Victoria Spires

If you're in or remotely near Oxford on Friday 6th November, grab a ticket for the launch of @sophiaargyris.bsky.social 's pamphlet Blood Tundra at the Poetry Library. With support from Alan Buckley, Andrew Hykel Mears, Claire Carroll and me, and music from he didnt/i4M2. Tickets: tr.ee/DfC92VGE2c

We're delighted to announce Magma 96 'The Antarctic' is now published and available to buy on our website. Edited by @cherylmoskowitz.bsky.social, @branwellroberts.bsky.social & Elizabeth Lewis Williams. Get your hands on a copy here: magmapoetry.com/archive/magm...

#promptcombo #geopoem Choose an intimate human theme (e.g., grief, a childhood memory). Write 16 technical geological terms. E.g: subduction, calcification, standard strata, erratic boulder, Write the human theme, Don't use standard emotional prose. Use yr geological word list to act as metaphors.

Thanks for this week's eclectic selection, @davebonta.bsky.social ☺️

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Thank you, @ewenglass.bsky.social ! 🙏🏼☺️

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @grimalkingerry.bsky.social @risaden.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @ren-powell.bsky.social @lisamariebasile.bsky.social @briankspears.bsky.social @roguestrands.bsky.social @cbeditions.bsky.social @rmhaines.bsky.social 1/4 www.vianegativa.us/2026/10/poet...

Last year throughout November and December, The Book Bag Christmas List was viewed by a few thousand people. This year The Book Bag Christmas Gift Guide is looking to replicate and improve on last year. Submitting is easier this year. Take 5 and boost a press or poet today.

Brilliant evening. Well done S @internetofwords.com and @ninaparmenter.bsky.social your readings were incredible. And thank you @paulwritespoems.bsky.social for being such an astute, supportive host 🙌🏼

Tonight! Come along to celebrate @internetofwords.com , with support from me and @ninaparmenter.bsky.social and hosted by @paulwritespoems.bsky.social

This Friday! Need to get working on my set 😁 Looking forward to it 🥳

Lovely and surprising news from @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social , thank you! And congratulations to @jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social @rhonagreene.bsky.social @helenlaycock.bsky.social @rotherwrites.bsky.social and Kate ☺️

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A whole month of Afters ... can't wait! 😍

🥳 This Thursday! Tomorrow! At The Muse in Notting Hill: maps.app.goo.gl/t7hXd3ZxzDx5...

Ghost pixels, locoweed & more with @jntod.bsky.social @johnglenday.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @johnsiddique.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @samrasnake.bsky.social @sallythomasnc.bsky.social @coastalpoet.bsky.social @susanrich-poet18.bsky.social 2/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/09/poet...

🌲My review of @internetofwords.com 's new pamphlet 'Forest Management', is now up on Substack, coupled with an illuminating interview ✨ victoriaspires.substack.com

🎸 The latest review on my Substack is a strictly one-off special! 🎸 Reviewing @matt-guntrip-music.bsky.social 's album So Long. "The songs are quite complexly-melodic, and his vocal style is soft and unforced." victoriaspires.substack.com

I so enjoyed writing an endorsement for @pollyoliverwales.bsky.social 's debut collection with @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social – because I got to read it and savour it ❤️

Catch up with my interview with @fiddes.bsky.social & much more in Dave's latest digest. Lots about performance and page poetry, poetry criticism, by the looks of it... looking forward to getting stuck in

📣***Exciting Announcement***📣 Join me as I host a launch for the new book from @internetofwords.com ‘Forest Management’. With special guest readers @victoriaspires.bsky.social and @ninaparmenter.bsky.social 09.10.26 🎟️ shorturl.at/N1fkS

Delighted to be part of the poetry support crew for @internetofwords.com at the virtual launch of Forest Management 🥳 Get your ticket & join us on Friday 9th Oct 🥳

Our #poet of the month on the #SilverBranch project for Sept '26 - L.J. Ireton @literaryvegan.bsky.social 'The sun burns a butter-pearl disc 🌄 in the smoke-silk fog, the trees turn gothic in the veil.' shorturl.at/DMRXC 🔗 #poetry #poetrylovers #imagism

📚 New: review of Hotel Petroleum+ interview with @fiddes.bsky.social victoriaspires.substack.com "Poetry can be the wake-up call not to outsource our curiosity and experience but to relish the lucidity of the present moment."

Congratulations @ella-b-winters.bsky.social , a delight to be in the anthology alongside your brilliant poem 🙌🏼

After the success of The Book Bag's first anthology Unwhispered Legacy, I've decided to give it another go and raise more vital funds for MSF. This time I am joined by Guest Editor Leia Butler. Full details in the link, submissions open throughout November.

Thanks @davebonta.bsky.social 🙏🏼

Spent some time yesterday at John Clare Cottage, Helpston. victoriaspires.substack.com

It's been a little while 😅 I'm still a bit hither and thither as it's still the school summer hols, but I do have a mini chapbook out with Shadow & Sax. You can order it directly from them www.shadowandsax.com/product-page... Or if you want a copy sent from within the UK, I'll have some soon ⚙️

Warty yellow amanitas, a world of random objects & more w/ @victoriaspires.bsky.social @jannoble.bsky.social @abbiekiefer.bsky.social @trishhopkinsonpoet.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social @aempoet.bsky.social @garybarwin.bsky.social 2/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/08/poet...

This week in the poetry blogs with @kathleenjamie.bsky.social @helenmort.bsky.social @renee-emerson.bsky.social @briankspears.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @rmhaines.bsky.social @juliemellor.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/08/poet...

Off to spend time with words, they're good company.

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Here's another round-up of mini reviews from the last few months. Featuring @internetofwords.com , @jlmmorton.bsky.social , @tomsnarsky.bsky.social , Andrew McDonnell, Linda France, Eve Luckring & Iain Sinclair 📚 victoriaspires.substack.com

Me too! ☺️

"I love Emotional Dance Music because it’s like peering over someone’s shoulder at their texts dissecting the night before." New review of @sleepssundays.bsky.social. victoriaspires.substack.com

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Review of Hatchery by @bethosmond.bsky.social , out now with @vpresslit.bsky.social ✨