November's book launch from Broken Sleep (including me reading from my new pamphlet 'Kiss Chase with Darwin') is Friday 27th November at 8pm GMT. It would be lovely to see you there! 😊 Book here 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...

We had a brilliant time at our humorous poetry workshop today led by Andrew Batty. I had the prompt ‘Jazz’ and had a go at a univocalic poem. 😬 It wasn’t me, your honour. The poem made me do it. 😂

Delighted to have a poem 'I am Taking the Minutes Again' in the 'Field Notes' edition of @blackirispoetry.bsky.social. For a potentially gentle theme, this journal has some brilliantly confronting poems. My poem is from my forthcoming book 'Kiss Chase with Darwin'. www.blackirispoetry.com/issue-6

'Prepare to feel seen and sometimes exposed, to be righteously angry and gorgeously small — this book will leave you seeing stars' Jen Feroze Excited to announce that my new book, 'Kiss Chase with Darwin' is now available for preorder from Broken Sleep! www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Nina Parmenter - Kiss Chase with Darwin | Broken Sleep Books | Poetry

In Kiss Chase with Darwin, Nina Parmenter tracks the long evolutionary line from fish to woman, moving between deep time and the supermarket aisle. Parmenter writes with surreal comic invention, letti...

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Campaigning for a “who dis” button for TV dramas, so that every time the writers drag out some side plot character from 500 sleeps ago and plonk them into the middle of a new season 😬, I have some kind of chance of knowing who da heck they are 👍

I had to write a bio for my new poetry book yesterday, and I’m now composing one for a work conference I’m speaking at. My internal cringe meter has hit maximum. “As head of marketing at [my company], Nina has been telling the world about groundbreaking seating ideas for 25 years.” Shoot me. 😂

🚨 SELF-PIMPING POST Be warned that from December, I am going to be whoring myself out for readings for my new pamphlet ‘Kiss Chase with Darwin’. If you run an event and would like some dark, funny, feminist, evolution based words in your space, tap me up x

The long sleeves and warm socks and cord trousers are coming out. I mean, the wellies and dog towels are coming out too, which isn’t so great. But mostly, YAY.

Last time I had a book come out, it was while I was having building work done. Never again I said! Let me concentrate on the book I said! Just had a builder confirm he can fit me in to RIP OUT MY KITCHEN - but only on Nov 30th. Which is the day ‘Kiss Chase with Darwin’ comes out. SO SUPER!!

I’ve realised Andrew’s a cunt

Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · last mo.

Wrong answers only. My bet: thanks for all the fish.

Super chuffed to be reading at the launch of Forest Management by S Reeson this Friday! This gem of a pamphlet tells of dark shadows and self discovery, all set inside *a generic forest based holiday park*. Also reading will be Victoria Spires and host will be Paul Short Tickets: shorturl.at/N1fkS

Forest Management by S. Reeson - Online Launch

Join S. Reeson and special guest readers, Victoria Spires and Nina Parmenter, to celebrate the launch of ‘Forest Management’ .

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What the ACTUAL HECK do I get my dad for his 80th bday???

Me: B-O-A-T Scrabble Bot: I added an M to OUTFIT to make MOUTFIT and then used the M to start the word MIQOJIZ for a score of 362.

Grass is jewelled ✅ Silk inside a chestnut shell ✅ Jetplanes waiting in the air to be refuelled ⏸️ ⏸️ ⏸️

Man who supported Brexit then fucked off to Monaco to avoid contributing a penny of his £15 billion fortune to public services makes the mistake of thinking anyone gives a shit what he thinks.

SO. Only a couple of months til my pamphlet 📔'Kiss Chase with Darwin' is out. If you want a nudge when it's out, plus cover reveal and general squealing, pop along to my website ninaparmenter.com and sign up for my lovely & infrequent mailing list 😍😍 Photo: unsplash.com/@photosoflogan

Trying to be cool about it, but I got an acceptance from The North yesterday 😁

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Can’t wait for the launch of this cracking pamph!!

Paul@paulwritespoems.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣***Exciting Announcement***📣 Join me as I host a launch for the new book from @internetofwords.com ‘Forest Management’. With special guest readers @victoriaspires.bsky.social and @ninaparmenter.bsky.social 09.10.26 🎟️ shorturl.at/N1fkS

Reform’s internal investigation

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So I’m unloading the dishwasher to the soundtrack of some ecstatic trance this morning, because how else do you unload the dishwasher. And I throw my hands up in the air ready for the drop and what pops into my head? “Ooh, that’s a nice stretch for the lower back”. 🙄 🎹🎤 🕺 👵🏻

Today’s headlines: 1. Guy who had costs awarded against him in court case has to actually pay the costs that were awarded against him in the court case. 2. Actress gonna do some acting Meanwhile, the world burns

I’ve done my to-dos today, my to-dos are now fewer than one, and the list that existed has ceased and desisted cos all my to-dos are to-done! True dat. 🙌

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Bored with endless sweaty summer days and keen to cosy up with some proper good poetry? Trowbridge Stanza have put together two brilliant events in September. Details here! ninaparmenter.substack.com/p/two-events...

This pamphlet is as good as it looks and more. PRE ORDER IT YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO 💚 💙 🖤

S. Reeson / Experimental Poet@internetofwords.com · 3mo ago

PRESALE LINK FOR MY BOOK IS HERE: the-flight-of-the-dragonfly-bookshop.sumupstore.com/product/fore...

Poets: I would love to hear your longest and most unashamedly specific poem titles. I’ll start with the relatively short and snappy “I Accidentally Spot the Fourth Dimension While Waiting at the Bus Stop”.

Smells like the apocalypse out there with a glorious blend of air from wildfires in South Wales and the New Forest. Still, burn baby burn, eh?

that would happen later today.

Enjoying the fact that the current poem I am working on will reveal an extra layer of meaning to those with a good knowledge of West Midlands bus routes around Coventry/Leamington in the late 1990s. It is not always the poet’s job to be inclusive, people 😂

Burnham is promising a new path but Binface is going to built at least one WHOLE HOUSE so…

Fantastic ekphrastic from @internetofwords.com who is poet in residence for Leigh Art Trail. Love the words, the art, the film. 🩷 m.youtube.com/shorts/I1f9P...

Leigh art trail poem by S Reeson in response to artwork by Claire Hankey.

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