New 30-min soundscape episode of my podcast First Impressions. Feat. spoken word, found sound, and music from Bonbon Experiment & Ocean in a Bottle, the title was inspired by a photo-poetry collab from Brad Cheek, launched earlier in '25. Best listened to through 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/2JXH...

First Impressions - Northern Textures - Episode 30

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ADRIFT LAUNCH PARTY Massive nice one to all who came along to the Gregson in Lancaster on 18th July. Slides were shown, scones consumed, extracts read, books signed, drinks drunk and heartfelt thanks passed on. DM me to get a signed copy of Adrift for £7.50 + P&P, or find it on Amazon for £7.99 x

Our short story prize is open for submissions again! Please share this widely - and please send us your stories: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize Closing date 8 November!

Prize — Galley Beggar Press

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It’s 1984 and the Egyptian deity Anubis has taken refuge in a lamppost on the Wirral. Who knew? For more tall tales from the ‘80s, darkly comic satire set during Covid, and the murderous plot that binds them together, uncover my new novel Adrift, out now. #adrift #peterhumphreys #speakeasy #chorlton

SPOKE EASY Great to be back in excellent company at Speak Easy in Chorlton, Manchester reading from my new novel, Adrift, alongside Maria Roberts, artist-organisers @andynartist.bsky.social, Amanda Nicholson & others. You can find Adrift on (the dreaded) Amazon or DM me and I’ll get a copy to you x

VACANCY - DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY We're looking for a Senior #Research Associate in #Design for #Sustainability to work alongside experienced professors with a well-established research portfolio. Location: #Manchester All Saints Campus More details here: manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

My new novel has a new cover - come to the book launch party for Adrift on Friday 18 July at The Gregson centre in Lancaster to learn more about the book's design and our nascent publisher, Pine Goat. There will also be (brief) readings, book sales (cash only), scones, drinks, music & nattering x

Speak Easy (Our spoken word night) is at Chorlton's wonderful Dulcimer Bar on 03/07/25. Full details here: onewriterandhispc.blogspot.com/2025/06/spea... Subs list: aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk #poetryopenmic #spokenwordopenmic #spokenword #poetry #chorltonopenmic #chorltonpoetry

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Below is the lineup for Speak Easy (Our Spoken Word / Poetry Open Mic) this Thursday, 03 July 2025, hosted as always at Chorlton's wonderf...

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Looking forward to returning to Speak Easy at Dulcimer this week where I'll be reading from my new novel Adrift & seeing what's afoot in the Chorlton lit scene. Best practise me enunciating x #speakeasy #chorlton #manchester #literature #reading #adrift #novel #peterhumphreys

New from Pine Goat My BBC-longlisted, Buenos Aires-set s/story Justice for one, or Justice for all? Released as an e-book/paperback on 2 June Available to pre-order now 🇦🇷

Justice, my Buenos Aires-based thriller, set during Covid and longlisted for the BBC Short Story Award is now available to pre-order. Yours for a quid from 2 June! If you enjoy it, please rate and review on Amazon and/or Goodreads to help support my work. Gracias! www.amazon.co.uk/Justice-Pete...

ONE YEAR OF PET PROJECTS! x10 episodes in the bag/pet carrier, each of them unique & charming–like our guests and their special animals. Here’s the first in a series of short promo films for the show. If you’re enjoying the pod, don’t forget to rate it on Spotify, iTunes or wherever you listen 😻

Guillermo Kuitca’s atmospheric canvases feat. toppled chairs, flooded stage sets and vast rooms of grief to reflect the grim subject matter: the lost, lonely and disappeared. Began young, transcribing numbers 1-30,000 to reflect the victims of the dictatorship with a steady hand. #MALBA #buenosaires

Biblioteca Nacional in Recoleta, Buenos Aires & guardians #borges and #cortazar. Designed ‘61, completed ‘92. Remembered my ID (passport) this time so could go in, see insightful exhibitions (on prisoners/the disappeared & Argentine film) and drink coffee on a brutal balcony.

Dream sequence based on real events in Buenos Aires 🍕

NEW PET PROJECTS pod with HK-based author Stewart McKay who talks about life with his 😻 and his debut novella, the wonderful Ballad of Billy Lopez (out now) Spoiler alert: ONE of us rashly attempts a US accent to relay a vaguely pet-related passage from said book.. open.spotify.com/episode/6tLK...

