Last week @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social walked from Manchester to London as part of her PhD research in #poetry #walking #research
Lydia Unsworth@lydiaunsworth.bsky.social · 2w agoMade it!
Lydia Unsworth
@lydiaunsworth.bsky.social
Poet. Manchester. Buildings. NWCDTP-funded PhD @MMU, Centre for Place Writing. Latest: Stay Awhile (Knives Forks & Spoons) & This Now Extends to My Daughter (Blue Diode)
Lydia Unsworth@lydiaunsworth.bsky.social · 2w agoNew poetry from @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social's upcoming Red Ceilings Press pamphlet (Houses of Prominent Men) available to read in the Anthropocene Poetry Journal. www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/3-poems...
3 poems by Lydia Unsworth
______________Lydia Unsworth is a poet based in Greater Manchester. She is the author of This Now Extends to My Daughter (Blue Diode), Stay Awhile and YIELD (Knives Forks and Spoons Press), Arthropod ...
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Um, I've walked to London from Manchester. In Watford now. Will arrive at the Charles I equestrian statue about 3pm tomorrow.
This week's edition of The Poems We Made Along the Way is with Liam Bates. Listen to Liam in conversation with @gregorykearns.bsky.social talking about friendship, popular song lyrics being published in poetry anthologies, & self-consciously informal citations. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
Episode 57: Liam Bates - "Capacity for uncertainty"
Podcast Episode · The Poems We Made Along The Way · 6 July · 59min
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On the actual BBC.
Centre for Place Writing@centreplacewriting.bsky.social · last mo.Last night & available on iplayer www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... BBC Radio 4 @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social & @joeshute.bsky.social featured in the latest episode of The Verb - a house of multipoet occupancy Ian McMillan discusses underloved buildings with Lydia Unsworth, & the River Irk with Joe Shute.
Last night & available on iplayer www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... BBC Radio 4 @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social & @joeshute.bsky.social featured in the latest episode of The Verb - a house of multipoet occupancy Ian McMillan discusses underloved buildings with Lydia Unsworth, & the River Irk with Joe Shute.
BBC Radio 4 - The Verb, The Verb - a house of multipoet occupancy
Daniel Mendelsohn, Lydia Unsworth, Joe Shute and Khadijah Ibrahiim join Ian McMillan.
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New book alert: www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page...
This Now Extends to My Daughter by Lydia Unsworth | Blue Diode Publishin
ISBN: 978-1-915108-41-8Published 26 May 202684 pages “Poor old rickety, broken-biscuit Britain, with its tottering institutions, buy-to-let landlords, bad food and buried dreams. What does it mean to...
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👏🏽 one of our esteemed Fellows - we look forward to David Cooper’s publication in September ! 🙌🏼💫⬇️
Centre for Place Writing@centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 2mo agoDavid Cooper, has a new book out this autumn! Reading Place Writing: Geography, Form, Immersion, 2010–2020 will be published on 11th September. English Association Monographs: English at the Interface. #BookSky @livunipress.bsky.social www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Lydia's episode of The Verb will be available on the 21st June!
Lydia Unsworth@lydiaunsworth.bsky.social · 2mo agoI had a wonderful day on The Verb this afternoon. What an honour!
I had a wonderful day on The Verb this afternoon. What an honour!
Ian McMillan@imcmillan.bsky.social · 2mo agoHappy Days on The Verb with Joe Shute’s boat poem-objects
Happy Days on The Verb with Joe Shute’s boat poem-objects
Happy publication day to @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social - congratulations on 'This Now Extends To My Daughter'! Published by Blue Diode Press. #PoetrySky #BookSky www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page...
This Now Extends to My Daughter by Lydia Unsworth | Blue Diode Publishin
ISBN: 978-1-915108-41-8Published 26 May 202684 pages “Poor old rickety, broken-biscuit Britain, with its tottering institutions, buy-to-let landlords, bad food and buried dreams. What does it mean to...
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newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Lydia Unsworth : At Last I Have Been Here Long Enough: some notes on an urban poetics / @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/04/lydi...
Lydia Unsworth : At Last I Have Been Here Long Enough: some notes on an urban poetics
presented on March 29, 2026 as part of The Factory Lecture Series, VERSeFest: Ottawa's International Poetry Festival My th...
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National Poetry Month (via @chaudierebooks.bsky.social) : Lydia Unsworth, / @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social ; chaudierebooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/nati...
National Poetry Month : Lydia Unsworth,
BRESCIA He walked down his valley into the modern city and said— though whose valley is it and for how long do you, in order t...
