My absolute favourite venue in London - Hackney’s MOTH club - is under constant threat from developers. They would love it if you could give their petition a quick sign. London can’t afford to lose any more of its creative spaces to rampant unsustainable capitalism www.change.org/p/moth-club-...

I got to write about five of my favourite horror films for B-sides & Badlands, and I had an absolute blast doing it. bsidesbadlands.com/my-horror-an...

I urge anyone with any interest in contemporary poetry whatsoever to subscribe to Perverse. Free and weird and utterly wonderful. Consistently the best thing in my inbox.

It’s National Poetry Day so do yourself a favour and read some poems, suckers. My latest is over here in the great @streetcakemag.bsky.social www.streetcakemagazine.com/uploads/2/4/...

I have a new poem in Streetcake, one of the very best places to read poetry of the experimental variety. Head over and have a read.

Werner Herzog is doing unboxing videos on Insta now.

KLOF really got to the heart of it on this one. Thanks for listening! Album is out Friday!

I had the absolute best day at @supersonicfest.bsky.social on Sunday. So many really great acts crammed into 12 hours. Wrote about it for @klofmag.com if anyone wants to know why I think it’s the best festival in the UK. klofmag.com/2025/09/live...

Always good to be compared favourably to T.S. Eliot, especially when it’s the ever-insightful Billy Mills at Elliptical Movements doin’ the comparin’ ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/08/08/s...

Silver Jews, Pigs x7 and Twin Peaks mentioned in Only Connect tonight!

I know you all want to learn about the history of cinema in Swindon, so here’s a little thing I wrote. www.museumartswindon.com/collections/...

Cool to have 3 (three) of my poems in the latest edition of Confluence magazine. Subjects include the Cottingley Fairies, crowdfunded funerals and a Han Kang book launch. If you would like a read but don’t have the funds to buy the mag: drop me a message www.confluencemagazine.co.uk/confluence-i...

part 1 of today at IHTOV: a great q&a with author, poet, and music journalist tom blake: ihavethatonvinyl.com/q-and-a/q-a-...

It was really fun to be interviewed by @ihavethatonvinyl.com.web.brid.gy about my record collection, and fun to talk about music without my journalistic/critical hat on for once. ihavethatonvinyl.com/q-and-a/q-a-...

Here’s an incredible review of my latest chapbook, written by @travisshosa.bsky.social for Eulogy Press. eulogy.press#fruit-and-an...

Important work.

Hey! My new chapbook is out in the world! Anyone out there want a copy for review purposes? Hit me up. If you want to buy a copy, head to the Red Ceilings website or drop me a message. www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/product-page...

Really happy to have my second chapbook out on Red Ceilings Press. It’s available to order now. If anyone wants a copy (pdf or book) to review, let me know and I’ll send one your way. www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/product-page...

Issue Six of And Other Poems is out now on our website. Read it here: andotherpoems.com/issue-six/ (Cover photo by kat_katerina on Unsplash)

One of the very best online poetry mags, @andotherpoems.bsky.social, launches its new issue today. And I’m in it (along with loads of really great poets)! Take a look. andotherpoems.com/issue-six/

Look at this! Me, in the same pages as some real big proper poet people! Philip Gross for goodness sake!

New Thing, the scarily accomplished debut album from Avery Friedman, inhabits a complex emotional realm where nervousness can coexist with (and inform) ideas of sexiness, sadness, tenderness. Her world is fragile but appears to have arrived fully-formed. klofmag.com/2025/04/aver...

Newsom covering Hurley m.youtube.com/watch?v=L6uV...

Got a little poem in the latest issue of The Shore. @theshorepoetry.bsky.social Have a read if that’s your bag. www.theshorepoetry.org/tom-blake-lo...

Really pleased to have my poem published by Stone of Madness Press. It’s a beautifully presented online journal and the work is consistently excellent. Head on over there! stoneofmadnesspress.com/tom-blake

The Museum has recently acquired some bits by Paul Rudall. I‘m convinced he was one of the best British artists of the 20th century. One of those acquisitions is their first Item of the Month of 2025, and they let me write about it! www.museumartswindon.com/collections/...

Songwriter Ed Askew has died. He was a real one-off. I wrote a poem about him a couple of years ago, and it’s just been published by KLOF.

Prediction: Pavement to headline Green Man this year. 🤞

The 2025 reading pile is taking shape.

Really sad to hear that Ed Askew has died, aged 84. Ed was one of the finest, most big-hearted, most underappreciated songwriters of his or anyone else‘s generation. I wrote this weird little poem about him a couple of years ago.

i’m a bit obsessed with eau de Nil (a colour possibly named by Flaubert) at the moment. Imagine my joy when i discovered that one of my favourite poets, Timothy Donnelly, has written a poem about it. Pull up a Cadbury’s Chocolate Eclair and read this absolute zinger.

Nothing Christmassier. m.youtube.com/watch?v=SDdE...

Guys, don’t forget to spruce up your seasonal playlists with the new Frog Xmas song. It’s a little masterpiece. heyitsfrog.bandcamp.com/track/did-sa...

Guys this album is the absolute tits. Get on it.

I was lucky enough to write about an awful lot of great new music for KLOF this year. This is my top 10.

Grim reading for grim weather.

The tree’s going up tomorrow.

This is one of the best EPs of the year. Definitely worth a quid of your money.

Honoured to have my work discussed in the highest echelons of avian academia.

With ‘Music for Space Age Shopping', David A. Jaycock has achieved something quietly spectacular: an album rooted in highly specific locales and timeframes which nonetheless allows you to drift into nostalgia or to imagine better possible futures. klofmag.com/2024/11/davi...

It would appear that this is now sold out on the Red Ceilings website, but if you still want one give me a shout - I might have a copy knocking about somewhere.

Beware of geeks bearing grifts. www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...

They’re called Spines, which is, like, ironic or something, because the fuckers don’t have any.

Well this is a thing…

One of London’s truly great venues, MOTH Club in Hackney, is under threat. This is one of those occasions where signing a petition could have a significant impact. chng.it/Vt5rZDpbCK

If you like not using twitter, you should check out not using spotify.

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat, please buy my book so I can feel the warm but ultimately transient glow of a creative endeavour fulfilled. Fits in all stockings and some large socks. Can’t be many left, so get ‘em while they’re spicy. www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/by-...

Is there an artist whose style remained so consistent over such a long period of time as Graham Sutherland? Two of these are from the mid-1930s, two from the mid-1970s.

Hey! Save your local music writer (i.e. me)!