The Aftershock Review
Max Wallis (Aftershock Review), Dale Booton, Dr Anna PercyBacked by Arts Council England, The Aftershock Review is a radical poetry journal of survival and aftermath—publishing fierce, necessary work on trauma, queerness, class, madness, and recovery. Print ISSN 2976-9752 Online ISSN 2976-9760
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 116 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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Aftershock Poets Begins
I am thrilled to announce the first collections in the new Aftershock Poets series coming throughout 2026. I am also going to be looking for another collection and launching a limited New Voices pamphlet series.
HARD GRAFT
by Di Slan...
Dear Aftershock Readers, Poets, Friends: I am tired
What a year it has been.
In the last twelve months, The Aftershock Review has published five books, 393 poems, and 210 poets. We have reached readers far beyond anything I imagined when this began.
And I am proud of that. Deeply proud.
B...
5 Books, 393 Poems, 210 Poets: Just 1 Year
This has been quite the undertaking, dear friends.
But here we go: 112 poems. 69 poets.
Someone once asked me, when I started all this: how can you possibly hope to fill books with that many poets? Do that many people really write about t...
drag queens at the Albert Dock by Jeremy Dixon (i.m. Dr Gary Jenkins)
Editorial Note by Max Wallis
Jeremy Dixon’s “drag queens at the Albert Dock” takes phrases that pretend to be harmless and lets them accumulate until their violence becomes unmistakable. Each remark alters how a queer body moves, speaks,...
New books out now!
Hello everyone,
(Scroll down for a poem by Troy Capida in Dirty Laundry!)
In strange times I’m proud that our two new Pocket Aftershocks are available to buy now: Dirty Laundry and Psychosis and Our Other Madnesses.
They are small books,...
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Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
My personal account but the main substack is @aftershockpoetry - Arts Council funded magazine publishing the best poetry from trauma.
Queer poet from Birmingham. Two Poetry pamphlets: ‘Walking Contagions’ (Polari Press) and ‘On This Stretch of Queerland’ (Fourteen Poems).
Co-editor Aftershock Review, recent PhD graduate writing on madness and the environment.
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