Andrew Neilson
@andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social
Dishevelled wandering star. Director of Campaigns @thehowardleague.bsky.social Co-florist @badlilies.bsky.social andrewneilson.uk
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I have a book out in less than a month and so I am plugging it shamelessly. Here is the opening poem. Please consider joining our attendance to the office of the moment by pre-ordering a copy here! www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page...
February 15, 2026 at 6:32 PM
I have a book out in less than a month and so I am plugging it shamelessly. Here is the opening poem. Please consider joining our attendance to the office of the moment by pre-ordering a copy here! www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page...
I have a book out in less than a month and so I am plugging it shamelessly. Here is the opening poem. Please consider joining our attendance to the office of the moment by pre-ordering a copy here! www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page...
February 15, 2026 at 6:32 PM
I have a book out in less than a month and so I am plugging it shamelessly. Here is the opening poem. Please consider joining our attendance to the office of the moment by pre-ordering a copy here! www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page...
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OUT NOW. Issue twenty-three: 'Wildfires' badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-three
Issue twenty-three — Bad Lilies
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February 13, 2026 at 12:00 PM
OUT NOW. Issue twenty-three: 'Wildfires' badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-three
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New guest post 📰
@andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social on how the literati cope as Rome falls
Read here: buff.ly/2GbQ3tb
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
@andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social on how the literati cope as Rome falls
Read here: buff.ly/2GbQ3tb
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
February 10, 2026 at 10:25 AM
New guest post 📰
@andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social on how the literati cope as Rome falls
Read here: buff.ly/2GbQ3tb
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
@andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social on how the literati cope as Rome falls
Read here: buff.ly/2GbQ3tb
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky
Everything happens all at once. My debut poetry collection, Little Griefs, is out in March...but available now for pre-order: www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page...
Little Griefs by Andrew Neilson | Blue Diode Publishin
ISBN: 978-1-915108-40-1Published 4 March 202670 pages “This collection has got everything – philosophy, myth, elegy, hilarity, grace, tenderness, pain and wisdom, all in brilliant proportion.” —Racha...
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February 8, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Everything happens all at once. My debut poetry collection, Little Griefs, is out in March...but available now for pre-order: www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page...
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A bump for this guest @northseapoets.bsky.social post. I've always loved this Auden poem and I have always loved the notion of an imaginary friend. So here I am writing about both: open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
Auden's 'Imaginary Friends'
NSP Guest Post! Andrew Neilson on how the literati cope as Rome falls
open.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:38 PM
A bump for this guest @northseapoets.bsky.social post. I've always loved this Auden poem and I have always loved the notion of an imaginary friend. So here I am writing about both: open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
A bump for this guest @northseapoets.bsky.social post. I've always loved this Auden poem and I have always loved the notion of an imaginary friend. So here I am writing about both: open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
Auden's 'Imaginary Friends'
NSP Guest Post! Andrew Neilson on how the literati cope as Rome falls
open.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:38 PM
A bump for this guest @northseapoets.bsky.social post. I've always loved this Auden poem and I have always loved the notion of an imaginary friend. So here I am writing about both: open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
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OCEAN'S FOUR: merely a hop, skip and a lengthy jump away from Leith's Ocean Terminal. Not a heist but a quest, or maybe even a bris (ouch, at my age). Yes, it is the Edinburgh launch for my debut collection, Little Griefs, out next month! www.eventbrite.com/e/little-gri...
Little Griefs by Andrew Neilson
Come to celebrate the launch of Andrew Neilson’s debut collection, Little Griefs!
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February 6, 2026 at 7:20 PM
OCEAN'S FOUR: merely a hop, skip and a lengthy jump away from Leith's Ocean Terminal. Not a heist but a quest, or maybe even a bris (ouch, at my age). Yes, it is the Edinburgh launch for my debut collection, Little Griefs, out next month! www.eventbrite.com/e/little-gri...
OCEAN'S FOUR: merely a hop, skip and a lengthy jump away from Leith's Ocean Terminal. Not a heist but a quest, or maybe even a bris (ouch, at my age). Yes, it is the Edinburgh launch for my debut collection, Little Griefs, out next month! www.eventbrite.com/e/little-gri...
Little Griefs by Andrew Neilson
Come to celebrate the launch of Andrew Neilson’s debut collection, Little Griefs!
www.eventbrite.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:20 PM
OCEAN'S FOUR: merely a hop, skip and a lengthy jump away from Leith's Ocean Terminal. Not a heist but a quest, or maybe even a bris (ouch, at my age). Yes, it is the Edinburgh launch for my debut collection, Little Griefs, out next month! www.eventbrite.com/e/little-gri...
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Our co-florist @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social has written a guest post for @northseapoets.bsky.social on Auden and 'Imaginary Friends' northseapoets.substack.com/p/audens-ima...
Auden's 'Imaginary Friends'
NSP Guest Post! Andrew Neilson on how the literati cope as Rome falls
northseapoets.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Our co-florist @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social has written a guest post for @northseapoets.bsky.social on Auden and 'Imaginary Friends' northseapoets.substack.com/p/audens-ima...
