Great poetry readings at Blackwell's Newcastle this week from @corrintachibana.bsky.social @samszanto.bsky.social and @marymulholland.bsky.social. Always lovely to meet a fellow @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social author too! @saltpublishing.com @livecanon.bsky.social

Next week’s Lime Square Poets special guest is the brilliant Daniel Hinds. Sign up using the link below and read a poem of your own during the open mic @danielghinds.bsky.social #poetrycommunity #LimeSquarePoets #poetsonbluesky #poetry #booksky #writingcommunity

Another excellent open mic tonight. And I took the opportunity to promote the #poetrycommunity on BlueSky, in particular the brilliant #PromptCombo & #PoemsAbout prompts, as well as my forthcoming #PoetryTheme. Next week’s guest poet is the excellent @danielghinds.bsky.social Looking forward to that

Excellent news, Daniel! I'm looking forward to your upcoming online reading, hosted by the stellar #LimeSquarePoets 💚

My upcoming online event with Lime Square Poets where I will be reading from my debut @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social poetry collection New Famous Phrases is now listed on the National Poetry Library website here. Come along if you want to listen/read a poem! www.southbankcentre.co.uk/venues/natio...

Poetry events 2 days in a row - what a treat! Stunning poems from Amanda Dalton & @pimlottkathy.bsky.social tonight courtesy of @cafewriters.bsky.social. Enjoyed reading the poem The Magi's Camel from my debut @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social collection New Famous Phrases too! Thanks to the hosts.

Really enjoyed everyone's poems at yesterday's @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social open mic. Enjoyed reading Epimetheus on His Crag, Aneirin, & Cryptid (The Mystery of Water) from my @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social collection New Famous Phrases too! Thanks to the hosts Polly & @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

Does anyone know of any literary magazines or anthologies that accept previously published poems? Thinking of sending out a few from the collection.

Poetry lovers! BBC Radio lovers! Music lovers! This one is for YOU. BBC Contains Strong Language Festival is coming to Bradford for the first time. What a line up 😍

All events are now bookable for the BBC Contains Strong Language festival coming to Bradford 18-21 September! We're proud partners, alongside BBC Arts and Bradford City of Culture, in bringing CSL to Bradford for the first time. Book now! bradford2025.co.uk/programme/bbc-contains-strong-language/

ONLINE LAUNCH: Pay-what-you-want tickets are available for our August Zoom launch, featuring readings from Will Alexander, Lucy Hurst, Jo Morris Dixon, Sam Retallick, Adam Barret, Jonathan Dunne & Yordan Efftimov. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...

If anyone is taking part in the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social, I have a few signed copies left of my debut poetry collection New Famous Phrases. If you would like me to post one to you DM me (£12.99). Or you can order direct from my publisher @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social #sealeychallenge

If anyone is taking part in the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social, I have a few signed copies left of my debut poetry collection New Famous Phrases. If you would like me to post one to you DM me (£12.99). Or you can order direct from my publisher @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social #sealeychallenge

Delighted that we have been awarded a Green Impact Gold Award for our work to make the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences more sustainable. Enjoyed attending the Sustainability Celebration event, in recognition of this, earlier this month too! @sagencl.bsky.social @sciencesncl.bsky.social

A stellar evening of poetry from @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social: The insight of Tamiko Dooley, the striking imagery of Imogen Cassels & the precision of @metapheric.bsky.social. Enjoyed reading Acedia from my @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social collection New Famous Phrases too. Thanks Anna & Zoe for hosting!

Centre for Writing will 'support forgotten North' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It’s almost time for another year of Durham Book Festival, and to tide you over until the full programme is released in August, we’ve got five events open for booking right now! All happening at Gala Durham and livestreamed. Find out more and book tickets: newwritingnorth.com/durham-book-...

I was fortunate to spend some time with Liam's excellent poetry earlier this year. Highly recommend taking him up on his offer in the below post!

Really impressive poems at the @cafewriters.bsky.social event tonight: the dark & punchy poems of @livtuckwrites.bsky.social & the witty & sharply observed work of @tomsastry.bsky.social. Enjoyed reading the poem Earth Giant from my debut @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social collection at the open mic too.

ONLINE LAUNCH: Pay-what-you-want tickets are available now for our July launch, with readings from Meier, Peter Hughes, Richard Skinner, Sammi Gale, Mary Mulholland, and Luigi Coppola & Mark Shuttleworth. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...

I have an online poetry reading coming up on the 25th September with Lime Square Poets where I'll be reading poems from my debut @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social collection New Famous Phrases. There are open mic slots available, so do come along, as I would love to hear your poems! RSVP link below.

'a poet of scale, imagination and verve' Thanks very much to The High Window and Rona Fitzgerald for this wonderful review of my debut @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social poetry collection New Famous Phrases. thehighwindowpress.com/2025/06/23/t...

I have two poems anthologised in this publication, 'Aneirin' & 'Dear Sydney Graham'. Looking forward to reading the full anthology. Many congratulations to @acidbathpublishing.bsky.social for their 5 year anniversary too!

By taking a step back from everyday experience and viewing it anew via an esoteric literary filter so as to understand it better, Hinds is reminding us that other poetries are still possible in the contemporary landscape...

Thanks very much to @roguestrands.bsky.social for reviewing my debut @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social poetry collection New Famous Phrases. I've enjoyed reading the Rogue Strands blog over the years, so great to be featured on it!

