It’s #WorldPoetryDay he said with a sigh, & I’ve got words on order with which I will try, to arrange in a rhythm, a metre, or verse a sequence of thoughts… for this is my curse. A literary Sisyphus; I pen push my rock heroically failing to beat writer‘s block. Bradford Literature Festival

The Industrial Museum is full of surprises… #BradfordsBestKeptSecret Bradford Museums & Galleries

The #Bradfordsbestkeptsecret secret formula is when the number of people who know the secret, divided by the number of people who know of the secret (but don’t know it) equals… wait... I’ve got the maths wrong… how do you calculate ratios again? (This is why I stick to haiku)

Some clandestine #Jazz Add some candlelit #whisky Poetic license… #BradfordsBestKeptSecret #WorldPoetryDay #bradford2025 Bradford Museums & Galleries Waterstones Bradford Wool Exchange Bradford Cathedral Bradford Literature Festival Melosa Jazz Joolz Denby Bradford Music Scene (always check the ALT text🥃🎹🍸😎🥷🎷🤫)

I was not expecting that to look pretty.

I’m doing a talk about Leeds goth culture tonight, and members of some of the bands I’ll be talking about are coming. I’m definitely going to have write the talk now.

Nothing to see here! Just poetry people, in a poetry club, doing the poetry things, that poetry people do; er rhymes and… #BradfordsBestKeptSecret 🤫🎹🥃🎷🍸🥷😎 Waterstones Bradford Wool Exchange Bradford Museums & Galleries Bradford Cathedral Bradford Literature Festival Visit Bradford #Bradford2025 #WorldPoetryDay

This is Manchester’s Best Kept Secret. (This is Granada TV footage of a gig at the derelict Chorlton cum Hardy station on what is now the Fallowfield Loopline)

a couple of people have asked me this in the comments so: the lowest amount of PIP someone can be awarded (above £0) is £28.70 a week, which is £114.80 a month, so remember that when the media tries to whip everyone into hysteria over this benefit. it is often a pittance

Poetry Rules 1 Poems do not have to rhyme or scan 2 Poems must; wait… is that scan thing a separate rule? Is this infact rule 3? 3/4 Brevity 4? Let your words&ideas soar, like an eagle 5ish No cliches… 6.5 Meta-metaphors obscure clarity 7or8 Never use emojis🎷🥃 Poetry Rules🤘

I Will only trust AI, When it knows why, to deliberately try... to do things wrong-ly. To think outside the cube To brake the rules To subvert the normal To have a none formulayered response To stimulAI #BradfordsBestKeptSecret #WorldPoetryDay #StillNotSharingTheLinkToEvenbrite

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What do you mean 'where were you last night?' I wasn't anywhere. Nothing happened. Bradford’s Best Kept Secret #BradfordsBestKeptSecret #Bradford2025

Industrial Jazz Hashtag World Poetry Day “Poetry Club three” #BradfordsBestKeptSecret #Bradford2025 #WorldPoetryDay #Goth #Jazz #Whisky #poetry Bradford Museums & Galleries Bradford Cathedral Waterstones Bradford Wool Exchange Bradford Literature Festival Bradford Cathedral 🤫🥃🎹🍸🎷😎

In 48 hours, over 200 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza. Keir Starmer’s government still won’t condemn Israel or call it genocide. Won’t end arms sales. Won’t impose sanctions. Won’t stop trade. This isn’t just complicity, it’s collaboration. They have blood on their hands.