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I posted elsewhere about a lady in one of my Leeds Irish Health and Homes workshops who wrote 'I've had dementia / for as long as I can remember'. It came back to me reading @ravoon.bsky.social's tremendous debut 'Dirt Rich', full of technically brilliant, emotionally-devastating work like this:
February 5, 2026 at 1:42 PM
I posted elsewhere about a lady in one of my Leeds Irish Health and Homes workshops who wrote 'I've had dementia / for as long as I can remember'. It came back to me reading @ravoon.bsky.social's tremendous debut 'Dirt Rich', full of technically brilliant, emotionally-devastating work like this:
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‘Supermax-style units’ for most dangerous criminals to be introduced in England and Wales
‘Supermax-style units’ for most dangerous criminals to be introduced in England and Wales
David Lammy also told MPs he would draw up legislation to stop prisoners using human rights laws to challenge tougher jail conditions
The most dangerous extremist prisoners in England and Wales will be held in “supermax-style units” similar to those used in US jails, David Lammy has told MPs.
The deputy prime minister also said he would consider drawing up legislation to stop prisoners from using human rights laws to challenge tougher conditions in jail. Continue reading...
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February 3, 2026 at 5:38 PM
‘Supermax-style units’ for most dangerous criminals to be introduced in England and Wales
I don't know what it means but it means something. People publishing poetry for the first time who are turning 50, including myself. Call
us the True Generation (we've lived and loved, and come bearing hard-won lessons for life) . @ravoon.bsky.social @jobratten.bsky.social
us the True Generation (we've lived and loved, and come bearing hard-won lessons for life) . @ravoon.bsky.social @jobratten.bsky.social
This - gulp - is in the paper on Sunday - I'm very grateful to the editors - www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
The 3 rules for writing great poems — by our poetry critic
Graeme Richardson waited until he was 50 to publish his first poetry collection, Dirt Rich. He explains how he fell in love with language as a Nottinghamshire choir boy
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February 1, 2026 at 10:30 PM
I don't know what it means but it means something. People publishing poetry for the first time who are turning 50, including myself. Call
us the True Generation (we've lived and loved, and come bearing hard-won lessons for life) . @ravoon.bsky.social @jobratten.bsky.social
us the True Generation (we've lived and loved, and come bearing hard-won lessons for life) . @ravoon.bsky.social @jobratten.bsky.social
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X.J. Kennedy, RIP
January 30, 2026 at 7:30 PM
X.J. Kennedy, RIP
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Catherine O’Hara has sadly passed away at the age of 71.
January 30, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Catherine O’Hara has sadly passed away at the age of 71.
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Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
January 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
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RIP Alex Pretti. The nurse was shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis as he wss filming & protesting agents involved in the Trump ICE deportation effort. Guardian
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Man killed in Minneapolis by federal agents identified as VA nurse Alex Pretti: ‘He wanted to help people’
Alex Pretti, 37, worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and had assisted on scientific research
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January 24, 2026 at 10:07 PM
RIP Alex Pretti. The nurse was shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis as he wss filming & protesting agents involved in the Trump ICE deportation effort. Guardian
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Delighted to see this review of Summers Are Other and my fellow Rack pamphleteers by Ian Pople
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The High Window Reviews: Four recent pamphlets
***** Mari Ellis Dunning Crocodile ISBN 9781838230395; Nicholas Murray The Culture Man ISBN 9781919173511; Andrew Neilson Summars Are Other ISBN 9781919173504. All Rack Press £6.00. Reviewed by Ian…
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January 19, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Delighted to see this review of Summers Are Other and my fellow Rack pamphleteers by Ian Pople
thehighwindowpress.com/2026/01/16/t...
thehighwindowpress.com/2026/01/16/t...
Poem for a Sunday. I've always thought of this as a concentrated blend version of Larkin's 'Mr Bleaney'. By @dharmabam.bsky.social
January 18, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Poem for a Sunday. I've always thought of this as a concentrated blend version of Larkin's 'Mr Bleaney'. By @dharmabam.bsky.social
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I found this piece fascinating - especially in the links it makes. If you have the spare change, do subscribe to the LRB - www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Colm Tóibín · Yeats, Auden, Eliot: 1939, 1940, 1941
Who was English; who was American? If Auden was English, was T.S. Eliot American? Or was it the other way around?...
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January 15, 2026 at 9:07 AM
I found this piece fascinating - especially in the links it makes. If you have the spare change, do subscribe to the LRB - www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I have a book out in a couple of months. It's only taken me 50 years to get there. So of course I have been mired in total lethargy as I regard its emergence on the event horizon.
Then I fixed a toilet lid yesterday and now I am all POETRY ACTION. #DIYDONTDIE
Then I fixed a toilet lid yesterday and now I am all POETRY ACTION. #DIYDONTDIE
January 17, 2026 at 8:09 PM
I have a book out in a couple of months. It's only taken me 50 years to get there. So of course I have been mired in total lethargy as I regard its emergence on the event horizon.
Then I fixed a toilet lid yesterday and now I am all POETRY ACTION. #DIYDONTDIE
Then I fixed a toilet lid yesterday and now I am all POETRY ACTION. #DIYDONTDIE
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We have a new issue out in February. In the meantime, enjoy our latest offering! badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-two
Issue twenty-two — Bad Lilies
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January 17, 2026 at 4:58 PM
We have a new issue out in February. In the meantime, enjoy our latest offering! badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-two
Robert Hayden.
January 11, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Robert Hayden.
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Tributes pour in for Sir James Munby, the former head of the family division of the High Court, who died suddenly on new year's days -- in the @lawsocgazette. www.lawgazette.co.uk/practice/mor...
'Moral clarity and compassion': Former family chief Munby dies at 77
Tributes pour in to Sir James Munby, former president of the Family Division, who died suddenly on new year's day.
www.lawgazette.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Tributes pour in for Sir James Munby, the former head of the family division of the High Court, who died suddenly on new year's days -- in the @lawsocgazette. www.lawgazette.co.uk/practice/mor...