Reading Orbital which won the Booker Prize in 2024. Can you spot the error in the description of the Big Bang? I noticed it straight away. #booksky #science

Yep. Almost there. Self-published (rejected by Unbound because I was working class). No advertising whatsoever (except for me banging on about it via social media). No reviews, apart from those on Amazon and Goodreads. #booksky #trakl #poetry #translation

Beautiful trolling. #starmer #royalmail

Only 3 more to go. A working-class translator is something to be. As John Lennon said, "They hate you if you're clever, and they despise a fool." #booksky #poetry #translation

There's been another prize-winning short story written using generative AI. I put the boot into it in my video. Check it out. #ai #writing #chatgpt www.youtube.com/watch?v=noWD...

Saltburn.

At the seaside.

Breakfast of champions. Almost full English (minus sausages). #stodge #workingclass

The US postal service burning copies of Joyce’s Ulysses. #joyce #ulysses #censorship

More bullshit.

So close now. A working-class translator is something to be. #trakl #poetry #booksky

Today’s books. #reading #german #lessing #booker

Happy Bloomsday. As you’d expect, Jarvie has been to the omphalos. #joyce #ulysses #dublin

My list of rejections for the past eleven years is still perfect. The latest rejection is from New Writing North. Samuel Beckett would be proud of me. Ever fail. Fail better. And all that jazz. #writing #workingclass #poverty #marxist

My dad with a couple of his whippets. Yes he was the very archetype of the working class. No flat cap in this photo but he did wear one. #workingclass #darlington #whippets

One of my dad’s wartime maps for the Normandy invasion. “Keep those actions clear.” #normandy #ww2

So, when my dad enlisted in the army, he lied about his age. His date of birth was actually 4 April 1925.

First sale in June. It buys me a coffee. #trakl #poetry #translation #booksky

Next up. #booksky #berlin #fallada #nazis

Inching closer to 700. #trakl #poetry #booksky

So this morning in 1944 my dad landed here. His job? Killing Nazis with his Bren gun. #normandy

Today’s book. #booksky #aristotle #philosophy

Good old Darlo public library comes to the rescue again. #aristotle #philosophy #booksky

Next up. Novel research. #germany #reading #nazis #booksky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I2-... "Shut up, fascist scum!"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHRX... Remember this well. My mam and dad are briefly in this documentary at the 31.50 mark. A few years later, my dad won the National Pot Leek Society competition. As Frank Zappa said, "call any vegetable, and the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShC8... I've recorded a new video about my novel in progress. Take a look. You might even learn something useful about the writing process. #booksky #writing #weimar #germany

Living the life of Riley. Don’t worry, plebs, your working day will soon be over. Anyway, back to listening to Ravel. #ravel #classical

The month so far: 10 sales. Autumnal Elegies now on 691 copies in total. Only nine more to go before Trakl hit another milestone. #booksky #trakl #poetry

After my pummelling of the story The Serpent in the Grove, the author of which has been accused of using generative AI, I thought it only fair to subject my own work to the same AI checker. This is what happened. #ai #booksky

On our hols in 1968. My dad took the picture. #Yugoslavia

Today’s culture. Get it in my veins. #bavouzet #piano

Poor Clementia. She’s out of snail shells for her servants so let’s interrupt the harvest and get the peasants to find some, eh.

The Nigerian scammers have been busy, pouring their AI slop into my spam. They must think I'm made of money. #writing #booksky

@warren74.bsky.social I see you’re back you rapscallion.

The month so far. Not bad for a working-class oik whose books are not stocked in bookshops or public libraries. Three cheers for all those sales in North America. As the J-man said, "a prophet is not without honour, except in his own country." #trakl #poetry #translation #booksky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqxz... So, I've made a new video about the short story The Serpent in the Grove, which won the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. #AI #writing

So, tomorrow I'll be recording a video for Youtube about the winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. It'll be brutal, but honest.

As one of the poorest writers in England, it always makes me laugh my head off after the latest Nigerian email marketing scam arrives in my inbox. Only $30. Mate, that buys me food for a week. #workingclass #poverty #writing

13 more to go. A working-class translator is something to be. 30 years in the making. Rejected by the gatekeepers. #trakl #poetry #booksky

@louisepowell.bsky.social Enjoyed your talk and extract from your book in Darlo. When it’s published I’ll get Darlo library to buy a copy so I can read it.

Jarvie knows AI when he sees it.

youtu.be/kxDLkNfPBUA?... inject this straight into my veins. Black and white cinematography with Messiaen organ music. Perfect.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9osb... For those who can understand German, this is a moving video about life in an orphanage during the Hitler years. And it gets no better for Paul Brune when the Americans arrive in 1945.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyCV... Fuck off Hollywood, your films are shite.

Starmer. Karma.

The results of my ongoing project to improve the stock of Darlington public library. No need to thank me. As a poor working-class writer I can’t afford new books. So I simply get someone else to buy them for me. #booksky #library

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1NV... Did I mention I've made several Youtube videos? Here's one of them about my Trakl translation. #booksky #poetry #trakl #translation

2 sales this month in the US and the UK. Only 17 more to go before I reach another milestone. Not bad for a working-class scumbag whose books are not stocked by any bookshops or public libraries. #booksky

www.culturematters.org.uk/kate-clanchy... My review of Clanchy's memoir now has almost 7000 views. I stand by every word I wrote, unlike Clanchy, who issued a doctored version of her book once its egregious nature was revealed by reviewers like myself.