Suzanna Fitzpatrick

Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it 🐝🦋 Building energy-guzzling, water-chugging data centres on nature reserves is the last thing we should be doing. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

@tessafoley.bsky.social is a firework wordsmith! Here she is as part of Scenes at the Museum at Portsmouth Museum. Books from www.tessafoley.com/books.html

#TheDeeperRead 42 features "Mammogram" from Emma Simon's Shapeshifting for Beginners from @saltpublishing.com, twinned with my poem of the same title from the Ver Poets Prize 2026 anthology, selected by @nessalampert.bsky.social: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

The arts don't just add to the economy, they also bring meaning to our lives. There's a reason those who seek to spread hatred don't like them: the arts help us understand ourselves & each other. When we can do that, we are not easy to divide & conquer. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10...

Thank you so much to the very generous @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social for sitting with my weird menagerie & spotting all those Dracula nods! It's a truly lovely gift to have someone turn your work over in their hands and share what they've found. Very much enjoyed Suzanna's 'The Vampire', as well.🧛‍♀️

Heading in for the @poetryschool.bsky.social MA 10th birthday party. Preloved eBay dress only arrived at 3pm but washed, dried and ready to shimmy!

Excited to have a poem in @magmapoetry.bsky.social 96, thanks @cherylmoskowitz.bsky.social Elizabeth Lewis Williams & Branwell Roberts! I'm reading at the London launch, 5-7pm Sun 1 Nov at Theatreship with @pascalepetit.bsky.social & others, tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magma-poet...

Excited to be co-headlining the 10 November Cheltenham Poetry Festival zoom reading with fellow @poetryschool.bsky.social MA grad @suejohns.bsky.social thanks @zoebrooks.bsky.social and Anna Saunders! Tickets and open mic registration here: www.ticketsource.com/cheltenhampo...

#TheDeeperRead 41 features "Amsterdam, 1901" by @kirstenirving.bsky.social from her @guillemotpress.bsky.social collection Hot Cockalorum, twinned with my poem "The Vampire" first published by @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social. Free to read and subscribe: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

Off to read at Third Table with @poetryschool.bsky.social MA students past and present. Vibing gothic. Poet necklace from Wear and Resist; I'm not affiliated, I just love them, and every piece sold supports women's charities #persisterhood #hexthepatriarchy

Closes next Monday 19 October! Go go go.

#TheDeeperRead is 40! Featuring "Verbal reasoning test" from @kmngriffiths.bsky.social's Mindset Mindrise from @ninearchespress.bsky.social, paired with my poem "Black Friday" from ionosphere III:1 @ampliconpress.bsky.social . Free to read & subscribe: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

Less than 2 weeks to go! I’m delighted to be judging this year’s Waltham Forest Poetry Competition on the theme of “Music”. Categories for adults, young writers & funny poems. Closes midnight UK time, Mon 19 October. Full details here: pctothepowerof2.wordpress.com/enter/. @paulmcgrane.bsky.social

The third poem in PERVERSE 10B is 'The woman raises a sword' by Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social - read all five poems in this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-10b

So happy to be back in @perversemag.bsky.social mag, thanks @chrissywilliams.bsky.social! Thanks too to my swordfighting teacher Gabor Antali. Fantastic poems from @suzannahevans.bsky.social Anna Mindel Crawford Sue Vickerman and Linda Black too. perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-1...

This Sunday evening we bring top-notch live poetry to Wolverhampton city centre. Come and join us! 😊

#TheDeeperRead 39 features "Food: a relationship" by Nafeesa Hamid from her @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social collection Besharam, paired with my poem "Penguin", from The Alchemy Spoon 16. Free to read and subscribe: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

Today's listing of the day is: The Alchemy Spoon #WritingCommunity

Happy #NationalPoetryDay! I feel poetry is the closest thing we have to telepathy, and we need it more than ever. Delighted to be shortlisted for this year's Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year. I'll be reading tonight on Zoom in excellent company - 7pm, all welcome: us05web.zoom.us/j/8681424660...

Delighted to be Highly Commended by John Challis in the Yeovil Literary Prize. Congrats all! I wrote 2 Antarctic poems this sweltering summer; "The British Antarctic Survey is a Menopause Friendly Employer" is out soon in @magmapoetry.bsky.social 96. www.yeovilprize.co.uk/P2026_Result...

Three weeks to go! Get 'em in 😘

It was #BiVisibilityDay on Weds 23 Sept. This is why it's important, and why it's important for everyone to have the right to take up their own space. Poem from The Aftershock Review pocket aftershock DIRTY LAUNDRY, ed. Gerry Potter and @maxwallis.bsky.social www.aftershockreview.com/product-page...

This poetry Substack from @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social dives beautifully into contemporary poems for a deeper read....

#TheDeeperRead 38 features "When You Brother Dies You Want" by @cloudscholar.bsky.social from his @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social pamphlet Cathedral, twinned with "Endgame XX" from my Red Squirrel Press collection Crippled. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

Less than a month to go!

