I’m delighted that this book is now out in the world, and looking forward to launching it @thebluecoat.bsky.social on 8th Sept. Ahoy fellow Lowry fan @imcmillan.bsky.social - hope you might enjoy this too-loose-lowry-trek!

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More new book photos... We're excited to see orders of Outward Bound from Liverpool arriving! If you would like to learn more about the book, join author @helentookey.bsky.social at @thebluecoat.bsky.social on Tuesday 8th September for the book launch, part of Smithdown Litfest. bit.ly/TookeyLaunch

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Arts and humanities have a role in understanding space exploration | Letters

Letter: Prof Abbie Garrington reflects on an interview with the physicist Laura Grego about the battle for our skies

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Three poems from a new collaboration with Cliff Yates, published at Litter magazine. @leafepress.bsky.social thanks to Alan Baker. www.littermagazine.org?m=1

Looking forward to sharing my collaboration with @leafepress.bsky.social on Saturday at Nottingham Contemporary gallery. Such a brilliant line-up. More details here: www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/nottingham

A new independent Nottingham Book Festival, organised by members of the Society of Authors (East Midlands), is taking place on Sat 5 Sept 2026 at Broadway Cinema, Nottingham. Expect guest speakers, writing workshops, readings and panels, and 1-1 sessions with publishing professionals. #booksky

I've been waiting for this for a long time. Soon.

Helen Tookey@helentookey.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Gratuitous link to book here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836240341

Hey Bluesky folks. If you’re in education or just follow for my thirst traps, would you please sign this if you can, and share far and wide? c.org/dCKk9vjqxY It’s much appreciated. My university is cancelling all UG humanities degrees. We need support and love right now x

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NEW from me: many of our universities are now in a dying fall. A new global-national-regional-local split is opening up, which could choke off progress on almost all the Government's plans. Do they have a plan? Nope, nothing, not a clue. 👇 isrf.org/blog/whats-t...

What’s the future for our universities?

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Thought I would do a little photoshoot of some of the lovely @longbarrowpress.bsky.social books I’ve got. The Blue Hour is a particular favourite of mine.

Nottingham people - you may wish to come to this next Saturday. Launching books by Linda Kemp and @dradny.bsky.social : boningtongallery.co.uk/event/poetry...

Linda Kemp & Andrew Taylor Poetry Book Launch with Leafe Press - Bonington Gallery

Join us at Bonington Gallery for the launch of two new poetry books — 'The Moral Theology of the Devil / Clothed with the Sun' by Linda Kemp and 'State Honey' by Andrew Taylor, both published by Leafe...

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lastpoetstanding.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-... a poem, of sorts

Looking forward to launching my new @leafepress.bsky.social collection alongside Linda Kemp at The Bonington Galley in Nottingham on Sat May 9th 11-1. Free admission and free coffee and pastries. RSVP at boningtongallery.co.uk/event/poetry...

Warhol at Lakeside, Nottingham.

Andrew Taylor's latest from @leafepress.bsky.social, rather than documenting, these poems convey as we truly see/observe: peripheral, fully felt, askance, fleeting, intense focus; HS perhaps hints at process - both these poems exemplfy flow and disruption, and a recurring lyricism...

New from Leafe Press: "State Honey" by Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social "...fast-moving to contemplative, presenting experience mediated by language that is fragmentary and shifting, disconcerting and never dull." www.leafepress.org/2026/01/stat...

State Honey - Andrew Taylor

State Honey Andrew Taylor 36 pages The phrase 'State Honey' - a mistranslated caption from a Chinese opium pot provides the starting point f...

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I hold out my hands to show they are empty that we’ve come for a while to the end of things To the End of the Land: a text/audio collaboration between Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey, grounded in the landscapes of Nova Scotia. Order the pamphlet & CD here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

New postcard, short text on back, oblique title on front. tomjenks.uk/shop/p/flyin...

To have brought a shell to bed with me, picked from a Welsh cove. To have spoken to no one, to have let grammar abrade and brighten with the wet stones. To return now with something to tell you. 'The Blue Hour' Angelina D'Roza £2 off until 20 February longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Pleased to say I have 2 new poems and a review of 3 books by Tim Allen in TEARS IN THE FENCE no. 83. @tearsinthefence.bsky.social I write about them here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/02/one-...

One review and two poems in Tears in the Fence 83

I usually post on this blog to alert people to the fact that I’ve published a poem or two in Tears in the Fence or – more recently – an anno...

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Selling quickly', but it's free. My inaugural professorial lecture in Nottingham on 4 March, titled 'Byard's Quantum Leaps: The Origins and Mutations of a Folk Tale'. Reserve a place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor-...

Professor Rory Waterman’s Inaugural Lecture

Byard’s Quantum Leaps: the origins and mutations of a folk tale

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The Sacred Memory Bank. Kirkby Gallery. Mondays to Saturdays until 27 March. Works by Mike Badger and Jeff Young. Come and have a look!

1st March 2026.

Am moved by Mike Ferguson ‘s gem of a collection Drawing on Previous Learning. One to make you smile and cry. Published by Wrecking Ball Press. @mferguson-writer.bsky.social

Up the Rainbow Stairs. The Sacred Memory Bank, Kirkby Gallery. Works by Mike Badger & Jeff Young. Review, Art in Liverpool magazine: www.artinliverpool.com/features-old...

‘Phantom’, the Sacred Memory Bank, Kirkby Gallery. Monday to Saturday until March 27th. Over a hundred Time Machines for your pleasure…

Soon.

Very pleased to now have a copy of Noon: an Anthology of Short Poems (vol. 2), edited by Philip Rowland, and to have a couple of poems in it, one inspired by Cliff Yates (and Gurminder Sikand) and the other inspired by @dradny.bsky.social. Both are among the several contributors.