Day 2: “Random Forest” by @jpseabright.bsky.social in the latest issue of @badlilies.bsky.social. “Possibilities dangled like future / Tenses. Tempting us with certainties.”
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I wrote this post just under a year ago, and I still stand by everything within it.
Still tix left for this is anyone wants to come #GetKeshed with me and Terri on Thursday in the intimate surroundings of @serenitybookshop.bsky.social. Gonna be a banger, as it always is when Terri's in the house 💥💪
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Random Forest It was the summer of suicides. Long shadows cast over the lawn. Heat gripped us. A death ray. Drove us crazy. Until we could no Longer help ourselves. Or each Other. When the time came. It came often. Without warning. Sparing only the weakest of us. Those who had less will to live. Decision trees danced in the distance. Ever present. Just out of reach. We dreamt of being caught In their branches. Enjoying picnics In their shade. Scuffed shoes and Muddy knees. Leaves in our hair. We dreamt of choices. Of paths Untaken. Roads untraveled. Possibilities dangled like future Tenses. Tempting us with certainties. Like Milgram's dial. Then winter Pulled up its cold white sheet.
'Random Forest' by @jpseabright.bsky.social badlilies.uk/jp-seabright
"We dreamt of choices. Of paths
Untaken. Roads untraveled.
Possibilities dangled like future
Tenses."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Random Forest by @jpseabright.bsky.social (2026 @badlilies.bsky.social) www.badlilies.uk/jp-seabright
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Next Thursday I shall be at The Writing Shed in Hornsey with the fabulous Clara-Laeila Laudette.
Hope to see some of you there!
Info and tickets here and in bio
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How cool is this?! 👇🏼
No way!? That’s amazing. Would love to know what they made of it. Sorry, I’ve only now seen this msg. Thanks for reading me! 💜🙏🤖
A Christmas tree made of soft, out-of-focus lights glows against a dark blue background. The blurred bulbs form a tapering triangle of reds, greens, yellows, and oranges. White text on the left reads: “#POEMSABOUT VIRTUAL CHRISTMAS PARTY & OPEN MIC 20.12.25 @ 20.00 — Hosted by Alan Parry.” The Broken Spine logo, shaped like a black fountain pen nib, appears at the top right.
Mark it down: Dec 20th @ 20.00 — #PoemsAbout #OpenMic + #ChristmasParty returns! Poets, readers, friends — one final night to lift your words before the year ends. 🎤✨
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A halved papaya lies open on a dark, wet surface. Its glistening red interior, filled with pomegranate seeds and dripping juice, carries a sensual, sexually suggestive tone. Scattered berries surround it. The Broken Spine logo, shaped like a black fountain pen nib, appears top left. "@thebrokenspine.co.uk" is written top right in white. At the bottom right, bold white text reads: "Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #DESIRE".
#PoemsAbout #Desire is live. Post from today through Thursday. Tag your post. Use Alt Text. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché. Engage—don’t ghost. Read 3+, repost, reply. Sign up for prompt packs: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
Directing to you all to this piece from 2021 in advance of the BBC and the Times maliciously raking up and rewriting painful history this week
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My friend Emilija released a song they created based on a poem I wrote for TDoV about four years ago. The very appropriately named "Pronouns".
#Song #Poem #Trans #Nonbinary #Pronouns #TDoV #TransDayOfVisibility #Poet #Singer #Songwriter #Composer
https://ditto.fm/pronouns-ian-badcoe
Check out these fabulous illustrations by @molluscdimension.bsky.social of our @eff-able.bsky.social event on Weds! 💜
We have a stonking lineup of eff-able poets too! Cat Chong Chloe Clark, Rick Dove Jackson Phoenix Nash and Claire Sosienski Smith. 💜
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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!
Thank you Mia! 💜
Next Wednesday! Come and join us. Tickets are Pay What You Can and it’s BYOB!
Resharing on #worldmentalhealthday and wishing you all peace and wellbeing, this and every day. 💜
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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An image of a white-skinned female-presenting person wearing a black tshirt with the words Medecins Sans Frontieres standing in front of a window
This is not the post I planned to write today, but clearly the one I needed to write…
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Thank you Mark! x
Tickets are only £3 or PWYC with all proceeds and donations going to the work of QUEERCIRCLE
Come and join us - Wednesday 15th October, at Queercircle, North Greenwich.
And if you can’t make it, please reshare!
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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 domed room lined with books around its circumference, with an old-fashioned wooden desk in the foreground stating ‘Quiet Please’
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. 🤓📚