Thrilled my poem "The dunnock has no need of social media" is Editor's Pick in @consilience.bsky.social issue 26 "Birds". Thanks Sam Illingworth, and great working with Rachel David. www.consilience-journal.com/issue-26-the... I get the irony, back to looking for birds out of the train window now.

#TheDeeperRead 37 features "Load" from Caroline Davies' Elements of Water from @greenbottlepress.bsky.social , twinned with my poem "Flood" from The Bournemouth Journal 2. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

I’m delighted to be judging this year’s Waltham Forest Poetry Competition on the theme of “Music”. There are categories for adults, young writers and for funny poems. It closes at midnight UK time on Monday 19 October. Full details here: pctothepowerof2.wordpress.com/enter/

#TheDeeperRead 36 is here, featuring "Radiolaria" from Claire Walker's How to Shape Our Mouths from The Black Cat Poetry Press, twinned with my poem "Tardigrade Waltz", first published by @chrissywilliams.bsky.social in Perverse issue 8I: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

Off to read at Third Table with other @poetryschool.bsky.social MA students and staff past and present including @merylpugh.bsky.social Glyn Maxwell @tessafoley.bsky.social. FAFO pendant by the fabulous Sarah Day of Wear and Resist, who donates to women's charities for every piece. #persisterhood

Very excited to be on such a great shortlist for the Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year 2026, thanks to judges Luigi Marchini, Lucy Crispin and Gillian Laker. I'll be reading at the online awards evening on 1 October, free to attend: us05web.zoom.us/j/8681424660...

Love @ellecordova.bsky.social's work, and this is genius. I have just wrestled, cajoled and slashed a 47-line draft to 36 lines, and it's the better for it (many darlings murdered etc) but will probably still be tweaked #poetlife. youtube.com/shorts/YqPPy...

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#TheDeeperRead 35 features @tamsinhopkins.bsky.social's Live Canon pamphlet Once We Get Past Poker Night, twinned with a poem I wrote for Glyn Maxwell whilst on the @poetryschool.bsky.social MA which was shortlisted for Verve's Poem of the Month. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

This iconic 1971 photo of Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes has always said so much without saying a word. Two women. Two raised fists. One shared fight for equality. Dorothy passed in 2022. Now Gloria is gone too. Two giants who helped change America. Rest in power, Gloria. ✊🏼✊🏾

Delighted to be on the shortlist for this year's Yeovil Literary Prize, thanks John Challis! Fingers crossed. Full list here: www.yeovilprize.co.uk/P2026_Result...

#TheDeeperRead 34 is here: @patrickcotterpoet.bsky.social's "Crow, My Friend" from his Dedalus Press collection Quality Control at the Miracle Factory, twinned with my poem "A cat and a crow face off" from Spelt magazine ed. @wendypratt.bsky.social: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

#TheDeeperRead 34 drops Fri: @patrickcotterpoet.bsky.social's "Crow, My Friend" from his Dedalus Press collection Quality Control at the Miracle Factory, twinned with my poem "A cat and a crow face off" from Spelt magazine ed. @wendypratt.bsky.social: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

#TheDeeperRead 33 is here, featuring "tentacles" from Gillie Robic's I Think I Could Be Wrong from @livecanon.bsky.social, paired with my poem "Ocean" from Daughters of Violence issue 2. Free to read and subscribe: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

I'm thrilled - I started The Deeper Read this Jan and have posted every week. It’s a delight to explore the contemporary poetry scene and geek out about how poems tick and the random associations they set off in my ADHD brain. Kinda chic how talented you all are ;) substack.com/@suzannafitz...

The @foundationswift.bsky.social and their Women Poets' Network do amazing work supporting and promoting women writers. Please support them if you can. If you're a woman poet and not yet a member, I highly recommend joining; membership starts at £25 a year: www.justgiving.com/campaign/wom...

Watching Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy, I was shocked to see the damage the chicken industry is doing to rivers, communities and animals. And now I’ve learned the Government wants to expand Big Chicken. I've signed the petition to stop it 👉 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Thanks @burnedthumb.bsky.social, it was a pleasure!

#TheDeeperRead 32 is out, featuring "Household Gods" from @burnedthumb.bsky.social's Comrades of Dark Night from Red Squirrel Press, twinned with my poem “Vulnerability” from London Grip New Poetry #60, Summer 2026, edited by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs: suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

Bin Day cometh.

Thrilled to have a poem in @magmapoetry.bsky.social 96: Antarctica (not the current issue pictured, which is also a banger!). Huge thanks to @cherylmoskowitz.bsky.social Elizabeth Lewis Williams & Branwell Roberts for choosing "The British Antarctic Survey is a Menopause Friendly Employer".

We took a much-needed breather when this year's #MidlandsFringe finished, but these last few days we've been going through feedback from audience *and* performers, and... well... it's really rather good. Thank you. Thank you for all your support and your incredibly wonderful performances.

So proud to have been part of this with my poetry burlesque show #ficklepuck.

#TheDeeperRead 31 features “My Heart in a Glass Case” from Lauren Thomas' Tiny Glories @greenbottlepress.bsky.social & my poem "Playdough Heart", from Obsessed with Pipework 102. Lauren's other pamphlet, Lavender Hill, is with @thebraag.bsky.social. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

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