Dr Briony Hellon-Hughes
@brihughespoet
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Lecturer in Creative Writing @RoyalHolloway ; Poet in Residence @UniofSurrey ; Editor @osmosispress & @resurgence_mag
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It’s official!! NEXT WEEK I’ll be joining Royal Holloway as Lecturer in Creative Writing!!! Permanently!! I can’t stop smiling!!!!
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Erasure poem fun with a group of year 9s and 10s
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Working with my university library to build an extensive list of indie publishers - this will be used as resource for academics (particularly when building course reading lists!!) and will also be handy for sourcing new library acquisitions☺️ Tag your favourites below!
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PRACTICING POETS!! I'm running a micro-lecture in a couple of weeks on 'how far can we push the sonnet?' - I'd love to know (if you work - or have worked - in this form) why you feel the sonnet is still written in 2022?
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Over the moon to announce that yesterday I passed my PhD Viva with NO CORRECTIONS! A big thank you to Prof David Herd and Dr Steve Wiley for such an exciting, generous, and thorough conversation, Prof Judith Hawley For chairing, and my incredible supervisor Prof Redell Olsen ☺️
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Black Friday giveaway: I'll post a copy of our beautiful Rewilding: an ecopoetic anthology to a follower who retweets this post🎄
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Saw an ugly fox shirt; bought an ugly fox shirt
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Important evidence proving that I now have an office
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My obnoxiously oversized collection is out in the world and I am feeling incredibly happy and grateful!
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GIDDY to announce that I'll be joining the wonderful SUNY Buffalo team developing the HOW(ever) & How2 digital archives. The influence of Kathleen Fraser on my poetic, editorial, and pedagogical practice has been immense, and I'm over-the-moon to be playing a role in ensuring 1/2
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Incredibly sad to hear about the passing of Bernadette Mayer and grateful for the work she has left behind🖤
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Hello friends - I've just been offered a dream job for the upcoming year! and I don't know if I can say much about it for now! but I want you to know that I'm very excited! and happy! and can't wait to share the news properly!
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Your girl is trying to pull together the first full-draft of her thesis wish her luck🤘
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In my new appointment I'll be leading the Poetry pathway of the MA in Creative Writing at
@RoyalHolloway
- if you have any questions about the course or would like to find out more, please do get in touch!
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The dimensions, weight, short-edge binding, and vast white spaces of Rhizomes (
@brokensleep
) are intended to match the sketch book I originally used to document the stems and root systems found in my garden throughout the project! [...]
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This year I set up Osmosis Press (and published two WONDERFUL books), had my debut collection commissioned and also a pamphlet accepted - both for 2023, Rewilding was listed in the Amazon top 10 poetry anthologies, I had work featured on World Literature Today [...] 1/3
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Reading a poem?? or belting out a power anthem??? You decide
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Words from the Wild: a sneak peek!
This exhibition brings together a range of UK and international eco-poets questioning and reimagining human relationships with our earth and its fellow inhabitants🌿🐻🐰🐝
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On my way to a school in Sussex to run a workshop on formally innovative poetry! Happy Monday everybody!
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En route to
@SmallPublishers
with beautiful books!
@GuillemotPress
@brokensleep
@IgnotaBooks
@KFandS_press
@OsmosisPress
@ShearsmanBooks
@SampsonLow
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Yesterday my surgeon asked me about my PhD and then asked if I want to be a writer. For the first time ever, I replied “I am a writer”😉 Thank you
@brokensleep
for helping exciting little moments like this happen
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'To be a poet, in other words, is to draw on the verbal pool we all share but to choose one's words and phrases with an eye to unexpected relationships - verbal, visual, sonic—that create a new construct and context-relationships that create infrathin possibilities. And not [...]
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Tomorrow, a small edition of 3 ‘Bikini’ object poems (as seen in ‘The Mouth of a Lion’ by
@steelincisors
) will be available to order via direct message. The work will sit in a small, padded archival box. £30 plus p&p 🌊
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Here’s a handful of books that sit in dialogue with my new
@brokensleep
collection ‘Rhizomes’ and a thread of quotes from each!
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Best way to start the day: asking a load of PhDs to tear the first page of their thesis into 4 pieces for the sake of ✨poetry✨
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Ok somehow Rewilding has reached number 10 on the poetry anthology bestseller list! Thank you so much for the love everybody I don’t know what is happening🌿💙
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Just arrived from Portugal! Thank you to
@poisbem
for producing ‘RHIZOME or TAPROOT’ with such care✨
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Took some quick snaps of this birthday present because I’m SO EXCITED to pop it on my bookshelf! Say hello to Anne Carson’s Nox (
@NewDirections
)
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The second wave of the Surrey Poetry Festival lineup has just been announced!
