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain launches ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’ Join us for another poetry evening, this time in collaboration with our great friends Osmosis Press, launching a new collection, ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’, from Prudence Bussey-Chamberlai…

Described by @suchmayer.bsky.social as containing ‘life after life after life […] with all the sardonic seriousness, [and] the deadpan profound, that characterises Bussey-Chamberlain’s work’ - this launch is not to be missed!

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Housmans Poetry Series Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain launches Grief is a Thing in Pleather published by Osmosis Press + a host of special guest readers Hosted by Briony Hughes and Cat Chong 1900, 26/11/2025 Book your free tickets here: Housmans.com/events Housmans 5 Caledonian Road Kings Cross London N1 9DX

"Grief is the thing in pleather: iterative, reshuffling noir signifiers, re-marking punctuation, always to the same end. As Bussey-Chamberlain writes: 'Last time was not the last time; / I am here again.' From open field composition glittering in headlit streaks to the short gasps of Emily Dickinson's lines, in the narrow time of birthing and the contained prose poems of time lived, this brief collection packs in life after life after life, an expansive exploration of Dickinson's choice of "kindly" for Death's stop, with all the sardonic seriousness, the deadpan profound, that characterises Bussey-Chamberlain's work." So Mayer

A copy of the black and white cover of Grief is a Thing in Pleather published by Osmosis Press.

Two copies of the cover held up together in one hand.

✨LAUNCH EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT✨

We are delighted to be launching Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain’s ‘Grief is a Thing in Pleather’ at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social as part of the Housman’s Poetry Series on the 26th of November at 7pm!

This collection is a consideration of/ writing through what it (1/4)

Such a great essay by @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social - on the monstrous, disability & the feminine @crimereads.bsky.social

Wonderful Laura has her debut book Awakened out this week with Robot Books!

sigh. you might want this

They’ve also published a dark and filthy little self-portrait giving orgasmic angel vibes…

A lot of wonderful work in this issue. Have a look.

Thanks so much to J D Howse and @marbledmayhem.bsky.social for their unflinching support!

Air deconstructing Moving Mountains

Deconstructing Moving Mountains - this episode is 'Air' - featuring @jaxxi.bsky.social @marbledmayhem.bsky.social Hannah Hodgson, Louisa Adjoa Parker, and me.

#NatureWriting #BookSky

Moving Mountains is out in US & Canada 6th May

#30DaysWild #365DaysWild

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Gaza: Indigenous Urbanism Amid Elimination The structure of the ongoing Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is a model that will be duplicated across Indigenous urban centers in Palestine. In navigating my own grief, I reexamine how Gaza ...

‘The Gaza Strip…is a periphery filled with a people refusing the margins, and defying the colonial delusion that they can be rendered peripheral, disposable collateral.’

Nour Joudah
www.academia.edu/128883092/Gaza_Indigenous_Urbanism_Amid_Elimination

Jerry Lee Jones—what is that tune that detaches you from your reality? Is it always a shaking leg or a bone fragment sticking out of your busted shin? We fight, we love, we grease ourselves to fit right in.

TODAY. GUMS AND POMATUMS BY SALVATORE DIFALCO.

from @marbledmayhem.bsky.social: This week, ‘Jerry Lee Jones [is] on [the] radio / causing itch to the air’, in Gums and Pomatums by Salvatore Difalco. Gesturing between the American pianist, singer and songwriter, hair (1/5)

a dark background with blurred colour images from the book cover which is in the foreground - images from the natural world of leaves, seaweed, a feather and pebble are on the cover of Moving Mountains.

Ahead of MOVING MOUNTAINS launching in the #US & #Canada (6th May) I'm introducing the anthology here...
After the section titled 'Water' is 'Air' - with new work from #poet Hannah Hodgson & @marbledmayhem.bsky.social, a #poem & prose by Louisa Adjoa Parker, #CNF by me & poetry by @jaxxi.bsky.social

A stack of books on their side and one propped up so you can see the cover, all of Moving Mountains: Writing Nature Through Illness and Disability - an indigo cover with multi coloured objects from the natural world - of leaves, seaweed, a feather, a pebble, snowflakes and raindrops.

