New year books now available to preorder - from @cathfletcher.bsky.social @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social & Jean Sprackland @dcahf-met.bsky.social @manmetuni.bsky.social @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social #BookSky

Ill be launching my latest pamphlet on Thursday 26 Feb at the amazing Saul Hay gallery. expect weird surreal readings from @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @tomjenksuk.bsky.social and me - plus free wine (you'll need it) Free tickets here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1979710024...

New work from @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social in The Aftershock Review: www.aftershockreview.com “After almost dying, there was only one option in front of me: to survive. But not just that, I had to thrive. This is a celebration of that. It is my manifesto for living. We strive. And we will thrive.” MW

Did a poem about the current flag situation/nonsense in the UK: www.culturematters.org.uk/flags-is-it/

Well doesn't this look grand. In the Radio Times and everything. My mum would have been well chuffed and to some degree making up for the disappointment of not becoming the second English Pope. We published in 2019. @thebookseller.com @northernfiction.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Went to see the Images of Research exhibition @dcahf-met.bsky.social @louisekenward.bsky.social @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @centreplacewriting.bsky.social 🩷

Congratulations @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social !

Congratulations to all those shortlisted in this year's Images of Research - including PGRs @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social & @louisekenward.bsky.social and staff researchers. @dcahf-met.bsky.social Take a look at the images on the link below and vote for your favourite: www.mmu.ac.uk/research/res...

My research is now on display at MMU’s Images of Research competition alongside fellow PhDers @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @louisekenward.bsky.social and many more. You can vote online for your favourite.

I've got a press! www.nakedeyepublishing.co.uk

@lydiaunsworth.bsky.social next collection Stay Awhile is out next year following a @artscouncilengland.bsky.social award. Her PhD @centreplacewriting.bsky.social explores kinship with disappearing post-industrial architecture. This is from earlier in the year: www.bodyliterature.com/2025/05/14/l...

Issue 27 of @manchesterreview.bsky.social includes 2 poems from our PGR @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social #poetry #PlaceWriting #Manchester www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=12960

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

above/ground press author spotlight #7 : Lydia Unsworth / @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/abovegroun...

next week www.yuandmebooks.com/products/boo...

News: issue nine of Finished Creatures opens for submissions tomorrow - for the month of August. The theme is Trespass: verb and noun; sin and action; rights and wrongs. Please see the website for more information. xx

I'm not in the habit of posting on here yet. Here are some bottles.

some above/ground press author activity: Lydia Unsworth, R. Kolewe, rob mclennan, Emily Ursuliak, Al Kratz + Dag T. Straumsvåg, / @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @alkratz.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/07/some...

I have a couple of poems in here

PGR call out for participants/contributions to their research project! #memory #place #regeneration #phd #research #AcademicSky Get in touch with @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social

new from above/ground press: Terri Witek, R. Kolewe, Jason Christie, Micah Ballard, Monty Reid, Tom Jenks, Orchid Tierney, Brook Houglum + Meredith Quartermain, / @mreid.bsky.social @tomjenksuk.bsky.social @orchidtierney.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/new-from-a...

Does anyone want to talk to me about friendship, memory or grief? As it pertains to the built environment. Or just send me a memory near a pertinent structure. Am building an archive! Stories can be as brief or as detailed as you like. Please share! Thanks. #phdresearch

🚨 Poets, brace yourselves. 👀 Nearly 20 indie lit platforms are locked in: reviews, features, interviews, podcasts — all ready to amplify your voice. 💥 No fees. No gatekeepers. Just real visibility. This is my brainchild. It’s almost here. #PromoteIndieLit #PIL #PoetryCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky

This fundraiser by my publisher, Knives Forks and Spoons, to support publication of my next collection (with terrific artwork by Jen Orpin on the cover) is now at 50%. Much gratitude to everyone who has supported so far: www.gofundme.com/f/publish-st...

My latest collection, Stay Awhile, is coming out in January and my publisher, Knives Forks and Spoons, is currently fundraising for its publication. You can donate, or just read about it, here: www.gofundme.com/f/publish-st...

This Saturday at Fab Cafe Manchester - 2-4pm - book launch for Sally Barrett's On The Advice Of Donna Or A Dream, with readings from PGR Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social with Ruby Conner, Joey Frances and Sally Barrett.

Tonight tonight!

🪶📚🚀THIS THURSDAY! I'd love it if you'd pop along and welcome Wanderland worldwards! It's the official launch of my new book, 7pm at Saul Hay Gallery, free entry, and joining the party to help me celebrate are guest readers Scott Thurston and Lydia Unsworth. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Call for Submissions: Rhythms of the Land Deadline: 15 May 2025 What is the music of the earth? How can poetry listen to the cycles and seasons of nature, the sounds of water and wind? Featuring Guest Editor, Jessica Sequeira. Find out more: modernpoetryintranslation.com/call-for-sub...

@newstatesman.com said: "Ghost Signs is a damning indictment of Conservative austerity and the government's contemptuous response to the pandemic." Shortlisted for 2 x national literary awards, pub.by the legendary @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ghos...

Are you subscribed to the Anthropocene poetry substance? This week's post contains great poems & a superb interview about ekphrastic writing / punctuation poems / using 'i' etc etc...... anthropocenepoetry.substack.com/p/the-latest...

Reading here with the fabulous Sarah-Clare Conlon and Scott Thurston in April: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Poetry festival in Manchester in May!

Got a few readings in Manchester coming up. Here's one!

new from above/ground press: Gag, by Lydia Unsworth / @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/03/new-...

Review copies available!

New pamphlet incoming ... thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social at Above / Ground Press

Got a poem about Swansea in here: shorturl.at/e17pv

We had this sent to us a long time ago for review, we're still working our way through a massive backlog of books #BrokenSpineReads Apologies to @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social I hope it is worth the wait! Our #LiftToTheSky is Lydia Unsworth! thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/03/02/b...

I've set up a little web shop! lydiaunsworth.wordpress.com/buy-books/

I need more boleros.

working on new above/ground press titles by Catriona Strang (cover by Aoife), Andy Weaver @weaverandy.bsky.social , Alice Burdick @aliceburdick.bsky.social , Ryan Skrabalak + Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social ; have u thot of subscribing fr 2025? abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2024/10/abov...

That is some graph on bus usage outside London after deregulation on.ft.com/49PfLlV

Anyone else refusing to pay to sit next to their travel partner on Ryanair flights and instead taking that opportunity to get to know whatever new friend they sit you with? #flightfriending

My latest book Arthropod came out in July. You can grab a copy here: www.deathofworkerswhilstbuildingskyscrapers.com/product-page...

Reading at this in Manchester on Saturday with a ton-load of others! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blah-blah-...

We're aiming to be more active here too 🤩 We're a tiny independent publisher based in beautiful Norwich. Open to submissions of chapbook length works. salopress.com