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@badbadpoet
Poet, artist, performer and publisher based in the UK. Prolific maker of visual poetry. Recent books: MOREAU’S DOCTORED BODIES (Steel Incisors), COSMIC HORROR (Hem Press), WHAT’S THIS FLESH? (Intergraphia). https://t.co/QoN4GHLvNE
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Moreau’s Philosophy, an aberrant offshoot of Moreau’s Doctored Bodies, is out soon with Italian publisher Asatami Legesse Edizioni
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series pen with headwind 25
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Massive Bacon vibes here -
SCREAMING DOPE
A poem from my forthcoming collection with Atomic Bohemian, wastes / wraiths, is up at @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/11/f...
WHAT’S THIS FLESH?
Illness, the body, and fragmented converstions overheard on the hospital ward. Available from @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social intergraphia.cargo.site/James-Knight
I am truly honored to be able to publish such wonderful artists...
today we have @badbadpoet.bsky.social live on @thearsonista.bsky.social with a poem that'll leave a mark.
burninghousepress.com/2026/02/11/f...
A poem from my forthcoming collection with Atomic Bohemian, wastes / wraiths, is up at @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/11/f...
I am so excited about this. The collection is super visual and incorporates scans of swatches of different make up materials.
WHAT’S THIS FLESH?
Illness, the body, and fragmented converstions overheard on the hospital ward. Available from @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social intergraphia.cargo.site/James-Knight
mucky fun all over
mucky fun all over
Bits of Jean Baudrillard Got Fucked Up at the Foam Party, published by @ailiteraryreview.bsky.social and part
of a cycle of wretchedness called YELLOW FOAM. ailiteraryreview.co.uk/issue05
The wonderful @sedserio.com interviewed me about my mammoth vispo Beowulf project for @robmclennan.bsky.social’s @periodicities.bsky.social periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/01/laur...
The wonderful @sedserio.com interviewed me about my mammoth vispo Beowulf project for @robmclennan.bsky.social’s @periodicities.bsky.social periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/01/laur...
ICE are the new Brown Shirts
WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to:
* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon
The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
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RITES & PASSAGES, a project inspired by choose-your-own-adventure game books, Doom and the novels of Alain Robbe-Grilet, was published by @salopress.bsky.social in 2021. Now out-of-print, it is available as a free PDF from my website. Lose yourself in the labyrinth! thebirdking.com/free-pdfs/
“Hiya, I don’t know what sort of poetry you publish, and I’m really not interested, but I’m desperate for someone, ANYONE, to publish my book, so here it is! Byeeee!”
2026
New Ground
RITES & PASSAGES, a project inspired by choose-your-own-adventure game books, Doom and the novels of Alain Robbe-Grilet, was published by @salopress.bsky.social in 2021. Now out-of-print, it is available as a free PDF from my website. Lose yourself in the labyrinth! thebirdking.com/free-pdfs/
The covers of my two books of artwork: Myth & Masks and England's Dark Dreaming
By late 2026 I will publish my new "Acid Renaissance" book of art, but in the meantime my first two art books are available from my online shop via the link below (and also from Bookbuster and Printed Matters bookshops, if you happen to be in Hastings):
shop.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/category/books
And to you, Susan! 🎉
new year
Visual poems from Chimera, published by Penteract Press in 2020. It’s now out of print but you can download it for free: thebirdking.com/free-pdfs/
Remember, kids: opposing the genocide in Gaza constitutes a hate crime!
We've just made our first donation to Kids Saving the Rainforest from sales of Hit Escape by Michelle Kent.
Michelle's Colossive Cartography is a little holiday you can carry in your pocket. Grab the #zine for £2 at bit.ly/colossive68 - all royalties go to this wonderful Costa Rican wildlife rescue
If you want people to part with cash, you need to show them what they’re buying. Rapturous onanistic praise is just shite marketing.
Publishers take note: highfalutin, hyperbolic blurbs are no substitute for excerpts, and often put me off buying.