The latest Just Another Poet channel interview features @troycabida.bsky.social, whose debut poetry collection 'Neon Manila', published by @ninearchespress.bsky.social is a Poetry Book Society Winter 2025 recommendation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wpz...

I am truly honoured to have shared a stage with Philip Gross, Luca Paci, Chris Glynn, Rebecca Warner and Marc Elton at Cornerstone, Cardiff last Wednesday as part of 'A Clearing, an evening of poetry and music'. Thanks to those who attended and supported the event 😊

Wednesday, 12th November at Cornerstone Cardiff: T S Eliot prize-winner Philip Gross and I am reading poetry with musical accompaniment from Uli Doenitz, Chris Glynn & Rebecca Warner, plus commentary on Dante by Luca Paci. Tickets in the link below: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-clearing...

For the disco enthusiasts in #Cardiff this Saturday afternoon, my friends Richard Higlett and Chris Glynn, artists & musicians, have this fabulous FREE musical event at St John's church in town: discomass.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

Delighted to be reading at the Senedd on 2nd October 2025 alongside Peter Finch, Clare Potter, Fiona Sampson & more as part of the Saudha International Literature Festival. Free tickets from www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/saudha-int...

It was amazing to have read from my @serenbooks.bsky.social poetry collection 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' at The Small City Bookshop in Bristol last night with Rhian Elizabeth and Joshua Jones as a celebration of Welsh poetry talent:

Shared for #BookshopWednesday 📚 Small City Bookshop in Bristol

Bristol friends and poetry lovers, I am reading at the Small City Bookshop tomorrow (11th September) with Rhian Elizabeth and Joshua Jones. Please join us! Ticket details here: www.thesmallcitybookshop.co.uk/event-detail...

Three @serenbooks.bsky.social poets 🩷 @bookspacecardiff.bsky.social with @createdtoread.bsky.social and @tazrahman.bsky.social

Fellow @serenbooks.bsky.social poet @wendycaitlin.bsky.social and I are reading tomorrow (23rd July, 6.30 pm) at @bookspacecardiff.bsky.social, the best independent bookshop in the city. Tickets: www.bookspacecardiff.co.uk/products/wen...

Next week I’ll be reading from this book @bookspacecardiff.bsky.social on Wednesday along with @tazrahman.bsky.social, do come along. Book your tickets in advance to support this brilliant bookshop. You can buy our @serenbooks.bsky.social on the night 🩷

If you are in Cardiff on July 23rd, @tazrahman.bsky.social and myself are reading from our @serenbooks.bsky.social books @bookspacecardiff.bsky.social and I will be visiting a Barbara Hepworth I haven’t seen thanks to @barthesstudies.bsky.social! I am so excited!

So honoured to be the Creative Keynote speaker today at this year's @cardiffuni.bsky.social ENCAPsulate 2025 conference. As an alumni of the university, to read poems from my poetry collection 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' feels like a dream!

First day at the Aberystwyth Poetry Festival: here posing with Maggie Harris, Rachel Carney and Freya Blyth in front of the Bookshop by the Sea ♥️

Thanks @serenbooks.bsky.social for selecting 'A Pond for All Eels' from my debut poetry collection 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' as this week's Friday Poem ♥️ www.serenbooks.com/2025/06/frid...

Aberystwyth Poetry Festival, 6th-8th June, so lovely to be part of this wonderful weekend again! Full programme and details from thebookshopbythesea.co.uk/aberystwyth-...

Thanks to book blogger Paul Short for referring to my poetry collection 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon', published by @serenbooks.bsky.social in 2024 as 'A masterpiece. Buy it' 😍 paulwritespoems.com/2025/05/25/t...

July 🩷 I’m reading with one of my very favourite people @tazrahman.bsky.social @bookspacecardiff.bsky.social. Tickets available on their website. Come and hear some @serenbooks.bsky.social poetry!

#Cardiff folks, I am reading at Chapter Arts tomorrow, Sat 8th March 3.45 pm with Jennifer Wong &, Patrick Jones following the screening of the Hong Kong Film Festival screening of 'Elegies' (2 pm).

