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"Tim Smith's music was such a strong influence, I found it very difficult writing music that didn’t just sound like crap Cardiacs. It took me about ten years really to figure out a way of having my own voice." Fascinating interview with @craigfortnam.bsky.social. budsandspawn.co.uk/craig-fortna...

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Worth noting LBJ used the National Guard to protect and expand civil rights; DJT is doing exactly the opposite.

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Launches. matthewpaulpoetry.blog/2025/06/08/l...

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kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

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Today, 2pm, Doncaster Brewery Tap. Poems and thunderstorms guaranteed.

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Ahead of my launch in Doncaster tomorrow pm, here's a poem (first published in Poetry Salzburg Review) from my new collection. My first collection included one about toads, sparked by a Gilbert White diary entry from 1768 & which you can read, and hear, here: wordsforthewild.co.uk/swallowing-t...

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In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz. The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.

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This Saturday afternoon, the first of the launch events for my new poetry collection is happening in Doncaster. I’ll be reading, along with fab guests, @vickygwriter.bsky.social and Ed Reiss. Details here: crookedspirepress.com/the-last-cor...

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This week in the poetry blogs w/ @kent-nj.bsky.social @robinhoughton.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social @matriches.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @hanvanderhart.bsky.social @shannacompton.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/06/poet...

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Let's start by saying this thread, although influenced by the tragic events in Liverpool this week, has been a long time in gestation. Can we talk about male rage and motor vehicles?

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Fabulous, Craig - thanks for my copy. Looking forward to the gig in Sheffield Sunday week.

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Matthew Paul will be launching his new collection The Last Corinthians (Crooked Spire Press) with readings in Doncaster, London and Nottingham, plus an online launch, over the next few months! First up: Doncaster Brewery Tap, Saturday 7 June More here: crookedspirepress.com/the-last-cor...

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Blog post on the writing and assembling of my new poetry collection: matthewpaulpoetry.blog/2025/05/29/o...

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Today’s the day for me. My 2nd collection is published after 10 years of me fighting with the manuscript. Copies available at crookedspirepress.com/shop/ or please DM me.

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Stuck on a call. A post with an excellent poem by @nessalampert.bsky.social with nods to Suzannah Evans, Kathleen Jamie, Lawnmowers and Ned's Atomic Dustbin matriches76.wordpress.com/2025/05/25/s...

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Lukaku was just too strong Napoli 2 Cagliari 0

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⚽️ Goal by Scott McTominay 🔵 Napoli 1-0 Cagliari 🔴 #SerieA #NapoliCagliari

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In Praise of Stuck open.substack.com/pub/suzannah...

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An #Otwituary for @privateeyenews.bsky.social columnist and cartoonist #BarryFantoni So, farewell then E. J. Thribb. ‘So, farewell then’, that was your catchphrase. Not very catchy, though Keith’s mum liked it, as did all your readers, who now will not know when someone has died.

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Huge congratulations to Deepa Bhasthi, Banu Mushtaq and fellow Sheffield publishers @andotherstories.bsky.social on their amazing Booker Prize win! 🥳🥳🥳

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A piece by me on a fantastic poem by @pamthompson240.bsky.social - matthewpaulpoetry.substack.com/p/on-pam-tho...

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I think the fact that a politician is even running for office when they're close to 80 is a red flag that something's wrong with them. Who wants a job when they're 80? I plan to be sitting in my recliner at 80,reading books through my bifocals & talking to my grandkids in the holosphere or whatever.

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Astonishing evidence at the Covid Inquiry. The Government repeatedly ignored offers from the Crick Institute to provide mass testing on a national scale. Instead, the Government paid Deloitte consultants to project manage, not yet established, privately run labs. 1/2

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Of course he is. He's been s nasty little fascist since school.

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It is summer and I am in the middle of my life. Linda Gregg

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The greatest of all football writers is no more. Brian Glanville had died, aged 93. A model, an inspiration, a mentor. Addio, Brian.

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Next to each other on BBC News website today

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“[Chalk streams] are globally significant ecosystems and are largely restricted to our shores. So we have a huge responsibility to protect them.” Really disappointing for this amendment I moved in the Planning & Infrastructure Bill Committee to be vetoed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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A rich mix for anyone drawn to history & song! Radio 3, 9.45, Mon 12 May on. Seeking music in County archives. @matthewbannister.bsky.social musicians @nancyannfolk.bsky.social & @jamesfagan.bsky.social. Nancy sets powerful poem by a woman fighting case to keep her home. Deserves a whole programme!

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"Ellie Chowns, a Green MP and member of the committee, said: 'These are globally significant ecosystems and they are largely restricted to our shores. So we have a huge responsibility to protect them.'" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Lovely to see a great poem from Laurie Bolger's 2024 pamphlet Spin as the Yorkshire Times Poem of the Week! ❤️ Spin was a winner in our 2023 International Book & Pamphlet Competition, judged by Hannah Lowe. poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/spin/ @lauriebolger.bsky.social

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"Bell and her contemporaries precipitated a blurring of art and life that would come to define the Bloomsbury Group's philosophy." Victoria Horrocks reflects on the work of Vanessa Bell. lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-ce...

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Thanks, Vicky - it’ll be great to see and hear you read again.

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Four weeks till this 👇🏼 @vickygwriter.bsky.social All welcome! Free!

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Later this month, the brilliant Romalyn Ante will be once again joining us for an online poetry workshop on climbing trees, swimming lakes, and other childhood memories... Book here: www.tickettailor.com/events/thepo... @romalynante3.bsky.social

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90 years ago today… De La Warr Pavilion 🙂 @c20society.bsky.social @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social

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Sure, Labour needs to fight Reform. But it needs to worry at least as much, and probably more, about preserving its progressive base, writes Peter Kellner. www.prospectmagazine...

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Don't take it from me. Take it from the government's own assessment: Everything Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have said about nature protection blocking house building is big fat shining lie. A lie now being locked into legislation before Parliament. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Labour considering a half-baked backtrack on winter fuel ONLY after realising it's electoral poison is… something. If you want to be trusted again: 👵Reinstate winter fuel payments in full 👨‍🦼‍➡️Abandon your deeply immoral welfare cuts 💰Wealth tax now

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In case your world would be improved by 30 seconds in a Northern California wood with the creek rushing & the bright song of a Pacific Wren —

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Wanna see something cool? At the Grammy's in 1976, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel Torme explained what jazz is. The result? The crowd losing its mind. 🔥

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