This post from @nickasbury.bsky.social sums it up well nickasbury.substack.com/p/embarrassi...

Excellent and insightful as always – @nickasbury.bsky.social on the Sweeney Jeans furore and the concept of manufactured dissent.

Latest and possibly last post on purpose in advertising and branding, for anyone interested nickasbury.substack.com/p/stengel-an...

‘Lost in the wash’, Patrick Baglee reviews Nick Asbury’s book The Road to Hell on the Eye blog, www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/lo... #brandmadness #purpose

Review of The Road to Hell in @eyemagazine.bsky.social www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/lo...

Further dispatches from Wordlesworth, where I plan my guesses to maximise the chances of poetry occurring, then post the results to an account no one follows on Instagram.

Every parent prays their kid is never the victim, but the deeper terror is that they could somehow turn into the perpetrator. A barely 13-year-old kid from an apparently happy, functional family phoning Childline to ask this – the heart breaks.

Reposting my tweet here as such is modern life

If anyone who follows me can suggest a few other people for me to follow, that would be nice - feel like I’m well short of critical mass. Heterodox-in-a-good-way or cheerfully apolitical would be cool.

I have pontificated about the purpose vibe shift in Marketing Week today. Please read if you have a subscription, or just assume I’m right. marketingweek.com/brand-purpose-…

@nickasbury.bsky.social I accidentally played Wordlesworth today

Anagrampersand – a poem where each line is an anagram of ‘ampersand’. My contribution to Studio Sutherland’s excellent ‘A collaboration of ampersands’, which documents an ongoing creative obsession.

See the face you love light up with the realisation that purpose is the dry ice in the disco of corporatism amzn.eu/d/5sZTAVc

Nice shot of me and the 1985 Everton lads out in the pub last night

From 1933  www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/91631/...

Cruising into the holidays with a nice, uncontroversial post about DEI in advertising. nickasbury.substack.com/p/my-inheren...

Instead of sending Christmas cards this year, I’m making a donation to Unilever, to support their unsung work in making the world a better place via sales of mayonnaise and deodorant. In return, all I ask is a reasonable tax deduction and some borrowed interest for my book...

Fun to be part of this conversation with Martin Farrar-Smith, Gemma Ballinger, Daisy Phillips (Sheppard) and Alex Myers. We talked all things Purpose, from Simon Sinek to Jesus Christ, altruism to cancel culture. Spotify: lnkd.in/eg82RnkC Apple: lnkd.in/eh26JmHP

A Syria poem and a Notre Dame poem – both from five years ago, when I was chronicling the news with chronic wordplay. #realtime_notes

Still quietly plugging away at Wordlesworth, where I try to plan guesses to maximise the chances of a decent poem. Fun coming up with the titles too. Full collection over on Instagram.

I believe the attack will start in Kansas

True test of Bluesky is how it deals with a logo controversy

Feels like too nice a place to be posting this, but if you feel like some down-and-dirty politics, here's my latest post on Substack nickasbury.substack.com/p/the-post-p...

Posting some really good stuff over on X if anyone wants to find me there x.com/asburyandasb...

Me talking about the thing I always talk about – purpose. Mixed in with questions of credibility, authenticity and specific mentions of Dove, Nike, Jack Daniel's, Airbnb, Audi, BrewDog, Haagen-Dazs, Baileys and VW. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxtN...

I have so far failed to engage properly in BlueSky and I hang my head/profile pic in shame. But now I have a book to promote, so I'll try again. It's called The Road to Hell. Cover by David Pearson. Pre-order here (and pre-thanks if you do). amzn.eu/d/6ZXuji9

Latest from Songwritings, my ongoing conversation with @katevanderborgh.bsky.social about songs, writing and songwriting. This is a song written by me and brought to life by Kate, set to a 1935 cartoon by Max Fleischer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-oF...

If you’ve never seen The Book Cover Review, you’re in for a treat – smart reviews by some of the best in the business. I’ve snuck in with a review that’s more about the writing than the design. bookcoverreview.co.uk/reviews/lyri...

One from the archives for Gerard Houllier. There were many ‘instant obituary’ poems in Realtime Notes, which I like to think resonate more because you know they were written in the moment.

Perpetual Disappointments Diary: not a new edition but works equally disappointingly for any year. Click the link and get it done. www.amazon.co.uk/Perpetual-Di...

Quiet nod of solidarity to whichever writer had to come up with 100 puns for the Observer gift guide. You played a tough hand well.

Memories of Andy Burnham, with whom not much rhymes #realtime_notes

That time when Noel Edmonds was first to be voted off #ImACeleb Always liked writing about this stuff – I think poetry should do more of it #realtime_notes #poetry

Still trying to get into the habit of using Bluesky more often – seems like a nice place with an unexpectedly bookish and arty slant. For anyone interested, here are some things I've been writing recently: nickasbury.substack.com/p/dispatches...

Found poem with a killer last couplet. #NorthernOuthouse

Nice to appear in The Greenhouse with four poems from Realtime Notes. The project continues to have an afterlife after I spent 3.5 strange years writing poems at a rate of at least on a day. #poetry #books

Had a great chat with Joshua Landis about the Gaza War and its long term implications. You can watch here or listen on the Nonzero podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHhh...

From 2018, but good to see words used with such skill under the highest pressure. Don’t know the name of the writer but it’s for Muslims Against Anti-Semitism UK.

I'm a writer/poet mainly but have a side-interest in Tin Pan Alley songwriting. I write songs and musician/writer Kate van der Borgh performs & records them. Then we both have deep, rambling conversations about it. Niche, but nice. #songwriting #tinpanalley songwritings.substack.com/p/to-the-hea...

Please blame @john-self.bsky.social for me being here