Now that MOVING MOUNTAINS: WRITING NATURE THROUGH ILLNESS & DISABILITY is out in paperback in the UK I am beyond thrilled to announce that it will soon also be available across the Atlantic!!

MOVING MOUNTAINS IS OUT FOR PUBLICATION IN THE USA & CANADA ON 6th MAY
AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW!
#BookSky

Timglaset Editions to cease publishing.

After long deliberation I have decided to put Timglaset to rest. The press has been under a lot of pressure since the recession in 2022-23. 1/5

free palestine

from @marbledmayhem.bsky.social : "This week Osmosis reaffirms our commitment to solidarity with the people of Palestine featuring the poem seared by Nadiya Aamer." (1/7)

A grey background with repeated text layered over in pink and black reads: Israel brands Palestinian detainees in West Bank with numbers on their foreheads. An image of Osama Shaheen remains at the back of the text, obscured by the pink and black writing.

TONIGHT. NADIYA AAMER: seared.

Permeable Barrier “Signal” Or wave Or gesture Or notice Or cue Or notification Or message Or dispatch Or alert Or warning Or broadcast Or transmission OR SIGNAL Guest editor Cat Chong Please send submissions of poetry, film art, film poems, text-art, images. Sounds, texts, and combinations of the above to permeablebarrier@outlook.com by February 28th 2025 along with a 2-3 sentence blurb for the work and a short bio with any social media links. To pitch essays, reviews, and interviews contact the editors directly to gauge interest.

IT’S YOUR LAST DAY TO TRANSMIT US A SIGNAL FOR THIS ISSUE OF PERMEABLE BARRIER!

Send your submissions to permeablebarrier@outlook.com!

The poetics of trans-bio-sabotage: Genrequeerness in the work of Maggie Nelson and Paul Preciado Dr Cat Chong Wednesday, February 26th, 6-8pm GMT Online Contemporary Innovative Poetry Seminar Institute of English Studies

THE POETICS OF TRANS-BIO-SABOTAGE

Happening today, online, from 6-8pm GMT!
If you’d like a link to this event, message me!

Permeable Barrier “Signal” Guest editor Cat Chong Please send submissions of poetry, film art, film poems, text-art, images, sound, texts, and combinations of the above to permeablebarrier@outlook.com by February 28th 2025 along with a 2-3 sentence blurb for the work and a short bio with any social media links. To pitch essays, reviews, and interviews contact the editors directly to gauge interest. Please note submissions that do not follow guidelines may be disregarded.

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Today I learned about the 🇨🇦 artist Sandra Sawatzky and the epic-scaled embroidered tapestry she has created, emulating the Bayeux tapestry, to chronicle the history of fossil fuel extraction. #needlework, #SubversiveStitch www.theblackgoldtapestry.com

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Materialising Methods What can practice-based research tell us about working with disciplinary cultures that are not our own? This one-day symposium explores how contemporary art practices engage with expert cultures in he...

Hello Bluesky!

Excited to be co-convening this brilliant event on how contemporary arts practices engage with expert cultures in health and biomedicine.

Durham University, 20th February. Free, booking via Eventbrite

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When I first read this, I had no idea she'd be so spot on. Like spot on. It was scary as fiction, even scarier as reality.

this is both an indictment of how devalued research archives have become, and how insanely bad UK salaries are across the board

The #writers in the Chronically Ill & #Disabled (CIAD) writers Starter Pack include the following. It'd be fab if authors in it can add a link to your book(s)/website(s) below so people are up to date with all the fab #books on offer (whether backlist, new or imminent) & can buy them easily [Thread]

Screenshot from Electric Lit’s best poetry books of the year: […]: Poems by Fady Joudah This unforgettable collection provokes from its very title: the ellipsis represents an unfinished thought, a loss for words, a life extinguished, erased. Joudah sustains the tension of the collection by reminding us always of the impossibly high stakes, the lives lost every day in his native Palestine. He employs a measured tone and Ivric precision that cut to the heart of the tragedy, allowing the poems to speak on both the personal and the academic level. The collection leaves the reader with re-fortified belief in the cause of Palestinian resistance and with gratitude to be living at the same time as such a monumental talent.

[…] by Fady Joudah is one of @electriclit.bsky.social best poetry books of the year

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