Well, this was an afternoon.

This shall be a fun day, and am delighted to be sharing the stage with the brilliant Lisa too. Hurrah! Come through.

It feels like something immense has left us.
RIP Paul Auster.

theguardian.com/books/2024/may…

If you’re doing anything in books, worth looking at both these two threads.

run run to the shop!

Ah very much looking forward to this arriving; it'll be a summer treat.

Canary in the coffee shop; I think permanently higher food and drink prices need to be baked into our economic thinking: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

An excellent opportunity here from Renard Press for South Asian Poets✨

#SouthAsianWriters South Asian Heritage Month MCR South Asian Heritage Month Muslim Writers North Muslim Arts & Culture Festival

Foxbase Alpha, the best album to play as Spring sings its songs?

Our 2024 summer festival program announced. With Benedict Taylor Chiara Ambrosio Panos Ghikas Stathis Dimitriadis Madara Gruntmane Stanimir Dimitrov Agnese Graudina Hanna Komar Dr. Vik Shirley Rishi Dastidar 🔱🌊 vilde bjerke torset Lavinia Singer Endre Ruset James Knight et al. All info at europeanpoetryfestival.com/2024

Our 2024 summer festival program announced. With Anna Gual Rushika Wick Laia Carbonell 🦕 Martí Sales James Wilkes Ruth Lasters Vanessa Onwuemezi Giant Rat of Sumatra Miruna Fulgeanu Laura Davis Landa wo et al. All info at europeanpoetryfestival.com/2024

Wonderful line up here: Dr Carrie Etter Mary Jean Chan Julia Copus The Typo King FRSL / FRSA for a reading in London this Thurs 🔥📚💫

Poets, herewith the content you've been waiting for: Paul Muldoon, Camille Ralphs, Luke Kennard, Joelle Taylor, Dzifa Benson & Don Paterson review Taylor Swift's THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/…

Watching Franklin, and just had the vertiginous realisation: it’s so unlikely isn’t it, us silly little jumped up apes,
telling stories to each other on this rock of ours, while the universe ignores us completely.

Jos hitting in a Phillies shirt? Here for it; sweet swings too.

Who draws the lines between right & left, right & wrong, & what happens when those lines are redrawn, or entirely erased? When the country you call home doesn’t consider you one of its own, who or what will you live—or die—for?
My review of England is Mine theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…