Me and Malachite win tonight:

rinse and repeat by artform, by locality, by audience... the eye-popping thing to me in this: bursaries for humanities teacher training cut? Wow.

Hello poetry friends. I'm looking, for a thing, for examples of poems that quote from TV characters in a way that makes it clear they're doing so without resorting to eg footnotes or similar. Any suggestions? I feel like I've seen it, but my mind is blanker than a blankety blank.

#ConsciousWritingMonth continues with Changing the Canon, Thu 13 Nov at 7pm GMT Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social, Penny Batchelor @pennyauthor.bsky.social, Maxine Mei-Fung Chung & Natasha Carthew explore the long work of literary change 🍂 Free for Being a Writer members 🍂 £15 tickets available

If you want – need – an argument as to why Reform and this incarnation of the Tory party are just horrible, look no further than this: they want shot of Poems on the Underground: www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

So as far as I can tell, today you all hate the BBC, Bond, the government, and western capitalist imperialism, that about right?

I see we are mounting our electric hobby horses again today

Thursday night! Come through.

Don’t miss the new episode with @tseliotprize.bsky.social shortlisted poet Nick Makoha. We spoke about layered temporalities, founding the Obsidian Foundation, and treating ‘the poem’ like a painting. Listen wherever good podcasts can be heard.

Split Enz are reuniting again, and middle-aged antipodeans everywhere are giddy with yet more nostalgia (😬) … here’s somefing wot I rote a life ago. www.theguardian.com/music/2011/n...

So looking forward to reading with my fellow poets @troycabida.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social I can’t wait to hear them read their work. Do join us this Thursday 13th November! 🎉@ninearchespress.bsky.social

‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’ We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.

Profound no-sound parenting

Ah yes, log in to Prime to watch the Kenny Dalgliesh documentary only to be reminded that I am paying to watch ads.

🐉🐉🐉 Massive thank you to @wasafirimag.bsky.social for sharing this taster from BAD LANGUAGE ... one week til launch @burleyfisher.bsky.social! get some dragonfire 🔥🔥🔥

Join Penny Batchelor @pennyauthor.bsky.social, Maxine Mei-Fung Chung and Natasha Carthew, chaired by Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social, as we explore sustaining the long work of literary change. 🍂 Free for Being a Writer members 🍂 £15 tickets available

Today on BENDING THE ARC we feature a fascinating collaboration between a poet & a consultancy who specialise in flood risk & water management. What does it mean to be 'resilient' in the face of climate catastrophe? bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/we-are-res...

Well, that was Poetry in Aldeburgh 2025. Not bad at all. See you all next year.

Odds on no charter renewal in 2027?

Anyway, sod the frothings of a wiff waff wally. If you're nearby, come to the last day of Poetry in Aldeburgh. Loads on, it'd be lovely to see you. And the sun is shining on the sea! www.poetryinaldeburgh.org/programme-2025

Ping Pong Guy has had a thunk

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’