
Luke Palmer
@lcpalmerpoet
Novels 'Grow' & 'Play' @FireflyPress
Debut poetry collection 'Homunculus' @brokensleep
Pamphlets @theredceilings & @Prolebooks
Rep'd @LandRAgency (he/him)
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An absolute sucker punch of a novel. Still reeling. #Play is raw and vital and real. And that ending... 🤯💔😭 Luke Palmer Firefly Press Stunning.



I've been highly commended in this year's Forward Prizes. Needless to say I am very pleased. The poem - Homunculus with Object Permanence - is taken from my debut collection, out now with Broken Sleep Books. brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/l…

The Redhill Academy Trust Young Adult Award Shortlist Book 5! #Play Luke Palmer Firefly Press Redhill Academy Trust #RHATBA


Huge congratulations to the shortlisted six for The Redhill Academy Trust Young Adult Book Award 2024-2025 Redhill Academy Trust #RHATBA Luke Palmer Ruby Clyde #DanielleJawando #BenOliver @margaretmcpens Anika Hussain / A.S. Hussain

Congratulations to Luke Palmer (Luke Palmer)! Whose poem ‘Homunculus with Object Permanence’, from Homunculus published by Broken Sleep Books, is Highly Commended in The Forward Prizes for Poetry. Read it in The Forward Book of Poetry 2025. forwardartsfoundation.org/book/the-forwa…


THRILLED to have some of the brilliant Broken Sleep Books exceptional collections in the all-poetry online bookshop incl these recent beauties by #RushikaWick #RhianElizabeth @JlmMorton Luke Palmer & #EmilyAbdeniHolman Check em out vervepoetrybookshop.com


Two weeks today! Dorchester Literary Festival School Programme begins Thomas Hardye School You lucky students. We welcome….. Maz Evans Jack Meggitt-Phillips Simon James Green Luke Palmer & #mattdickinson #jamesturner #stevemay #literaryfestival



We're delighted to have four books nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing 2025! 🌟 Me and Aaron Ramsey by Manon Steffan Ros 🌟 Play by Luke Palmer 🌟 Skrimsli by Nicola Davies 🎨 @JackieMorrisArt 🌟 Doughnuts, Thieves and Chimpanzees by Alex Wharton 🎨 Rhi Smith


Delighted that Play has been nominated for the The Carnegies this year, and to see so many fellow Fireflies there too. Congratulations Manon Steffan Ros, Alex Wharton and @JackieMorrisArt


.Firefly Press has signed Live, a third novel by Luke Palmer and a 'homage to the love of music and the teenage dream' bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-d… (£)





Very excited to get home from a few days in the sun to find a final copy of Luke Palmer Live waiting for me.even more excited that my words are in the back cover! Such a brilliant book, I'm very proud to be shouting about this book. Firefly Press



This is amazing writing. The energy and chemistries of the teenagers are so well described I could visualise and relate to the games the boys got up to. By Luke Palmer #carnegies2025 #YA justinelaismith.wordpress.com/2025/07/05/rev…

I don't often come on here anymore, but I just wanted to say a huge thanks to Steve Blackman for his review of Live in PaperBound Magazine. It's been a tough few weeks, and I shed a few tears over his kindness and response to the book. Cheers Steve - I owe you one. X
