mattabbottpoet.com
✍️🏻 Poet, award-winning lyricist & educator
📚 2 full-length poetry collections
📍 Leeds, UK 🦚 #lufc ♂️ He/him
🧠 ADHD 🎤 @livewirepoetry.org
🌐 mattabbottpoet.com
395 posts
825 followers
341 following
Prolific Poster
Conversation Starter
comment in response to
post
Thanks, Louise - massively appreciated!
comment in response to
post
Thank you, as always 🙏🏻
comment in response to
post
Cheers, Wayne - much appreciated!
comment in response to
post
It's a politically charged coming-of-age lit fic novel, set in mid-00s West Yorkshire. Think 𝘈𝘥𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 mashed with 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘐𝘴 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 and 𝘍𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩.
Huge thanks to @newwritingnorth.bsky.social for everything they do and to this year's Northern Writers' Awards judges for giving me this boost 🙏🏻
comment in response to
post
The award is for writers who identify as having a working-class background and who are based in the North and also, crucially, who don't have literary representation. So, if any agents happen to see this and are curious, feel free to slide into my DMs!!
comment in response to
post
It's such a stunning poem. Thanks for sharing 🙏🏻
comment in response to
post
Ah, thank you!
comment in response to
post
You're a diamond ❤️
comment in response to
post
Aye - phenomenal work from all involved!
comment in response to
post
He must really love sky blue.
comment in response to
post
The BBC has been a disgrace. Even calling it a conflict or a war is deeply problematic. If you saw a group of full-grown men beating up a toddler, you wouldn't call it a fight.
comment in response to
post
There's something for everyone.
comment in response to
post
You're totally right, sorry! Good to know the actual story behind it!
comment in response to
post
I'm fairly sure they dropped it in 1998 when they launched the new (current) badge. "AFC" was used to differentiate Association Football from Rugby Football (a lot of people called them "Soccer" and "Football" respectively back in the day). But by the late '90s, it wasn't needed anymore.
comment in response to
post
Thanks as ever, Lou 🙏🏻