@pamenarpress
will deliver a publisher talk on multilingualism and feminist publication,
@NadiraWallace
will be reading from their new
@GuillemotPress
pamphlet Sidekicks for Clouds - Booking link below!
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Beautiful weekend beautiful books beautiful community beautiful atmosphere - as always, thank you to
@SmallPublishers
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Just submitted an application for a dream dream DREAM role - please cross all fingers for me
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The first fiction sequence from
@OsmosisPress
is about to enter the world! Thank you to the extraordinary
@ggaffa
for sharing Whale with us🐋🌊
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EXCITING NEWS: I will be teaching at Royal Holloway this academic year
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The poetry feature in Resurgence and Ecologist is BACK and looking BEAUTIFUL. Rachel Marsh and I felt Astra Papachristodoulou’s urgent writing on the Rhodes wildfires would be the perfect way to introduce readers to the role poetry can play in a climate-altered future🌿
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Copies of Rhizomes arrived yesterday so to celebrate I took this really low quality picture - enjoy!!
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I’ve printed a new edition of Weather Dialogue for
@paper_ink_print
festival! 3.5 meters long thermoprinted, hand-marbled poem 🌊
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A short thread containing some of the creative outputs from my PhD🧵
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Words from the Wild is now OPEN from 17th January - 24th March!! Thank you to everybody who attended the private view!
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My girlfriend knitted me a hat. This is the best day😎
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Really excited to run a workshop on writing water and embodied research at
@Bruneluni
tomorrow! Here’s a sneak peek 🌊
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Thinking about developing my ‘Rhizomes’ project from the
@CTCpoetry
Rewilding anthology further - perhaps into a pamphlet? Thoughts?
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Binding
@mariaxrose
’s gorgeous upcoming
@OsmosisPress
pamphlet whilst on my way to teach the Poetic Practice MA group - today is a beautiful day 💜
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Sometimes I can’t tell if I’m doing a PhD or retaking KS1 art
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Happy Thursday☀️ Have some Mayer in the 3rd issue of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
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The
@SmallPublishers
Fair is really an early Christmas - I’ve collected gorgeous work from
@semplepress
@mabibliotheque
@GlamFuzz
@waitingfordeer
@ASPoetry
@alicemargpoet
@harding_han
@RoughTradeBooks
and more!
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I want to read new things! Please reply to this thread with your latest print/digital publication!!
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Tickets are now LIVE for the 2024 Surrey Poetry Festival hosted by
@SurreySLL
and
@ZeroGuildford
! Join us for readings, workshops, and an independent press book fair - the perfect way to celebrate the end of my residency! Eventbrite link in thread🦌🍃
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BRISTOL PALS - I’m launching this bad boy tonight at 7pm! Grab your tickets here
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Designed some lecture slides whilst I had the flu - this is the result
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I was invited to run an artists’ book workshop with the Poetry Society at
@RoyalHolloway
this evening 📖 So much creative energy in the room!
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Prepping for my viva in a cafe. Sat next to GCSE students prepping for their exams. The solidarity is real☀️
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This afternoon we are launching David Gaffney’s Whale at The Beacon Museum in Whitehaven🐋 This is our first fiction publication with
@OsmosisPress
and I’m incredibly excited! 🌊
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Excited to discuss
@HeyAstranaut
’s Constellations (
@GuillemotPress
) today with
@em_filtness
and the
@EnglishatBrunel
Creative Writing MA cohort✨⭐️🌟💫
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For anybody who is interested in this topic, I’d 100000% recommend
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Tried to follow a bunch of new people this evening! Hello!! I’d love to find out more about your writing/art practice/research. Please do reply to this tweet with a link✨✍️
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“Hughes’ lyrics are swept away by the rapture of the fire; the concrete poems become textual gestures with a kind of kinetic energy that pulses outward” (Astra Papachristodoulou, The Poetry Review) 🍃🌾🔥
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Absolutely devastated by the fire on Chobham Common - it hurts my heart to think about how much wildlife is currently dying and habitat destroyed. Pictures: my living room window, Sunningdale, Sunningdale Golf Course
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Looking forward to running the second tutorial of my
@BrilliantClub
KS4 programme! It’s a privilege to introduce young people to some of my favourite poets and creative methodologies ✨
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Just want to take a second to say thank you to my wonderful Osmosis co-conspirator
@SaskiadeRM
✨ The first year of
@OsmosisPress
has flown by!! Sending love and thanks also to our lovely 2021 writers
@lydiowanie
@susiecampbell
@ShamelaPamela
@em_filtness
@badbadpoet
[…]
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Controversial opinion but I choose 7
OK, you can only write with ONE type of pen for the rest of your life, which one are you picking? (ignoring the ink color)
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Royal Holloway Library (
@RHUL_Library
) has curated a display of books to accompany Words from the Wild! A fabulous range of texts including Drucker, Dungy, and Swensen
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Book shelves are going up! How should I arrange my books???!
