It was such a lovely afternoon. It was so wonderful how many people turned out! My publishers are very happy with the book sales too.

If you're around in Wolves on Saturday come along to this. We'll be performing from 3 til 4. FREE event. Get in early, buy yourself a cuppa and some cake and settle into the comfy seats. K Teas Cakes is a splendid place. I love it there.

If you're around in Wolves on Saturday come along to this. We'll be performing from 3 til 4. FREE event. Get in early, buy yourself a cuppa and some cake and settle into the comfy seats. K Teas Cakes is a splendid place. I love it there.

If anybody would like to sign latest petition to show their upset about the proposed sale of Walsall Leather Museum and lack of consultation around said sale... here's the link c.org/4qsc5XvQHF

Thanks to everyone who came along to Yes We Cant last night. Great open-mic poems, and two storming sets from our feature poets @martinkennedyyates.bsky.social and Emilie Lauren Jones. Thanks, too, to the Great Western pub for being such a wonderful venue. 😊

One week today, we bring Arena Nights back to Wolverhampton's Arena Theatre. You'll find all the info about this PAYF night here: wlv.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

This Saturday afternoon, I'm gigging with @emmapurshouse.bsky.social in Wolverhampton city centre. A free gig celebrating the launch of Emma's fantastic new collection 'Unsung' and the 2nd print run of my book 'snapshots'. Great coffee and cake available too! Come along if you're in the area. 😊

If anybody would like to sign latest petition to show their upset about the proposed sale of Walsall Leather Museum and lack of consultation around said sale... here's the link c.org/4qsc5XvQHF

Thanks to everyone that came along, listened, asked questions, and bought books. What a lovely audience.

Went up Wolves today to get my dad some jeans. Couldn't find any, so I thought I'd go to the Art Gallery, but two rooms were closed and to go in two of the other rooms you had to pay, so that was all a bit of a fail 😂. But on the plus side I had some cake at K-Teas Cakes. Yum.

Looking forward to this one already. K-Teas Cakes do fantastic cakes...yum!

If anybody is in the Penn area of Wolverhampton on Friday then I'm reading at the library. It'd be great to see you if you can make it...

Thoroughly enjoyed reading @emmapurshouse.bsky.social new #poetry collection which includes this prizewinning piece vimeo.com/695494894 I love Emma’s performance of it. The book cover artwork by Keith Turley is stunning too. @poetrysociety.org.uk

Black Country Society History Day 8/11/2025. After Agenoria: Aspects of the Railway Revolution in the Black Country. Organised in cooperation with the Black Country Living Museum. The programme for the day and booking details can be downloaded from tickets.bclm.com/127979/127980

I'm still reading 'Lonesome Dove' and it's still brilliant. What are you reading that's good?

The Blackcountryman is out and about in all of its usual retail outlets... Black Country Living Museum, Red House Cone, Dudley Canal Trust, RS News in Willenhall, New Art Gallery Walsall, Framers Gallery in Wolverhampton, Ashwoods, Black Country Hub at the Merry Hill Centre.

Buy a copy of ‘Unsung’, folks. It’s an incredible volume of poetry. Really.

I'm in the top ten again at Waterstones in Wolverhampton! How lovely.

Had a ball last night @waterstoneswton.bsky.social reading from my new poetry collection 'Unsung', then today I was writing 'poetry on demand' for children at Whitchurch Blackberry Fair. Tomorrow it's online Yes, We Cant. If you'd like to be in the Zoom Room for YWC shout up. Poetry filled weekend.

Huge thanks to the fantastic @emmapurshouse.bsky.social for a wonderful performance in store yesterday, and to our lovely audience! Do come and grab a copy of Emma's brilliant new collection, Unsung, and you'll see why we're so enthusiastic about this book and poet! #Wolverhampton #poetry

Huge tree. Little castle. #ActonBurnell

If you're coming to @waterstoneswton.bsky.social on Friday night to hear me read it'll be great to see you. Here's a review of the new collection... londongrip.co.uk/2025/09/lond... I am chuffed

Review just in...I'm delighted. Thank you to Pat Edwards for such a close reading and positive response to my work. londongrip.co.uk/2025/09/lond... And thank you to London Grip for publishing the piece.

1/ I'll be in the New Art Gallery Walsall tomorrow (30th September) between 11.30 and 2.00pm. If you'd like to write a haiku about somewhere in the Walsall Borough with a view to seeing your words projected large on a building later in the year, then I shall be there to help you achieve this aim.

