News I very much did not expect. Delighted that We Both Say has been selected as the Autumn '26 pamphlet choice by the Poetry Book Society!

The Madonna album. Actually great!! nice

Long shot, but are there any Literature academics out there who would be willing to part with their print copy of the journal English from Spring 2025? It's the special issue I edited on poetry archives, but it is proving very difficult to obtain an extra copy from the publisher...

Genuinely the first paragraph of a Guardian review of... a TV show by Larry David

Fantastic

This new Bedouine album. Yes please!

Out now 🗣️🗣️ Thank you @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @godzillakent.bsky.social for publishing this & for believing in it Thank you to anyone who has/might/will spend their hard-earned money on this little book. It blows my mind that anyone would & I hope v much you find something in it that you like

We Both Say maps a long-distance relationship across difference, distance, & the interference of the world's crises. The poems move between letters, storms, & time zones, finding in the gap between two people a space intimate & politically charged www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Rumours that my book is still set to come out at the end of the month, and that author copies arrived today, are devastatingly true www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

A pleasure to be joining this wonderful lineup on May 29th for the online @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social May launch. Pay-what-you-want tix available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...

poem idea: start every line with "Richard Dawkins concludes" and basically it's just a litany of things that make him sound deeply friendless

My first book, We Both Say, will be out in the world on May 31st. Pre-order here: www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page... While you're there, have a browse & grab something else. There are few publishers where there truly is something for everyone, but @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social is one of them

My first book of poems, We Both Say, is out on May 31st with the good folks at @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social. You can pre-order it right now: www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

My first book of poems, We Both Say, is out on May 31st with the good folks at @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social. You can pre-order it right now: www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

new Geese song 'Taxes' is great

Very happy to have a new poem, 'Someone You Know and Someone You Don't', in the latest issue of @poetrybrum.bsky.social, which is full of treats and can (and should) be bought from their website

Happily, I passed my viva with minor corrections yesterday afternoon and am now the sort of doctor who will be of no use at all if you're, say, bleeding out on a plane. Thank you to my supervisors Tiffany Atkinson & Jeremy Noel-Tod, and examiners Luke Kennard & Holly Corfield Carr!

World Poetry Day seems as good a time as any to announce that my debut pamphlet of poetry will be published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social in 2026 📖

Excellent, I hate small talk. To me, every social interaction should open with something like this

Submitted a PhD today. If I was interesting enough to have haters, boy - what a bad day for them this would be. Or, depending on their hater ethos, a great day. Would the haters and I perhaps be on the same side today? Sadly, we'll never know

2025 is difficult

Really happy that Peter Gizzi won the TS Eliot Prize. The new Ela Minus album is great. New Perfume Genius song is too. I hand in my PhD very soon and will be able to read books for 'pleasure' again

What a crossover

Arooj Aftab on Colbert is what we like to see: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaGu...