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James Knight

@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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05.01.2026 20:11 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Moreau’s Philosophy, an aberrant offshoot of Moreau’s Doctored Bodies, is out soon with Italian publisher Asatami Legesse Edizioni

11.03.2026 19:20 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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16.02.2026 10:34 👍 28 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Massive Bacon vibes here -
SCREAMING DOPE

16.02.2026 10:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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from wastes / wraiths by James Knight in air thick with lack of light deep stink of hot mammal and stabbing breath looped like my passage through this space what is it we fear when images come to mind do we sense something that inhabit…

A poem from my forthcoming collection with Atomic Bohemian, wastes / wraiths, is up at @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/11/f...

11.02.2026 15:11 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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James Knight — Intergraphia Books James Knight What’s this flesh? What’s this flesh? explores the terrain of illness, interrogating the innate strangeness of the...

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

08.02.2026 17:38 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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from wastes / wraiths by James Knight in air thick with lack of light deep stink of hot mammal and stabbing breath looped like my passage through this space what is it we fear when images come to mind do we sense something that inhabit…

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...

11.02.2026 18:26 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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from wastes / wraiths by James Knight in air thick with lack of light deep stink of hot mammal and stabbing breath looped like my passage through this space what is it we fear when images come to mind do we sense something that inhabit…

A poem from my forthcoming collection with Atomic Bohemian, wastes / wraiths, is up at @thearsonista.bsky.social burninghousepress.com/2026/02/11/f...

11.02.2026 15:11 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

I am so excited about this. The collection is super visual and incorporates scans of swatches of different make up materials.

17.02.2025 10:26 👍 24 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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James Knight — Intergraphia Books James Knight What’s this flesh? What’s this flesh? explores the terrain of illness, interrogating the innate strangeness of the...

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

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mucky fun all over

20.01.2026 17:56 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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mucky fun all over

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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

14.01.2026 17:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Laura Kerr in Conversation with James Knight Introduction James Knight’s visual poetry occupies a restless territory where language refuses to behave as text alone. Drawing on Surreal...

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...

11.01.2026 21:22 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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Laura Kerr in Conversation with James Knight Introduction James Knight’s visual poetry occupies a restless territory where language refuses to behave as text alone. Drawing on Surreal...

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...

11.01.2026 21:22 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

ICE are the new Brown Shirts

11.01.2026 14:03 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.

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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05.01.2026 20:11 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Free PDFs On this page you will find free PDFs of some of my major projects. Just click on the cover image to download! Lavish paperback version available here.

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/

03.01.2026 10:16 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

“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!”

03.01.2026 13:24 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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2026
New Ground

02.01.2026 22:41 👍 38 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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Free PDFs On this page you will find free PDFs of some of my major projects. Just click on the cover image to download! Lavish paperback version available here.

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/

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The covers of my two books of artwork: Myth & Masks and England's Dark Dreaming

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

01.01.2026 11:43 👍 21 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

And to you, Susan! 🎉

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new year

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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/

31.12.2025 11:40 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Remember, kids: opposing the genocide in Gaza constitutes a hate crime!

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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

22.12.2025 10:57 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

If you want people to part with cash, you need to show them what they’re buying. Rapturous onanistic praise is just shite marketing.

22.12.2025 11:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Publishers take note: highfalutin, hyperbolic blurbs are no substitute for excerpts, and often put me off buying.

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