This book got the synapses firing. Find out which poem I liked most in @tazrahman.bsky.social’s collection. @serenbooks.bsky.social

Thanks Acropolis Journal for publishing my poems 'Anda' and 'What are you doing the rest of your life' in issue 8 ♥ acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

Just met him:

And this afternoon arrived four more books including Abigail Parry's gorgeous 2018 Forward Prize shortlisted:

#screenwriting courses #Cardiff 2024 ✍️ With added guests inc director Philip John (Being Human, Downton Abbey, Doc Martin), excellent views and FREE tea and coffee bit.ly/2EqPhsq For more details or to register your contact me via the website #TV #film 📽

Arrived earlier...

My friends at the Rebecca Swift Foundation do vital work in supporting, championing and bringing through women poets. They're currently running a crowdfunder. It'd be amazing if you could help support: www.justgiving.com/campaign/reb...

"And the prose of polemics grows / spreading lianas of syntax / for the rootless surveyor, / the thunderous falls have been measured, / the thickening girth of the continents have been buttoned / till a man knows his weight in stone" - Derek Walcott, 'A Georgetown Journal'

We're hiring! AOS: Asian/nonwestern and/or philosophy of race! Pls spread the news, and hit me up with any questions. careers.pageuppeople.com/822/lowell/e...

Hello. Issue sixteen out on Friday 27th October. We haven’t got a title yet…

Because they publish some of the best poetry of this age, an amazing curation in each issue

"I opened my head to / the luminous fusion of stars / let myself wear / the incredible weight of night / filled my skull with / the raw coin of the Moon" - Trepanation, Jane Burn

If I tried to sit on this sofa she would get off so cat gets her way..

Just before a group of noisy kids stormed the place!

The Interpreter's House latest issue (80) is now out with my poem 'The Free State of Roath', many thanks to the editors Georgi and Louise for choosing my poem along a great selection of poets. theinterpretershouse.org/rahman-80

A cat in a box, nothing unusual...

Tom Bullough read from Sarn Helen earlier this evening and spoke to Richard Gwyn at the Flute & Tankard in Cardiff.

Following few days of flu induced soups I finally made a fennel and tender stem 🥦 risotto for Sunday lunch. Ate listening to a Sean Hewitt's readings on YouTube :)

Wonderful to have read a few poems last night alongside Katherine Stansfield as part of the legendary Planet magazine's showcase at Dyddiau Du. Thanks to Emily Trahair, Planet editor for the invite, thanks Joshua Jones for hosting, to Alun Gibbard for reading a Welsh translation of my poem Sanctuary

Here is the latest literary documentary I made, "Writing for Illtud", which is all about how the fifth century Celtic saint still inspires the contemporary writing community of Llantwit Major, Wales youtu.be/sf7lfHnLbio?...

Yay, this arrived: My contributor copy of "Free Verse - Poems for Richard Price" - an anthology celebrating the 300th birthday of Wales' greatest moral philosopher. Other contributors include Robert Minhinnick, Zoë Brigley, Marie Elis Dunning, Abeer Ameer, Mab Jones, Damian Walford Davies & more ♥

So on Sunday, after I finished saying goodbye to Creak 😭, on the way back I saw this grey heron in a place I used to go on walks to virtually every day during the first pandemic. I had named him Eric. Nation Cymru published a little piece I wrote about him too in 2021!

On Sense and Reference: Today is the last full day with Creek. When I went outside earlier to fetch my dried towel I also ended up stroking the Nemesis - didn't have my glasses on. Rereading Frege too.

And Creek lends his back for today's work:

Humbled by this introduction by the legendary 'Planet - The Welsh Internationalist' magazine, who published my poem 'Sanctuary', all about a refugee food delivery cyclist. I'm reading in Planet's publisher showcase on the 29th September, details in the photo ♥

Ricky Racoon became an object of interest only when tied to his favourite string:

This is Creek, the poet and crime novelist Katherine Stansfield's cat and I working on something ♥