there is no safety in monopolies for marginalized people. every new partner these companies attract (be it a library system, a chain store, indie shop, or small press) makes them only stronger. you don't end a monopoly (or protect a minority) by giving in.

happy birthday @kblair.bsky.social!!!!

It's been such a busy couple of days, performing poetry in the Barbican curve gallery in response to the current exhibition by Julia Phillips, then Saturday visited the TFL depot museum followed by delicious melon soda floats because I'm the birthday boi! 🍈 🍨 🍒

Exciting things are happening in the kith shop kithbooks.com

Sadly my wee publishing company is closing next month. I’m clearing out my goffice and offering 66% off all our exceptionally talented author’s books. Sales and shares appreciated!

Pre-orders are live! It's been such a privilege to work with kith to put this pamphlet out into the world, I'm so excited for everyone to read these poems 🫀🎥🎞️🔪

Please keep the Iranian people in your hearts

Attention, UK residents! Shipping costs from the US can be frightful but we've got you. @kblair.bsky.social's The Death Of The Cult Classic has a local shipping option. kithbooks.com/shop/p/cultclassic

7 hours of silence from the Prime Minister. The US is using UK bases. The President is openly talking about destroying a civilisation. And Downing Street says... nothing. If you won’t speak up now, when will you?

I'm K.Blair, a poet based in London. I love horror, fried egg sandwiches, and was once described as 'the best dressed poem in any room' 💌 My website: www.kblair.co.uk Pre-order my book here: www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/cultc...

Pre-orders are live! It's been such a privilege to work with kith to put this pamphlet out into the world, I'm so excited for everyone to read these poems 🫀🎥🎞️🔪

"easy to build an altar if you’re never thinking about follow through / spin the bottle / take the turn a little too fast / CCTV IS IN OPERATION / put on a show if you’re going to crash" THE DEATH OF THE CULT CLASSIC by @kblair.bsky.social is open for preorder kithbooks.com/shop/p/cultclassic

Indentured labourers typically had shorter periods of indenture than this in the 19-th century British empire.

Nothing says Easter like the M*A*S*H spam lamb, remember Charles Lamb alongside the flashy Easter bunny and the risen lord

And lo my father wrestles with the savage beaft (the milk frother on his new coffee machine)

I've been working on this anthology since last summer - reading submissions, editing our contributors' wonderful stories, typesetting, designing the cover, learning the nuts and bolts of being an indie publisher. I can't wait to share the end product with you all.

Some actual good news. I hope they can manage to keep it open.

It’s poetry month! And I have a poetry book! TIME TRAVEL IS EASY examines Deep Time, queerness, childhood traumas, dinosaurs, and the dread of the late Anthropocene. It includes my Rhysling-nominated poem “Toward a Cladistic Analysis of Hauntings.” Available here: mimulus.weebly.com/books.html

The full programme of #QueerEast Festival 2026 is here! Discover LGBTQ+ cinema, performances, and arts from East and Southeast Asia and beyond, taking place 1 May - 6 June in venues across London. Full line-up: queereast.org.uk/festival-2026/

for #transdayofvisibility here's a print I made a few years back. just a couple left. shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/tran...

It was an honour and privilege to perform in the Barbican conservatory yesterday as part of the Young Creative takeover ❤️ I performed work from my upcoming pamphlet and new work I'd written as part of the young poets programme. A lovely gaggle of pals in the audience, so lucky to have that support!

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

Tickets are sold out! So excited to perform, the conservatory is such a beautiful space 🪴

Making peanut butter and black sesame cookies while jamming out to Haute & Freddy because sometimes you have to stave off the stress and sorrow with whatever works

Full line up announced, I'll be performing alongside Olive Franklin, Tyler Austin, Yanita Georgieva, Kareem Parkins-Brown, Bidhya Limbu and Theresa Lola ❤️

sometimes i read a fantasy novel and i can tell the author's primary inspirations are other (often recent) fantasy media

Everyone go see Bouchra, it is funny, beautifully soundscaped, deeply moving, highly recommend and it's screening at the ICA till Thursday

Reasons my roommates' cat is mad at me: 1) I won't let her into my bedroom to fight the other cat that lives in the wardrobe mirror 2) I won't let her wind around/attack my legs while I'm ironing

Booked tickets to see Bouchra at the ICA and this will make the second time I have taken a straight man to see a lesbian film at the ICA specifically. Last time was All Shall Be Well, which was heartbreakingly beautiful.