Pet Projects - Episode 10 - Stewart McKay

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Anyone who tells you “we need to run government like a business” is secretly calculating how much your organs will sell for after they repossess your house

LANCASTER TEXTURES Now available after a launch party where some of us featured poets read. Inspired by Brad Cheek's insightful photos, chuffed to have some new work in this visceral collection Buy a copy from Assembly Arts until 15 March/bradverts.co.uk & support a homeless charity too. #BookSky

TONIGHT, Litfest comes back to Lancaster with over 50 ways to get involved (in person or online). It's not too late to book your tickets, we'd love for you to join us: geni.us/Litfest2025

A few pics of the paperback edition of the new novel, Adrift (Pine Goat, 2025) With massive thanks to everyone who helped me realise this new project ❤️

ADRIFT: my new 100% AI-free literary thriller spans x3 time periods over alternating chapter cycles (cargo ship to South America; intrigue in Manchester during Covid; murder mysteries on the Wirral in the 80s) as it hurtles toward a dramatic conclusion. #BookSky www.amazon.co.uk/Adrift-Peter...

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Buy Adrift by Humphreys, Peter (ISBN: 9798306421377) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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“I’m deeply worried by the darkening shadow that’s going over the world, a shadow that we have to call fascism” Stephen Fry

Byline Times are superb, and well worth a subscription.

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Fearless and independent investigative journalism is needed more than ever in these times. Attempts to suppress this story on Trump and the KGB demonstrate this ⬇️ To help fund the stories you won't read in the established press, and to keep honesty alive, subscribe: subscribe.bylinetimes.com

An important story about 'mysterious' payments being made to wayward individuals to vandalise mosques and set fire to police cars in the UK. Fairly likely this has been happening across Europe to feed someone's agenda...follow the money etc. Divided we fall. bylinetimes.com/2025/02/18/r...

Revealed: The Tommy Robinson Supporters Network With Links to Neo-Nazi Groups and a Library of Terrorism Manuals

A Byline Times investigation finds members have access to an online library of bomb-making manuals, and instructions for assembling home-made firearms

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This is terrific and terrifying! @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social #GetYourLugsOnIt!

Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · last yr.

🔴The Truth About Russia’s Campaign of Interference in British Democracy The British people have been lied to and manipulated for years. It’s time we learnt the whole truth, writes whistleblower Sergei Cristo bylinetimes.com/2025/02/13/r...

Viktoria Amelina was a Ukrainian writer who documented Russian war crimes - until she became a victim of one of them. A Russian missile killed her in 2023. Her unfinished book hits the stores today, just as the world is about to turn a blind eye to Russian war crimes and force a bad deal on Ukraine

I had insomnia the night Russia invaded Ukraine and watched it unfold in real time. And tonight watching, here in London, that's what it feels like again. A dark, implacable malevolent takeover. That's accompanied by almost total silence amid so much noise. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

IT IS A COUP

This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.

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Top tip. Don’t have insomnia in the middle of a coup. An executive order has now given DOGE oversight of all government departments. It’s a complete takeover of the federal government by Musk. A Musk ‘team lead’ will now make all hiring decisions according to a ‘data-driven’ model

If you heard the last Pet Projects pod you’ll know cellist Margit van der Zwan also plays the musical saw so it was exciting to hear from @sawlady.bsky.social in response. She suggests you feast your ears on this fantastic musical collab in NYC ❤️ in which she plays 🪚🎻 www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6Ph...

"SIGNAL STRENGTH" the first NYC wifi orchestra, music by Ljova

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This is well worth 12 minutes of your time from Lewis:

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · last yr.

On LBC this morning, I spoke about why we should be far more worried the power Elon Musk is accruing, especially in light of his Open AI moves. The normalisation of his actions and activity by quite a bit of the US and even UK media is a big part of the problem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGnt...

SAY ‘CELLO’ TO MARGIT & CARLO! On Ep. 9 of the Pet Projects pod I talk w/artist, cellist & children's author Margit van der Zwan about her new book, 'I love my maracas!', touring with Elbow, learning the musical saw & her upcoming exhibition. #podcast #petprojects open.spotify.com/episode/6nTi...

Pet Projects - Episode 9 - Margit van der Zwan

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