Chris Campbell

Latest full-length poetry collection (Parlyaree Press), mini-pamphlet (Atomic Bohemian in 2026) | Co-founder/host of Bristol poetry night, Kiss The Sky | Oxford

[Chris Campbell @Citizen_Chris]

It’s publication day! My collection of 48 poems touches on fatherhood, family and urban life, and illness. Get your copy, here: https://t.co/K6Ha3Olirw

[Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu @blackboughpoems]

Thank you to the 65 souls who have already purchased Polly Oliver’s #poetry collection. We are hoping to reach 100 sales by the end of the summer!

https://t.co/quIjc8M3Lk

#poet #poetic #writing #gower #mumbles

[Chris Campbell @Citizen_Chris]

Very happy to share that my new poetry mini-pamphlet is coming soon from Atomic Bohemian.

Exploring journeys, memory and childhood.

More soon 🛤️

[Özge Lena @lenaozge]

It's OUT! Thrilled to have two poems in this prize anthology which will be archived in the National Poetry Library in London! 🩵

🔗 https://t.co/UG87kDCc2g

[Özge Lena @lenaozge]

Here is my Bermondsey and Beyond 2026 Literary Festival Poetry Competition commended poem: Birds in Ukraine 🌟

And it's now published in the festival anthology! With my sincere thanks to Big Local Works, the committee, and the editors!

🔗https://t.co/dBFlKq1squ

[Chris Campbell @Citizen_Chris]

Thank you to everyone who came along to Old London Road Cafe, Kingston.

I loved sharing poems from Why I Wear My Past to Work, as well as new work.

It was a pleasure to meet those who came & stayed for a beer afterwards@ the Fighting Cocks.

Big 🙏 to Anne Cartwright for the 📸

[Chris Campbell @Citizen_Chris]

Thank you to those at Old London Road Cafe, Kingston, for Friday’s poetry night. It was fantastic to hear Lucy Furlong and others read - check out Lucy’s poetry maps (featured in The Guardian), including Ambiotic City 👌
A lovely venue with its own monthly poetry open mic 🙏🎙️

[Chris Campbell @Citizen_Chris]

🙏 @MatthewMCSmith & @blackboughpoems

[Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu @blackboughpoems]

‘A lively and endearingly-charming book’

- @MatthewMCSmith reviews the book of the month for Black Bough. Chris Campbell’s ‘Why I Wear My Past to Work’

https://t.co/bZuMGAnDqL

[Chris Campbell @Citizen_Chris]

https://t.co/lYM4m9PCgW

[Chris Campbell @Citizen_Chris]

Tomorrow night! 7pm-9pm, Old London Road Cafe in Kingston.

We’ll be sharing poems, chatting about our work, and there’ll be opportunity to take part in the open mic (DM me).

Tickets are still available online (link in comments), or come along on the night if you’re nearby!

[Chris Campbell @Citizen_Chris]

@CarmellaPoetry You’re v welcome Carmella!

[Carmella de Keyser @CarmellaPoetry]

I am deeply grateful for this review from Jonathan Taylor. He is such an intelligent and intensely profound writer, so to receive these kind words about Chasms feels really special. 🖤🙏🏻

[Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu @blackboughpoems]

Get one of the #poetry collections of the summer - Polly Oliver’s ‘Edges of Our Days’.

https://t.co/quIjc8M3Lk

#poetry #poetrylovers #poets #books

[Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu @blackboughpoems]

ANNOUNCEMENT: Join us on Saturday 8th August, midday, at Harry's Bar, Mumbles, Swansea to celebrate the in-person launch of Polly Oliver's 'Edges of Our Days' with guest readers. Unmissable! Diarise right now and let us know if you're coming!

#poetry #spokenword #booklaunch

[Chris Campbell @Citizen_Chris]

@ITattum @blackboughpoems 🙏 Ian

[Chris Campbell @Citizen_Chris]

Very kind review by @blackboughpoems and a joy that ‘Why I Wear My Past to Work’ is book of the month 🙏

[Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu @blackboughpoems]

Like Brian Bilston, @CarolineBirdUK and @JohnMcCullough_ ?

Chris Campbell’s debut #poetry collection is book of the month at Black Bough. @Citizen_Chris

Watch the poet chase his toddler through these poems.

https://t.co/bZuMGAnDqL

[Chris Campbell @Citizen_Chris]

@blackboughpoems @CarolineBirdUK @JohnMcCullough_ 🙏🙏

[Chris Campbell @Citizen_Chris]

@CarmellaPoetry @cwaleicester @crystalclearjt @PoetrySociety @EverybodyReview You’re very welcome - a great feature, Carmella!

[Chris Campbell @Citizen_Chris]

@cwaleicester @CarmellaPoetry @crystalclearjt @PoetrySociety @EverybodyReview 👏👏

[Creative Writing at Leicester @cwaleicester]

Featured today on Creative Writing at Leicester: Carmella de Keyser and her new collection "Chasms." Read two beautiful poems here: https://t.co/mxhG803iCj @CarmellaPoetry @crystalclearjt @PoetrySociety @EverybodyReview

[Chris Campbell @Citizen_Chris]

What a Kiss The Sky✨

Our headliner Samatar Elmi held the room with current & ancestral lines, moving between the personal &urgent pieces on world events.

An important voice, &we were delighted to welcome him to KTS with our brilliant open micers🎙️ #poetry #spokenword #Bristol