norskpen.no/wp-content/u... My latest report into Kurdish Linguistic Rights in the Courtroom in Turkey for PEN. Delighted to be working with Helena el Masri of the Institute of Linguists to produce a new booklet on Turkish-Kurdish Legal Interpreting. Due out this Autumn in Kurdish and Turkish.

Whatever the intentions of the Government bringing it forth, compulsory ID means they and subsequent Governments control your citizenship and statehood. Labour cannot guarantee how any successors will use this. It is a fundamentally oppressive proposal and cannot be allowed to happen.

NO NO NO to digital ID. I will not comply.

Time for human rights NGOs (I work for one) to get even more creative and relevant to people on the street instead of reporting mainly to others with similar interests. Too many of our warnings and reports are not heard or read by the mass public. Oh, and fuck Trump and all white supremacists.

Ah, the old Polish poetry prick-tease move. But just wait until my Czechowicz translations cum out. ;)

Do join us for my online life-writing/memoir workshop 26/11 with the excellent @saloneurope.bsky.social to write and read about objects and memory, Proust, social history, archiving the body, Ernaux and more. Book fast as nearly sold out! Be great to see you there! eventbrite.co.uk/e/things-we-...

Very happy to hear that Egyptian activist and human rights defender Alaa Abd el-Fattah is finally free, despite his release being well overdue. Congratulations to @englishpen.bsky.social for all their work to campaign for him. Joining PEN, donating or volunteering makes a remarkable difference.

On stage last night, got laughs for my jokes about Welsh mythology, oh yeah!! 🤍✨🎩🤣👍🏽🫖🌦️

You can read @andreamason.bsky.social brilliant short story @minorliteratures.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2023/09/21/t..., but you'll really want to get yourself a copy the print version too ;-) 👇 🔥🔥🔥

Performed a comedic phone call at this event last night. A call between Ms Line Ford, Resident and Mr Dan Dŵr, Head of Underwater Complaints in the realm of Lleu, God of the Sea, complaining about destructive storm of 1877. People laughed at the jokes! It went very well. Dan Dŵr means ‘underwater’

Painting for a friend in New York. Hey, they’re rough but I had something like this is my head since visiting his apartment, so hope he likes it.

Painted a picture for my colleague’s new house in Greece. 👍🏽✨

No regrets on leaving the city. 🫖🤍✨ As much as I need culture, art and live music I need beauty and the purity of the less-inhabited space. Will still visit you, Bristol, let’s do art/performance swaps.

Good morning. Together with @littletollerbooks.bsky.social we publish a very important book The destruction of our peat lands is of international concern. 40 nature writers incl. Rob Macfarlane - Amy Liptrot - Horatio Clare & music legend Patti Smith. You can order here: www.littletoller.co.uk

NATIONAL ALBUM DAY 2025: Now with added The Jesus and Mary Chain, Lou Reed, The Stranglers, New Model Army, Manic Street Preachers, and more. Check the full list below for previously announced limited special edition vinyl. www.normanrecords.com/promos/1327

11 miles up to the lakes, Llynnoedd Cregennan 🤍✨🍰🫖 powered by cake and laffs.

‘Evening’ - #RSThomas (No Truce with the Furies, @BloodaxeBooks)

as if by magic

If you want to talk to your kids about climate change without terrifying them, this is a good, hopeful place to start… www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

You are the music while the music lasts. T. S. Eliot

Teapot. Mario Bellini. c.1987. Image: Cooper Hewitt. 

With @andreamason.bsky.social et al. 🔥🔥🔥https://www.wearebardbooks.co.uk/event-details/22-fictions-short-story-salon?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR52r2Mgm7DlyyPGL9881_ECO6wXbVa-Pc3Ay3-le_LoBFiMPYZtSoFLzfZmKQ_aem_a5Dx10MxMA5-BGD0xK-8Jw

Facebook just tried market me a photo of a handsome man as an AI boyfriend. I’m stunned. And feel a bit sick. Their selling point was that he’d say ‘good night’ every night. Baby, those who spend the night with me are too tired to talk by then. Keep your terrifying robots. 🤖

(Many of these essays appeared first in Exacting Clam)

antics of waves memorised in banks of cloud (from my sofa 🛋️ 🌞 🌊)

🏆🙌🏽🤍✨🫖 Submissions are open to BHP September with guest editor the awesome translator and poet Alexander Booth.

music.youtube.com/watch?v=PW-l... ✨🏆🥇✨✨

“At length for hatching ripe he breaks the shell,” writes #WilliamBlake. The shell looks thick. The babe or cherub looks up ready to fly. I take the cartoon to be an encouragement. Breakthroughs come in time.

My favourite - Jackson Mac Lowe 🤍✨📝

Calligraphy freestyle practice no.1

Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah resumed a full hunger strike on September 1 following unfulfilled promises made to him by national security officers that he would be released within days after his removal from the terrorist list. He is only drinking water. #FreeAlaa

Uragh stone circle, Ciorcal Cloch Uragh in Irish, is on the Beara peninsula between Cork and Kerry in Ireland. It is a five stone Neolithic circle with a huge outlier on a small hillock between Lough Inchiquin and Lough Cloonee Upper. #StandingStoneSunday

Timeless humour! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA #Archaeology

I say "I don't know... that's scary..." a lot because of this comic

Everyone who's alive should be reading Essex Hemphill "Who dares to tell us we are poor and powerless? We keep treasure any king would count as dear."

Queen of Spades, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of Art Nouveau and the Glasgow School #WomensArt

here are wonders supernatural

The time is now. Right now. Time for literally all of us to push back against fascism. You don't have to and literally can't do EVERYTHING. Don't worry about that! Just pick the one or two issues/things you know and care about and join the people who are doing practical things to help.

‘Return’ - #RSThomas (Between Here and Now, #Dychwelyd #Return #Bardd #Barddoniaeth #Cerdd #Poet #Poetry #Poem

You can download ESSAYS OF TRAVEL as a free ebook from @gutenberg.org www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/627

“if I tell you of what once happened to a friend of mine, it is by no means to tantalise you with false hopes; for the adventure was unique” —Robert Lous Stevenson recounts a friend’s uncanny encounter in a forest in France, in “Forest Notes 1875–6”, from ESSAYS OF TRAVEL #BookWormSat 💙📚

Happy Holiday http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/martin-happy-holiday-ar00179

A.I. YOKOHAMA YANKEES TWELVE… by David Earl Williams out now from C22 Open Editions! Hillbilly Dada and anti-DaDa dadaist poetry Read for free or buy in print! c22press.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/a...

AlJazeera space article translexified w Naked Lunch 😮‍💨😂 #play #noAI 3 gigaparasec black hole massive cigarette fires may not always shake the way we thought the biggest-known whorl of intermittent faint music used his cock pulsing wave detectors black cobwebs are cosmic objects blue dress of space

Bristol friends, Shearsman book fans, come to East Bristol Books 18 September to hear not me (well, me, too) but the splendid Frances Presley and Andrew Duncan. I have such admiration for them both. Share? www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...

Hurrah! this is the way to sail now. Every keel a sunbeam!

I was listening to John Cage and saw a panther in the room by @njapoetry.bsky.social out now from C22 Press! Check out our latest full-length release. Read for free or buy in print! c22press.wordpress.com/2025/08/06/i...

Procrastination supreme or resting, as I should, with a cracked rib? - anyway, watching The Traitors in French 😂