Norwich! You were PHENOMENAL! Not only did u knock it out of the park with new members signing up @queerfest - all NINETEEN of YOU! But also - drum roll - amongst that lovely people pile one of you became our TWO THOUSANDTH FIVE HUNDREDTH Valued Patron of the Library (VPL) 🤩 We CANNOT BELIEVE IT!

As per our official Operating Hrs we are currently "inconveniently closed" HOWEVER you're in luck *Norwich* as we'll be "conveniently OPEN" in yr delightful environs 4 a @queerfestnorwich special selection ASAP aka 01.03.26, 12-14:00 hrs: Come Get Your Library On! 🤓 #TIPL #THEITINERANTPOETRYLIBRARY

The Metro NY Library Council is creating an outdoor library in Westchester County. We now own 26 acres — and this wknd we’re hosting a group of international librarians to help us think about what this place can be! It’ll soon be open to the public + usable by all our 100s of member institutions ☺️

Delighted2 welcome 6 new Valued Patrons @ today's Library in #norwich w some @salenagodden.bsky.social James Kirkup Kathleen Raine Herbert Burke @barbtetenbaum.bsky.social Gertrude Stein Lawrence Bradby & co. amongst today's library items, special thanks2 @rachelmcw.bsky.social 4 libr* assist #tipl

Happy #nationalpoetryday, esp. those of you IN (or who can get to) NORWICH…we’ll be iterating over to NR2 for (belated) celebrations! Come Join Before We Travel On! 05.10.25, 2-4pm. 16 Newmarket Street, Norwich, NR2 2DW. With magical library assistance from @rachelmcw Map: bit.ly/library-05-1...

RIP Tony Harrison...newly arrived in the library last week! "The best clock's only wound for layings out / so the stillness isn't tapped at by its ticks. / The settee's shapeless underneath its shroud. // My mind moves over silence and Aeneid VI."

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"A book is a library. In turn, a library is a town, full of handouts, colour adverts, covers of magazines and fence-like screens."... #TIPL

Robert Bly. From: Collected Poems (Norton, 2018).

Absolute banger at tonight's @britishlibrary.bsky.social "Libraries and AI" event by @cilip.bsky.social CILIP president Sue Lacey Bryant with excellent #librariantakedown of cardigan stereotype. Felt like a CILIP prez ready to wrestle for the cause (we're with you all the way pal 💪)!

We'll be sending our librarian lackey to the 23rd January event to take notes since we consider Library Threat level: SEVERE ⚠️ (on issues of data privacy, intellectual freedom etc.)

@granardbooktown.bsky.social Let us know if u need a travelling library of "lost and forgotten" poetry (our official acquisition policy) in town for the festival? <[email protected]> No doubt we can find a couch 2 crash on while we're there (The Librarian needs sleep otherwise grumpy librarian!) 😁

Back in 2006, in an Antwerp bathhouse, where we were operating in our 1st year of being, we lent out “The Heart of the Ancient Balcony” & the borrower became recalcitrant, never returning this item (yes, we’re talking about you, Xavier Roelens, our first ever entrant to The Library Wall of Shame!).

Rotterdam library operations continue! Come Join Before We Travel On #TIPL

We've moved on! Next up is a guerilla OG library operation, as #PIFR don't know we coming 😂 (ok we tagged them so they do now lol). Come find us somewhere in the building... rumour is the toilet block requires reading material 😉 Opening ASAP (better get a move on!): Come Join B4 We Travel On! #TIPL

Boom! First library location of the day in the bag! We'll be opening @leeszaalwest (Rijnhoutplein 3, 3014 TZ Rotterdam) from 14hrs: Come Join Before We Travel On! #TIPL

Rotterdammers: Your library returns!

Come Get Your Library On! We're delighted to be opening at the British Library this Friday (Oct 13), for their Steampunk Lates event. We'll have a special selection of The Itinerant Poetry Library tomes: Come Join B4 We Travel On! #TIPL