My thanks to the @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social

Collected: The Podcast – September 2025 open.substack.com/pub/royallit...

Happy Birthday, Doctor Williams:

Looking forward to this event on Thursday evening in Manchester! If you want to hear some great poetry (and a little bit of my first novel!) in a perfection location, please come down! @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @ianseedauthor.bsky.social @sarahclareconlon.bsky.social

This Thursday, I’ll be reading from my new chapbook, My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat, with artwork by Lupo Sol, published by Sacred Parasite Press Berlin. There’ll be copies available on the night. @sacredparasite.bsky.social

This Thursday, I’ll be reading from my new chapbook, My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat, with artwork by Lupo Sol, published by Sacred Parasite Press Berlin. There’ll be copies available on the night. @sacredparasite.bsky.social

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Coming up next Thursday 18th September, 7 to 9pm, at P3 Annihilation Eve, 70 Oldham Road (M4 5EB), THE EVERYDAY MARVELOUS. I’ll be reading alongside Stephen Sunderland, Tom Jenks, Sarah-Clare Conlon, Stuart Carlton, and Lydia Unsworth.

Coming up next Thursday 18th September, 7 to 9pm, at P3 Annihilation Eve, 70 Oldham Road (M4 5EB), THE EVERYDAY MARVELOUS. I’ll be reading alongside Stephen Sunderland, Tom Jenks, Sarah-Clare Conlon, Stuart Carlton, and Lydia Unsworth.

It’s next week! Honoured and delighted to be taking part in The Everyday Marvellous reading with Stephen Sunderland, Tom Jenks, Sarah-Clare Conlon, Stuart Calton, and Lydia Unsworth. coming up in Manchester, Thursday, 18 September.

Looking forward to reading from my latest chapbook, My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat, published by, @sacredparasite.bsky.social , as well as from other everyday marvellous works, together with my co-readers…

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Looking forward to reading from my latest chapbook, My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat, published by, @sacredparasite.bsky.social , as well as from other everyday marvellous works, together with my co-readers…

This is a bit exciting :) Tickets available here: www.brasseriezedel.com/events/wordt...

It’s next week! Honoured and delighted to be taking part in The Everyday Marvellous reading with Stephen Sunderland, Tom Jenks, Sarah-Clare Conlon, Stuart Calton, and Lydia Unsworth. coming up in Manchester, Thursday, 18 September.

It's here! Welcome to the Lancaster Litfest Autumn Weekend 2025, running 17-21 October and 18 November. Ft Sarah Hall, Simon Armitage, @oliverklangmead.bsky.social @mkhardywrites.com Xiaolu Guo @malikalnasir.bsky.social & more! Browse the full programme and get your tickets now! litfest.org

I’m so looking forward to presenting my new book ‘Searching for my Slave Roots’ at Lancaster Litfest @litfest.bsky.social

To help us make our Autumn Weekend happen, please fill in the volunteering form at the link above, or if you have any difficulties accessing this, drop us a email to [email protected]!

Come and volunteer with Litfest! Litfest simply wouldn't exist without our volunteers, if you're interesting in taking part (whether that is helping with programme distribution, stewarding, running the bookshop and box office or spreading the word online), fill in our form 👉 geni.us/LFvolunteers

Gianni Berengo Gardin | Pausa dal lavoro, Varese | 1987

the leaves have left this tree full of apples

The Starbeck Orion Showcases The Poetry Of Maggie Mackay Day Twelve Of Twenty-Five: open.substack.com/pub/the880/p...

Video credit: itsjuliencohen Description: "11 and 8-year-old prodigy sisters played Vivaldi Winter with me" This is serious musical talent 🎻🎻🎹🎶🎵 #VivaldiWinter #Song #music #Piano #Violin #Instruments #Instrumental

Katherine Pearson>Australian Country Memes

‘The sea that is brown and real around my rock, / in the distance glitters on their faces’ - Kate Bowles, ‘This is It’, from @pnreview.bsky.social 63, September-October 1988

The Surreal-Absurd. A brilliant anthology from Mercurius Press. Honoured and delighted to be included. Lovely to discover lots of new names, too. Huge thanks to the editors Thomas Helm @postpran.bsky.social , @vikshirley.bsky.social and Ben Niespodziany!

