This is NOT just america. This is happening here. Local coverage of it, if you can bear the pop up ads.... www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2548259... #UKKidlit #Edusky

The world is, to quote Iain M Banks, civilisationally exhausted

Woke at 2am and lay in bed unable to sleep for a whole hour before remembering I am an adult and can get up whenever I want

🟢 New leader of the Green Party @zackpolanski.bsky.social on how to grow the economy. "We need to destroy this really bad metaphor that the household budget is anything like a national economy."

Imagine if people mobilised as quickly, loudly, and passionately to defend trans people as they did Jimmy Kimmel.

this exists it is called thinking

A gift from Sue’s uniquely beautiful voice

Sunday's #NationalPoetryDay 02.09.2025 'Play' poem was written this morning in the rain. Well not actually in the rain, maybe that's Monday's poem. So it may not be finished... @domconlon.bsky.social @piecorbett.bsky.social @brianmosespoet.bsky.social @nic-davisson.bsky.social @lizpoet.bsky.social

BLOODY HELL Chief of War today!

A reminder that I'll be doing some creepy/funny #THIRST bobbins at Normanby Hall Country Park this Saturday with #NoLimits. If you're in the Lincolnshire area, come along and say hi. The festival's got a fab lineup and it's all FREE! www.therabbitholebrigg.com/no-limits-fe... @rabbits21.bsky.social

I am so fortunate to have been able to interview Shaun Tan about his beautiful book “The Arrival” for the @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast and @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. www.languageonthemove.com/migration-is...

M is for Moon

@stepickford.bsky.social do you ever hear from or about Phil Allsopp? No idea why, but his name just popped into my head

I see Fiverr is embracing the fully AI business model. All those people supporting their previous race-to-the-bottom approach to undercutting sustainable pay rates have now helped secure their own demise

An hour or so to count the raindrops this morning

Don’t worry. I’ve got all the rain. In my beard.

New for me and new for the boy

It's yelling into the void but something tell me it just needs to kept being said: if you are still posting, RTing, or lurking on X, you are helping keep users there and you are helping this guy pull in advertising revenue. You are a volunteer worker for a slobbering, drug-addled white supremacist

Many shocking things about the last 24 hours; but the contrast between the Labour government’s response to peaceful protest against genocide, and its non-response to violent racist protest against liberal democracy, is high on the list.

In fairness to the police, frail pensioners with disabilities are far easier to arrest

How come we immigrants got a big speech from the Prime Minister saying that we had caused "incalculable damage" to the country, the "lab" had to be "shut down", but fascist and racist thugs violently marching through the capital barely elicits a peep from him?

Here’s a poem called Moons

I love Sue’s poetry

I just love this very British "no need to act until it's too late" approach. We seem to take the same attitude towards climate breakdown.

Tomorrow's poem for National Poetry Day 2025, theme 'Play', is from a lovely book edited by Roger Stevens, Attie Lime & Trevor Millum. It's a fun to have a go at writing a poem where all the words begin with the same letter. I cheated a bit using contractions. Important to choose the right letter

More than 500 children's authors, illustrators & educators have signed a statement on Palestine including @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social, @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social, Sir Michael Morpurgo, Chris Riddell OBE, Lauren Child CBE & @chrishaughton.bsky.social Find out more 👉 statement-on-palestine.org

A thin phone. Oh the wonder, the miracle. Pockets rejoice. Let it slide between our fat fingers and serve up ever more slender dreams

Lucy Strange and Pam Smy - a sublime partnership. You are invited to a free online event to hear Pam and Lucy in conversation. And to delve into Lucy's writing inspirations and peek into Pam's sketchbooks. 7.00 on Thursday 18th September at 7.00 pm vimeo.com/event/517627...

Blooming pain levels today are a bit irritating. Hoping to upload my consciousness into something more robust soon. Like a 1970s telly or a cockroach

I’ll be joining in with international observe the moon night on Saturday October 4th at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. There will be telescopes and poetry, AF Harrold and Kate Wakeling www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/gre...

I wrote a something

I've just noticed that my next book can be pre ordered and I think you should, frankly www.waterstones.com/book/i-will-...

Good evening! Just over half an hour until this week's #electronicears. Featuring: Critical Objects; Jo Johnson; Bit Cloudy; Andrea Cichecki; phase space; Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith; and plenty MORE! The show starts at 8pm and you can stream from www.candofm.co.uk

Watchmen tv series has never been more relevant

In the north of England poetry is confined to half of one shelf in one bookshop. I have discovered (by being in entirely the wrong place) that London has at least two shelves dedicated to the stuff

I am drinking coffee in the sun outside the south bank centre with no pressure to do anything at all and I wonder if this is what being rich feels like

This year's Foyle Young Poets Award entries are with the judges and winners will be announced in the autumn! In the meantime, we're sharing extracts from some of the commended poems in 2024. You can watch these poets (and more!) read their poems at bit.ly/Foyle24playlist1 #FoyleYoungPoets

Microsoft Word to begin saving people's documents in the cloud *by default* Reminder that LibreOffice is free and a good drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office software: www.libreoffice.org www.theverge.com/news/767522/...

Lots of love for our new episode and for its subject, Ursula Le Guin. Many thanks to @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social for his insights and sharing his passion for Earthsea with us (and you). Andy, Una, Tess and Nicky x open.spotify.com/episode/0sc5...

I’d love everyone to read this, RT it and if they can sign up to the Patreon Patreon.com/pauljholden. So they can read it for free (or if they wanna pay me something to to see the behind the scenes stuff and page 1 in colour that’d be cool too)

Among other things, the Earthsea books are treatises on the limitations of power. Not just that they teach that power is finite, they actively question by what metric we measure success, how we measure selfhood, what the purpose is of our life. Power fantasies inverted into wonder fantasies.

Congratulations to Matt Goodfellow, today appointed new @booktrust.org.uk Writer in Residence. His theme will be 'voice and choice'. #KidLitUK Find out more 🔽 booksforkeeps.co.uk/matt-goodfel...

I have a book out in two weeks. So....one repost of this and I'll drop one fact/spoiler/detail about the book. @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social www.walker.co.uk/978152951581...

Crisp of the day

Here’s a poem!

New book out today

What time are y’all planning on giving up all hope for another day?

Just one poem - this time from my book with @vivschwarz.bsky.social This Rock That Rock uses the Moon to explore themes of family, loss, belonging, and disability With sincere apologies for my face. I needed it to carry the beard