This week's edition of The Poems We Made Along the Way is with Liam Bates. Listen to Liam in conversation with @gregorykearns.bsky.social talking about friendship, popular song lyrics being published in poetry anthologies, & self-consciously informal citations. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

On the actual BBC.

Last night & available on iplayer www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... BBC Radio 4 @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social & @joeshute.bsky.social featured in the latest episode of The Verb - a house of multipoet occupancy Ian McMillan discusses underloved buildings with Lydia Unsworth, & the River Irk with Joe Shute.

New book alert: www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page...

👏🏽 one of our esteemed Fellows - we look forward to David Cooper’s publication in September ! 🙌🏼💫⬇️

Lydia's episode of The Verb will be available on the 21st June!

I had a wonderful day on The Verb this afternoon. What an honour!

Happy Days on The Verb with Joe Shute’s boat poem-objects

Happy publication day to @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social - congratulations on 'This Now Extends To My Daughter'! Published by Blue Diode Press. #PoetrySky #BookSky www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Lydia Unsworth : At Last I Have Been Here Long Enough: some notes on an urban poetics / @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/04/lydi...

Lydia Unsworth, Stay Awhile / @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/04/lydi...

National Poetry Month (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) : Lydia Unsworth, / @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...

another great afternoon yesterday of VERSeFest 2026! a Kado reading by Sébastien Rock, lectures by Nada Gordon and Lydia Unsworth, and our Hall of Honour event, celebrating Susan McMaster and Monty Reid! / @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social verseottawa.ca/en/versefest

hey! it's me with above/ground press authors Lydia Unsworth (Manchester UK) @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social and Jérôme Melancon (Regina SK) @lethejerome.bsky.social ! that's a lot of geography in one photo, // @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social

I like this poem of place and time by Lydia Unsworth from her superb new Knives Forks and Spoons Press collection Stay Awhile

new from above/ground press: The Peter F Yacht Club #36; VERSeFest special! , @francesboyle19.bsky.social @amandaearl.bsky.social @snehaskanta.bsky.social @margolapierre.bsky.social @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @awapointe.bsky.social abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/03/new-...

Adrian Slatcher reviews an above/ground press launch: Tom Jenks, Lydia Unsworth + David Gaffney, / @tomjenksuk.bsky.social @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/03/adri...

'Presentations last exactly forty minutes: twenty slides, fourteen jokes (snappy little one-liners; keep it inclusive; classic all-rounders).' From issue 4 (spring/summer 2017): fiction by @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social bansheepress.org/read/we-get-...

A short piece about Manchester and poetry for @robmclennan.bsky.social and periodicities. The pictures, courtesy of David Gaffney, are from the above/ground press readings last week with me, @ggaffa.bsky.social and @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social at Saul Hay Gallery. bsky.app/profile/robm...

VERSeFest / Factory Reading Series : Lydia Unsworth and Nada Gordon, / @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social @subpresspoetry.bsky.social @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @nadagordon.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/03/vers...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social : 1B periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/02/lydi...

Later this month, Lydia Unsworth will be reading poetry alongside Tom Jenks and David Gaffney at Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester - February 26th 6.30 to 8.30pm. @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social www.saulhayfineart.co.uk/future-event...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : rob mclennan : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social ; @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/02/rob-...

some above/ground press author activity: Valerie Coulton, Gwen Aube, Genevieve Kaplan, rob mclennan, Beatriz Hausner + Lydia Unsworth, / @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/02/some...

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...