You can also find direct links to archive catalogues for our new poetry collections: Anthony Vahni Capildeo Archive, Jay Bernard Archive, Joelle Taylor Archive and the Gail McConnell Archive on the about page: contemporarypoetryarchive.omeka.net/exhibits/show/… (2/3)

Ten years ago, I briefly became Twitter-famous after I spotted an old photo of the Welsh poet R.S. Thomas being used to sell "Hand Cooked English Crisps". Here's the story: someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/a-fleeting-l…

I, however, was fast asleep before I even got to the end of this tweet

Oh, so you're into academic plagiarism now? Name three of their other albums

I feel we don't talk enough about how James Stewart smuggled a yeti hand out of India by hiding it in his wife's underwear

Our poem of the week comes from Rachael Allen's eagerly awaited second collection God Complex, a visionary, corrosive narrative poem that fuses the end of a toxic relationship with planetary catastrophe. faber.co.uk/journal/poem-o…

Ten years ago today, the hashtag #crisppoet was trending. Sadly, only a few tweets remain, including this take by Matthew Sweet on lines by Philip Larkin (for 'crisps' read 'craps'). Why were people doing this? Well, it all began at a motorway services...

OK, laters potaters. I'm back at work, with a book to write, so it's off to Twitter Retirement Home (Bluesky) for me. If any mutuals want an invite code, DM today.

People who aren’t writers: Telling stories is so important to what it means to be human, it’s what we do Actual writers: So in this book I was interested in trying to do without the usual trappings of narrative