Wishing everyone a calmer, better 2026 with less war, more jaw.

I’m not arguing with this one!

Visit Cosgrovia with Patrick Cosgrove (Steel Incisors) and never be quite the same again. You have been warned.

last time I promise but this is quite challenging. guess the right word from the entire dictionary. 🧩 Puzzle #566 🤔 13 guesses ⏱️ 2m 21s 🔗 alphaguess.com

phew. That’s better. I’ll stop boring everyone now! 🧩 Puzzle #560 🤔 16 guesses ⏱️ 5m 🔗 alphaguess.com

oh dear, even worse! 🧩 Puzzle #558 🤔 24 guesses ⏱️ 25m 38s 🔗 alphaguess.com

First attempt at this. Quite the challenge 🧩 Puzzle #556 🤔 22 guesses ⏱️ 13m 59s 🔗 alphaguess.com

"Esteemed Sir, I'm writing to you to register my peevishness . . . " Poetry from @vickikaye.bsky.social, Winter '24. Exclusive to print. Subscribe today, or gift a friend a subscription. https://exactingclam.com/subscribe/

Is @bluesky.social getting worse? I have loads of obviously fake accounts trying to follow me. It’s irritating!

Great to have some work in here!

My aunt is giddy beyond belief. Three prose poems of mine in Issue 15 of this New York-based lit mag. Am I honoured? Oh, yes. Available on Amazon UK.

Oh dear

via Jan Mieszkowski @janmpdx Buckingham Palace just released this photo of Samuel Beckett waiting for Kate Middleton.

On #WorldBookDay here's confirmation that my next book will be published by Sagging Meniscus Press in October this year (if the good Lord's willin' and the creek don't rise).

courtesy of @writerskingston where I perform cranial surgery with only my fingernails and see what rubbish spills out The brilliant poets of our action vispo / student book launch event tonight! Exceptional evening of balloons jenga unicorn eggs sellotape shoes and poetry.

Take a minute to support catering staff at Drax Power Station. These women are taking strike action for fair pay and they need our backing! Sign their petition: megaphone.org.uk/petitions/de... via @megaphoneuk Demand a pay rise for catering workers at Drax Power Station From megaphone.org.uk

Am so pleased to have five prose poems up on the Café Irreal Journal issue 89 - their 25th Anniversary Edition. Here is a link cafeirreal.alicewhittenburg.com/issue_89.htm

Love, peace and good vibes to you all 💕💕💕

Christmas simply isn't Christmas without Sports and Social. It sets the mood.

via Viz magazine - love it but not sure my neighbours would.

obviously a woman of impeccable taste!

youtu.be/eUnhRTCSaQo?... Guy Masterson does a wonderful job of this. Going to see him in Bath (again!). Totally recommended.

not read yet but - Stephen Sunderland is a surrealist in a particularly surreal sort of way. Check it out.

yup - it's even got some of my stuff in there - so it must be good!

Just received an Arts Council DYCP Grant for 2024. Am knocked out with delight.