Tomorrow evening (30th September) I'll be reading from my new collection of poetry at Press Books and Coffee in Hednesford. It's a smashing independent bookshop. It'd be great to see you if you can make it along. Here's the ticket link... www.pressbooksandcoffee.co.uk/event-detail...

Smashing afternoon over in Ironbridge for the slam. Huge congratulations to Morgan Birch for her win. Well done to David Braziel for achieving 2nd place, and to Mogs for his 3rd place. Thank you to everyone who came along. @pandemonialists.bsky.social couldn't do these events without you.

Ironbridge Poetry Slam is today! 2.30pm on 28th September 2025. There will be tickets on the door. 15 slammers are getting ready to go head-to-head in a top-notch poetry knock-out. Here's the address... THE ENGINE SHOP, ENGINUITY, 10 WELLINGTON ROAD, IRONBRIDGE TF8 7DX

Just under an hour to go before I am joined by this amazing array of poets! Join us if you can - free on Zoom, we'd love to see you! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/last-satur...

It's #NationalPoetryDay on Thursday and we'll be celebrating on Friday October 3rd with @emmapurshouse.bsky.social reading from her brilliant new collection of poems, Unsung. Tickets are available to buy in store or online at: www.waterstones.com/events/emma-... #Wolverhampton

My latest piece of graphic design is 'Unsung' the latest collection by poet @emmapurshouse.bsky.social available now from offaspress.co.uk/shop/ It features a wonderful portrait of Emma painted by Keith Turley: rbsa.org.uk/members/keit...

The Blackcountryman is out and about in all of its usual retail outlets... Black Country Living Museum, Red House Cone, Dudley Canal Trust, RS News in Willenhall, New Art Gallery Walsall, Framers Gallery in Wolverhampton, Ashwoods, Black Country Hub at the Merry Hill Centre.

As I've seen it come up, no, authors don't get paid for writing blurbs for other authors. We do it (mostly) to pay it forward and to bring attention to work we think is good. Also, if an editor/publisher tried to bribe me for a blurb, that email would go up here and on my personal site SO FAST

Ridiculously cheap deals on remaindered copies of my book of animal poems - The Budgie Likes to Boogie. Get class sets or group readers. Contains 'Walking With My Iguana' and 'The Snake Hotel'. Details here: brian-moses.blogspot.com/2025/08/budg... Reposts appreciated.

1/ A week tomorrow (Sunday 28th September at 2.30pm) we've got the Ironbridge Poetry Slam happening. If you'd like to come along and see 15* poets go head-to-head in a live poetry competition then the link to the tickets is below.

Had a great time at this yesterday. What a lovely evening. And as a bonus, I sold a shed load of books for Offa's Press.

This is in abaht and hour, so if yow'm Great Bridge way why not join uz.

Tomorrow at Great Bridge Library there will be a celebration of 'Arry Arrison's poetry and Black Country poetry in general. If you're in the area it'd be great to see you.

We'll be celebrating #NationalPoetryDay with #Wolverhampton's brilliant @emmapurshouse.bsky.social, who will be performing poems from her great new collection, Unsung, in store on Friday October 3rd at 6pm. Tickets can be purchased in store or from the link below. www.waterstones.com/events/emma-...

Morecambe Poetry Festival highlights for me so far today. @robinince.bsky.social was awhirl with poems, anecdotes and fascinating segues. Loved it. Then I watched SuAndi who I found compelling. And next I really enjoyed Tim Wells well-crafted, well-observed terse verse. Then I had a jacket spud.

I've a new poetry collection out now, and gigs lined up in the following places...

Day 2 of Morecambe Poetry Festival today. It's great to be looking out at Morecambe Bay from a B and B. Wow, the light. And talking of Wow... still buzzing from seeing @lukewrightpoet.bsky.social who knocked it so far out of the park it's gone into orbit. Never, ever disappoints.

Thank you for stocking this @waterstoneswton.bsky.social xx

Two workshops and a book launch tomorrow. Whose book launch I hear you ask? Errr....mine! It's launching as part of regular night, City Voices. If you're in the Wolverhampton area then come and join us at Lych Gate Tavern.

1/ When (if) my phone alarm goes off today I'm going to think about the sort of things that it might be warning us of...perhaps an incoming Nigel Farage, or the imminent arrest of pensioners for holding up words on cards that condemn a genocide, or maybe burning or falling tower blocks,

Not long until this...