"The mayfly dance is communal if gender-skewed; the daylily bloom is beautiful then ugly." Three prose-poems by Mike Ferguson @mferguson-writer.bsky.social‬: www.littermagazine.org/2025/08/mike...

Such a pleasure to have these poems at Litter Magazine. Sincere thanks to Alan

The Surreal-Absurd. A brilliant anthology from Mercurius Press. Honoured and delighted to be included. Lovely to discover lots of new names, too. Huge thanks to the editors Thomas Helm @postpran.bsky.social , @vikshirley.bsky.social and Ben Niespodziany!

Understanding Words internationaltimes.it/understandin... Escritoire, Sheila E. Murphy (Lavender Ink) The Severity of the Perfect Circle, H.L. Hix (BlazeVOX) Rupert Loydell

OPPORTUNITY!! @royalholloway.bsky.social is recruiting a poet to join our Creative Writing team - the role is part-time (0.5), permanent, and encompasses teaching and research! More than happy to chat about department culture and all things RHUL poetry🧡 jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Wrote about the most violent day in D.C.'s history, January 6, 2021, the current takeover of that city by the guy who instigated it, the right-wing snowflakes complaining they're afraid to walk down the street, and why the right fears and loathes cities (and lies about why). Bonus Epstein finale.

Am I addicted to Patrick Modiano or what? There are others that I’ve read, too - on Kindle, such as Fleurs de ruine, Un pedigree, and Accident nocturne. I think my favourite is Voyage de noces. Oddly, I still have to read his first three novels, the ‘occupation trilogy’.

‘It held two claws out in front, the way a blindfolded man protects himself from the wall’ - Matthew Francis, ‘Creature’, from Wing (Faber, 2020) @faberbooks.bsky.social

‘Shuffle, pick a card, read etc’ Who could resist these uniquely and perfectly packaged haiku, as discovered and translated into ‘roughly northern dialect’ by the great Steven Waling? Available from the wonderful Zimzalla

‘It’s time to discuss depression and sadness in general, said the ghost, but first you must help me out of these overalls’ - Tom Jenks, ‘Overalls’, from Chimneys, above / ground press, 2025.

‘who is it can see the front and back of darkness’ - Malcolm Ritchie, Mountain on Top of a Mountain (Shearsman Books, 2025)

Almost at the end of Malcolm Ritchie’s Mountain on Top of a Mountain… I cannot recommend it too highly. @tristanmoss.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social @mikeferguson1.bsky.social

‘It’s time to discuss depression and sadness in general, said the ghost, but first you must help me out of these overalls’ - Tom Jenks, ‘Overalls’, from Chimneys, above / ground press, 2025.

‘as i lie down my dreams / get up’

‘Shuffle, pick a card, read etc’ Who could resist these uniquely and perfectly packaged haiku, as discovered and translated into ‘roughly northern dialect’ by the great Steven Waling? Available from the wonderful Zimzalla

Am I addicted to Patrick Modiano or what? There are others that I’ve read, too - on Kindle, such as Fleurs de ruine, Un pedigree, and Accident nocturne. I think my favourite is Voyage de noces. Oddly, I still have to read his first three novels, the ‘occupation trilogy’.

‘It held two claws out in front, the way a blindfolded man protects himself from the wall’ - Matthew Francis, ‘Creature’, from Wing (Faber, 2020) @faberbooks.bsky.social

‘who is it can see the front and back of darkness’ - Malcolm Ritchie, Mountain on Top of a Mountain (Shearsman Books, 2025)

I’m sitting in a laundrette to keep a bit cooler while I wait for the bus

Come Basho-like Pepys from @davebonta.bsky.social www.vianegativa.us/2025/08/fort...

The Everyday Marvellous coming up in September, with @stephensunderland.bsky.socialTom Jenks, Sarah-Clare Conlon, and Stuart Carlton