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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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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I.M. the great John Lucas, by Merryn Williams creativewritingatleicester.b… @crystalclearjt @EverybodyReview @PoetrySociety @GuardianBooks @WritingEM @NottmCityOfLit @NaweWriters @HubNottingham
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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
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Collected: The Podcast – September 2025 open.substack.com/pub/royall…
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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.
ALT Cover of book with image of beaver and a yellow sticker with orange arrow.
ALT three women writers sitting down answering questions
ALT Susie reading with pile of waste at her feet
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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!
ALT Book cover with picture of beaver
ALT Poster for event with author pics and pics of book, clock, beaver
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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.'
ALT Black-and-white photograph of Sir Nicholas Winton holding a small child. Overlaid text reads: “I believe in ethics, and if everybody believed in ethics we’d have no problems at all. That’s the only way out; forget the religious side. Sir Nicholas Winton, British humanitarian and humanist.” The Humanists UK logo appears in the corner.
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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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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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Than k you, Julian, and huge thanks to @VikShirley for inviting me to contribute
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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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