Author: Night Window, New York Hotel (TLS Book of the Year), Operations of Water; Translator: Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob, Ivano Fermini, Gëzim Hajdari
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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.
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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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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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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‘The sea that is brown and real around my rock, / in the distance glitters on their faces’ - Kate Bowles, ‘This is It’, from @PNReview 63, September-October 1988
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The Surreal-Absurd. A brilliant anthology. Honoured and delighted to be included. Lovely to discover lots of new names, too. Huge thanks to the editors Thomas Helm, Marcus Silcock, @VikShirley and Ben Niespodziany.
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‘It’s time to discuss depression and sadness in general, said the ghost, but first you must help me out of these overalls’ - Tom Jenks, ‘Overalls’, from Chimneys, above / ground press, 2025. @zimZalla
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‘Shuffle, pick a card, read etc’ Who could resist these uniquely and perfectly packaged haiku, as discovered and translated into ‘roughly northern dialect’ by the great Steven Waling? Available from the wonderful @zimZalla
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Am I addicted to Patrick Modiano or what? There are others that I’ve read, too - on Kindle, such as Fleurs de ruine, Un pedigree, and Accident nocturne. I think my favourite is Voyage de noces. Oddly, I still have to read his first three novels, the ‘occupation trilogy’.
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‘It held two claws out in front,
the way a blindfolded man
protects himself from the wall’ -
Matthew Francis, ‘Creature’, from Wing (Faber, 2020) @FaberBooks
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‘who is it can see
the front and back
of darkness’ - Malcolm Ritchie, Mountain on Top of a Mountain (Shearsman Books, 2025) @ShearsmanBooks
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The Everyday Marvellous coming up in September, with
@stephensunderla
@LydiaUnsworth
@zimZalla
Sarah-Clare Conlon, and Stuart Carlton
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Very much enjoying the honed lyricism of Escritoire, Sheila E. Murphy’s latest collection, just out from Lavender Ink
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I'm starting a 'Reading Round' group in Lancaster at the @gregsoncentre on behalf of the @royallitfund. It's FREE and open to anyone who has a passion and curiosity for reading. There's no homework and no prep (copies supplied). If you're near Lancaster, please spread the word.
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Father’s Day presents. Im addicted to Barbara Comyns and I haven’t read Primo Levi for a while (I first read him around 40 years ago).
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Since then, lots of walking around the city. Today in rue de la Roquette, an elderly man with a sun hat and walking stick asked me if I was all right. ‘Vous avez l’air perdu, monsieur.’ I have been told that in different languages all my life. Lots of popping into bookshops.
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My thanks to Patricia Sustrac and Les Amis de Max Jacob for the invitation to see the MJ archives at the Bibliothèque Littéraire Jacques Doucet. I actually got to hold a copy of the first edition of Le Cornet a Des (with a capital D) in my hands. Fascinating and moving visit.
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Long Poem Magazine 33. @LongPoemMag edited by @lindaroseblack and @clairecrowther_ Well worth taking a sub out for!
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Very much enjoying the poems by John Dorsey and the artwork by Juliane Hundertmark in 100 Mornings. Published in a limited edition by Sacred Parasite Press.
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‘Some deer walked around in vicious circles and couldn’t get out’ (‘Retribution’) - @VikShirley SOME DEER, @brokensleep
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Looking forward to receiving the latest issue of Modern Poetry in Translation. Honoured to be a contributor, with translations from the Italian of Ivano Fermini.
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‘Work’, from My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat, with artwork by Lupo Sol, now out in a limited edition from Sacred Parasite Press. @TheCafeIrreal
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So pleased to find in the post my author copies of My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat, with artwork by the brilliant Lupo Sol. Infinite thanks to editor Kevin Tosca. Published in a limited edition, available directly from Sacred Parasite.
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Checking the proofs of My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat, with brilliant art by Lupo Sol, due out from Sacred Parasite Press in May.
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I cannot recommend highly enough Howie Good’s collection of prose poems, Akimbo (Sacred Parasite). You will cry and laugh with him. His work should be much better known. Available directly from the publisher in a handsomely produced limited edition. @IMcMillan
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I very much like these pictures (and others) by @JasmirCree96266 in the @VictoriaGallery, Liverpool, currently on exhibition. Powerful and haunting.
