Sarah-Clare Conlon
@sarahclareconlon.bsky.social
Less able to stand ✍️ Writer | ✏️ Editor | 📚 Poetry Book Society Selections | 🐦⬛ Wanderland (Red Ceilings) | 🌝 Lune (Red Ceilings) | 📕 Using Language (Invisible Hand) | 🇫🇷 cache-cache (Contraband) | ⛵️Marine Drive (Broken Sleep) | 🍂WIP ACE-funded DROUGHTTHOUGHT
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“Wanderland is full of gorgeous observational poems about nature that are lovely to read and greatly skilled” ~ Will Mackie
“Stylishly crafted, attentive and attuned to the surprises of the world around us” ~ Jennifer Lee Tsai
“Beautiful poems of treasure and nature and light” ~ Rachel Bower
“Stylishly crafted, attentive and attuned to the surprises of the world around us” ~ Jennifer Lee Tsai
“Beautiful poems of treasure and nature and light” ~ Rachel Bower
If you’re in Manchester tomorrow (Saturday, 4pm), it would be dead good to see you at the 50th Peter Barlow’s Cigarette – 50th, blimey! Amazing readers: Frances Presley, Jeremy Over and David Gaffney. Oh, and *cough* me. Free as well and the venue is ace – bring your headtorch and your pocket money.
November 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
If you’re in Manchester tomorrow (Saturday, 4pm), it would be dead good to see you at the 50th Peter Barlow’s Cigarette – 50th, blimey! Amazing readers: Frances Presley, Jeremy Over and David Gaffney. Oh, and *cough* me. Free as well and the venue is ace – bring your headtorch and your pocket money.
✨ Hi Fidel @dragonslayerma.bsky.social I spotted @victoriaspires.bsky.social lovely beau présent (which I’ll try out) for #northstar #promptcombo – maybe my a e h i l n o r s t anagram (the 10 most common letters in the English language) fits, from the current issue of @manchesterreview.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM
✨ Hi Fidel @dragonslayerma.bsky.social I spotted @victoriaspires.bsky.social lovely beau présent (which I’ll try out) for #northstar #promptcombo – maybe my a e h i l n o r s t anagram (the 10 most common letters in the English language) fits, from the current issue of @manchesterreview.bsky.social
Misread: “Free online poetry workshop! Rewording now available!” I assume workshops often involve rewording, I thought, then noticed it actually said “recording”, and that I had inadvertently reworded it myself 😂
November 18, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Misread: “Free online poetry workshop! Rewording now available!” I assume workshops often involve rewording, I thought, then noticed it actually said “recording”, and that I had inadvertently reworded it myself 😂
🎥 📚 🕖 Tonight at book/record shop & public drinking rooms Ad England Impiety Hour (aka Peste), it’s the launch of essay collection The Carbon Arc, with four readers – David Gaffney, Nicholas Royle, Anne Worthington & David Savill – plus film clips, introduced by editor Richard Skinner. Free entry.
November 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
🎥 📚 🕖 Tonight at book/record shop & public drinking rooms Ad England Impiety Hour (aka Peste), it’s the launch of essay collection The Carbon Arc, with four readers – David Gaffney, Nicholas Royle, Anne Worthington & David Savill – plus film clips, introduced by editor Richard Skinner. Free entry.
Saddened to hear of the death of David Bellos, my tutor many moons ago on my French degree – he was incredibly inspirational and I loved how he encouraged leftfield thinking and exploring experimental reading/writing /and/ he gave me a first for my thesis on Georges Perec. So glad to have known him.
October 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Saddened to hear of the death of David Bellos, my tutor many moons ago on my French degree – he was incredibly inspirational and I loved how he encouraged leftfield thinking and exploring experimental reading/writing /and/ he gave me a first for my thesis on Georges Perec. So glad to have known him.
Pop Saturday 22 November in your Filofaxes – I'm on the line-up at the 50th Peter Barlow's Cigarette with Frances Presley, Jeremy Over & David Gaffney! More on both in this write-up, which (in other news) is my last for Creative Tourist. Thank you for reading. www.creativetourist.com/event/peter-...
Peter Barlow’s Cigarette at the Carlton Club | Literature
Our favourite "afternoon of alternative poetries" Peter Barlow's Cigarette is back for the Autumn/Winter season.
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October 22, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Pop Saturday 22 November in your Filofaxes – I'm on the line-up at the 50th Peter Barlow's Cigarette with Frances Presley, Jeremy Over & David Gaffney! More on both in this write-up, which (in other news) is my last for Creative Tourist. Thank you for reading. www.creativetourist.com/event/peter-...