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A digital proof of my
@hem_press
book landed in my email inbox this afternoon and MY GOODNESS
@RichardCapener3
has done a beautiful job
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Windsor Great Park has gifted
@RoyalHolloway
50 saplings grown from its collection of ancient and veteran oak trees! The acorns were collected to safeguard the genetic legacies of these trees - the oldest is estimated to be 1,300 years old! I was invited to write a poem …
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A giveaway might be a fun way to celebrate my poetry twitter debut - follow and retweet for a chance to win a copy of Dorothy and Microsporidial
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Just applied to a DREAM opportunity please keep your fingers crossed or pray or whatever ritual you do to make things manifest
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The first day of Textual Porosity was WONDERFUL! Thank you to everybody who popped by🦌🐝🌊
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At what point does PhD research become stalking?
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Please cross your paws for my beautiful boy - Bumble has had a poorly tummy this evening (can be very serious for rabbits) but he’s trying really hard to eat 🤍
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Friday’s Runnymede International Literary Festival event is set to be a fantastic evening! I will be hosting readings from
@ASPoetry
@HeyAstranaut
Camilla Nelson
@carolineyolande
@k_ren_sandhu
@_WendyCaitlin
💚
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I’ve been a busy bee curating this exciting exhibition alongside
@carolineyolande
, Gareth Hughes, and the wonderful Culture Team at
@royalholloway
🌿
Can’t wait for the doors to open on 17th Jan🐝
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To celebrate our
@SabotageReviews
award shortlisting, I’ve decided to take Rewilding out on my walk to rediscover some of the wonderful work from our contributors 💙
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At today’s Surrey Poetry Festival I’m going to be reading from ‘Faulty Copy’, an artist’s book which tunnels through Virginia Woolf’s ‘The Waves’ via highlighting, annotation, underlining, and marginalia found in 3
@RHUL_Library
copies of the text✨
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I've started writing again for the first time since DECEMBER
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Beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful book
@GuillemotPress
@SuzannahVEvans
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Structure formed from a reading of Weather Dialogue at the
@PoeticsResearch
Poetry and the Environment - Big Green Week event☁️🌦☔️❄️
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New postal arrivals from
@brokensleep
(
@NBlascsok
) and
@timglaset
(
@vilmastuttle
)🤍 feeling very happy
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Hard evidence that I haven’t changed much in 26 years
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Today I set my first years the 'homework' of doing at least 1 thing that makes them happy every day. I have asked them to report back next week. I'm hoping this will give the students motivation or 'permission' to take time for self-care. Hoping other educators will do the same☺️
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HIVE MIND PLEASE HELP!🐝 I’m working with a group of very creative year 9s who have been experimenting with collage, erasure, & procedural poetry. Some of the pieces they have written are VERY STRONG! Any leads on where I can encourage these pupils to send work & find community?
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Here are a couple of close-ups of the charcoal sketches from my sneak peek of Rhizomes this evening!
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I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: BIG fan of Glasgow. Thank you to everybody who popped by for the launch of Milk and An Aura of Plasma Around the Sun! Happy happy☀️
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I am so incredibly proud to have organised this year’s SOLD OUT Surrey Poetry Festival - a day of community, joy, creativity, and collaboration💕 Thank you to everybody who participated and attended - my
@UniOfSurrey
residency has certainly ended in style!
📷:
@LamerPascale
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I’ll continue wearing a mask and distancing because I’m not a selfish piece of shit - will you?
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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT! You can preorder my collection - Rhizomes - from the
@brokensleep
site TODAY🌿🌱
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Really excited for tomorrow’s poetry pamphlet workshop with
@RHULEnglish
- these beauties will be commuting to campus with me😍
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Speaking to lots of lovely prospective students on the
@RoyalHolloway
#Clearing2022
helpline - check out our list of vacancies on the RHUL website and call us on 01784772455
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Didn't get the chance to visit the Words from the Wild exhibition at
@RoyalHolloway
in person? The digital tour is now live and permanent!
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Look at how gorgeous the
@OsmosisPress
‘Collisions’ series prints look together😍
@ShamelaPamela
@em_filtness
@badbadpoet
@e_j_coates
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