Steph Morris

Photograph of a risoprint of sycamore leaves. Many yellow leaves are aranged around a dark central leaf. On the most bottom left leaf the words 'flat blank hands halt it all' are splayed along each lobe of the leaf. Top left text reads: Plant poems. Bottom right text reads: Steph Morris (c)

Our latest word & image feature is three Plant Poems by @herr-morris.bsky.social. Each is a playful, flamboyant interpretation which provokes us to look at common foliage at a slant.

See them here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/steph-morris...

#NaturePoetry #InkSweatAndTears #WordandImage

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@mariajastrzebska.bsky.social
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@vronchariot.bsky.social
@davewakely.bsky.social
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Permission to be weird outings and what's allowable where and when

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I never thought I’d be cheering on a former Tory Cabinet minister.

But here’s to the moral clarity, courage and leadership of @kitmalthouse.bsky.social.

Eleven-minute race for food: how aid points in Gaza became ‘death traps’ – a visual story Hundreds of people have died while seeking food since delivery was taken over by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in May. But Palestinians facing extreme hunger have no choice but to take the risk

So much shocking news from Gaza but this is really appalling. Feeling powerless, especially with limited energy to take to the streets. @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social as my MP, you and the UK government are not powerless. What are you doing to end the killing?

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Partially transparent background: close up of vivid red poppies. Bottom right: stamp saying VOTE Text: The IS&T June 2025 Pick of the Month Rachael Clyne Oz Hardwick Pippa Little Steph Morris Sreeja Naskar McLord Selasi

It's time to choose your Pick of the Month for June 2025. Will you vote for @rachaelclyne.bsky.social, Oz Hardwick, Pippa Little, @herr-morris.bsky.social, Sreeja Naskar or @selasimclord.bsky.social ? More at inksweatandtears.co.uk/june-2025-pi...

#InkSweatandTears #PickoftheMonth

Magma 92: The Ownership Issue Launch Party Please join us to celebrate the launch of Magma 92 at The Seven Dials Club, Covent Garden, London

Tonight!

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Another new start time for Stereolab, shorts and Substack

I started a Substack — check it out.

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Great title - look forward to reading

It arrived!
Thanks @magmapoetry.bsky.social
My contribution is a bit mad but I own it…
Look forward to delving in.

Very true, thanks for this

Exciting piece!

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I thought it was being gay that made my life so difficult. Then, at 50, I got an eye-opening diagnosis … I spent far too many years lonely and angry, thanks to schoolmates who called me ‘weird’ and bosses who dismissed me as ‘hysterical’. But was it my sexuality that put their backs up – or the autism I ...

This is possibly the most important piece of journalism I’ll ever write. At the age of 50, I was diagnosed autistic. Please read my story and share it so others don’t have to wait so long to understand who they are ❤️

#autism #autistic #neurodivergent

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I thought it was being gay that made my life so difficult. Then, at 50, I got an eye-opening diagnosis … I spent far too many years lonely and angry, thanks to schoolmates who called me ‘weird’ and bosses who dismissed me as ‘hysterical’. But was it my sexuality that put their backs up – or the autism I ...

Brave and useful piece here.
Thanks
@mattcainwriter.bsky.social

Brace yourselves for similar reassessments of my whole life in the light of an ADHD diagnosis in my 50s

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

This was a pretty personal poem.
Thanks for having me back
Helen and all at Ink Sweat & Tears

This warming book arrived
in the post.
Lovely company to be in.
@poetrypharmacy.bsky.social

Sign the Petition Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training

We’re asking Meta to #DoTheWriteThing, are you? #MetaBookThieves www.change.org/p/protect-au...

On the way to demonstrate against meta’s thievery with @tomwentworth.bsky.social

@societyofauthors.bsky.social
#dothewritething

Last minute placard…
Concrete poetry at speed

META BOOK THIEVES - They Must Do The Write Thing The Society of Authors are protesting Meta’s HQ today This image shows illustrations of authors holding placards saying “make it fair” and “do the write thing”

Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive”

Theft is not a valid alternative.

Translators have been the canaries in the AI coalmine for a couple of years now and we are already losing work to these systems. Having existing work used to train them without permission or compensation just adds insult to injury.

Society of Authors image #DoTheWriteThing and protect authors' livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI Training #MetaBookThieves. At the bottom are a diverse bunch of people waving placards reading #BookThieves, Make It Fair, Do the Write Thing and Compensation for Creators

@bengoldsborough.bsky.social Like pretty much all my writer and translator friends and colleagues, Meta have used pirated copies of my work to train their AI systems. I’ll be asking META to #DoTheWriteThing on Thursday 3 April. #metabookthieves #MakeItFair

My poetry pamphlet IN RETAIL (@arachnepress.bsky.social) has been used to train Meta’s Al without mine or my publisher’s permission or with due regard to copyright. I’m not alone, there are 1000s of writers who’s work has been stolen. Solidarity with @societyofauthors.bsky.social!
#DoTheWriteThing

Imagine if all those who are silent about the terrible evil being committed in Gaza spoke up | Owen Jones No crime in history has been so well documented by its victims. And yet inaction and censorship reign, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

In every atrocity in history, the silent are always principal players.

Those who remain silent over Israel's genocide are enabling it to continue.

Their cowardice is paid in the blood of thousands of innocent Palestinians.

New column 👇

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thanks, that helps me too.
Also missable: respiratory infections, aching feet, noise…
But much love to literary friends.

Queer History Night Researchers and artists share their journeys into the museum archives as part of LGBTQ+ History Month

www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/que...

#Queerhistory #greenwich #museum

Got to a serendipitous passage of this book.
Actually the whole book is still very relevant and urgent — ends in the late 1930s.
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This was our Christmas tree, which we left behind in London, and this was the sunset on Christmas Day in the midlands. No time to post ~ Some asymmetrical queer version of #sandwichgeneration
Happy new year to you all.

Introducing eff-able!

#PoetsOnBlueSky please share this opportunity for queer, disabled, neurodivergent poets to submit to this anthology, funded by ACE and published by fourteen poems.

Subs open until 1st December - all details below!
#poetry #lgbtqia+ #queer #disabled #neurodivergent