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Long time since I’ve been too ill with flu (or whatever it is) to get out of bed on Boxing Day.
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‘Eve Blossom has Wheels’ by the inimitable Kurt Schwitters, which I first discovered when I was 19 in this anthology ed. Edward Lucie-Smith back in 1975 in the Turret Bookshop, London. Still a great way to beat the blues….an anthology and poem I love going back to… @IMcMillan
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I can’t quite believe it - the 6.43 @TPExpressTrains Lancaster to Liverpool Lime Street is actually running today as programmed. I shouldn’t feel grateful but I do - thank you @TPExpressTrains ! (🤞)
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The 6.43 Lancaster to Liverpool Lime Street @TPExpressTrains cancelled yet again. This is a disgrace. Of course, a train will be cancelled on occasion but this train seems to be cancelled more often than it runs. An insult to passengers. @BBCNews
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The 6.43 Lancaster to Liverpool train cancelled YET AGAIN. Why even put it on the timetable @TPExpressTrains ?
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Morecambe Bay - ‘if they do not thoroughly enjoy themselves whilst they are out, it will not be the fault of the man at the helm’
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Have been very much enjoying, and been moved by, Anna Vaught’s personal essays in To Melt the Stars, from the fabulous @brokensleep @BookwormVaught
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6.43 Lancaster to Liverpool Lime Street cancelled yet again - we’ve come to expect it. @TPExpressTrains you are literally useless
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The 6.43 @TPExpressTrains train from Lancaster to Liverpool is cancelled yet again. It seems to be cancelled more often than it’s running.
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the aran aphorisms by Mike Ferguson @omahaglenn from @theredceilings press. Highly recommended
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It’s tomorrow! @Litfest I’ll be reading mainly from Night Window @ShearsmanBooks , but also from my translation of The Dice Cup by the inimitable Max Jacob @Wakefield_Press, since I was translating and soaked in Max Jacob when writing N.W. 1 / 2
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Bending so deftly into the wind (I put their seeds in the soil back in June, with no idea how they’d turn out)…
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This lovely little book: Dante’s Garden (1898) by Rosemary A. Cotes (from Liverpool University library). And she writes with such beautiful and evocative limpidity .
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Which I reviewed in @PN_Review . Well worth getting hold of a copy of Lucy’s latest:
Whoops, how did we leave out Lucy's name! We LOVE Lucy! @lucyhamilton69
Fine work in the magazine, and people you can buy her most recent, truly brilliant, collection here:
shearsman.com/store/Lucy-Ham…
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Not to forget the brilliant @lucyhamilton69 in the latest @ShearsmanBooks magazine- I’m a huge fan of her work
Out now! Shearsman 141 & 142!
Featuring poetry by @jobalmer, Daragh Breen, @imlcc, @amyevansbauer, Mischa Foster-Poole, @Carrie_Etter, Huw Gwynn Jones, @jjhlinklater, Sujatha Menon, @JohnMuckle5, Tom Phillips, @Shadow2train, Rimas Uzgiris & many more!
shearsman.com/shearsman-maga…
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And Stav Poleg’s poem in latest PN Review has got me wanting to read Il Convivio, so I’ve taken it out of the Liverpool university library (I read and reread Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso and Vita Nova many years ago, but never Il Convivio )
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R.I.P. Smudge (22/07/06-23/09/24), who brought much joy into our lives. Here she is playing with great focus a few years ago.
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Looking forward to reading Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar’s The Time Regulation Institute, bought just now from the elegant and welcoming The Bookshop, Istanbul
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A sliver of moon between minarets of the Blue Mosque, Istanbul. An endlessly fascinating, beautiful and intensely friendly city. Lots of cats, too.
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And also this quotation I noted 20 years ago, but, like an idiot, not noting the author’s name.
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Love going through old drafts on a rainy Sunday afternoon, eg these from 10 years ago. Final versions here: fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2014…
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On Lancaster Millennial Bridge over the River Lune, on my way to meet a friend for coffee at the castle, after a morning’s writing.
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Delighted and honoured to have a couple of pieces in the latest Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, and to be in the company of @Carrie_Etter @zimZalla @lizmilne10 and many others @UoCEnglish Thank you!
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