A frankly astonishing number of clocks in my gym and all of them the wrong time

Full line up announced, I'll be performing alongside Olive Franklin, Tyler Austin, Yanita Georgieva, Kareem Parkins-Brown, Bidhya Limbu and Theresa Lola ❤️

This is a scandal at the heart of the NHS …

My t-shirt that says 'yeah, i think male poets sometimes believe that sharing their emotions on stage is the same as being emotionally mature' remains ever relevant, especially seeing who male poets choose to honour on International Women's Day

Visited The White Cube in Bermondsey yesterday with friends, which currently has an exhibition by Klára Hosnedlová, called Echo. I love embroidery, it's one of my hobbies, so really enjoyed seeing this masterful technique up close. I loved the scale of the work and how it filled the gallery space.

Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful. Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.

And in red!

Yes, the French booksellers association forced the Paris Book Festival to drop Amazon sponsorship due to Amazon "seeking to flood the market with fake AI-generated books, promoted by fake reviews, written by fake readers [which rise] to the top of fake rankings"💥 MORE OF THIS, PLEASE 💥

I enjoy Stephen Graham Jones work, so knew that I would probably enjoy The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, but glad to have it confirmed, it is excellent and I think the choices made for the audiobook were wonderful, adding voice layering and sound design enhanced the experience

This sold out within one day! Excited to share poems inspired by Julia Phillips work, I feel very lucky to be part of a programme that encourages interaction with other artistic crafts

Planning my set list, there will be poems from my upcoming pamphlet with @kithbooks.bsky.social as well as the new work I've been writing in BYP so come along, grab a ticket!

Starmer and friends have moved the country *right* and to deny that is to give a middle finger to the many people they have hurt

This is an incredible chart from Al Jazeera. It shows just how barbaric US foreign policy has been, bombing ten countries this century. The United States is a nation addicted to war.

April 10th in the Barbican Curve, this years BYP cohort will be performing poems in response to the exhibition, Julia Phillips - Inside, Before They Speak. Free to attend but booking a ticket is required. Come join us for an evening of poems and sculpture! www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

DON'T BUY TRAIN TICKETS IN ADVANCE! On 1 April, the government is quietly changing the rules. Off-Peak & Anytime tickets become non-refundable after 23:59 the day BEFORE you travel. If you wake up & find your event cancelled, NO REFUNDS, even on £100+ tickets. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/far...

This, 1000 times over. You cannot beat the weapon that is "the hatred of sexual freedom" by agreeing with it, even tacitly.

I have the privilege of performing poems at the Young Barbican Takeover Festival on the 29/03/26 🧡 In addition to poetry performances, there's cinema screenings and workshops and a makers' market! Book your festival pass here (it gets you into all the events) www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

Picked up Lost in the Garden by Adam S. Leslie ( @deadinkbooks.bsky.social ) by chance and I'm enjoying it so much! The prose carries me along so well, it's delightful and the entire pun section was perfect to read aloud to my pun fanatic partner

If you live in the UK, read Elia's article, send it to everyone you know and get to work. This is a critical period in British history and things will get very bad if we don't turn this around. There is much to do and the stakes are huge but we have 3.5 years to make things better. Do it. Please 🙏

When I was child, I read a book about the beast of Bodmin Moor that was on the bookshelf in a holiday cottage and was obsessed

Apply & share! @englishpen.bsky.social writing residencies for "writers currently based in England who identify as experiencing displacement – including (but not only) refugee writers, writers seeking asylum, and writers in exile." www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...