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Thrilled to be part of this special Christmas and winter themed poetry and song podcast going live at 17:00 (UK time) on Saturday 23rd December with my Christmas single with SoftWave🌊 and in the joyous company of dozens of esteemed poets, songwriters & prose writers!

Excited to take part in the back room poetry -- chapbook alerta! showcase on Feb 4th - the edgy, lefty, rebellious poetry pamphleteers! Will read from ‘beau, beau Sadisto!’ published by them & ‘Cul-de-Sacrilege!’ Polari Press & new work from forthcoming pamphisto ‘F**kin Angry Centrist!’ Please come!

🎙️ Dive into the modern Beat scene with your words. #AfterHours #BeatCultureMadeNew #SubmissionWindow is your chance to be part of the first of 12 unique chapbooks. Channel the Beat spirit into today's poetry. Submissions open until 21st April 2024. thebrokenspine.co.uk/2024/03/10/cal…

Matthew M C Smith Just back from L.A. great chance to show beach tan 😄& promote some new poetry acquisitions at @icefloeP reading desk: deb says; nobody listens. #melindaASmith Vikki C. ENTANGLED; Barney Ashton-Bullock in wondrous striped bag; & 2 from desert bookshop #alfredozaldivar #MargaretRandall; #MPalmer

#poemsnotbombs #poetry #openmic hosted by the talented Paul McGrane 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 💙 at The Spice #London was FAB🎉 Great to sit with heather moulson and Barney Ashton-Bullock 🤩 The next meeting will be on Thursday 16th May - sign up from 1pm for a 1.30pm start -£3 💐 #poetryperformance

Very occasionally, like bloodletting, I let some poems go. I can’t shelter what breaks me & here some are, deep from vaults of inner hope, 1st publications from my secret tome, ‘North’! Thank U RobertFredeKenter Anne-Marie Fyfe & Anna Saunders for being involved at different points!

A wonderful day adding vocals with Peter Straker and Christopher Frost to some duets for the ongoing Saint-Torsten theatre/poetry/pop project that features Andy Bell (Erasure) - a marvellously creative day was had by all!

Surrounded by a bunch of our #coffeehousepoetry regulars who read poems that go to the heart in last night's 'Yeats-Birthday Poetry Reading' BedfordParkFestival St Michael & All Angels W4 l-r: Agniezska Studzińska, Warren Czapa, Tessa Anslow, Michael Dench, @Barney_poet & heather moulson

Today #SealeyChallenge #day3 Catch-up CUL-DE-SACRILEGE by wondrous inimitable Barney Ashton-Bullock Barney Ashton-Bullock magical experiential gritty punk pop poems & prose poems edgy UK queer clandestine narratives from Polari P. (polari.com)/ Barney huge Happy Birthday 💐🎂

There’s a Bronski Beat ‘Smalltown Boy’ themed poetry evening Torriano Meeting House (North London) on Sunday 29th Sept with Lisa Kelly and I reading poetry from the recent SWG3 art show with an open mic for your ‘Smalltown Boy’ / Bronski Beat themed poems! 😃🙌🏻

Look at this super cool wall with poems in response to Bronski Beat's 'Smalltown Boy'. This was at SWG3 Gallery in Glasgow but now some of the poets are reading Torriano this Sunday 7.30 to celebrate 40th anniversary since release of this epic song. Host Barney Ashton-Bullock 💕

Delighted to be reading a new work ‘Confronting Scant Comforts’ on this Halloween special poetry podcast!

Introducing... 🎭 Barney Ashton-Bullock, librettist in Andy Bell is Torsten and author of Café Kaput! (Broken Sleep Books) and Cul-de-Sacrilege! (Polari Press). His work is celebrated in cult poetry journals worldwide. #TheWhiskeyTree #Wave2 #PoetryCommunity

New promotional film for my first ever solo poetry collection 'Cul-de-Sacrilege!', now on its second print run with Polari Press

I’m in ‘The Whiskey Tree’ poetry collective reading poems from our ‘Untamed Nature’ project. An engaging evening of stylistically diverse takes about the force, beauty and danger of all things ‘nature’. Live readings and an open mic! eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-event…

My latest poem 'Channel Light Vassals' is included in the new The Broken Spine - Find Us Elsewhere poetry pamphlet 'Untamed Nature' created by poetry collective 'The Whiskey Tree'. More details on the £5.99 pamphlet about 'nature' in all its savage beauty are available at amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DSBF9S7C?…

The Whiskey Tree #wave2 is out now, bringing you 15 poets & their poems of Untamed Nature, including Barney Ashton-Bullock Published by The Broken Spine - Find Us Elsewhere and available now from Amazon, nature has been unleashed 🎉

Friends! SUNDAY 23 MARCH, I'm reading from my 'Smalltown Boy' themed poetry collection 'Cul-de-Sacrilege!' [Polari Press] & singing from the 'Andy Bell is Torsten' songbook at Venn Diagrams at the Torriano Meeting House. It'd be great to see you! Nearest station is Kentish Town.

Friends, I’ll be at the Queer Britain exhibition space in King’s Cross, London discussing all things Bronski Beat with Dan Glass on Sunday 27th April at 2pm. Limited tickets have just gone on sale! outsavvy.com/event/25905/19…

A joy to read my new poem ‘Of Our Sentience…’ BedfordParkFestival event celebrating the 160th birthday of William Butler Yeats last night and to catch up with dear poet pals! 😃🙌🏻