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Bad Betty Press Independent publishers of new poetry. We love writing that is beautiful and bad (in the Foxy Brown s

12/11/2025

🎉Join us at Nottingham Central Library for a vibrant, community-centred celebration marking 10 years of Nottingham as a UNESCO City of Literature in partnership with the University of Nottingham.

📖This free, all-ages event brings the city’s rich literary heritage to life through poetry, storytelling, and interactive workshops from researchers at University of Nottingham.

đź’™More details on on our website, https://www.nottinghamcitylibraries.co.uk/voices-from-the-city/

Congrats to the winners of last night’s , to all the shortlisted poets and publishers, the judges and Forward team, and ...
27/10/2025

Congrats to the winners of last night’s , to all the shortlisted poets and publishers, the judges and Forward team, and especially to incredible, shortlisted Bad Betty poets & ✨ Regardless of the final result, being celebrated on that stage is a huge win - for the poets, the publishers and for poetry as a whole. We’re so proud to be your publishers, and to be part of this astonishing celebration of exceptional poetry 💕💕💕

Happy Publication Day 🎉SUBURBAN LOCUST is out now. Pick up a copy from our site, your local bookseller or at an event. ...
23/10/2025

Happy Publication Day 🎉

SUBURBAN LOCUST is out now. Pick up a copy from our site, your local bookseller or at an event. (Catch Antosh at tonight’s x Bad Betty Press Bristol 🔥 & check out his page & ours for more tour dates & launch events coming up!)

“Novelistic in range and depth, the narrative forms and reforms into taut poetic gems”

“Electrifying… and it keeps bumping into an urgent question: how do you save someone who is their own cataclysm”

“Tops my list of new favourites, with surreal propulsion and a breakneck pace”

THIS FRIDAY✨✨ Bad Betty Live Nottingham ✨Poetry & Music Friday 24th October, 6pm✨Artist Spotlight ✨BRIDIE SQUIRESOur BB...
21/10/2025

THIS FRIDAY✨

✨ Bad Betty Live Nottingham ✨
Poetry & Music
Friday 24th October, 6pm

✨Artist Spotlight ✨

BRIDIE SQUIRES

Our BBL host with the host, Bridie Squires is a poet, playwright, producer and performance artist from Nottingham. Previously journalist and editor at LeftLion Magazine, she was appointed Nottingham Trent University’s first Writer in Residence in 2019, and founded Nottingham spoken-word collective GOBS in 2020.

A Mouthy Poets alumnus, she has performed her poetry in Southbank Centre, London, Badisches Staatstheatre, Karlsruhe, and We Out Here Festival, Cambridge. She is Lead Artist at GOBS Collective, Creative Writing Tutor at Headway Nottingham, and has delivered workshops for Nottingham City Council, Archway Learning Trust, UNESCO City of Literature, and Nottingham Community Artists Network.

Bridie was awarded both a Develop Your Creative Practice grant and National Lottery funding by Arts Council England to create Casino Zero - her one-woman loop station play based on her experiences as a croupier. She published her debut poetry collection Duck on Bike in 2023.

Full line-up:


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Tickets via our Linktree 🌳
Tour info: badbettypress.com/events

Delighted that ’s Woman : Plant : Language is Book of the Month 💕Visit their site for the chance to win a copy! Giveawa...
20/10/2025

Delighted that ’s Woman : Plant : Language is Book of the Month 💕

Visit their site for the chance to win a copy! Giveaway closes 11.59pm on 31st October.

20/10/2025

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19/10/2025

The days are getting darker, but here in Notts things continue to be bright, colourful and energetic. Whether you've got a penchant for art installations, cultural festivals, board games, or live poetry, there's bound to be something that you'll enjoy doing this week.  

✨ 1 WEEK AWAY ✨Come join us at next Friday 24th October for poetry, music & good times. This line-up includes not 1, no...
17/10/2025

✨ 1 WEEK AWAY ✨

Come join us at next Friday 24th October for poetry, music & good times. This line-up includes not 1, not 2 but 3 Bad Betty authors! We’re really excited to celebrate their work with you, and hear from all the amazing acts. A few tickets left for this one!

Line-up:
(Altar, Forward Best First Collection shortlist)
(Why I Am Not a Bus Driver, Forward Highly Commended & author of Wild East)
(young, dumb, and full of poems, Little Betty)
(Forward Poems of the Decade)
(BBC Introducing for Music)

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Hosted by Notts legend & lead,

About the venue:
New Art Exchange (NAE) is the UK’s largest gallery dedicated to contemporary visual arts from the Global Ethnic Majority. Based in Hyson Green, NAE champions inclusivity and equity in the creative industries, nurturing and celebrating talent from diverse backgrounds.

NAE’s Corner Cafe serves up delicious plant-based food. The building has a lift, accessible toilets, and is fitted with induction loops for enhanced sound. Disabled parking is available on request. Visit the NAE site for full access info.

We’re incredibly excited to reveal our 2026 poetry collections: long-awaited second collections from Keith Jarrett and H...
16/10/2025

We’re incredibly excited to reveal our 2026 poetry collections: long-awaited second collections from Keith Jarrett and Hannah Silva, and a timely debut from Lebanese-Armenian poet Perla Kantarjian.

These are breathtaking books, exploring themes such as power and submission, mothers and lovers, q***r identity, colonialism, genocide’s long aftermath and the urgent present.

✨ HIDE ME UNDER THE BLOOD AND I SHALL BE SATISFIED | Keith Jarrett (March 2026)

✨ CROW, PIRATE, FLY | Hannah Silva (April 2026)

✨ YOU MUST BECOME FIELD | Perla Kantarjian (Sept 2026)

Hannah and Keith are working with editor Amy Acre, and Perla with Anja Konig đź’•

Thanks Lauren Brown for featuring this news in the Bookseller (screenshots above & article link in our bio)✨

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