Author: Night Window, New York Hotel (TLS Book of the Year), Operations of Water; Translator: Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob, Ivano Fermini, Gëzim Hajdari

Joined April 2013
Very excited about my next set of poetry readings and workshops! -Sat 18th Oct, 2pm: @Litfest -Thu 30th Oct, 6.30pm: Writing Wild Words workshop and panel, @BritishAcademy_ -Thu 6th Nov, Sibiu, Romania -Tue 2nd Dec, 7.30: The Dusty Miller, Mytholmroyd
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Are you free on the evening of December 16th? 🎄 Join me for this masterclass all about finding multiple (infinite?) ways in to the same subject matter. We’ll write a ridiculous amount of poems in 2 hours…with brand new exercises ⁦@arvonfoundation⁩ arvon.org/writing-courses/co…
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Looking forward to reading at this event alongside some wondrous writers! 🙏🖤🔆
Our next event is October thurs 9th at @KingstonUni Town House at 7pm, free, a celebration of students, alumni and visiting writers with @SaraUpstone @miyamusicinfo @stephensunderla Popogrou and IPLA collectives, Nikolai Duffy @GoldsmithsPress writerskingston.com/brut25
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So thrilled to see Wastelands being read! The whole trajectory of the project is about this! Thank you @brihughespoet, to other future readers, and of course @GuillemotPress
I’m OBSESSED with Susie Campbell’s new collection with @guillemotpress🦫
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I am sorry to hear the poet John Lucas has passed away. John was a perfect gentleman. He was an expert on Baudelaire, Auden. I was lucky to see John read & talk to him a little in my formative years as a young poet in Nottingham. He will be missed. Rest in peace John 🖤
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'I didn't lick this': best audience response? By the wonderful @DavidMullHere, sticker by @Lindenprint. A taste of the wonderful event last night to launch Wastelands @GuillemotPress w the brilliant @thatmoonpoet & Tania Hershman, with thanks to Jennifer Lee Tsai for pics 2/3.
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All of the above.
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Another day of taking Gertrude Stein's advice to "Forget grammar and think about potatoes."
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Publication Day! @GuillemotPress guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry/… Opportunity to thank you all for your support for this book. First launch at Manchester Poetry Library this Thursday 4pm. Come say hi!
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Sir Nicholas Winton was a British humanist who organised the Kindertransport humanitarian rescue of hundreds of children from Nazi-occupied Europe. His life demonstrated his belief: that people did not need religion to live good, ethical lives. He exemplified 'Think for yourself, act for everyone.'
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As we’ve all seen in recent days, a growing, well-funded US-style Christian nationalism is taking root in the UK – threatening the hard-won freedoms we all share and must protect. humanists.uk/2025/09/17/risi…
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Come along if you’re in the Manchester area! 🔆🖤👇
This Thursday, I’ll be reading from my new chapbook, My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat, with artwork by Lupo Sol, published by Sacred Parasite Press Berlin. There’ll be copies available on the night.
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a fondness for the colour came out eight hundred and five days ago today 🙃🎉🥳🍾🎊🎈💚
the happiest day of my life my first collection is out in the world / available from @brokensleep a thousand thank you's to everyone who has helped me on this journey / one love charlie 💚
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✨ The Everyday Marvellous ✨ Honoured that Ian Seed @Shadow2train will read on the night! His luminous prose-poems move between memory, exile and dream, capturing fleeting moments of connection and estrangement. 🖤🔆🙏
Coming up next Thursday 18th September, 7 to 9pm, at P3 Annihilation Eve, 70 Oldham Road (M4 5EB), THE EVERYDAY MARVELOUS. I’ll be reading alongside @stephensunderla , Tom Jenks, Sarah-Clare Conlon, Stuart Carlton, and Lydia Unsworth.
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Stunning lack of ambition from Labour leadership. Brexit has been a disaster. Everyone knows it’s a disaster. Yet they just can’t bring themselves to admit it & would rather impoverish the country still further ⁦@euromove⁩ theguardian.com/politics/202…
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recently got a copy of this, really excited to read it soon!
Replying to @cianonus
58. In Farthest Seas by Lalla Romano translated by @BrianRobMoore "I had this thought: in art, it is essential to stop in time; in life, death does it for us." One of the most tender reads of this year for me - a beautiful life rendered in candid vignettes. Please read it.
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It’s next week! Honoured and delighted to be taking part in The Everyday Marvellous reading with @stephensunderla, Sarah-Clare Conlon, @zimZalla Stuart Calton, and Lydia Unsworth, coming up in Manchester, Thursday, 18 September.
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AI will never become conscious.
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Peter Dent wishes he'd thought about all this stridemagazine.blogspot.com/… ~ and three other poems: always enjoy reading his work
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