Max Wallis
@maxrobertwallis
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Award-winning poet. I wrote Modern Love, shortlisted for the Polari Prize and Everything Everything. 'Read this book,' said Russell T Davies.
Lancashire
Joined February 2009
New poem from me in Issue One of The Aftershock Review - last day to donate!
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Joseph Fasano (@Joseph_Fasano_, published by @boaeditions) said this about Well Done, You Didn’t Die (@VervePoetryPres) and I still haven’t quite recovered. This pamphlet nearly didn’t happen. I nearly didn’t happen.
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‘How can I find meaning from the ruins of my life?’: the little magazine with a life-changing impact | Poetry | The Guardian.
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After struggles with mental health and addiction, Max Wallis launched a poetry magazine – and it has transformed his life
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RT @drwb12: A very interesting read about @maxrobertwallis and The Aftershock Review in today’s Guardian. Get your copy soon and know that….
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RT @pressmindy: 300,000 years of human history. How lucky we are to have lived in the same 49 as Andrea Gibson
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Day 81 - What would you rewire? What DIY task can you write into poetry? - The Daily Aftershock
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"This poem calls out shame and owns its need to feel alive with touch, and in so doing, elevates life and a love for life - choosing to live loudly on our knees or with our backs against the wall.".
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I won @VervePoetryPres @VervePoetryFest Poem of the Month! <3 <3 <3 Congrats to @Chiwenite_O, Rachael Clyne, @tina_selderholm, Amy King, @k_howlett (pls tag poets I don't have @s for!)
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Today write a villanelle - a form that refuses to forget. With its pattern of repeating lines and tight rhyme, the villanelle lends itself to obsession, grief, survival, and transformation.
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Prize-winning poet and journalist @maxrobertwallis has founded The Aftershock Review, a new poetry magazine centring “survival, rage and emotional urgency” 👇
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If you like this prompt there are another 61 on our substack and there will be new ones every day for a year, most likely to then be printed in book form! #poetry.
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Make each pane hold its own emotional weather. Think of silence pressed to glass… Think of what you see when you can’t go outside. Two panes. One window. Your language inside it. #poetry.
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