Image of chapbook cover, with title 'every house needs a ghost' and author name 'Timothy Fox'. Spooky little house in the background. And also maybe the top of a spooky little circus tent.

Got word from @thebraag.bsky.social that my chapbook of Southern Gothic poetry and weird flash fiction is going into a second printing!!! Thanks to @kymdeyn.bsky.social for all their support and to all who have bought a copy!!!
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Carmen et Error Issue 15.0 + Braag News News

Newsletter from The Braag today, featuring our recent books, sad trombone noises, a new micro, going apeshit, a letter from the editor and Carmen et Error Issue 15.0. Happy reading! 💚
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Issue 15.0 - Carmen et Error LIFE IN THE KINGDOM OF CATERPILLARS by Sam Grudgings   Hail our disordered bodies & their possible forms!  Hail the scapegoat!             The sending! The metamorphosis in waiting! Hail the bodies un...

Carmen et Error Issue 15.0 features work from:

🐛 @samjgrudgings.bsky.social
🦀 Andy Qifeng Zeng
🚦 Penny Blackburn
🦌 Jessica Tillings

For an issue full of strange decaying, bodies & abandoned cooling towers.

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New Carmen et Error issue drops tomorrow, a little bit of strangeness for your easter 🐣💀

If you steal from this book to feed An AI made from peerless greed May boils burn upon your skin And worms bite you from within.

Okay, I get publishers affirming that the books we've produced are human-made, but have we also considered bringing back medieval book curses??? Just saying.

The actual physical book of POLBLAR TMOLKOP (a poetry pamphlet written by me)

Launched a book tonight lads

Empirical and Polblar Tmolkop launch 7pm 27/03/26 Image of hennaed hand holding tiny man in spacesuit

Poets, poetry lovers (or even poetry curious) in Newcastle/the North East?
Come to a free reading at lovely indie bookshop 1b books in Heaton tomorrow!
I’ll be reading from ‘Empirical’ &
@andrewblair.co.uk from ‘polblar tmolkop’
our new pamphlets with @thebraag.bsky.social
#ukpoets

empirical and poblar tmolkop book launch poster with cover images of books. with readings by gita ralleigh and andrew blair. 7pm 27.03.28, 1b books in heaton postcode NE6 5PH. Free entry.

IT IS TIME! Come and see 2026 poetry authors and hear them read from their gorgeous, weird, wild pamphlets tomorrow night at 1b Books in NEWCASTLE ❤️

It's here! Huge thanks to the wonderful @thebraag.bsky.social and @kymdeyn.bsky.social
#poetrysky #ukpoets
Order here:
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“A gorgeous book; there are so many moments of transcendence in Empirical, a collection which sets ‘the blood singing.’”

—Mona Arshi, author of Mouth

Not even 7am and I’m thinking about @andrewblair.co.uk’s upcoming grimoire.

Launches and Links A blog about pop culture, software development and poetry.

Put a blog up with both launch events (Newcastle and Edinburgh) and pre-order links for polblar Tmolkop, the only known poetry pamphlet inspired by Paul Blart Mall Cop, which is published by @thebraag.bsky.social next week.

Prerana Kumar, Zoë Green and Daniel Roop are our nominees for this year's Forward Prizes. You can check out each of their poems at carmenerror.com ❤️

Prerana Kumar, Zoë Green and Daniel Roop are our nominees for this year's Forward Prizes. You can check out each of their poems at carmenerror.com ❤️

Lady playing sitar

Hand of mother with newborn

Mother and two children

Poem ‘abecedarian for maternity ward’ by Gita Ralleigh

Happy Mother’s Day to all who do the work of mothering! Here’s my beautiful mum, me plus kids when they were small and a poem, abecedarian for maternity ward, previously in The North & in my forthcoming pamphlet from @thebraag.bsky.social
#mothersday #poetrysky #motheringsunday

Gita's work is so astonishly gorgeous you all have to go and pre-order her new book!!

This deeply deranged pamphlet has been living rent-free in the heads of most of my friend group for over a year now. Let it infect your minds too.

Oh yes, I should also mention this aspect of reality.

At this point, the fact we're publishing it seems relatiely normal.

“We’re going to have to kill the writer with hammers.” — Reviewer

“I’ve never seen Paul Blart: Mall Cop and I vow I never will, because it could never live up to what Andrew Blair has created here. Hilarious in many places and genuinely powerful in many others.”

— Ross Sayers, author of Sonny and Me and Daisy on the Outer Line.

“Whether or not you have seen Paul Blart there is something in this pamphlet that will speak to you. There’s a real beauty and playfulness with structure. If you are looking for a story (aren’t we all?) this pamphlet is for you.” — Jake Wild Hall, Bad Betty Press

3am, the smoking area of a tastefully upmarket bar on Santa Monica Boulevard, in the dying embers of the wrap party for King of Queens (CBS Productions, 1998-2007) Kevin Kevin James The actor Kevin James He- Hello? Hello Kevin Are you a reliable narrator Kevin? I think so? Be sure Kevin. History is written by the victors Kevin. Are you reliable? Alright. Yeah. Yes. What- What are you? I am what you would call old I am what I would call young I am what kindness would call seasoned I Am ready to die Kevin I am ready to die. - From ‘polblar tmolkop’ by Andrew Blair available for pre-order at thebraag.co/shop

A segment from the opening poem of 'polblar tmolkop' by @andrewblair.co.uk! polblar tmolkop is available to pre-order via thebraag.co/shop 🛸🛸

Goodnight from Sian Tapper, increasingly irritated that the ghost in her room has nothing better to do than wind her music box at random hours in the night. Goodnight from Andy Bail, suffering as the shrapnel in his leg attempts to align with True Faery North. Goodnight from Hookland.

Ghazal: Immigrant I delude rose cotton on white, my scraped skin like bark. A fad, immigrant. Phenomena glint in the flick of an eye if I whip my head a tad. Immigrant! I grow stunted, other parts bolting. Furred & leathered for the marketplace, my body lopes: awkward dork, clunky animal. Prey for the bad, immigrant. I play at Jane or Charlotte in country-house attic headrooms, never Emily. Cleaved & corseted, swathed in waltzes. I’m still Bertha, mad immigrant. I enter the police state under night’s curfew. A bellied inspector in khakis scrawls my name at roll call. Only here to be useful, to add immigrants! I serve time, swipe prizes & drift, nebulous. Cloud paranoia rains sequins crystals, a tucked & shirred self. My parents are finally glad immigrants. I light candles, melancholy falls. Psyche scores low on trust; dyads nudge bees, sup tulips. Mothersong of belonging says you were had, immigrant. - From ‘empirical’ by Gita Ralleigh available for pre-order at thebraag.co/shop

Sharing this absolutely extraordinary and unfortunately very relevant ghazal by @gitaralleigh.bsky.social which features in her upcoming pamphlet, Empirical, published by us here at The Braag.

Everyone should read @gitaralleigh.bsky.social ’s glorious Empirical 💫

Thrilled that my new pamphlet is available for pre-order from the wonderful @thebraag.bsky.social
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#ukpoets #poetrysky

Our 2026 poetry pamphlets: empirical by @gitaralleigh.bsky.social and polblar tmolkop by @andrewblair.co.uk are available for pre-order at thebraag.co/shop 🌺🛸

Read this. Read it now. I am SO serious.

"In star-language, ten demands could explode from a visitor simultaneously, long sounds radiating outwards like blades in night, similar but distinct, all joined at one nucleus of want." ☄️