All poetry editors know that 'Available Car' is a reference to not just a car that is available but also used car supermarket with 'hundreds of cars available to see, test drive, and buy at Available Car Castle Donnington and Available Car[dot]com ' right? Right???

For some reason I'm listening to football songs in the middle of the night and you really do have to respect how little effort went into rewriting the lyrics of Whole Again for the Southgate version. Go on girls. Give us absolutely nothing.

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Resolving not to resolve to much because resolving leads to sadness and time is arbitrary? Here's a poem about how you can't fix your life with social media vibes: youtu.be/3R_FYKfn72Y?...

Emily Cotterill reads ‘GRWM for a Looming Personal Crisis’

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Some of our Books of the Year choices include Sarah Hall @faberbooks.bsky.social @emilycotterill.bsky.social @traceyrhys.bsky.social @anthonyshapland.bsky.social @lucyrosecreates.bsky.social @jay-griffiths.bsky.social & @clareshawpoet.bsky.social thelonelycrowd.org/2025/12/14/b...

Books of the Year 2025 / Part Three

Contributors to The Lonely Crowd choose the books they have most enjoyed this year. John Lavin   Twenty years in the making, Sarah Hall’s seventh novel, Helm, is an imaginative tour de force. …

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Huge thanks to Taz for including Significant Wow in his books of the year. He describes the collection as 'an edgy, streetwise, alternative lens of self-hood' 💚🖤

Taz Rahman@tazrahman.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Thanks John Lavin from 'The Lonely Crowd' magazine for asking me to contribute towards the 2025 books of the year blog. I selected 13 Welsh books: thelonelycrowd.org/2025/12/14/b...

One of those very normal poems I've written youtu.be/3R_FYKfn72Y?...

Emily Cotterill reads ‘GRWM for a Looming Personal Crisis’

YouTube video by serenbooks

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The 'I really liked the way that he respected me' bit in the Sugababes song 'Push the Button' is surely the most unintentionally devastating moment in 21st century pop culture. Like what a tragic thing to have written down and then sung Jesus Christ.

Thank you Mamdani for allowing me to learn that it is *discomfited* and not *discomforted*. Truly the people's champion.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 10mo ago

Maga world discomfited by Trump’s warm welcome for Mamdani

In a devastatingly rude move Waterstones have put my pamphlet The Day of the Flying Ants on clearance! Does mean you can grab it for all of three quid should you feel the urge: www.waterstones.com/book/the-day...

The Day of the Flying Ants by Emily Cotterill | Waterstones

Buy The Day of the Flying Ants by Emily Cotterill from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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I am so absolutely god awful at describing what Significant Wow is about. I might just get some pictures of this collage of brands printed out and hand it to people by way of explanation. emilycotterill.com/product/sign...

Notes made to myself presumably in the pursuit of poetry: - thin legged dads - sick in your hands on the backseat - on the days we know there are jacket potatoes for tea ???

I hear that Joy Division t-shirts are in the news thanks to the Aussies I don't know how often Anthony Albanese is drunk & he's about as far away from me as it's possible to be. That said I'd be a fool not to post this poem from my collection Significant Wow www.serenbooks.com/book/signifi...

I wonder what Ernest Hemingway would have to say about the number of unused baby shoes for sale on Vinted. Is this a poem or???

Remember, if you are going out in the hail showers today, pop a child's xylophone on your head for added fun.

Won £25 on the Premium Bonds but am gutted to be reminded that the email you get no longer says 'Good News From ERNIE About Your Premium Bonds'. That's a poem out the window ffs.

'They'll chisel fucking poet when they do you and that, yer cunt, 's a crude four-letter word.' 💔

Breaking up with Dan for saying 'the sort of shit you listen to, Britpop where the guy can't sing... PULP!'

Perk of being a dual income no kids person over 30 and not in London, brands are desperate for your cash and have no single clue how to speak to you. It's hilarious. It's joy. It's fodder.

Enjoyed speaking to the Swansea & District Writers' Circle last night. It is impossible to look good in a mid chat photo especially when you've spent six hours in the car that day 🚗 📚

Significant Wow spotted at The Bookshop By The Sea in Aberystwyth ❤️ 🌊 📚

Do I know anyone who knows an East Mids based poet who might be interested in reading with me at an Alfreton event?

Do I know anyone who knows an East Mids based poet who might be interested in reading with me at an Alfreton event?

Who wrote the line Gilmore Girls where Paris says she is an Anglophile and then references Neil Kinnock? Have they been held accountable for their crimes??

Went to the East Midlands to see old friends and came back with a current affairs poem.

Went to the East Midlands to see old friends and came back with a current affairs poem.

Looking forward to speaking to the Swansea and District Writers' Circle in September 🍂 swanseawriters.co.uk/september-20...

September 2025 Guest Speaker Emily Cotterill - Swansea & District Writers Circle

Emily Cotterill is a Cardiff-based poet from Alfreton, Derbyshire. Her debut pamphlet The Day of the Flying Ants was published by smith|doorstop in 2019. The pamphlet was a part of Carol Ann … Septemb...

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Fully thought Corbyn was sporting a dangly earring in this photo and honestly I'm here for it.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

UN special rapporteur will contribute to ‘Gaza tribunal’, Jeremy Corbyn says

I maintain my anti-yarn-bombing stance but these lil guys, right by the rec that is the main inspiration for this poem, really did have me on the ropes for a moment.

Looking forward to speaking to the Swansea and District Writers' Circle in September 🍂 swanseawriters.co.uk/september-20...

September 2025 Guest Speaker Emily Cotterill - Swansea & District Writers Circle

Emily Cotterill is a Cardiff-based poet from Alfreton, Derbyshire. Her debut pamphlet The Day of the Flying Ants was published by smith|doorstop in 2019. The pamphlet was a part of Carol Ann … Septemb...

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