Readings... this Friday, Manchester Poets, then 22 Nov, I'm on the line-up at the 50th Peter Barlow's Cigarette with Frances Presley, Jeremy Over & David Gaffney! More on both in this write-up, which (in other news) is my last for Creative Tourist. The End. www.creativetourist.com/event/peter-...
Peter Barlow’s Cigarette at the Carlton Club | Literature
Our favourite "afternoon of alternative poetries" Peter Barlow's Cigarette is back for the Autumn/Winter season.
www.creativetourist.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Readings... this Friday, Manchester Poets, then 22 Nov, I'm on the line-up at the 50th Peter Barlow's Cigarette with Frances Presley, Jeremy Over & David Gaffney! More on both in this write-up, which (in other news) is my last for Creative Tourist. The End. www.creativetourist.com/event/peter-...
Congratulations to Katrina Porteous, who has won the Laurel Prize with her collection ‘Rhizodont’, on @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social. I reviewed Katrina’s book for @pnreview.bsky.social; there’s a snippet here or hey order a copy why don’t you… www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/on-k... TL;DR: “I was grabbed…”
September 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Congratulations to Katrina Porteous, who has won the Laurel Prize with her collection ‘Rhizodont’, on @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social. I reviewed Katrina’s book for @pnreview.bsky.social; there’s a snippet here or hey order a copy why don’t you… www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/on-k... TL;DR: “I was grabbed…”
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Looking forward to this event on Thursday evening in Manchester! If you want to hear some great poetry (and a little bit of my first novel!) in a perfection location, please come down! @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @ianseedauthor.bsky.social @sarahclareconlon.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Looking forward to this event on Thursday evening in Manchester! If you want to hear some great poetry (and a little bit of my first novel!) in a perfection location, please come down! @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social @ianseedauthor.bsky.social @sarahclareconlon.bsky.social
This coming Thursday at Ad England (Peste) P4 Impeity Hour. Looking forward to welcoming you into Wanderland and perhaps sharing some new things, maybe even the poem I wrote last week in Paris inspired by a fallen moth/leaf and the blood moon 🪶🥐🍂 🌝
September 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This coming Thursday at Ad England (Peste) P4 Impeity Hour. Looking forward to welcoming you into Wanderland and perhaps sharing some new things, maybe even the poem I wrote last week in Paris inspired by a fallen moth/leaf and the blood moon 🪶🥐🍂 🌝
Next reading! Just under a month until we convene The Everyday Marvellous at Ad England/Peste/P3 Annihilation Eve/P4 name to be revealed. Anyway, if you know, you know, and if you don’t, you should seek out the dark bar on a corner of Oldham Rd opposite Wing Yip, especially on Thursday 18 September.
August 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Next reading! Just under a month until we convene The Everyday Marvellous at Ad England/Peste/P3 Annihilation Eve/P4 name to be revealed. Anyway, if you know, you know, and if you don’t, you should seek out the dark bar on a corner of Oldham Rd opposite Wing Yip, especially on Thursday 18 September.
As Greenpeace instals a large Kapoor artwork on extraction platform ‘Skiff’, I think I’ll include my poem “Oil Platforms (The North Sea)”, specially commissioned by the modernist magazine, in my set for next Tuesday’s reading, 7.30pm, Saul Hay Gallery. It is a lament for nature, and a study of rigs.
August 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
As Greenpeace instals a large Kapoor artwork on extraction platform ‘Skiff’, I think I’ll include my poem “Oil Platforms (The North Sea)”, specially commissioned by the modernist magazine, in my set for next Tuesday’s reading, 7.30pm, Saul Hay Gallery. It is a lament for nature, and a study of rigs.
Very pleased to have two reviews included in the hot-off-the-press PNR. Visit the @carcanet.bsky.social website to get your hands on the latest issue.
August 13, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Very pleased to have two reviews included in the hot-off-the-press PNR. Visit the @carcanet.bsky.social website to get your hands on the latest issue.
I've been wanting to get down a few thoughts on the process of creating my most recent collaborative work, with Carolyn Hashimoto for @europeanpoetryfest.bsky.social, and I've finally done it... wordsandfixtures.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...
The windmills of my mind
It's a little over a month since the European Poetry Festival rolled into town (well, the town of Liverpool). My collaborator – the marvello...
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August 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I've been wanting to get down a few thoughts on the process of creating my most recent collaborative work, with Carolyn Hashimoto for @europeanpoetryfest.bsky.social, and I've finally done it... wordsandfixtures.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...
Also looking forward to this! 📚🎬
Looking forward to this event on 18th September in Manchester where I get to ceremonially welcome the arrival of my novel in the company of some amazing writers! 🙏🔆🖤🥳
August 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Also looking forward to this! 📚🎬
Diana Dors on Ilkley Moor bar t’at
We saw Diana Dors & husband at a pub nearby.
