i'm running a couple of reading groups for @poetrysociety.org.uk - digging into the latest issue of 'the poetry review'. online on 19th, covent garden on 21st. come along, i give good chat. search 'events' on the poetry society website

outfit of the day and it's not yet 9am: siblings, maybe 7 & 9. him: one cream pug patterned sock, one blue pig patterned sock. her: one blue pig patterned sock, one cream pug patterned sock

today's excellent tube outfit: face and barbering of a WW1 officer, black t-shirt, black shorts, black socks, black trainers, black bag, single tear-shaped pearl on a chain

absolute HOOLIGAN streaming live radio on their PHONE on this BUS it is radio 3 ASBO presto

agamemnon's helmet, jennifer hudson's jacket: same

yes, all right, thank you very much duolingo

playlist of music coming from cars at the traffic lights under my window: get ur freak on

project hail mary alien > disclosure day alien

47/100

c'est moi

The Poetry Society@poetrysociety.org.uk · 5mo ago

There are still a few tickets left for both our online and in-person reading groups next week! Led by poet Julia Bird, these sessions will explore the new writing published in the Spring Issue of The Poetry Review. Except conversation, insight, and lots of poetry! Tickets available in our bio.

no-one likes the language police so i usually keep my thoughts about fast fashion vocab to myself ... except for my despair over 'get xx out' political headlines which can be traced directly back to davina-era big brother crowds. gaaah.

watching the 1980 version of 'the fog' for the first time. i love all movie versions of teeny tiny local radio stations

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publishing again! the second set of handbooks (handmade concertina books of poetry, prose, photos and images) are out on 15 april. adam bridgland, alex macdonald + aisha farr, emily cooper, ian cowmeadow and rashed aqrabawi. more at www.blownrose.net/handbooks/set2

wednesday's planned outfit confounded by moths

films watched this year inc frankenstein, hamnet, wuth-high & dracula and now i have an english degree

nana-watching the brits

farewell for four years, olympic snowboard dads

www.facebook.com/share/p/1Hh1... keats-themed papercraft this saturday in hampstead. get, quite literally, stuck in

top marks for george michael / seal music and leather jacket / fake versace costumes from the british ice skaters

dunno what's up with my telly, but i'm currently watching the rugby like it's a slide show projected onto a suspended bedsheet in a 1970s living room

synchronised armani, stadium poetry and rainbow coloured dancing coffee pots. my favourite genre is olympic opening ceremony

got me labubu stuck in the tube door, there was very nearly an incident on the northern line

once a nervous keatsian, always a nervous keatsian

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proud to be a trustee for this excellent organisation - give 'em a listen

frankensplaining happening on this tube

@juliamarybird.bsky.social’s pin cushion ghost story is a series of tellings that haunt each other in the way families handle & hand on memories like heirlooms: my grandma’s older sister… cooked for Lord and Lady X and saw or said she saw or felt a presence in the kitchen… #GhostFurnitureCatalogue

number of supermarkets i have been to over the last two days before i was successfully able to purchase parsnips: seven