I'll be there, diligently taking notes and nodding

We are also having a LAUNCH. 6pm on 7 JULY at the ICA with fantastic readers Claudia Durastanti, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Lara Williams and Dizz Tate who variously reflect on types of literary WORK in the book. Please book tickets and come, we’d love to see you there www.ica.art/talks/book-l...

come to this 💙 Poetry Reading! TLTH & friends at the @artreview.bsky.social bar www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-rea...

come to this 💙 Poetry Reading! TLTH & friends at the @artreview.bsky.social bar www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-rea...

Thrilled to appear in the LRB ... as a letter writer. I responded to Stefan Collini's recent piece www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Claudia Durastanti’s essay in the latest Berlin Review; ‘A Literature For The Downwardly Mobile’ 💙

the final issue of 4columns😭 Sasha Frere-Jones on Fanny Howe 💖 4columns.org/frere-jones-...

I wrote more or less exactly this to my MP who passed it on to the Jacqui Smith. (I added a line about controlling the cost of consultants) She replied without reference to the actual points, just 'I've stabilised #UKHE by increasing tuition fees'. Complete dereliction of duty.

📣 People are understandably up in the arms about this (it is horrible). But just want to wave a hand out there 👋 as we're going through the same thing in Humanities at Northumbria (1 out of 5 staff need to go by end of July). 1/?

Petition against the job losses here: c.org/ddjtYXzdQQ

This is significant also because - Exeter is not in deficit - it’s Russell Group (ie ‘safe’) partly BECAUSE of its humanities research which is consistently high ranking on the REF tables etc - it’s following govt/ Labour policy to the letter / death spiral

What's happening at the University of Exeter is a disaster for both the region and the country. The way the sector is set up, it is *inevitable* and *unstoppable* that this will continuously happen everywhere. We need to stop, get out a blank sheet of paper and start again.

⚠️WARNING - Twins of Evil: Free Zones and Data Centres. The devastating components of 'second empire building in post-Brexit UK. The UK's data centre boom is the largest peacetime seizure of community land and energy resources in modern British history. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/european...

🌞 hot summer read www.frieze.com/article/what...

Very happy to be holding our new book Too Little, Too Hard in its printed form, out from Peninsula Press in July ✨

@aaronangell.bsky.social best fatberg essay

writing like this has uses as a description, but yes, it's limited -- a form of speaking in reasonable voice and hoping someone in govt (or governance of a uni) will leap out of their assumptions. It's a higher form of 'oh dear'! Inspiring speeches last night from staff & students at Goldsmiths.

A really excellent & thorough analysis of where universities are at Idk where it goes from here. Wd say though this analysis points to the wrecking ball of neoliberal ideology multiple times it doesn’t explicitly say so, & I feel its solutions as a result are practical but confined.

Hey look, we’ve published two new pieces of work, by Priya Khanchandani, and Helen Marten.

‘The threat of loss, the inability to ever truly know another person or be known, is not a problem; it is part of what makes love exciting, meaningful, and even fun.’ I loved this from Lauren Oyler

This faulty, hallucination-cum-plagiarism machine that impairs cognitive function, and encourages people to kill themselves, and sucks up enormous amounts of water and electricity, and makes people near its data centres sick, and is drastically unprofitable, is being forced down our throats at speed

Why is anyone okay with this, how are we all not losing our fucking minds

“Within two minutes we were able to get ChatGPT to tell us how we can cut ourselves safely. Within 65 minutes it was giving us a full personalised suicide plan and drafting suicide notes for our family and friends.” Shut it all down. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

my hot take is that loneliness is not in fact the ‘root cause’ or key to our ‘turbulent politics’ www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

London, join us on Thursday evening to mark the publication of two important new books: YOUR PRESENCE IS A DANGER TO YOUR LIFE & VOICES OF RESISTANCE 6pm at Ibraaz. Tickets are free but registration is required. www.palfest.org/full-schedul...

‘I’m a poet, not a critic, which is why this book review is built on enthusiasm! Not to say a poet cannot be a critic, as anyone who has read the critic Alan Gilbert’s extraordinary book of poems, “The Everyday Life of Design,” can attest.’ 💜

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

now, when I read a list like this framing universities in terms of economic growth and employability, all i see is “how can we funnel money out of the pockets of students to subsidise the profits of business”

Cutting away your main resource bases does not suddenly make you miraculous successful. Who knew... None of the institution-hopping senior managers do, and yet they keep being rewarded with six-figure salaries at other places. isrf.org/blog/dispatc...

Fantastic essay ‘our refusal to sit as merely subjects’ - yes!

Exciting news! Too Little, Too Hard forthcoming from Peninsula Press in July (preorder✨) A collection of essays on writing & work, writing & value. We are proud of this book that looks at the conditions for writers & of book production under neoliberalism. peninsulapress.co.uk/products/too...

This will be brilliant!

Exciting news! Too Little, Too Hard forthcoming from Peninsula Press in July (preorder✨) A collection of essays on writing & work, writing & value. We are proud of this book that looks at the conditions for writers & of book production under neoliberalism. peninsulapress.co.uk/products/too...

Books I have recently read that I HIGHLY RECOMMEND 1/ Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas by Eline Benjaminsen & Dana Casey Brilliant and imaginative atlas, guide & essays on speculative finance

booze does not help your writing

Closing in an hour! 👀

Lewisham Donations Hub are running an online auction of 200 postcard-size artworks to raise money, it finishes in 9 hours. So pls bid! Works anonymous, Includes work by Julian Opie, Danny Rolph, Chloe Barnes, Martin Rowson, Jamie Shovlin & me www.ebay.co.uk/usr/lewisham...

“Poet, I don’t know if your eyes searched the sky for clouds, for blue, for stars, for God, but I know that you were an example of one of God’s best instructions: Love Thy Neighbor.” Fellow poet Danez Smith on their neighbor (our neighbor) Renée Nicole Good.

We do not have to consume the shitty cake or crime plots baked for us by corporate entertainment, or live off tragically meagre cultural crumbs. Small presses show us there is so much more out there... 👏👏👏

from @marc-fischer.bsky.social (Public Collectors) excellent pamphlet Who Shares The Restroom Code With ICE Agents?

'One extraordinary literary event this year was when small presses and writers helped to successfully pressure the government to waive biometric checks that were blocking students trapped in Gaza from taking up their scholarships at UK universities'. Great piece, plus excellent list of TBRs...

Public Collectors mentioned! cc @marc-fischer.bsky.social

Absolutely agreed with this. I think that we need to be bolder about pointing out that much adult 'culture' seems actually to be written for children. Plus this article introduced me to many great small press titles which I now want to read ......

Sharing some end of year lists, like this one from @lucymercer.bsky.social -- I will be looking up some of these to find out more. #books

An excellent read about excellent reads & the excellence of reading actively, acutely & awarely. Indie presses as in pressing for change, for an end to genocide, for liberation.

Wrote about books for the Year in Review for Art Review @artreview.bsky.social On corporate publishing, small presses & the many excellent books that were published in this otherwise cursed year 2025 artreview.com/shitty-cakes...

Lovely to get a mention in Lucy Mercer’s year in review (despite my book publishing next month). This is a really interesting and expansive article, discussing issues as well as books and publishing. artreview.com/shitty-cakes...

Listening to Martin Jarvis reading David Copperfield for hours has been one of the joys of my year if not life tbh, 10/10 highly recommend

"Small-press publishers are the spirit that animates our literature. ... They are vital for the literary ecosystem in that they take risks on books that larger publishers would not..." #booksky #literature #reading #AI #smallpress via @thebookseller.com @lucymercer.bsky.social