August 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Diana Dors on Ilkley Moor bar t’at
More info on next scheduled reading on Tuesday 26 August… www.creativetourist.com/event/blue-d...
Blue Diode readings at Saul Hay Gallery | Literature | Creative Tourist
This special one-off features readings from three writers to celebrate the launch of Spurious Language by James Appleby.
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August 4, 2025 at 7:51 AM
More info on next scheduled reading on Tuesday 26 August… www.creativetourist.com/event/blue-d...
My latest Creative Tourist Literature Guide round-up features plenty of one-off live literature events to wrap your ears about, so get those diaries ticking over… www.creativetourist.com/literature/
Literature Events in the North | Creative Tourist
News of books just out and books worth revisiting, plus a fabulous new exhibition about independent publisher Carcanet, on for the next six months...
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August 2, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My latest Creative Tourist Literature Guide round-up features plenty of one-off live literature events to wrap your ears about, so get those diaries ticking over… www.creativetourist.com/literature/
Happy Yorkshire Day! Treat yourself to a copy of “Wanderland” and enjoy a sequence of poems inspired by Ilkley Moor. The Red Ceilings Press online shop has run out, but I still have a few copies for sale if you DM me.
August 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Happy Yorkshire Day! Treat yourself to a copy of “Wanderland” and enjoy a sequence of poems inspired by Ilkley Moor. The Red Ceilings Press online shop has run out, but I still have a few copies for sale if you DM me.
This week I’ve been honing a contrapuntal poem; yesterday sought out “Contrapuntal Forms” by Barbara Hepworth, tucked away on a housing estate in the “sculpture town” of Harlow. Kids bombing about on bikes, smiling and stopping to pick blackberries reminded me of growing up on the Wirral in the 70s.
July 28, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This week I’ve been honing a contrapuntal poem; yesterday sought out “Contrapuntal Forms” by Barbara Hepworth, tucked away on a housing estate in the “sculpture town” of Harlow. Kids bombing about on bikes, smiling and stopping to pick blackberries reminded me of growing up on the Wirral in the 70s.
Along with Tim Craven, I’m supporting at James Appleby’s Manchester launch for his new pamphlet Spurious Language, listed by Poetry Book Society (alongside Wanderland) and out with Blue Diode. See you on Tuesday 26 August at Saul Hay Gallery.
July 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Along with Tim Craven, I’m supporting at James Appleby’s Manchester launch for his new pamphlet Spurious Language, listed by Poetry Book Society (alongside Wanderland) and out with Blue Diode. See you on Tuesday 26 August at Saul Hay Gallery.
Catch @ggaffa.bsky.social and also @nightjarpress.bsky.social editor @nicholasroyle.bsky.social (oh, and me) reading at Je ne sais Blah ll this Thursday evening at Cafe Blah, Withington Village, doors 7pm, free entry.
Excited about my new short story out soon on Nightjar!
Not yet on the website, but going out to subscribers.
July 16, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Catch @ggaffa.bsky.social and also @nightjarpress.bsky.social editor @nicholasroyle.bsky.social (oh, and me) reading at Je ne sais Blah ll this Thursday evening at Cafe Blah, Withington Village, doors 7pm, free entry.
Je ne sais Blah is back! On Thursday 17 July at 7pm! At Cafe Blah 2.0 in Withington Village! Write-up of the first offering at the end of June here, so you can feel the vibes… www.creativetourist.com/event/je-ne-...
July 8, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Je ne sais Blah is back! On Thursday 17 July at 7pm! At Cafe Blah 2.0 in Withington Village! Write-up of the first offering at the end of June here, so you can feel the vibes… www.creativetourist.com/event/je-ne-...
Sunday, Liverpool, you should come along. It’s free, and myself and Carolyn have got a proper treat lined up. 🌀🌀🌀🌀
July 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Sunday, Liverpool, you should come along. It’s free, and myself and Carolyn have got a proper treat lined up. 🌀🌀🌀🌀
Made up to have had my work picked for the inaugural Didsbury Arts Festival Summer Open from some 300 or so entries by Manchester artists. My piece is a concrete poetry triptych collectively called “Rivers”. This year’s exhibition runs 1-19 July at The Didsbury Parsonage – info on the PV to follow!
June 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Made up to have had my work picked for the inaugural Didsbury Arts Festival Summer Open from some 300 or so entries by Manchester artists. My piece is a concrete poetry triptych collectively called “Rivers”. This year’s exhibition runs 1-19 July at The Didsbury Parsonage – info on the PV to follow!