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another great afternoon yesterday of VERSeFest 2026! a Kado reading by Sébastien Rock, lectures by Nada Gordon and Lydia Unsworth, and our Hall of Honour event, celebrating Susan McMaster and Monty Reid! / @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social verseottawa.ca/en/versefest
hey! it's me with above/ground press authors Lydia Unsworth (Manchester UK) @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social and Jérôme Melancon (Regina SK) @lethejerome.bsky.social ! that's a lot of geography in one photo, // @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social
I like this poem of place and time by Lydia Unsworth from her superb new Knives Forks and Spoons Press collection Stay Awhile
new from above/ground press: The Peter F Yacht Club #36; VERSeFest special! , @francesboyle19.bsky.social @amandaearl.bsky.social @snehaskanta.bsky.social @margolapierre.bsky.social @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @awapointe.bsky.social abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/03/new-...
new from above/ground press: The Peter F Yacht Club #36; VERSeFest special!
The Peter F Yacht Club #36 2026 VERSeFest Special lovingly hand-crafted, folded, stapled, edited and carried around in bags of envelopes by ...
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Adrian Slatcher reviews an above/ground press launch: Tom Jenks, Lydia Unsworth + David Gaffney, / @tomjenksuk.bsky.social @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/03/adri...
Adrian Slatcher reviews an above/ground press launch: Tom Jenks, Lydia Unsworth + David Gaffney,
Adrian Slatcher was good enough to offer his thoughts on a recent above/ground press launch in Manchester, England by Tom Jenks ( launchin...
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'Presentations last exactly forty minutes: twenty slides, fourteen jokes (snappy little one-liners; keep it inclusive; classic all-rounders).' From issue 4 (spring/summer 2017): fiction by @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social bansheepress.org/read/we-get-...
‘We Get Paid For What We Get Paid For’ by Lydia Unsworth — Banshee Press
I wait. My mouth dropping, hanging, receiving air. My posture heaves steadily forward – the angle of a slow and painless heart attack. The wonderful wait, like the ticking hands of an unrelenting…
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A short piece about Manchester and poetry for @robmclennan.bsky.social and periodicities. The pictures, courtesy of David Gaffney, are from the above/ground press readings last week with me, @ggaffa.bsky.social and @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social at Saul Hay Gallery. bsky.app/profile/robm...
rob mclennan@robmclennan.bsky.social · 5mo agonewly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social : notes from the field : Letter from Manchester periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/03/tom-...
VERSeFest / Factory Reading Series : Lydia Unsworth and Nada Gordon, / @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social @subpresspoetry.bsky.social @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @nadagordon.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/03/vers...
VERSeFest / Factory Reading Series : Lydia Unsworth and Nada Gordon,
In case you hadn't caught, The Factory Lecture Series returns to VERSeFest this year , with lectures by Manchester poet Lydia Unsworth and ...
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newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social : 1B periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/02/lydi...
Lydia Unsworth : 1B
I’ve been feeling a little untethered I bought a new pan so I can touch it the non-stick so slippery the way nothing sticks to m...
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Later this month, Lydia Unsworth will be reading poetry alongside Tom Jenks and David Gaffney at Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester - February 26th 6.30 to 8.30pm. @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social www.saulhayfineart.co.uk/future-event...
Future Events | Saul Hay Gallery | Manchester
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newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : rob mclennan : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social ; @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/02/rob-...
rob mclennan : 2026 VERSeFest interviews: Lydia Unsworth
Lydia Unsworth is a poet from Manchester, UK. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies including Dreaming Awake: New Cont...
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some above/ground press author activity: Valerie Coulton, Gwen Aube, Genevieve Kaplan, rob mclennan, Beatriz Hausner + Lydia Unsworth, / @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/02/some...
some author activity: Coulton, Aube, Kaplan, mclennan, Hausner + Unsworth,
Valerie Coulton has a new poem at the arts fuse ; Gwen Aube is announced as one of the 2026 Writers-in-Residence at the Al Purdy A-Frame ; b...
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New year books now available to preorder - from @cathfletcher.bsky.social @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social & Jean Sprackland @dcahf-met.bsky.social @manmetuni.bsky.social @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social #BookSky
Centre for Place Writing@centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 7mo agoComing in 2026 - books from the Centre for Place Writing members - Goyle, Chert, Mire by Jean Sprackland (16th April) - The Firearm Revolution by Catherine Fletcher (14th April) - Stay Awhile by Lydia Unsworth (6th April) (also This Now Extends to my Daughter, out in May with Blue Diode).
Ill be launching my latest pamphlet on Thursday 26 Feb at the amazing Saul Hay gallery. expect weird surreal readings from @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @tomjenksuk.bsky.social and me - plus free wine (you'll need it) Free tickets here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1979710024...
above/ground book launch featuring David Gaffney, Lydia Unsworth, Tom Jenks
above/ground press present live poetry at Saul Hay Gallery with David Gaffney, Tom Jenks, and Lydia Unsworth - plus art and free wine!
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