So far!

Aye

My neighbors could tape my distant slumberings Like some far away impending thunderstorm

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Looking forward to meeting up with brilliant artist Paul Digby today in Leeds to discuss our exhibition on Fish and Chip shops which is forthcoming at Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre. So of course we’ll have fish and chips on Leeds Market! Twice oppen wi’ bits on!

Oh yes

First cup of tea: the quotidian, transcended.

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It's chilly On Scilly But only where It's hilly

The shopkeeper’s husband drops her off; we exchange thumbs-up as he drives away. I carry the papers in. The Bloke With Two Dogs counts out his change. The almost comedic bluntness of the scissors I cut the bands with.

Morning Dave

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Early stroll. A pair of plastic gloves jazz-handing the pavement. Those flowers seem to explode from that pot. Three triangles of abandoned toast. A crow seems to be waiting for the bakery to open. From a distance that full white carrier bag looks like a giant skull.

The rain In Spain Falls mainly On the plain The pants In France Require A Gallic stance The pails In Wales Are full Of foaming ales The light In Wight Fades clean away At night

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I’ll tape my snoring Make a live double album Called Sonic Midnight

I try to be

Such a brilliant bookshop @thebookvault.bsky.social !

Ha!

Looking forward to Red River Valley from @imcmillan.bsky.social, stay tuned for more information from your friendly, local* bookshop. Or beat the rush and pre-order now! *If you live near tarn

Excellent!

Pleased to announce that my new collection of poems, Red River Valley, is coming out from Carcanet Press in October. You can pre-order it from your local independent bookshop, ask your library to stock it, or take advantage of Waterstones giving a discount if you pre-order in the next 3 days.

Half dead intellectual

Rent? Spent! As they used to say down North Street!

Isla took a picture of me trying (and failing) to look poetic!

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Isla took my photo!

Isla’s sugar glider

Now dawn's light first breaks, Thoughtful, racing baby steps Through bejewelled grass.

Isla’s coming over today so we’re off to town to make some art at the brilliant and vital Barnsley Civic!

First cup of tea: and then I woke up and it wasn’t all a tea dream.

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At the shop I open the box and get the papers out. The shopkeeper arrives. The Bloke With The Dog arrives. The Bloke With Two Dogs arrives. A workman arrives. It’s like the first scene of a contemporary opera. I might write it one day.

Early stroll. Light’s grip seems to tighten. A pigeon shows off by flying away. A faint wafting scent of bacon. Two buses pass, going to NOT IN SERVICE; I’ve been there. Ripe blackberries punctuate a hedge.

Self-portrait with Rothko at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence

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Don’t think so

Peak District An insomniac sheep shrieks beyond the low stone wall alongside which I lie, attempting sleep. This is fine. @imcmillan.bsky.social

Sleep scuttled out the bedroom door. Sad, I search for. Upstairs. Downstairs. Maybe, back in bed?

My bedside clock stopped; It was forever midnight. Until it wasn’t.

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www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... Evening stroll soundtrack: more brilliant Black Dyke Band at the BBC Proms @bbcsounds.bsky.social

Afraid not; I’ll be there the week before and on the 1st

Each equinox noon around the equator's girth denies shadow's birth

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I wake at half-six. My body's inner workings Force me from my bed.

The restless small hours, a poem unfolds, perfect -- I wake, and it's gone.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... Afternoon stroll soundtrack: this brilliant BBC Prom with the Black Dyke Band. @bbcsounds.bsky.social

Looking forward to meeting up with ace artist Iain Nicholls today to spout some arty/poety talk!

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