It takes real guts for a poet to plough their own furrow in a first full collection, and Daniel Hinds is to be congratulated on his achievement...

"It takes real guts for a poet to plough their own furrow in a first full collection." Matthew Stewart on Daniel Hinds' New Famous Phrases #poetry #review #poetryreview #debut @danielghinds.bsky.social @roguestrands.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social roguestrands.blogspot.com/2025/06/refr...

‪Rogue Strands reviews Daniel Hinds' (@danielghinds.bsky.social) first full collection, New Famous Phrases, from Broken Sleep Books (@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social‬)... roguestrands.blogspot.com/2025/06/refr...

NIGHT TERRORS is nearly here! #PreOrder your copy of the #anthology today at acidbathpublishing.com/product/night-terrors-an-anthology-of-the-drunk-and-debaucherous-pre-order 📚 Every order helps us keep up with print costs & continue #publishing new #books #SayYesToTheSmallPress

#PublicationDay 📦📖 NIGHT TERRORS: An #Anthology of the Drunk & Debaucherous has burst onto the scene 🥂 “The night is for all. The night releases all. This is for you, who wander in the dark.” - James Rance, Editor 💬 #OrderNow ➡️ acidbathpublishing.com

Acid Bath Publishing turns 5️⃣ today 📚🎂🎉 Huge thanks to our #authors whose work is #published across 8 #books 🥳🥂 Support their work & the press by ordering a #book #OnSale today at acidbathpublishing.com 📖📮 Thanks all for a momentous 5 years! On to the next...

Really enjoyed attending the launch of Ilisha Thiru Purcell's @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social pamphlet What She Said at Northern Stage this weekend. A clever combination of forms from Tamil poetry and north east landscapes. Great to hear @shashtrevett.bsky.social read her work too!

A good time to stock up My personal suggestions would be @rushikawick.bsky.social @danielghinds.bsky.social plus Fiona Benson and Tom Branfoot (neither of whom I can't find on here), but there's no shortage af great books on that list! 25% is a brilliant offer - don't (Broken) sleep!

Sale at @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social - my pamphlet Vital Capacity now £5.25, and so much else to explore. Have just picked up recent work by @danielghinds.bsky.social & @rushikawick.bsky.social & Rhian Elizabeth 📚 www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

There is a limited time sale on at @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social, so a good chance to order my poetry collection New Famous Phrases or some of the other wonderful books published by Broken Sleep Books! www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Less than 24 hours left to back the kickstarter for the new Summer of Sci-fi and Fantasy anthology including my story about some skeleton mercenaries sent on a mission. Check out the rewards and blurbs for some of the stories via the link 📚 🪐💙🧙‍♂️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/sci...

Thanks very much to Spellbinder Magazine for including my debut @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social poetry collection New Famous Phrases on the Celebrate Success page of their Spring issue!

Happy Star Wars day! The closest I get to being Luke Skywalker turning off his targeting computer during the Death Star trench run is when I turn off grammar and spell checks on the Word document of a poem I'm writing. #MayThe4th #Maythe4thBeWithYou

To everyone who’s bought a book from us recently: thank you. We’re reaching for just 10% of our subscribers and followers to buy a book from us, which would sustain our work in a big way. If you haven’t yet, and you can, we’d love your support. brokensleepbooks.com

Those Broken Sleep covers, man. Just a great-looking batch here. Props to Aaron who, last I checked, does them all himself.

If you have read my tribute poem to Philip Pullman in my debut @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social poetry collection New Famous Phrases, you will know how excited I am by the news of the forthcoming publication of The Rose Field, the concluding volume of The Book of Dust.

I now have the full set of my @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social book launch buddies, so my reading is sorted for the next few months! @daraghfleming.bsky.social @postpran.bsky.social

I was fortunate to be a New Northern Poet a few years ago and attend the Ilkley Poetry Festival. Highly recommend applying!

Looking to support a small press? Why not purchase a copy of my debut @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social poetry collection New Famous Phrases, or one of Broken Sleep's other brilliant books!

Delighted to announce I have a story in vol 4 of Worldstone Publishing's new Summer of Sci-fi and Fantasy anthology about a motley band of madcap skeletons raised for a final mission ☠️ 💀 You can find out more about the anthology and the other stories via the Kickstarter #Fantasy #WritingCommunity

Today’s #LiftToTheSky goes to @danielghinds.bsky.social - his debut collection ‘New Famous Phrases’ is an exceptional book

TRULY BRILLIANT evening at the Black Bough open mic. Amazing talent. Almost everyone was there to roadtest their poems before their pamphlet/ book launches - some there for the buzz and the sharing. Humbling to host!!! Poets from Spain, Australia, Ireland, US, England and Wales.

Another top The Book Bag by Paul Short @paulwritespoems.bsky.social Daniel Hinds’ (@danielghinds.bsky.social) ‘New Famous Phrases’ is a debut collection with poems that are ‘fresh, inventive & sharp’ Paul adds: ‘The language & points of reference bring scenery to life & ground you in the moment.’

'Buy New Famous Phrases if you like creative, inventive poetry that is rich in imagery and emotion' Thanks very much to @paulwritespoems.bsky.social for this wonderful and generous review of my debut @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social poetry collection. Head over to Paul's website to give it a read!

The Book Bag has landed.💼📚 @danielghinds.bsky.social debut collection published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Read all about the reward of taking on the greats: #poetrycommunity #poetryblog