Mostly Aldeburgh the last few days

It's Saturday - you could, it's true, go outside, but then you run the risk of having your day ruined by seeing terrible street 'art' like this, whereas if you just stay in and click this link you will instead enter a MAGICAL PORTAL OF WEBBY DELIGHTS. A simple choice: webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-07...

@cdrose.bsky.social is the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize winner!!! So, so well deserved ❤️🏆 Read WE LIVE HERE NOW! @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social

Hey folks, I had the honour of interviewing Richard Scott for the new issue of @poetrylondon.bsky.social The interview is available to read online at the following link: poetrylondon.co.uk/still-life-r... I'm really proud of it. Thank you Isabelle Baafi for the opportunity Enjoy xx

Out today! A brilliant, essential book for our times… but you don’t need me to tell you that 👇

🇯🇲 Poets Read for Hurricane Melissa Relief Fundraiser: November 19th, 7-9pm UK and 2-4pm EST organised by @outspokenpress.bsky.social hosted by Leone Ross with and introduction from Akala, amazing line up, please join us and please donate and please share! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-read...

Nobel Prize-winning author and playwright Wole Soyinka has had his US visa revoked under the Trump administration. Wasafiri stands in solidarity with Soyinka in support of free speech and expression for all. We are sharing his words on the power & endurance of literature from Wasafiri's 1993 issue

That time again, when I tell you that I've uploaded the latest of my exclusive poems about time to @stampfans.bsky.social. Sign up, and you'll get it in the post. I know! www.stampfans.com/creator-deta...

🍂Changing the Canon, with Penny Batchelor @pennyauthor.bsky.social, Maxine Mei-Fung Chung & Natasha Carthew, chaired by Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social 🍂Just Write It, with Anthony Anaxagorou @aanaxagorou.bsky.social Find the full programme & tickets on our website🔽

It me

Still is. Bugger

Look out for 'Barter' by Nii Ayikwei Parks from The Makings of You on your November commutes 👀 www.peepaltreepress.com/books/making... @niiayikwei.bsky.social @poemsonthetube.bsky.social

ratio of caffeine to how much I have to do today, this week, is already out of whack. Gulp

Come work for us. The Economist is hiring a Britain political correspondent. Make the sample piece original and Economisty economist.com/britain/2025...

Did you happen to leave your @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk purchases on the Metropolitan line yesterday? Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat? If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇

Those of you who know me in IRL will know getting hold of these two made yesterday quite special.

Gorgeous piece by @amykey.bsky.social on her Anne Sexton pilgrimage, very jealous! 💙https://observer.co.uk/style/travel/article/capri-poetry-and-ocean

New poetry magazine just dropped from a former student of mine - open to submissions & free if you’re interested www.stoatmagazine.co.uk

We'll be continuing our issue spotlight over tomorrow and next week. In the meantime, do read the whole thing! badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-two

Reup for this

Charles should have gone the whole hog and made him change his name to Andreas Saxe Coburg Gotha.

lads, the Royal British Legion is woke now. I mean, it's not like any people of colour fought for Britain in the world wars is it?

Delighted to be in such wonderful poetic company in the new issue of @badlilies.bsky.social . The poem might make the new book, might not. Ooooh the decisions! www.badlilies.uk/issue-twenty...

My latest for @theguardian.com; very fortunate to look at new books by Sarah Howe, Joelle Taylor, Nikita Gill, Phoebe Giannisi, and the return of Tom Paulin: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize! 🌟 Poetry: Flora Beagley for ‘Sutton Hoo’ 🌟 Fiction: @jobardsley.bsky.social for ‘Iko of Benin, King's Diver’ 🌟 Life Writing: Luke Liu for ‘Chair Tombs on the Hill’ www.wasafiri.org/news-and-eve...

Ozy Ozy Ozy! Man! Man! Man! The Dias called, Took the trunks away.

Happy launch day to @antoshwojcik.bsky.social Here’s one of my favourite poems from his new collection ‘Suburban Locust’

Joy unconfined! How brilliant is this?

Tomorrow (Fri 31st) I’ll be reading some of my Margery Kempe poems at the English Faculty in Cambridge! 5pm, free tickets at this link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1760728178...

Chair of judges for this year’s Queen Mary @wasafirimag.bsky.social New Writing Prize about to announce our winners.

Need a proofreader? Editorial & mentoring for all writing projects (academic, trade fiction & non-fiction, scripted)? Reading lists & book content of all kinds? Or perhaps someone to move to your castle & catalogue your antiquarian library while writing their memoirs?

something something on the nose metaphor for complexity of the UK rail sector something

WTAF?

sorely tempted to write a baseball cap triptych essay based on this, and a couple of other mad ones: www.neweracap.co.uk/products/la-...

Tremendous Legislator is one of our age's great figures. Michael's bite is one of our more underrated poetic treasures.

Ach sad news; Knights Of has been doing sterling work indeed.

If you're in the Walton-on-Thames area tonight, Celeb Traitors can wait. Come see me and the fab Tamsin Hopkins read: www.riverhousebarn.co.uk/events/13391...

1920s: The Gilded Age 2020s: The Slop Age

I know nothing about Dr Who, but, for Londoners, the phrase "Going For Dinner With Billie Piper" is the absolute best way to remember the order of the vertical streets running east to west in Soho (Greek, Frith, Dean, Wardour, Berwick, Poland) and has saved many a late night out

A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.

‘There’s a place for us, goes Stephen Sondheim’s opening lyric from that evergreen LGBTQ+ anthem “Somewhere”. But with the best will in the world, I don’t think he meant Milton Keynes.' Introducing Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains by @grindrod.bsky.social, out 12 March 2026.

This might be the best David Squires cartoon ever? I am howling here. www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

🍂Changing the Canon, with Penny Batchelor @pennyauthor.bsky.social, Maxine Mei-Fung Chung & Natasha Carthew, chaired by Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social 🍂Just Write It, with Anthony Anaxagorou @aanaxagorou.bsky.social Find the full programme & tickets on our website🔽

can't wait to read your poems. Send me your bangers, both quiet and noisy!

From Anthropocence to Speakyourbraneocene

Early one for your diaries. Am doing an online session on using punctuation in your poems – what, you don't? radical! – in January. Come along and em dash your way to glory: www.tickettailor.com/events/cathd...

This is one of the current affairs programmes on an public service broadcaster in the UK.

I think I've worked out why The Athletic bugs me (and I say this as a subscriber): it tries too hard to explain the randomness and unpredictability of sport, and forgets that it should be held and enjoyed lightly. More whimsy, rather than Deep Dives Into Why This Tactical Tweak Failed.