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Steve @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social crafts the most wonderful reviews of poetry. An art in itself. yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

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Huge thanks to @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social for this astute close reading of Keith Fenton's poem in the Leeds Irish Health and Homes anthology 'The Holdings' I co-edited with Laura MacDonagh: yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

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It must have been an amazing Glasto line-up that made Joseph of Arimathea come over that time. #Glastonbury2025

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Wonderful performance by Satnam Galsian at Leeds City Varieties this evening though this sign in the auditorium must be more in hope than expectation

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Photo from the Royal Highland Show this year by Jane Barlow. The Royal was awake anyway.

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The poet inside the speaker of the poem realises they are not in control of its direction.

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'Beo Faoin bhFód' will have it's World Premiere at Galway Film Fleadh on Friday the 11th of July at 11:30am. I'm honoured to appear in it celebrating Mick Meaney, written about in my latest book 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb'.

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We can’t wait to host Ian, Kirsten & Henry. Tickets on sale from Weds.

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I used to be in charge of single homelessness services for York City Council and enjoy visiting the town now. Thanks to @nickykippax.bsky.social and looking forward to reading with Kirsten and Henry -- hope to see some of you there.

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The proceedings of the Old Bailey for 1833: (www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t1833...), James Chasty's poverty such he'd "even gone to ballad singing to get bread". Nearly as bad a fundraising idea as writing poems. via The Ballad Tree

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Honoured to judge the National Poetry Competition again. As an ex-winner, I know how life-changing it is to find your work validated by experts; as a former judge, I know it's a real privilege to read work people put the best of themselves into making. Take a punt and good luck.

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Crop a headline, start a culture war

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‘Swallows over the Flax’, egg tempera on gesso-coated panel, by James lynch

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The Goldmark Gallery have put the catalogue essay I wrote for Christopher Wood's Grimms exhibition online. Grimm's Fairy Tales were banned after WWII by the Allies, believing them to reflect a darkness in the German soul and I investigate why in context: www.goldmarkart.com/blogs/discov...

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"Why should I let the larkin 'work' Squat on my life?"

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" . . . and the lyrics to this song also go: 'OOOOEEEEEAAAARRRUUUUIIIIIIIIIIOOO'" Baleine, dans le Recueil théologique de Peraldus (Angleterre, circa 1240)

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Today is the anniversary of Jo Cox's murder by a white supremacist eight years ago on her way to a surgery in Birstall in her constituency whose ethnic diversity she praised in her maiden speech to the Commons. She was a supporter of Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East.

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What do we want? The 'Ulysses' cat! When do we want it? Mrkgnao! Happy Bloomsday

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Fathers Day card from No 1 son

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from 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb for #FathersDay

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Dickens' ‘A Tale Of Two Cities’ was first serialised in two local newspapers: it was the Bicester Times and the Worcester Times. (Traditional)

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The Paul Valéry Suite was never finished, only abandoned in mid-construction pic Cliff Yates in Chartres

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Monkeys were the best bagpipers of the mediaeval period but they disliked playing them intensely.

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"What if we overthrew the monarchy, developed an extensive wealth-redistribution programme managed by elected representatives and wrote this all up in a constitution -- then we wouldn't have spend our whole damn lives robbing the sodding rich and giving it the bloody poor?"

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Retrospective launch 5th July at Dean Clough, Halifax. Speakers including yours truly a piece composed for the occasion published in the current Long Poem Magazine. Copies of the book on Tony, 'The Imp of Surrealism', available on the day along with free wine. Yes, poets: free wine!

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Looking forward to this on 26th June with Satnam Galsian, who I worked with on our Ilkley Literature Festival commission 'Rosa Mundi'. so I know how good she is as a performer and knowledgeable about folk traditions and willing to experiment between them: leedsheritagetheatres.com/whats-on/sat...

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"Looks like meat's back on the menu boys!"

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Found out 'The Holdings' poetry anthology by Leeds Irish Health and Homes from my co-editor Laura McDonagh that the National Library of Ireland bought a copy for their collection. Our contributors, many first-time poets from this project, will be thrilled. I am also thrilled. As you can see.

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When I worked with artist Christopher Wood writing to his Grimms sequence which we will be taking to Scarborough later in the year, nothing we did on Little Red Riding Hood was as bizarre as this illustration by Henry of Montaut

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Green Eggs and Hamlet, The L-Shaped Room of One’s Own, Howard’s Endgame, Love Me Tender Buttons, Death in Paradise Lost, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Zenda, The Decameron Highlanders -- don't think I'm doing this right but you get the general idea of Gauld's cartoon.

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Preparing for a poetry day

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"Anders, are you sure you know English well enough to name our new matches?" "Of course, Johan! English, Swedish -- they're virtually the same language!"

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They are to bury him where Robin's last arrow lands. And they did. They buried him on top of the wardrobe. (Billy Connolly, 'The Passing of Robin Hood' by N.C. Wyeth)

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The first three paragraphs of a Chat-GPT review of the Rachel Papers by Martin Amis via James Marriott. Took 3 seconds.

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Why bears make the best folk singers

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James Joyce's fridge list Cartoon by Jacobson

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Initially, it had to be explained to Norman that "take the knee" didn't mean somebody else's.

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Somewhat surprised at how much of a hardass boss Hunter S Thompson could be when the talent misbehaved, as in this letter to Anthony Burgess about an undelivered commission.

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Satie was sentenced to fines and 8 days gaol for these letters to a reviewer of 'Parade', though in the end the fines were paid by by the Princesse de Polignac and his sentence suspended. Photo by Mike Templeton.

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My gang

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The care for his flock is what marks out the Northern shepherd

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UEFA Champions League Cup Final tonight . . .

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Less a guard dog than an avant-garde dog

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At Leeds Irish Centre for the Irish in Britain/Innisfree End-of-Life consultation project launch. It was an honour to attend this important event and talk about my work with Leeds Irish Health and Homes on various poetry anthologies which frequently address issues of bereavement and mortality.

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