Latest review, of this brilliant book: matthewpaulpoetry.blog/2025/11/07/r... #fiction #stories #reviews

Might be a bit early to think about curry (not in my world), but luckily this isn't really about curry

Tonight!

The beautiful 124-year-old East Wing of The White House, all of which is owned by The United States National Park Service, is being destroyed this week without any authorization. And yes, that includes the demolition of the first family’s beloved movie theater, constructed in 1942.

✨WORKSHOPS NEXT WEEK✨ ✨Writing the Uncanny with Pam Thompson Mon 27 Oct, 7pm ✨ 'Florida and Churches' with Rachel Long Wed 29 Oct, 11am Sign up here: buytickets.at/thepoetrybus... @pamthompson240.bsky.social

No Kings 10/18/2025 Favorite signs

I’m looking forward to reading alongside Mark Corcoran and Polly Howell at the Yew Tree Press event at the Museum in the Park in Stroud next Thursday evening, 7.30 for 8.00. yewtreepress.co.uk/Yew_Tree_Pre...

Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.

This Is Fascism

Thrilled to be reading poems from my collection 'Guerrilla Country' as a guest of Needlewriters in Lewes on Thursday evening, alongside Robert Hamberger and PD Viner - upstairs at the John Harvey Tavern needlewriters.co.uk/2025/07/27/r...

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

When in Mytholmroyd. Would be rude not to.

Tonight! Poetry! Free!

#Bowie has always been an inspiration to me, whether I'm writing sons or #poetry. Or even if I'm just pondering the vagaries of life. Never more so than when I was a teenager - but perhaps I have never completely grown out of him.

They aren't bringing ID cards in to make people's lives easier, they are specifically bringing them in to make certain people's lives harder.

Mandatory ID cards are a terrible, terrible idea iandunt.substack.com/p/id-cards-a...

I’m very much looking forward to being part of this.

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

genuinely crying at this one

Oh me, oh my.

✨WORKSHOP NEXT WEEK✨ 🎨 Bright Words: Poetry and Colour with Theresa Muñoz 🌈 Tues 23 Sept, 11am Sign up here: buytickets.at/thepoetrybus... @munozpoems.bsky.social @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social

UK "Free Speech" latest: Four members of @ledbydonkeys.org were arrested for this.

Lovely night last night reading alongside the wonderful @pimlottkathy.bsky.social and Peter Sansom at the mighty @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social. Thanks to them, Ross Bradshaw and Tim Fellows.

Tomorrow evening in Nottingham. fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/poetr...

My thanks to Holly Magill and Claire Walker for accepting this poem of mine. 🙏

I’m delighted to have three poems featured on Fokkina McDonnell’s blog: acaciapublications.co.uk/2025/09/11/t...

Bonkers South Korean company Hyundai is investing $12.6 billion in Republican led Georgia - the largest industrial investment in Georgia's's history So Trump's Gestapo arrested 475 of it's staff, mostly Koreans, their largest single arrest in its history

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

V pleased (understatement) to have a poem in London Grip magazine wilderspoolcauseway.com/2025/09/01/l...

Delighted to be included in issue #10 of the Fig Tree with my football (and life) related poem Extra Time ⚽️

Death among the windfalls.

Here's how the real two-tier Britain works: 1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off. 2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵

✨The North Online Writing Workshop: a rather special fundraiser for The Poetry Business✨ Saturday 13th September, 11am £35 In this inspirational workshop Ann and Peter draw on outstanding poems from forty years of their and your magazine, The North. More details: buytickets.at/thepoetrybus...

Concert outside the White House! #cdnpoli

Three weeks until this 👇🏼. Please buy a ticket and come along! @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social @pimlottkathy.bsky.social

Postbox - Scotland's International Short Story Magazine - have published my story 'The Tarn' in issue 11, Spring 2025. A cornucopia of short fiction to read, in a lovely, professionally produced, magazine. www.redsquirrelpress.com

Get ready! The 2026 International Book & Pamphlet Competition and the 2026 New Poets Prize are opening for entries soon. 🏆 Judges: @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social & @hollyhopkins.bsky.social OPEN FOR ENTRIES FROM 1 OCTOBER Deadline 2 November 2025 Find out more: poetrybusiness.co.uk/competitions/

Thrilled to have poems in the latest issue of #TheNorth from @poetrybusiness.bsky.social, alongside so many poets whose poems I admire.

Some facts: ● Connolly pleaded guilty. ● Her appeal failed in May and her sentence was upheld. (See image on the right) ● She's only been released because she's served 40% of her sentence and that's the automatic release point. ● It says everything about our press that they're siding with her

2 weeks today @cbeditions.bsky.social: essays on Bouillon, Oxford, Sheerness, Bruges; the monstering of my teacher Chris Jefferies; Shopping Centres; Trains,Stations,Bridges; Mallarmé & Terrorism; Vallotton & Spilliaert; Ears. Plus vexed question of the 'Poet's Novel'. Special thanks to @lrb.co.uk

100 Women's Rights Organisations, including @rapecrisis.bsky.social, @refugecharity.bsky.social, & @evawuk.bsky.social have signed a letter warning that attempts to link rape & violence against women & girls to immigration is a racist distraction. They urge the govt to address dangerous narrative

A bit of #psychogeography - matthewpaulpoetry.substack.com/p/on-the-wal...

"The Dutch River was a correction, an attempt to alleviate the flooding caused by the re-routing of the Don. It is still the Don, as it nears the Ouse, the Don turned brackish and tidal, it is more than the Don and less than the Don, all rivers and none." longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/dutch-river

Four weeks until this👇🏼. Please come along. Kathy and Peter are both amazing poets and I’m not bad either, I like to think.

Morning pages, with my critical friend. #poetry